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Posted on 05/01/2008 3:06:29 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cair
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UPDATE:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/673
“CAIR-Tampa Update: Which is it?”
by IPT
IPT News
May 21, 2008
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Previously...
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/663
“The Mystery at CAIR-Tampa”
by IPT
IPT News
May 7, 2008
RECAP - More details:
memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=388
(”Source: www.alhesbah.bz, May 2008”)
“Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Threatens to Attack Any Foreigner Arriving There”
(Posted May 19, 2008)
Note: Photo included.
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http://www.nysun.com/national/discrimination-seen-in-michigan-spy-case/76770/
“Discrimination Seen in Michigan Spy Case
‘I was wrongly accused of espionage’”
By ELI LAKE, Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 21, 2008
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON — For the past 11 years, Army tank engineer David Tenenbaum has been trying to undo the damage the government did to him in four days in 1997, when he was accused of being a spy for Israel.”
NewYork.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Brooklyn, N.Y. - "U.S. ARMY TRANSLATOR SENTENCED TO 121 MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT FOR UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CONCERNING IRAQI INSURGENCY AND FOR USING A FALSE IDENTITY Defendant's United States Citizenship Is Revoked" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "Previously, on February 14, 2007, the defendant, whose true identity is still unknown and who goes by various names including, Abdulhakeem Nour, Abu Hakim, Noureddine Malki, Almaliki Nour, and Almalik Nour Eddin, pleaded guilty...") (May 19, 2008)
ADDING to post no. 848:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021127.php
May 21, 2008
“We know too much!”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021115.php
(PAKISTAN DAILY)
May 21, 2008
“”Jihad is carried offensively to cleanse the earth from the kufr [unbelief], with the implementation of Islam as a system””
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islamicsystem.blogspot.com/2008/05/clarifying-meaning-of-jihad.html
SUNDAY, MAY 04, 2008
“Clarifying the meaning of Jihad”
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192796.php
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http://www.youtube.com/user/SwordofBaghdad
“This account is suspended.”
Yep, global jihad, jihad, murder, murdering a woman, no honor in your killing...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taleban
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http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2182812534
“Afghanistan: Taliban claim death of ‘female US spy’”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Karachi, 21 May (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - Taliban fighters in Afghanistan claim to have killed a woman by slitting her throat after accusing her of spying for US forces in Afghanistan.
They said they killed the alleged female American informer in the Afghan valley of Kunar on Monday.”
BLOG:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/05/afghanistan_graphing_1.php
“Afghanistan: Graphing the violence - week 20”
By BILL ROGGIO
May 20, 2008 8:49 PM
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49956
“Coast Guard Essential to Victory Against Terrorism, Cheney Says”
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008
BLOG:
Note: Photo included.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/05/us_military_killed_m.php
“US military killed Mahdi Army commander Arkan Hasnawi in May 3 strike”
By BILL ROGGIO
May 21, 2008 3:13 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The US military killed a senior member of the Mahdi Army, according US and Mahdi Army sources. Arkan Hasnawi, a senior lieutenant of the Mahdi Army commander in Sadr City, was killed in a guided rocket strike in Sadr City on March 3. The news of Hasnawi’s death comes as details emerge on the senior leadership of the Mahdi Army in Baghdad and the blurring of the lines between Sadr’s militia and the Special Groups.”
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49953
Forces Catch Two Terrorists in Iraq, Capture Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained two terrorists and seized weapons in recent operations in Iraq, military officials said.
In Iraq yesterday:
— Based on intelligence gleaned from a mid-April operation, coalition forces raided what they believed to be an Iranian-backed “special groups” stronghold in Baghdad’s Rashid district. Troops detained one targeted special groups leader without incident. Military officials believe the captured individual coordinated and conducted attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces in southwestern Baghdad.
— Iraqi special operations forces detained a man in the Ghazaliya area of the Iraqi capital who officials said is an al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist suspected of murdering local Iraqis.
— Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers discovered a weapons cache in the Bayaa community of southern Baghdad. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, found the cache inside an abandoned house while conducting a combat patrol in the area. The weapons included about 40 mortar rounds, bomb-making materials, nearly 3,000 ammunitions rounds, handcuffs, uniforms, body armor, and a nearly completed makeshift bomb.
In earlier operations, Iraqi army soldiers found a large buried cache May 19 during clearing operations in support of Operation Lion’s Roar in the Younis al Sabawi neighborhood of Mosul. The cache consisted of hundreds of mortar rounds and fuses, two mortar tubes, two mortar bipods, a suicide vest, two rockets, and eight mines, military officials said.
“The explosives and weapons were likely to be used against coalition forces, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi citizens,” said Army Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a spokeswoman for Multinational Division North. Iraqi and coalition forces will continue to disrupt enemy operations “until they run out of resources,” she added.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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“China’s All-Seeing Eye”
Rolling Stone ^ | 29 May 2008 | Naomi Klein
Posted on May 21, 2008 7:45:30 AM PDT by BGHater
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49958
Official Cites Uncertainty Over Chinese Space Intentions
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008 – China’s lack of openness about its space program’s intentions has U.S. officials concerned, a senior military officer said here yesterday.
Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey C. Horne, deputy commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that China has made incredible advances in space, but the United States is uncertain what the Chinese ultimately hope to accomplish.
The United States regards space operations the same way it regards operations on air, land, sea and cyberspace, Horne said. As space-based capabilities provide critical support to forces in other domains, space operations must also receive the same support and protection from those very forces that they enable.
“Much uncertainty surrounds China’s future course, in particular in the area of expanding military power and space assets and how that power might be used,” Horne said.
China is spending much more on defense than it has in the past. The People’s Liberation Army is becoming a more professional and better-trained force. China also has invested billions of dollars in space efforts.
“China views progressive space and counterspace capabilities as essential elements of national prestige and attributes of a national power and a world power,” Horne said. “Their current efforts include establishing a wide array of space, counterspace, terrestrial-based capabilities to provide reconnaissance, navigation, communications and support to all types of military and civil operations.” Most disturbing to the United States, perhaps, was the Chinese test of an anti-satellite capability in January 2007.
Chinese military doctrine emphasizes destroying, damaging and interfering with an enemy’s reconnaissance, observation and communications capabilities, the general said.
“China’s space activities capabilities include [anti-satellite weapon] programs and have significant implications for anti-access and area denial in the Taiwan Straits, contingencies and well beyond,” Horne told the commission. While the Chinese currently depend on Russian space technology, he said, the country is working to grow its own capabilities.
“[They] are moving aggressively to assure their own capability for the long term, focused on placing more sophisticated and diverse sets of satellites into orbit and expecting to replace foreign-produced satellites in its inventory with those they produce themselves by 2010,” Horne said. China plans to launch 15 rockets and 17 satellites in 2008, and the nation has announced plans for its third manned mission — Shenzhou 7 — in October.
The United States and its allies are vulnerable to disturbances in space, and all nations must take steps to protect this crucial domain, Horne said. “Our adversaries understand the asymmetric advantage our space capabilities provide, and also that it constitutes an asymmetric dependence that can be exploited,” he said.
The United States wants to encourage military-to-military conversations with all space-faring nations, the general said, noting that such talks provide important opportunities to increase understanding of each other’s intentions and to pursue methods to improve multilateral cooperation.
“Furthermore, understanding each other’s specific perceptions and respective doctrines will ensure our force postures are perceived in their proper context, ensuring transparency and building confidence in the protection and sustainability of numerous space capabilities,” Horne said.
Horne’s organization is part of U.S. Strategic Command.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49954
“Global Partnership Works to Increase African Maritime Safety”
By Seaman William Selby
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3546359,00.html
US says own citizen killed in Ethiopian blast
Published: 05.21.08, 23:56 / Israel News
A US citizen died in an explosion aboard a minibus taxi in Addis Ababa that Ethiopian police are blaming on extremists, the State Department said on Wednesday.
Police in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, said a device had been planted by “suspected terrorists” on the minibus as it was traveling between the Hilton hotel and the foreign ministry. It was the latest in a string of explosions in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia has blamed on extremists backed by its neighbor and rival Eritrea. (Reuters)
STOCKHOLM — Swedish police Wednesday arrested two contractors for allegedly preparing to sabotage a nuclear power plant, after traces of explosives were found on one of the men, police said. "Two Swedish men were arrested ... The prosecutor suspects them of sabotage," Sven-Erik Karlsson of the Kalmar county police told AFP.
He said both men were contractors who had been working at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southern Sweden "for some time," but said the link between the two remained unclear. One of the men was arrested and questioned early Wednesday after routine tests at the entrance to the plant detected traces of highly explosive material on the handle of a plastic bag he was carrying. Karlsson told the TT news agency that the men were born in 1955 and 1962 and that one of them had a criminal record, but did not disclose their identities.
A spokesman for the OKG company that runs the plant, Anders Oesterberg, told AFP the two were welders who had been contracted for work on one of the plant's three reactors, which had been shut down for maintenance. He said one of them had been working inside the plant for two weeks, and that sniffer dogs would be sent in to search the area they had worked in.
Excerpted
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibKJKKsOTnU6NGzDVaJFsuhvINBQ
Karachi - Taliban fighters in Afghanistan claim to have killed a woman by slitting her throat after accusing her of spying for US forces in Afghanistan. They said they killed the alleged female American informer in the Afghan valley of Kunar on Monday.
"Bachagai, 32, was part of an American proxy network in the Sarkano district's village Barogai," a Taliban spokesperson Zubair Mujahid told Adnkronos International (AKI) from the Kunar valley. "Her information caused a lot of American attacks on the position of the mujahadeen, their killings and arrests," said Mujahid.
"We throughly investigated the matter and confirmed her links with Afghan intelligence and American troops. She also received cash rewards on the information she provided against the Taliban," he said. Mujahid told AKI that once all the evidence against the alleged spy was gathered, they slit her throat with a knife and killed her. The Taliban have killed many suspected informers in past especially in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar but killing a woman is a rare occurence among the former ruling student militia.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2182812534
Pakistan in deal with militants
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
The provincial government in north-west Pakistan has agreed to pull troops out of a valley under a peace agreement signed with pro-Taleban militants. The authorities say they will also allow the militants to impose Sharia law in Swat in return for promises to close training camps and end attacks.
The deal is the first since a new government came to power promising to negotiate to end violence in the area. Nato and the US say such deals have helped al-Qaeda and the Taleban.
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bttt
“Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southern Sweden...”
Duly noted and thanks, Oorang.
YEP and thanks Unrepentant VN Vet.
I hoping that some of the stuff covered daily in The Threat Matrix will start getting more exposure in the lame-stream-media.
Probably wishful thinking.
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Bosnia: Al-Qaeda smuggling weapons into Croatia, paper claims
21 May 2008
Banjaluka – Al-Qaeda and the Muslim fundamentalist Wahabi movement's operatives have been smuggling weapons and explosives into neighbouring Croatia, Bosnian daily Nezavisne novine reported on Wednesday. Quoting Bosnian security sources, the paper said huge quantities of weapons and explosives have been smuggled into the areas of Croatia with sizeable Muslim population in recent months.
The weapons were shipped to the Croatian capital Zagreb, nearby Karlovac and the Adriatic port of Split, according to a document from the Bosnian security agency, quoted by the paper. The document said the operation has been masterminded by Bosnian Muslims Vladimir Popilovski, Kemal Alagic, Semsudin Mehmedovic, Naser Panaslamovic and Omer Murselovic.
No arrests have been made in connection with the allegation of weapons smuggling to Croatia, which is an official candidate for EU membership and hopes to join the bloc by 2010.
Mehemedovic, a former police chief in the eastern Bosnian town of Zenica, was acquitted of issuing false documents to the members of the so called 'Algerian group' of suspected terrorists, some of whom are being held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The alleged Islamist militants "believe that Croatia will soon become a member of the EU," the paper quoted the Bosnian security document as saying. This "will create favorable conditions to distribute weapons and explosives for terrorist acts throughout Europe due to the openness of borders,” the document added.
Al-Qaeda is believed to have maintained 'dormant cells' in Bosnia since the 1992-1995 civil war, when thousands of mujahadeen - fighters from Muslim countries - came to fight on the side of local Muslims. Many mujahadeen remained in the country after the war and have reportedly been indoctrinating the local Muslim population and even operating terrorist training camps.
Darko Trifunovic, a Serbian expert on terrorism, says al-Qaeda has been changing tactics. For its operations in Europe, the terror network has increasingly using local white youths or 'white al-Qaeda', according to Trifunovic.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2183315559
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