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Lebanese Daily Reveals New Facts about ‘Imad Mughniyah’s Career in Hizbullah
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP230209
bttt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224561/posts
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies
The Wall Street Journal ^ | APRIL 8, 2009 | SIOBHAN GORMAN
Posted on April 7, 2009 7:38:47 PM PDT by Bobibutu
Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.
The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven’t sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.
“The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid,” said a senior intelligence official. “So have the Russians.”
The espionage appeared pervasive across the U.S. and doesn’t target a particular company or region, said a former Department of Homeland Security official. “There are intrusions, and they are growing,” the former official said, referring to electrical systems. “There were a lot last year.”
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
FOX news has a teaser up about a new Al Qaeda tape. Any news?
Thanks for the heads-up.
Don’t see anything yet on any major news sites.
Passover begins at sundown.
Thanks, Joe.
Since I posted that, Fox News has dropped the banner. Dunno why.
With all the Judeo-Christian observances this week, it’s a good time to be wary.
NEW DELHI: The al-Qaida-Taliban combo plans to use parts of the Middle East as launch pads for attacks against the west. Not only so, the groups have also developed some expertise in making bio-chemical weapons, NWFP police chief Malik Navid told a Pakistan National Assemblys standing committee.
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FBI raids 3 Minneapolis money-transfer businesses, looking for records of Africa transactions
April 8, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS Federal agents searched three money-transfer businesses in Minneapolis on Wednesday, carrying away boxes of documents and copying computer hard drives for details of transactions between the U.S. and several African nations.
Agents searched Mustaqbal Express, also known as North American Money Transfer Inc.; Quran Express; and Aaran Financial. FBI spokesman E.K. Wilson confirmed the searches but wouldn't elaborate on the reason.
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-money-transfers-raid,0,7486563.story
Canadian arrested in Somalia allegedly member of Islamist militia
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
TORONTO -- A Canadian has been arrested in Somalia for allegedly planning to bomb leaders of a moderate political faction, according to local media reports that identified him as a member of the militant group Al-Shabab.
Abdifatah Mohamad Ibrahim appeared in court yesterday in the central Galgudud region, where authorities showed his Canadian passport to spectators, according to Radio Garowe and the Somali-language news site allpuntland.com.
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The Austrian public prosecutors office has reportedly been investigating an Austrian cell of worldwide terror network Al-Qaeda for three years.
The magazine News will have a report about that in its edition that goes on sale tomorrow (Thurs) based on documents allegedly in the possession of the Office for Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT).
Excerpted
http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=12395
Police feared 'Al-Qaida terror attack' on UK was planned for Easter
4/9/09
Counterterrorism officials believe an alleged al-Qaida terror plot against the UK, designed to cause mass casualties, was due to be carried out within days, the Guardian has learned. A total of 12 people were arrested across northern England on Wednesday as police carried out a string of raids to thwart an alleged terrorist cell with overseas links.
Peter Fahy, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police, today confirmed that 11 of those arrested were Pakistani nationals.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/al-qaida-terror-uk
Turkey Police Detain 30 Suspects In Al-Qaeda Swoop
Thursday April 9th, 2009
ANKARA--Turkish anti-terror police Thursday detained 30 people on suspicion of belonging to al-Qaeda, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The suspects, rounded up in simultaneous operations in several districts in the western city of Eskisehir, were being questioned by police, the report said. Police weren't immediately available for comment.
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Militant groups are using the Internet to rally followers and boast of deadly new attacks and theyre using American-owned Web hosts to do it, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
On March 25, a purported Taliban Web site called the voice of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" heralded a deadly attack on coalition forces in the country. The site claimed four soldiers were killed in the ambush and the "mujahideen took the weapons and ammunition as booty."
The message, while written by the Taliban across the globe, was broadcast from Texas. Web hosts like ThePlanet, located in Houston, are falling victim to the militant efforts, renting cyberspace at inexpensive prices and unknowingly becoming the voice of extremists. "The relatively cheap expense and high quality of U.S. servers seems to attract jihadists," Rita Katz, co-founder of the Site Intelligence Group, told the Post.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513499,00.html
Wanted Taliban Leader Doesn't Fear U.S.
4/9/09
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Afghan intelligence agents are sharing information with militants about U.S. and NATO troop movements, a top Taliban commander told NBC News.
"The people of Afghanistan are with us," said Sirajuddin Haqqani, in an exclusive interview. "The Afghan intelligence officials are sympathetic to the Taliban and they communicate the movements of the occupying forces [U.S. and NATO] to us."
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http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1886824.aspx
ELECTROMAGNETIC pulse weapons capable of frying the electronics in civil airliners can be built using information and components available on the net, warn counterterrorism analysts.
All it would take to bring a plane down would be a single but highly energetic microwave radio pulse blasted from a device inside a plane, or on the ground and trained at an aircraft coming in to land.
Yael Shahar, director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel, and her colleagues have analysed electromagnetic weapons in development or used by military forces worldwide, and have discovered that there is low-cost equipment available online that can act in similar ways. "These will become more of a threat as the electromagnetic weapons technology matures," she says.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.200-aircraft-could-be-brought-down-by-diy-ebombs.html
Thanks, O. I really worry about the EMP threats. It really wouldn’t take much to pull it off. Not sure I could survive without my internet and FR. :)
“two tears”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562952090&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/183203,nkorea-threatened-to-transfer-nukes.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203283465824&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTA5NTE2MTc4Mg==
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30036669/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=90425§ionid=351020104
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562939081&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL8213444
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,43894,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826533281.html
The weakness of America displayed by 0bama over the past weeks has encouraged terrorists and our enemies to become more bold, knowing that we will not respond.
Thanks to all for the posts.
April 11th:
2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_11
You’re absolutely right, Zilla.
That 0bama hasn’t been willing to even take care of 4 pirates in a dinghy to rescue an American is astounding.
But does God himself weep, and if so, why?
~snip~
God laughs in the Quran and Hadith, but never breaks into tears.
In the mythopoetic imagination of Judaism however, God assuredly weeps.
In the Babylonian Talmud, God sheds two tears into the sea as he recalls Israel’s suffering in exile.
Top US general apologizes to Afghan leaders, says he’ll study Qur’an
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Muslim former CIA official whines about Bush, calls for alliances with stealth jihadists
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Thanks to Laura Mansfield:
The following poem was posted on several jihadist websites this week. The person posting it claims that it was written by one of the 9/11 hijackers. This claim cannot be verified.
I say regardless of this humiliation we proclaim.
So let all creation hear and mankind listen closely to us.
If the night of pain is prolonged and wounded ummah becomes sleepless.
The breaking of dawn is coming and rising of the sun of honor is near
And the night of shame shall vanish.
We shall bring back the life on honor once more.
And we shall defeat those who disbelieve.
We shall build palaces of glory up high with it’s pillars the sunnah and qur’an
And we shall take pride in the quran at a time, when the people take pride in immorality and shame.
And we shall draw a map for islam, with it’s borders honor, victory and establishment.
In an awakening of youth on whom the qur’an bestowed the dress of bravery not cowardice.
In their slogans is esteem and their word is a lesson
If others are proud that the west is their leader then we take pride that uthman and umar are our leaders.
Or if they are proud of the songs that they sing then our chants are al-anfal and az-zumar
the path of a jihad is a must in our faith and allah is the helper and from him a wait victory.
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Allahu Akbar
Ahmed Al Haznawi
Ibnu Jarrah Alghamidi
One of the Manhattan Raids martrys
Thanks Vel and Laura Mansfield for the fyi.
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