[osint] Syria Pays Cash For Riot, Media Takes Propaganda For Free
Syria Pays Cash For Riot, Media Takes Propaganda For Free June 6, 2011 16:12 by Simon Plosker http://honestreporting.com/author/simon983reporting/ http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/analysis-300x300.jpgOn ce again a flood of headlines present Israel as an aggressor responsible for the deaths of dozens of unarmed civilians. Was this really a peaceful protest or another Syrian-engineered attempt to breach Israel's border? Where did the media get it right and where did it go wrong? Syrian Media: A Credible Source? For many weeks, Syrian state controlled media (and it is all state controlled) has failed to report on President Bashar Assad's brutal and murderous assault his own citizens' peaceful protests against the Syrian regime. So why then did the media rush to quote casualty figures provided by Syrian media despite the lack of any concrete confirmation of the number of deaths or injuries from either side? For example, the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/world/middleeast/06mideast.html?_r=2page wanted=all reported: By nightfall, the Syrian news agency SANA reported that 22 protesters had been killed and more than 350 had been wounded. Israeli officials said that they had no information on casualties but suggested that the Syrian figures were exaggerated. Even so, it was the worst bloodshed in the Golan Heights since Israel and Syria fought a war there in 1973. http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/nytimeslogo2.jpgAs Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/how-many-people-we re-killed-on-the-syrian-border/239954/ says: So, the official Syrian news agency, which has every reason to inflate the casualty figures, reports that 22 people were killed by Israeli troops. Israel says that it disputes the figures. The Israeli information operation is far from perfect, but it's much better than the Assad regime's information operation. So skepticism about these figures is certainly warranted. And yet, the Times follows this ambiguous paragraph about the death toll with a declaration: Even so, it was the worst bloodshed in the Golan Heights since Israel and Syria fought a war there in 1973. How does the Times know this? How does the Times know how many people died? The only source for the death toll is the Assad regime's propaganda apparatus. Protestors or Infiltrators? Events on the Golan played out in similar fashion to the events of the so-called Naqba Day one month previously as did the press coverage. Many headlines referred to Israel opening fire on protestors. But this was not your run of the mill protests, nor was it peaceful. This was an attempt to breach Israel's borders in a hostile act. The term protestors conjures visions of placard carrying activists rather than the more accurate term of rioters who threw Molotov Cocktails and stones and confronted Israeli soldiers while trying to enter Israel. Any infiltration has to be taken seriously and that is how the press should also have treated these incidents - as attempts to illegally breach a sovereign nation's borders. http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/timeout-322x260.jpgDes pite this, Karl Vick http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2075823,00.html#ixzz1OUppRVdo of Time Magazine chose to frame the incident in this way: Television images on Sunday from the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams showed apparently unarmed Palestinian civilians marching peacefully down a hill toward Israeli soldiers who had assumed firing positions. Then came a crackle of gunshots; bloodied bodies were then carried back up the hill. It went on for hours, with 20 people reported dead according to Syrian state television. The human cost was high but for a Palestinian movement trying to reframe itself, the footage at least set it on a course along on the lines of Birmingham, Soweto and Gandhi's Salt March - parallels it has been making explicitly. Aside from falsely presenting Palestinians as Gandhian acolytes, this description certainly does not correspond with other media reports that confirmed that the IDF had issued clear warnings in Arabic and fired tear gas before firing over the heads of the Palestinians in an attempt to convince them to halt. The use of live fire and then, only used selectively, was only a last resort. The video below records the verbal warning given by the IDF. http://youtu.be/12L8hN28GUY Palestinian Refugees The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8558216/20-dead -as-Israeli-troops-fire-on-Golan-Heights-protesters.html reported: http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Telegraph.jpgProtester s said they were hoping to emulate Hassan Hijazi, who managed to reach his former home in the Israeli coastal city of Jaffa after the last protest before turning himself into the police. In fact, Hassan Hijazi, like all of those Palestinians involved in May's
[osint] Obama's ineligibility: Our permanent political class is the enemy
http://canadafreepress.com/ Home | http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/RSS-FEEDS RSS Feeds | http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/Archives Archives | http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/ About Us | http://www.canadafreepress.com/rates.htm Advertise | http://www.canadafreepress.com/eesystem/index.php/CFP-subscriptions/ Subscribe | http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/Letters-to-the-editor Letters | http://www.canadafreepress.com/tinbu/gasprices.htm Gas Prices http://www.canadafreepress.com/ Home | http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37254 Back to full article Like Lexington and Concord, it is time to stand our ground and fight. It is time to take back our government. Obama's ineligibility: Our permanent political class is the enemy http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcanadafreepress.com%2Find ex.php%2Fprint-friendly%2F37254t=Obama%E2%80%99s%20ineligibility%3A%20Our%2 0permanent%20political%20class%20is%20the%20enemysrc=sp Share | http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250username=xa-4d529beb02c4728d Bookmark and Share | (7) http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/obamas-ineligibility -our-permanent-political-class-is-the-enemy/ Comments | http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/CFP-subscriptions/ Subscribe | http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37254 Back to full Article | mailto:lett...@canadafreepress.com?subject=Dear%20Canada%20Free%20Press Contact Us By Lawrence Sellin Monday, June 6, 2011 imageThey want us to think it is hopeless and to accept the status quo. We will not. Barack Hussein Obama is going down, and with him much of the political establishment and the mainstream media (MSM). It is just a matter of time until someone cops a plea and a tidal wave of revelations destroys any credibility that might remain. The election of Obama is prima facie evidence that the US government is broken. Many of our politicians and government officials were so intimidated by political correctness that they were too cowardly to challenge Obama regarding his eligibility or competence to hold the office of President. Other politicians and government officials appeared to have actively colluded to undermine the Constitution. They are traitors to their oaths of office. So, the cover-up by the culpable continues. They stall and deny in order to save themselves. They are unconcerned about the rule of law, the condition of the country or the will of the people they pledged to serve. Yes, it's all about them, the personal power and privilege of a permanent political class. That is the reason why establishment Republicans and Democrats and the MSM denigrate and attempt to destroy anyone like Sarah Palin or any movement like the Tea Party that might challenge their grip on power. A gaggle of dishonest politicians and sleazy journalists are complicit in or acquiescent to the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people. * Obama was never eligible to be President. * Many document experts say Obama forged both his Certification and Certificate of Live Birth. * There is evidence that Obama committed felony fraud in regard to his Social Security Number and his Selective Service registration. * Why was the charade of Senate Resolution 511 perpetrated? * Why did Nancy Pelosi issue two different Certifications of Nomination verifying the eligibility of Obama for the Presidency, one invoking the Constitution, one not? The 2008 Presidential election and its consequences reek of conspiracy and corruption. Yet, the permanent political class and the MSM pretend that nothing is wrong. The American people demand the truth, not just the usual displays of elitist arrogance or feigned ignorance. There is clearly a conspiracy of silence and, very likely, ethical and criminal liability. President Theodore Roosevelt said: It is the duty of all citizens, irrespective of party, to denounce, and, so far as may be, to punish crimes against the public on the part of politicians or officials. We have endured the tyranny and malfeasance of the permanent political class for far too long. We will not stand by and see our great country destroyed to save any of those scoundrels. As Abraham Lincoln noted, the American people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Our American royalty now think that they are above the law. We need to teach them that they are not. The permanent political class has awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve. The race card will be played, lies will be told, and the full force of the political establishment and the MSM will be used against us. Ignore them. Like Lexington and Concord, it is time to stand our ground and fight. It is time to take back our government. Author Lawrence Sellin
[osint] Muslim women take whore lessons.
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/ Doctor Bulldog Ronin Conservative News, Views, Analysis of Events http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/shocker-uk-muzzies-promote-ji had-in-universities/ Shocker: UK Muzzies Promote Jihad in Universities http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/muslim-women-take-whore-lesso ns/ Muslim women take whore lessons. So let me break this down. Muslim men cannot be trusted, blame their women, the women agree with the untrustworthy men and prostitute themselves. Sounds more than a little stupid to me. June 6, 2011, AFP A group of Malaysian women launched an Obedient Wife Club on Saturday, urging members to be whores in bed and obey their husbands to curb social ills such as divorce and domestic violence. -Hate to break it to ya babe but violence and islam go together like obama and lying, the two can never be separated. Islamic group Global Ikhwan held the club's inaugural meeting in Kuala Lumpur, giving women tips on how to keep their men satisfied and prevent them from straying. A good wife is perceived to be prim and proper - you just take care of the children - but not much is emphasised on fulfilling sexual needs of the husband. If he needs sex, obey him, Rohaya Mohamad, the club's vice-president said. Dr Rohaya, 46, said 30 per cent of the club members were in polygamous marriages while the rest were in monogamous relationships and that the club was open to non-Muslims. -Minions always claim these scam organizations are open to non-muslims but try and attend one and see how tolerant your new friends really are. You must satisfy your husband. A good wife should be a whore in bed, said Dr Rohaya, whose husband has three other wives. -For a doctor she is a real idiot. If she was following her own advice her husband would have only a single wife. I guess she needs better whore lessons. She said the club had 800 Malaysian members so far with another 200 from across the Middle East. Over 1000 guests and supporters turned up for the launch in a leafy suburb, held in conjunction with a mass wedding of 10 couples, with the brides all members of the new club. If the wife is obedient, then the husband feels good and is entertained and this builds a closer relationship and greater love and no one strays, groom Mohamad Shurahbil Amran, 23, said. -Take it from a man, give us our way without questions and we will get bored and run amuck. His bride Umuhani Lokman Hakim, 19, dressed in a golden white Arabic wedding gown, was reticent when asked why she joined the club and would only say: It is the right thing to do to keep the family together. -The right thing to do is let your husband know that he will treat you with respect or lose you forever. The club has come under criticism from Malaysian women's groups who say the onus on keeping a family together is being unfairly placed on women. With obedience comes submission, which may lead to domestic violence and marital rape, Women's Aid Organisation head Ivy Josiah said. We should really be forming equality in marriage clubs, she added. -Preach on sister preach on. Educate them before they become victims. Women's rights group EMPOWER said the club was a step back for the progress of the equality movement. We cannot go back to caveman days where the man pulls the woman by the hair and takes her to the cave to have his way. We must recognise that women contribute a lot more than just being a sex toy, the group's executive director Maria Chin Abdullah said. Polygamy is legal for Muslims, who make up more than 60 per cent of Malaysia's population, allowing Muslim men to take up to four wives. -This is a good place to inform you that our state department considers malaysia's muslims to be moderates. Last year, a study by a Muslim activist group found men in polygamous relationships find it difficult to meet the needs of all their wives and children, and that the result is often unhappy and cash-strapped families. -So do like your cousins do, immigrate to the EU and live large on others money. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques,
[osint] French Political Cuisine
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/ Doc's Talk An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time. SUNDAY, JUNE 05, 2011 http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/06/french-political-cuisine.html French Political Cuisine Philippe Karsenty, the worst nightmare of the French media outlets Written by Nurit Greenger, from the original speech, as was delivered by Mr. Philippe Karsenty June 4, 2011 Philippe Karsenty, is a French national of the Jewish faith, who is well known for, so obstinately, standing up to France 2 TV Channel news when they reported a hoax story about Mohamed al Dura, an Arab-Palestinian they claimed the Israeli army killed. Mr. Karsenty won his case and truth prevailed. Mr. Karsenty is now seeking to be elected to the French Parliament. I cannot think of a better than Mr. Karsenty, an honest, freedom loving person to take ranks in the French political arena. On May 12, 2011 Mr. Karsenty delivered a speech to Temple Of the Arts congregation, in Beverly Hills California, which I attended. I am gladly sharing with my readers Mr. Karsenty's speech: Mohammed al Dura was a little boy who, at the beginning of the Arab 2ndIntifada against Israel, France 2, the French public TV, showed dying in his fathers arms, shot and killed by the Israeli army. This picture became an icon, an icon of hatred to the State of Israel. Osama Bin Laden used it; American Journalist Daniel Pearl was killed to avenge the killing of Mohammed al Dura. Most or all the Muslim countries have erected monuments, named streets and issued postage stamps to commemorate Mohammed al Duras death. But there is a greater problem: this report was a hoax; it was purely a staged scene. For having said and published that it was a hoax, Ive been sued for libel but have won the case. But today, the talk is about French and Middle East policies. I first want to say few words about my personal experience in French politics, then I will give an update about French politics regarding the Middle East and lastly, I will explain why I am running for elections to the French parliament. My personal experience of French politics I met Nicholas Sarkozy in 2002. At that time he was not even a minister. Sarkozy then told me: The Golan is Syrian. I told him, I disagree. We agreed that we disagreed. So, Sarkozy challenge me: If you disagree with me, run against me. I did but I lost. At around the same time, I, with some other people, discovered the al Dura hoax. I immediately understood that wrong politics are based on wrong information. Lies in the media influence politician and then, they make wrong policies. So, I fought on al Dura and I won the trials against France 2 and Canal+, a French private TV which slandered me in a 52 minutes documentary, designed to support the al Dura hoax. Im proud to say that now, Im the worst nightmare of the French media outlets. French politics regarding the Middle East France is a military dwarf but it is an important country to watch out for because France can be a big troublemaker: France has a permanent seat at the UN, France has the 2nd largest diplomatic network, France has an impact on world politics, and France had a historical role in the Middle East. French politicians have always been very close to Arab dictators. Charles De Gaulle was terrible in this aspect. Valéry Giscard and FrancoisMitterrand were bad. Jacques Chirac was the worst; he, liked, too much, dead Jews. He spent his mandate to commemorate the Holocaust in order to have a blank check to blame Israel whenever he could and wanted. Some people had great hopes on Nicholas Sarkozy but he is has been very disappointing. Sarkozy didnt do and is not doing much better than his predecessors. Sarkozy always had nice words for Israel but nothing has really changed in the grand picture. The Quai dOrsay French Foreign Affairs - still has the power and they still follow the Politique Arabe de la France. As soon as he was elected, Sarkozy invited the Hezbollah to Paris; in 2007, Gadhafi was invited to Paris, as a guest of honor; Bashar al Assad of Syria was also a guest of honor in Paris for the Bastille Day of 2008. Recently, France has sold anti-tank missiles to the Lebanese Army. Whose tanks will the Lebanese Army target? And on a more personal level, after I won my al-Dura trial, as a real slap on my face and on Jews' faces, Sarkozy offered the Legion of Honor to Charles Charles Enderlin, the French journalist responsible of the al Dura hoax. I have two questions: Is Obama good? Do you think Sarkozy is better? So, lets talk about Sarkozys lasted decisions's record: Last February, when the USA vetoed at UN on the condemnation of Israel's colonization, Sarkozy voted in favor. When the USA opposed the Goldstone
[osint] Ward Churchill to Get Hearing From Colorado Supreme Court
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011 http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/ Ward Churchill to Get Hearing From Colorado Supreme Court Gary Fouse fousesquawk http://findalismonkeyinthemiddle.blogspot.com/ Ex-Professor Ward Churchill A picture is worth a thousand words. Misfit ex-professor Ward Churchill is back in the news again, unfortunately, now that the Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case against the University of Colorado for firing him 4 years ago. The below report comes from the Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18175567 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18175567 Churchill sprang into notoriety after 9-11, when he called the victims in the World Trade Center little Eichmann's. However, it wasn't that that got him fired. The university determined that he had committed plagiarism in some of his writings. That is a big no-no in academia. Of course, no one really knows how this joker became a professor in the first place. Like singer Wayne Newton, he is pretty much a one-trick pony (Dankeschoen). Anything connected to America and capitalism is bad. This is what Colorado University students were exposed to in Churchill's classes. (Power to the People and America sucks). Of course, Churchill isn't the only misfit professor in academia. In contrast, they pretty much grow like weeds in the humanities, history, political science and especially in these mushrooming Middle Eastern Studies departments. (Thank you, Saudi Arabia.) The other issue deserving of mention here is tenure. Once these clowns acquire tenure, it is very hard to get rid of them. The other is freedom of speech or academic freedom, which applies liberally to teachers but not so liberally to students who have different points of view. What Churchill said about the little Eichmann's was, indeed, protected by the principle of academic freedom. In other universities, you will find professors who think the Holocaust was a myth, 9-11 was an inside job, and the moon is made of green cheese. These loons are in classrooms as we speak spreading their garbage-or better yet, sitting in their offices doing research while graduate assistants with similar ideas actually teach the classes. That is the benefit of being a tenured professor. Many universities would actually prefer you do research and publish stuff rather than actually be in the classroom. None of which I have to worry about. First of all, I am no professor, don't even have a PhD. Tenure? Hardly. I am an adjunct reacher at UC-Irvine, which is a fancy term for part-time teacher. I work on a quarterly contract, which has been renewed for 13 years since I am pretty much a part of the family at the UCI-Ext (not the UCI Administration). I don't carry my beliefs into the classroom, and I actually teach my classes personally. Any research I have done is on my own time and dime. As for free speech, I have to say that UCI has respected my exercise of free speech at campus events like the annual Muslim Student Union's circus and what I say in public or here onFousesquawk. As any regular reader of this blog knows, I have often criticized UCI, other UC campuses, and the current UC president. I have not been punished in any way. Ward Churchill was and is an ideologue who brought embarrassment to CU because of what he said and according to the university itself, his plagiarized writings. In my opinion, CU was correct in getting rid of this clown. I hope the Colorado Supreme Court feels likewise Posted by Gary Fouse at http://findalismonkeyinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2011/06/ward-churchill-to-get -hearing-from.html 14:34 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to:
[osint] Georgia foils Russian-backed bomb plot
KAVKAZCENTER.COM http://imgs2.kavkazcenter.com/imgs/print_logo.gif Georgia foils Russian-backed bomb plot Georgia said Thursday it had arrested two suspects who were planning to detonate bombs in the ex-Soviet state under orders from arch-foe Russia. Police arrested a man and a woman in possession of explosives in the west of the country, the interior ministry said. They have confessed that they were ordered by Russian officers to set off explosions on Georgian territory, ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP. In recent months, Georgian police have detained a series of suspects for allegedly setting off bombs or planning attacks on behalf of the Russian military intelligence. Three men were accused of trying to blow up state buildings in Georgia's second-largest city of Kutaisi in March, while several more suspects were held on suspicion of staging blasts last year near targets, including the US embassy in Tbilisi. Political tensions between the Kremlin and the pro-Western administration in Tbilisi have remained high since the ex-Soviet neighbours went to war in 2008. The high-profile arrests came on the day that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Georgia's rebel region of Abkhazia, which Tbilisi says has been occupied by Moscow's troops since the 2008 conflict. The interior ministry said the latest bomb plot suspects were residents of Abkhazia and the Russian military intelligence officers who allegedly ordered the attack were also based there. Source: Agencies Kavkaz Center Publication time: 5 June 2011, 23:45 Permanent address at KAVKAZCENTER.COM: http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/06/05/14453.shtml C Copyright 2001-2011 KavkazCenter.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] So the price for the bail out of Greece includes facilitating jihad.
Excerpt One of the criteria required of Greece was to change the definition of its “border areas” so as to allow more foreign purchase of real estate. In particular, some of the islands in the Aegean coast area were reclassified so that Turks could buy property there. http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-652011.html http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/ Gates of Vienna At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war. Sunday, June 05, 2011 http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-652011.html Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/5/2011 Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/5/2011 http://chromatism.net/current/images/newsfeed.gif Protesters occupied the Ministry of Finance building in downtown Athens, took down the EU flag, prevented employees from entering, and called for a general strike. All this occurred just as the “troika” — the EU, the ECB, and the IMF — announced that Greece had met its austerity requirements and would receive the next €12 billion tranche of bailout loans. One of the criteria required of Greece was to change the definition of its “border areas” so as to allow more foreign purchase of real estate. In particular, some of the islands in the Aegean coast area were reclassified so that Turks could buy property there. Meanwhile, Moody’s further downgraded its ratings for eight Greek banks. In other news, bean sprouts are now considered to be the most likely source for the E. coli bacteria that caused the current outbreak in Europe, which has killed at least 22 people. To see the headlines and the articles, open http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20110605.html the full news post. Thanks to http://1389blog.com/ 1389AD, AC, C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, http://jewishodysseus.blogspot.com/ Jewish Odysseus, http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/ Kitman, http://snaphanen.dk/ Steen, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible. Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader. Posted by Baron Bodissey at http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-652011.html 6/05/2011 11:59:00 PM http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=8651944postID=7097779078206488170 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Refugees Are the New 'Palestinian Nuclear Weapon'
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[osint] Six-Day-War Revisionist History
http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cd e1id=fa12906bb9e=ca73c2b371 Six-Day-War Revisionist History Jun 05, 2011 08:53 am | Jeff Dunetz http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cd e1id=093f1334b4e=ca73c2b371 The Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive, says Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that land. We fought to open its gates to our brethren. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people. Both the land and the soul of Israel are sorely tried. Last week, 19 years after the Diaspora dream of return to Zion became a reality in the first Jewish state in almost 2,000 years, Levi Eshkol and his people found themselves besieged and threatened as few nations have ever been in their history. Tiny, dagger-shaped Israel, whose 2,700,000 people cling to 7,993 sq. mi. on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, faced the implacable hostility and cocked guns of 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. Its borders were ringed with Arab troops on all sides; its important sea access through the Gulf of Aqaba remained blocked by Egyptian mines and patrol boats. http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cd e1id=017a6a93dfe=ca73c2b371 Time Magazine June 9th 1967 http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cd e1id=8650ccc3f2e=ca73c2b371 Reading reports about the Six-Day-War from 44-years ago and comparing them to today reminds me of one of those Star Trek episodes where Kirk and the crew goes back in history and change the past---it seems like two different wars. Forty-four years ago the reports spoke of the underdog Israel and her need to defend herself against the warlike acts of the big bullies lead by Egypt who was committing many acts that could be interpreted as acts of war including: conspiring with other belligerent countries for a coordinated attack (in this case, Syria and Jordan), closing Israel's access to international waterways (the straits of Tiran), violating the terms of the 1956 armistice by re-militarizing the Sinai. Expelling the UN and USA peace-keeping troops form the Sinai, perpetrating illegal spy-plane fly-overs to reconnoiter Israeli sensitive areas and massing troops and tanks on Israel's borders. http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cd e1id=ff8669f627e=ca73c2b371 (Dewy Beats Truman?) The United States tried to prevent the war through negotiations, but the other side did not want peace, The US could not persuade Nasser or the other Arab states to cease their belligerent statements and actions (back then they tried). So just like today, they warned Israel not to attack. Right before the war, President Johnson warned: Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone. Then, when the war began, the State Department announced: Our position is neutral in thought, word and deed. While the Arabs were falsely accusing the United States of airlifting supplies to Israel, Johnson imposed an arms embargo on the region (France, Israel's other main arms supplier, also embargoed arms to Israel). By contrast, the Soviets were supplying massive amounts of arms to the Arabs. Simultaneously, the armies of Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were contributing troops and arms to the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian fronts. Today, retrospectives tell a different story, the tale of the cynical Zionist nation whe saw an opportunity to deal a blow to the Arab nation, expand her territory, and rule over the Palestinian people. Some even say that maybe the Six Day War was not the best thing for Israel, since it lead her to become the evil rogue nation she is today But there is one indisputable fact that today's revisionist historians keeps forgetting, if Israel didn't fight and win the Six Day War---there would be no Israel today. Just as if Israel doesn't protect herself from the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah today--there will be no Israel in 44 years. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Israel offered to give everything except Jerusalem back in exchange for peace. Rather than respond to Israel's invitation, the Arab states met in Khartoum, Sudan, for a conference in August, 1967. They unanimously decided in favor of the now famous three NOs, better that Israel hold on to the territories taken in the war. Better that the refugees continue languishing in their squalor and misery. Better that the Arab states re-arm for another war.than to recognize Israel's right to exist or negotiate toward a peaceful settlement of the conflict. For most of the Middle East, the rule is still the three NOs: No recognition, No negotiation, No peace. On 6/5/1967, in a pre-dawn raid, Israeli jets destroyed almost
[osint] Muslim Propaganda: Islamophobia rising in America due to 'political' reasons
http://iina.me/wp_en/?p=1003313 USA/Islamophobia: Islamophobia rising in America due to 'political' reasons BY http://iina.me/wp_en/?author=2 IINA - JUNE 5, 2011POSTED IN: http://iina.me/wp_en/?cat=4 ARTICLES http://iina.me/wp_en/?p=1003313 WASHINGTON, 4 Rajab/June 5 (Agencies/IINA) - Director of Washington-based CAIR National Communications, Ibrahim Hooper says the rise of 'anti-Muslim sentiment' in America has 'political' reasons. There are a number of 'rightwing politicians and activists' who are pushing anti-Muslim sentiment in America for their own 'political games', Hooper told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Saturday. The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in our society is being generated by a cottage industry of Muslim bashers and Islamophobic groups, he said. Nearly a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new wave of bigotry and discrimination is affecting the everyday lives of many Muslim Americans, a Justice Department official and Muslim leaders has said. Thomas E. Perez , the U.S. Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights described a headwind of intolerance burdening many Muslim communities in this country, including fear of violence, of bigotry and hate. sikhphilosophy.net Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., says that Muslim Americans are increasingly facing unjust acts of discrimination and prejudice. sikhphilosophy.net In one instance, in November 2010, a Sacramento man beat up a Sikh cab driver because he thought that he was Muslim. The man is now sentenced to 13 years in prison. AH/IINA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Calls For Adoption of Islamic Constitution
- The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report - http://globalmbreport.org - Tunisian Islamist Linked to Muslim Brotherhood Calls For Adoption of Islamic Constitution Posted By GlobalMB On March 11, 2008 @ 9:18 pm In Daily | No Comments Speaking at an event organized by an Indian Islamist party Rachid Ghannoushi (Aka Rachid Ghannouchi), often associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, has called on the Muslim world to adopt the Charter of Madinah, also known as the Constitution of Medina. According to the report http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2008/feb/28/pluralism_and_coalition_majo rity_only_option_muslim_minorities_sheikh_ghannoushi.ht [1] of an Indian Muslim source: Time has come for the Muslim world, prepared by Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago, in its entirety, said Tunisian Islamic scholar Sheikh Rashid Ghannoushi in New Delhi yesterday. Addressing a program organized by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on 27th February, Sheikh Ghannoushi, who is the leader of the Islamic Movement of Tunisia, said the charter was relevant today to face the challenges confronting Muslims across the globe. He said after migrating to Madinah, the Prophet prepared the charter in which equal rights and duties were assigned to all citizens of the Islamic State of Madinah - polytheists, Jews, Christians and Muslims. Jews, however, were expelled later from the state because they had violated the charter. He said a movement could succeed only when it accepted multiplicity of religions, cultures and civilizations. For Muslim minorities, who constitute one third of the entire Muslim Ummah, there are only three ways open: first that they adopt the ideology of division of state into Muslim and non-Muslim population; second, surrender themselves before the majority, and third, participate with non-Muslims. Of these three options, the last one will help Muslims to enjoy their rights, said Sheikh Ghannoushi. The other two options may push them to confrontation with the world or undignified life, said he who is living in London in exile. Ghannouchi is the leader in-exile of the Tunisian Islamist movement known as Nahada (aka Ennahda, Al Nahda) and can best be described as an independent Islamist power center who is tied to the global Muslim Brotherhood by his membership http://www.iqrafiji.org/ecfr.pdf [2] in the European Council for Fatwa and Research led by Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. He is also one of the founding members of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and dedicated to the propagation of Wahabist Islam throughout the world. Ghannouchi is know for his thinking http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a777418226~db=all [3] on the issue of Islam and citizenship rights. The Medina charter is often cited by Brotherhod figures as an example of the democratic nature of Islam. It is not clear whether or not the reference to Jews in the statement was said in an anti-Semitic context. Share and Enjoy: * http://www.printfriendly.com/print?url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalmbreport.org%2F%3 Fp%3D613partner=sociable Print[4] * Digg[5] * http://sphinn.com/index.php?c=postm=submitlink=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalmbrepor t.org%2F%3Fp%3D613 Sphinn[6] * del.icio.us[7] * http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalmbreport.org%2F%3Fp% 3D613t=Tunisian%20Islamist%20Linked%20to%20Muslim%20Brotherhood%20Calls%20F or%20Adoption%20of%20%22Islamic%20Constitution%22 Facebook[8] * http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalmbreport.org%2F%3Fp% 3D613title=Tunisian%20Islamist%20Linked%20to%20Muslim%20Brotherhood%20Calls %20For%20Adoption%20of%20%22Islamic%20Constitution%22 Mixx[9] * Google Bookmarks[10] *http://blogplay.com Blogplay[11] * http://twitter.com/home?status=Tunisian%20Islamist%20Linked%20to%20Muslim%2 0Brotherhood%20Calls%20For%20Adoption%20of%20%22Islamic%20Constitution%22%20 -%20http%3A%2F%2Fglobalmbreport.org%2F%3Fp%3D613 Twitter[12] * mailto:?subject=Tunisian%20Islamist%20Linked%20to%20Muslim%20Brotherhood%20 Calls%20For%20Adoption%20of%20%22Islamic%20Constitution%22body=http%3A%2F%2 Fglobalmbreport.org%2F%3Fp%3D613 email[13] Related posts: 1. German Islamic Portal Calls Brotherhood-Linked Tunisian Islamist Party Weak And Divided http://globalmbreport.org/?p=292 [14] 2. Probable Relative Of Exiled Tunisian Islamist Complains About Far-Right In Europe http://globalmbreport.org/?p=327 [15] 3. MIDEAST CRISIS: Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood Leader In Exile Calls For National Unity Government http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3725 [16] 4. Bosnian Grand Mufti Says Islamic Law Compatible With Constitution, Will Visit Iran http://globalmbreport.org/?p=1498 [17] 5. Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood To Seek Majority In Coming Elections http://globalmbreport.org/?p=4387 [18] _ Article printed from The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report: http://globalmbreport.org URL to article: http://globalmbreport.org/?p=613 URLs
[osint] Oil redeems Israel
Actually, it doesnt. B http://ad.ca.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh%3Dv8/3b1e/3/0/%2a/y%3B226152946%3B0- 0%3B0%3B65007241%3B2-120/90%3B37332926/37350804/1%3B%3B%7Eaopt%3D2/2/43/1%3B %7Esscs%3D%3fhttp:/www.canada.com Lawrence Solomon: Oil redeems Israel · http://opinion.financialpost.com/author/lawrencesolomon/ Lawrence Solomon Jun 3, 2011 7:12 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 4, 2011 6:37 PM ET http://financialpostopinion.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/oilisrael_afp.jpg AFP An oil drilling site at Tamrur cliff in the southern Israeli city of Arad in the Dead Sea area. Huge strike will bring back a world bought by oil interests Prior to the 1973-74 OPEC Oil Crisis, Israel was the darling of the left, extolled as a feisty, altruistic country that made socialism work in a hostile neighbourhood of Arab military dictatorships and Muslim theocracies. The liberal press defended Israel against those who objected to Israels existence. The liberal intelligentsia Jew and non-Jew alike sent their youth to Israeli kibbutzes, to be inspired by this utopian model of communal life where all received the same wage, regardless of occupation. Almost immediately after the OPEC nations quadrupled oil prices to punish the West for its support of Israel, the left turned, along with many in the center and on the right, too. Israel soon became a pariah state, while the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose airplane hijackings and other acts of terrorism against Western targets had previously drawn condemnation, became praiseworthy. In 1974, PLO leader Yasser Arafat assumed statesman status and was invited to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. One more year and the UN General Assembly branded Zionism as a form of racism. Oil wasnt the only factor in the worlds change of attitude toward Israel. In that hyper-ideological Cold War period, anti-capitalists and anti-colonialists wanted the West and its allies out of the Middle East, others wanted to appease Arab grievances to end terrorism, or they sympathized with the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab states that had lost wars to Israel. But oil was decisive in causing the world to reconsider where its interests lay. Take black African countries, most of whom had excellent relations with Israel prior to OPEC. Though Israel was itself poor when it began its aid program in 1958, 10 years after its founding, Israel became the worlds second-largest per-capita donor of foreign aid, most of it for Africa. Israelis felt pride in having helped an estimated 250,000 Africans by transferring to them technologies in which Israel excelled, such as in agricultural and water management. But Israels relationship with black Africa would not survive the OPEC oil embargo because the Arabs had a persuasive case to make. Join us in our fight against Western imperialism and colonialism by cutting off diplomatic relations with Israel, OPEC asked black African nations. If you do, we will supply you with cheap oil and more aid for roads and other infrastructure than the Israelis give you. And if you dont cut off relations with Israel, they made clear, we will cut off your oil, just as we cut off the West. The black African countries, almost en masse, cut off relations with Israel and formed an Islamic-African voting bloc, buttressed with other so-called non-aligned nations that would vote against Israel at every turn in the United Nations. It is this voting bloc of now more than 100 nations of the 192 in the UN known today as the automatic majority that in 1975 passed the United Nations resolution branding Zionism as a form of racism, and whose members would systematically condemn Israel and almost no one else for human rights abuses: Israel has been condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Commission 33 times compared to zero for countries such as Iran, Zimbabwe, or even Sudan, despite its decades-long atrocities in Darfur. The left and the African countries werent alone in turning on Israel they also had allies in the oil multinationals. Nationalization by Third World countries of multinational assets had already begun by 1973, and the oil companies knew that their dealings throughout the Middle East were at risk if they were seen to be hostile to the Arab street. To head off the backlash that they faced, the oil multinationals lobbied Western governments to turn on Israel. In an ad for The New York Times, for example, Mobil Oil urged that it was time now for the world to insist on a settlement in the Middle East to avoid the wrath of the Arab oil states, a message it also sent to its shareholders. In concert, Exxon and other multinationals likewise argued that the West had far greater interests in a secure oil supply than in a tiny patch of oil-less land called Israel. This anti-Israeli coalition succeeded brilliantly in rebranding Israel as a pariah state, to the satisfaction of the oil multinationals. Although their assets
[osint] Mosques as Barracks in America
June 5, 2011 Mosques as Barracks in America By http://www.americanthinker.com/andrew_g_bostom/ Andrew G. Bostom Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan represents the triumphant Janus-faced approach to the fundamentalist global Islamic revival. He and his pious forbears have now completed dismantling Turkey's secular experiment, and achieved the full-throated re-Islamization of Turkish society, an insidious process http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/08/16/uriel-heyd-on-turkeys-re-islami zation-circa-1968-over-four-decades-ahead-of-todays-vacuous-analysts/ begun already within the decade after Ataturk's death, in 1938. When currying favor with gullible Western audiences, Erdogan burbles disingenuous ecumenical platitudes about the Alliance of Civilizations. But in reality, this is an http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/oic_and_the_modern_caliphate.html Islamization campaign promoted by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, notably Saudi Arabia, which http://www.worldbulletin.net/index.php?aType=haberArchiveArticleID=52509 rewarded Erdogan, for his role in the Alliance, specifically, as services to Islam, with the King Faisal International Prize, considered the Nobel prize of the Arab world. Regardless, Erdogan has always aroused his Muslim constituencies by brazenly appealing to their deep-seated jihadist sentiments as he did while mayor of Istanbul, in 1997, delivering a fiery speech that reminded the masses of these words from the poem The Soldier's Prayer, written (in 1912) by Turkish nationalist poet Ziya Gokalp: The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the faithful our army. http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/political_islam_gets_switzerla.html Cited appropriately by http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1149/-Lets-All-Ban-Minarets. aspx successful opponents of minaret construction in http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/political_islam_gets_switzerla.html Switzerland, such rhetoric should now resonate uncomfortably in America with the http://www.meforum.org/meq/ online release Monday June 6, 2011 of alarming survey data from a representative national sample of US mosques. During August 2007, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released Radicalization in the West - The Homegrown Threat. This insightful 90-page http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_information/NYPD_Report-R adicalization_in_the_West.pdf report evaluated the threat that had become apparent since 9/11/2001, analyzing the roots of recent terror plots in the United States, from Lackawanna in upstate New York to Portland, Ore., to Fort Dix, NJ. Based upon these case-study analyses of individuals arrested for jihadist activity, the authors http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_information/NYPD_Report-R adicalization_in_the_West.pdf concluded that the journey of radicalization that produces homegrown jihadists began in so-called Salafist (fundamentalist to non-Muslims) mosques characterized by high levels of Sharia-Islamic Law-adherence. The landmark study just published, Sharia and Violence in American Mosques (Kedar M, Yerushalmi D. The Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2011, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 59-72) sought to expand considerably upon the NYPD's post-hoc, case study http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_information/NYPD_Report-R adicalization_in_the_West.pdf approach-systematically gathering objective survey data, with much greater methodological rigor-and address these two a priori questions: I) Is there a robust association between observable measures of religious devotion, coupled to Sharia-adherence in US mosques, and the presence of violence-sanctioning materials at these mosques?; and II) Is there a robust association between the presence of violence-sanctioning materials at a mosque, and the advocacy of jihadism by the mosque's leadership via recommending the study of these materials, or other manifest behaviors? Full details of the sampling methodology, extracts of representative http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Jihad-Islamic-Holy-Non-Muslims/dp/1591026024/r ef=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1307237850sr=1-1 jihad promoting materials (texts), and specific Sharia-compliant behaviors recorded, are provided in the accompanying appendices, reproduced from the full study (which will be available http://www.meforum.org/meq/ here 6/6/11). In brief, survey data were collected from a nationally representative, random statistical sample of 100 US mosques, covering 14 states, and the District of Columbia. This concise overview of the basic data collection procedures-including a self-critical, honest caveat by the authors about completeness of the available information on US mosque locations-is reproduced verbatim from the report (p. 68): A surveyor visited a subject mosque in order: (a) to observe and record 12 Sharia-adherent behaviors of the worshipers and the imam (or lay leader); (b) to observe whether the mosque contained the
[osint] Russia tried to blow up U.S. Embassy in Georgia
KAVKAZCENTER.COM http://imgs2.kavkazcenter.com/imgs/print_logo.gif The Washington Post: Russia tried to blow up U.S. Embassy in Georgia http://imgs2.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/06/04/14445_1.jpg The Washington Post published an article about ongoing attempts by Russia to destabilize Georgia and wrong policies of the administration of Obama, who, according to the paper, encourages Russian violence against Georgia. The newspaper points out http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/has-russia-reset-its-be havior/2011/03/29/AGHuKbHH_blog.html that the US explicitly condones Russian in this political game, despite the fact that Russia really threatens the US interests. Moreover, as the newspaper writes, Russia was planning to blow up the US Embassy in Georgia in 2010, but the terrorist attack was uncovered in time. Today, as indicated by the newspaper, Russia is not only going to curtail terrorist activity against Georgia, but on the contrary - new plans, which should, according to Moscow, topple the power of Georgian president Saakashvili, are being developed. Against this background, the Obama administration is still building a rainbow of hope for a reset, while Russia, as it seems, is not interested in any reset, but waits for a right moment to stage another attack against Georgia. In this regard, a number of Western experts believe that after the so-called olympic games in the Russian-occupied Muslim city of Sochi in 2014, Russia could launch another attack on Georgia with the intention to finally solve the Georgian question. In turn, The Washington Post recalled that Georgia has detained two suspects, who prepared the blast on orders from Russia. Police arrested a man and a woman with explosives in the western part of the country. They confessed that they were ordered by Russian officers to set off explosions on the Georgian territory, a spokesman of Georgian police, Shota Utiashvili, told AFP. In recent months, Georgian police have detained a series of suspects for setting off bombs or planning attacks on behalf of the Russian military intelligence. Three men were accused of trying to blow up government buildings in Georgia's second-largest city of Kutaisi in March, while several more suspects were detained on suspicion of staging blasts last year near strategic targets, including the US embassy in Tbilisi. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) as well as other lawmakers and foreign policy experts have complained that the administration's reset policy toward Russia consists largely of acceding to Russian demands with no corresponding progress in Russian human rights or conduct toward its neighbors. In the case of Georgia (whose requests for defensive weapons have been rebuffed by the United States) the imbalance has a particularly perverse result. Russia continues to occupy Georgia, promote violence and disregard admonitions about its human rights abuses at home. Meanwhile, Georgia just sent an additional 625 troops to supplement U.S. Marines fighting in Helmand province in Afghanistan, making Georgia the largest non-NATO troop contributor to the mission in Afghanistan. It certainly seems that our Democratic ally is getting the worse end of the deal here, the senators complain. (The disregard of the interests of American Democratic allies in pursuit of better relations with thugocracies is not an infrequent feature of the bloody Obama's regime) Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center Publication time: 4 June 2011, 19:47 Permanent address at KAVKAZCENTER.COM: http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/06/04/14445.shtml C Copyright 2001-2011 KavkazCenter.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go
[osint] The Gaza Flotillas to Come: Some Ground Rules before Setting Out
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/index.asp Home » http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1LNGID=1TMID=84FID=442 Jerusalem Issue Briefs » The Gaza Flotillas to Come: Some Ground Rules before Setting Out by http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1LNGID=1TMID=610FID=442PID=0IID=793 Alan Baker Published June 2011 Vol. 11, No. 3 5 June 2011 The http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1LNGID=1TMID=112FID=568PID=0IID=2117 Gaza Flotillas to Come: Some Ground Rules before Setting Out Alan Baker * An ostensibly civilian, humanitarian flotilla was employed in May 2010 to demonstratively breach the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza coast. This flotilla was organized by the Turkish IHH, which has extensive links to extreme Islamic terror groups. Provoking a confrontation with Israel continues to be the primary aim. * Since May 2010, the Israeli government has altered the manner in which it administers the limitations on the transfer of goods to Gaza. It now specifically prohibits only those materials that might be taken and directed by http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1LNGID=1TMID=112FID=568PID=0IID=2106 Hamas and other terror groups in furtherance of their hostile purposes. * There is no humanitarian emergency among the civilian population in Gaza, and hence there can be no justification for conveying emergency shipments intended to alleviate an emergency that clearly does not exist. Any genuine wish to provide materials to the Gaza population can be directed through Israeli ports and the relevant authorities. * Hamas routinely fires missiles randomly at Israeli civilian targets. Thus a situation of ongoing armed conflict exists between Hamas and Israel, which has the prerogative to institute a naval and land blockade to prevent the introduction of weapons and materials that could serve belligerent purposes. Such a blockade is well established in international law and practice. * It is internationally accepted that any attempt to breach such a blockade may be prevented by Israeli naval patrols. Such a process may take place outside the area of the blockade if the declared intention of the flotilla is to violate the blockade. Furthermore, any vessel refusing to respond to the demands of the naval forces may be stopped forcefully. Aiming to Provoke a Confrontation Since the May 2010 wave of flotillas organized by Turkish and other groups, ostensibly conveying cargoes of vital and indispensible aid intended to reach the population of Gaza, much has been written and televised as to the real intentions of the organizers. Additionally, several enquiries have been instituted in order to analyze the legal, military, and other aspects of the flotilla affair and the way it was handled. What seems to have been made very clear by the groups that organized the flotilla, especially the Turkish-led IHH terror-related organization, is the fact that the use of an ostensibly civilian, humanitarian flotilla and a huge PR campaign in order to demonstratively breach the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza coast and thereby challenge Israel's policy regarding the Gaza Strip and provoke a confrontation with Israel, was clearly and continues to be the primary aim. Conveying humanitarian goods to what was represented as a distressed Gaza population was a minor, secondary, and perhaps even incidental aim, at least among the most vocal participants in the flotilla, although there were indeed some who participated out of a bona fide belief in the importance of identifying themselves with, and trying to alleviate what they genuinely thought to be, a humanitarian crisis among the residents of Gaza. The regrettable outcome of the May 2010 flotilla and the extensive international echo that still reverberates throughout the international community have nevertheless brought about a series of changes in the situation on the ground. The logic and aim of Israel's blockade is to prevent the Hamas terror organization presently administering Gaza from acquiring arms, ammunition, and other supplies that could contribute to hostile activities against Israel. Since May 2010, the Israeli government has altered the manner in which it administers the limitations on the transfer of goods to Gaza. It now specifically prohibits only those materials that might be taken and directed by Hamas and other terror groups in furtherance of their hostile purposes. Furthermore, since the May 2010 flotilla incident and in light of the considerable publicity that has been given to the daily flow of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip, it has become very clear to all that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and all essential and other provisions are available to all residents. On the other hand, the practical military and tactical implications and lessons of
[osint] Palestinian Terrorists Charged with Slaughter of Fogel Family
June 5, 111 Sunday 11 Sivan 3871 17:01 IST http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=223728 print http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=223728 gohome Print Edition Photo by: Courtesy Palestinian youths charged with slaughter of Fogel family By YAAKOV LAPPIN 05/06/2011 I'm proud of what I did...I did it all for Palestine, one of the suspects says during an appearance in court, I would do it again. Two Palestinian youths from the West Bank village of Awarta, arrested in April on suspicion of murdering five members of the Fogel family http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=211863 in Itamar, were charged with five counts of homicide at a military court on Sunday. The defendants, 17-year-old Hakim Awad and 18-year-old Amjad Awad, who are from the same clan, have confessed to stabbing and shooting two young brothers, their parents, and a three-month-old baby in the attack. I don't regret what I did, and would do it again, Amjad Awad told reporters in court. I'm proud of what I did and I'll accept any punishment I get, even death, because I did it all for Palestine, he added. The charge sheet detailed how the two saw two young brothers sleeping in their beds, 4-year-old Elad and 11-year-old Yoav, snuck into the home, and stabbed them both to death. They then entered the parents' bedroom, where they launched a knife attack on Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents fought back, attempting to fend off the attackers. Ehud died of stab wounds and Ruth was shot dead by the attackers with a stolen M-16 gun. The two then left the house, before hearing cries from three-month-old baby Hadas. Awoken by the attack, the baby lay in its crib in the parents' bedroom. They went back into the house and stabbed the baby to death to silence her cries, a security source said following the arrests in April. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] slam and Inbreeding
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/ Gates of Vienna At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war. Tuesday, August 10, 2010 http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/08/islam-and-inbreeding.html Islam and Inbreeding Nicolai Sennels latest essay concerns the deleterious effects of cousin marriage within the Muslim world, and the impact the practice is having in Western countries with large numbers of Muslim immigrants. http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/08/islam-and-inbreeding.html Muslim Inbreeding: Impacts on intelligence, sanity, health and society by Nicolai Sennels Massive inbreeding within the Muslim culture during the last 1.400 years may have done catastrophic damage to their gene pool. The consequences of intermarriage between first cousins often have serious impact on the intelligence, sanity, and health of their offspring, and on their surroundings. Ramses IIThe most famous example of inbreeding is in ancient Egypt, where several Pharaonic dynasties collapsed after lasting for several hundred years. In order to keep wealth and power within the family, the Pharaohs often married their own sisters or half-sisters, and after a handful of generations offspring were mentally and physically unfit to rule. Another historical example is the royal houses of Europe in which royal families often married among themselves because tradition did not allow them to marry people of a non-royal class. The high number of mentally retarded and handicapped members of royalty throughout European history shows the unhealthy consequences of this practice. Fortunately, royal families now allow themselves to marry for love and not just for status. Muslim culture still practices inbreeding and has been doing so for longer than any Egyptian dynasty. This practice also predates the worlds oldest monarchy (the Danish) by 300 years. A rough estimate shows that close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred: In Pakistan, 70 percent of all marriages are between first cousins (so-called consanguinity) and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent ( http://fpn.dk/liv/krop_valvare/article1616165.ece Jyllands-Posten, 27/2/2009 More stillbirths among immigrants). Statistical research on Arabic countries shows that up to 34 percent of all marriages in Algiers are consanguine (blood-related), 46 percent in Bahrain, 33 percent in Egypt, 80 percent in Nubia (southern Egypt), 60 percent in Iraq, 64 percent in Jordan, 64 percent in Kuwait, 42 percent in Lebanon, 48 percent in Libya, 47 percent in Mauritania, 54 percent in Qatar, 67 percent in Saudi Arabia, 63 percent in Sudan, 40 percent in Syria, 39 percent in Tunisia, 54 percent in the United Arabic Emirates and 45 percent in Yemen ( http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com/content/6/1/17/table/T1 Reproductive Health Journal, 2009 Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs). The number of blood-related marriages is lower among Muslim immigrants living in the West. Among Pakistanis living in Denmark the amount is down to 40 percent and 15 percent among Turkish immigrants ( http://fpn.dk/liv/krop_valvare/article1616165.ece Jyllands-Posten, 27/2 2009 More stillbirths among immigrants). More than half of Pakistani immigrants living in Britain are intermarried: The research, conducted by the BBC and broadcast to a shocked nation on Tuesday, found that at least 55% of the community was married to a first cousin. This is thought to be linked to the probability that a British Pakistani family is at least 13 times more likely than the general population to have children with recessive genetic disorders. ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1298135,curpg-1.cms Times of India, 17/11 2005 Ban UK Pakistanis from marrying cousins). The lower percentages might be because it is difficult to get the chosen family member into the country, or because health education is better in the West. Intelligence Several studies show that children of consanguineous marriages have lower intelligence than children of non-related parents. Research shows that the IQ is 10-16 points lower in children born from related parents and that abilities related to social behavior develop more slowly in inbred babies: Effects of parental consanguinity on the cognitive and social behavior of children have been studied among the Ansari Muslims of Bhalgapur, Bihar. IQ in inbred children (8-12 years old) is found to be lower (69 in rural and 79 in suburban populations) than that of the outbred ones (79 and 95 respectively). The onset of various social profiles like visual fixation, social smile, sound seizures, oral expression and hand-grasping are significantly delayed among the new-born inbred babies. ( http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005bbc_407.p df [pdf] Indian National Science Academy, 1983 Consanguinity Effects on Intelligence Quotient and
[osint] Incest in Islam
Incest in Islam Conclusion: Like it or not, Incest in Islam is alive and kicking well as can be illustrated from several verses of the Qur'an. The various interpretations, often contradictory, just prove that these words could not be from Allah. Allah cannot be so dim-witted not to know what is best for His Ummah. All knowing, almighty Allah cannot be so careless that He would leave His words in such a manner that what one group of Muslims means to be halal may be death to another group of Muslims. The topic of incest in Islam is such a dangerous game. It also possible that the inherent backward of the Muslim in general might be rooted in their limited genetic pool because of incestuous marriage practiced in many Islamic nation. http://tinyurl.com/6js5787 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Sharia Law Gains Foothold in US: Federal Judge Upholds Government Funding of Islam
Sharia Law Gains Foothold in US: Federal Judge Upholds Government Funding of Islam -- Thomas More Law Center Files Appeal Wednesday, January 19, 2011 AIG - JihadistLast week, Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff, a federal district court judge in Michigan, dismissed a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Government’s bailout of AIG, which used over a hundred million dollars in federal tax money to support Islamic religious indoctrination through the funding and promotion of Sharia-compliant financing (SCF). SCF is financing that follows the dictates of Islamic law. The challenge was brought by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and co-counsel David Yerushalmi, on behalf of Kevin Murray, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraqi War. TMLC filed a notice of appeal immediately after the ruling and will be seeking review of the decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of TMLC, commented: “Judge Zatkoff’s ruling allows for oil–rich Muslim countries to plant the flag of Islam on American soil. His ruling ignored the uncontested opinions of several Sharia experts and AIG’s own website, which trumpeted Sharia-compliant financing as promoting the law of the Prophet Mohammed and as an ‘ethical product, ’ and a ‘new way of life.’ His ruling ignored AIG’s use of a foreign Islamic advisory board to control investing in accordance with Islamic law.” AIG - Jihadists burning American flagContinued Thompson: “This astonishing decision allows the federal government as well as AIG and other Wall Street bankers to explicitly promote Sharia law ─ the 1200 year old body of Islamic canon law based on the Koran, which demands the destruction of Western Civilization and the United States. This is the same law championed by Osama bin Laden and the Taliban; it is the same law that prompted the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks; and it is the same law that is responsible for the murder of thousands of Christians throughout the world. The Law Center will do everything it can to stop Sharia law from rearing its ugly head in America.” The federal lawsuit was filed in 2008 against Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. It challenges that portion of the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008” (EESA) that appropriated $70 billion in taxpayer money to fund and financially support the federal government’s majority ownership interest in AIG, which is considered the market leader in SCF. According to the lawsuit, “The use of these taxpayer funds to approve, promote, endorse, support, and fund these Sharia-based Islamic religious activities violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.” AIG - AIG BuildingThrough the use of taxpayer funds, the federal government acquired a majority ownership interest (nearly 80%) in AIG; and as part of the bailout, Congress appropriated $70 billion of taxpayer money to fund and financially support AIG and its financial activities, $47.5 billion of which was actually distributed to AIG. AIG, which is now a government owned company, engages in SCF, which subjects certain financial activities, including investments, to the dictates of Islamic law and the Islamic religion. This specifically includes any profits or interest obtained through such financial activities. AIG itself publicly describes “Sharia” as “Islamic law based on the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet .” With the aid of taxpayer funds provided by Congress, AIG also employs a “Shariah Supervisory Committee.” According to AIG, the role of its Sharia authority “is to review our operations, supervise its development of Islamic products, and determine Shariah compliance of these products and our investments.” Shortly after filing the complaint in 2008, attorneys for the Obama administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit on behalf of the named defendants. In a written opinion issued in May 2009, the judge denied the request, holding that the lawsuit properly alleged a federal constitutional challenge to the use of taxpayer money to fund AIG’s Islamic religious activities. In its request to dismiss the lawsuit, DOJ argued that the plaintiff, Kevin Murray, who is a federal taxpayer, lacked standing to bring the action. And even if he did have standing, DOJ argued that the use of the bailout money to fund AIG’s operations did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The court disagreed, noting, in relevant part, the following: In this case, the fact that AIG is largely a secular entity is not dispositive: The question in an as-applied challenge is not whether the entity is of a religious character, but how it spends its grant. The
[osint] Killing Christians, in the name of the Prophet
Killing Christians, in the name of the Prophet MICHAEL COREN The bomb that killed at least 21 Egyptian Christians on New Year's morning was packed with sharpened metal, iron balls and razor wire. Many of those that the device didn't rip to death will never see, walk or function properly ever again. With terrorist bombs, euphemisms such as wounded and traumatized are hideously misplaced. These are not, however, the only banalities being tossed around when this latest attack is discussed. Words like rare, surprise, and extremist seem similarly absurd to those who know anything about the plight of Christians in large chunks of the Muslim world. Remember, more than 50 Iraqi Catholics were murdered in November; on Christmas Day in the southern Philippines on a Muslim-dominated island a church was bombed and parishioners hurt; and in Pakistan just weeks ago a 45year-old Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for defaming the Prophet. Not bad for a little over a month! It has all become so painfully routine as to appear almost predictable. In Pakistan, churches have been destroyed, Christians lynched, children forcibly converted. Catholics and Anglicans have been denied jobs, government support, housing and the most basic human rights. In Egypt, many of the eight million Christians face daily harassment in a country of 70 million Muslims, with periodic violence - often deadly - and police indifference, and even support, for mob attacks. One particularly sinister aspect to the Egyptian mass persecution is the difficulty Christians now face in obtaining exit visas, conjuring up dark echoes of previous campaign against German and Soviet Jews. In January 2000, in El-Kosheh, Egypt, another 21 Christians were killed in rioting by local Muslims, aided by the police. When authorities eventually reacted, they arrested more than a thousand local Christians, many of whom were tortured. There are numerous cases of Christian girls being kidnapped by Muslim gangs and then being forcibly converted and married to Muslim men. If they flee these marriages and try to return to Christianity, they are killed as apostates. Church desecration is common, as are public burnings of Bibles and Christian literature. There are also documented cases of Christians being ritually crucified, the rape of Christian girls and the prolonged beating of children, some of them babies. In Saudi Arabia, it is effectively illegal to be a follower of Christ. In Iran, Christians face obvious discrimination. In the Gaza strip, they have been attacked, a Christian bookstore bombed and Christian women threatened with acid thrown in their faces unless they cover their heads. In Indonesia in 2005, three Christian schoolgirls were beheaded by an Islamic gang and, while that nation's government does often attempt to enforce the law, there is a long history of anti-Christian hostility. Even in traditionally tolerant Syria, Jordan and the West Bank, an increasing tendency toward Islamic fundamentalism has made life difficult for the Christian minority. In relatively moderate Turkey, seminaries have been closed down and priests and nuns murdered; and in Cyprus, the occupying Turks have destroyed numerous Christian sites and holy places. Islamic apologists will point to certain Christians in positions of influence, deny that persecution exists at all, or, more frequently, argue that the accusations are propaganda lies told by Christians and Jews in North America and Europe. While this may sound absurd, it is almost impossible to overstate the degree of paranoia among many Muslims concerning of Jews and Christians. One of the accusations made against the slaughtered Christians in Egypt this week was that they were building up arms dumps in their churches, and that they were agents of the United States and Israel. Iraqi Christians fleeing to Syria are not trusted because they are seen as being pro-Western. All this in spite of the fact that Arab nationalism itself often was initiated by young Christian intellectuals in the early 20th century and that the Palestinian narrative was for more than a generation formed, and certainly explained to North America and Europe, by Christians. (Indeed, the Greek Orthodox were considered the most nationalistic and militant within the Palestinian community.) Today, Christian towns in the West Bank are disappearing. And while Israel's occupation has certainly destabilized the area and made life difficult, it is Muslim discrimination and aggression that has caused the most distress for Christians since the late 1980s. This, of course, is far too nuanced a position for most Western supporters of Palestine to embrace. And here lies one of the main reasons why there is so little international anger within, for example, the labour movement, social activists and liberal churches in particular over the way
[osint] The Koran Burner and the Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle (Revised)
Caliph Uthman The Koran Burner and the Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle (Revised) September 10th, 2010 by Andrew Bostom | http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/09/10/caliph-uthman-the-koran-burner-and-the-not-so-great-koran-conflagration-kerfluffle/#comments No Comments 153 visitors have read this article The Mass Burn Surviving Uthman’s Koran: ‘Uthman sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur’anic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt. Now that the Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle initiated by Pastor Terry Jones http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quran_burning has apparently been averted—Jones claiming that the Ground Zero Mosque is being cancelled as part of the “deal”—let us recount the extensive Koran burning exploits of Islam’s Muslim Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman (d.656). The pious Muslim narrative is summarized in a canonical Hadith from http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/061.sbt.html Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 61, Number 510: Narrated Anas bin Malik: Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman came to Uthman at the time when the people of Sham and the people of Iraq were Waging war to conquer Arminya and Adharbijan. Hudhaifa was afraid of their (the people of Sham and Iraq) differences in the recitation of the Qur’an, so he said to ‘Uthman, “O chief of the Believers! Save this nation before they differ about the Book (Quran) as Jews and the Christians did before.” So ‘Uthman sent a message to Hafsa saying, “Send us the manuscripts of the Qur’an so that we may compile the Qur’anic materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you.” Hafsa sent it to ‘Uthman. ‘Uthman then ordered Zaid bin Thabit, ‘Abdullah bin Az Zubair, Said bin Al-As and ‘AbdurRahman bin Harith bin Hisham to rewrite the manuscripts in perfect copies.‘Uthman said to the three Quraishi men, “In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the Qur’an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, the Qur’an was revealed in their tongue.” They did so, and when they had written many copies, ‘Uthman returned the original manuscripts to Hafsa. ‘Uthman sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur’anic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt. Said bin Thabit added, “A Verse from Surat Ahzab was missed by me when we copied the Qur’an and I used to hear Allah’s Apostle reciting it. So we searched for it and found it with Khuzaima bin Thabit Al-Ansari. (That Verse was): ‘Among the Believers are men who have been true in their covenant with Allah.’ (33.23)” The great scholar of early Islam, Leone Caetani (1869-1935), published an essay in The Muslim World Vol. 5, 1915, pp. 380-390, (reproduced in, Ibn Warraq, The Origins of the Koran, Prometheus Books, 1998, pp.67-75; extracts from pp. 69,74) entitled, “Uthman and the Rescension of the Koran,” which included these confirmatory observations about the rationale for assiduously gathering and burning essentially of the extant Korans in 650/51 A.D. Caetani’s observations emphasize how Uthman’s actions, which tacitly acknowledge the existence of Koranic “variants,” and suggest a very human origin of the text, were motivated by a desire to enforce the dogma of the Koran being uncreated, unchanging, the eternal word of Allah—a belief which persists amongst the Muslim masses to this day. The official canonical redaction undertaken at Uthman’s command, was due to the uncertainty which reigned in reference to the text. It is clear that in 30 A.H. (650/51 A.D.) no official redaction existed. [Islamic] Tradition itself [i.e., the hadith, http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/061.sbt.html Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 61, Number 510, above] admits that there were various “schools,” one in Iraq, one in Syria, one in al-Basrah, besides others in smaller places, and then, exaggerating in an orthodox sense this scandal, tries to make out that the divergences were wholly immaterial; but such affirmations accord ill with the opposition excited by the caliph’s act in al-Kufah. The official version must have contained somewhat serious modifications… Uthman ordered the compilation of a single official text of the Koran, and the violent suppression, the destruction by fire of all the other copies existing in the provinces…It should be added that even if all existing copies of the Koran could not be traced to Uthman’s official copy, anyone who cast aspersions on Uthman’s action would be liable to the charge of raising doubts about the foundation of all Islam, for the Islamic world from one end to the other lives in the conviction that the text existing today represents the true, eternal, immutable word of God. All Articles Copyright ©
[osint] Can It Happen In America?
http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2011/01/can-it-happen-in-america.html Can It Happen In America? Posted: 29 Jan 2011 10:21 PM PST http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/TUYBXH5el1I/Nqw/ahr0wVODLZ0/s 1600/Faultline+USA+#+1.jpg Can It Happen In America? A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet The United States is projected to have a larger Muslim population by 2030 than any European countries with the exception of Russia and France, although other European countries may have higher percentages of Muslims. http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2011/January29/2961.html (SOURCE) As we watch the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak circle the drain and consider the protests already in progress in Jordan, we Americans might do well to ask if it can happen here. Let's be honest. The point of the Islamic arrow is pointed at The Great Satan - the United States. The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood (Hammam Saeed) warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States. The Americans and (President Barack) Obama must be losing sleep over the popular revolt in Egypt, he said. Now, Obama must understand that the people have woken up and are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained in power because of U.S. backing. . We tell the Americans 'enough is enough', he continued. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110129/D9L25G0G1.html (SOURCE) Saeed is reported to have said that Arabs have grown disgruntled with U.S. domination of their oil wealth, military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and its support for totalitarian leaders in the region. It is really a shame that all this disruption in the Middle East had to break loose while we have Jimmy Carter II in the Oval Office! Every conservative drawing breath today understands that a strong US with a strong Commander-in-Chief is the only thing standing between a semi-orderly world and world-wide chaos. Oh, but Longstreet! There is the United Nations? To that I would reply by holding my stomach and roaring a belly laugh -- running the risk, as we all know, of herniating myself. The United Nations is as anti-American as they come. Plus, the madmen from the Middle East control it, almost entirely. As to the question of whether the Islamic rioting can happen here. yes, it can, and probably will. As the Islamic community grows in America so will its clout. Already, the calls for Sharia law are being whispered about. See, this is a problem for America created by our very own constitution. Yes, I refer to the first amendment. In particular I refer to the right to practice one's own religion. It is coming back to bite us in the derriere. At this point in our history, there is simply no way to amend the constitution to outlaw the practice of certain religions in the United States. But, I will predict, that not too far into our future we will find it absolutely necessary to do just that and -- I am afraid - it will be too late. What of America's friend, Israel? She must seek new friends elsewhere. The Obama Administration has thrown Israel under the bus. Having been reared as an evangelical Christian - I have a deep, ingrained, understanding of what this abandonment of Israel by Obama means for the US. It means God's wrath will be turned against this country. Of course, you are free to believe whatever you want. But, I am just expressing my own belief that an accounting will be required of America for her actions toward Israel. Many in America believe we are already feeling the effects of Divine Disgust as our country teeters on the brink of economic disaster. Whether we like to admit it or not, America is eternally linked to Israel. The so-called cold peace between Israel and Egypt is rapidly melting, right before our eyes. Should a Muslim theocratic regime wind up in power in Egypt, the southern threat to Israel will be renewed -- and remember, Israel no longer has the Sinai as a buffer. And there is the Suez Canal through which much of the world's oil must travel. It is unsettling, to say the least, to consider the possible choke-hold Islamic fundamentalists could have on the world's supply of oil. Whether we want to admit it, or not, America and the free world are involved in a Third World War for dominance of the globe. There is no end in sight. The plain truth is -- there is no way any nation practicing any religion, other than Islam, can exist in peace with the practioners of Islam. The goal of the so-called religion of peace is to establish a worldwide caliphate (kingdom) ruled by Islamic law . period! It now appears they will accomplish their goal no matter how brutal the strategy and tactics required. In answer to the question posed in the title to this commentary: Yes, it can happen here. In fact, it has already begun. J. D. Longstreet [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[osint] Mark Your Calendars: Armageddon Date Moved Up
Stupid supposition to think that Iran must make its own enriched uranium when it can easily buy from Russia, China or North Korea. B 6/6/11, www.ynetnews.com http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4078778,00.html Researcher: Iran can produce nuke within 2 months Airstrikes can no longer stop nuclear program, US can do nothing short of military occupation, says report The Iranian regime is closer than ever before to creating a nuclear bomb, according to RAND Corporation researcher Gregory S. Jones. At its current rate of uranium enrichment, Tehran could have enough for its first bomb within eight weeks, Jones said in a report published this week. He added that despite reports of setbacks in its nuclear program, the Iranian regime is steadily progressing towards a bomb. Unfortunately, Jones says, there is nothing the US can do to stop Tehran, short of military occupation. The researcher based his report on recent findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), published two weeks ago. Making the bomb will take around two months, he says, because constructing a nuclear warhead is a complicated step in the process. Jones stresses that stopping Iran will require deploying forces on the ground, because airstrikes are no longer sufficient. The reality is that the US and Israel have failed to keep Iran from developing a nuclear warhead whenever it wants, Jones says. It's time to recognize that this policy has failed and decide on the following steps, based on realistic assessment of Iranian uranium-enrichment efforts, he adds. According to Jones, Tehran has produced 38.3 kg of uranium enriched at 19.7%. If its centrifuges continue to work at the current capacity, it will take around two months for the Iranian regime to produce the 20 kg of uranium enriched to 90% required for the production of a nuclear warhead. ### [NB: Personally, I believe a sustained stand-off attack using Cruise-type missiles carrying conventional warheads could still do the job. But that window is closing fast, and the USA is the only country with the weapons (if not the will) that can do it. df] Dan Friedman NYC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Obama Czar Temporarily Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-regulatory-czar-backs-2003-call-ol Obama Regulatory Czar Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People Friday, June 03, 2011 By http://www.cnsnews.com/source/72750 Fred Lucas http://www.cnsnews.com/image/cass-sunstein Cass Sunstein Cass Sunstein, director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management in Budget, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 16, 2011. (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama's regulatory czar has retreated from a 2003 academic report in which he advocated that the government assign a higher monetary value to the lives of young people than to senior citizens. Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, on Friday testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the Obama administration's plans for reviewing and reducing federal regulations. I'm a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I'm not sure what I think about what that young man wrote, Sunstein, 56, told the House panel. Things written as an academic are not a legitimate part of what we do as a government official. So I am not focusing on sentences that a young Cass Sunstein wrote years ago. So the answer is no. Sunstein http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/191.crs_.lifeyears-new.pdf wrote the paper when he was a professor at the University of Chicago. It was titled Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay. Many analysts, however, have suggested that the government should rely instead on the 'value of a statistical life year' (VSLY), in a way that would likely result in significantly lower benefits calculations for elderly people, and significantly higher benefits calculations for children, the 2003 paper said. I urge that the government should indeed focus on statistical life-years rather than statistical lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people, it added. Rep. Michael G. Burgess (R-Texas) expressed concerns about how the philosophy of the paper Sunstein wrote would affect his input into the establishment of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, part of the health care overhaul law targeting cost reductions for Medicare. Burgess read a comment from the paper as he held up a blown up version on cardboard in the committee hearing room. 'Older people are treated worse for one reason, they are older. This is not an injustice.' I guess the question here some people have described this as sort of the senior death discount, Burgess said to Sunstein. Your office that oversees regulations, you've been doing an analysis of the upcoming Health and Human Services rule for Independent Payment Advisory Board in light of this philosophy. Sunstein said the 2003 paper no longer reflects his view, as he is now older. Further, he said his views as a law professor don't reflect his views as a government official. I'm a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I'm not sure what I think about what that young man wrote, he said. Things written as an academic are not a legitimate part of what we do as a government official. So I am not focusing on sentences that a young Cass Sunstein wrote years ago. So the answer is no. Burgess said he would take him at his word, But still, it does point out an important philosophical approach, and many of us are concerned about the Independent Payment Advisory Board right now. I was a physician. The difficulties I have with an Independent Payment Advisory Board was now for the first time some central planner, maybe a very benevolent central planner, but a central planner who's pushing data points around on a big spread sheet in Washington, D.C. is going to be able to tell me where to get my care, when to get my care, but most important, is when I've had enough, Burgess said. That is based on when I'm old, and we are dealing with a health care program that deals with senior citizens, that's a troubling relationship, Burgess added. The 2003 Sunstein report, Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay, said, In protecting safety, health, and the environment, government has increasingly relied on cost-benefit analysis. In undertaking cost-benefit analysis, the government has monetized risks of death through the idea of 'value of a statistical life' (VSL), currently assessed at about $6.1 million. Many analysts, however, have suggested that the government should rely instead on the 'value of a statistical life year (VSLY), in a way that would likely result in significantly lower benefits calculations for elderly people, and significantly higher benefits calculations for children. I urge that the government should indeed focus on statistical life-years rather than statistical live, Sunstein's 2003 paper continued. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people. Nor
[osint] Five American Soldiers Killed in Central Iraq
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/five-american-soldiers-killed-central-ir Five American Soldiers Killed in Central Iraq Largest loss of life for U.S. military in Iraq in 2 years Monday, June 06, 2011 By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press http://www.cnsnews.com/image/iraqi-violence Iraqi violence Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a double bombing in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, May 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Emad Matti) BAGHDAD (AP) - Five American troops were killed Monday in central Iraq, U.S. officials said -- the single largest loss of life for the American military in Iraq in the past two years. The military said in a brief statement that the five were killed Monday, giving no additional details about where the incident occurred or how they died. The incident was under investigation and the names of the deceased were being withheld pending notification of the next of kin, the military said. The deaths raised to 4,459 the number of American service members who have died in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count. The U.S. currently has roughly 46,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, down from a one-time high of roughly 170,000. The American military officially ended its combat operations in Iraq last August and reduced its forces to less than 50,000 troops. The remaining forces are focused on training and assisting Iraqi security personnel, and are not supposed to be actively engaged in combat operations. However, American forces still come under almost daily attack by rockets and mortars in their bases and get shot at and targeted by roadside bombs when they move outside of their bases. Monday's incident was the single largest loss of life for the U.S. military since May 2009, when five U.S. troops were killed in Baghdad during a non-combat related incident. In April 2009, six U.S. troops died -- five in combat in the northern city of Mosul and one north of Baghdad in a non-combat related incident. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Obama Seeks to Fool Electorate Again in 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-06-08-Obama-brand-economy-campaig n_n.htm?loc=interstitialskip Obama seeks reshaped image for 2012 run By http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/Susan+Page Susan Page, USA TODAY Updated 13h 19m ago | http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-06-08-Obama-brand-economy-campai gn_n.htm?loc=interstitialskip#uslPageReturn 1675 | javascript:; 9 http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250 Share javaScript:RightslinkPopUp() Reprints Permissions WASHINGTON -The Obama Brand in 2008 was pretty simple: Hope and change. * http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2011/06/08/Obama-brand-economy-campaign- AT5C222-x-large.jpg Obama pushes to revamp his 2008 brand. AP photo; Illustration by Ramon Padilla and Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, based on poster by Shepard Fairey Obama pushes to revamp his 2008 brand. EnlargeClose AP photo; Illustration by Ramon Padilla and Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, based on poster by Shepard Fairey Obama pushes to revamp his 2008 brand. Ads by Google Washington DC Coupons 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. It's like doing DC at 90% off! www.Groupon.com/Washington-DC Repeal Obamacare Should Congress Repeal Obama's Policies? Vote Here Now. www.newsmax.com/surveys Official Obama Website President Obama's campaign is up and running. Join us today. www.BarackObama.com Then things got complicated. The jobless rate on Friday ticked above 9% again. The housing market nationwide continues to fall. Gas prices are straining family's summertime budgets. http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Off icials,+Strategists/Executive/Barack+Obama President Obama's signature health care law to expand insurance coverage doesn't command majority support more than a year after it was signed into law. Washington negotiations on reducing the budget deficit are as polarized as ever. Now, preparing for next year's re-election campaign, Obama is moving to refurbish a political brand that has been defined for the worst by his Republican opponents, dented by the realities of governing and battered by a faltering economy. He is going on the road to Americans' workplaces to argue he's made tough decisions that will pay off over time. Even so, good news that has boosted the president's standing in USA TODAY/Gallup Polls - the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden and the controversial http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Political+Bodies/Rep ublican+Party GOP plan to overhaul Medicare - haven't been enough to offset the impact of bad news about the economy. Surveys taken before and after the demise of the al-Qaeda leader show a spike in approval of Obama's handling of terrorism and some increase in views of him as a strong leader. More than 6 in 10 say he has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have. News from On Politics http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/index On Politics Latest posts from USA TODAY On Politics blog . http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/santorum-to -run-for-president-/1 7:44 AM Santorum to run for president . http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/sarah-palin -paul-revere-defends-herself-/1 10:24 AM Sarah Palin defends her take on Paul Revere's ride . http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/michele-bac hmann-planned-parenthood-presidential-race-/1 6:09 AM Bachmann slams Planned Parenthood at faith event . http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/sarah-palin -paul-revere-midnight-ride-/1 4:42 PM Sarah Palin gives her account of Paul Revere's ride . http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/john-edward s-indictment-affair-/1 2:23 PM John Edwards: 'I did not break the law' http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/index Read all On Politics posts But his approval rating on handling the issue Americans care about most, the economy, has dipped to a dismal 37%. Asked whether the president deserves re-election, those surveyed by 51%-47% say he does not. It was an extraordinary event, a courageous decision and an important step forward for the country, http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Off icials,+Strategists/David+Axelrod David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser, says of the bin Laden operation. Was it a transformative political event? I can't say that. Ultimately people view these elections through the lens of their own experiences, and right now that's the economy. For the president, the economy is the whale in the bathtub, says political scientist http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Steven+Schier Steven Schier, editor of Transforming America: http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Off icials,+Strategists/Executive/Barack+Obama Barack Obama in the http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Landmarks,+Landf
[osint] Texas Holds Useless 'Don't Touch My Junk' Rally
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/?t est=latestnews?test=latestnews Texas Holds 'Don't Touch My Junk' Rally Published June 05, 2011 | http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/? test=latestnews?test=latestnews http://www.foxnews.com/static/all/img/vp-overlay-96.pnghttp://video.foxnews. com/thumbnails/060511/640/360/060511_anhq_tsa_640.jpg AUSTIN, Texas - Dozens gathered at the Capitol in Austin on Saturday demanding a stop to TSA officers touching their junk at the airport. Rally attendees are hoping to call attention to a recently proposed Texas bill that would limit TSA searches and enforce criminal charges for TSA officers if they touch someone inappropriately. The bill passed unanimously in the House, but died in the Senate. The U.S. Attorney's office was furious with the bill, threatening to cancel http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/? test=latestnews?test=latestnews flights in Texas if the bill passed, arguing that TSA agents would not be able to do their jobs properly. The Senate heeded this warning and voted against the bill. Those at the Don't Touch My Junk rally hope the governor will resurrect the bill in special session. We're urging Governor Perry -- please do what you say and be fed up and let's get this passed and bring it up in special session, and let's do it for Texas, Heather Fazio, member of Texans for Accountable http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/? test=latestnews?test=latestnews Government, told MyFoxAustin.com. Others believe the TSA pat-downs are necessary and the bill should not pass. I think anything the country is doing to protect us is all well and good, Austin resident Janet Bates told MyFoxAustin.com. If someone wants to file a complaint, they can file a complaint. I don't think we need http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/? test=latestnews?test=latestnews laws. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/# ixzz1OWHtdNuF http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/#i xzz1OWHtdNuF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] In Syria, Government's Doublespeak Infuriates Protesters
In Syria, Government's Doublespeak Infuriates Protesters News Analysis http://www.cyberdissidents.org/bin/content.cgi?ID=690 http://www.cyberdissidents.org/bin/content.cgi?ID=690q=3s=24 q=3s=24 The Syrian government says it has lifted emergency law, implemented new parliamentary laws and media freedoms, investigated police brutality and granted all political prisoners amnesty. So why are people still protesting? Because these announcements do not coincide with action. More than 1,200 civilians have died and at least 10,000 have been arrested since protests began against President Bashar al-Assad’s government in mid-March, according to rights groups. Repression and extrajudicial arrests continue to increase. Friday was one of the bloodiest days since the 10-week uprising began, with an internet blackout temporarily preventing footage of Syrian security forces opening fire on a 50,000-strong anti-government protest in Hama from leaving the country. At least 53 people died in Hama and another 10 elsewhere throughout the country that day, said the human rights organization Sawasiah. An additional 35 people were killed since Saturday in the northern towns Jisr al-Shughour and Khan Sheikhoun, according to human rights groups, making this past weekend one of the bloodiest since the protests began http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/06/05/syria-deaths.html [3]. Tanks also rolled into Hama Saturday night, where 100,000 people marched in funerals for those killed Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. On Sunday morning, at least three demonstrators were killed in a town in the northwestern province of Idlib. Despite the ongoing violence, the government continues to insist it is implementing reforms. On May 31, Assad granted amnesty for “all members of Muslim Brotherhood and other detainees belonging to political movements.” Several hundred political prisoners were released the next day. The announcement �� and the doublespeak and deception it represents �� aggravated rather than mitigated the scale of protests after Friday prayers, several sources in Damascus said. Those demanding an end to the autocratic, 48-year Ba’ath Party rule are cynical about the announcement and similar recent moves. On June 1 and June 2, Syrian opposition figures held a conference in Antalya in Southern Turkey, calling for Assad’s immediate resignation and dismissing the amnesty measure as “too little, too late.” “I don't think there’s a real intention to conduct any real reforms,” agreed Feeras Ajlouni, an economics graduate from Damascus who opposes the regime. “Some may hit the surface, but [there is] nothing hardcore to change the authoritarian nature of the regime.” A caveat in the amnesty, for instance, says it only covers Muslim Brotherhood members who turned themselves into police and confess membership �� likely a small group. Washington, too, was frustrated by this nominal gesture and the small number of prisoners released so far. “The release of some political prisoners is not the release of all political prisoners. We need to see all political prisoners released,” said Mark Toner, the U.S. state department deputy spokesman. Other announced reforms simply go ignored. Assad on April 21 said he was lifting the state of emergency that has empowered the country’s secret police force and justified the detention of political prisoners because of Syria’s longstanding state of war with Israel. But the secret police has only become more ubiquitous in recent weeks. Plainclothes men with lists of names stand at check points along the country’s roads �� particularly in neighborhoods where there is conflict or where certain minority groups live �� looking for accused dissidents and arresting people daily. Syrian state TV this week said Assad has also launched a “national dialogue” aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis, and has set up a committee to investigate the killing of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khateeb �� an incident which inflamed anger throughout the week and made the death of more than 30 children since protests began the focal point of Friday’s protests. Previous government committees tasked with investigating crimes committed by police in Deraa and elsewhere have yet to find any wrongdoing. “I love those secret governmental probing committees that ‘would’ look into crimes, spearheaded by high-ranking officials,” said a 31-year-old Syrian engineer who left the country to avoid obligatory military service in February. Assad said he is also reforming Syrian elections, by drafting a law that will allow members of political parties not aligned with the ruling Ba’ath party to run for office. The law, however, it was announced last week, will not rescind Article 8 of the Syrian constitution, which declares the Ba’ath Party to be “leader of the Syrian government and society.” There are also plans for a new media law that will
[osint] US Drone Kills Wanted Pakistani Terrorist Leader
US Drone Kills Wanted Pakistani Terrorist Leader http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/06/06/Mystery-shrouds-death-of-al-Q aida-head/UPI-58041307378302/ BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 6 (UPI) -- The reported death of Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri, considered one of the most dangerous of al-Qaida's commanders and strategists, in a missile attack in Pakistan remains shrouded in mystery. If he is dead, it would mark a major coup for the Americans hard on the heels of the killing of http://www.upi.com/topic/Osama_bin_Laden/ Osama bin Laden in a May 2 U.S. Navy SEALs strike on his hideout near Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. The Long War Journal, which monitors international terrorism, reported a purported photo of Kashmiri's body posted on a jihadist Web site by a Pakistani group associated with Kashmiri was actually that of Abu Dera Ismail Khan, a fighter of the Lashkar-e Toiba, or Army of the Pure, killed in the November 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai. Kashmiri, who is also a leader of the Harakat ul Jihad al-Islami and an elite jihadist unit known as Brigade 313, was reported killed with other fighters in a missile attack Friday night by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle in the Wana area of South Waziristan, an Islamist stronghold in northern Pakistan. HUJI spokesman Abu Hanzla Kashir reported Kashmiri's death in a written statement, monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group, less than 24 hours after the attack and vowed to attack the United States to avenge the slaying. The statement was posted on the Shamukh al-Islam forum, a Web site frequented by jihadists linked to al-Qaida, along with the purported image of Kashmiri's corpse. There were also misspellings in the text of the statement, including the HUJI's name, which cast further doubt on its veracity. Several Taliban leaders in Pakistan, along with Pakistani security officials, have said that Kashmiri was killed in Friday's missile strike. But U.S. intelligence officers contacted by The Long War Journal Sunday said they couldn't confirm that Kashmiri was dead because they couldn't enter Waziristan to examine the body or check its DNA. One said the jihadists may have reported Kashmiri's death as part of a deception plan, possibly to throw U.S. forces off his trail but there is no record that Islamist groups have sought to fake the death of a prominent figures in the past. Still, the reported killing of Kashmiri came within a few days of reports that joint teams of U.S. CIA and Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence directorate agents had been formed to hunt down top Taliban and al-Qaida leaders, including Kashmiri. The establishment of these units indicates a new sense of cooperation between the Americans and Pakistanis, who have long been distrustful of each other. The Americans say many officers and factions within the ISI, Pakistan paramount intelligence organization, sympathize and work with the Taliban, al-Qaida and the various Islamist groups operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan. There are other aspects of the reported killing of Kashmiri that merit attention. The nighttime drone attack on Wana was mounted five days after the disappearance of prominent Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad of the Asia Times Online who specialized in terrorism and security affairs and had contacts with Kashmiri. Shahzad vanished in Islamabad May 29 after he'd been questioned at ISI headquarters about a report he published that al-Qaida attacked a naval base in Karachi May 22 in retaliation for the arrest of two naval officers suspected of links with the group. That attack, purportedly masterminded by Kashmiri, was a major embarrassment for the Pakistani military in the wake of the Americans' killing of bin Laden, who had been living in plain sight in a garrison town for several years, possibly with the knowledge of Pakistani authorities. Shahzad had interviewed Kashmiri in September 2009, after the jihadist chieftain had been reported killed in a UAV attack. The 40-year-old journalist had told colleagues he feared the ISI was out to kill him because of his contacts with Kashmiri and other jihadists. Shahzad's body, showing signs of torture, was found May 31 on a canal bank 80 miles southeast of Islamabad. The ISI denied any involvement in his death. Meantime, two senior operatives with ties to al-Qaida, a commander associated with bin Laden and a leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, were captured last week in Afghanistan. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/06/06/Mystery-shrouds-death-of-al- Qaida-head/UPI-58041307378302/#ixzz1OWUXI5lG http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/06/06/Mystery-shrouds-death-of-al-Q aida-head/UPI-58041307378302/#ixzz1OWUXI5lG [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor
[osint] The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals
One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer' The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer' The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals . * * http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ftech nology%2F2011%2Fjun%2F06%2Fus-hackers-fbi-informert=One%20in%20four%20US%20 hackers%20'is%20an%20FBI%20informer'%20%7C%20Technology%20%7C%20The%20Guardi ansrc=sp Share332 * http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ftechnology%2 F2011%2Fjun%2F06%2Fus-hackers-fbi-informer Reddit * http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=the_guardian665targetUrl=http:/ /www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informersummary=T he+FBI+and+US+secret+service+have+used+the+threat+of+prison+to+create+an+arm y+of+informers+among+online+criminalsheadline=%20One%20in%20four%20US%20hac kers%20'is%20an%20FBI%20informer'%20|%20Technology%20|%20The%20Guardian%20 Buzz up * Comments ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer#st art-of-comments 55) * Ed Pilkington http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/edpilkington in New York * guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk , Monday 6 June 2011 16.12 BST * Article history http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer#hi story-link-box A hacker's silhouette A quarter of hackers in the US have been recruited by federal authorities, according to Eric Corley, publisher of the hacker quarterly, 2600. Photograph: Getty Images The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fbi and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/hacking community. In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have been run by hacker turncoats acting as FBI moles. In others, undercover FBI agents posing as carders - hackers specialising in ID theft - have themselves taken over the management of crime forums, using the intelligence gathered to put dozens of people behind bars. So ubiquitous has the FBI informant network become that Eric Corley, who publishes the hacker quarterly, 2600, has estimated that 25% of hackers in the US may have been recruited by the federal authorities to be their eyes and ears. Owing to the harsh penalties involved and the relative inexperience with the law that many hackers have, they are rather susceptible to intimidation, Corley told the Guardian. It makes for very tense relationships, said John Young, who runs Cryptome, a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks. There are dozens and dozens of hackers who have been shopped by people they thought they trusted. The best-known example of the phenomenon is Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who turned informant on Bradley Manning, who is suspected of passing secret documents to WikiLeaks. Manning had entered into a prolonged instant messaging conversation with Lamo, whom he trusted and asked for advice. Lamo repaid that trust by promptly handing over the 23-year-old intelligence specialist to the military authorities. Manning has now been in custody for more than a year. For acting as he did, Lamo has earned himself the sobriquet of Judas and the world's most hated hacker, though he has insisted that he acted out of concern for those he believed could be harmed or even killed by the WikiLeaks publication of thousands of US diplomatic cables. Obviously it's been much worse for him but it's certainly been no picnic for me, Lamo has said. He followed his conscience, and I followed mine. The latest challenge for the FBI in terms of domestic US breaches are the anarchistic co-operatives of hacktivists that have launched several high-profile cyber-attacks in recent months designed to make a statement. In the most recent case a group calling itself Lulz Security http://lulzsecurity.com/ launched an audacious raid http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/lulz-security-hackers-coll ective-infragard on the FBI's own linked organisation InfraGard. The raid, which was a blatant two fingers up at the agency, was said to have been a response to news that the Pentagon was poised to declare foreign cyber-attacks an act of war. Lulz
[osint] Allen West weekly report
The week began with a vote on a clean raising of the debt limit which had been requested from the President, Secretary of the Treasury, and some 100 House Democrats. The measure failed considerably and did not even garner 100 House Democrats to support it. The following day we had our House GOP Conference field trip to the White House, because that is exactly what it ended up being. What I witnessed was quite disturbing: a rigid ideological President who does not realize his fiscal policies are failing -- and he has no plan. I am very concerned about the carbon footprint of having five buses of 240 House GOP members going to the White House. Seems to me the opposite would have been far more prudent, with the President instead coming to Capitol Hill. The following day, the Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, came to visit the House GOP Freshman and indeed it was yet another wasted trip. In just eight short minutes, the Treasury Secretary assured me that he does not have a clue when it comes to enacting spending cuts and spending control measures as part of the revitalization of our fiscal and economic policies, including mandatory spending reforms, which the President stated he agreed on Wednesday. It would seem that after Friday's abysmal jobs report numbers, which included half of the reported job growth coming from McDonald's (a recipient of an Obamacare waiver, by the way), one would think there would be a change in course. Nah, just dig in your heels, and follow the same failed policies. We have seen a 40% increase in Americans on food stamps since the President took the oath of office. Gasoline prices have gone from around $1.89 a gallon to close to $4 on average for regular unleaded. There are three critical aspects which we must rectify. First, we must restore confidence with our job creators and consumers. Second, we must ensure the proper amount of regulation, providing access to capital for our small business owners. Lastly, we must provide certainty for the private sector and investors to create long term viable and sustainable economic and job growth. The other point of order I wish to address is the so-called Arab Spring - truly a Muslim Brotherhood Nightmare. Those who view the events across North Africa and the Middle East with Western rose-colored glasses are completely misreading the situation. The goal of the Brotherhood has always been to restore an Islamic Caliphate, a borderless empire which shall be ruled by one leader. They have no respect for the secular leadership, autocratic, despotic dictators which permeate this region. However, under the guise of Democracy and dare I say it, Change they are toppling these regimes one by one - and we have no competent understanding of who shall fill the void. One need only look back in history when the same occurred in Iran and we all witnessed, and continue to witness, the revitalization of the 7th century radical Islamic state model under the guidance of theocrats. Under this guidance we have seen the resurgence of Islamic terrorism, state sponsored from this very same Iran. There is no Arab Spring, but there is an Islamic mystery as to who shall not only fill the void in these countries, but where shall the seat of power for this 21st Century Caliphate be established? Iran or Turkey? Libya is falling apart, and I shall not support our President's violation of our law, the War Powers Act of 1973. The leader of Yemen has departed and we know that is where al-Alawi has found refuge. Most troubling, thanks to the President's foreign policy faux pas statement, is that we now see the Palestinians threatening a direct move to the United Nations for declaration of a state, as they confront Israel along the 1967 borders. Please read my Extension of Remarks here. http://email.address-verify.com/q/RKBHzaPFYJuNFK2QYg7ESd1S4PmiuVuZ9euhwmLhO 9W_aEyGrdQkA8elQ Let us never forget that the armies of several Arab nations, were the belligerents in 1967 - and they lost. Israel shall not return to those borders which shall result in their demise. If we want peace in that region, we need a willing peace partner. Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah entering into a reconciliation pact with Hamas, facilitated by Egypt, is not what I call a willing gesture for peace and recognition of the modern day State of Israel. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making
[osint] Sink To the Bottom With Me
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011060513739/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/sin k-to-the-bottom-with-me.html Sink To the Bottom With Me Sunday, 05 June 2011 05:32 Daniel Greenfield http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,28b6b3148914e f3643e25c37b13b3283c75260ac/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011060513739/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/si nk-to-the-bottom-with-me/print.html Print What do you think about Global Warming? It doesn't matter what you think. Not if you live in New York, Berlin, Yokohama or Karachi that is. On behalf of his C40 group, Mayor Bloomberg explained http://scinewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/will-global-warming-make-earth.html to the BBC, Your job is not to ask the public where they want to go and get behind them. Your job is to tell the public. But the BBC knows that already. They've been telling the public what to think for a long time now. And they don't need lessons on that from some parvenu yank billionaire. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs and don't presume to teach the BBC how to disdainfully ignore public opinion for the public's own good. bloombergunderwaterWhile Bloomberg leads from the front in his Large Cities Climate Leadership Group or C40 group (the manufacture of Orwellian acronyms accounts for 30 percent of carbon emissions from climate change propaganda), New Yorkers are busy protesting in the streets http://www.queenstribune.com/deadline/Deadline_052611_FDNYClosures.html over firehouse closings. Residents of the city are not concerned about global warming. They're worried about local incineration. Forget the tides and do something about the firehoses. Not that his Imperial Mayorality is listening. Real leaders don't listen to the public. They drive tanks over them. As the mayors of Shanghai and Beijing, also members of the LCCLG or C40, know. The peasants may cry for firehouses, but what do they know anyway. Each firehouse emits carbon. Every time a fire engine races off to save an apartment building, metric tons of carbon is released into the software algorithms of climate change researchers. Better to let the peasants burn and save the planet. If you ask the public 'is there global warming,' 'is in 50 years the earth going to be dramatically different or perhaps uninhabitable,' their eyes roll. Nobody can think 50 years in advance, says Bloomy. Nobody clearly doesn't include the mayor. Fortunately the city is blessed with a leader who couldn't see a snow emergency coming two days ahead of time, but has no trouble parting the mists of time and seeing half a century into the future. While snow was falling on Brooklyn, the Prophet of City Hall was pondering a distant future when the whole city would be underwater because too many trucks have been crossing the BQE. Forget Mayor. It's time the city got Bloomberg a crystal ball, a deck of tarot cards and something to gird his loins with, if he has any, and appoint him our seer and prophet. We've been shamefully wasting the man's time on minutiae like our worries about burning to death because we only have a skeletal fire department, when we should be coming to him with questions about the strange world of the future. Tell me Mayor Mike, will there still be mayors in the future? Yes, but they will all be underwater, have gold skin and be worshiped as gods at international conferences. It's funny until you remember that the snow emergency which the city neglected http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/12/bloombergs-snow-job.html in order to participate in planning conferences for Waterworld actually cost human lives. People died because the ruling class was too busy wrapped up in an underwater end of days to attend to petty matters like doing their jobs. In the winter they died in ice, while officials planned to combat the rising tides of the future with bicycle lanes. Will they burn to death in summer because officials are too busy pushing roof painting to consider the people living under those roofs as anything but carbon waste on two legs? nycwaterworldOur governments are being run by a cult that makes Harold Camping seem positively rational. An apocalyptic elite that proudly celebrates its disdain for the common man. Mediocre politicians guided by a science they don't understand, allowing themselves to be weaponized into tools of mass regulation in the name of a philosophy that sees the human race as one giant waste product. Plastic cups of Kool Aid with instructions to drink them in atonement to Gaia haven't come in the mail yet, but at the rate we're going it's only a matter of time. The problem isn't Bloomberg. He's just the tackiest member of an international coterie. A billionaire with bad taste who bought his job and is now trying to buy an international role commensurate with his sense of self-importance. His quips are awkward. On camera he has all the charisma of a dead fish. He litters City Hall park with modern art that would make Picasso weep
[osint] Islamic Concepts Misunderstood by Westerners
http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/op-ed/islamic-concepts-misunderstood-by -westerners/ Islamic concepts misunderstood by Westerners. 6/5/2011 Islamic concepts misunderstood by Westerners. jonmc Freedom The Western viewpoint. In the West freedom is used to describe a whole range of things encompassed in civil, political and individual rights. Perhaps the most succinct definition of freedom is that of Thomas Jefferson: Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. He went on to say: I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often [nothing] but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Quite explicit in Jefferson's definition is that all people have equal rights and that all (non-tyrannical) laws must apply equally to all people without exception. (This idea was put in British law as the law acting indifferently -as in without difference - towards all people.) The Islamic viewpoint. The entry on freedom, or hurriyya, in the Encyclopedia of Islam describes a state of divine enthralment that bears no resemblance to any Western understanding of freedom as predicated on the workings of the individual conscience. According to the encyclopedia, Islamic freedom is the recognition of the essential relationship between God the master and His human slaves who are completely dependent on Him. Ibn Arabi, a Sufi scholar of note, is cited for having defined freedom as being perfect slavery to Allah. To put it another way, Islamic-style freedom is freedom from unbelief ( Khufr) in Islam. Is this cause for concern? According to the Pew report (2010) 84% of Egyptians favour the death penalty for apostates from Islam and a slightly greater percentage (90%) favour religious freedom. To the Western mind this is double-think. If you favour killing those who leave your religion, then you don't believe in religious freedom. Conversely, if you believe in religious freedom you don't kill those who leave your religion. To the Islamic mind there is no contradiction because religious freedom is understood to mean the freedom to practice only Islam, in other words freedom from Khufr (unbelief in Islam). Thus, whereas to the Western mind freedom means basically the right to do what you want, to the Muslim mind freedom means the right to fully practice Islam which in turn means the full implementation of Sharia law (including all its discriminatory elements against the non-Muslim, women etc). Note: many Muslims may well want freedom from their dictatorial rulers too (who often are not very Islamic themselves) as seen in the recent unrest (2011) in the Mid. East. But this is not to say that what they mean by freedom is what we would naturally assume it to be. Peace Apart from obvious definition of peace being an absence of conflict [war], this is a surprisingly difficult concept to truly pin down from any perspective. The Western perspective: The English word peace means tranquillity or serenity, silence, freedom from war, freedom from anxiety, a state of harmony and tolerance between people etc. Tolerance, in its original incarnation was putting up with stuff with which you did not agree, but - and here's the rub - implicit was that all parties shared fundamental attitudes to society. Thus all Americans (irrespective of their roots) would support truth, justice and the American way (and who could argue with Superman!), all Frenchmen would accept the principles of Liberty, equality and fraternity. Britain has no such catchy slogan, but perhaps the parallel would be for Crown and Country. Today, however, this view has become altered, though perhaps distorted might be a better choice of word, by the multi-cultural paradigm, which sees plurality in all things as worthy of toleration and even celebration - even if what we are supposed to tolerate and celebrate is an ideology dedicated to the destruction of the Western way of life. Despite this, I suspect that all people would fundamentally agree that peace means people of different races, colours and creeds getting along with each other, with (fundamentally) shared goals and, crucially perhaps, in a state of tranquillity -ie a lack of (mutual) fear. The Islamic viewpoint. Ibrahim Sulaiman says, Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary violence and bloodshed, its ultimate desire is peace which is protected and enhanced by the rule of [Sharia] law. Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Zakzouk in his book On Philosophy Culture and Peace in Islam (available as pdf) devotes an entire chapter to the The Islamic concept of Peace. Clearly I cannot reproduce that here, but he talks about the path to peace and the straight path to peace. Both are allusions to the prayer said in every Rakat of Salah (Islamic ritual prayer) Guide us to the straight path. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, (the Muslims) not (the
[osint] Port Authority Cop Allowed PATH Train with Potential Bomb to go to WTC
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pa_cop_green_lighted_bomb_risk_path_fW28p mETv20NBwps5tlttL?CMP=OTC-rss http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pa_cop_green_lighted_bomb_risk_path_fW28 pmETv20NBwps5tlttL?CMP=OTC-rssFEEDNAME FEEDNAME= PA cop allowed PATH train with potential bomb on board to go to WTC http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pa_cop_green_lighted_bomb_risk_path_fW28 pmETv20NBwps5tlttL By PHILIP MESSING Last Updated: 7:16 AM, June 6, 2011 Posted: 12:36 AM, June 6, 2011 More http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250username=nypost http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/local/pa_cop_green_lighted_bomb_risk_pat h_fW28pmETv20NBwps5tlttL http://www.nypost.com/rw/SysConfig/WebPortal/nypost/images/icon_print.gifPri nt EXCLUSIVE In a glaring security breach, a Port Authority police supervisor allowed a PATH train with a potential bomb aboard to travel from Jersey City to the World Trade Center, sources told The Post. Incredibly, the same cop was reprimanded for doing the same thing a year ago, when he authorized a PATH train to continue without checking out another suspicious package, the outraged sources said. In the latest incident, Lt. James O'Neill http://www.nypost.com/t/James_O'Neill gave the train the green light Wednesday, despite pleas from subordinates that he wait for a K-9 officer who was on the way to check the suspicious package left under a seat. Angel Chevrestt WTC PATH Station It was a clear dereliction of duty, a police official said, charging that O'Neill needlessly imperiled the crew and could have endangered two prime terror targets -- the Hudson PATH tunnel and the WTC site itself. O'Neill, a 29-year veteran of the agency, could not be reached for a comment, and a PA spokesperson refused to discuss the matter. The suspicious box was spotted at about 7:50 p.m. on a Red Line train at the Exchange Place station as the evening rush was dying down, sources said. Patrol cops were notified and evacuated passengers, but crew members, including the engineer, brakeman, flagmen and conductors, remained on board. PAPD K-9 Unit Officer Bryan Fitzpatrick and his bomb-sniffing German shepherd, Max, had been dispatched and were about five minutes away. But O'Neill, working at Journal Square in Jersey City, about three miles west of Exchange Place, apparently wanted to keep things moving and cleared the train for departure. It soon left for the WTC station, which is about 15 minutes away, sources said. O'Neill made the call from his desk -- without showing up at the Exchange Place station to investigate, a source said. Some of O'Neill's subordinates at Journal Square angrily tried to convince him to hold the train, the sources said. There was an argument, a source said. When the train arrived at the WTC platform, K-9 cop Salvatore LoBrutto and his German shepherd, Rexo, determined the package was a remote-control toy helicopter inside a box. The sources pointed out that the PATH tunnel has a history as a terror target. In July 2006, the FBI http://www.nypost.com/t/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation said al Qaeda fiend Assem Hammoud had planned to recruit suicide bombers with backpacks to blow up the Hudson River tunnel in a bid to flood lower Manhattan. After Wednesday's incident, K-9 Officer Frank Conti wrote a letter to department brass reminding them they had chastised O'Neill after his first offense. PAPD brass did not want this to happen again, as it is not an acceptable course of action, Conti wrote in the letter obtained by The Post. Even before last year, O'Neill ran into trouble with department bosses. He left his post at the Holland Tunnel to take his Corvette for a spin with a female officer and crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike in January 2008. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pa_cop_green_lighted_bomb_risk_path_fW28 pmETv20NBwps5tlttL#ixzz1OWeiNClB http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pa_cop_green_lighted_bomb_risk_path_fW28p mETv20NBwps5tlttL#ixzz1OWeiNClB [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence
[osint] Giving out the Gospel of John now illegal in Dearborn, Mi
There is a 35 meg video you need to see showing the police response. http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/06/is-giving-out-the-gospel-of-john-now-illegal-in-dearborn-michigan.html?source=NEWSLETTER http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/06/is-giving-out-the-gospel-of-john-now-illegal-in-dearborn-michigan.html?source=NEWSLETTERnlsource=11ppc=utm_campaign=Bibleutm_source=NLutm_medium=newsletterutm_term=aol.com nlsource=11ppc=utm_campaign=Bibleutm_source=NLutm_medium=newsletterutm_term=aol.com http://www.beliefnet.com/ Home http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Discussions.aspx News http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/ On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/06/is-giving-out-the-gospel-of-john-now-illegal-in-dearborn-michigan.html Is giving out the Gospel of John now illegal in Dearborn, Michigan? http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/06/angela-prays-crowd-cheers.html « Angela prays, crowd... http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars Main Index Archives http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/03/americans-gunned-down-by-somali-pirates-loved-sailing-giving-away-bibles.html Americans gunned down by... » Is giving out the Gospel of John now illegal in Dearborn, Michigan? June 5, 2011 Categories: http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/bible/ Bible, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/christians/ Christians, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/hate-crimes/ hate crimes, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/hate-speech/ hate speech, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/islam/ islam, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/muslim/ Muslim, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/news/ news, http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/political-correctness/ political correctness Ask yourself if these guys are just a bunch of troublemakers. They’re standing outside a Muslim festival in Dearborn, Michigan, trying to give away copies of the Gospel of John in English and Arabic. Are they provoking trouble? Are they trying to be martyrs? Are they merely stirring up trouble between Christians and Muslims? One of them in the video says he’s an ex-Muslism who wants to spread the truth of Jesus Christ to those who share his heritage. So, is he an obedient Christian following Jesus’ final instructions to His disciples before He ascended into Heaven — the Great Commission? Or is this guy just a malcontent making unnecessary problems for the Dearborn police department? Odds are, if you believe all religions are equal, these guys are just lunatics stirring up dissent. However, if you believe that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life — and that no one comes unto the Father except through Christ, well … what does that make you? GO TO THE WEBSITE TO SEE THE VIDEO Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/06/is-giving-out-the-gospel-of-john-now-illegal-in-dearborn-michigan.html#ixzz1OU836wTv http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/06/is-giving-out-the-gospel-of-john-now-illegal-in-dearborn-michigan.html#ixzz1OU836wTv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair
[osint] The Un-Recovery
The Un-Recovery Posted By Arnold Ahlert On June 6, 2011 There's an old saying that when all you have is a hammer, every problem you encounter looks like a nail. Thus, it should come as no surprise that, despite a slew of economic indicators which suggest that our so-called economic recovery is virtually non-existent, the Obama administration continues to pursue its progressively-inspired infatuation with government-driven solutions to the crisis. To use a word that is becoming an indispensable part of the mainstream media's efforts to mitigate the obvious failures of this administration, one can only wonder how many more unexpected economic developments Americans can tolerate. The statistics paint a bleak picture. Last week, the employment rate increased to 9.1 percent, as only 54,000 jobs were created in May, the fewest number in eight months. Half of those jobs were created by one company, http://www.investorwords.com/6847/ISM_manufacturing_index.html hamburger giant McDonalds. Home prices have dropped back to 2002 levels http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392814/Its-worse-Great-Depression- Home-prices-suffer-double-dip-2002-levels.html , down 33 per cent from a 2006 peak, compared to the 31 per cent decline in the [Great] Depression. This means that ten years of equity one might have built up in one's home has essentially disappeared. Gas and food prices have been soaring, which in turn blunts the consumer spending necessary to buoy the economy. And the Institute of Supply Managing Index http://www.investorwords.com/6847/ISM_manufacturing_index.html (ISM) which tracks manufacturing activity, and the American Data Processing Index http://www.adp.com/media/press-releases/2007-news-releases/adp-pre-employme nt-screening-index.aspx (ADP), which tracks hiring trends, along with the housing data, point to a 2 percent or less growth rate, well below the 5 percent or higher rate that normally accompanies an economic recovery. Yet even those employment totals may be a mirage. As the NY Post's John Crudele points out http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/go_figure_xPh5wA5ypXwZofyvtIu1XI , job creation numbers produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics are comprised of nonsensical, worthless guesstimates that are meant to be corrected many times before the number is truly to be believed. Crudele then noted that the consensus on Wall Street is that the government will announce that 200,000 new jobs were created in May, adding that if [last]Friday's number isn't better than expected, then watch out. It means that job growth is so slow that even the BLS's magic stats can't make it look good. Nearly four-fifths less job creation than what the experts predicted, and even that number may be an upside mirage? At what point does not good become catastrophic? Apparently never, if one assumes that a glaring failure of current economic policies might lead the Obama administration to reconsider its approach. Despite an $800 billion-plus stimulus package accompanied by a promise that it would keep unemployment under 8 percent and two rounds of Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) designed to stimulate demand, instead, the dollar has devalued, leading to the inflation demonstrated in food and fuel. Yet this administration appears grimly determined to inflict even more Keynesian economic, government pump-priming solutions on the country. In fact, QE3 is actually being contemplated http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/third-time%2560scharm-whispersq e3-emerge_554723.html . Once again, despite the reality that injecting liquidity into the system over the past two-and-a-half years has done little more than prop up the stock market, economic anemia caused by ideological rigidity remains the order of the day. Why does the economy remain largely un-stimulated? Because lending by banks remains tight. Why does lending remain tight? Economist Larry Kudlow explains http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268816/obama-s-jobs-recession-larry- kudlo that most of [QE2] has served merely to depreciate the dollar. And most of those cheaper dollars are on deposit at the Federal Reserve, where banks are earning 25 basis points for safety and risk aversion. In other words, the majority of that new money is not circulating throughout the economy. Thus, just as the $700 billion dollars spent by Congress during the banking crisis of 2008 was directed at institutions too big to fail, even as Main Street America was getting hammered, large financial institutions are once again prospering, even as the public remains mired in a jobless recovery. This is nothing more than crony capitalism on steroids. And when one couples it with the uncertain costs and stifling regulations of the new finanical regulation http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/finreg_bill_ok_mh1rk2fNUsW1fwcRUzUTLI bill (FinReg) and ObamaCare, all of which have to be factored into hiring decisions, businesses who might consider putting on new workers remain hesitant.
[osint] Are the feds torturing the Patriot Act for location data?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/its-hard-to-imagine-a.ars?ut m_source=rss http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/its-hard-to-imagine-a.ars?u tm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=rss utm_medium=rssutm_campaign=rss Are the feds torturing the Patriot Act for location data? By http://arstechnica.com/author/timothy-b-lee/ Timothy B. Lee | Published about 4 hours ago http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2009/01/cell-phone-tracking-thumb-640x auto-235.jpg It's hard to imagine a Senator making a blunter statement than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) made in the heat of the Patriot Act reauthorization fight last month: When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, he said, they will be stunned and they will be angry. Wyden is in a position to know. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he receives classified briefings from the executive branch. And in recent years, three other current and former members of the Senate-Mark Udall (D-CO), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Russ Feingold (D-WI)-have made similar comments. These statements are puzzling because the explicit powers Congress has given to the government are already quite broad. For example, we've extensively covered the http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/07/fisa-compromise.ars FISA Amendments Act of 2008 and the http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/03/progress-on-national-security- letters-has-been-slow.ars rapid increase in the use of National Security Letters since the enactment of the Patriot Act. Apparently, the government has such an appetite for information about Americans that it has felt the need to push even these quite generous boundaries. The government's activities are shrouded in secrecy, so we can't be sure what the senators are referring to. But the evidence suggests that the Obama administration is using Section 215 of the Patriot Act-a provision that gives the government access to business records-as the legal basis for the large-scale collection of cell phone location records. What we know It seems clear that the senators' concerns relate to Section 215 of the Patriot Act. As Ars alumnus Julian Sanchez ably explains in a http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA675.pdf recent paper for the Cato Institute, Section 215 gives the government the power to obtain business records without a showing of probable cause. The debate over section 215 has largely focused on http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2010/03/section-215-one -more-time.html library records, but the Patriot Act's definition of a business record extends to any tangible thing. When Congress considered limiting the use of Section 215 orders to terrorism investigations in 2009, it ran into stiff opposition from the Obama administration. Sen. Durbin wasn't happy about this. The real reason for resisting this obvious, common-sense modification of Section 215 is unfortunately cloaked in secrecy, he said. He suggested that this secrecy was inconsistent with transparency, accountability, and fidelity to the rule of law and our Constitution An even more direct statement came from Sen Feingold. He noted that Patriot Act supporters had claimed in 2005 that Section 215 had never been misused. They cannot make that statement now, he said. They have been misused. Unfortunately, he said, the details were classified. So in 2009, at least two Senators believed that Section 215 of the Patriot Act was being abused. Two years later, in the midst of a debate about again extending Section 215 authority, two other Senators complained about classified Patriot Act abuses. It's not a big leap to suppose these comments all refer to the same government activity. Every step you take So what's the government doing? A growing body of evidence suggests the controversy is related to cell phone location data. Law enforcement officials have become increasingly reliant on this kind of information. In a http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1845644 recent paper on the subject, Stephanie K. Pell and Christopher Soghoian tell the story of the http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20100204-Sca recrow-Bandits-bank-robber-8361.ece Scarecrow Bandits, a gang that committed a string of bank robberies in the Dallas area. FBI agents captured the gang by examining cell phone location records and identifying phones that had made calls near several of the banks that were robbed. In a http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/atlas-bugged-why-the-secret-law-of-the-patri ot-act-is-probably-about-location-tracking/ lengthy blog post, Julian Sanchez recently laid out the evidence tying the Section 215 controversy to the government's appetite for location data. First, Wyden http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/bill-would-keep-big-brothers-mitts- off-your-gps-data/ recently unveiled legislation that would require a warrant for the feds to acquire geolocation data. The bill would
[osint] In Alabama, a Harsh Bill for Illegal Aliens
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04immig.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04immig.html?_r=1src=rechppagewanted =print src=rechppagewanted=print . http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ _ June 3, 2011 In Alabama, a Harsh Bill for Residents Here Illegally By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/julia_preston/ index.html?inline=nyt-per JULIA PRESTON Alabama has passed a sweeping bill to crack down on illegal immigrants that both supporters and opponents call the toughest of its kind in the country, going well beyond a law Arizona passed last year that caused a furor there. The measure was passed by large margins in the Alabama Senate and the House, both Republican-controlled, in votes on Thursday. Governor Robert Bentley, a Republican, is expected to sign the bill into law. Alabama is now the new No. 1 state for http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_ and_refugees/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier immigration enforcement, said Kris Kobach, a constitutional lawyer who is secretary of state in Kansas. He has helped write many state bills to curtail illegal immigration, including Alabama's. This bill invites discrimination into every aspect of the lives of people in Alabama, said Cecillia Wang, director of the immigrants' rights project of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has brought legal challenges against several state immigration-control laws. Calling Alabama's bill outrageous and blatantly unconstitutional, Ms. Wang said, We will take action if the governor signs it. The Alabama bill includes a provision similar to one that stirred controversy in Arizona, authorizing state and local police officers to ask about the immigration status of anyone they stop based on a reasonable suspicion the person is an illegal immigrant. Federal courts have suspended most of that Arizona law. Alabama's bill goes beyond Arizona's. It bars illegal immigrants from enrolling in any public college after high school. It obliges public schools to determine the immigration status of all students, requiring parents of foreign-born students to report the immigration status of their children. The bill requires Alabama's public schools to publish figures on the number of immigrants - both legal and illegal - who are enrolled and on any costs associated with the education of illegal immigrant children. The bill, known as H.B. 56, also makes it a crime to knowingly rent housing to an illegal immigrant. It bars businesses from taking tax deductions on wages paid to unauthorized immigrants. This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans, said Representative Micky Hammon, a Republican who was a chief sponsor of the bill. We really want to prevent illegal immigrants from coming to Alabama and to prevent those who are here from putting down roots, he said. The Alabama bill comes at the end of a legislative season when many states wrestled with immigration crackdown proposals. Measures focusing only on enforcement failed in 16 states, according to a tally by the http://www.immigrationforum.org/ National Immigration Forum in Washington, a group opposing such laws. In May, Georgia adopted a tough enforcement law, which civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to stop. Proponents of state immigration enforcement laws won a major victory last week when the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 law in Arizona http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/us/politics/28immigration.html?scp=1sq=s upreme%20court%20immigration%202007st=cse imposing penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants. Alabama's law includes some provisions similar to the Arizona statute that courts rejected as incursions on legal terrain reserved for the federal government. But Michael Hethmon, general counsel of the http://www.irli.org/ Immigration Reform Law Institute in Washington, said the Alabama bill was a compendium of measures against illegal immigrants that his group had tested in other states. Mr. Hethmon's group is the legal arm of the http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/homepagenew?gclid=CNeghP_TmqkCFcZM 4Aod4Hqmsg Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to reduce immigration. The bill requires all Alabama employers to use a federal system, E-Verify, to confirm the legal status of all workers. The measure also makes it a state crime for an immigrant to fail to carry a document proving legal status, and makes it a crime for anyone to transport an illegal immigrant. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:
[osint] Yemen: Has al Qaeda Disappeared?
The West is conveniently ignoring the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood (i.e. al-Qaeda) is taking control over ALL of the Arab Spring revolutions. B Yemen: Has al Qaeda disappeared? http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/158034/20110606/yemen-has-al-qaeda-disappeare d.htm By Anissa Haddadi | June 6, 2011 2:28 PM GMT As Yemen is facing rapid and unprecedented changes, the country that was a year ago in the news mainly for being a haven for terrorism is not the number one priority of the U.S and the West anymore. So what happened to all the Yemeni http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/88/al-qaeda/ Al-Qaeda fighters that are supposed to be in hiding on the country's territory, have they fled to http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/533/libya/ Libya? http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/middle/2011/06/06/109571-tribesmen-lo yal-to-tribal-leader-sadeq-al-ahmar-secure-a-street-near-a.jpg javascript:seeFull(); View Full Image Reuters Tribesmen loyal to tribal leader Sadeq al-Ahmar secure a street near al-Ahmar's house in Sanaa June 6, 2011. Yemenis celebrated on Monday what many hope will be a new era without President Ali Abdullah Saleh, now recuperating in Saudi Arabia after an operation to remove shrapnel from his chest a day earlier Guides and Reports Related Articles http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/158121/20110606/libya-rebels-take-over-mount ain-town.htm Libya: rebels take over mountain town http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/157969/20110606/pakistan-us-drone-attack-mil itants.htm US drone kills 17 militants, 7 foreigners dead in latest attacks http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/157908/20110606/yemen-saleh-preotests.htm Yemeni protesters celebrate Saleh's absence, future unclear Related Topics * Al-Qaeda http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/88/al-qaeda/ * Afghanistan http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/231/afghanistan/ * human rights http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/366/human-rights/ * Libya http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/533/libya/ The slowness and reluctance of the International community to confront the fragile political situation in Yemen surely raises questions as to why the troubled nation was portrayed as poverty stricken base for terrorists. This time last year Yemen was making the headlines as a dangerous state where Islamist fundamentalists were posing a threat to the regime but also to the region as a whole. Today however it seems that what happens in Yemen stays in Yemen as the International Community appears totally disinterested in the collapse of the government. So what caused this change of heart? Did http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/88/al-qaeda/ Al-Qaeda really happen to be influential in the country or was it just an attempt to boost the American-led war on terror? Must Read http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/158237/20110606/apple-unveils-icloud.htm iCloudApple unveils iCloud at WWDC http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/158237/20110606/apple-unveils-icloud.htm http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/158131/20110606/d-day-delaware-washington-pa rallels-u-s-history.htm D-Day Ceremony in NormandyD Day and the Delaware: Two improbable water crossings shaped U.S. history http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/158131/20110606/d-day-delaware-washington-pa rallels-u-s-history.htm Sponsorship Link http://img.ibtimes.com/www/site/us/images/1px.gif Yemen has faced a set of profound political and economic issues for decades. It is the poorest country in the Arab world, with 40 per cent living below the poverty line, 50 per cent of the country is illiterate, and 35 per cent of the population is unemployed. The government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh has always been weak outside the capital, as it lacks both resources and credibility. It also has been accused of creating endemic corruption and had to try and suppress a bloody Zaidi Shia rebellion in the northern Saada governorate as well as a deepening secessionist movement in the south over a long period of time. The link between Yemen and radical Islam dates back to the 1980s, as thousands of Yemenis responded to the call for jihad against the Soviets in http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/231/afghanistan/ Afghanistan and returned home afterwards. In Guantanamo, Yemenis convicts make up the largest core contingent. However, international efforts to fight terrorism in Yemen only began in 2000 after the al-Qaeda suicide bombing of the Navy Destroyer U.S.S Cole. As the Americans launched the war on terror, President Saleh soon understood who he needed to side with and demonstrated a newfound willingness to fight terrorism and by 2003 the U.S. considered the Yemeni terrorist threats to be minor. All changed however when in 2006 twenty-three al-Qaeda suspects escaped from a Yemen prison. One of them, Nasser al-Wahishi, was accused of re-establishing the al-Qaeda organization in Yemen, to further its sphere of influence and prepare new attacks. In late 2008, Saudi al-Qaeda leaders, in response to a successful
[osint] 'Gunwalker' Guns Linked to Helicopter Shooting
June 6, 2011 10:26 AM 'Gunwalker' guns linked to helicopter shooting http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20069270-10391695.html CBS News has learned that the recent case of a Mexican military helicopter forced to land after it was fired upon is linked to the ATF Fast and Furious gunwalker operation. Drug cartel suspects on the ground shot at Mexican government helicopters two weeks ago in western Mexico, forcing one chopper to land. Authorities seized more than 70 assault rifles and other weapons from the suspects. Among the seized weapons are guns sold to suspects as part of the ATF sting operation, sources say. That information came from traces of serial numbers. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/23/eveningnews/main20035609.shtml Gunrunning scandal uncovered at the ATF Shooting at an aircraft is a terrorist act, says one U.S. law enforcement source. What does that say if we're helping Mexican drug cartels engage in acts of terror? That's appalling if we could have stopped those guns. The Department of Justice provided no information or comment when asked about the incident by CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20063716-10391695.html Major ATF shakeup after gunwalker In Fast and Furious and other southwest border anti-trafficking operations, sources say ATF allowed more than 2500 weapons to be sold to suspects. Instead of interdicting them, sources tell CBS News, ATF let the guns walk or hit the streets. The idea was to gain intelligence to possibly take down an entire cartel. But many of the allegedly walked weapons have shown up at crimes such as the Mexican helicopter incident, and the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry; most have never been recovered. In the case of the Mexican helicopter, sources say some of the weapons were purchased and moved by defendants who have already been arrested and indicted for their alleged roles in helping supply drug cartels. The link between the helicopter downing and the ATF alleged gunwalking is likely to test the already-strained US-Mexico relationship. In recent weeks, Congressional investigators and the Inspector General have been interviewing witnesses behind closed doors in preparation for multiple hearings which could begin as early as next week. The first hearing will likely feature the ATF whistleblower who first spoke to CBS News: Special Agent John Dodson. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/03/eveningnews/main20039031.shtml ATF Agent: I was ordered to let guns go into Mexico Attorney General Eric Holder has asked the Inspector General to investigate the gunwalking allegations. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] FW: GreenDeen
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[osint] Armed Gangs Kill 120 Security Officers
Syrian TV: 'Armed gangs' kill 120 security officers By OREN KESSLER 06/06/2011 20:32 http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=223944 http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=223944R=R1 R=R1 in Muslim Brotherhood stronghold is deadliest attack in 11-week uprising; Syrian interior ministry: We will respond firmly to attacks. Some 120 security forces were killed in the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour, most in a single violent ambush, state television said on Monday. The assault, on the third day of clashes in the northwest town, appears to be the deadliest anti-government strike in the 11-week uprising against President http://newstopics.jpost.com/topic/Bashar_al-Assad Bashar Assad. Martyrs from security (forces) and police were killed in an ambush by armed gangs in Jisr al-Shughour. They were on their way to answer a call for aid from civilians terrorized in Jisr al-Shughour, the station said. RELATED: At least 70 killed in Syrian uprising http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=223546 's bloodiest day UN chief demands end to 'violent repression' in Syria http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=223529 The armed groups are using weapons and grenades ... the people in Jisr al-Shughour are urging the army to intervene speedily, the station reported earlier. It said security forces had clashed with hundreds of gunmen who had set up blockades in the town. Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar the authorities would respond firmly to the attacks. We will deal firmly and decisively based on the law (and we) will never be silent over any armed attack that targets the country's security, he said in a televised statement. Idlib, the northwest border region near Turkey where Jisr al-Shughour is situated, is a traditional stronghold of the banned http://newstopics.jpost.com/topic/Muslim_Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood. In 1980 government forces shelled the restive town of 40,000, killing 70. Monday's television report said the officers were ambushed while responding to residents' calls for protection from armed groups, the Associated Press reported. It said 20 policemen were initially killed, and then the groups blew up a post office and attacked a security post, killing eight other security forces. The report said the gunmen were hiding in homes and shooting at security forces and civilians alike, using residents as human shields. The armed groups mutilated the bodies of some police and security forces' martyrs, throwing the bodies of others into the Orontes River, the state news agency SANA reported. The groups blocked roads, attacked the houses and terrified citizens, in addition to storming public and private buildings and destroying shops. The death toll ballooned as the day wore on, with state media reporting 28 killed, then 40, 80 and 120. http://www.jpost.com/SpecialSection/Home.aspx Click for full Jpost coverage of turmoil in the Middle East http://newstopics.jpost.com/topic/The_New_York_Times The New York Times reported from Cairo (nearly all foreign journalists are barred from Syria) that Monday's clashes appear to indicate that the Syrian revolt - previously largely peaceful - may be turning more violent. Some Syrian opposition figures said the dead were soldiers killed by their own comrades for refusing to shoot on civilians, Army Radio reported, but those reports remained unconfirmed. Rights activist Mustafa Osso cast doubt on the government accounts. The protesters have so far been peaceful and unarmed, he told AP, adding that there were unconfirmed reports of some army deserters who switched sides and were fighting against security forces. Activists put the Syrian uprising's total death toll at 1,200 people [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted
[osint] Weiner admits to sending lewd photo
Jun 06, 2011 Rep. Anthony Weiner admits to sending lewd photo By Megan H. Chan http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/Megan+H.+Chan , USA TODAY Updated 1m ago http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-politics/2011/06/06/weine rx-large.jpg http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-politics/2011/06/06/weiner x-inset-community.jpg Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., arrives with other House Democrats at the White House in Washington on June 2. javascript:void(0) CAPTION By Charles Dharapak, AP Rep. Anthony Weiner, (D-N.Y.), held a news conference in New York. He said he lied last week when he claimed that his Twitter account had been hacked by someone who sent photos of a man's crotch to a young woman in Seattle. At the time, he said he could not say with certitude whether the photo was of him. Updated at 4:45 p.m.: When he told his wife, he said she said she was unhappy, disappointed and said they would get through this. Update at 4:42 p.m.: When asked how he thought this may affect him politically, Weiner said of his constituents, I will work hard to win back their trust and try to persuade them. I have worked very hard for my constituents ... Nothing about this should reflect on my official duties or on my oath of office ... I certainly used bad judgement here. Updated at 4:38 p.m.: When asked if he had phone sex with any of the six women, Weiner said that he would not answer because he wants to respect the privacy of the women. He said he has never had sex outside of his marriage. Updated at 4:37 p.m.: He said some of the communication dated back three years and that his wife knew about it before they were married. He said she did not know he lied about sending last week's Twitter photo. Update at 4:35 p.m.: I was embarassed and I didn't want this to lead to other embarassing things. It was a dumb thing to do to tell lies about it because it just led to more lies. Update at 4:34 p.m.: The last thing on this day when I've done this harm to my wife and my family. is thinking of this or next year's election. The first thing I need to do is make sure this never happens again I'm not blaming anyone. This is my own personal mistake. This is a deep weakness I have demonstrated and for this I apologize. Updated at 4:32 p.m.: When asked if he would apologize to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, he said he is first and foremost sorry to his wife. He said the two have no plans to divorce. His wife did not appear at the press conference with him. Updated at 4:31 p.m.: Weiner says that he had inappropriate communication with mostly women he met on Facebook. Updated at 4:29 p.m.: I do not have knowledge of every single communication, but I do not believe I used government resources. Updated at 4:28 p.m.: Weiner says To be clear, I am deeply regretting what I have done and I am not resigning. Updated at 4:26 p.m.: Rep. Weiner says he would like to clear up questions and take full responsibility for his actions. He says he sent the photo last week as a joke and after he sent it on Twitter, he panicked. He also admits to having inappropriate conversations with women online and one the phone and says he did not have any physical relationship with these women. Updated at 4:13 p.m.: In a strange turn of events, Andrew Brietbart, the conservative blogger who published alleged new photos of Weiner Monday, took to the podium at the Sheraton hotel in New York where reporters have been waiting for Weiner to speak. I'm here for vindication, Brietbart said, saying he was upset about being accused of being a hacker against a congressman. Our original post: Weiner's appearance comes after more photos of the Democratic congressman surfaced Monday on Big Government, a website affiliated with conservative writer Andrew Brietbart. The website said the photos were provided by a woman who said Weiner sent them to her last month. Last week, Weiner denied sending a lewd photo http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-01-Rep-Anthony-Weiner-Twitt er-lewd-photo-hacking_n.htm of a man's crotch to a young woman in Seattle via Twitter, claiming he was the victim of a prankster. But he declined to confirm or deny whether the photo was of him. Among the photos posted Monday on Big Government is an image of a bare-chested man, flexing his muscles. He is visible only from the nose down and appears to be in an office, with a series of framed photos behind him. In another photo, Weiner is sitting on a sofa with two cats by his side. Last year, Weiner, 46, married Huma Abedin, a veteran aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com
[osint] Prosecution of Whistleblower Drake is Overkill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-case-that-could-be-overkill-against -a-whistleblower/2011/06/03/AG2DemJH_story.html A case that could be overkill against a whistleblower By Editorial, Published: June 5 TO SOME PEOPLE, Thomas A. Drake is a villain, a man who broke his pledge to protect national security secrets. To others, he is a whistleblower and a hero. Most, however, would not confuse him for a spy. Yet Mr. Drake will go on trial in a Maryland federal court this month on multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act, a broad and vague World War I-era law meant to punish those who turn over national security information to the enemy. He could face decades behind bars. Mr. Drake, a former employee of the National Security Agency, did not hand information to al-Qaeda. His alleged crime: communicating with a Baltimore Sun reporter about an NSA surveillance program that he believed had been grossly mismanaged http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR201004150 3118.html and was wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. His defenders say that he tried to alert NSA higher-ups about the programs' failings; he and other NSA employees also filed a complaint with the Defense Department inspector general. He turned to the press after these official avenues proved unfruitful. Mr. Drake has acknowledged the correspondence with the reporter but contends that he avoided divulging classified information. The Post is not a disinterested party. The newspaper maintains an interest in obtaining information that sheds light on the inner workings of government, including its national security apparatus. But this page also recognizes the federal government's right to take action against officials who breach confidentiality agreements, especially those that touch on national security. The question here is whether the indictment and proposed punishment are proportionate to the alleged infraction. At times, revocation of security clearances may be the most appropriate action; dismissal and prosecution may be called for when more serious violations are confirmed. Mr. Drake's prosecution smacks of overkill and could scare others with legitimate concerns about government programs from coming forward. For example, the Justice Department charged Mr. Drake under a section of the Espionage Act that deals with retention of classified information and carries a possible 10-year sentence. Mr. Drake was indicted on five such counts in April 2010. Yet there are other statutes that deal with the mishandling or improper retention of classified information that do not involve espionage charges. These provisions seem to more accurately reflect the acts that Mr. Drake is accused of; they also carry far shorter sentences. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] 23 organizations are expected to participate in the upcoming flotilla to the Gaza Strip
The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center Newsletter So far 23 organizations are expected to participate in the upcoming flotilla to the Gaza Strip, similar to the heterogeneous coalition which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla. Its three core organizations are IHH (Turkey), the ECESG (Europe) and the FGM (America), affiliated with radical Islam, primarily the Muslim Brotherhood, and/or the radical left. The others are global anti-Israeli organizations, some of them human- and social-rights groups. _ The renovated Mavi Marmara The renovated Mavi Marmara, which will again be the IHH flagship (IHH website, May 22, 2011). Five hundred passengers, from Turkey and other countries, are expected to participate. Overview 1. The IHH website recently posted a provisional list of 23 organizations which have signed up for Freedom Flotilla 2. An examination indicates a considerable similarity between these organizations and those participated in the Mavi Marmara flotilla.1 2. Like the previous flotilla, its preparations are being led by three organizations and umbrella networks with organizational capabilities and financial resources, and in one instance (IHH) with governmental capabilities. So far the core organizations have demonstrated persistence and determination to launch the flotilla (preparations have been ongoing for a year), despite logistic and political difficulties.2 Freedom Flotilla 2 logo (derryfriendsofpalestine.org website) Freedom Flotilla 2 logo (derryfriendsofpalestine.org website) 3. The most prominent organization and the one leading the preparations for the upcoming flotilla is IHH, an anti-Israeli, anti-West, Islamist Turkish organization. Its strategic partners are two umbrella networksthe European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG, a European network based in Britain whose organizations and activists have ideological ties to the Muslim Brotherhood), and the Free Gaza Movement (FGM, a network based within the extreme leftist camp in the United States). 4. These three core organizations, IHH, ECESG and FGM, determine policy and strategies for the upcoming flotilla (as they did for the Mavi Marmara). That is done through a steering committee set up to organize the flotilla, which holds occasional coordination meetings attended by senior activists of the three core and other anti-Israeli organizations. To date meetings have been held in Athens, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and Rome. The members of the steering committee meeting in Rome The members of the steering committee meeting in Rome (Picture from the flotilla website, February 24, 2011). 5. In addition to the three core organizations, the list contains the names of networks and organizations from Western Europe (the most prominent country is Britain), Scandinavia, North America and Asia. The local networks from various countries which joined the flotilla are directed and coordinated by the core organizations. Most of their activities deal with logistics, such as raising funds, enlisting and briefing volunteers who will sail with the flotilla, and preparing the media and propaganda groundwork. In most cases, the costs involved are prohibitively high, keeping the local networks from buying their own ships. Some of them have formed ad hoc associations, sometimes of organizations from a number of countries, to pool resources to buy a ship. Some of them preferred not to act independently and plan to join the vessels of other organizations (IHH's Mavi Marmara, for example). 6. Ideologically, the current flotilla, like the previous one, is composed of a heterogeneous coalition with inter-organizational collaboration among its members: at one end of the ideological spectrum there are organizations and activists who are blatantly radical Islamists (IHH and other Turkish Islamist organizations, organizations and activists affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and sometimes also with Hamas in Europe). At the other end are networks, organizations and activists affiliated with the radical left in the United States and Europe. 7. In some instances, the organizations and activists are involved in the campaign to delegitimize Israel (boycotts, hate propaganda, etc.). They have been joined by human rights organizations and organizations with political-social agendas. Among them are Jewish individuals and small groups not necessarily sharing the same ideology or radical Islamic/extreme leftist agenda, but willing to participate in anti-Israeli activity because they are critical of Israel's policies on the Palestinian issue. 8. The organizations preparing the upcoming flotilla learned lessons from the previous one. The most important, they feel, is the need to create difficulties for Israel and to ensure that Israel cannot prevent them from reaching the Gaza Strip. The lesson is being applied in various ways: increasing the numbers of vessels
[osint] Taliban Leader Vows to Hit US Targets Outside Pakistan
Taliban Leader Vows to Hit U.S. Targets Outside Pakistan by IPT News . Jun 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm http://www.investigativeproject.org/2947/taliban-leader-vows-to-hit-us-targ ets-outside http://www.investigativeproject.org/2947/taliban-leader-vows-to-hit-us-targe ts-outside Taliban Leader Vows to Hit U.S. Targets Outside Pakistan by IPT News . Jun 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm http://www.investigativeproject.org/2947/taliban-leader-vows-to-hit-us-targe ts-outside A top Taliban commander http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/06/us-pakistan-taliban-idUSTRE755314 20110606 pledged that his group will avenge the death of Osama bin Laden by attacking U.S. targets outside of Pakistan. Our war against America is continuing inside and outside of Pakistan, said Taliban commander Omar Khalid Khorasani in a video sent to Reuters. When we launch attacks, it will prove that we can hit American targets outside Pakistan. Since bin Laden was killed in a Pakistani garrison city by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in early May, attacks by the al-Qaida linked Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), more commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, has http://www.investigativeproject.org/2901/taliban-revenge-attacks-mostly-tar get-pakistanis mostly targeted Pakistani security forces - including a Peshawar police station, a Karachi naval base and a paramilitary academy. The Taliban did http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=6139Cat=13dt=5/21/201 1 attack several American consular vehicles on a Peshawar road May 20th. A bomb planted in a roadside car hit only one of those vehicles, injuring two consulate officials. These attacks were just a part of our revenge. God willing, the world will see how we avenge Osama bin Laden's martyrdom, said Khorasani. We have networks in several countries outside Pakistan, he said. It would not be the first time it has attacked American targets abroad. The group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of Times Square in May 2010. According to the U.S. government, failed bomber Faisal Shahzad http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1383.pdf received explosives training from the TTP in December 2009. Shahzad http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1383.pdf appeared in a TTP video during which he discussed his plan to attack the United States and encouraged other Muslims to follow his example. The TTP also http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1383.pdf gave Shahzad $12,000 to help finance the attack. Similarly, the TTP was http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/09/pakistan-taliban-leader-ch arged-in-cia-attack implicated in a 2009 suicide bomb attack which killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. In response to that attack, the U.S. http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/09/pakistan-taliban-leader-ch arged-in-cia-attack designated the TTP as a terrorist group on Sept. 2, 2010 Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2947/taliban-leader-vows-to-hit-us-targ ets-outside http://www.investigativeproject.org/2947/taliban-leader-vows-to-hit-us-targe ts-outside [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr
[osint] Chinese deal just for elite
http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article1101429.ece/Chinese-deal-just-for-elite Chinese deal just for elite Defence College pact slammed as facilities to be used by Mugabe and his intelligence men Jun 4, 2011 1:49 PM | By SUNDAY TIMES CORRESPONDENT Zimbabwe's Defence College, which is being built by the Chinese in a controversial deal with the government, will have a state-of-the-art medical facility for President Robert Mugabe and other top government and military officials. quote'Mugabe must send the Chinese to teach in schools' quote Diamond watchdogs, diplomats, civil servants and others have castigated the deal, with Albrecht Conze, the outgoing German envoy to Harare, dismissing the Chinese investment as exploitation. The Sunday Times has been told members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) will - with Chinese help - also be trained at the college, which was blindly agreed to by Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Members of Parliament after a heated debate. Top military officials of Zimbabwe and Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries will also undergo training at the centre. According to highly placed sources, the centre will have an Olympic-size swimming pool, sports grounds, gyms, a well-equipped hospital, entertainment centres and many other recreational facilities. In a deal human rights groups and unions describe as stinking, Zimbabwe mortgaged diamonds worth $100-million to the Chinese in exchange for the construction of the Defence College, just outside Harare. There have been allegations of underhand dealings in the awarding of the deal to Anjin Investment - a suspicious joint venture between Zimbabwe and the Chinese government's Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group (AFECC). Under the arrangement, the Chinese will provide Zimbabwe with a $98-million loan to complete the construction of the college. Zimbabwe will service the loan through diamonds from Chiadzwa in the deal which will not benefit Zimbabweans, as AFECC will bring its own equipment, material and labourers. A top government official privy to the deal said the MDC had been hoodwinked into signing a deal that might come back to haunt it, especially as the college will be used for training CIO officials who have been out to destroy Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party. On the surface it looks like an ordinary situation, but there is more to it. It has a deep impact on the politics of this country and, unfortunately, the MDC did not read into it well. For example, the complex will have a world-class hospital which VIPs, especially Mugabe and his cronies, will use. They do not want to use public hospitals with little privacy. That college is a Zanu-PF project. This college will not benefit the people of Zimbabwe at all. Instead, it will only benefit Mugabe and his cabal and there will be nothing for the majority. As you might be aware, when the Chinese invest in Africa, they do not give back - and that is why they are bringing their own workers, he said. Part of the agreement seen by the Sunday Times reads: The related Zimbabwe side should establish an escrow account to secure the payment and repayment of the facility with the revenue of Zimbabwe's side benefits from Anjin Investment (Private) Limited. An agreement on the escrow account should be signed by Zimbabwe sides and the lender (Export-Import Bank of China). The goods, technologies and services shall be purchased from China preferentially (and) also from Zimbabwe where this will benefit the project. Zimbabwe will pay 0.5% management fees to the Chinese. There was a heated debate in parliament last week with MDC MPs querying the deal, while Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of Defence, was making a presentation. They wanted to know why the government wanted to spend $100-million worth of diamonds to build an elite military college at a time when service delivery has virtually collapsed. The MPS were demanding to know the benefits of the deal to the nation given that the military has been used to perpetrate violence against the people. However, both the House of Assembly and Senate ended up approving the deal, apparently after realising that Finance Minister Tendai Biti had already signed the controversial deal. This development is unfortunate, Farai Maguwu, whose Centre for Research and Development has been instrumental in exposing shady deeds at Chiadzwa, has been quoted as saying this week. China will do well investing in Zimbabwe's social sector as opposed to strengthening the military. It's not a wise investment and it will not improve the quality of life for the ordinary Zimbabwean, said Maguwu, who has been harassed before by the state for his work. Conze told journalists that China's dealings with African countries such as Zimbabwe were not balanced and exploitative. He said Germany was concerned about the way the Chinese were
[osint] Saudi judge seeks doc to sever spinal cord as sharia punishment
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/creeping/ http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/saudi-judge-seeks-doc-to-sev er-spinal-cord-as-sharia-punishment/ Saudi judge seeks doc to sever spinal cord as sharia punishment http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/creeping/ creeping | June 6, 2011 at 10:00 AM | Tags: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=creeping-sharia Creeping Sharia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=islam islam, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=law law, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=legal Legal, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=life Life, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=media Media, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=muslim Muslim, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=news News, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=politics Politics, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=random Random, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=religion Religion, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=sharia Sharia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=travel travel | Categories: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=10378 Alerts, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=4115925 Creeping Sharia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=2283 Legal, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=292 Media, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=3250 Middle East, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=103 News, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=398 Politics, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=116 Religion, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=29069 Sharia | URL: http://wp.me/pbU4v-8KH http://wp.me/pbU4v-8KH This is sharia law, via Saudi judge considers severing spine of attacker who paralyzed man: In a variation of the ancient eye-for-an-eye punishment, a judge in Saudi Arabia has asked hospitals whether doctors would sever the spinal cord of an attacker convicted of paralyzing a man with a cleaver. The Arabic-language newspaper Okaz reported that [...] Saudi judge seeks doc to sever spinal cord as sharia http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/saudi-judge-seeks-doc-to-sev er-spinal-cord-as-sharia-punishment/ punishment Posted on June 6, 2011 by creeping This is sharia law, via http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/08/saudi-judge -considers-severing-spine-of-attacker-who-paralyzed-man/1 Saudi judge considers severing spine of attacker who paralyzed man: In a variation of the ancient eye-for-an-eye punishment, a judge in Saudi Arabia has asked hospitals whether doctors would sever the spinal cord of an attacker convicted of paralyzing a man with a cleaver. The Arabic-language newspaper Okaz reported that one hospital in the northwestern province of Tabuk said it could perform the operation, while a prominent hospital in Riyadh refused, on apparent ethical grounds, saying inflicting such harm is not possible. Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, 22, was left paralyzed and subsequently lost a foot after a fight more than two years ago, his older brother, Khaled al-Mutairi, told the Associated Press. He said the assailant, whom he and the paper did not identify, was sentenced to 14 months in prison, released after seven months in an amnesty and now teaches at a university. Under Islamic (sharia) law in Saudi Arabia, victims can ask that criminals receive punishments similar to the harm they inflicted. It is not uncommon for thieves to have their hands cut off. We are asking for our legal right under Islamic law, Khaled al-Mutairi said. There is no better word than God's word - an eye for an eye. Judge Saoud bin Suleiman al-Youssef sent letters to several hospitals in and outside the region, Emirates 24/7 says. A verdict is pending. Terror-linked CAIR and the ACLU are fighting vigorously to stop states from banning Islamic sharia law, and many more media outlets (Huffpo, Salon, Mother Jones, etc.) are promoting Islamic sharia law as harmless. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational
[osint] Shocker: UK Muzzies Promote Jihad in Universities
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/r0nin/ http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/shocker-uk-muzzies-promote-ji had-in-universities/ Shocker: UK Muzzies Promote Jihad in Universities http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/r0nin/ Ronin | 6 June, 2011 at 6:25 am | Categories: http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=478086 British Muslims, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=714865 False Prophet, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=31020 Fighting Back, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=427504 Indoctrination, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=8256698 Islam Sucks!, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=496259 know your enemy, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=729230 muslim Intolerance, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=693235 Muslim Students Association, http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?cat=259237 Radical Islam | URL: http://wp.me/p1NPg-7ae http://wp.me/p1NPg-7ae A welcomed admission but short sighted. Islam itself is the problem. The only differences between muslims promoting islamic extremism and main stream muslim groups is the method they use to promote the cults goal of world domination. The UK is just one country facing an insurgency inside its borders, American schools just like the rest of the western nations face the same threat. Worse that the threat growing in our schools is the threat growing inside our own government. When we see the State Department, the CIA, the military and others promoting corrupt pro extremist governments and groups in Egypt, Libya, North Africa just to name a few, we know that we have a serious problem. 6 June, 2011, Basildon Recorder The Home Secretary has criticised universities for their complacency in tackling radicalisation and Islamic extremism on campus. -Duh! The remarks came ahead of the publication of the Government's revised Prevent strategy, which was originally launched in 2007 to stop the growth of home-grown terrorism. -Yeah bout that, when ya goin ta start? In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Theresa May said: I think for too long there's been complacency around universities. I don't think they have been sufficiently willing to recognise what can be happening on their campuses and the radicalisation that can take place. I think there is more that universities can do. The Government has identified 40 English universities where there could be a particular risk of radicalisation or recruitment on campus, according to the Daily Mail which said it had seen the updated strategy. -H best ya recount them sckools. You pear a bit low, wasz up wid yor edukation? http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/shocker-uk-muzzies-promote-ji had-in-universities/#more-27542 Read more of this post [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Global Jihad Marches: Islam and Forced Conversion
http://tinyurl.com/686bsc7 Global Jihad Marches: Islam and Forced Conversion Sunday, 05 June 2011 15:55 Vin Ienco http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,564dec71d4081 700a673f1b000a85c890eece40a/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011060513743/world/terrorism/global-jihad-mar ches-islam-and-forced-conversion/print.html Print I have been producing a weekly synopsis and articles on the global encroachment of Islam for about two years. In that time, a week hasn't passed without certain 'staples' of Islam perpetrated on Muslims and Non Muslims alike. One of the traits that are unquestionably unique to Islam is 'forced conversion'. With very little research, it is easy to discover that forced conversion in hand with over-breeding, is part of a larger Islamic strategy to achieve the state of Dar al-Islam, or the 'house of Islam'. Simply defined, it is the chipping away at a country until it is an Islamic state and continuing this, on a global scale, until all religion is for Allah. The weekly synopsis certainly gives a clear picture of this objective. coptic-women-kidnappedSMThis past week, The Pakistan Christian Post reported on yet another case of young girls being kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. The father of the girls, Rehmat Masih, was told by a rich, local businessman that he intended to marry both daughters and had threatened to kidnap them if this wasn't approved of. A complaint to the local Police Station proved pointless as the Police refused to take action. A few days later, the girls were kidnapped by the man while on the way home from a market. Rehmat rushed back to the Police Station to complain. After an investigation, Rehmat was accused of making false accusations against the Muslim business man. It was further stated that Rehmat was a drunk and that he often beat his daughters and they had likely ran away from home to escape this treatment. Forced conversion isn't unique to Pakistan and in fact regularly occurs in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Egypt and even England. It begs the question, what could possibly embolden the adherents of Islam to engage in such a heinous act? The answer is simple, the teachings of Mohammed. Islam was spread by the sword after a slight initial, peaceful hiccup. The warlord and slave trader Mohammed's war conquests are very concisely documented. Sûrah al-Baqarah 256: Allah says, Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth has been made clear from error. Whoever rejects false worship and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that never breaks. And Allah hears and knows all things. Sadly, this verse and other verses of peace were replaced by more violent ones, like Sura 8:12, 9:5, 47:4 and many others. Prior to emigrating from Mecca to Medina (the Hijra) in 622 CE, Mohammed preached sermons of peace and tolerance, taking and perverting verses from the Bible, the Torah and sacred Greek texts. This had proven to be an abject failure to Mohammed, as barely 100 to 150 people had converted to Islam in its first 13 years. Most of these converts were either close or long-time friends or members of his family. From 624 CE, raids on defenseless communities reaped great rewards for the early Muslims in slaves, wealth and converts to Islam. A large portion of these people converted for self-preservation as the warring Muslims murdered, tortured, enslaved and raped their way across Arabia. This had proven a more lucrative tact to the one of peace and tolerance. This is accentuated in Ibn Ishaq 814: Submit and testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the apostle of Allah before you lose your head. As well as Sahih Muslim 31:5917: Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger. The people of Mecca who refused to convert to Islam were forcibly removed following Mohammed's last sermon in 632 CE. The same offer was made to the Christians and Jews in Arabia, though their choice was extended to either accept Islam as their faith, leave their land or be killed. From Mohammed last sermon, Koran 9:5, Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. Sahih Muslim 19, 4366, Narrated Umar b. al-Khattib: I have heard the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) say:' I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim'. In June 2008, Saba and Anila Younas, both Christian girls from Pakistan, were abducted by a group of Muslims, and forced to marry and convert to Islam. When the matter came before the court, Naeem Sardar, the District and Sessions Judge, ordered that the girls were not to be remanded to their Christian parents because the
[osint] UK Foreign Office confirms Iranian support for Syria
Foreign Office confirms Iranian support for Syria Iran is helping the Syrian regime in its crackdown on pro-democracy protests, according to British intelligence reports revealed to The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8558066/Foreign-O ffice-confirms-Iranian-support-for-Syria.html Foreign Office confirms Iranian support for Syria Iran is helping the Syrian regime in its crackdown on pro-democracy protests, according to British intelligence reports revealed to The Daily Telegraph. A Syrian human rights group said 38 people had been killed in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, 10 on Saturday and 28 on Sunday Photo: EPA By James Kirkup http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/james-kirkup/ , and Richard Spencer 12:01AM BST 06 Jun 2011 Senior Foreign Office sources said that there is credible information that Tehran is providing riot control gear and paramilitary training to Syrian security forces. Moreover, members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been providing technical advice and equipment to forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, the sources said. The accusation comes as the Assad regime's policy of shooting down protesters on the streets of Syria's major cities shows no sign of let-up. A Syrian human rights group said 38 people had been killed in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, 10 on Saturday and 28 on Sunday. With 65 people also reported killed in the town of Hama on Friday, the number of dead since the uprising began in March is now estimated at 1,200. A video leaked to a Syrian news website based in Dubai showed soldiers standing among the corpses of their victims. As the Arab Spring has developed, Iran has accused the United States and Britain of backing dictators such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and of turning a blind eye to the killing of demonstrators in Bahrain. But Iran has also offered clear support to Mr Assad. This is a hypocritical action by Iran, said a senior Foreign Office Source. It is not clear if Iranian personnel have travelled to Syria to help Mr Assad, but members of the militant group Hizbollah, which is backed by Tehran, are said to be in Syria fighting alongside Assad forces. The Iranians are also reported to have supplied specialist electronic equipment to Damascus to shut down internet access and prevent the spread of news about attacks on civilians. In response, the UK is expected to push for new EU sanctions on members of the Revolutionary Guard. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said Iran's behaviour was unacceptable. He said: As elsewhere in the region, protesters in Syria must be allowed to express their legitimate aspirations and peacefully call for change without fear of brutal repression. Iran's actions are in stark contrast with the will of the Syrian people. Iran's support for Mr Assad is well known, and Britain's decision to make its allegations public now is part of a wider attempt to discredit the Islamic among the young supporters of the Arab Spring movements. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo!
[osint] Italy Hit by Global Insurrection
Italy Hit by Global Insurrection Posted By Michael Ledeen On June 5, 2011 Italy is the latest country to be hit with the fury of the global insurrection, whose recent targets include Muslim countries from Arab North Africa and Iran, largely agnostic European nations including France, Germany, Spain. and Holland, and of course that most revolutionary country, the Christian United States. The occasion for the Italian insurrection was a series of local elections all over the country, and the results were devastating for the incumbents. As elsewhere, the insurrection was focused on the current leader - in this case, Silvio Berlusconi - took most expert observers by surprise, and was intriguingly leaderless (the winning mayoral candidates in Milan and Naples were virtual unknowns, and while both attracted support from the center-left Democratic Party, they owed it nothing and will likely govern with teams of young mavericks), leaving traditional opposition figures wondering what to do next. As in Egypt, we can expect the usual suspects - here, the center-left, and most importantly the heirs of the old Communist Party - to reorganize, penetrate the new insurrectionaries, and trot out their old dreams of an even bigger state with even more central control, but for the moment, it's wide open. Meanwhile, Berlusconi has been battered in the most unexpected way - most of us experts thought he was unbeatable at the polls, as the public opinion surveys had documented until the eve of the vote - and his party, which is more a cult of personality than a modern political organization, is now looking for a successor for the first time in eighteen years. In our words, the Italian Tea Party has had a great success. To be sure, winning some local administrative elections does not a political revolution make, and Italy has some terrible problems. I am now in Naples, where the new mayor is putting together a city government largely made up of intellectuals, journalists, and lawyers, very few of whom have any experience managing anything (the new guy himself is a former prosecutor). We know how unhappily that sort of administration can turn out. For the moment he's launching happy, politically correct promises: traffic-free zones in the middle of town, no more plastic cups, differentiated garbage collection, an invitation to Obama for Christmas vacation.none of which even begins to come to grips with the city's massive corruption, lack of security even in good neighborhoods, and one of the world's busiest and most lethal criminal organizations, the camorra. Moreover, as elsewhere, the tumult came from a minority of voters, typically young ones. Here nearly seventy per cent of young voters said hell no to the pro-Berlusconi candidate. On the other hand, nearly half of registered voters went to the beach or slept in, representing a landslide hell no to the entire political class. If the new guys prove unable to cope - and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they fail, since most of the time most of us fail, and these challenges would be daunting for Cardinal Wolsey at his best - the alienation of Italians will intensify, with results that are very hard to iimagine. But that can be said about the global insurrection most everywhere. We are in the middle of a paradigm shift from a bipolar Cold War template to something we do not yet know, and there is still no major leader anywhere who shows signs of being able to master the tumult and guide us to the new paradigm. He certainly isn't anywhere in Washington. _ Article printed from Faster, Please!: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2011/06/05/italy-hit-by-global-insurre ction/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for
[osint] Islam's Viral Stasis
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9668/pub_detail.asp June 4, 2011 Islam's Viral Stasis http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.93/author_detail.asp Edward Cline Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (5) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9668 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110604_IslamVirusB.jpg Two recent, contrasting analyses of Islam - or rather, of the Islamic mindset that governs the behavior of Muslims - help to identify the problem with the ideology. One is http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/why-muslim-cultures-lag-behind.html Why Muslim cultures lag behind,by Anti-Jihadist on Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch. The second is by Daniel Greenfield on Sultan Knish, http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/05/will-islam-destroy-itself.html?utm_ source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed:+FromNyToIsraelSultanRe vealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+(from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+B ehind+the+News) Will Islam Destroy Itself? Both articles discuss what can be described as Islam's state of stasis, or moral, political, and cultural stagnation. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary best indicates the phenomenon: Stasis: a: a state of static balance or equilibrium; stagnation b: a state or period of stability during which little or no evolutionary change in a lineage occurs. That Islam fosters stagnation in its adherents' cultures is an observable given. Islam has not changed in any fundamental respect since its founding in the 7th century. It has simply been refined in its details and interpreted to govern all human action, regardless of race, region, or nation. Christianity and Judaism underwent changes that made them tolerant of secular, exo-religious values, such as freedom of speech. Men who saw no value in stagnation, who wished to exercise their minds and be free to act, waged a long and bloody conflict with religious and political authority in the West, and won. If the Church claimed it ruled men to save their immortal souls, men replied that their souls were not the Church's to save. Islam cannot cede such an argument. There are no doctrinaire loopholes in the system. It is all-encompassing, and allows no exceptions to its rule. To be saved by Islam is to submit to it without reason and in every particular. Your soul is Allah's to save or to condemn. Jihad Watch's article lists several attributes prevalent in technologically and economically advanced Western and Westernized nations (the latter including India and Japan), but which are largely absent in any given islamic culture: an absence of personal responsibility, of innovation, of devotion to any idea or organization beyond family, tribe or clan, of equality of women and men in terms of politics and economics, of skilled labor, and of a meritocracy. Included in the list are a belief in magic and an obsession with conspiracies (against tribes, against Islam, and so on), but these will not be discussed here. The Jihad Watch article is correct and well-intentioned, but woefully lacking itself in explaining why the West has surpassed Islam. Without establishing the broader context of why and how innovation, devotion, skilled labor and so on exist in the West but not in Muslim culture, the list seems wholly arbitrary. One could easily substitute honesty, diet or education for any of the others, or simply add them to the list. Innovation, for example, requires not only the freedom to create and invent, but the desire to think. Capitalism fosters and rewards the freedom and the desire. Islam suffocates and punishes them. The article makes this odd statement about meritocracy, which is likely a euphemism for capitalism. The West has thrived not only because they have learned to hold people responsible for their actions, but also they have learned to give out rewards based on individual achievement. Hence higher-performing individuals tend to be eventually in charge and reap the most rewards (in prestige, rank, money, etc.). Who are they who are giving out rewards to individuals? And who are the high-performing Individuals who will eventually take charge and reap the most rewards? This could just as well be a description of a communist or fascist society, of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Prestige, rank, and (legally looted) money are paramount values in collectivist societies, even in Islamic ones. If the author of the article is pro-capitalism, his choice of words is ill-considered. Linked to the meritocracy issue, although the author treats it as a separate issue, is personal responsibility, which he attributes solely to political leaders. Muslim leaders often lie to or deceive their own people, to subordinates, or to allies in order to advance their own personal
[osint] The Audacity Of Hate
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9673/pub_detail.asp June 6, 2011 The Audacity Of Hate http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.153/author_detail.asp Gadi Adelman Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (0) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9673 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110605_TurkeyMonument.jpg The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas unveiled a monument to nine Turkish activists killed last year during the Israeli raid on the flotilla seeking to break Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh led Tuesday's ceremony at Gaza City's harbor, on the first anniversary of the May 31, 2010 raid, in which Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship, the Mavi Marmara. The monument, situated in a brand new public park, stands 10-meters high and features nine metal sails with a world globe on top. This statue looks as if one of the Hamas rockets is sticking out of the earth after being fired. The globe appears as a statement of world domination. Getting beyond the significance of its meaning, I have to wonder how these poor, poor people who are living is such squalor can afford such a park, a monument, the uniforms (on the sailors who have no navy), not to mention those beautiful buildings in the background. Yes, the Gaza Strip is doing quite well, but that is another story for another time. Israel has been preparing - as well as training - to block the second aid flotilla which is due to sail from Turkey to Gaza, one year after last years deadly confrontation. This years flotilla will have up to 15 ships from at least 14 countries. According to the http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=223430 Jerusalem Post, there are training programs and changes for this years flotilla, This time around, the navy has been preparing rigorously for the operation, enlisting all of its Flotilla 13 commandos from the reserves and running different training models with various scenarios, from passive resistance such as sit-downs to potential gunfights and booby-trapped ships. In addition to Flotilla 13 better known as the Shayetet the ships will be boarded by members of the Border Polices Yasam Unit and the Prisons Service elite Masada Unit, both known for their expertise in crowd control and the use of non-lethal means to quell violent riots. But it doesnt end with just non-lethal means, The teams will be supported by snipers whose job will be to neutralize violent protesters before the commandos board the ships with dogs from Oketz, the IDFs canine unit, and operators from Yahalom, the elite unit from the Engineering Corps. Thus far, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Holland, Switzerland, Greece, Sweden, Spain, Canada and the United States have ships involved with passengers possibly reaching 1000 or more. According to the Israel National News http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144733 report, A ship flying US colors and carrying 34 passengers is set to joint this year's Gaza-bound, IHH-sponsored Freedom Flotilla 2 in June. This year's American vessel, named The Audacity of Hope after US President Barack Obamas best-selling book, is being organized by an American group called US Boat to Gaza. Obama links to the Audacity do not end there, however. Prof. Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Affairs, and a friend from Obamas time in Chicago, is among the supporters of an appeal launched by the group last week. Talk about audacity; why is another flotilla even necessary? On Saturday May, 28 Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza after four years. The closing of the border 4 years ago by Egypt was done to put pressure on Hamas after they won the election of 2007 becoming the ruling body in the Gaza Strip. This was done under the previous government of Hosni Mubarak, but now that he has been ousted The border between Egypt and Gaza is now open once again. Back on April 30 the Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-warns-israel-don-t-inte rfere-with-opening-of-gaza-border-crossing-1.358969 reported a warning from Egypt to its ally Israel, Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces General Sami Anan warned Israel against interfering with Egypt's plan to open the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, saying it was not a matter of Israel's concern. Rafah's opening would be a violation of an agreement reached in 2005 between the United States, Israel, Egypt, and the European Union, which gives EU monitors access to the crossing. The monitors were to
[osint] The Obama Peace Plan: Rahm Emanuel Is Wrong
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9677/pub_detail.asp June 6, 2011 The Obama Peace Plan: Rahm Emanuel Is Wrong http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.187/author_detail.asp Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (1) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9677 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110605_ObamaBubbles.jpg Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt last week to reassure Israel that President Obama's http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-mid dle-east-and-north-africa May 19th speech was misconstrued; Mr. Obama's repeated calls for Israel's return to the 1967 lines grew out of his concern for the Jewish state, claimed the former White House Chief of Staff. In his June 2nd http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-commitment-to-israel/2011/06/ 02/AGj0NZHH_print.html Washington Post article, Mr. Emanuel echoed the president's contention that http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/23/remarks-president-uni ted-nations-general-assembly the hard realities of demography threaten the survival of the Jewish state. Clearly, both anchored their arguments in the conjured estimates of the http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=386989 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. A 2006 World Bank study found a http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/palestinian-population.pps 32% 'inflation' in the number of Arab births, alleged by the Palestinians. A more recent comprehensive study on Jewish-Arab Demographic Trends in the Land of Israel, published earlier this year by http://www.theettingerreport.com/Demographic-Scare/Demographic-Trends-in-th e-Land-of-Israel.aspx Yakov Faitelson, found that in 2011 there is a 66% Jewish majority . in the combined area of pre-1967 Israel, Judea and Samaria. The study demonstrated that . Despite 120 years of demographic calamity projections, the Jewish population in the Land of Israel succeeded to grow from a 5% minority to a 60% majority. . In 2010, the Jewish fertility rate is 63% higher than Lebanon's, 53% higher than Iran's, 33% higher than Turkey's and Kuwait's, 23% higher than Saudi Arabia's, slightly higher than Egypt's and only 7% and 4% lower than Jordan's and Syria's respectively. . Israeli Arab fertility rate has collapsed since the 1970s [due to a most successful integration into the infrastructures of education, employment, finance, politics, culture, sports, etc.].It declined to 3.5 births per woman in 2009. . In 1995, there were 2.34 Jewish births per 1 Arab birth. In 2009-10, there were 3.12 Jewish births per 1 Arab birth. . The demographic trends within pre-1967 Israel are identical to those in Judea and Samaria.but, in a much faster pace. The fertility rate of Judea and Samaria Arabs dropped from 6.44 births per woman in 1990 to 3.12 births in 2010.lower than Israeli Arabs and substantially lower than the Jewish fertility rate in the Jerusalem region. As this study clearly documented, the shifting sands of demography in the Middle East work in favor of the Jewish state, not against it, as Mr. Emanuel argued. To be sure, the uncertainty brought by the Arab Spring, does not add to the stability of the region. But dividing the Jewish state will do nothing to calm the demands for freedom by millions of oppressed Arabs, reform corrupt regimes, create new jobs, or lead to democracy. Instead, weakening Israel - the only democracy and unwavering ally of the United States in the Middle East - would encourage the highly indoctrinated, well-armed savage Islamic fundamentalist elements in the region to move from political extortion to physical attacks on the Jewish state, as well as other U.S. interests in the region, such as Saudi oil-fields. Mr. Emanuel warns of the danger to Israel from unilateral efforts to create a recognized state of Palestine. But these are hardly unilateral; the Palestinians are joined by the http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/eu-initiative-recognition-of-pale stinian-state-by-next-year-1.263669 United Nations, the http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/0BB5818FCE830FC8852577F90061427B European Union, the http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-29/world/qatar.arab.peace.initiative_1_pale stinian-state-israel-palestinian-arab-peace-initiative?_s=PM:WORLD Arab League, most http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=223051 OAS countries, as well as the http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-mid dle-east-and-north-africa Administration itself. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-mid dle-east-and-north-africa
[osint] The Real Egyptian Revolution
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9671/pub_detail.asp June 4, 2011 The Real Egyptian Revolution http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.59/author_detail.asp Caroline Glick Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (0) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9671 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110604_IDF.jpg The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees. Over the past week, leading newspapers have devoted relatively in-depth coverage to the Egyptian military authorities' repressive actions in subduing protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, particularly during their large protest last Friday. That is, they have provided in-depth coverage of one spent force repressing another spent force. Neither the military nor the protesters are calling the shots anymore in Egypt, if they ever were. That is the job of the Muslim Brotherhood. The proximate cause of last Friday's mass demonstration was what the so-called Twitter and Facebook revolutionaries consider the military's slowness to respond to their demand for ousted president Hosni Mubarak's head on a platter. The military responded by announcing that Mubarak and his sons will go on trial for capital crimes on August 3. Beyond bloodlust, the supposedly liberal young sweethearts of the Western media are demanding a cancellation of the results of the referendum held in March on the sequencing of elections and constitutional reform. Voting in that referendum was widely assessed as the freest vote in Egyptian history. Seventy-seven percent of the public voted to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in September and to appoint members of a constitutional assembly from among the elected members of the next parliament to prepare Egypt's new constitution. The protesters rightly assert that the early elections will pave the way for the Muslim Brotherhood's takeover of Egypt, since the Brotherhood is the only well-organized political force in Egypt. But then, the liberals said they wanted popular rule. The Facebook protesters demanded Mubarak's immediate removal from power in January. They would not negotiate Mubarak's offer to use the remainder of his final term to shepherd Egypt towards a quasi-democratic process that might have prevented the Brotherhood from taking over. In their fantasy world - which they inhabit with Western intellectuals - the fates of nations are determined by the number of likes on your facebook page. And so, when they had the power to avert the democratic Islamist takeover of their country in January, they squandered it. Now, when it is too late, they are trying to win through rioting what they failed to win at the ballot box, thus discrediting their protestations of liberal values. Their new idea was spelled out last week at an EU-sponsored conference in Cairo. According to the Egyptian media, they hope to convince the military they protest against to stack the deck for the constitutional assembly in a way that prevents the Brotherhood from controlling the proceedings. As Hishan el-Bastawisy, a former appellate judge and presidential hopeful explained, What we can push for now is that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has to put some guarantees of choosing the constituent assembly in the sense that it does not reflect the parliamentary majority. So much for Egypt's liberal democrats. AS FOR the military, its actions to date make clear that its commanders do not see themselves as guardians of secular rule in Egypt. Instead, they see themselves as engines for a transition from Mubarak's authoritarian secularism to the Brotherhood's populist Islamism. Since forcing Mubarak to resign, the military junta has embraced Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. They engineered the Palestinian unity government which will pave the way for Hamas's victory in the Palestinian Authority's legislative and presidential elections scheduled for the fall. Then there is Sinai. Since the revolution, the military has allowed Sinai to become a major base not only for Hamas but for the global jihad. As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned on Monday, Egyptian authorities are not asserting their sovereignty in Sinai and jihadists from Hamas, al-Qaida and other groups are inundating the peninsula. Last week's move to open Egypt's border with Gaza at the Rafah passage is further proof that the military has made its peace with the Islamic takeover of Egypt. While the likes of The New York Times make light of the significance of the move by pointing to the restrictions that Egypt has placed on Palestinian travel, the fact is that the Egyptians just accepted Hamas's sovereignty over an international border. Many in
[osint] Thanks To Barack Obama Egypt Is The New Iran
http://tinyurl.com/3bfe4zd June 5, 2011 http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/06/thanks-to-barack-obama-egypt-is-new. html Thanks To Barack Obama Egypt Is The New Iran By Barry Rubin 1. How Egypt is the New Iran To put it simply, what has happened in Egypt is not just the undoing of the Mubarak regime but the undoing of the Sadat regime, that is, repealing the revolution Anwar al-Sadat made in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sadat changed Egypt's course from a radical state trying to destabilize other Arab countries, destroy Israel, and oppose U.S. interests. He deemphasized spreading revolution, made peace with Israel, and allied Egypt with the United States. Now, with help from President Barack Obama, those processes have been undone. Egypt will return to the pre-Sadat era to support radical forces, try to wipe Israel off the map, and oppose U.S. interests. According to a recent poll http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/egyptians-say-economy-tops- their-list-of-concerns-not-democracy/2011/06/04/AGUV31IH_story.html , 65 percent of Egyptians said they supported the revolution because of economic reasons; only 19 percent cited lack of democracy. Eighty percent of Egyptians say they believe their economic situation will improve in the next year. But it won't. Foreign investment won't risk sending money to Egypt; tourists won't risk going. When Arab governments can't provide cheap bread they turn to cheaper hatred and foreign adventures. The only question is the relative proportion of radical nationalism and Islamism there will be in that mix. The mass media will discover this in September. Yet it is obvious in June. Egypt's transformation will be for today what Iran's meant for the last thirty years. Inasmuch as U.S. influence had an effect, Jimmy Carter's incompetence helped give us Islamist Iran, Barack Obama's incompetence and ideology helped give us radical (perhaps Islamist) Egypt. 2. Egyptian Moderate Leader: We Don't Want to Fight Israel; We Just Have To. And what about the Facebook kid moderates? One of their main leaders, Ahmed Maher, gave a talk at MIT on April 29. He said http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3sD-9-wfLMfeature=youtu.be , according to the translation: We do not want to have any problems or war with anyone. But there are things we cannot ignore. There are people beside [neighboring} us being oppressed and killed. And they have been treated very harshly, Palestine. We cannot remain silent about something like this. In fact, though, the translation was wrong. He used the word ibada, which doesn't mean oppressed and killed it means genocide. This mistranslation softens the point and the extreme hatred even Egyptian moderates have toward Israel. But let's leave that aside to consider what Maher's saying: We don't want conflict or war with our neighbors BUT there's genocide next door and so.. If you believe genocide is being committed next door one must act, right? If the United States went to war to protect Libyans; how can Egypt not do so to save fellow Arabs and Muslims from being murdered a few miles away? Thirty years after the Egypt-Israel peace treaty; eighteen years after Israel agreed to the Palestinian Authority ruling almost all West Bank/Gaza Palestinians; and six years after Israel withdrew from all of the Gaza Strip, the basic Egyptian moderate's view of Israel has not changed one bit. A group that openly proclaims it wants to kill all Jews (genocide, ibada) rules the Gaza Strip. It violently represses any opposition, helps to expel all of the Christians there, teaches children that they should grow up to be terrorists and kill Jews, breaks a functioning ceasefire and openly attacks Israel militarily. Israel defends itself. But to this Egyptian moderate (whose statement on Israel the audience at MIT applauded wildly) Israel is supposedly the one committing genocide. Why should Israel's giving up all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem have any more effect than Israel leaving the Sinai Penninsula, the Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon, and the populated portions of the West Bank? And how can anyone dare assert that doing so would end the conflict without even having the decency to deal with these facts? Contemplate those three paragraphs before advocating the idea that more Israeli concessions will bring peace. This is no abstraction. After September, Egypt will have a radical, possibly Islamist parliament. Before the year's end it will have a radical, possibly Islamist, president. --What hope is there for the 30-year-old Egypt-Israel peace treaty? --Will the U.S. government recognize and do something about it if/when Egypt stops honoring the peace treaty (whether or not it is explicitly announced? --If Hamas attacks Israel again (inevitable) will Egypt join in the war? --Will Egypt let thousands of terrorists and volunteers cross into Gaza to fight? Weapons to flow freely from Iran and Syria? Huge amounts of money to go into Gaza
[osint] The Coming of the Mahdi
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9675/pub_detail.asp June 6, 2011 The Coming of the Mahdi http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.157/author_detail.asp Amil Imani Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (6) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9675 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110214_AhmadinejadBomb.jpg The world is presently at its most wicked. It is beyond human help. It requires only a nudge to implode and prepare for the divine ruler, the Saheb-ul-Zaman (the Mahdi, the Lord of the Age) to come and set it aright. It is the sacred duty and privilege of every Muslim to do all he can to hasten the death of the old world and the birth of the global Islamic Ummah. Thus goes the thinking of Iran's ruling mullahs and their hand-picked president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It seems like the old millennialist thinking, a belief held, in one version or another by major religions. Indeed it is, with one terribly alarming difference. This time around, a group of believers with tremendous resources are intent upon forcing the issue, making the conditions so dire that it leaves the reluctant Saheb-ul-Zaman no choice but to appear and assume his universal reign. The belief in supernatural intervention to set the world aright is scriptural to major religions, including Islam. The Jews have been earnestly supplicating the Lord for the Messiah to come; the Christians are impatiently awaiting the second coming of Christ; and, the Zoroastrians are convinced that Saoshayant is the one who shall come, defeat the trouble-making Ahriman-Satan-and make the creatures again pure. Up to this point millennialism was a belief and a hope. No one ever aspired to or had the means of making the anticipated events come about. The matter was in the hands of God. The Muslims' perennial prayer recited every day, posted in mosques and even on bumpers of vehicles has been, O, Saheb-ul-Zaman, hasten your coming. The prayer for the advent, thus far, has been limited to passive supplications of the faithful. It is a well-established fact that beliefs are potent impetus to action. If you believe your home is about to be burglarized, you secure the house and take other precautions. If you, under the influence of cocaine, believe that a bug is burrowing into your skin, you may take a knife to your own body and try to dig the imaginary bug out. Hence, it is shortsighted to dismiss the mullahs as a bunch of lunatics who are out of touch with reality and that they have no intention of doing catastrophic mischief to compel the Mahdi's coming-- maybe some arming of the Iraqi Shiites, a little support for Hizbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine-but no, no major idiocy. After all, they are rational people and in touch with reality. Any large-scale troublemaking spells their doom as well. Thus goes the rationalization-the greatest risky tranquilizer of the mind. Rationalization, compounded by complacency and denial, can be deadly, particularly when the adversaries have different realities. To the fanatic mullahs ruling Iran Sahaeb-ul-Zaman is an absolute reality and his promised advent is irrevocably ordained. This is their reality and their belief and they have every intention of leading their life according to them. It is foolish for non-Muslims to dismiss the mullahs and the likes of the Taliban as a bunch of fringe lunatics who are going to go away simply by wishing it. The Islamist reality is that non-Muslims are the ones who deserve to be done away with; they are the ones who have refused to submit to the summons of Allah for much too long; and, it is time for the faithful to get rid of them. This makes for a lopsided contest. The non-Muslims are passively wishing that nightmarish surge of Islamism is only a temporary fringe phenomenon doomed to die on its own, while the other side is marshaling its huge destructive power to accomplish its aim by eradicating non-Muslims. The cabal of fanatical mullahs ruling Iran has lost its patience, not only with the unbelievers, but also with the Mahdi as well. They aim to force his arrival. The mullahs believe they have the means to make it impossible for the Mahdi to tarry any longer by causing unprecedented death and destruction-conditions deemed essential for his coming. The world must hit the very bottom, before the savior of the world comes to the rescue, so they firmly believe. The question is: What does prudence demand? Clearly wishing the problem to go away is not a very effective solution in the same way that wishing for the Saheb-ul-Zaman to come has not been. Reasoning and negotiating with the mullahs and their ilk hold very little, if any, lasting promise. There are always the easy ways of denial and appeasement. We
[osint] Obama tunes out, and business goes on hiring strike
June 6, 2011 / 4 Sivan, 5771 Obama tunes out, and business goes on hiring strike By Michael Barone http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Last week I noted that various forms of the word unexpected almost inevitably appeared in news stories about unfavorable economic developments. You can find them again in stories about Friday's shocking news, that only 54,000 net new jobs were created in the month of May and that unemployment rose to 9.1 percent. But with news that bad, maybe bad economic numbers will no longer be unexpected. You can only expect a robust economic recovery for so long before you figure out, as Herbert Hoover eventually did, that it is not around the corner. Exogenous factors explain some part of the current economic stagnation. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a slowdown in manufacturing. Horrendous tornadoes did not help. Nor did bad weather, though only a few still bitterly cling to the theory that it's caused by man-made global warming. But poor public policy is surely one reason why the American economy has not rebounded from recession as it has in the past. And political posturing has also played a major role. Barack Obama and the Democratic congressional supermajorities of 2009-10 raised federal spending from 21 to 25 percent of gross domestic product. Their stimulus package stopped layoffs of public employees for a while, even as private sector payrolls plummeted. And the Obama Democrats piled further burdens on would-be employers in the private sector. Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill are scheduled to be followed by thousands of regulations that will impose impossible-to-estimate costs on the economy. That seems to have led to a hiring freeze. The Obama Democrats can reasonably claim not to be responsible for the huge number of layoffs that occurred in the months following the financial crisis of fall 2008. And Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did manage to help stabilize financial markets. But while the number of layoffs is now vastly less than in the first half of 2009, the number of new hires has not increased appreciably. Many more people have been unemployed for longer periods than in previous recessions, and many more have stopped looking for work altogether. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the threat of tax increases and increased regulatory burdens have produced something in the nature of a hiring strike. And then there is the political posturing. On April 13 Obama delivered a ballyhooed speech at George Washington University. The man who conservatives as well as liberal pundits told us was a combination of Edmund Burke and Reinhold Niebuhr was widely expected to present a serious plan to address the budget deficits and entitlement spending. Instead the man who can call on talented career professionals at the Office of Management and Budget to produce detailed blueprints gave us something in the nature of a few numbers scrawled on a paper napkin. The man depicted as pragmatic and free of ideological cant indulged in cheap political rhetoric, accusing Republicans, including House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan who was in the audience, of pushing old ladies in wheelchairs down the hill and starving autistic children. The signal was clear. Obama had already ignored his own deficit reduction commission in preparing his annual budget, which was later rejected 97-0 in the Senate. Now he was signaling that the time for governing was over and that he was entering campaign mode 19 months before the November 2012 election. People took notice, especially those people who decide whether to hire or not. Goldman Sachs's Current Activity Indicator stood at 4.2 percent in March. In April -- in the middle of which came Obama's GW speech -- it was 1.6 percent. For May it is 1 percent. That is a major drop in no time at all, wrote Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal. After April 13 Obama Democrats went into campaign mode. They staged a poll-driven Senate vote to increase taxes on oil companies. They began a Mediscare campaign against Ryan's budget resolution that all but four House Republicans had voted for. That seemed to pay off with a special election victory in New York's 26th Congressional District. The message to job creators was clear. Hire at your own risk. Higher taxes, more burdensome regulation and crony capitalism may be here for some time to come. One possible upside is that economic bad news may no longer be unexpected. Another is that voters may figure out what is going on. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:
[osint] Turkey/Saudi Financed Mega Mosques in Europe - Fettualah Gulen
The AKP, the dominant Turkish Islamist party of Prime Minister Erdogan, President Abudllah Gul and Fetullah Gulen, is committed to restoring the glory of the Ottoman Empire and Islamicizing the West under Turkish domination. Erdogan has publicly declared that he is a servant of the shariah. Gulen has been a U.S. resident for several decades, is worth $25-50 billion and operates Gulen schools, think tanks and interfaith centers throughout the world. In fact, he controls the largest charter school network in the United States. This is all part of the overall strategy to reestablish the Ottoman Caliphate. In the 2 minute video below, you will view another aspect of the Turkish/Saudi Islamization strategy - the building of mega-mosques that can be seen and heard from everywhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlEgeHs5a0gfeature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlEgeHs5a0gfeature=player_embedded [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Afghan War News - June 6, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3g269rf June 06, 2011 War In Afghanistan News 6 June 2011 http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551d9d3fd8833015432cc5517970c-po pup AfghanistanProvincesWar in Afghanistan News reports provided by ISAF Joint Command. Operations are reported in the following provinces: Ghazni, Kabul, Kunduz, Balkh, Zabul, Helmand, Kandahar, Logar, Paktika, Khost and Nangarhar. Bomb making materials, explosive vests, weapons caches along with Taliban leaders were the name of the game with 11 provinces reporting on operations today. Various IED components were found along with drugs and several insurgents who fired on troops were killed. Tailor the way you get your War in Afghanistan News http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2009/09/ways-to-get-your-war-on-ter ror-news.html In other International Security Assistance Force Joint (ISAF) Command Operational News throughout Afghanistan: Ghazni Province In Gelan district, Ghazni province, a combined Afghan and coalition force patrol discovered an explosives cache during an operation yesterday. The operation secured 44 pounds (20 kgs) of ammonium nitrate, 14 82 mm mortar rounds, TNT, 30 12 mm rounds and one pistol. The explosives were safely destroyed on site. Kabul Province A combined Afghan and coalition force patrol discovered a weapons cache during a security operation targeting a suicide attack planner in Kabul, yesterday. The operation secured a suicide vest, three grenades, three detonators and 154 pounds (70 kgs) of homemade explosive. The explosives were safely destroyed on site. One man was detained by Afghan authorities for processing and further questioning. Also. A combined Afghan and coalition operation targeted a suicide improvised explosive device cell in Kabul, yesterday. One man was detained and the operation recovered one suicide vest, 40 pounds (18 kgs) of ammonium nitrate and four AK-47 rifles. The explosives and weapons were safely destroyed on site and the detainee was taken by Afghan authorities for processing and further questioning. Kunduz Province A combined Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader and detained several of his associates during a security operation in Kunduz district, Kunduz province, yesterday. The targeted leader was part of a significant attack network and commanded 20-25 fighters in Wali Mohammed Ogrtepa village in Kunduz district. He and the Kunduz attack network are directly involved in roadside bomb and suicide attacks against Afghan government officials and Afghan National Security Forces. The Afghan-led security force captured the leader at a compound in the district. The security force isolated the compound and an Afghan member of the force called for all occupants to exit. Once the women and children were secured, the force searched the area and interviewed residents, where they identified the leader. He, along with several of his associates, were detained for further questioning. The force ensured the safety of all civilians during the night operation and no shots were fired. Tailor the way you get your War in Afghanistan News http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2009/09/ways-to-get-your-war-on-ter ror-news.html Balkh Province A combined Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected insurgents during a security operation in Chahar Bolak district, Balkh province, yesterday. The Afghan-led security force was in the district searching for a Taliban leader responsible for planning attacks in the district. The force searched for the leader at an associated compound and interviewed residents regarding Taliban activity in the area. Based on the interviews, they were able to identify and detain the several suspected insurgents. The night operation was conducted without shots fired and no civilians harmed. Zabul Province A combined Afghan and coalition security force detained several individuals with suspected ties to Taliban activity during an overnight security operation in Tarnek wa Jaldak district, Zabul province, yesterday. The Afghan-led force was conducting the security operation to capture a Taliban leader who commands an explosive-device cell in the district. Based on several intelligence sources, the force searched for the leader at a location in the district. While searching the area, they identified and detained several individuals with suspected ties to the insurgent leader. Also during the search, the force confiscated a warhead from a rocket-propelled grenade. The operation was completed with no shots fired and no civilians were harmed. Helmand Province A combined Afghan and coalition force patrol engaged several insurgents during a security operation in Kajaki district, Helmand province, yesterday. Several insurgents were killed when they engaged the patrol with small-arms fire. No members of the combined patrol were injured during the engagement. Also. A coalition
[osint] NATO Continues Offensive in Libya to Protect Civilians
http://tinyurl.com/43hyhpb June 06, 2011 NATO Continues Offensive in Libya to Protect Civilians http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551d9d3fd883301538ef7b15a970b-po pup LibyaNATO Continues Air Assault on Libya VoA News: NATO war planes on Sunday continued their assault on targets in and around Tripoli, hitting a military barracks in the Libyan capital and checkpoints near Brega. The attacks are designed to keep up pressure on Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to bring to an end his 42 years in power. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who visited the rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Saturday, said the campaign against pro-Gadhafi forces is intensifying. But he rejected suggestions that it has strayed from the U.N. mandate to protect civilians. He told reporters in London Sunday, This is not mission creep . Hague defended the use of British and French attack helicopters, which were employed for the first time on Saturday. But Russian Deputy Prime Minister Minister Sergei Ivanov warned that use of the helicopters puts NATO one step closer to a ground operation. Russia abstained when the U.N. Security Council voted in March to establish a no-fly zone over Libya. It has repeatedly called for a negotiated solution to the conflict. A special Russian envoy is due Monday in Benghazi, where he plans to meet with members of the rebels' Transitional National Council. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Obama's Religion Czar Compares Evangelicals to Islamic Terrorists
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news256.htm OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS CZAR COMPARES EVANGELICALS TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS By NWV News writer Jim Kouri Posted 1:00 AM Eastern June 6, 2011 C 2011 NewsWithViews.com One of the saddest moments for conservative Christians http://www.usnews.com/listings/best-leaders/15-eboo-patel was when U.S. News World Reports chose Eboo Patel as one of America's Best Leaders in 2009. President Barack Obama's religion czar and spiritual adviser has likened evangelical Christians to radical Islamists such as al-Qaeda. He has also been heard comparing Rev. Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network to Osama bin Laden. Obama's advisor, Eboo Patel http://www.ifyc.org/about-us/eboo-patel , is a Muslim who is described by the White House as a moderate. However, Patel is known for making derogatory statements about Bible-reading Christians and Talmud-observing Jews. In 2010, when Obama named Patel to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based Initiatives, he immediately drew a line in the sand, according to political strategist Mike Baker. For example, Patel discussed Christian totalitarians in the United States and Jewish totalitarians in Israel, according to Baker. Obama met Patel when they both lived and worked in Chicago. Patel was well-known locally as a Muslim activist and a friend to Rashid Khalid, a Palestinian historian of the Middle East who left Chicago to become the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York City. On one occasion, according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Patel stated in a speech: The problem is that we live in a time when the Muslim totalitarians are dominating. Why? Because they are building powerful institutions that propagate their interpretation of Islam - just as the Christian totalitarians in America have powerful institutions; and the Jewish totalitarians in Israel have powerful institutions; and the Hindu totalitarians in India have powerful institutions. What do I mean by institutions? asked Patel. Lobbying groups that pass policies, political organizations that get people elected, television and radio and magazines and publishing houses which articulate ideas, schools and universities, youth organizations and women's groups, bodies which raise and distribute money. Surprisingly, Patel then stated http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faith-divide , Al-Qaeda is a network of institutions. Schools and mosques which teach 8-year-olds a certain ideology; organizations which lead them to Afghanistan; training camps which make them soldiers; manuals which offer advice on the prayers to whisper while engaging in violence. The religious identity -- which is to say, the ways of being, believing and belonging in relation with the transcendent -- of too many young Muslims is being shaped by these institutions. Religious totalitarianism is not just the belief that one religion is right, added Patel, but also that there is only one correct interpretation of that religion and everyone should practice it or else. Patel failed to explain that so-called Muslim totalitarians, like al-Qaeda, use terrorism to spread their belief system, said Baker. When was the last time you saw Christians proselytizing with guns and bombs? Baker asks. Aside from his attacks on Christians and Jews, Patel often refers to the myths of America -- describing them as beliefs that the country is a land of freedom and equality and justice. It's obvious Patel has a problem with anyone who claims the United States, its Constitution and laws is based on Judeo-Christian principles. Patel is an associate of Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and like Obama worked with Ayers, who served as a bomb maker for the Marxist group that created havoc in the 1970s. While many Americans question President Obama's religious beliefs, he has a history of gravitating to the most extreme elements of Christianity or Islam. For example, his pastor for 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, believed a moving sermon highlighted the words, God damn, America! God damn, America! Wright's idea of Christianity was a mixture of social justice (the welfare state), race-based theology and bit of Karl Marx, according to several observers including nationally-syndicated talk show host Laurie Roth. One of the saddest moments for conservative Christians was when U.S. News http://www.usnews.com/listings/best-leaders/15-eboo-patel World Reports chose Patel as one of America's Best Leaders in 2009. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com
[osint] A New Grand Alliance
http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/a-new-grand-alliance/ A New Grand Alliance Posted on June 6, 2011 http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/a-new-grand-alliance/ by burkasrugly http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/author/burkasrugly/ i Rate This http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-ab3gTb8xb3dLg.gif Fellow infidels, Constantine points out the similarities between what is happening in the world today with radical Islam and how it relates to the Nazi problem during WWII…Burkasruly During World War II some of the British public were critical of Winston Churchill’s alliance with the Soviet Union. To which Churchill replied, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons”. Of course, this was Churchill’s way of stating that the Nazis were the supreme threat to all that was held dear by Western Civilization. And the Nazis needed to be opposed by every civilized person. Today, we face an even more cunning and deceitful enemy in Islamo-Fascism. Just like the Nazis of seventy years ago radical Islam is a supremacist movement. They, too, have a concept of the Master Race, a.k.a. Muslim men. Like the Nazis, they also engage in an irrational hatred of the Jews. The Islamo-Fascists believe in the destruction of inferior races such as Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians. They degrade women and children in the most bestial of ways. Instead of a Third Reich that will last a thousand years, they promote the universal Islamic Caliphate that will usher in the perfect age of Sharia utopian government. They believe in slavery and submission, which is completely incompatible with freedom and the rule of rational law as embodied in the U. S.Constitution. They allow no expression of ideas that challenge their hate filled ideology. Churchill and Roosevelt crafted a Grand Alliance of nations to combat the spread of Nazi rule. They did not insist on uniformity of thought and action in their Grand Alliance The main thrust of the alliance was the defeat of Nazi ideology by ANY means possible. It was by sheer statesmanship that the Grand Alliance was cobbled together . It was by brilliant leadership that the Grand Alliance swept the Nazi movement into the trash bin of history. President Obama is intellectually, spiritually and morally incapable of providing such leadership. He does not, nor will he ever develop, the strong moral compass that is needed to lead a second Grand Alliance to victory. Obama is a hopeless disaster. Let us pray to God that we will find a Winston Churchill waiting in the wings willing to accept the leadership of the West. Remember in the 1930′s Churchill was an outcast on the British political scene. Neville Chamberlain with his politics of accommodation and appeasement was king of the hill. Remember Chamberlain waving the paper that guaranteed “peace in our time” In less than six months Herr Hitler and his Panzers made short work of Poland starting World War II. Within months Churchill was elected Prime Minister by Parliament and led Britain through the darkest days of the War. Events move rapidly sweeping aside the appeasers of history and bringing true, fearless leadership to the fore. Perhaps, there is a second Churchill already present awaiting his rendezvous with greatness. “An appeaser is someone who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” Winston S. Churchill In hoc signo, Constantine [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/
[osint] Justice for Mumbai Terrorist Murderers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0611/chicago_terror_trial.php3 June 6, 2011 / 4 Sivan, 5771 One defendant, two main characters at terrorism trial in Chicago By Annie Sweeney In the court room as justice is meted out for the Muslim murderers of Mumbai JewishWorldReview.com | mHICAGO- (MCT) During a routine moment last week at a major terrorism trial, prosecutors asked a witness to identify the defendant in court. At the defense table, Tahawwur Rana - with a little smile - quickly raised his hand and waved. The surprising, enthusiastic self-identification from Rana, 50, drew laughs from some jurors - and it also seemed a fitting moment because a man who is not on trial has dominated the proceedings. From the start, Rana's trial has been more about his co-defendant and childhood friend, David Coleman Headley, an admitted terrorist who, to avoid the death penalty, has pleaded guilty to plotting the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed about 170, and to an abortive plot to storm a Danish newspaper office and behead the staff. Headley and Rana both lived in Chicago at the time of the conspiracies. Rana has denied any involvement. Rana, accused of the lesser charges of helping Headley, 50, in his plots, listened as his former friend, the star witness, shared details and accusations in clipped, precise answers about scouting in the tribal areas of Pakistan, boat rides in Mumbai to find the best waterfront spot to land an assault team and visiting a Copenhagen newspaper to figure out how to storm the offices. Rana's role also has been eclipsed by Headley's politically explosive testimony that he was plotting with the secret intelligence arm of the Pakistani government to attack India. His testimony came just weeks after Osama bin Laden was hunted down by the U.S. government and killed in Pakistan, raising questions about that country's commitment to working with the U.S. against terrorism. When the jury starts its deliberations - perhaps on Tuesday - the main focus will finally be on Rana, as jurors sort through emails, transcripts and recordings that prosecutors allege show that he allowed Headley to use his Chicago-based immigration business as cover for scouting trips. But they also will have to consider the testimony of Headley, who, in addition to providing insights into an international terrorist assault, also emerged as a person who has consistently looked out for his own interests and who easily l ies. Witnesses with shady backgrounds and character flaws are not unusual in criminal trials. But here, the defendant's background is remarkably cleaner than the cooperator's, highlighting the stark differences between the two men at the heart of the case. Rana and Headley met as boys at a Pakistani school, bonding immediately even though they were quite different. At that time, Headley was known by his birth name, Daood Gilani. The bad boy and the good boy, was how Rana's attorney Charlie Swift characterized it during the trial, calling Rana a model student and Headley a discipline problem with troubled family relationships. The differences between the two would grow over the next few decades. Rana joined the Pakistani military and became a doctor. He married a doctor after their families introduced them, believing they were a good match. They had three children, raising them in the West after Rana deserted the military in search of a better life. Rana became a Canadian citizen but moved to Chicago, where he opened several businesses. Headley, an American citizen of Pakistani descent, returned to the U.S. at age 17. Convicted of heroin smuggling in 1988 and 1997, he agreed to work as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration. Around 2000, Headley got involved with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based radical group that opposes Indian rule in divided Kashmir and attended training camps on topics ranging from combat tactics to espionage, he testified. He also revealed on the stand that there was an overlap between his work for the DEA and his first days with Lashkar. From September 2006 to July 2008, Headley took five trips to Mumbai to conduct surveillance for the plot. By now, Headley had legally changed his name so that he could draw less suspicion while traveling. After the Mumbai attacks, whose victims included six U.S. citizens, Headley turned to the Denmark plot, which targeted the Jyllands-Posten newspaper because it had published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. When members of Lashkar backed off that plot, Headley secretly met with other terrorists, including one with ties to al-Qaida. Rana's defense elicited stories from Headley about how he has similarly withheld information or even lied - including how he duped Rana about 25 years ago to help him smuggle heroin out of Pakistan. Headley said he never told his friend about the heroin or that he was relying on Rana's military identification card to reduce the chance he would be
[osint] UK: Muslim Nursing Home Owner Bans Residents from Eating Bacon Sandwiches
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/uk-muslim-nursing-ho me-owner-bans-residents-from-eating-bacon-sandwiches-.html June 05, 2011 UK: Muslim Nursing Home Owner Bans Residents from Eating Bacon Sandwiches More Islamic supremacism. Imposing Islam on non-Muslims, as if we are not up to our eyeballs in this nonsense. Muslim care home owner http://www.mysun.co.uk/jonw1980/blog/2011/05/10/muslim-care-home-owner-bans -pensioners-from-eating-bacon-sandwiches 'bans pensioners from eating bacon sandwiches' My Sun (hat tip TS) A Muslim care home owner has been branded 'a disgrace' after banning his pensioner residents from eating bacon. The 40 pensioners - none of them Muslim - were shocked when all pork products were cut off the menu by owner Dr Zulfikar Ali Khan. He stopped deliveries from the butcher who supplied the home for years and instead ordered halal-meat only from another firm. The 40 pensioners - none of them Muslim - were shocked when all pork products were cut off the menu by owner Dr Zulfikar Ali Khan. It meant that the elderly residents at the 40-bed Queen's Care Centre in the pit village of Maltby, near Rotherham, missed out on traditional favourites like bacon sandwiches, sausage and mash, ham sandwiches and sausage rolls. But the move has brought a furious reaction from the 37-strong staff - and the families of residents. Said a relative of an elderly resident : 'This is a disgrace. The old people who are in the home and in their final years an deserve better. 'They are paying customers who are making profits for this man. The least he can do is give them their favourite food. 'Bacon butties and bangers and mash is traditional English food and that's what these people want, it's shocking that they should be deprived of the food they like on the whim of this man.' Said one member of staff , who asked not to be named: 'Only halal meat was delivered to the home and all pork products such as bacon, ham sandwiches, pork pies, sausages and even lard were stopped. 'He did not consult the residents or seek their approval. Bacon sandwiches are a favourite here. 'It's also quite wrong that someone should impose their religious and cultural beliefs on others like this. 'For many years meat has been supplied by Crawshaws, a Rotherham family butcher but that contract ended two weeks ago and since then only halal meat has been delivered along with other products with brand names you would not recognise. 'We were told that if people wanted pork products we could go out and get them, but in reality this has not worked. 'We only have halal meat on the premises and so this is all we had to serve to residents because there is no other meat in the building. UPDATE: This is from 2009 - still vile. Daily Mail had the story here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200532/Muslim-care-home-owner-bans -pensioners-eating-bacon-sandwiches.html . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] In America, a home-grown jihad
http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/07/stories/2011060764491300.htm Online edition of India's National Newspaper In America, a home-grown jihad Tuesday, Jun 07, 2011 Praveen Swami As the Tahawwur Rana trial proceeds, United States confronts prospect of terror within CHICAGO: Mo-Mo, his friends called the slim young Oregon State University student who parked a white van filled with what he thought were explosives at a crowded Christmas tree-lighting in Portland last year. Federal Bureau of Investigations agents arrested Mohamed-Mohamed Mohamud as he repeatedly dialled the cellphone that should have triggered a devastating blast in the midst of the 25,000-strong crowd - if the explosives hadn't in fact been harmless putty, planted by undercover officers. You know what I like to see, court documents show Somalia-born Mohamud asking one undercover operative? Is when I see the enemy of Allah then, you know, their bodies are torn everywhere [sic.]. The New York Times, he said of the planned bombing, will give it two thumbs up. For many in the United States, the unfolding trial of Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian businessman who prosecutors allege aided the 26/11 attacks, represents fresh evidence of a growing threat to their homeland. Mr. Rana is just one of at least 180 residents and citizens of the U.S. held since the tragic events 9/11 on charges of aiding Islamist terror groups. The number of jihadist terrorism cases involving residents of the U.S. has been rising steadily: there were 33 arrests in 2010, and another 43 in 2009 - together, almost half the number held in all years since 2001. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigations arrested Pakistani-origin taxi driver Raja Lahrasib Khan. Mr. Khan is alleged to have plotted with Ilyas Kashmiri - Mr. Headley's mentor, who was reported killed in a drone strike over the weekend - to blow up a stadium in Chicago. In a video released online on June 3, Adam Pearlman - the 1978 born, California-raised jihadist who became known to the world as al-Qaeda propaganda head Adam Gadahn - called for more such operations. Muslims in the West, he said, have to remember that they are perfectly placed to play an important and decisive part in the jihad against the Zionists and the Crusaders. The American jihadists The American jihadists are a diverse crew: a study released this year by the Washington, DC-based New America Foundation showed 24% were of West Asian descent, 21% Caucasian, and 18% each Somali or Pakistani. Some were young, others old; some poor, some rich. Few were archetypical jihadists. He hung out with people who partied and drank alcohol, recalled Omar Mohamed, who studied with Portland's Mohamud, in an interview to the local radio station KVAL. He didn't commonly go to the mosque. He wasn't an obedient Muslim. It remains unclear just what led Mr. Mohamud, just 19 at the time of his arrest, to embrace Islamism. His father, Osman Barre, an engineer at Intel, is reported to have contacted the FBI to express his growing concern about his son's politics. Friends of Raeed Mansour al-Banna, who blew himself up outside a medical clinic in the Iraqi town of Hillah in 2005, also had memories of an unorthodox man. We hit some pretty wild clubs in Hollywood, recalled Steve Gray, who worked with al-Banna at Ontario International Airport. Pearlman's own case is instructive. Born to the musician Phil Pearlman, the al-Qaeda public relations chief began attending an Islamist study circle as a teenager, to address what he described as a yawning emptiness. The grandson of Carl Pearlman, a zealous Zionist, Mr. Pearlman experimented with Christian neo-fundamentalism before travelling to Pakistan, and joining al-Qaeda. Even eccentrics have been drawn to the American jihad: members of a group called the 'Liberty City Seven' belonged to a cult called the Seas of David, which had splintered away from the fringe Moorish Science Temple of America, which purports to combine the teachings of Christianity and Islam. One of the Liberty Seven made a living practising voodoo. Fears aside, few plots so far have actually come to fruition: bar Nidal Malik Hasan, a soldier who succeeded in killing 13 when he opened fire inside the Fort Hood base in Texas, America's would-be jihadists have mostly been held before they could do harm. Faisal Shahzad, of Pakistani origin, hoped to kill dozens at Times Square in New York last year, but the car bombs he built failed to operate. Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan, was arrested before he finished assembling improvised explosive devices. More than a few experts believe fears of a large-scale jihadist offensive by Muslims living in the United States are overstated. The 1970s, Brians Jenkins pointed out in a thoughtful study published last year, saw 60 to 70 terrorist incidents, most of them bombings, on U.S. soil every year - a level of terrorist activity 15 to 20 times more than seen in most of the years since
[osint] Report warns of 'new generation' Islamic militants radicalized in back streets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/ Terrorism in the UK Report warns of 'new generation' Islamic militants radicalized in back streets A new generation of British Islamic militants is being radicalised in back streets, counter-terrorism experts have warned. Abu Hamza: Report warns of Feeding the process are jailed militants, such as Abu Hamza, who is still exerting an influence from his prison cell on impressionable Muslim youngsters susceptible to his violently anti-Western rhetoric Photo: GETTY By Patrick Sawer and Patrick Hennessy 9:00PM BST 04 Jun 2011 A new report shows that the success of anti-radicalisation measures in many of Britain's mosques has pushed militants underground, making them harder to detect by both community leaders and police. Feeding the process are jailed militants, such as Abu Hamza, who is still exerting an influence from his prison cell on impressionable Muslim youngsters susceptible to his violently anti-Western rhetoric. Details of the report emerged ahead of imminent release of a key government review of its counter-terrorism strategy, expected this month. The review of the Prevent strand of the strategy - which aims to stop the radicalisation young British Muslims - is expected to make good David Cameron's promise to expel foreign preachers of hate, such as Hamza, from the UK. It is also set to bring in a new link between non-violent extremist groups and violent ones - building on the Prime Minister's speech in Munich earlier this year in which he vowed a tougher line and hit out at the state policy of multi culturalism. RELATED ARTICLES . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8305346/Muslims-must -embrace-our-British-values-David-Cameron-says.html Cameron: Muslims must embrace our values 05 Feb 2011 . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8232733/David-Ca meron-Britain-on-New-Year-terror-alert.html Cameron: Britain on New Year terror alert 31 Dec 2010 . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7540456/The-Prev ent-strategy-a-textbook-example-of-how-to-alienate-just-about-everybody.html Muslim strategy alienates everyone 31 Mar 2010 . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8557373/Food-cha in-at-risk-of-being-poisoned-by-terrorist-groups.html Shops warned over terrorist threat to food 04 Jun 2011 Ministers are understood to be planning to stop short of seeking to acquire new powers to ban groups - but instead will no longer work with, or share platforms, with organisations which, for example, have illiberal views on women. To win government approval, groups are likely to have to show that they share mainstream British values. The report prepared for the Association of Chief Police Officers by the Universities' Police Science Institute at Cardiff University, found that 11 out of the 12 mosques it examined in London, Luton, Birmingham and Manchester have been targeted by extremist Islamist groups. The study found that as a result of efforts by mainstream Muslim leaders working with police counter terrorism officers as part of the Prevent agenda, some had succeeded in rebuffing these advances, others had not. In the Alum Rock area of Birmingham elders at one mosque called in the police after three militants were discovered attempting to radicalise young worshippers. In Luton a hands-on approach to tackling radicals has been adopted by sections of the town's Muslim community. This even involved local activists grabbing and running away with the table and jihadi leaflets being used by radical militants for a street recruitment stall in the Bury Park district. On another occasion a community group in Birmingham confronted suspected members of the banned organisation Al-Muhajiroun on the streets, with a local women dressed in the traditional hijab telling them get stuffed, we don't need your type. But the Cardiff study warns senior police officers that while the majority of Muslims have higher levels of confidence in the police than the general population, many 16-24-year old Muslim men still express deep distrust and resentment. It found that some individuals were, in their private conversations with each other, voicing very negative sentiments and radical ideas. Citing the example of a number of young Muslim men in Cardiff, the report added: They were interpreting both local and international events in ways that resonated with aspects of al-Qaeda's single narrative. Professor Martin Innes said: Police tactics are creating a more hostile environment for the extremists, but that is also forcing the problem of radicalisation underground. It has become a more private enterprise, hidden away from view and fed by the internet. That makes it harder for the police and security services to penetrate and gather intelligence on. The breadth of the problem has been reduced by the Prevent agenda, but what remains becomes grittier and harder to
[osint] Venezuela Freezes Relations with US over Iran
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/158255/20110606/venezuela-iran-us-oil-sancti on.htm June 6, 2011 3:36 PM EDT Venezuela has frozen its relations with the United States after Washington hit Venezuela's state-owned oil company with sanctions for providing gasoline to Iran, according to Press TV, the state-owned Iranian news network. Examiner.com said that Caracas froze relations with the US on Sunday, citing a top Venezuelan diplomat. According to reports, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro suggested that renewing relations with the US might be impossible. In Late May, Washington punished Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for supplying Tehran with gasoline and other refined oil products. Under the sanctions, PDVSA cannot receive US government contracts nor get any export financing from the US. However, Venezuelan companies can still supply oil to U.S. private corporations. Maduro has condemned the sanctions as illegal, abusive measures taken by this weak government of the United States. Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, who is also the chief of PDVSA, said Venezuela will continue to maintain relations with Iran. This is a right we are not going to renounce, he said [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Legal Warfare May Stop IHH Flotilla
Published: 06/06/11, 10:50 AM / Last Update: 06/06/11, 11:38 AM Legal Warfare May Stop IHH Flotilla by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Headquarters of in Greater London Islington. Inmarsat, Bézier, mushroom http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/34272345.jpg Inmarsat, Bézier, mushroom Threats of a lawsuit against a firm supplying communications equipment to the http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144733 IHH flotilla may stop the ships from sailing for Hams-controlled Gaza without a shot being fired. The flotilla is scheduled to sail later this month. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136288 Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Center) announced Monday that it has warned the Inmarsat mobile satellite services company that it faces criminal charges and a lawsuit if it supplies the flotilla sponsored by the terror-linked IHH Organization. Inmarsat is based in London with offices in Dubai and the United States and dominates the market of mobile communications system to ships, enabling them to be in contact with ports and other ships. Israel Law Center director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner noted that Inmarsat supplied equipment last year to the http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137997 Mavi Marmara ship. it was aboard that ship that 50 IHH terror activists http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137798 brutally attacked Israeli Navy commandos who stopped the ship from trying to break the maritime embargo aimed at preventing the smuggling of wepaons for Gaza terrorists. U.S. law states, according to the Law Center, that any company that supplies the flotilla is liable for criminal charges for helping the enemy of a friendly state. The Center says there is proven connection between the IHH and Hamas, which the U.S. government has declared an outlawed terrorist organization. The Law Center said the notice of warning that was sent to Inmarsat satisfies the American law that requires a weeks warning before legal action can be taken against a company allegedly violating the law. Darshan-Leitner warned the company that it faces a lawsuit from the Law Center if it does not state in a letter that it will cease and desist from selling mobile communications equipment to the IHH-sponsored flotilla. The Law Center previously succeeded in receiving a http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144423 letter from Lloyd's insurance company that it would stop covering the Mavi Marmara, a ship of the IHH. Most ports in the world will not allow ships to dock without insurance. Our objective is to prevent bloodshed on the high seas and to stop the ships before they set out to sail, the attorney said. The Israeli-based Law Center fights terrorist organizations through lawsuits, and fights for the rights of terror victims with the intention of bankrupting the terror organizations. It has won more than $1 billion in judgments against terror organizations and state sponsors and has succeeded in winning court orders freezing more than $600 million in assets of Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and other terror groups. (IsraelNationalNews.com http://IsraelNationalNews.com/ ) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from
[osint] Weiner Owns Up But Can't Man Up
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110606/ap_on_re_us/us_congressman_twitter_photo Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit (AP) [Why on heaven’s earth would Weiner want to quit? The only way a Democrat could lose a seat in his district would be if he was caught on camera prancing about with a whip in a black leather Nazi uniform, flogging the bare bottom of a high school girl. (Oops, there I go opening up my big mouth again.) df] Dan Friedman NYC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Food Chain at Risk of being Poisoned by Terrorist Groups
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8557373/Food-chai n-at-risk-of-being-poisoned-by-terrorist-groups.html Food chain at risk of being poisoned by terrorist groups Food and drink sold in Britain is under a growing threat from terrorist groups which might try to poison supplies, the Government's security advisers have warned. By Richard Gray http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/richard-gray/ , Science Correspondent 9:44PM BST 04 Jun 2011 Manufacturers and retailers have been told that their sector is vulnerable to attacks by ideologically and politically motivated groups that may seek to cause widespread casualties and disruption by poisoning food supplies. The warning from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure [CPNI], which operates as part of the Security Service, comes as experts warned the deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany has highlighted the vulnerability of the food chain and how quickly bacteria can spread. The highly virulent strain has claimed 18 lives and left more than 1,800 seriously ill, with the true number of cases expected to be far higher. A senior German doctor last night called for an investigation into the possibility that the bacteria had been spread deliberately. Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, chief doctor for hygiene at Berlin's Vivantes hospital, said: It's quite possible that there's a crazy person out there who thinks 'I'll kill a few people or give 10,000 people diarrhoea'. It's a negligent mistake not to investigate in that direction. In the past, the main threat of deliberate contamination of food has been from criminals attempting extortion or from individuals with a grudge, but security officials fear there is an emerging threat from extremist groups such as al-Qaeda, dissident republicans in Northern Ireland and animal rights activists. The CPNI has asked food and drinks producers, suppliers and supermarkets to tighten security at plants and depots and to identify vulnerabilities in supply chains. One official from the CPNI spoke about the threat at a meeting of food safety experts. Addressing a conference of the Society for General Microbiology, he said: The UK suffers from a low level of malicious contamination of food by the bad, the mad and the sad. Now it has to consider the possibility of food supplies being disrupted by politically motivated groups. The E.coli outbreak is thought to have been caused by poor hygiene at a farm, in transit, or at a food outlet. Dr Richard Byrne, from the Centre for Rural Security at Harper Adams University College in Shropshire, said: The outbreak in Germany very much highlights how we produce food and how it is distributed is quite vulnerable in terms of agroterrorism. The impact on the German economy and fresh vegetable industry in general is huge. The US and Australia are much more publicly aware of the threat from terrorism to the food supply compared to the UK. Groups could go after consumer health in a short- term way by using something like E.coli, or longer term by contaminating with cadmium or radioactive caesium. The CPNI report sent to companies in the food industry warns of a number of threats. Attackers could contaminate prepared food or drink with bacteria or chemicals. Or, by targeting basic ingredients used in large numbers of foods, they could cause even wider disruption. US experts have warned that the dairy industry is particularly vulnerable, as adding just a few grams of botulinum toxin or ricin to a tanker load of milk could poison or even kill thousands of consumers. The report warns that it is harder to guarantee the security of produce grown abroad and imported to Britain. It adds that such attacks could cause severe economic harm. In one example, a major British producer of pastries was targeted by an attack where peanuts were introduced into a nut-free product. The factory was shut down for five days and products were removed from sale due to the risk of anaphylactic reactions from allergy sufferers. Police ruled out accidental causes and the company lost five per cent of its annual sales. In February, a South African farmer was arrested after allegedly threatening to unleash foot and mouth disease in Britain. He was said to have believed that Britain was responsible for letting Robert Mugabe inflict losses on Zimbabwe's farming industry. The CPNI report warns: The food and drink industry in the UK - the food sector of the national infrastructure - could be under threat from ideologically motivated groups. The threat is unlikely to decline in the foreseeable future. This could cause mass casualties, economic disruption and widespread panic. The report singles out farms as vulnerable because they often employ foreign workers, and urges all businesses to make comprehensive checks on new employees and visiting contractors. Production facilities should have security and perimeter controls, while unscheduled deliveries should not
