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CNS News is a nice little right-of-center web-based wire service operating in Alexandria, Virginia. They seem like pretty solid reporters, and not likely to bite on, say, memos that are supposed to be from an Air National Guard office from 1972 that were created on Microsoft Word. So it's kind of surprising to see this report: Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and...

/begin my translation Kidnapping and Beheading Were Done By Different Groups A new claim surfaced, that the group which kidnapped (beheading victim) Kim Sun-il, the employee of Gana Trading Co., is different from the group which beheaded him. A high level official in (S. Korean) government said on June 25th, "Based on our investigation so far, we suspect that an armed group kidnapped Mr. Kim for ransom. However, their negotiation broke down over the amount of ransom (to be paid), and they turned Mr. Kim over to Tawhid wa al-Jihad(Zarqawi's group.) Paris Jamar, station chief of Al-Jazeera in Jordan, also...

U.S. and coalition actions in Afghanistan have forced terrorist groups operating there to change their strategies. So coalition forces continue to adapt their tactical approach in response, the top U.S. general in that country said today. Army Lt. Gen. David Barno, commander of Combined Forces Command Afghanistan, explained that Taliban forces used to attack coalition elements in large numbers, until they realized that would get them killed in large numbers. Today terrorists go after soft targets in smaller numbers, Barno said from Afghanistan in a video teleconference with Pentagon reporters. He said he sees enemy forces "adapting and changing (their)...

Muslim terror groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have recently stepped up their efforts to consolidate their power in distant areas of Latin America, particularly in the triangle of borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, say Israeli and American security sources. The sources in Israel confirmed information provided last week by the deputy chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Peter Pace, who told the Armed Forces Committee in the House of Representatives that the area is a center for trade in drugs, weapons, money laundering, forgery, and activity that supports Islamic terror in Latin America. According to Israeli...

At least four Indian soldiers were killed and four wounded today in an explosion blamed on Muslim militants fighting for the independence of India-held Kashmir, the army said. A truck carrying several soldiers on their way to a military operation hit an explosive device near Mattan, 40 miles south of Srinagar, summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state. “The truck blew up, killing the four,” said army spokesman Colonel Dharma Adhikari. “We believe the device was planted by the terrorists,” Adhikari said, using the term Indian authorities always use to refer to the Islamic militants fighting in Jammu-Kashmir state since 1989....

Islamic radicals held training camps for potential recruits across France through 2002, Le Parisien newspaper reported Wednesday, adding that French investigators believe they have successfully dismantled the network running the camps. Recruits were sent to seven sites - including one in the Normandy city of Dieppe, one in the southeastern Alps, and a site in the Fontainebleau forest outside Paris - for rugged, outdoor exercises and religious and political indoctrination, the daily said. The purpose of the sites was to take untested candidates and determine whether they were fit for jihad in battle zones like Afghanistan and Chechnya, the newspaper...

I am attempting to put together a comprehensive list of terror attacks against the US, other western coutries, their troops citizens, or assets. I need help from freepers who know of other attacks that could be listed or resources where I could find more info. I have excluded any attacks within Israel since these are too numerous to track. The list will be on my website along with the terrorist scorecard and the Iraqi leadership scorecard.

Mohammed al-Hindi, head of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, has confirmed that the terrorist organization is rearming under the 'hudna'. "It is natural that we strengthen ourselves during hudna," he told the The Scotsman newspaper in an interview appearing Sunday. He suggests that other Palestinian groups follow suit. "It is natural that the Palestinians, Fatah, the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, be ready to defend their people in the coming stages," he added. He predicted more bloodshed unless Israel makes additional concessions. "We are not blood lovers," he said. "We are freedom lovers, but when our people are being killed, we have to...

World's Terrorist Groups - Intel Update (WTG-IU) Vol. 03, No. 44 - 4 Nov. 2002 http://www.intelcenter.com Afghanistan - - On 1 Nov. 2002, US bases came under rocket attack in Gardez and Khost provinces. There were no reports of injuries. [Source: Afghan Islamic Press, Peshawar, 0000 GMT, 1 Nov. 2002] Algeria - - On 28 Oct. 2002, security forces attacked and killed four rebels at El Haoud es Sghir in Tebessa Province. Security forces recovered four guns and destroyed four mountainous hideouts in the same area. [Source: Algerian Radio, Algiers, 1700 GMT, 29 Oct. 2002] - - On 29 Oct....