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Posted on 08/01/2007 10:32:19 PM PDT by nwctwx
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That’s interesting.
Thanks Oorang.
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Thanks to a special freepmailer for pointing to this article:
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070812/D8QVKC3O0.html
“Italy Probe Unearths Huge Iraq Arms Deal”
Aug 12, 1:38 PM (ET)
By CHARLES J. HANLEY and ARIEL DAVID
(AP) Iraqi policemen stand guard with their AK-47 assault rifles, July 26, 2007, in Karbala, Iraq....
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PERUGIA, Italy (AP) - In a hidden corner of Rome’s busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler’s checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.
Their discovery led anti-Mafia investigators down a monthslong trail of telephone and e-mail intercepts, into the midst of a huge black-market transaction, as Iraqi and Italian partners haggled over shipping more than 100,000 Russian-made automatic weapons into the bloodbath of Iraq.
As the secretive, $40 million deal neared completion, Italian authorities moved in, making arrests and breaking it up. But key questions remain unanswered.
For one thing, The Associated Press has learned that Iraqi government officials were involved in the deal, apparently without the knowledge of the U.S. Baghdad command - a departure from the usual pattern of U.S.-overseen arms purchases.
(AP) Men exchange money for weapons over tea in a Baghdad home, June 20, 2007. Italian authorities have...
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Why these officials resorted to “black” channels and where the weapons were headed is unclear.
The purchase would merely have been the most spectacular example of how Iraq has become a magnet for arms traffickers and a place of vanishing weapons stockpiles and uncontrolled gun markets since the 2003 U.S. invasion and the onset of civil war.
Some guns the U.S. bought for Iraq’s police and army are unaccounted for, possibly fallen into the hands of insurgents or sectarian militias. Meanwhile, the planned replacement of the army’s AK-47s with U.S.-made M-16s may throw more assault rifles onto the black market. And the weapons free-for-all apparently is spilling over borders: Turkey and Iran complain U.S.-supplied guns are flowing from Iraq to anti-government militants on their soil.
Iraqi middlemen in the Italian deal, in intercepted e-mails, claimed the arrangement had official American approval. A U.S. spokesman in Baghdad denied that.
“Iraqi officials did not make MNSTC-I aware that they were making purchases,” Lt. Col. Daniel Williams of the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I), which oversees arming and training of the Iraqi police and army, told the AP.
(AP) An Iraqi carries a Russian-designed machine gun at a funeral, July 27, 2007, in Karbala, an Iraqi...
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Operation Parabellum, the investigation led by Dario Razzi, anti-Mafia prosecutor in this central Italian city, began in 2005 as a routine investigation into drug trafficking by organized-crime figures, branched out into an inquiry into arms dealing with Libya, and then widened to Iraq.”
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/006194.html
12 August 2007
“Well, someone certainly has been struck blind, deaf and dumb...
...the question is: who is more adversely effected, us or them?”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “For our part we have analyzed many thousands of such IP addresses, and we are here to tell you that jihadis don’t practice what they preach. Not consistently. And trying to be careful some of the time is simply not good enough. There are jails full of jihadis who have learned that lesson the hard way.
Shutting down websites is a tactic, and done wisely in support of a particular objective it can be a good thing. Done blindly as an end in itself it only serves to breed a resistant pest much like the over-application of insecticide will do.
The enemy is people, not websites.
Websites are a symptom, a sign along the trail, spore you can follow until you bag the game.”
Hmm, I’ve been hearing more and more about Perugia, especially since my wife visited a town nearby for some art classes. She met a former teacher there who said she quit her job teaching religion at the university because the muslim students were disruptive and at times violent in whenever she was teaching about anything but islam.
She quit after she was in an auto accident and had to spend several months in physical therapy. I never found out the details of the accident, but I’m starting to wonder if it was really an accident.
Well, I understand driving in Italy can be quite an experience, so it may very well have been an accident,
Your post is interesting, though and I do appreciate this feedback.
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/006193.html
12 August 2007
“jihadalkaida.yoo7.com: a feeble attempt to start a new forum
It claims to represent the Algerian al-Qaida franchise.”
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“Putin increases missile defence rhetoric”
ft.com ^ | August 12 2007 | Isabel Gorst
Posted on 08/12/2007 2:41:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880135/posts
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292953,00.html
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http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/FoxNewsAdvTerrorists081007.html
Article published Friday, August 10, 2007, at Fox News.
“Should a Web Site Post Best Ideas for Successful Terrorist Plots?”
By John R. Lott Jr.
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Previously...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover081007.htm
CANADA FREE PRESS.com - Worldwide Internet, Al Qaida: “EXPOSING ON-LINE JIHADISTS” by Judi McLeod
(ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”In six years I have bookmarked some 6,000-+ Jihadist websites and the list is still growing,” says Archangel, code name for an online Jihadist-tracking expert.”)
(August 10, 2007)
ADDING 1 link to post no. 873.
Thanks to Rushmore Rocks for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880152/posts
“Agents raid Temple Terrace house, seeking ties to arrested students”
My Fox-Tampa. Fla. ^ | 8/11/2007 | Editor
Posted on 08/12/2007 10:49:43 AM PDT by sandbox
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880212/posts
Robbery Suspect Shot & Killed By Store Owner (CA)
Fox40 KTXL ^ | August 11, 2007 | Staff
Posted on 08/12/2007 2:59:38 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
A deadly shooting is being called self-defense, after a convenience store clerk in Yuba City took matters into her own hands during a robbery.
“We heard a couple gunshots and saw a bunch of people running,” said Matt Lewis, who witnessed the incident. In normally quiet Yuba City, hearing gunshots will send people running, and it did on Friday night at the Percy Avenue Market.
About 8:15 p.m., a white man in his thirties wearing a dark jacket walked into the empty store. He demanded money at gunpoint. The female clerk, also one of the market’s owners, gave him all she had, which was less than one hundred dollars. “He demanded more cash, and as he demanded more that’s when the clerk pulled out a gun and shot the suspect,” said Sergeant Kim Slade of the Yuba Police Department.
Shot in the chest, the man stumbled into the parking lot and died. Police found his gun and the money he had stolen in his coat.
“It was horrible, especially in your neighborhood. I mean, that’s my house right there and this is my store,” said Lewis.
Back at work on Saturday, but much too shaken to speak on camera, the woman and her husband say this is the worst experience in their 24 years of operation. It’s not the first time the store has been robbed. Back in 1992, a man came in, demanded money and got into a scuffle with the owner. He ended up getting shot in the stomach and the suspect got away. The couple says they’ve learned a lot about self-defense since then.
The suspect is from the area but his identity has not been released. Police are investigating, but say the shooting looks to be self-defense. “We try and advise people not to take the law into their own hands. We look at each case differently, but it’s kind of a spur of the moment thing, how one feels,” said Slade.
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13326&Itemid=128
August 12, 2007
Release A070813a
Coalition Forces Kill An Estimated Three-to-Five Terrorists, Detain 13
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces captured 13 suspected terrorists with ties to extremist militia Special Groups in a pre-dawn raid Sunday in Sadr City.
Coalition Forces conducted the raid to capture or kill highly-sought weapons facilitators with connections to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps – Quds Force in Iran. Those detained are suspected of facilitating the transport of weapons and personnel from Iran into Iraq. They are also believed to have facilitated the transport of deadly Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) from Iran into Iraq to be used against Coalition Forces.
As Coalition Forces were departing the area, they encountered and destroyed a light utility truck that posed a threat to the force. Coalition Forces attempted to signal the vehicle, however when the vehicle failed to respond, Coalition Forces fired on the vehicle with small arms fire.
During the raid, Coalition Forces confiscated a computer hard-drive, documents and photographs.
A Coalition air strike also engaged the same light utility truck, destroying the truck and killing an estimated three to five people in the truck believed to be terrorists.
“Coalition troops continue in their pursuit of unhelpful foreign influences here in Iraq,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I Spokesperson. “Those foreign influences are hindering the prospects of peace and stability in Iraq, and we will continue to dismantle their networks.”
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“Gunman Opens Fire in Missouri Church Killing at Least 3”
Sunday, August 12, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “DEVELOPING STORY: At least three people were reported dead after a gunman walked into a church in Neosha, Mo., Sunday afternoon and opened fire, the Newton County Sheriff’’s Department confirmed to FOX News.
At least six people were reported wounded, officials said.
Officials say a suspect is in custody.”
Oh, Cindy. Neosho is my home town. Mr. RR and I both graduated from high school there. I need to check on some relatives. Thanks for posting this. Would appreciate any updates.
I’me very, very sorry RR.
I will watch for updates.
“Gunman Kills Three in Neosho Church”
Last Edited: Sunday, 12 Aug 2007, 5:29 PM CDT
Created: Sunday, 12 Aug 2007, 4:50 PM CDT
Breaking News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The male suspect is being held at the Newton County Jail, but authorities are not releasing any information about him. Bridges said he had three firearms on him, but wouldn’t say what type. The shooting followed the 1 p.m. service.”
“Bridges also said the suspect was related to someone in the church, but she did not elaborate.”
Interesting analysis on Bangladesh, thanks Cindy.
You’re welcome Oorang.
Thanks, Cindy. Still trying to reach my family there. That church was just around the corner from the Methodist Church where I was married.
Photo included.
http://www.neoshodailynews.com
http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2007/08/12/news/001shooting.txt
“BULLETIN: 3 dead, several wounded in downtown church shooting”
By Rick Rogers
Daily News Publisher
Published: Sunday, August 12, 2007 5:46 PM CDT
article snippet: “Three people were killed, and several others were wounded after a person entered a church service at the First Congregational Church of Neosho and opened fire Sunday afternoon.
Dave McCracken, Neosho police chief, said the number of confirmed wounded persons is four to five, but several others who were injured fled the scene during the incident.
The incident happened during an afternoon service catering to “Islanders” and held in the Spanish language. The church is located at 121 N. Wood, one block north of the downtown square in Neosho. McCracken said approximately 50 people were in the church when the shooting happened.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “McCracken said more details should be released Monday morning.”
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