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Russia and Islam are not Separate: Why Russia backs Al-Qaeda By Konstantin Preobrazhensky Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1993, is an intelligence expert and specialist on Japan, about which he has written six books. His newest book Russian-American, A New KGB Asset will be published in late 2007. This article was first published by Gerard Group International, Intel Analyses, 31 August 2007.Americans generally believe that Russia is afraid of Islamic terrorism as much as the U.S.A. They are reminded of the war in Chechnya, the hostage crisis at the...

Investigation Into Alleged NYC Bomb Plot Includes Nearly All of the Bureau's U.S. Field OfficesCriminal Complaint Suggests Cops May Have Tipped-Off Zazi By Questioning New York Imam, Seizing CarThe FBI is expanding its investigation into an alleged terror plot targeting New York City, and nearly every one of the FBI's 57 field offices in the country and several overseas are now in on the case, working along with local police. On Wednesday, the NYPD was showing a new training video in precincts citywide detailing the intelligence from the agencies. Bomb Squad Commander Lt. Marc Torre narrates the video, giving regular...

Libya’s eccentric dictator Muammar Qaddafi told a sleepy United Nations audience Wednesday night that he has the solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict: a single state called Isratine, an acronym for Israel and Palestine. He previously has suggested the term, but last night was the first time the phrase was introduced in the United Nations "The solution is a democratic state without religious fanaticism," he said. "Everybody should live in peace. Isratine, Isratine is the solution."

Those who know wealthy Lebanese Shi'ite financier Salah Ezz el-Din say he is a deeply pious, humble man whose close links to Hezbollah made his credentials impeccable as he allegedly embezzled their savings. Many Shi'ite Lebanese investors find it hard to believe the philanthropist could have defrauded them to the tune of at least $500 million -- small change compared with the $65 billion in the U.S. fraudster Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, but made more painful by the connection with Hezbollah, which its followers regard as incorruptible."Whoever says he's a thief, that is an incorrect assessment," said Fouad Ajami, a...

CBSnews interview with Mamoud I'm In A Jihad, today after his hate filled speech to a nearly empty United Nations...

Riyadh concerned over potential threat from Tehran MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett has been told that Saudi Arabia is "seriously considering" whether Israel should be given permission to fly over the kingdom to bomb Iran's nuclear sites, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The sites are seen as a major threat by both Tel Aviv and Riyadh. The matter was discussed at a meeting between Scarlett, Meir Dagan, the ebullient chief of Mossad, and Saudi Arabian officials. The meeting ostensibly was for Scarlett to introduce Dagan to Sir John Sawyers, who officially takes over MI6 in November.

CAIR, the unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Terror trial case and one key piece of evidence was the Wiretap evidence heard in the case put CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, at a Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders secretly recorded by the FBI. Participants hatched a plot to deceive Americans and disguise payments to Hamas as it launched a campaign of terror attacks. CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad joined Hamas big shots at the summit. In other words, THEY BROKE THE THE LAW. Now this bastion of honesty got caught lying, putting Politicians names on a flyer who were supporting neither...

Commentary On This From: Wallbuiders.com: QUOTE: "American Muslims have also enjoyed the direct support of President Obama. In April, he traveled to Egypt where he told the Muslim world that America no longer considers itself a Christian nation. He later traveled to Turkey and announced that America was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world (despite the fact that 78% of Americans claim to be Christians but only 1% claim to be Muslims). Then in May, President Obama refused to invite Christian and Jewish leaders to the White House to participate in the National Day of Prayer (as...

Today at the United Nations we heard from a host of world leaders most of them bashed the United States, including the President of the United States. From Barack Obama we learned how evil the US has been and how evil is Israel still. From Qaddafi we learned how baffling a speech by a true crazy man can be, Barack Obama is his son, and the Israelis killed Jack Ruby who killed Lee Harvey Oswald who killed JFK because he was asking too many questions about Israeli Nuclear Bombs. The Iranian despot Ahmadinejad taught us about the coming of the...

RLINGTON, Va. — By the end of the week, Gen. Stanley McChrystal will submit his request for additional troops and resources in Afghanistan to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Gates intends to sit on the request until the White House national security team completes its review of the general’s strategy assessment, , Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. Handing that request to President Barack Obama before then would be “simply premature,” said Morrell, who pushed back against what he called “breathless reporting” and “near hysteria” in the media over perceived delays in the assessment’s delivery and the commander’s subsequently expected request...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent his foreign minister ahead of him to New York on Monday to test the level of protest he would face when coming to this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, Newsmax has learned from sources close to the Iranian president. The Iranian president, whose June 12 re-election was disputed by millions of Iranians around the world and led to massive street demonstrations the regime violently repressed, was worried that he might get shut out of his midtown Manhattan hotel. Protests by United Against a Nuclear Iran, a U.S.-based nonprofit coalition headed by former U.S. Ambassador...

Iran's Mahmoud Wackajob and Libya's QadafiDuck enjoyed the speech and probably for good reason given the rhetoric by the Great One. Obama flatly denounced settlements: "We continue to emphasize that America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israel settlements" Maybe the correct position, but not one to announce to the entire world especially not to a body who has exhibited anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli stances before. Why would Obama purposely demonstrate America's disapproval with Israel other than to appease to the Muslim world? Last week Brezinski announced that American planes based in Iraq shout confront Israeli warplanes in the event...

Officials Suggest Group Is First Uncovered Here Since 9/11; Zazi in Court Thursday. WASHINGTON -- The terror probe that burst into the spotlight in New York last week may have led authorities to the first active al Qaeda cell uncovered inside the U.S. since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to officials familiar with the matter. Current and former U.S. officials say the allegations in the case embody their worst fears -- that a legal U.S. resident could quietly leave the country, receive explosives training from al Qaeda in a lawless region of Pakistan, then return to U.S. soil.

Senior Taliban leaders, showing a surprising level of sophistication and organization, are using their sanctuary in Pakistan to stoke a widening campaign of violence in northern and western Afghanistan, senior American military and intelligence officials say. The Taliban’s expansion into parts of Afghanistan that it once had little influence over comes as the Obama administration is struggling to settle on a new military strategy for Afghanistan... American military and intelligence officials, who insisted on anonymity because they were discussing classified information, said the Taliban’s leadership council, led by Mullah Muhammad Omar and operating around the southern Pakistani city of Quetta,...

Here is video of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to the United Nations.He used his speech to attack the United States and the Jewish people: Mr. Ahmadinejad repeated accusations that Israel was responsible for "inhuman policies" against the Palestinians. Then he broadened his attacks to the Jews who live outside that country. "It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the U.S., to attain...

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (AP) - (Kyodo)—U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday he and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed on the need for fresh sanctions on Iran if Teheran does not accept proposals to end a dispute over its nuclear program. The agreement reached at a bilateral summit in New York was followed by a meeting of foreign ministers from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China -- plus Germany on the same issue. "Iran has been violating too many of its international commitments," Obama said after meeting...

Federal investigators are looking into reports that one of the men who detonated a truck bomb in Mogadishu last week that killed 21 peacekeepers was a Somali refugee who had lived in Seattle as recently as 2007. Two federal law enforcement sources, both speaking on condition of anonymity, said the FBI in Seattle received information last week that indicated that one of the suicide bombers was from Seattle. "We've been looking into it ever since," said one of the sources. One of the sources, a senior federal law enforcement official, said the FBI is actively investigating whether terrorist groups are...

"Clear to engage." "Roger that. Firing. And firing. And firing. And firing. And firing one more. Alright, sensing."

"Gonna put on a hurtin on these mother----------. We're engaging at this time. That's what I'm talking about."

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Central Command, Army General David Petraeus, said on Wednesday that both he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen had endorsed an assessment by the top commander in Afghanistan that says more troops would be needed. "Obviously I endorsed, the chairman endorsed... Gen. (Stanley) McChrystal's assessment and description," Petraeus said at a counterinsurgency conference in Washington.