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Posted: February 10, 2005 by: Suzan Shown Harjo / Indian Country Today I met Ward Churchill 15 years ago, before he gained his present infamous reputation. My friend, a college professor, said this Cherokee-Creek guy wanted to meet me. I expected to meet an earnest young student who would relate to me as Creek (I'm Hodulgee Muscogee on Dad's side and enrolled Cheyenne on Mom's). Instead, there was Churchill. Caucasian in appearance and in his mid-40s, he was wearing dark glasses and going for the look of an Indian activist circa 1970. I asked him who his Creek people were...

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's FSB (Federal Security Service) has exposed a network of Al-Qaeda in its territory (the North Caucasian region), FSB director Nikolai Patrushev told the executives of the leading Russian media at a meeting in Moscow. Members of the terrorist network have been established "and now we have to neutralize their activity," he said. Mr. Patrushev noted that the FSB and other law-enforcement agencies had detained over 900 militants. The FSB has defined a number of them presenting the worst danger to Russia - Basayev, Maskhadov, Udugov, Umarov, Gochiyayev, Khalilov, Abu Havs, Abu Tari. "We...

DefendAmerica News - General Sees Success in War on Terrorism General Sees Success in War on Terrorism Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt explains that the U.S. has made progress in the War on Terror and will continue to persevere until the war is won. By Staff Sgt. Stephen Hudson / Florida National Guard Public Affairs CAMP BLANDING JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Fla., Oct. 22, 2004 - The deputy director of plans and policy for the United U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt States Central Command said the coalition will succeed in the Global War on Terrorism. After speaking to a group of...

RUSSIA'S NIGHTMARE TWO DAYS OF SHEER TERROR By PAUL THOMPSON and JAMES CLENCH THE full horror inflicted on hostages inside the sweltering school gym was revealed by shellshocked survivors last night. For two days 1,200 children and adults stared death in the face after being herded into the gym by terrorists. First, the captors planted two big bombs in the basketball hoops, then trailed cables to smaller devices around the building. Windows were smashed out to restrict the effect of any knockout gas, which was used to end the Moscow theatre siege in 2002. And male hostages were regularly put...

The war against terrorism is going to last a long time, as President Bush and other officials have said, and predicting the future is always uncertain. But as we consider the evolution of this protracted conflict, we should be aware of one high probability: that the al-Qaida we will face in 2010 will be an even more dangerous threat to America than the al-Qaida our troops are fighting today.Following the historical pattern of terrorist movements everywhere — from Russia's Bolsheviks to the Irish Republican Army to Palestine's Hamas — we can expect that within a decade al-Qaida will open one,...

The US House Aviation Subcommittee yesterday heard how congressional investigators used false IDs to gain access to a series of federal buildings and two commercial airports, and how a copy of the report detailing their success was later found in an al-Qaida cave in Afghanistan. The investigators were 100 per cent successful in getting past security, but apparently less so in the case of their own report's security. Subcommittee Chairman John Mica told a hearing on biometric ID in aviation that the deployment of more secure ID needed to be accelerated, given that terrorists are interested in gaining access to...

"By God, this is suffocation!" That's the quotation of the week -- if not the new year. This exclamation, first reported in The New York Times, expresses the raw frustration of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born terror-master believed to be operating in Iraq and long thought to have been a Saddam Hussein-harbored link to Al Qaeda. His frustration is the result of American success in Iraq. In a document intercepted last month by U.S. officials, the man believed to be Zarqawi bemoans U.S. resolve -- America "has no intention of leaving, no matter how many wounded nor how bloody it...

From - http://www.spiritoftruth.org/luxor.htm IS THE LUXOR HOTEL IN LAS VEGAS AN AL QAEDA TARGET? J. Adams January 4th, 2004 "The al Qaeda network has long considered Las Vegas to be one of its top targets for a strike because it sees the city as a citadel of Western licentiousness, U.S. officials said. Government officials said they have known for some time that al Qaeda is interested in striking at Las Vegas." - Washington Post, 12/26/03 CANCELLATION OF CHRISTMAS DAY AIR FRANCE FLIGHTSOn Christmas Day, U.S. authorities forced Air France to cancel flights between Paris and Los Angeles out of concern...

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Treason: Politicizing the War on Terror. Every now and again I take a visit to http://www.politicsandprotest.org/ (the on-line 9/11 memorial), I find it useful to remember why our soldiers are deployed to the farthest reaches of the globe, sacrificing their lives and out treasure. With the removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan we removed Al Qaeda bases where they trained a terrorist army with the avowed aim of destroying the infrastructure which makes our modern, western way of life possible. With the occupation of Iraq the US has removed a source of moral and possibly a financial support for the...

Ex-Officials Dispute Iraq Tie to al-Qaida By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - As President Bush works to quiet a controversy over his discredited claim of Iraqi uranium shopping in Africa, another of his prewar assertions is coming under fire: the alleged link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida. AP Photo   Before the war, Bush and members of his cabinet said Saddam was harboring top al-Qaida operatives and suggested Iraq could slip the terrorist network chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons. Now, two former Bush administration intelligence officials say the evidence linking Saddam to the group responsible for the...

<p>WASHINGTON - FBI (news - web sites) and CIA (news - web sites) experts dug through piles of information Monday from the Pakistani home of alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, searching for clues that new strikes might be imminent.</p> <p>U.S. authorities also questioned Mohammed on Monday, seeking information about safe houses and hideouts used by the al-Qaida terror network, a Pakistani intelligence official said. Mohammed's exact whereabouts were unclear.</p> <p>Mohammed had been plotting attacks against targets in the United States and Saudi Arabia in the weeks before his capture, U.S. counterterrorism officials contended.</p>

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily February 20, 2003 Osama Bin Laden And The New Crusader War: Bin Laden’s New, Secret Message To The Islamist Leadership New intelligence regarding a comprehensive message to the Islamist élite from Osama Bin Laden, deliberately obfuscated by the February 11, 2003, message broadcast on al-Jazeera, provides new insights into the escalation of terrorism against the West, Saudi Arabia and other targets Exclusive. By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Analyst, GIS (Global Information System). Starting early February 2003, the US, the UK and Israel have been at the highest terrorism alert status since September 11, 2001. This situation...

Grenade Attack on US Embassy Officials, BREAKING....

The war on terrorism reached into the Buffalo community Friday evening, when federal agents raided several houses and a store in Lackawanna and accused five men of Yemeni descent of operating an al-Qaida cell. The normally quiet neighborhood of modest homes and narrow streets was overrun by gun-toting police and FBI agents who ended a year-old probe with the arrests of the five men, all accused of providing material support and resources to the al-Qaida network. Disbelieving residents poured into the streets as darkness fell, and authorities searched apartments and cars before taking the suspects into custody, then cordoning off...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The government on Monday announced the arrest of an American accused of plotting with al-Qaida terrorists to detonate a "dirty bomb" to spread radioactive material, possibly targeting Washington. Authorities said the alleged scheme, involving a former gang member from Chicago who was raised Catholic but converted to Islam, went only as far as the planning stages. Undersecretary of State John Bolton indicated the man was carrying plans for the attack when he was picked up in Chicago. Jose Padilla, 31, also known as Abdullah al Muhajir, was arrested on May 8 as he flew from Pakistan via...

** The CIA Gets Back in the Game ** The CIA was in serious trouble. Then came September 11. How its getting in the game--in Afghanistan and beyond SUPPLIES MEANT FOR the Alpha or Bravo team sometimes land on the Echo or Foxtrot team. Last fall one frustrated spook, hiding at a secret drop zone near Kandahar, sent this coded message to his handlers: “waited three hours through all possible windows: only one airplane passed and kicked off one bundle: some bags of beans and rice ... and two bags of horse feed rpt horse feed. we do not have...