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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373638
TERRORISM FOCUS
“PKK Recruitment of Female Operatives”
By Nihat Ali Özcan
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Since its establishment, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has included a small number of female militants. Over time, however, this number has increased significantly. By the early 1990s, 30 percent of its 17,000 armed militants were women (Cumhuriyet, June 17, 1993). The PKK’s increased use of female militants is a concerning development since women provide great potential for both propaganda and recruitment, and they often have better access to certain soft targets.”
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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373641
TERRORISM MONITOR
“Splits Revealed Inside Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb”
By Geoff D. Porter
(September 13, 2007)
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TERRORISM FOCUS
“Peru’s Shining Path Gaining Ground?”
By Frank Hyland
(September 11, 2007)
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TERRORISM MONITOR
“Italy’s Left-Wing Terrorists Flirt with Radical Islamists”
By Lorenzo Vidino, Andrea Morigi
(September 13, 2007)
ADDING to post no. 1339:
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070914/NATION04/109140086/1008
“Inside the Ring”
Bill Gertz
September 14, 2007
Jihadist threat
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The international Sunni jihadist group Muslim Brotherhood set up numerous U.S. front groups since the 1990s that should be regarded as hostile and a threat to the United States, a Pentagon Joint Staff analyst said.
Stephen Caughlin, a lawyer and military intelligence specialist on the Joint Staff, stated in a Sept. 7 memorandum that many U.S. Muslim groups viewed as moderate by the Justice Department and other government agencies secretly are linked to the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. The groups also are engaged in influence and deception operations designed to mask their true aims, he said.
Documents entered into evidence in the federal terrorism trial in Dallas of the Holy Land Foundation, a charity charged with illegally funding the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group, reveal new security threats from a network of more than 29 U.S. Muslim groups.
“These documents are beginning to define the structure and outline of domestic jihad threat entities, associated nongovernmental organizations and potential terrorist or insurgent support systems,” Mr. Caughlin said.”
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Car’s explosive contents revealed at hearing for USF students
The St. Petersburg Times ^ | September 14, 2007
Posted on 09/14/2007 3:59:11 PM PDT by dawn53
TAMPA — PVC pipe filled with homemade “low-grade explosive mixture’’ and a videotape instruction for turning a remote-controlled toy car into a detonator were among the items found in the car driven by two University of South Florida students arrested in South Carolina and now facing federal explosives charges, according to a federal prosecutor...The list also included a videotape that instructs viewers on how to convert a toy electric car into a detonator. Defendant Ahmed Mohamed has admitted making the tape, and in it he says he intended the instruction “to save one who wants to be a martyr for another battle,’’ said federal prosecutor Jay Hoffer.
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Some may not think this is relevant but I thought was interesting. This is from www.worldnetdaily.com
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Air Force ordered to stand-down tomorrow
Meanwhile, NORAD, USNORTHCOM on alert for U.N. meetings
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Pre-flight for F-16 prior to multi-aircraft exercise at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina (USAF)
Contrary to rumors surrounding the Air Combat Command’s stand-down of all 100,000 active-duty airmen ordered for tomorrow, the U.S. will not be devoid of fighter aircraft to protect the nation.
Michael Kucharek, spokesman for NORAD and USNORTHCOM, told WND the stand-down does not include the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserves assigned to NORAD.
About 70 percent of the aircraft involved in NORAD alerts are Air National Guard or Air Force Reserves aircraft, according to Kucharek.
Meanwhile, NORAD and USNORTHCOM will be on alert status Sept. 24 when the U.N. convenes a high-level meeting on climate change and the following day when the General Assembly begins its 62nd Session in New York City.
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The stand-down Friday was ordered by Gen. Ronald Keys to conduct a command-wide review of operations, safety procedures and checklists after the Aug. 30 incident at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, according to the Air Force Times.
At Minot, six cruise missiles with nuclear warheads were loaded onto a B-52H and flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana – without the bomber crew or ground command realizing nuclear weapons were on the aircraft.
Military sources insisted to WND the incident was a procedural glitch and there is no suspicion within the military of any other purpose.
At the U.N. Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will chair the meetings, and numerous heads of state are likely to attend.
According to Kucharek, Canadian and U.S. NORAD aircraft will be armed and on alert status, prepared to scramble from unspecified NORAD airbases.
Kucharek told WND the aircraft involved in the alert will be F-15s and F-16s assigned to the NORAD Air Defense Deterrence Mission.
Under Operation NOBLE EAGLE, which NORAD has conducted since 9/11, fighters on alert have scrambled from alert sites and diverted from irregular air patrols more than 2,400 times, Kucharek told WND.
More than 44,000 sorties have been flown in support of the missions, including support from tanker and AWACS aircraft.
“NORAD and USNORTHCOM missions,” Kucharek said, “are conducted in close collaboration with homeland defense, security and law enforcement partners to prevent air attacks against North America and to safeguard the sovereign airspaces of the United States and Canada by responding to unknown, unwanted and unauthorized air activity approaching and operating within these airspaces, and to provide aerospace and maritime warning for North America.”
As WND reported, NORAD is a bi-lateral U.S.-Canada command and USNORTHCOM is a U.S. continental military command that works with its counterpart Canada Command.
Kucharek also confirmed NORAD and USNORTHCOM were scheduled Oct. 15-20 to conduct exercise Vigilant Shield ‘08, a series of field exercises testing response abilities against a variety of potential threats, including the simulated detonation of three radiological dispersal devices within the USNORTHCOM and U.S. Pacific Command areas of responsibility.
The primary locations for the Vigilant Shield ‘08 field exercises will be Oregon, Arizona and the territory of Guam.
WND reported Bush administration plans to utilize USNORTHCOM as a U.S. military command to direct the operations of troops deployed in a wide range of continental North American emergencies, including health epidemics, natural disasters, terrorist events and even domestic violence or civil disorder.
Interpol said Friday its database on suspected terrorists has increased from 2,800 in 2002 to 11,800 now. "Our database on suspected terrorists has increased from 2,800 in 2002 to 11,800 at present. We know that terrorists will travel on aliases and we have a database on stolen passports and travel documents," said Ronald Noble, secretary general of Interpol. He was in New Delhi to attend a three-day conference on cybercrime.
"Our database on lost passports has increased from 3,000 in 2002 to 7 million in this year and this is when only 128 out of 186 countries have participated in creating this database," Noble said. Noble said the transfer of funds through illegal channels and electronic routes for financing terrorist attacks worldwide was a difficult area, and member countries would have to work out measures to put an end to this practice. He said it was the most complex area of the investigation to track down people not known as suspected terrorists and companies not linked to terrorism.
Referring to red-corner notices, he said countries often zealously guarded their sovereign right to declare who was arrested on their territory. "Countries have national laws that say they cannot extradite their nationals, no one can be arrested unless evidence is brought to the court and we have countries that believe that red corner notices that come from so-called enemy countries. For a variety of reasons, countries are not going to say they will respect every other red-corner notice," Noble said.
A second minibus loaded with explosives found in Ankara (Turkey)
14 September 2007
A second minibus packed with explosives was found in the Turkish capital Ankara, the Turkish daily Zaman reports.
A total of 510 kg of the explosive substance PETN were found in the bus, distributed in 30 kegs, 17 kg each. This is the second bomb-chock for Ankara in just three days. According to the information the bus has arrived from Sweden.
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Benazir Ends Exile Oct. 18
ISLAMABAD, 15 September 2007 — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will end her self-imposed exile next month. The chief of Pakistan People’s Party will arrive in Karachi on Oct. 18, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, a senior party leader announced here at a press conference.
The government said she would not suffer the fate of Nawaz Sharif, another ex-prime minister swiftly deported when he flew in on Monday, but she would have to face corruption cases pending against her. Benazir, who left Pakistan eight years ago amid corruption allegations, is in negotiations with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that could see them share power after elections.
Both are calling for moderates to join forces to defeat Taleban and Al-Qaeda extremists based along the Afghan border. But they have yet to agree on a deal amid signs that Musharraf is reluctant to give up the sweeping powers he seized in a 1999 coup.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, 15 September 2007 — The Philippine military yesterday downplayed a warning by Australia of a possible terror attacks on civilian targets and power installations in Mindanao island, south of Manila.
Australia warned its citizens not to travel to Mindanao, particularly in Zamboanga Peninsula, citing “credible threats of terrorism.” It said terrorists may also strike in the Philippine capital. “We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in the Philippines because of the high threat of terrorist attack. We continue to receive credible reports that terrorists are planning attacks against a range of targets, including places frequented by foreigners,” it said on a travel warning posted on the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
“Infrastructure associated with the Philippines government such as transport infrastructure, airports, sea ports, oil depots and public buildings are also potential terrorist targets. If you are in these areas you should consider leaving,” it said.
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US claims Hezbollah still smuggling arms through Syria
Fri Sep 14, 2007
BEIRUT - The US ambassador to Lebanon said on Friday that there was clear evidence the Shiite militant group Hezbollah was still smuggling weapons across the Syrian border, in violation of UN resolutions.
"We find the evidence to be strong that arms smuggling is continuing across the Syrian-Lebanese border," Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman told AFP, without giving any specific details. "We are concerned by the reports and by the public statements by Hezbollah that Hezbollah has actively rearmed." He added: "In our view this poses one of the biggest dangers to Lebanon and it is a violation of the spirit and the letter of a number of Security Council resolutions."
The Lebanese Shiite militant and political organization, which is backed by Syria and Iran, is considered a "terrorist" group by the United States. It had one minister in the Lebanese government until he and five other pro-Syrian ministers resigned last November.
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VIENNA -- Austrian authorities on Friday freed one of three people arrested on suspicion of posting a video message on the Internet threatening attacks on Austria and Germany, a judiciary spokesman said. A fourth person is in custody in Canada in connection with the same case of links to al-Qaeda.
In Austria, a Vienna judge released a 26-year-old man for lack of sufficient evidence that he committed a crime, judiciary spokesman Christian Gneist said. The judge ruled that the other two suspects, a 22-year-old man and his 20-year-old wife, would remain in investigative custody as a criminal inquiry proceeded, he said.
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Long but very interesting:
France: Are Islamists Driving Jews Out?
TAMPA, Fla. - A college student indicted on explosives charges may be released from custody on bond and under such conditions as 24-hour electronic monitoring, a judge ruled Friday at a hearing that also revealed details on the allegations.
Youssef Samir Megahed's entire immediate family must also surrender their passports, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Jenkins said after a hearing at which bond was set at $200,000. It was not immediately clear how soon Megahed would be released. Members of his family, which attended Friday's hearing, declined to comment.
Megahed, 21, and Sherif Mohamed, 24, both students at the University of South Florida in Tampa, were indicted Aug. 31 on federal charges of transporting explosives across state lines. Mohamed also faces terrorism-related charges on suspicion of demonstrating how to use the explosives. They were arrested on state charges of possession of an explosive device after an Aug. 5 traffic stop in South Carolina. The state charge was dropped after the federal indictment.
Prosecutor Jay Hoffer on Friday called Megahed "a significant danger to the community" and noted that if he were to flee to his home country of Egypt, it would be difficult to get him back. "It may be hard if not impossible to extradite him back to the state of Florida," Hoffer told the judge.
South Carolina authorities found three pieces of piping cut into small sections in the trunk of a car Megahed was traveling in, each filled with a "potassium nitrate explosive mixture," Hoffer said. Also found in the car were 20 feet of fuse, a box of .22-caliber bullets, a drill that could have been used to "perhaps insert a fuse" into the explosive devices, and a partially filled 5-gallon gasoline container, Hoffer said. The men claim the explosive materials were simply for homemade fireworks, but Hoffer said Megahed denied knowing any of the materials were even in the vehicle.
In a secretly recorded conversation between Megahed and Mohamed while they were in the back of a patrol car during their arrest, Hoffer said Megahed "asked Mr. Mohamed pointedly, 'What did you tell them about the gas canister?'"
Hoffer also told the judge that a laptop computer found inside the car had been used to visit Web sites about "rifles, weaponry, about the conflict in the Middle East, jihadists." He said the last video viewed was of a rocket being fired, similar to "part of jihad armory ... weapons used in the Middle East." Another video, which Mohamed has acknowledged he made, shows "how to turn a radio controlled car into a detonator that could be used for an explosive," Hoffer said. Authorities also found a .22-caliber rifle with a scope in a storage shed used by Megahed, Hoffer said.
Megahed's public defender, Adam Allen, had argued for release on $50,000 bond, noting his client had "zero criminal history" and had lived a "completely law-abiding life." "He's a respected young man," Allen told the judge. Allen also noted that the materials found in the car were "not pipe bombs as has been indicated."
In addition to the bond and surrender of his passport, Jenkins ordered Megahed to have no access to the Internet and noted that his family must relinquish their Fourth Amendment rights to allow authorities to search their home at any time, for any reason. Megahed is a permanent U.S. resident and lives in Tampa with his family. He is an undergraduate studying engineering. Mohamed, also from Egypt, is a civil engineering graduate student and is in the country on a student visa. Mohamed remained in federal custody after waiving his right to bond. A telephone message left for Mohamed's attorney was not immediately returned.
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Thank you Oorang for post no. 1349.
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Algiers, 14 Sept. 2007 - The al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb between December and April recruited over 50 children aged under 16, the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper reported on Friday, quoting Algerian intelligence sources. Police were alarmed that a 15-year-old suicide bomber carried out a deadly attack earlier this month in the Algerian port city of Dellys. The boy managed to pass unnoticed through security checks.
Radical imams have recruited to al-Qaeda around 15 under-16s from poor districts of the capital, Algiers, to join its fighters hiding in the mountains of Algeria, police said. Police said the US-led war in Iraq was being used as pretext to radicalise youngsters in Algeria and persuade them to join militants. They said many had been given training in carrying out suicide attacks either in Iraq or in Algeria.
The al-Kalitius neighbourhood of the village ofBourama on the outskirts of southern Algiers is a particular 'hotspot' for Jihadi recruiters, according to police. After being taken into the mountains, the youngsters have come into contact with Tunisian and Libyan militants and have been trained alongside them to carry out car and truck bomb attacks, police said.
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You’re welcome Cindy.
Planting trees today going inside and out.
TFIG.
Giggling...
TGIF.
Check out these details from the Tampa Tribune:
Investigators also found an instruction video in which Mohamed gives instructions on how to remove the remote control device from a toy car.
Mohamed describes how the device can be used to detonate an explosive. Mohamed says if the device were to be used, a martyr can be saved and used later.
Mohamed also says the remote control from the car is similar to a remote controlled boat.
Investigators discovered that Megahed did possess a remote controlled boat.
Thanks much JJ. And to think initially we were supposed to feel sorry for these poor, lost, students trying to get to the NC beaches for a little R&R. Uh-huh.
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