Posted on 07/28/2008 8:37:15 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Is U.S. Bioterror Attack Just A Matter of Time?
The overriding question is whether the U.S. is “ready” for a bioterror attack. The answer could well rely on the “other” question of what bio-agent and what’s the source? In 1991, 40,000 Russian scientists dispersed throughout the World, with knowledge of what the U.S.S.R. was doing in chemical and biological weapons. The question is to whom did they sell their knowledge? Some believe former Soviet scientists sold technology to countries like Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Lurking is the spectre of al-Qaeda, a group that the Pentagon says continues to pursue biological weapons.
Another scenario is an outbreak of a pandemic. How would the U.S. deal with an infectious disease outbreak? The picture, despite reassurances, is not pretty. Until now, the U.S. has experienced two major biological attacks.
In 1984, the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers attempted to take over the town of the Dalles, Oregon by contaminating salad bars in the town. In 2001, there was the as yet unsolved mystery of the anthrax letters that killed five people.
But the question of bioterrorism extends to potential threats against our food supply and our clean water resources. It also extends to the threat of outbreaks of diseases in our animals populations. Here, the concern are diseases that attack animals but that can jump to humans. These are referred to as zoonotic diseases. The World Health Organization defines zonnotic diseases as:
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[September 2008]
Volume 5, Issue 34 (September 24, 2008) | Download PDF Version
Jihadis Publish Online Recruitment Manual
By Abdul Hameed Bakier
To become a full fledged jihadi, volunteers must go through gradual ideological reform and build a sense of security and vigilance needed for clandestine activities. To further their preparation, one al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi internet forum uploaded a new manual entitled “The Art of Recruitment,” offering tutorials in techniques for approaching and recruiting suitable people to join the global Salafi-Jihadi movement (al-ekhlaas.net, September 7).
A jihadi forum participant using the nickname Abu Amr al-Qaedi uploaded the 51-page recruitment manual. The work contains a logical means of recruiting candidates for jihad, using three phases of “solitary preaching” and cultivation. The recruiters are instructed to cover every phase before moving to the next step. The successful completion of all three phases should lead to the formation of an active jihadi cell. In preparing the manual, al-Qaedi says he took into consideration the differences between people living in Muslim countries not occupied by crusaders, such as Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Algeria and others. “The purpose of the booklet is to transform the candidate into a devout and distinguished jihadi who understands the fundamentals of jihad, consequently becoming one of the ‘victorious cult.’” Al-Qaedi defines “solitary preaching” as a personal, direct contact between the candidate and the recruiter. Direct contact presents a good opportunity to comprehensively mold the candidate into a pious member of the Salafi-Jihadi movement and closely observe the recruitment progress. The recruiter can easily clarify any frustrations the candidate might have about joining jihad, refute discrepancies and, above all, preserve the confidentiality of the operation from the notice of security forces.
Before getting into the recruitment phases, al-Qaedi explains the candidate selection criteria as follows:
• The non-religious: Deemed most preferable because the recruiter chooses and imbues the candidate with Salafi-Jihadi ideology without any objections since the candidate isn’t committed to any theory.
• The newly committed religious youth: These include Islamic converts to Salafism from other Islamic denominations.
• Those who are easy to convince because they already consider other ideologies defunct and willingly adhere to Salafi-Jihadism.
College students and school pupils are also suitable candidates the recruiter can take his time cultivating before approaching. The manual instructs recruiters to avoid prattlers, disloyal types, hostile ideologues, misers and anti-social personalities. The solitary preaching aims to tune the candidate into Salafi-Jihadi dogma, says al-Qaedi, who proceeds to lay out the three phases in the process:
1) The first phase concentrates on the selectee’s characteristics. The candidate must be chivalrous, generous, honest, and committed to Islamic religious practices, such as praying five times a day (on time), fasting, and performing other Islamic rituals. In addition, the candidate must not be biased towards any other political group or ideology. Rather, he or she should be a socially stable and accepted figure capable of leading others.
2) To ingratiate the recruiter with the candidate, the recruiter performs daily and weekly errands with the candidate over a three week period, such as frequenting the mosques together, inviting the candidate to lunch and presenting gifts. In this phase the recruiter starts talking about Islamic affairs, focusing on any anti-Salafi-Jihadi ideas the candidate might have; “It’s very important to understand the candidate’s social relations and interests at this phase. You must know where and with whom he spends his 24 hours daily,” says al-Qaedi.
3) The third phase, entitled “awakening the faith,” requires from one to two weeks. In this phase, the recruiter highlights the virtues of good deeds, emphasizes the importance of on-time prayers, and devises a plan to purify the candidate of bad habits by performing mandatory and voluntary prayers. Further, the candidate should be exposed to the notion of heaven and hell. In this phase, the selectee’s mindset should be opened to the promise of heavenly virgins; otherwise the candidate should be tacitly threatened with the fate of punishment in hell. The recruiter also instills certain Salafi-Jihadi principles by encouraging the candidate to read books on jihadi virtues, such as the late Abdullah Azzam’s Ithaf al-Ibad bifadail al-Jihad (Conferring the Worshippers with the Virtues of Jihad). The highly influential Palestinian-born Azzam was a Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian in Afghanistan during the period of the Soviet invasion, becoming a central figure in the recruitment of mujahideen and preaching of defensive jihad.
Al-Qaedi also suggests other books by renowned Salafi-Jihadi shaykhs such as Khaled al-Rashid, Abdul Muhsin al-Ahmad, Hazim Shoman and Mohammad Hassan. Candidates should also listen to sermons of prominent shaykhs such as Abdul Hameed Kishk and, most importantly, statements released by Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. In a later stage, al-Qaedi suggests exposing the candidate to videos of terror attacks perpetrated mainly by jihadis in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jihadi versions of the 9/11 attacks and other documentaries released by jihadi sources or news stations are also suitable.
Al-Qaedi enumerates a step-by-step plan for ideologically influencing the candidate:
“The candidate would listen to sermons, for instance, by the famous Kuwaiti Salafi-Jihadi cleric Hamid al-Ali, followed by a religious discussion of the sermon’s content. Next, the candidate would be asked to read one of al-Ali’s books. Lastly, he would listen to al-Ali’s eulogy of [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi for the latter is a Salafi-Jihadi hero who would encourage the candidate to follow his footsteps.”
The recruitment phases of “The Art of Recruitment” are very practical and logical, with a brainwashing-style sequence. The manual is based on the book Daawat al-Moqawama al-Islamia al-Alamia (The Mission of Global Islamic Resistance, December 2004) by the renowned Syrian Salafi-Jihadi theorist Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Sethmariam Nasar (better known as Abu Musab al-Suri – see Terrorism Monitor, August 11, 2005; September 21, 2006; January 18, 2007; February 1, 2007). Jihadis regard the “Art of Recruitment” as a supplementary manual to al-Suri’s book.
Find this article at:
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374435
Thanks to Mark Taylor and milford421 for this report:
Three Members of Obama’s Church Killed
Investigator close to case believes there’s more to the brutal murders than mainstream
press is letting on
By Victor Thorn
http://thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-VictorThornOnTheObamaMurders-Polydoros.htm
http://homelandsecurityus.com/20080928D
Thanks to Mark Taylor and Milford421
Analyzing patterns & pre-attack indicators
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director, & the Northeast Intelligence Network Investigative Staff
28 September 2008:
Since we published our article concerning terrorist communications
naming October 7, 2008, as a potential intended date for a terrorist attack, we have
received a record number of e-mails from people across the U.S. asking for additional and
more specific information. In an effort to address the questions we have received, it was
the consensus of the members of the Northeast Intelligence Network that we supplement
our previous report with clarifications and possible additional indicators we have since
developed.
continued.
Jailhouse jihad
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12273877
Fears that terrorism is breeding in French prisons
HOME to Europe’s biggest Muslim population and a robust
counter-terrorism system, France has long kept a keen watch on Islamic
radicalism. In recent years it has been spared big bombings of the kind
seen in London and Madrid. But France is no stranger to attack by
jihadists, and officials fear it is just a matter of time before they
strike again.
The authorities are particularly worried about recruitment to militant
Islam in France’s overcrowded prisons. “French prisons are a preferred
recruiting ground for radical Islamists,” Michèle Alliot-Marie, the
interior minister, told Le Figaro newspaper. She and her EU counterparts
have been working on a joint handbook on how to counter the phenomenon,
which touches many European countries, notably Britain. At the end of
September, Ms Alliot-Marie will host an EU seminar, in the heavily
Muslim Paris banlieue of Saint-Denis, to discuss what to do.
continues.
Press Releases: U.S. Department of State Quick Reaction Force
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0500
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
September 29, 2008
U.S. Department of State Quick Reaction Force
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has awarded a contract to DynCorp International for the formation of a humanitarian Quick Reaction Force (QRF) to respond globally to urgent and emergent humanitarian operations that require the removal or mitigation of explosive hazards to protect civilian populations.
The formation of this new QRF reflects the continued U.S. commitment to post-conflict or post catastrophic explosive weapons clearance and destruction programs. It will deal with all explosive remnants of war, whether they are surplus, abandoned, hazardous, or residual conventional weapons, rather than one specific type of weapon or munitions. This includes small arms and light weapons (SA/LW), unexploded ordnance, cluster munitions, landmines, man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), and other types of conventional weapons. The QRF will have a stand-alone capability and if the situation warrants will complement and multiply ongoing efforts on the ground. It will work in concert with foreign governments and U.S. Embassies around the world and should be available for deployment within the next several weeks.
This new QRF is an enhanced version of the earlier Department of State Quick Reaction Demining Force (QRDF) created in 2000 that focused exclusively on humanitarian mine action and conducted successful operations in Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Iraq.
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement manages humanitarian mine action programs (clearance of landmines and explosive remnants of war, survivors assistance, mine risk education), and conventional weapons destruction programs worldwide. To learn more visit www.state.gov/t/pm/wra.
2008/811
Released on September 29, 2008
from: state.gov
Press Releases: United States-Pakistan Strategic Partnership Joint Statement
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:15:18 -0500
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
September 29, 2008
United States-Pakistan Strategic Partnership Joint Statement
Following is the text of a joint statement issued by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte and Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi following the third round of the United States-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue, held September 29, 2008, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. The United States-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue was last held in Islamabad, Pakistan, in September 2007.
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Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Foreign Minister Qureshi reaffirmed their commitments to a wide-ranging, substantive, and long-term strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan, which is based on shared values and a common effort to promote enduring peace, security, stability, freedom, and prosperity of Pakistan and of the region. Both sides exchanged views on ways to deepen their bilateral cooperation and to make the Strategic Dialogue more effective and productive.
The United States and Pakistan both strongly condemned the terrorist attack at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, on 20 September. Both Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Foreign Minister Qureshi offered their condolences to the families of all of those lost in the vicious attack. They acknowledged that terrorism and violent extremism pose a common threat to Pakistan, the United States, and the international community.
The United States affirmed its support for Pakistan’s sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity. The United States is dedicated to providing Pakistan with the training and equipment it needs to fight terrorism, including support to enhance Pakistan’s counterinsurgency and counterterrorism capabilities and increased cooperation with Pakistani security forces. Both sides renewed their intention to work together to combat the threat of terrorism and violent extremism by expanding security cooperation, and to work together to develop and modernize the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Pakistan expressed its appreciation for the $4 million the U.S. has committed for flood relief and for humanitarian assistance to those displaced by fighting in Bajaur.
During the Strategic Dialogue, the two sides discussed regional and international issues of common interest. The U.S. expressed support for continued dialogue and improved relations between Pakistan and its neighbors. The U.S. expressed support for the resumption of the Jirga process with Afghanistan and for Pakistan’s commitment to hold the next Regional Economic Cooperation Conference meeting in Islamabad later this year.
The Pakistani Government expressed its appreciation for the new Friends of Pakistan initiative, which will help Pakistan face its challenges in the years ahead.
Building on the August 2008 bilateral Economic Dialogue, both sides reaffirmed their commitment to increased bilateral economic cooperation. Pakistan outlined its economic stabilization measures and reforms to foster economic growth and opportunity. The U.S. expressed support for Pakistan’s plan to stabilize its economy and welcomed Pakistan’s commitment to implement comprehensive reform measures.
The U.S. expressed its determination to continue efforts to promote Reconstruction Opportunity Zones legislation, currently pending in Congress. The establishment of such zones would improve stability and security by stimulating jobs, infrastructure and legitimate economic alternatives in underdeveloped areas.
The two sides emphasized the need for improved regional cooperation and integration in the energy sector. They reaffirmed their commitment to address Pakistan’s growing energy needs by expanding technical assistance and promoting investment in Pakistan’s energy sector.
Cooperation in education and science and technology were reviewed, and both resolved to make best efforts to hold Energy and Education Dialogues by the end of the year.
In keeping with the commitment made by President Bush and Prime Minister Gillani during their July meeting in Washington, the delegations began discussions focused on agricultural cooperation that would help Pakistan strengthen its agricultural sector and enhance its food security.
The two sides committed to work together to realize their long-term vision of the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Partnership.
2008/813
Released on September 29, 2008
from:state.gov
Press Releases: United States-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:27:21 -0500
Fact Sheet
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
September 29, 2008
United States-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue
The United States is committed to a long-term, broad-based partnership with the government and the people of Pakistan. This partnership is based on the shared interests of the two countries in promoting democracy, peace, security, stability, and prosperity in Pakistan and in South Asia.
Since 2002 the United States has provided more than $3.4 billion to Pakistan to improve economic growth, education, health, and governance and to assist with earthquake reconstruction. The United States has also provided more than $2.4 billion in security assistance since 2002 to help Pakistan combat terrorism along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and to support Pakistan’s conventional defense and modernization needs. Total U.S. development and security assistance to Pakistan in Fiscal Year 2008 is more than $960 million.
HIGHLIGHTS OF U.S. ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN
Education
* More than 600,000 children and 60,000 teachers are benefiting from U.S. assistance to Pakistan’s education sector.
* Since 2006, trained more than 3,700 teachers and supervisors in interactive teaching and learning skills. More than 2,400 classrooms at 327 primary, middle and high schools, as well as model colleges, have been equipped with new learning materials.
* Improved sanitation facilities and the quality of drinking water at 176 girls’ primary schools and 89 villages in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Provided training in sanitation to religious scholars, elected representatives, and community members benefiting 60,000 households or 420,000 people.
* Supported the bilateral Fulbright Program, which provides an opportunity for more than 350 Pakistani students each year (new and continuing) to pursue MA or PhD degrees in the United States. The Fulbright Commission in Pakistan receives the largest amount of U.S. government funding of any Fulbright Program worldwide.
Health
* Renovated and equipped 40 hospital and rural centers, more than 30 of which now provide round-the-clock care.
* Through almost 1,200 child health days, provided medical care, vaccinations, and nutritional support to more than 135,000 children, including in the FATA.
* Trained more than 1,400 public sector doctors and 600 private clinic doctors in handling obstetric emergencies, and more than 1,800 traditional birth attendants to conduct clean deliveries and to recognize emergencies that require hospital referral.
* Supporting the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, which provides reliable figures on the direct and indirect causes of maternal and child deaths, family planning, and other vital health issues.
Economic Growth
* Providing micro-credit loans to populations in Balochistan, Sindh, and the FATA. More than 350,000 loans totaling more than $63 million have been disbursed.
* Increased the competitiveness of Pakistani small and medium-sized enterprises in sectors such as gems and jewelry, dairy, marble and granite, horticulture, furniture, and surgical instruments, which in turn helps to create more and better jobs.
* Provided $200 million in Economic Support Funds to the Government of Pakistan each year in Fiscal Years 2005, 2006 and 2007. The funds provided vital budgetary support for Pakistan’s health, education, clean drinking water and earthquake reconstruction initiatives.
* Since 2006, provided more than $200 million in food security assistance.
Democracy and Governance
* Since 2006, provided approximately $155 million in support of democracy in Pakistan, of which more than $29 million has gone to direct support for Pakistan’s election and political processes. For Pakistan’s February 2008 elections, the U.S. supported the Election Commission of Pakistan, provided translucent ballot boxes and seals, ensured a computerized voter registration list, funded 38 observers through Democracy International, provided support for the deployment of 20,000 observers to cover more than 40,000 polling stations, and contributed funding to a United Nations Development Program activity that trained 60,000 polling station staff and other election officials.
* Trained more than 1,100 members of local governments, including 225 women, in budget oversight, leadership skills, and participatory planning.
* Trained hundreds of national and provincial parliaments on rules of procedure, the committee system, legislative drafting, and budget review.
Earthquake Relief
* Gave commodities to 370,000 people affected by the earthquake.
* Provided emergency medical treatment to 35,000 people.
* Supplied safe drinking water to 57,000 people.
* Gave emergency shelter materials to 596,000 people.
2008/815
Released on September 29, 2008
from: state.gov
Highlights: North Korean Denuclearization: Need for a Verification Package
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0500
Deputy Spokesman Wood (Sept. 29): “[W]e’re very concerned about some of the reversal of disablement activities that the North has been in engaged in. ...[W]e encourage the North very strongly to submit that verification regime so that we can move forward on the other aspects, positive aspects of the Six-Party framework.”
Full Text and video:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2008/sept/110433.htm
Link at 2502
Excerpt:
The bombshell may involve the murder of Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual.
What links this story to Barack Obama is that, according to an acquaintance of Obama, Larry Sinclair, Obama is a closet bisexual with whom he had sexual and drug-related encounters in November 1999.
Go Larry Go!
I never heard about Larry Bland and Nate Spencer.
Treasury Designates FARC International Commission Members
Washington, DC— The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated eight international representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a narco-terrorist organization. Today’s action was taken pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act), which applies economic sanctions against significant foreign narcotics traffickers and organizations, like the FARC.
“Today’s designation exposes eight `International Commission members’ of the FARC,” said Adam J. Szubin, Director of OFAC. “Through their service to the FARC as international representatives and negotiators, these persons provide material support to a narco-terrorist organization. OFAC is relentless in its pursuit of exposing those who fuel and support the terrorist activities of the FARC.”
The following eight individuals designated today have been identified as the key members of the FARC’s International Commission: Jairo Alfonso Lesmes Bulla (”Javier Calderon”), Efrain Pablo Trejo Freire, Orlay Jurado Palomino ( “Commander Hermes”), Ovidio Salinas Perez (”El Embajador”), Jorge Davalos Torres, Francisco Antonio Cadena Collazos (”El Cura Camilo”), Nubia Calderon de Trujillo (”Esperanza”), and Liliana Lopez Palacios (”Olga Lucia Marin”). These International Commission members represent the FARC in Argentina , Chile , Uruguay , Paraguay , Brazil , Peru , Ecuador , Venezuela , Panama , Mexico , and Canada .
As representatives of the FARC and members of its International Commission, these individuals work abroad to obtain recruits, support, and protection for the FARC’s acts of terrorism. Some are also themselves violent criminals. On August 6, 2008, Colombian authorities arrested Jairo Alfonso Lesmes Bulla, the FARC’s International Commission member for Argentina , Chile , Uruguay , and Paraguay , in Bogota , Colombia for plotting to assassinate the former Interior and Justice Minister Fernando Londoño Hoyos and the brother of Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos. Orlay Jurado Palomino, the FARC International Commission member for Venezuela , is wanted in Colombia on charges of kidnapping, rebellion, and terrorism. In August 2005, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested Francisco Antonio Cadena Collazos, the FARC’s International Commission Member for Brazil , in Sao Paulo at the request of Colombian authorities on criminal charges of rebellion. The Brazilian government later released Cadena Collazos and granted him refugee status. Nubia Calderon de Trujillo was recently granted asylum by Nicaragua , even though she is a member of an internationally recognized narco-terrorist organization.
In 2003, President George W. Bush identified the FARC as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker, or drug kingpin, pursuant to the Kingpin Act. In 2001, the State Department designated the FARC as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224, and in 1997 the State Department designated the FARC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. This OFAC action continues ongoing efforts under the Kingpin Act to apply financial measures against significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations worldwide. In addition to the 75 drug kingpins that have been designated by the President, 468 businesses and individuals have been designated by OFAC pursuant to the Kingpin Act since June 2000.
Today’s action freezes any assets the designated entities and individuals may have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions involving those assets. Penalties for violations of the Kingpin Act range from civil penalties of up to $1,075,000 per violation to more severe criminal penalties. Criminal penalties for corporate officers may include up to 30 years in prison and fines of up to $5,000,000. Criminal fines for corporations may reach $10,000,000. Other individuals face up to 10 years in prison for criminal violations of the Kingpin Act and fines pursuant to Title 18 of the United States Code.
For a complete list of the individuals and entities designated today, please visit:
http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/actions/index.shtml
To view previous OFAC actions directed against the FARC, please visit:
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Treasury Action against the FARC on September 12, 2008.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on July 31, 2008.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on May 7, 2008.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on April 22, 2008.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on January 15, 2008.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on November 1, 2007.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on September 28, 2006.
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Treasury Action against the FARC on February 19, 2004.
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* Designation Chart
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1169.htm
Color me shocked.
You do tend to be electrifying.
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-keyword&c=&p=bomb+found+at+school&ei=utf-8
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Two Days, Four Bomb Threats at Smyrna High School Open this result in new window
Smyrna Clayton Sun Times - Sep 29 1:23 PM
Smyrna High School officials received a bomb threat phone call before the start of classes September 25. The day after there were two more bomb threats called in and a note found.
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Heartland school searched for bomb Open this result in new window
York News-Times - Sep 29 5:11 PM
A large number of deputies with the York County Sheriff’s Department searched the Heartland Community School late Monday afternoon, after an apparent bomb threat. UPDATE: Investigation Continues
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Bomb threat found on wall of suburban high school Open this result in new window
Chicago Sun-Times - Sep 25 4:53 PM
A high school in northwest suburban McHenry was placed on lockdown Thursday morning after a bomb threat was found scrawled across a bathroom wall.
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Boy found bomb tips online, dad thinks Open this result in new window
Barrie Examiner - Sep 27 12:42 PM
A 15-year-old student who was found with a battery of bomb-making equipment in his school locker likely found recipes to make bombs on the Internet, [...]
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No bomb found at James Buchanan High School after threat found in bathroom Open this result in new window
Chambersburg Public Opinion - Sep 25 11:02 PM
MERCERSBURG— A bomb threat that was found on a wall at James Buchanan High School Thursday afternoon turned out to be a hoax. Mercersburg Police Chief Larry Thomas confirmed that no bombs or suspicious devices were found in the school Thursday afternoon.
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Bomb inmate in school scare Open this result in new window
The Courier Mail - Sep 30 7:00 AM
QUEENSLAND prisoners will be banned from sending mail to schools after a man convicted of building bombs posted a suspicious package to a Brisbane high school.
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Bomb inmate in school scare Open this result in new window
The Courier Mail - Sep 30 7:00 AM
PRISONERS will be banned from posting mail to schools after a man convicted of building bombs sent a suspect package to a Brisbane high school.
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Explosion at Palo Duro High School Open this result in new window
KAMR Amarillo - Sep 29 3:11 PM
A 15-year-old boy is in custody after an explosion rocks Palo Duro High School. Police say there was a small explosion in the men’s bathroom near the cafeteria. Police found a homemade bomb made from common household chemicals and a plastic bottle.
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Investigation continues into bomb threat Open this result in new window
York News-Times - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
The York County Sheriff’s Department, along with Henderson Police Officer Milan Mierau and the Nebraska State Patrol, continue to investigate the bomb threat that was written on a bathroom stall at the Heartland Public School.
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Suspect sought in bomb threat at McHenry H.S. West Campus Open this result in new window
Northwest Herald - Sep 30 1:57 AM
McHENRY – Police and school officials are trying to determine who scrawled a bomb threat on a McHenry High School West Campus bathroom wall Thursday morning.
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El Nuevo - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
A bomb scare in Journal Sqaure this morning turned up nothing suspicious, said State Police Capt. Al Delle Fave. Delle Fave said the Jersey City Bomb Squad searched the building and found nothing and workers were allowed back in at 11:05.
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Bomb scare update: No explosives found Open this result in new window
Victoria Times Colonist - Sep 30 6:52 AM
An intensive search of the Custom House Building and the 500-block of Fort Street found no trace of a bomb Sunday evening, despite threats made claiming there were explosives.
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Bomb Found In Shopping Centre Area In Indonesian Province Open this result in new window
Bernama - Sep 29 11:34 PM
JAKARTA, Sept 30 (Bernama) — A low explosive bomb was found in a shopping center area in Palu of Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitri, local police said.
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Suspected Bomb Found And Detonated In Indonesia - Reports Open this result in new window
Nasdaq - Sep 29 9:46 PM
JAKARTA (AFP)—Police found and detonated a suspected bomb hidden at a shopping area in Indonesia’s fragile Central Sulawesi province, reports said Tuesday.
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Bomb found in shopping center area in Palu, Indonesia Open this result in new window
People’s Daily - Sep 30 1:20 AM
A low explosive bomb was found in a shopping center area in Palu of Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitri, local police said. The hand-made bomb covered with a plastic bag was found after midnight on a side of Jalan Danau Poso street in Palu, provincial police spokesman Irfaizal Nasution said. “It was a low explosive bomb,” he told Xinhua ...
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Bomb found in shopping centre in eastern Indonesia town Open this result in new window
EARTHtimes.org - Sep 29 9:31 PM
Jakarta - A bomb was discovered in a shopping centre Tuesday in the eastern Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi, once the centre of religious conflicts which claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, media reports said. Two boys found the bomb...
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Suspected bomb found in shopping area Open this result in new window
The Australian - Sep 29 7:00 AM
POLICE found and detonated a suspected bomb hidden at a shopping area in Indonesia’s fragile Central Sulawesi province, reports said today.
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Bomb found in Faridabad, defused by civilian Open this result in new window
The Times of India - Sep 29 5:30 AM
NEW DELHI: A live bomb was found in the Faridabad district of Fariadabad early on Monday morning. ( Watch )
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Bomb found in Faridabad, defused by civilian Open this result in new window
The Times of India - Sep 29 1:42 AM
The bomb was discovered by civilians was found outside the crowded Banke Bihari temple in the city and was defused by a civilian.
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Fake Pipe Bomb Found At Alamo Ministries Church In Fort Smith Open this result in new window
KOLR - KSFX Ozarks - Sep 30 6:39 AM
(Fort Smith, AR) — Fort Smith Police say the person who left a fake pipe bomb on the lawn of the Tony Alamo Ministries Church will face a felony charge, if caught.
Cal, thank you for picking up the posts and getting them read by the others.
These days, I can post or read the threads, but not keep up with names, but then you always did beat me in keeping up.
So much going on, so I hit and miss in my posting.
http://www.axisglobe.com/print_article.asp?article=1659
29.09.2008
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA
REVIEW TOPICS:
Georgian journalists are to be blamed for blowing out new spy scandal in Latvia: Russian Ambassador
Russian Embassy in Latvia denies that its diplomat was spying in Georgia
Rumours about alleged Russian spy do not seem interesting to Latvian counterintelligence
Attempts proved fatuous to recruit Latvian militaries, according to high-ranking Defence Ministry official
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service declassifies some Munich Pact files’ papers
Ex-commander of GRU Chechen special-task battalion does not believe in Kadyrov’s connection with brother’s death
Scandal about eavesdropping of parliament members continues in Bulgaria
Czech counter-intelligence annual report points at gangs’ contacts with politicians
Czech counterintelligence BIS worried about more frequent clashes between extremists
Georgian journalists are to be blamed for blowing out new spy scandal in Latvia: Russian Ambassador
The former Russian Central Electoral Commisson head, Ambassador of Russia in Latvia, Alexander Veshnyakov, speaking today at a conference Border Cooperation: EU, Russia and Norway in
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Alexander Veshnyakov
Russia’s Pskov, named false the information that the Adviser of the Russian Federation embassy in Latvia, Alexander Khapylov, was involved in espionage scandal during his work in Georgia, online paper Delfi reports.
According to Veshnyakov, last days „from the serve of the Georgian journalists (and perhaps not only them), a spy scandal “started to be blown out in mass-media of Latvia”. „Probably, someone is very much not satisfied with the work of the Russian Embassy exposing lies of official Tbilisi on events in South Ossetia and Georgia. One does not like also the aspiration of Russia and pragmatic forces in Latvia to develop our interstate cooperation”, declared Veshnyakov. Russian embassy in Riga has issued a special statement on the issue today.
Last night, the Latvian TV3 program Nothing Private reported that the Adviser of the Russian Embassy in Latvia, Alexander Khapylov, was caught performing military espionage when working in Georgia. It is not excluded that the official has been keeping working in the same direction, the TV program said. According to TV3, in Latvia Khapylov is dealing with protection of the rights of compatriots. However, during diplomatic service in Georgia he collected data of military character, according to journalist of the Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2, Tenghiz Gotovoshvili. Khapylov had to leave the Caucasus following his trouble with the Georgian special services, the Georgian journalist told TV3.
Russian Embassy in Latvia denies that its diplomat was spying in Georgia
The Press service of the Embassy of Russia in Latvia has announced that it is in perplexity concerning the provocative information widespread by the Latvian television channel TV3 on September 28, on realization by the Adviser of the Embassy, A.V.Khapylov during his previous mission abroad in Georgia of the activity incompatible with the diplomatic status.
The statement of the Russian embassy Press service, published on its online site, declares that A.V. Khapylov really was the Second secretary of the Embassy of Russia in Georgia between 2000 and 2004. At the same time, the embassy categorically declares that A.V.Khapylov’s work in Tbilisi did not stretch beyond the diplomatic duties entrusted to him, and he returned from Georgia in connection with the end of the term of his mission.
„The embassy reminds that according to article 29 of the 1961Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the state of stay of the diplomat is obliged «to take all
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Alexander Khapylov
appropriate measures for the prevention of any encroachments on the person, freedom or dignity» of the diplomatic employees accredited in its territory. In this connection we are expecting from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Latvian Republic an immediate and precise refutation of the slander widespread by the television channel TV3 concerning the diplomatic employee of the Embassy of Russia in Latvia.”
Rumours about alleged Russian spy do not seem interesting to Latvian counterintelligence
The Constitution Protection Bureau of Latvia (SAB) will not react to the media reports that the Russian embassy official Alexander Khapylov has been allegedly involved in espionage, Riga-based national daily Diena reports, referring to the Press secretary of the counterintelligence service, Iveta Maura. «The SAB is guided in its work by the facts, instead of versions and gamble of some journalists,» according to the spokeswoman.
The Russian Embassy in Riga demanded from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia to deny the allegation made by the TV3 channel about previous «espionage activity» of the Russian diplomat Alexander Khapylov.
Earlier, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Maris Riekstins, declared that Latvia cannot perceive seriously and make comments on such “gossip”. «There is no information at my disposal which would call into question the right of Mr Khapylov to work in Latvia. If someone possesses such information, he or she should transferred it to the law enforcement bodies», Riekstins told daily Diena.
Attempts proved fatuous to recruit Latvian militaries, according to high-ranking Defence Ministry official
The countries which are situated outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, undertook attempts to recruit employees of the Ministry of Defence of Latvia, the State Secretary of the ministry, Edgars Rinkevics, told in an interview to the Riga-based daily Neatkariga.
According to Rinkevics, failure of similar espionage operations has been achieved thanks to good work of the Latvian special services. « It speaks about worthy work of our security services that we did not have such cases as [the recent high treason scandal] in Estonia», the official marked.
Rinkevics also explained that in Estonia military secrets are under supervision of the Ministry of Defence, and in Latvia they are safeguarded by the Constitution Protection Bureau. «In Latvia we have the system of the classified information which operates according to the principle «this is necessary to know», he told the paper and explained that in the Latvian Ministry of Defence there are no people who simultaneously have access to all confidential information.
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service declassifies some Munich Pact files’ papers
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has declassified some archive materials related
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Munich, 1938
to the 1938 Munich Pact, which triggered the most dramatic events of the 20th century, Russian news agencies are reporting today. They say the files are the information and analytical reference reports provided by the Soviet Intelligence Service to the country’s leadership.
British and French ambassadors to Prague urged Czechoslovakia’s President to yield the Sudetenland to Germany, Sergei Ivanov, chief of the SVR news service told journalists in Moscow, according to radio Mayak. What’s more, they demanded from Prague to annul the mutual assistance agreements with other states (including with the Soviet Union), guaranteeing the inviolability of state borders in return, he has said.
Britain didn’t oppose the German expansion and was aiming at military clashes of Germany and Russia, the standing of France was similar, according to declassified files, as stated retired Major-General Lev Sotskov, who selected the files, ITAR-TASS says. Sotskov served in the Foreign Intelligence Service since 1956 both abroad and in the central office. Now he is studying the archives on the history of intelligence. He wrote Operation Tarantella and Unknown Separatism, and took part in the compilation of a collection of documents, entitled Baltic Countries and Geopolitics, according to RIA Novosti.
The 1938 declassified documents also reveal the details of the correspondence between European embassies and their foreign policy departments. In a memo on December 21, 1938, Lavrenty Beria reported to Stalin about the Soviet-seized documents, which included reports of Finnish envoys to London, Paris, and Warsaw on Germany’s eastward expansion, and the position of the British, French, and Polish governments on this issue. The documents make it abundantly clear that both Britain and France realized that their position was driving the USSR into a corner and that Moscow would have to come to terms with the Germans.
Ex-commander of GRU Chechen special-task battalion does not believe in Kadyrov’s connection with brother’s death
Sulym Yamadayev, the ex-commander of the Vostok elite special-task battalion under Russian military intelligence (GRU), has said he does not believe that the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has orchestrated his older brother’s recent assassination, radio Echo Moskvy reports. However, Yamadayev refused to put forward his versions on the motives of the assassination of the former Russian State Duma member Ruslan Yamadayev, radio added.
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Sulym Yamadayev
AIA already reported yesterday, referring to radio Ekho Moskvy, that other Yamadayev brother, Isa Yamadayev, softened his stance regarding the brother’s death, having said that his initial pledge of revenge to the Kadyrovs had been voiced in instant excitation and he did not blame Ramzan Kadyrov for Ruslan’s assassination.
Someone has been willing to achieves collision between Ramzana Kadyrov and Sulym Yamadayev, and for this purpose Ruslan Yamadayev was killed, arises from Sulym’s interview to the daily Kommersant. Sulym Yamadayev has reiterated that no one from his family has promised to kill the President of the Chechen Republic after the termination of the sacred month of Ramadan. Nobody has also declared pledge of revenge to the Yamadayev’s according to Sulym Yamadayev.
He also denies the version that his brother was murdered because of the Chechen oil deals. „We had no relation to it, others are engaged in that business, and nobody else would be let in there,” said Sulym. All the business is in the Chechen Republic, and in Moscow Ruslan had no financial interests because of which he could be killed, in other case he would have never gone without protection. Sulym Yamadayev believes that the murderers wanted to assassinate nobody else but his brother and he was watched for a long time.
Scandal about eavesdropping of parliament members continues in Bulgaria
The monitoring of parliament members’ phone conversations by the State Agency for National Security (SANS) continued to get front-page coverage in the Bulgarian newspapers today.
The Monday press gives prominence to a comment by Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev saying that it was an attack against SANS which he said was aimed to discredit the institution and called it “a cause of concern”, news agency BTA reports.
The Prime Minister is further quoted saying that SANS chief Petko Sertov did the right thing to dismiss the head of the SANS Internal Security Department, Vladimir Pissanchev. Stanishev is adamant that “if anybody has done anything [wrong], it has been behind Sertov’s back”. He reportedly called Sertov “one of the most honest people” and one who would never use his job in the pursuit of some political agenda. “He has to be supported,”BTA cites Stanishev.
The scandal with the parliament members’ phone call printouts flared out last week when parliament member Tatyana Doncheva announced that SANS has used printouts of her and her colleaague Mincho Spassov’s phone calls in violation of the established procedure.
In Pissanchev’s interview published in the daily Trud, it is marked that the SANS head Petko Sertov has been aware of all SANS investigations and everything was reported to him.
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Petko Sertov
Parliament member Vladimir Donchev says in the Klassa that a coup against Sertov is possible. He also says that there is a risk to see SANS turning into political police.
Independent member of parliament, Eleonora Nikolova, is quoted in the papers saying on Bulgarian National Radio Sunday that the phone call printouts were requested by the Interior Ministry in an effort to
identify a mole at SANS. The existence of a mole at SANS transpired in stories published on the information site Opasnite Novini [Dangerous News]. The said stories used classified information, including the name of a SANS officer and a case on which SANS has been working. When they understood that somebody at SANS had been leaking classified information, the Interior Ministry opened a probe, says the press.
In an interview to 24 Chasa, the chairman of Parliament’s Internal Security and Public Order Committee, Mincho Spassov, says that the Interior Ministry is experiencing a shortage of undercover agents which calls for wider use of wiretapping in the collection of information and as a way to encourage prosecutors to open criminal cases. An Interior Ministry officer at Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry transcribes recordings from the eavesdropping of eight people while the same person elsewhere in Europe would do that for two wiretapped individuals, Spassov says.
Czech counter-intelligence annual report points at gangs’ contacts with politicians
Contacts and links in the Czech state administration, police, the judiciary and politicians’ surroundings help organised crime legalise gains, news agency CTK cites one of the main points of the recently released BIS counter-intelligence annual report for 2007. It says the most significant groups of organised crime came from Russian-speaking countries, from the Caucasus and the Balkans, and that corruption plays an important role in establishing contacts with state structures.
BIS marks that Russian-language crime has ties with businessmen, unspecified “advisers to state officials” and persons “with extensive client ties to certain former and current politicians and top civil servants.” Besides extensive contacts in the Czech criminal environment, these groups also cooperated with experts, such as lawyers, financiers and advisers of various kind and orientation, BIS writes. The report writes that gangs with Russian roots attempted in 2007 to overcome internal discords and to get united under a Russian alternative of a Mafia godfather.
“This effort was complicated by the violent conflict between the Chechen and Armenian groups that culminated with attempts to murder a high-ranking representative of one of the groups. The police detained the hired murderer on the basis of BIS information,” the report says.
The tension prevails because the Russian-speaking groups have been unable to agree on the division of territory in Prague. In Moravia, the influence of the Ukrainian, so-called Luhan group of organised crime, was growing last year, BIS said. According to it, Ukrainians do not respect any “laws” of the environment and are active in trafficking in arms, in debt and protection money extortion, securing prostitutes from Ukraine, people kidnapping and murders.
BIS also says in its report it has recorded, but has not fully checked signals about effort to influence courts in deciding on punishments, which means that some lawyers act minimally at variance with ethical norms. The report also mentions the effort by some former policemen to use their old contacts to their own benefit when they are prosecuted or when they want to legalise illegal incomes. BIS writes that organised crime has also started to focus on university students for links.
Czech counterintelligence BIS worried about more frequent clashes between extremists
Clashes between right-wing and left-wing extremist groups have become more frequent in the Czech Republic, the Czech counter-intelligence (BIS) says in its annual report. News agency CTK, reporting on the conclusions of the BIS, notes that the police have problems to differentiate between leftist anarchists, and rightist skinheads and ultranationalists because they have all begun to wear black clothes.This makes it more difficult to prevent skirmishes between enemy groupings.
Both far-right and far-left groups like to communicate via the Internet, mainly because of its speed, availability and its relative anonymity, according to the report.It says extremist movements use websites to promote their views, communicate, sell special goods to their members and contact similar groups abroad.
BIS considers the National Resistance (NO) to be the main extremist group in the country. NO organised the two biggest extremist public events of 2007 - May Day in Brno and a march trough the historical Prague Jewish Town in November. The report says the protests organised by the National Corporativism group were attended by the most radical rightist activists, among others. The report also mentions the National Party (NS), but it says the paramilitary National Guard, promoted and established by NO, is practically non-existent. The main left-wing anarchist group is the movement led by the Antifascist Action (AFA) whose protests are related to both official and unofficial fa-right marches, BIS says.
The anarchist scene was revived in 2007, partly because new young militant anarchists joined the movement and partly because of some domestic and international events, the report says.
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According to reports of the Georgian press, a department of special activities has been put into shape under the Ministry of Interior of the country. The official version says it should “protect territorial integrity, state security and sovereignty of Georgia”. Russian daily Izvestia, which is close to the country’s security services, reported that, in fact, the new department, created according to a special order of the Georgian President will be closely engaged in oppressing of dissidents, especially those who are anyhow connected with Russia. The department of special activities should reveal and stop “the actions which have been directed against the state interests”, to obtain the appropriating information, to analyze and respond to it.
Currently those are the department of the constitutional security, special operative department, intelligence, counterintelligence, operative-technical department which have been engaged in shadowing of opposition politicians, the activists of different parties, simply dissatisfied people, the journalists working for the Russian mass media, daily Izvestia writes. Now they will get powerful reinforcement, the paper adds.
On the eve of the presidential election in January, President Mikhail Saakashvili disposed to stop lawsuit against the representatives of the United Oposition which was accused of working for the Russian intelligence agencies, the paper notes. However, the labels of “Russian agents” were not removed from the leader of Labour Party, Shalva Natelashvili, republicans Levan and David Berdzenishvili, former state minister Gogha Khaindrava, the sons of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsahurdia, Konstantin and Tsotne. Izvestia alleges that the state –controlled broadcasting company Rustavi-2 has already revealed the heads of Russia’s “fifth column” in Georgia: the president of Fund of Assistance to peoples of Georgia, Badri Meladze, the head of Fund of Unification of Russian and Georgian people, Vladimir Khomeriki and the head of the Union the Russian Georgians, Mikhail Khubutiya.
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