Posted on 07/28/2008 8:37:15 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Zaman (pro AKP muslim party) Aug 01, 2008
An overview of AK Party history, closure case process
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=149053&bolum=100
A brief summary of important dates and developments leading to the
establishment of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK
Party) in 2001 and the launch of a closure case against it this year
that was rejected by the nation’s highest judicial body on Wednesday.
1: Aug. 14, 2001: AK Party is founded
continued.
Zaman (pro AKP muslim party) Aug 01, 2008
[NEWS ANALYSIS] Governing AK Party was not shut down, but may have been
incapacitated
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=149085&bolum=100
The decision of the Constitutional Court to not close down the Justice
and Development Party (AK Party) was welcomed by people who were
expecting an inescapable closure decision that was already normalized in
the public consciousness.
continued.
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/fbi_tsa_conference080108.htm
Press Release
For Immediate Release
August 1, 2008
Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
FBI and TSA Conclude Major Terrorism and Transportation Conference in New York
This week over 700 law enforcement personnel, intelligence professionals, and private sector officials attended the Terrorism and Transportation Conference convened in New York, New York, hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). This four-day conference was held to bring together terrorism first responders, private industry representatives, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) experts. The event was the largest-ever sponsored by the FBI and TSA to jointly address terrorism and transportation.
Keynote speakers included FBI New York Division Assistant Director in Charge Mark Mershon, TSA Administrator Kip Hawley, New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly, United States Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, and The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey Superintendent Samuel J. Plumeri, Jr.
Invited panelists addressed prevention, preparedness, and response to terrorist acts involving buses, airplanes, subways, freight trains, shipping, and other transportation modes, with an emphasis on law enforcement coordination, cooperation, preparedness, and prevention.
Members from several federal, state, and local law enforcement departments and private industry partners participated in the conference. In addition, international law enforcement officials were in attendance from Spain, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
“Unfortunately, 9/11 changed the way the world thinks about their vulnerability aboard airliners. Tokyo, Madrid, and London further illustrated that the rails and buses were not immune from terrorist attack,” said Assistant Director Mershon. “Our goal is to make certain we coordinate to the fullest extent possible with our law enforcement partners, including first responders and WMD experts. We want to ensure preparedness in combating the growing threat of transportation sector terrorism .”
“Counterterrorism today is a team activity. TSA’s strategy is to start with intelligence; partner with law enforcement, airports, our international colleagues and industry partners, and the public; and use security measures that are flexible, widely deployable, mobile, and layered to cover our open transportation network. If the terrorists’ strength is that they have no deadlines, rules, or borders, ours is that this is our turf, there are a lot of us, and we have a lot of resources,” said TSA Administrator Kip Hawley.
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Juvenile pulls out gun during fight at Earlimart Middle School Open this result in new window
Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register - Aug 01 7:53 AM
Two juveniles were arrested Thursday afternoon at Earlimart Middle School following a fight where one of the juveniles threatened a victim with a gun, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department reported.
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Arizona Daily Star - Jul 31 12:40 AM
A 15-year-old accused of fatally shooting his half sister brought a gun and a knife to the high school the pair attended, a school official said.
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Students saw alleged shooter with gun at school Open this result in new window
FOX 11 Tucson - Jul 30 9:00 PM
A letter has been sent to parents of students at Empire High School in Vail informing them that the student who allegedly shot and killed his step-sister on Saturday, July 26, brought a gun to the school the previous week.
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Top Gun Open this result in new window
UGO - UnderGroundOnline - Aug 01 11:14 AM
Synopsis: Maverick (Tom Cruise) is one of the United States’ top pilots, able to stay cool under pressure while knocking the bad guys out of the sky. His performance earns him a place at the Top Gun Naval Flying School, where he has a chance to train alongside fellow top-tier pilots.
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Deseret Morning News - Jul 31 11:25 PM
A 17-year-old boy who pulled a gun on a school counselor was sentenced to prison this week, after a judge ruled he was a danger to the community.
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Accused teen allegedly took gun to school Open this result in new window
KVOA Tucson - Jul 31 1:32 AM
Disturbing new details are emerging about an Empire High School student accused of shooting and killing his teenager half-sister. Fourteen-year-old Alexandria Salinas was talking on the phone with her
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School to review toy gun role play Open this result in new window
Otago Daily Times - Jul 31 10:59 AM
Hampden School’s board of trustees is reviewing its decision to allow pupils to use home-made toy guns in a supervised pig-hunting “role play” in the playground.
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Gun Ownership Open this result in new window
Malta Star - Aug 01 11:23 AM
More than 25% of the US adult population own a gun. About half of the 18+ population, lives in households with guns.
Playground Catches Fire
Heavy Plumes Of Smoke Visible From Downtown
POSTED: 6:49 pm MDT July 31, 2008
UPDATED: 7:09 pm MDT July 31, 2008
DENVER — Heavy plumes of smoke were visible from downtown Denver Thursday afternoon after a playground caught fire.
Denver firefighters said the playground outside St. Garden Place Elementary on Lincoln Street caught fire just before 5 p.m.
continues...under investigation
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=663&pageid=22&pagename=Investigation
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=663&pageid=22&pagename=Investigation
Infamous Auschwitz Tattoo Began as an IBM Number
http://wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com/2008/07/fbi-most-wanted-terrorist-adnan-el.html
FBI MOST WANTED TERRORIST ADNAN EL-SHUKRIJUMAH WORKED AT A NORTH
MIAMI USED CAR DEALERSHIP.
[must read, is Adnan using this money for nukes?]
The Growing Threat of Narco-Terror
By Michael Freund The Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2008
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331138010&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
With a great deal of attention focused of late on Hizbullah’s extensive arms
buildup, little heed has been paid to yet another dangerous development
taking place across the northern border: the resurgence of the drug trade in
Lebanon.
Without much fanfare, the Shi’ite terrorist group has been presiding over an
increase in the cultivation and production of illicit crops such as opium
and hashish in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
And though the extent of the drug trafficking is still well below the levels
reached during the heyday of the 1980s, it is nonetheless on the upswing
once again.
That alone should have policymakers both in Israel and the West concerned,
if only because the lucrative narcotics trade plays such an important role
in financing Hizbullah’s network of terror and mayhem.
In its recently released 2008 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and
Crime noted that Lebanon continues to be one of “the most important cannabis
resin producers in the Near East,” along with Egypt.
While production is down since the height of the civil war, when the Bekaa
Valley was awash in drugs, the report found that the area used to cultivate
opium poppy, from which heroin is made, and cannabis soared in 2007 to an
estimated 6,500 hectares (16,000 acres).
And as Reuters put it (September 26), the most recent harvest has emerged as
“what locals describe as one of their best cannabis crops since the
1975-1990 civil war.” Local Lebanese farmers aren’t the only ones getting
into the act. An article in the Yemen Times three months ago revealed that
at least 20 drug lords are now operating openly in the Bekaa Valley.
One of them told the paper that there was little to fear from the Lebanese
army or police, as they rarely ventured into the area, and that even when
they do, it is merely “to clear a few marijuana or opium fields for the
press, just to show that the Lebanese government is addressing the drugs
problem.” Everyday life in the Bekaa, the correspondent concluded, “is
dominated by the industrial production of, and trade in, drugs.”
Needless to say, the renewed strength of Lebanon’s drug trade has had a
direct spillover effect on Israel. After all, at least some of the illegal
drugs being grown in the Bekaa, which is under Hizbullah control, end up in
the hands of dealers and users in Tel Aviv.
On March 25, 33 kg. of heroin were confiscated on the Lebanese border in
what was hailed as one of the largest local drug busts in recent memory. And
in February, Israel broke up a drug-smuggling ring involving an IDF
sergeant.
Since 2000, 24 people, including IDF officers, policemen and civilians have
been arrested for involvement in the drug trade between Lebanon and Israel.
But the damage doesn’t stop there, for in addition to weakening Israeli
society by facilitating the availability of harmful drugs, Hizbullah has
also exploited the situation for military purposes.
As analyst Yossi Melman noted in Haaretz (March 31), Hizbullah “allows
Lebanese dealers to smuggle drugs into Israel, in exchange for which they
provide Hizbullah, through their Israeli contacts, with intelligence
information on the deployment of the IDF in the North, and purchase maps and
equipment for Hizbullah.” Like any good drug cartel, Hizbullah’s ambitions
aren’t limited merely to the neighborhood marketplace, but extend far
beyond, stretching from Europe to South America to the United States.
In November 2007, for example, authorities in Los Angeles indicted a
criminal gang involved in cocaine and counterfeiting activities, and at
least one of the suspects had links to Hizbullah (The Los Angeles Times,
November 7).
And earlier this year, a report by the Bulgarian parliament’s Interior
Committee found that terrorist groups such as Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad
were actively involved in Bulgaria’s drug trade and were using it to fund
their terrorist activities back home (Sofia News Agency, April 9).
Likewise, Hizbullah has an active presence in the southern hemisphere, where
it is said to be heavily involved in drug trafficking and other illegal
activities. In remarks delivered two weeks ago at the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy, Michael Braun, the assistant administrator and chief
of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Administration, said that “the
nexus between drugs and terror is growing at light speed... One of the most
prominent regions where the drug-terror nexus is at its strongest is the
tri-border area in Latin America, where the borders of Brazil, Argentina and
Paraguay join. Both Hamas and Hizbullah are active in this region.”
It is clear, therefore, that Hizbullah increasingly poses not just a
terrorist threat to Israel and the West, but a narco-threat as well. The
group’s tentacles literally extend around the globe, and it is actively
involved in helping to spread the poison of illegal drugs far and wide, from
which it profits handsomely.
Indeed, some analysts estimate that Hizbullah earns upwards of $500 million
annually from the drug trade alone, which in part helps to explain its
ability to rearm so broadly and quickly.
It is therefore essential that steps be taken to tackle this menace. After
months of political turmoil, Lebanon finally has a president, so it is high
time for the US and Europe to press Beirut to take a far more aggressive
stance regarding stamping out drug cultivation in the Bekaa.
No more excuses must be accepted, and any further Western aid to the Beirut
government should be linked to its performance on eliminating bumper drug
crops that are being grown right under their noses.
And at home, Western governments need to start underlining the direct link
that exists between drugs and terror.
Many Americans now understand that when they fill up their cars with
gasoline, they might be putting money into the pockets of those who are
hostile to them.
The same is no less true when it comes to illegal narcotics, which often
help to fund terrorist groups abroad that aim to harm the West and its
interests.
For by doing drugs, users are not only betraying their own health and
well-being, but that of their country too.
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article28081
American legal firm to sue Sudan for 1998 Nairobi bomb attack Wednesday 30
July 2008
July 30, 2008 (NAIROBI) - A U.S. legal firm is set to file a suit against
Sudan and Iran to compensate Kenyan victims of 1998 bomb attack against the
U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.
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US Embassy in Nairobi after the attack of August 7, 1998
The two countries are accused of having sponsored the attack on the US
embassy on August 7, 1998 that left 206 Kenyans and 12 Americans dead. More
than 5,000 people were injured. The attack was linked to local members of
the al Qaeda terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden.
According to Nairobi based The Nation, an American legal firm, Mann and
Mairone Attorneys has gathered enough evidence in its two-year research,
linking key officials in the governments of Sudan and Iran as the sponsors
of the terrorist attack.
“We have significant evidence indicating that senior government officials of
the Islamic Republic of Sudan and Iran provided such support and finance to
al Qaeda and therefore were enablers of the terrorist attack that killed and
maimed hundreds of residents of Kenya and they must be held legally liable
for the death and destruction caused,” said Gavriel Mairone.
The counter-terrorism legal expert said the suit would be filed before
August 7, and will only involve the Kenyans employees of the US embassy,
adding they organized a meeting with them this week.
Washington rejected to compensate the Kenyan victims of the attack against
its embassy in Nairobi saying it was itself a victim and that the al Qaeda
group should be held responsible. In addition, it said that it had spent
millions of dollars in helping victims seek medical aid.
Nairobi attack was planned simultaneously with another attack against the US
embassy in Dar es Salam, Tanzania. These attacks brought bin Laden and al
Qaeda to international attention for the first time, and resulted in the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most
Wanted list.
In response to the bombings, U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered a series of
cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan on August 20,
1998. In Sudan, the missiles destroyed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant,
where 50% of Sudan’s medications for both people and animals were
manufactured.
The Clinton Administration claimed that there was ample evidence to prove
that the plant produced chemical weapons, but a thorough investigation after
the missile strikes revealed that the intelligence was unreliable.
(ST)
ETA terrorist arrested in Fuengirola
• 31 Jul 2008 •
http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/9841.html
ETA bunker: Incriminating evidence recovered by Gu
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THIRTY-THREE-year-old Libe Aguirre Mazaga, a known member of the Basque
terrorist group, ETA, has been arrested by Guardia Civil in Fuengirola, in
an operation which also resulted in the arrest of nine key members of what
is considered to be one of the most active and dangerous terrorist commandos
in Spain. The commando, Vizcaya, is believed to have been responsible for
most of the attacks committed since August last year, including a bomb
attack on the Guardia Civil barracks in Legutiano (Alava), which was
responsible for the death of officer, Juan Manuel Piñuel, originally from
Melilla, but who lived in Malaga with his family. Aguirre, originally from
Elorrio (Vizcaya) has been taken to Madrid, where he will now face trial at
the National Courtroom, before Baltasar Garzon, for terrorist acts.
The head of the commando, Arkaitz Goikoetxea, was also arrested in the
operation, which was implemented in several areas, including Elorrio and
Getxo. Follow-up searches uncovered several bunkers which were found to
contain explosives and other materials used for making bombs, as well as
false Portuguese car number plates.
Reports suggest that this commando was particularly active in Portugal and
had been planning attacks there.
It has been reported that they were also planning an attack against High
Court Judge, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
Stood on the streets and were asking people if they thought Obama was a Muslime?
Out of about 7 people they talked to 6 said yes he was, no question about it. It has aired twice that I have seen.
I was shocked CNN even put this on TV, strange times we live in, small town backwoods America knows what is going on and are not fooled.
Now who are all these people that are being polled?????
Terrorist bomb maker Hassan Tabbakh jailed for seven years
A terrorist bomb maker has been sentenced to seven years in jail for
manufacturing explosives in soft drinks bottles and providing instructions
in Arabic on how to mix them together.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Last Updated: 6:55PM BST 30 Jul 2008
Hassan Tabbakh, 38, an unemployed science graduate from Syria, wrote notes
to the terrorists he intended to use the devices telling them: “I have put
everything separately for safety and quick transport.
continued.
TERRORISM SALON: Matthew Levitt on Al Qaeda’s Economic Warfare
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/07/terrorism_salon_29/
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/searchresults/index.php?search=%22terrorism+salon%22&IncludeBlogs=1
( http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=5 Matthew Levitt
is a Senior fellow and Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and
Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy).
Gregory offers a thoughtful analysis and has bravely baited the rest of us
to respond, so I’ll take the bait. First, and just FYI, my “not unrelated”
comment was intended to link energy and the economy, not the economy and
terrorism.
That said, there is an interesting side note to add here, though it only
underlines to my mind how the recent economic downturn in particular and
economics in general is mostly unrelated to efforts to combat terrorism (the
exception, of course, is the tremendous costs of fighting two wars,
especially the war in Iraq, which was never truly part of the poorly phrased
war on terror). That is, al Qaeda has been extremely effective at conducting
economic warfare — al Qaeda has expended relatively little treasure to
inflict on the U.S. and the West in general exorbitant costs.
Look to senior al Qaeda leaders’ statements to underscore that this is part
of their strategy. Consider also the recent case in Canada involving Monin
Khawaja, who reportedly wrote in a 2003 email, “So we have to come up with a
way that we can drain their economy of all its resources, cripple their
industries, and bankrupt their systems in place, all so that they are forced
to withdraw their troops, so they cannot afford to go to war.... We need
constant economic j[ihad], blow after blow, until they cripple and fall,
never to rise again.” In that, despite the costs we have incurred (some
unnecessarily), I submit that have and will continue to fail - but there is
that connection in terms of their intent.
Gregory agrees that terrorism “is very important indeed and requires
continued
maximal vigilance and sustained attention.” So the fact that al Qaeda has
failed to conquer territory, while telling and a sign of its inherent
bankrupt ideology, really doesn’t mitigate the threat it poses to America
and its allies. And taking our allies into account is critical. Al Qaeda
affiliates in North Africa, for example, may pose less of a threat to the
U.S. but it is the primary threat facing our allies in much of Europe,
particularly France, Spain and Italy. Giving our transatlantic relationships
greater attention is not well-served by playing down the threats posed by al
Qaeda’s regional affiliates. And as to the homegrown threat, the
http://www.nypdshield.org/public/SiteFiles/documents/NYPD_Report-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf
New York Police Department’s study should be a wake-up
call to us all — the radicalization Peter and I have discussed in the UK
context may well be happening in parts of the United States as well.
Gregory and I apparently disagree over the seriousness of the threat posed
by Iran — that’s an important debate but a different one that the one we’re
having now so I’ll leave that for another time. But should terrorism
continue to be the - or one of the - “premier national security priorities”
of the next administration (the questions we’ve been asked to address here)?
Yes. Gregory’s musing whether it is also the “defining challenge of the 21st
Century” is in fact a totally different question. I submit that if we give
the issue the attention it needs now there is no reason it should be “the
defining issue” when historians later look back at the 21st Century.
Finally, Gregory makes an important point when he highlights the growing
importance of Russia, China, and India, among other states, to which we need
to give greater attention. The next administration will need to walk and
chew gum at the same time, focusing on counterterrorism while balancing not
only other priority issues and countries but even sometimes competing
foreign policy interests, as we’ve discussed earlier regarding, for example,
the democracy agenda, Arab reform, combating AIDS/HIV in Africa, etc. We’ll
need to deal with all these critical issues, and fix the economy and the
housing market and plenty of other things at home, but combating terrorism
will remain a priority for at least the next four years, so yes: it deserves
to be at the very top of the next administration’s priority list.
— Matthew Levitt
August 1, 2008 PM Anti-Terrorism News - UnitedStatesAction.com
Al Qaeda No. 2 Injured? Unverified Letter Obtained By CBS News Urgently Requests Doctor To Treat Ayman al Zawahiri
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/01/eveningnews/main4316193.shtmlIndia)
(India) I have cooperated fully over terror email: US national
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/I_have_cooperated_fully_over_terror_email_US_national/articleshow/3316414.cms
Afghanistan: Poppy destruction aiding Taliban, says think-tank
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2384839752
(Pakistan) BBC: Pakistan admits to Taliban spies — government spokeswoman Sherry Rehman says “individuals” in ISI are acting on their own and Pakistan needs to “identify these people and weed them out”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7537868.stm
Iran heading to nuclear breakthrough: Mofaz
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/wl_nm/israel_iran_mofaz_dc;_ylt=Aog6i4fg2K1MP7.IdWilTAKs0NUE
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UPDATE 1-Russian court finds Yukos boss guilty of murders
08.01.08, 7:02 AM ET
MOSCOW, Aug 1 (Reuters) - A top manager of the now defunct YUKOS business empire was found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of ordering several high profile murders, a decision he dismissed as part of a show trial organised by the Kremlin.
The Moscow city court found Leonid Nevzlin, one of YUKOS chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s closest advisers, guilty of organising murders including the killing of a local mayor where the oil firm’s biggest production unit was based.
‘The court has ascertained that Nevzlin organised a whole host of extremely serious crimes,’ Judge Valery Novikov said in the courtroom.
Nevzlin, who fled to Israel in 2003, was once one of the most senior shareholders in the YUKOS empire, which has been divided up and sold off by the Russian state to pay for huge back tax claims levied by the tax authorities.
Russia has asked Israel to extradite Nevzlin, who has repeatedly denied the charges. He said the court was acting out a show trial orchestrated from the Kremlin and that he would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year jail term for tax evasion and fraud, says he was the victim of corrupt officials under former President Vladimir Putin who wanted to carve up his business empire and who feared his political ambitions.
‘The decision of the court was written in advance by the Kremlin and there is no surprise in this decision,’ Nevzlin said in a statement read out by his spokesman.
‘This is a show trial managed under the supervision of the Kremlin and controlled by Putin and his gang. I intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against this show trial that was held in Russia.’
The Moscow court said Nevzlin worked with YUKOS’s former head of security, Alexei Pichugin, to kill people who were hindering the interests of the YUKOS empire, which had major stakes in oil, banking and commodity trading.
The judge said Nevzlin and Pichugin, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2006 for carrying out murders, had organised the 1998 murder of Valentina Korneyeva, who owned a building in central Moscow that YUKOS holding firm, MENATEP, wanted to buy.
The judge also said Nevzlin ordered the 1998 murder of Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of the Siberian town of Nefteyugansk where YUKOS’s biggest oil production unit was based. The judge said the murder had cost YUKOS $150,000.
Prosecutors said Petukhov, who had fallen out with YUKOS and was demanding tax payments to the local budget, was shot dead on June 26, Khodorkovsky’s birthday. YUKOS officials said the timing of the murder it was intended to discredit YUKOS bosses.
The court’s decision is the latest chapter in the demise of the giant YUKOS-MENATEP empire, which amassed a fortune by buying state assets cheaply and trading commodities in the chaos following the fall of the Soviet Union.
But Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, fell foul of the Kremlin in 2003 and was arrested by Russian FSB security service at an airport in Siberia.
Putin, while still president, repeatedly said that Khodorkovsky had committed serious crimes and must pay the penalty. Prosecutors have recently charged Khodorkovsky with new charges, including money laundering and embezzlement.
‘Courts all over the world have ruled that Russia is a place of political persecution — courts in England, in Switzerland, in the Netherlands, in Israel — so the only place such a show trial can be held is in Russia,’ Nevzlin said.
(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Giles Elgood) Keywords: RUSSIA YUKOS/NEVZLIN
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Public unconvinced President Medvedev is Russia’s real leader
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Pakistan and Delusions about Negotiating on Jihad
By Jeffrey Imm
The Counterterrorism Blog
August 1, 2008
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/pakistan_and_delusions.php
Would America find it a shocking news revelation if a white supremacist organization had members supporting Ku Klux Klan terrorism? Would the FBI go to white supremacist political groups to fight the Ku Klux Klan, or seek white supremacist leaders to convince KKK members to change their thinking? But when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Taliban, and Jihadist organizations around the world, this type of nonsensical thinking has become a common argument among many international relations circles, including American government leadership, because nearly 8 years after 9/11, such leadership continues to refuse to clearly define the enemy threat and ideology.
continued.
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Heeey Lucyt how ya doin? Good to see you too.
” We will send him a doctor”, that has to be the most feared statement in Russia
http://www.huliq.com/65603/pakistan-more-rumors-alzawahiri039s-death
Pakistan: More Rumors Of Al-Zawahiri’s Death
Posted August 1st, 2008 by admin_huliq
Stratfor today reports that Al Qaeda No. 2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri is rumored to have been killed in a July 28 U.S. airstrike in Pakistan. According to the report “the United States is attempting to verify reports that a July 28 airstrike” has killed Al Qaeda’s number two man Zawahiri.
The Jawa Reports reads:
“Intelligence sources told The Jawa Report last week that ‘the hunt was on’ in Pakistan for a ‘big fish’. Could this be the big fish they were talking about?
“The major — and I mean major — caveat here is that Zawahiri has been rumored to have been killed on a number of previous occasions.”
Wikipedia On Ayman al-Zawahiri
Dr. Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri or (closer to the original Arabic pronunciation) al-Dhawahri (born June 19, 1951), is a prominent leader of al-Qaeda, and was the second and last “emir” of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, having succeeded ‘Abbud al-Zummar in the latter role when Egyptian authorities sentenced al-Zummar to life imprisonment. Al-Zawahiri is a qualified surgeon, and is an author of works including numerous al-Qaeda statements. He speaks Arabic and English. Al-Zawahiri is under worldwide embargo by the UN 1267 Committee as a member or affiliate of al-Qaeda.
In 1998 al-Zawahiri formally merged Egyptian Islamic Jihad into al-Qaeda. According to reports by a former al-Qaeda member, he has worked in the al-Qaeda organization since its inception and was a senior member of the group’s shura council. He is often described as a “lieutenant” to Osama bin Laden. As of June 2008, he is still at large.
Let’s waith and see if al-Zawahiri’s death rumors are confirmed.
I think I forgot to tell you I am going to be a Grammy again, first of Jan. and it is another boy!
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