Posted on 11/13/2002 1:07:45 PM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/14/02 - Baghdad, Kabul, Calais, Denpasar, Washington
BREAKING: Denpasar - Amrozi, the Perp BREAKING: Kabul - University Riot BREAKING: Calais - Iraqi Logjam
Baghdad, Washington
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, Iraq, the new national bird - the Predator.
This model has 50 hours non-stop flight, wing span of 48 feet, length 26 feet.
========= Kabul =========
Berkeley in Kabul?
In Kabul, at Kabul University, students violently protested.
They want more free food and electricity for their dormitories.
Their violent behavior is quite different from the women
who appear to be much more serious and must have been studying.
In Kabul, at the Chicken Street market.
=========== Kibbutz Metzer, Israel ===========
Hamas and Arafat target children, as is their way.
At Kibbutz Metzer, Israel, a handpainted family mural remains
after the murder of innocent children ages 4 and 5 in their home,
one holding a pacifier, by the side of their mother.
Their friends grieve.
========= Denpasar =========
Islamic terrorist is gleeful
In Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Amrozi confessed to the October 12 bomb blasts
and smiled. Police then named four new perps in the case, bringing the number to seven.
Amrozi uses one name, and owned the Mitsubishi minivan filled with >110 pounds of explosives.
Amrozi's older brother runs the local al Qaeda a.k.a. Jemaah Islamiyah.
========= Calais, Iraqi-occupied France =========
In Calais, France, LEO check papers near Sangatte, the Red Cross-smuggling
point to the English-speaking free World, which suddenly became too overfilled
with new arrivals from Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
In St Pierre St Paul church, Iraqi-occupied Calais, France,
local residents help immigrants on their way.
========= Washington =========
Last WWII Comanche Code Talker Visits Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery
By Rudi Williams
WASHINGTON, - After meeting with the defense secretary and
other top Pentagon officials on Nov. 5, Charles Chibitty, the last
surviving World War II Comanche code talker, donned his feathered
Indian chief's headdress and offered a prayer in the Pentagon Chapel
for those killed in the terrorist attack on the building.
The aging code talker then placed a wreath and offered an Indian prayer
at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery. This
marks the third time the 81-year old war veteran was honored at the
Pentagon for his service to the nation. His visits in 1992 and 1999
were also in November during National American Indian Heritage Month.
While meeting at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, Undersecretary of the Army Les Brownlee and Raymond F. DuBois
Jr., deputy undersecretary of defense for installations and
environment, Chibitty recounted his wartime experiences when his unit
landed on the Normandy shores on "the first or second day after D-Day."
After his unit hit Utah Beach, his first radio message was sent to
another codetalker on an incoming boat. Translated into English, it
said: "Five miles to the right of the designated area and five miles
inland, the fighting is fierce and we need help."
"We were trying to let them know where we were so they wouldn't lob no
shells on us," he explained with a chuckle. "I was with the 22nd
Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division. We talked Indian and
sent messages when need be. It was quicker to use telephones and radios
to send messages because Morse code had to be decoded and the Germans
could decode them. We used telephones and radios to talk Indian then
wrote it in English and gave it to the commanding officer."
Chibitty said two Comanches were assigned to each of the 4th Infantry
Division's three regiments. They sent coded messages from the front
line to division headquarters, where other Comanches decoded the
messages.
He said 20 Comanches signed up to be code talkers, but only 17 went to
training at Fort Benning, Ga., and only 14 hit Utah Beach at Normandy.
"None of us was killed, but two were wounded pretty badly; one was my
cousin," Chibitty noted.
Brownlee asked him if he was hit and Chibitty said, "Heck, no. I was
like a prairie dog. As soon as I heard a whistle, I'd dive in that
hole. I was little then. I weighed 126 pounds and it didn't take long
for me to dig my hole. My buddy weighed 240 pounds and some of them
were more than six feet tall and they had to dig a long trench."
Speaking in the Comanche language, Chibitty gave Brownlee another
example of a message code talkers sent to other units, then translated
it for him: "A turtle is coming down the hedgerow. Get that stovepipe
and shoot him."
"A turtle was a tank and a stovepipe was a bazooka," he explained. "We
couldn't say tank or bazooka in Comanche, so we had to substitute
something else. A turtle has a hard shell, so it was a tank."
Since there was no Comanche word for machine gun it became "sewing
machine," Chibitty noted, "because of the noise the sewing machine made
when my mother was sewing." Hitler, he said, was "posah-tai-vo," or
"crazy white man."
There are no other words in his language to describe a bomber aircraft,
so they said, "Daddy and I went fishing and we cut that catfish open
and he's full of eggs. Well, that bomber was up there just like this
catfish, it's full of eggs, too, so we called it a pregnant airplane.
"We got so we could send any message, word for word, letter for
letter," Chibitty said. "The Navajos did the same thing in the Pacific
during World War II and the Choctaw used their language during World
War I. There were other code talkers from other tribes, but if they
didn't train like the Comanche and Navajos, how could they send a
message like we did? If they made a slight mistake, instead of saving
lives, it could have cost a lot of lives.
In 1989, the French government honored the Comanche code talkers,
including Chibitty , by presenting them the "Chevalier of the National
Order of Merit." Chibitty has also received a special proclamation from
the governor of Oklahoma. In 2001, Congress passed legislation
authorizing the presentation of gold medals to Native Americans who
served as code talkers during foreign conflicts.
"I felt I was doing something that the military wanted us to do and we
did to the best of our ability, not only to save lives, but to confuse
the enemy by talking in the Comanche language," he said. "We felt we
were doing something that could help win the war."
Brownlee asked him if the Comanche language is written and Chibitty
said, "There's a book, but you've got to be awfully damn smart to read
it. It's not like alphabets, you have to learn the phonetics to
pronounce the words." The aging code talker then sang Silent Night in
the Comanche language.
Chibitty said when he attended Indian school in the 1920s, teachers
became angry with him because he was speaking the Comanche language.
"When we got caught talking Indian, we got punished," he noted. "I told
my cousin that they're trying to make little white boys out of us," he
said.
After joining the Army years later, he told his cousin, "They tried to
make us quit talking Indian in school, now they want us to talk
Indian."
The retired glazier visits schools to tell the youngsters about what
code talkers did and how they did it. He said officials at Comanche
headquarters near Lawton, Okla., are trying to preserve the language by
teaching it to children.
"The service you and your buddies provided turned out to be
invaluable," Brownleee told the aging veteran. "You had this way of
speaking that nobody could translate. The way you used your language
was of such great advantage to your country."
Before returning home to Tulsa, Okla., Chibitty spent some time with
researchers at the U.S. Army Center for Military History for oral
history sessions. The Army wants to preserve the history of the
Comanche code talkers and Chibitty is the last one to tell the story
from first-hand experience.
========= Terkezi Oasis in the Sahara Desert =========
Terkezi Oasis in the Sahara Desert
END OF TRANSMISSION 11/14/02 .......... K
He and his wife are Americans now, and he needs to know we take care of our own. If any of his *old friends* come to give him any trouble, I promise you he'll have no further trouble from them. You take care of those friends and neighbors of yours as best you can for the short haul, and should any difficulties follow, let me know, and I'll pass the word along to a few of my pals who value their new citizenship here as much as he and his wife do.
And your pal may even recognize a few of the items from our *toybox.*
-archy-/-
Is that movie any good? Looked interesting.
Thanks again, Dio
I think you're right.
The chief is smiling. This photo looks more like the police is honored to pose with the perp than triumphant they got him.
The "Religion of Peace" apparently advocates killing people like this.
SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (AP): "EASTERN WASHINGTON CAMPUS EVACUATED AFTER BOMB THREAT" by John K. Wiley (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "School president Stephen Jordan said the caller referred to al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden's organization that is believed responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "It was specifically related to al-Qaida," Jordan said of the threat. Campus spokeswoman Stephanie Pettit said the caller said "people would die in flame."") (111302)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "U.S. SEES TERRORISM THREAT AGAINST COUNTRY'S OIL PORTS" by Bill Gertz (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...U.S. security officials said all U.S. oil refineries and oil-loading port terminals are vulnerable to attack by terrorists, despite efforts to increase security since the September 11 attacks. The threat to oil ports was outlined in a classified intelligence report sent to senior U.S. officials last week. Surveillance of potential targets is one of the only indicators that reveal to intelligence officials that terrorists are planning attacks...") (111302)
FBI.gov: MOST WANTED TERRORISTS: "IMAD FAYEZ MUGNIYAH" aka "Hajj" (WANTED POSTER SNIPPETS: "Mugniyah is the alleged head of the security apparatus for the terrorist organization, Lebanese Hizballah."..."The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension and/or conviction of Imad Fayez Mugniyah.")
MSNBC.com: "DEFENDERS: ADMITTED TERRORIST WALKS FREE" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Fawzi Mustapha Assi.) (ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""This offense is neither a crime of violence nor does it involve a narcotic drug. It is an offense that involves allegations of support for an international terrorist organization. However, the items that were alleged in the offense do not involve weapons or indications of a crime of violence." said the judge. Assi was released on $100,000 bond and his father put up his Dearborn home as collateral, vouching that his son would appear back in court. But Assi never returned to the courthouse, his father lost his home and federal agents lost a man with suspected ties to terror, Local 4 reported.") (111102)
CNS NEWS.com: "TERRORISM HAS 'EVERYTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM,' AUTHOR CHARGES" by Marc Morano (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Spencer is not optimistic the U.S. will take the security threat of Islam seriously. "Everyone is so afraid of being called a racist that they are afraid to take measures that are necessary to defend oneself," Spencer said.") (111302)
CHARISMA NEWS.com: PERSECUTION WATCH: "CHINA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the weeks leading to the party congress, which began last Friday, the government has banned books, blocked Internet sites and clamped down on other activists. China allows only government-monitored churches, and has harassed and imprisoned Christians who worship outside the official system.") (111102)
FOX NEWS.com: "IRAQ STOCKPILING GAS ANTIDOTE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The fate of 31,600 chemical munitions, 550 mustard gas bombs and 4,000 tons of chemical precursors remain unknown, according to Congressional Research Services. In fact, the primary remaining chemical weapons questions center on the VX nerve agent, which atropine can be used to counter. By 1995, UNSCOM uncovered enough evidence to force Iraq to admit to producing about 4 tons of VX, but UNSCOM thought the country had imported enough material to actually produce 200 tons of VX, according to CRS.") (111202)
Dubai GULF NEWS.com: Dubai. "MUSLIMS ARE 'SOURCE OF OWN PROBLEMS'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""Muslims may not seek peace while they are weak. They must first be powerful and then go the negotiation table." Sheikh Al Rawi quoted the Holy Quran as saying: "Against them (enemy) make ready Your strength to the utmost Of your power, including Steeds of war, to strike terror Into (the hearts of) the enemies, Of Allah and your enemies, And others besides, whom Ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever Ye shall spend in the Cause Of Allah, shall be repaid Unto you, and ye shall not Be treated unjustly. But if the enemy Incline towards peace, Do thou (also) incline Towards peace, and trust In Allah: for He is the One That heareth and knoweth (All things). "Muslims must protect each others or there will be tumult and oppression. They are not striving to oppress others, but rather to spread justice all over the world," said Sheikh Al Rawi.") (111102)
ALL AFRICA.com: "AL-QAIDA SUSPECTS IN W. AFRICA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Voice of America (VOA) quotes intelligence sources as saying that a man identified as a former Algerian Army Colonel named Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been operating an arms smuggling network in West Africa that has links to al-Qaida. According to the sources who spoke to the VOA on conditions of anonymity, the man whose group is known by the initials 'MBM,' floats between Algeria, Mali and Mauritania. The sources said MBM has conducted arms deals with various radical Islamic organizations, including Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching Combat. Additionally, U.S. intelligence sources also disclosed that Salafist group, known by the initials GSPC, is headed by Hassan Hattab, who is considered a key al-Qaida associate.") (111202)
WHITE HOUSE.gov: TEXT OF THE RADIO ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT BUSH TO THE NATION" (RADIO ADDRESS SNIPPET: "...The resolution presents the Iraqi regime with a test, a final test. Iraq must now, without delay or negotiations, give up its weapons of mass destruction, welcome full inspections and fundamentally change the approach it has taken for more than a decade. The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat, tolerated at other times, will no longer be tolerated. Any act of delay or defiance will be an additional breach of Iraq's international obligations, and a clear signal that the Iraqi regime has once again abandoned the path of voluntary compliance. If Iraq fails to fully comply with the U.N. resolution, the United States, in coalition with other nations, will disarm Saddam Hussein...") (November 9, 2002)
CHARLOTTE.com - THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER: "WAS U.S. PROSECUTOR IN DANGER?" by Gary L. Wright (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as age 29, an alleged Hezbollah cell leader in Charlotte.) (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FBI agents suspect Mohamad Youssef Hammoud wrote a letter outlining the plot to kill First Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Bell or blow up with explosives the government's evidence, the court documents reveal. A federal jury in Charlotte convicted Hammoud and his brother in June of conspiring to aid a Lebanese terrorist organization.") (111002)
ALBAWABA.com: "JORDANIAN POLICE DISCOVER BOMB FACTORY IN MAAN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Among the illegal weapons seized was a rocket launcher and rocket-propelled grenades found hidden in al-Chalabi's home, Interior Minister Qaftan Majali said, according to AP. Al-Chalabi is suspected of ties to a banned militant group called Takfir wal Hijra, or "Repentance and Flight," which advocates isolation from the sinful world. Police tried to capture him two weeks ago during a roundup of Islamic extremists following the killing of an American diplomat in Amman.") (111302)
ARABIC NEWS.com: "JORDANIANS EVACUATED FROM THE PHILIPPINES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Philippines immigration commissioner Andrea Domingo said in a statement that the two Jordanians, Muhammad Ameen al-Ghaffari and Ahmad Abi Ltaif Jubran, were evacuated to Amman on board of a plane for the Gulf airlines due to the fact that they do not have travel documents. Domingo explained that despite claims on their links to terrorist groups, however, the immigration office decided that it is not possible to seize them because there are no criminal accusations that can convict them before the court.") (110902)
FREEP.com - DETROIT FREE PRESS: "TERROR TERMS RULED OUT OF TRIAL Dearborn Man Accused in Check Smuggling Case" by Cecil Angel (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Omar Shishani, age 48, aka Omar Abdel-Fatah Al-Shishani which is his birth name. ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The excluded phrases and terms are: FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Al Qaeda, all Koranic verses, terrorism, terrorist groups, terrorism watch list, Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, training camps, Muslim, Jordanian Intelligence Service, Omar Abdel-Fatah Al-Shishani and jihad.") (110502)
FT.com - FINANCIAL TIMES: "JORDAN CLERICS ISSUE FATWAS AGAINST THE U.S." by Nicolas Pelham in Amman (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Scores of Islamist preachers concluded a gathering in Amman on Sunday by issuing a series of fatwas, or religious diktats, calling on Jordanians to wage a jihad against the US. The meeting, which branded Washington "an enemy of God" was organised by the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, and reflected a widening chasm in the government's relations with its Islamist opposition over Jordan's alliance with the US and Israel...")(110302)
GOOGLE - Search Term: "ISLAMIC ACTION FRONT"
U.S. EMBASSY - Amman, Jordan (online)
US STATE DEPARTMENT: "JORDAN Consular Information Sheet"
DEA.gov - Press Release: "COLUMBIAN TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN COCAINE-FOR-WEAPONS DEAL" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "Uwe JENSEN, 66, and his boss, Carlos Ali ROMERO-Varela, 43, both of Houston, and Elkin ARROYAVE-Ruiz, a.k.a. Commandant Napo and an individual identified as Edgar Fernando BLANCO-Puerta, a.k.a. Commandant Emilio, both high ranking members with the AUC were arrested based on a sealed criminal complaint filed in Houston, TX, on November 1, 2002, which was unsealed November 5, 2002. All four defendants are criminally charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.") (110602)
YAHOO! News - Columbia- UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES OF COLUMBIA (AUC)
PAKISTAN CHRISTIAN POST - Editorial: "JIHADI GROUPS ANNOUNCE FORMATION OF ISLAMIC ARMY IN PAKISTAN" (EDITORIAL SNIPPET: "These groups have not taken responsibility of the bomb attacks against police only but in this announcement they have claimed that now all the Jihadi groups are unite in Pakistan and they have formed the Islamic Army to teach lessons to the police officials involved in the investigations against the arrested militants in police custody. The newly formed Islamic Army has also threatened the religious minorities in general and Christian community in particulars. The Islamic Army has vowed to attack on life and property of Christians in future too as revenge by these Muslim militant groups, now called Islamic Army, on their Christian faith and religious feeling toward the western countries. The Muslim extremist groups have massacred Christians in churches, schools and on attacks on Christian establishments in these recent years killing 40 Christian innocent and peaceful Pakistani citizens after the attacks of Allied Forces to curb terrorisms in Afghanistan but in such an open way have been hesitating to take the responsibility as appeared in these Karachi police bombing incident.") (110502)
GOOGLE - Search Term: "ISLAMIC ARMY"
WASHINGTON TIMES: "PAKISTAN FREES MUSLIM EXTREMIST LEADER" (ARTICLE NOTE: The Muslim extremist leader is identified as "Maulana Azam Tariq, whose pro-Taliban group, Sipah-e-Sahaba, has been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States...") (103102)
FOX NEWS.com - CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE SNIPER SHOOTINGS & FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATIONS (111402)
ALBAWABA.com - The Middle East Gateway: "SMALL BOMBS EXPLODE NEAR U.S. RESTAURANTS IN LEBANON; NO INJURIES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...There have been a string of low-level attacks on American fast-food restaurants in Lebanon in recent months. In the earlier attacks, Lebanese police investigated a possible connection between the bombings and a campaign to boycott U.S. products in retaliation for Washington's support for Israel.") (111202)
NY POST.com - Opinion-Editorial: "OSAMA'S SOUL BROTHER" (OPINION-EDITORIAL SNIPPET: "...Adams' quest for American cash comes on the heels of a Sinn Fein/IRA statement strongly opposing an American-led war in Iraq - and calling on Ireland to refuse America permission to use its airspace and seaports. No surprise there: Like birds of a feather, terrorists stick together, too. *Three IRA men, two of them acknowledged Sinn Fein officials, are about to go on trial in Colombia for training FARC terrorists. *IRA booby-traps were found in the West Bank scant months ago...") (111002)
GOOGLE Search Term: "REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLUMBIA" (FARC)
ANANOVA.com: "MEN CHARGED WITH MEMBERSHIP OF THE IRA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "James Bullman, 38, and Christopher Dinneen, 49, appeared in Dublin's Special Criminal Court following their arrests on Wednesday. Both are charged with belonging to an illegal organisation styling itself as the IRA, possession of ammunition and semtex.") (110902)
ANANOVA.com: "REAL IRA-PROBE POLICE FIND 'EXPLOSIVE'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Real IRA carried out the 1998 bombing of Omagh, when 29 people died and more than 200 were injured.") (110702)
HAGANAH: More Information regarding "AZZAM"
An Informative Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding the Opinion-Commentary by Jeremy Reynalds: "AL QAEDA RECRUITMENT VIDEOS PLACED ON WEB" (110902)
NewsMax.com - Hot Topics: "AL-QAEDA"
Pretty courageous kids Diogenesis, I hope they make it. This is looking like the mad mullahs are bringing out the foreign troops. I understand the Iranian troops refused to go after them.
The grief on the face of the woman in Kibbutz Metzer, Israel, is all to possible to understand. It is painful to see those two photos.
Incredible shots of our world today, Dio. Thank you for every single second it takes you to format and deliver this thread to FR for viewing. I wouldn't miss this thread-it brings reality home.
Probably drive the Conspiracy types right up the wall.
My section chief in the Army as an E-7 Comanche. He was 6' and thin as a rail, maybe 130#. Wiry as terrier, He could lift a GP medium over his head without any strain. He had been a Navy code clerk for five years before joining the Army and was rated as a typist at 105 WPM. In those days of mechanical typewriters he was machine limited. He could type faster than the recoil rate of the machine. He was also one of the nicest people I ever met in my life.
The diameter of that "warhead" seems kind of small for an anti tank version. Do they make a tear gas version, as we do for the 40 mm grenade launchers?
Ironically, now the elders who remain on the reservations want the Comanche language taught to the kids, but there are so very few who know how to speak it, never mind to read and write it. Indeed, it is a very difficult language and dying out.
Salute to Charles Chibitty, code talker, hero.
Memo to Amrozi, maggot:
Amrozi, slayer of innocents, I shall be happy at any hour to remove your smile.
I have many, many tools and much patience.
As a nation, we've strapped on a better Senate to serve our cause.
Let's roll.
P.S. al-Qaeda are in season. Predators are licensed to kill.
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