[osint] Ft. Dix Investigation Update
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/FtDix050807 Fort Dix target of terror plot 8 May 2007 UPDATE 9:30 PM: Based upon open source (OSINT) reporting the six arrests made last night by federal law enforcement officers constitutes only a partial apprehension of the active Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell. This information is derived from the video the terrorists had attempted to get converted into a DVD for further distribution. Videographic details within the recording reveal there were a total of 10 jihadists live-firing assault weapons, calling for jihad along with the traditional allah hu akhbar refrain. A remainder of at least 4 members of the cell are therefore still-at-large and, also based upon the video evidence of assault weapons training, must be considered heavily armed and extremely dangerous. Additionally other sources indicate that as many as 6 other individuals who acted in support roles for this cell also remain at-large. It must also be surmised that ongoing interrogations of the 6 arrested te rrorists by federal law enforcement is focused upon locating the remnant cell members. Additionally, the cell members may all have known the location of the video store. That still unidentified business and its employees can be assessed be at great risk of potential terrorist retribution. The suburban nature of this terror plot has been a continual focus of reporting of the Northeast Intelligence Netork over the past several years. It cannot be over-emphasized as it proves beyond any doubt that those who claim we engage in fear mongering or other such nonsense simply are clueless in the statements they habitually make. These terrorists homes are in urban America. Places like Cherry Hill, New Jersey and YourTown, USA. Other terrorists of this exact same type are living in a neighborhood somewhere in suburban or urban America, perhaps as the people of Cherry Hill learned this morning they may be living near or literally across the street from your own home. Sulejman Talovic lived in such a neighborhood, as did John Muhammed (aka the DC Sniper). So did Mohammed Atta and the 9/11 highjackers. So did Hussein al-Husseini, both before and in the aftermath the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He recently disappeared and is no longer to be found at his Boston, MA suburban residence imaged directly below. http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/images/Husressmall.jpg Where is Hussein al-Hussaini? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Iraq-al Qaeda ties
Iraq, Al-Qaeda and Abu Nidal. The ties that bind. Abu Nidal (a/k/a Sabri Khalil al-Banna) was assassinated by Saddam Hussein's al-Mukhabarat thugs on August 16, 2002. The assassination was carried out by 30 men of the Mukhabarat Office 8 assassination squad in an al-Mukhabarat owned building situated in the al-Masbah district of Baghdad. Abu Nidal had openly lived in this setting since 2001. With war looming on the horizon Saddam was taking no chances, and that makes this new revelation all the more important. http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/InsidetheRing.html April 13, 2007 Notes from the Pentagon Iraq-al Qaeda ties Eric Edelman, the undersecretary of defense for policy, has written a harsh critique of a recently declassified Pentagon inspector general report. The rebuttal is contained in the appendix of the IG report that criticized the alternative, pre-Iraq war intelligence assessment done by a Pentagon policy group on ties between Iraq and al Qaeda as inappropriate. Mr. Edelman stated that the policy group's work on the issue was not only appropriate and legal, but directed by both former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Apart from the numerous factual inaccuracies, omissions and mischaracterizations identified throughout these comments, the [IG] report suffers from a basic analytical flaw in attempting to paint the work under review as 'inappropriate' even though no laws were broken, no DoD directives were violated and no applicable policies were disregarded, Mr. Edelman wrote in his counter to the February IG report made public April 5. The IG report concedes that the activities reviewed were lawful. It concedes that the activities were authorized - indeed requested - by the deputy secretary of defense and secretary of defense, he stated. Mr. Edelman's rebuttal also highlighted the known links between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda terrorists that, while indirect, are indisputable - and which were omitted by the IG in his report. They include the CIA judgment of June 21, 2002, of the murky ties, and the CIA memo of Aug. 20, 2002, that stated, Saddam and bin Laden are not natural partners, but have maintained cautious contacts and some shared training. One footnote in the report updates the conclusion of indirect links. It stated that postwar questioning of Saddam, his foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, intelligence chief Barazan Ibrahim and senior al Qaeda captive Abu Faraj confirmed that Iraq and al Qaeda did not cooperate in all categories, but supports the policy group's conclusion of cooperation in some areas. Mr. Edelman also quoted former CIA Director George J. Tenet telling Congress in 2002 and 2003 that we have solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade, and that credible information indicates that Iraq and al Qaeda have discussed safe haven and reciprocal nonaggression. That reporting, Mr. Tenet said, also stated that Iraq has provided training to al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons and gases, and making conventional bombs. The report also provides some new information on the purported meeting between lead September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad al-Ani in March 2001 in Prague. It stated that Atta used a vehicle for one Prague meeting that was registered to an agent of the Baghdad-based Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). The link is significant because in 1998, bin Laden met with the head of the ANO and agreed to provide financial assistance to the group in return for unspecified assistance to al Qaeda. The report said the ANO responded expeditiously and fully to Iraqi government directives and that the link suggests ANO functions to serve Iraqi objectives and that Iraq is aware of ANO ties to al Qaeda. Doubts by U.S. intelligence reports on the Atta-al-Ani meeting were contrasted by Mr. Edelman, who noted that the Czech intelligence service firmly stood by its report that the Iraqi met the al Qaeda plotter. The IG report was released by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, who defense officials say for years has quietly recruited agents within the Pentagon inspector general's office to produce reports and audits sympathetic to the liberal Michigan Democrat's views. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Islamic Courts Union Returns to Somalia
Naturally, the US restrained Ethiopia from totally eradicating them. Routing them is not sufficient.they have to be tracked down and eliminated totally. Bruce http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2007/03/islamic-courts-union-returns-t/ Islamic Courts Union Returns to Somalia The Return of the ICU in Somalia Highlights Our Failures By Kyle Dabruzzi Just three months after Ethiopian and US forces routed the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia, the organization has significantly returned to prominence. Early reports of the fighters returning to Mogadishu and other areas of Somalia relayed a quiet return by ICU of leaders and fighters. Reports now point to preparations for a comeback. An article http://www.dispatch.com/national-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/06/200703 06-A7-00.html released two weeks ago indicated that several hundred fighters have begun re-assimilating in Mogadishu where they work day jobs but meet regularly with officers and tribal elders. In addition, fighters said that they kept an underground arsenal of automatic rifles, grenades and other weapons, that survived the Ethiopian advance. Moreover, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi recently admitted http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070314-1013-somalia-returntochao s.html that daily attacks by insurgents are undermining the government's ability to bring peace and assert authority. ICU forces are proving Gedi's words to be accurate. Using the aforementioned underground arsenal, the ICU launched numerous mortar attacks against government officials, African Union peacekeeping troops and Ethiopian troops. Wednesday, as ICU fighters battled with government forces, masked men dragged http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Somalia.html?hp the corpses of two government soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu; a scene disturbingly reminiscent of the 1993 'Blackhawk Down' incident where two American soldiers were dragged through the streets. Other recent attacks include a strike on the capital seaport http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6470167.stm on Tuesday just as African Union troops were securing the area, a series of mortar attacks http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/18/somalia.attack.ap/ on four areas within Mogadishu last week, and a 10-minute mortar attack http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/13/ap/world/main2562913.shtml on the presidential palace just hours after President Abdullahi Yusuf moved in. Also last week, Colonel Abdi Mohamed Abdulle, a Somali police commander leading a crackdown on militants, was killed by his own bodyguard, who then fled with armed gunmen. The ICU's return to Mogadishu highlights a recurrent error in the fight against al-Qaeda and aligned organizations: the failure to pursue, capture or eliminate the leadership of enemy forces, and their supporters. In this case, Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG), and the limited African Union forces supporting the TFG, will pay a significant price for the failure. Had the Ethiopian forces followed the enemy to finish them off, aided by US forces acting to constrain the flight of ICU fighters, the TFG and AU would find a significantly more stable state and a population capable of supporting the TFG's actions. Initially, the Ethiopian advance against the ICU was swift and effective. As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross noted in an article http://www.pajamasmedia.com/2006/12/why_ethiopia_is_winning_in_som.php at Pajamas Media, a trusted military intelligence officer indicated his surprise at Ethiopia's willingness to commit to the fight against the ICU. However, that commitment proved to be short-lived. In assessing the Ethiopian ousting of the ICU, U.S. diplomats noted that Ethiopian forces captured few fighters and killed none of the top Islamists. After the ICU's retreat, there were many reasons to suspect that they would make a return to Mogadishu. A confidential UN report stated that the ICU is fully capable of turning Somalia into what is currently an Iraq-type scenario, replete with roadside and suicide bombers, assassinations and other forms of terrorist and insurgent-type activities. Moreover, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the allegedly moderate leader of the ICU, threatened to initiate an insurgency in Somalia. Thus, the ICU's ability and willingness was clearly established. Amidst the glaring signs of an impending insurgency, the Ethiopian military began pulling its troops http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6289781.stm out of Somalia just one month after over-running the ICU. And with that, the Ethiopian military's failure to establish a secure Mogadishu has partly led to a re-infestation of ICU militiamen. Through them, the ICU will most likely continue what they previously started: An attempt to establish Somalia as a Sharia-run state and a potential safe haven for al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-aligned terrorists. At the same time, the United States' failure to support the UN-recognized Transitional Federal
[osint] Criticism of Islam to become illegal thoughout Europe?
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/01/15/criticism-of-islam-to-become-ille gal-thoughout-europe/ Criticism of Islam to become illegal thoughout Europe? The Germans have suddenly discovered a very modern use for their history: Germany intends to introduce a Europe-wide law banning the display of Nazi symbols and making denial of the Holocaust a crime to fulfil its historical obligation 62 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Brigitte Zypries, the Justice Minister, will today outline plans to punish with up to three years in prison anyone in the European Union who publicly rejects the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews.. But there will be extra pressure from former Soviet-bloc countries for a ban on the provocative use of the communist hammer and sickle. Ms Zypries will appeal to them at a meeting in Dresden today and tomorrow to build a European criminal code on racism and xenophobia. We have always said it cannot be the case that it should still be acceptable in Europe to say that six million Jews were never killed, she said. There is some controversy about that under `freedom of expression' but we believe that there are limits to freedom of expression, and the limits are there when it is offensive to other religions and ethnic groups. Britain maintains that its laws banning incitement to hatred provide sufficient cover. A British government spokeswoman said that a specific offence of Holocaust denial would sit uncomfortably with existing freedom of speech legislation, but did not dismiss the German plan. The words a European criminal code on racism and xenophobia imply that racism, as they define it, will become a crime in Europe. And that means no more criticism of Islam. The words other religions above make that very clear. 1. T. Summer Says: January 15th, 2007 at 7:00 am http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/01/15/criticism-of-islam-to-become-ill egal-thoughout-europe/#comment-33207#comment-33207 Unfortunately I live in Europe, and the whole thing is getting out of hand. Not long ago they (fanatic muslims) used our kingdom's freedom of speech to protest our freedom of speech!! Some people published drawings of Mohammed in a newspaper, and suddenly embassies and public building were lit on fire. Flags were burnt in the streets. Our constitutional freedom of speech was used, and is used, by fanatic muslims to protest against the very same thing, that's right our freedom of speech! 30% of our capital's population is now non-westerly.. Mosques are popping up on every street corner. At the same time they protest against church bells ringing on Sundays. Politicians continue to fasten the grip on free speech every day, making new laws and statutes. And why? In Europe the worst thinkable thing is to be called a racist. We have become so intellectual, and so huggie-feely over here that NO ONE dares to open their mouths to protest the open borders, the inundation of illegal immigrants claiming asylum well knowing that we can never send them back anyway because their countries are always at war, the travesty of the European Union embracing more and more rouge states who's citizens are flooding across our borders just to get their hands on our socialist welfare systems.. and so on and so forth.. I give up, and that's what this socialist regime want us to do.. Europe is dead, soon to be an Islamic kingdom. Please please dont let the US fall down the same well. Resist the insanity of liberalism and socialism. If it was possible I would pledge allegiance in a heartbeat, and leave this sorry place. 2. Stephen Says: January 15th, 2007 at 8:25 am http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/01/15/criticism-of-islam-to-become-ill egal-thoughout-europe/#comment-33208#comment-33208 A growing and iminent crisis in Europe and the Green Emerald Isle 5 terror groups in Ireland linked to al-Qaida http://www.crusade-media.com/news8.html Dublin imam takes on the fanatics http://www.crusade-media.com/news47.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Eight killed as goods train derails
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/20 07/January/subcontinent_January462.xml http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2 007/January/subcontinent_January462.xmlsection=subcontinentcol section=subcontinentcol Eight killed as goods train derails (PTI, DPA) 14 January 2007 NEW DELHI - At least eight people were killed when a goods train derailed in Jharkhand on Friday evening. Parts of a goods train ferrying coal fell into a river from a bridge near Heheragaha railway station in Latehar district. The train was going to Panipat in Haryana from Khelari in Jharkhand. he eight were unauthorised travellers in the brake van of the goods train that derailed on Friday and efforts were on to ascertain whether any one else was still trapped under the wagons, he said. The train's guard and the driver of the pilot engine were also injured. Railway officials told the news agency that the body of another man who was killed in the accident on Friday night was still stuck under the derailed wagon. Indian Railways, which runs one of the largest rail networks in the world, reports an average of 250 accidents each year. Every day more than 8,500 trains carry 13 million passengers over 63,000 kilometres of railway track criss-crossing India. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] 3 killed, more than 70 injured in Thai train crash
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/J anuary/theworld_January375.xml http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/ January/theworld_January375.xmlsection=theworldcol section=theworldcol 3 killed, more than 70 injured in Thai train crash (Reuters) 14 January 2007 BANGKOK - Three Thai railway workers were killed and more than 70 passengers injured on Sunday when a train on the wrong line crashed into another at a station south of Bangkok, a railway official said. One train was waiting at Nongkae station, on the main route south near the resort town of Hua Hin, for the other to pass through first, but the second train was diverted onto the same track, the official said. We are now investigating the cause of the crash, he said. The driver and a female worker on the waiting train were killed and another male railway worker died on the way to hospital. More than 70 injured passengers were taken to nearby hospitals, the official said. Traffic was held up for several hours, but the track had been cleared and normal services had resumed, he added. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] FW: Propaganda: Listed once again in the front page
http://muslims4khilafah.blogspot.com/2007/01/listed-once-again-in-front-page .html Listed http://muslims4khilafah.blogspot.com/2007/01/listed-once-again-in-front-pag e.html once again in the front page I believe we as Muslims must keep the pressure on the Kuffar.They are attacking Islam directly and indirectly night and day.What are we doing but sleeping.What are the Muslims of Dailymotion doing but they all basically doing all the same thing and posting the same videos group after group and group.In all aspects of life we should present and expose Islam to the Kuffar whether they want it or not.Non-Muslims are presenting directly and indirectly their customs and ideas once again night and day.My mission is different I don't see any really good Dawah videos so that is why I don't really post any or none.To post videos from example of Harun Yahya is to go against my mission.I won't give a false impression of what Islam is.Moderate Islam is not what I want to present but true Islam.There is only one Islam but those Muslims especially the ones living in the West are giving a false image of Islam.If you are afraid to speak the truth of Islam or to talk about an event keep quiet.Now if you really want to call our brothers and sisters dying Shuhada criminals and Kuffar then you are either confused or an enemy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Inside Guantanamo North
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/552730.html Inside Guantanamo North Three terrorism suspects held in Canada spend five years in legal limbo By MICHELLE SHEPHARD The Toronto Star BATH, Ont. - In neat handwriting that fills three pages are Mahmoud Jaballah's complaints about daily life inside this $3.2 million portable surrounded by barbed wire that was built for him and two other Toronto terrorism suspects. He fidgets with the paper on the desk in front of him while he speaks quickly during an interview this week inside the holding centre west of Kingston, dubbed Guantanamo North by its critics. A guard sits beside him, staring straight ahead. There's no privacy here, says Jaballah, giving a nod to the guard with the unwavering deadpan stare. But beyond his list of grievances about the daily conditions of his detention on the grounds of the Millhaven federal penitentiary looms the larger issue of the detention itself. Jaballah and two other detainees held here stand accused by Canada's spy service of belonging to organizations with connections to Al Qaeda - claims they deny. They have been held for more than five years. None have been charged criminally but remain detained here in legal limbo. The government has ordered them deported to their birth countries of Egypt and Syria, but the men say they will be tortured if they return and, so far, the lower courts here have agreed it's not an option. They were moved last April to this holding centre in response to previous complaints about their detention in a Toronto jail. The permanency of this costly facility also sent the signal that the government doesn't expect their release anytime soon. The Supreme Court is expected to rule very soon on the constitutionality of the immigration legislation that put these men behind bars. One argument before the court questions the lawfulness of a process that allows the government to provide secret evidence to the federal court justice reviewing the case - keeping the detainee from viewing or attempting to refute the private allegations. The Supreme Court's ruling will add to international case law now building from high courts in the U.K., Australia and U.S., as the West grapples with restrictions on civil rights in the name of national security. It will be a significant watershed in where we're going in Canada and what type of legal system we're going to have, says long-time civil rights lawyer Paul Copeland, who argued before the Supreme Court that Parliament should be forced to re-draft the legislation. Canada is one of the leaders generally on justice issues so it's critically important not only to Canada, but the world is watching, too. There are five cases pending against Muslim men ordered deported due to national security certificates - a provision of the immigration act that has been in effect for more than a decade but has come under heavy criticism only since 9/11. The two other men from Ottawa and Montreal have been granted bail under strict conditions. Another case against Sri Lankan refugee Manickavasagam Sur-esh, alleged to be a fundraiser for the Tamil Tigers, has been ongoing for more than a decade. But the case appears inactive since the Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that Suresh could not be deported due to the risk he faced back home. For now, Suresh is required to report to a government official once a week, but is otherwise free to live without restrictions in his home north of Toronto. Those who support national security certificates argue that evidence must in certain cases be presented in secret to protect sources. Sometimes, in the murky world of terrorism and espionage, criminal trials are not an option for security threats, government lawyers have argued in support of the legislation. They point to last month's deportation of an alleged Russian spy on a national security certificate as proof that the immigration legislation is effective. The unnamed man agreed to return to Russia after he was detained and accused of spying in Canada for the last 10 years, and was quickly flown out of the country. But Jaballah says that's not an option for him and although he's also allowed to leave Canada for a third country, it's unlikely any country would accept someone accused of terrorist connections. If I didn't have any problem in my country I would not stay here in the jail for one minute. I would take my kids and I'd leave. Why would I keep myself here in jail for five years? he says as he again tugs at his list of complaints. Known officially as the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre, the new detention centre where Jaballah is held with Hassan Almrei and Mohamed Mahjoub is a two-hour drive from Toronto and sits on an expansive property overlooking Lake Ontario. Visitors must pass through a series of gates to get to the facility, similar to the procedure at its neighbouring maximum-security penitentiary. The holding centre consists of one portable, housing a
[osint] Militants plotted second wave of UK bombs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070115/ts_nm/britain_plot_dc Militants plotted second wave of UK bombs, court told By Michael HoldenMon Jan 15, 12:40 PM ET An Islamist cell tried to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport system just two weeks after attacks that killed 52 people and wounded about 700, a prosecutor said on Monday. The extremist Muslim plot was not a hastily arranged copycat scheme but a long-planned operation, chief prosecutor Nigel Sweeney said as six British men went on trial over the failed attacks of July 21, 2005. He said the attackers aimed to cause maximum injury by detonating home-made bombs packed with metal, which they carried in rucksacks onto the public transport system. It was simply the good fortune of the traveling public that they were spared, Sweeney told the court. The targets -- three underground trains and a bus -- echoed those in the deadly attacks by four young British Muslims who blew themselves up in London two weeks earlier, on July 7, 2005. The failed second set of attacks caused panic and triggered a huge manhunt, leaving Londoners unclear if they were a botched and quickly assembled attempt to imitate the original carnage. But Sweeney told the high-security Woolwich Crown Court: The evidence in this case shows that this conspiracy had been in existence long before the events of July 7. The six men are all originally from Africa and in their 20s. Sweeney said the 9th-floor flat of defendant Yassin Hassin Omar in north London was the bomb-making factory. The detonator was triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and the main charge was held in buckets surrounded by screws, tacks, washers and nuts. The purpose is, of course, to increase fragmentation when the bomb explodes and maximize the possibility of injury, fatal or otherwise, to those in the vicinity, Sweeney told the court. FAILED TO EXPLODE Sweeney said the 5 kg (11 lb) bombs were made of hydrogen peroxide, nail varnish and flour used to make chapatis, or unleavened bread. They were carried in rucksacks with wires connected to the detonators hidden under clothing. He said that between May 9 and July 5, the group bought 442 liters of hydrogen peroxide. One supplier sold them 218 liters, nearly half of its total sales of the chemical in that period. Sweeney said four of the defendants successfully fired their TATP detonators but the main charge failed to explode, possibly because the proportion of hydrogen peroxide was not quite right. TATP is an explosive chemical which can be made from commonly available household products. Nicknamed Mother of Satan, it is highly volatile and liable to explode prematurely if subjected to friction, impact or change of temperature. All the main suspects on trial were apprehended just over a week after the failed attacks. Muktah Said Ibrahim, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Hussein Osman, Yassin Hassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya are all charged with conspiracy to murder. They deny the charges. The prosecutor said Osman had told police after being arrested in Italy that the bombings were a deliberate hoax to make a political point. Sweeney rejected the hoax defense. Sweeney said Mohammed was seen trying to set off his bomb facing a woman with a pushchair and was wearing a top with New York on it, no doubt connected with the events of 9/11. He said home-made films featuring images of beheadings of Western hostages and other attacks, including those on September 11 in New York, were found in two of the defendants' flats. They are also accused of conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml
[osint] Iran, Venezuela agree to finance third countries to oppose U.S. domination
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/14/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Iran.php Iran, Venezuela agree to finance third countries to oppose U.S. domination CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said they were ready to spend billions of dollars (euros) financing projects in other countries to help thwart U.S. domination. The anti-U.S. presidents whose efforts to extend their influence have alarmed Washington met Saturday in Venezuela's capital, the first stop on Ahmadinejad's tour of Latin America that will also see him visit newly elected leftist leaders in Nicaragua and Ecuador. The oil-rich nations had previously announced plans for a joint US$2 billion (€1.55 billion) fund to finance investments in Venezuela and Iran, but Chavez and Ahmadinejad said Saturday that the money would also be used for projects in friendly third countries. It will permit us to underpin investments ... above all in those countries whose governments are making efforts to liberate themselves from the (U.S.) imperialist yoke, said Chavez. This fund, my brother, Chavez said referring to Ahmadinejad, will become a mechanism for liberation. Death to U.S. imperialism! he said. Ahmadinejad called it a very important decision that would help promote joint cooperation in third countries, especially in Latin American and African countries. It was not clear if the leaders were referring to investment in infrastructure, social and energy projects — areas that the two countries have focused on until now — or other types of financing. Before his meeting with Ahmadinejad, Chavez said in his state of the nation address that he had personally expressed hope to Thomas Shannon, head of the U.S. State Department's Western Hemisphere affairs bureau, for better relations between their two countries. Chavez said he spoke with Shannon on the sidelines of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's inauguration earlier this week, saying, We shook hands and I told him: 'I hope that everything improves.' Chavez — a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro whom Washington sees as a destabilizing influence — has pledged billions of dollars (euros) of help to the region in foreign aid, bond buyouts and preferentially financed oil deals. Iran, meanwhile, is allegedly bankrolling militant groups in the Middle East like Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, as well as insurgents in Iraq, in a bid to extend its influence. Ahmadinejad's visit Saturday — his second to Venezuela in less than four months — comes as he seeks to break international isolation over his country's nuclear program and possibly line up new allies in Latin America. After Venezuela, Ahmadinejad will visit newly elected leftist governments in Nicaragua and Ecuador that are also seeking to reduce Washington's influence in the region. Bolivian President Evo Morales, another critic of U.S. policy, said he plans to meet with Ahmadinejad while both are in Ecuador Monday. Chavez and Ahmadinejad have been increasingly united by their deep-seated antagonism to Washington. Chavez has become a leading defender of Iran's nuclear ambitions, accusing the United States of using the issue as a pretext to attack a regime it opposes and promising to stand with Iran. Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, has called Chavez the champion of the struggle against imperialism. On Saturday, he congratulated Chavez on his December re-election and said the Venezuelan people were wise to choose a person as important on the world stage, a person so wise as Hugo Chavez. The increasingly close relationship has alarmed some, and critics of Chavez accuse him of pursuing an alliance that does not serve Venezuela's interests and jeopardizes its ties with the United States, the country's top oil buyer. Venezuela is among the top five suppliers of crude to the U.S. market. Both countries are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Chavez said Saturday that they had agreed to back an oil production cut in the cartel in order to stem a recent fall in crude prices. We know today there is too much crude in the market, Chavez siad. We have agreed to join our forces within OPEC ... to support a production cut and save the price of oil. The two governments, which already plan to jointly produce everything from bricks to bicycles and develop oil fields in Venezuela, signed another 11 accords Saturday to explore further opportunities for cooperation in areas like tourism, education and mining. Ahmadinejad is set to travel to Nicaragua to meet on Sunday with Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla. On Monday, he travels to Ecuador for the inauguration of President-elect Rafael Correa, another outspoken critic of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and Washington's policies in Latin America. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic?
[osint] Why Islam Hates Democracy
http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/why-islam-hates-democracy/ http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/why-islam-hates-democracy/ Why Islam Hates Democracy IN 1989, Iran's Islamic tyrant Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa - a compulsory religious decree in Islam - that condemned Salman Rushdie to death. Rushdie had committed the crime of writing his book The Satanic Verses, which was, in Khomeini's mind, slanderous to the Prophet Muhammad. In Islam, those who insult Allah or the Prophet are subject to the death penalty. In 1992, Farag Foda, an Egyptian writer known for his secularist views, was shot dead outside his office in the heart of Cairo. This intellectual consistently called out for open dialogue with Islamic fundamentalists. The militant Islamic group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya gleefully claimed not only responsibility, but justification. One of the gunmen, Abdul-Shafi Ahmad Ramadan, who was apprehended after the attack, boasted to police: We had to kill him, because he attacked our beliefs. Sheikh Muhammad al-Ghazali, a prominent and distinguished Egyptian cleric, testified at the Foda murder trial in defense of the accused. He stated that Ramadan had done his Islamic duty because Foda had revealed his apostasy in opposing the establishment of an Islamic state, in rejecting Sharia Law (the law of Islam), and in questioning the unity of the state and religion. The circumstances surrounding the death bounty on Rushdie's head and the execution of Foda illuminate to us one serious and critical phenomenon: http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/glazov/2002/glazov05-16-02.htm Islam's inability to join the modern world. Question: what happens in a society where slandering Muhammad, which is punishable by death, can entail the smallest disagreement with an Islamic law or even the hint of the support of a Western idea? How can a culture grow when a voiced social criticism of any kind or a reinterpretation of the Koran can be easily construed as slandering Muhammad and, therefore, be punished by death? Answer: it can't. The tremendous success that has driven Western civilization is secularism. Islamic civilization sees secularism as anathema. In order to catch up with the West, Islam must embrace secularism, but embracing secularism would force Islam to sacrifice its Islamic character. This is why a reformed Islam is an oxymoron, because http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/glazov/2002/glazov05-23-02.htm Islam cannot reform and still remain Islam. The very meaning of Islam is the unquestioning submission to Allah and to Islamic law. The Koran is a body of doctrine that Muslims are expected to accept unquestioningly - without scrutinizing it for any flaws. Any notion that exists outside of the literal understanding of the Koran is regarded as being associated with sin at best and heresy at worst. Islam is seen as perfect by Muslims. It is a total way of life. It doesn't need any new ideas or any legal revisions to complement any new learning or new needs of society. In fact, Islam regards even the suggestion of new ideas or legal revisions as being un-Islamic. And if something is un-Islamic, it could be construed as being slanderous to Muhammad. And guess what happens next? The use of the human faculty of reason itself, upon which the Western Enlightenment was based, is considered to be a form of heresy in Islam. This is why literacy, science and mathematics have often been regarded by the ulama (the scholars in Islam) as a threat to Islam. It doesn't really take a rocket scientist, therefore, to figure out why, throughout its long history of being repeatedly overwhelmed by foreign invaders, foreign rule, and foreign influences, the Arab world has absorbed absolutely nothing from the outside world. Self-insulated, Islam is intrinsically resistant to change. In the Islamic Arab world, any foreign idea is heavily suspect. Any Western notion is automatically associated with evil. Thus, if the infidels say that an object will fall because of the laws of gravity, Muslims will suspect this to be a demonic lie. But if the same laws of gravity are sanctioned by a voice that is seen as representing authentic Islam, then such laws are automatically believed. Individualism, creativity and originality are non-existent in the Arab world. And it is no mystery why the worlds of competition and commerce have spawned economic success stories in places like Japan and other Pacific societies in the post-WWII era, while the Arab world has been ridden with falling incomes, economic lethargy and social stagnation. The bottom line is that the very notion of any new invention or innovation (Bida) is seen in Islam as being an offense to Allah. This is why, whenever anything even remotely close to a debate occurs in the Islamic Middle East, the accusation of Bida, which remains the most popular and effective accusation in the Arab world, immediately terminates the debate. The individual accused of
[osint] Iraq wants Iranians freed
Clear whose side the Iraqis are on. Bruce http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2007/01/15/3382563-sun.html Iraq wants Iranians freed BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi foreign minister called yesterday for the release of five Iranians detained by U.S. forces in what he said was a legitimate mission in northern Iraq, but he stressed that foreign intervention to help insurgents would not be tolerated. The two-pronged statement by Hoshyar Zebari highlighted the delicate balance facing the Iraqi government as it tries to secure Baghdad with the help of American forces while maintaining ties with its neighbours, including U.S. rivals Iran and Syria. Any interventions - or any harmful interventions to kill Iraqis or to provide support for insurgency or for the insurgents should be stopped by the Iraqi government and by the coalition forces, Zebari said in an interview with CNN's Late Edition. But he also stressed Iraq has to keep good relations with its neighbours in the region. You have to remember, our destiny, as Iraqis, we have to live in this part of the world. And we have to live with Iran, we have to live with Syria and Turkey and other countries, he said. In violence yesterday, at least 78 people were reported killed or found dead, including 41 bullet-riddled bodies that were discovered in Baghdad. The U.S. military also said an American soldier died Saturday in northern Iraq. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Iraq President Makes Landmark Syria Trip
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/15/ap/world/mainD8MLFSMO1.shtml Iraq President Makes Landmark Syria Trip Iraqi president visits Syria to discuss security issues, strengthening relations Syria's leader promised to help ease tensions in neighboring Iraq during Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's landmark visit to Damascus on Sunday, just days after President Bush accused Syria of backing the Iraqi insurgency. A veteran Kurdish politician who spent years in exile living in Syria, Talabani is the first Iraqi president to visit Damascus in nearly three decades. His trip was seen as part of an attempt to warm relations between the longtime rivals. A prominent Iraqi lawmaker with close ties to Talabani said the president's visit to Syria was not meant as a snub to Bush. The six-day trip had been planned for nearly a year and its date was finalized about two weeks ago, Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman said from Baghdad. But he acknowledged that the timing may seem a little tricky after Bush's speech and said Iraq needed to follow its own foreign policy goals independent from Washington's agenda. Our interests differ from those of the United States, he said. The enmity between the United States and Syria and Iran doesn't benefit the situation in Iraq. Syria's official news agency SANA said the talks between Syrian President Bashar Assad and Talabani focused on bilateral relations, and that both sides expressed a desire to strengthen ties between their countries. Assad also stressed Syria's readiness to help Iraq achieve national reconciliation and political stability to help end the increasing sectarian violence in the country, the state news agency said. The United States and Iraqi officials accuse Damascus of providing refuge to Sunni insurgents and allowing them to cross the border freely into Iraq to fight American and Iraqi troops. In an address Wednesday outlining his new strategy for Iraq, Bush vowed to take military action to disrupt insurgent supply lines coming into Iraq from Syria and Iran. Syria denies it is providing refuge to militants, countering that the Iraqis and their U.S. backers are not doing enough to guard their side of the border. Iraq and Syria restored diplomatic relations late last year, more than two decades after they were cut over ideological disputes, Syria's support of Iran in its 1980-88 war with Iraq, and charges that Baghdad supported Syrian militants. Talabani has been warmer toward Syria than Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who fears that giving the country's neighbors a role in ending the violence in Iraq would allow them to meddle in Iraqi affairs. But Vali Nasr, a U.S.-based expert on Middle Eastern affairs and a fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, said Iraq needs to independently engage its neighbors, even if it disagrees with some of them. The Iraqis must have their own plan for regional engagement and show that not everything is managed in Washington, he said. Syria is a prime candidate for engagement in any regional outreach by Iraq. Its close relations with Iran are a vital asset given Tehran's vast influence with Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims. It also has good relations with the once-dominant Sunni Arabs in Iraq and plays host to 800,000 or more Iraqi refugees, including stalwarts of Saddam's Baath Party known to be active in the Iraqi insurgency. Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric whose Mahdi Army militia is blamed for much of Iraq's sectarian violence, was given a warm welcome by Assad when he visited Syria last year. Al-Sadr is one of al-Maliki's main political backers. Syria can play a constructive role in Iraq, but not necessarily a decisive one, said Rami Khouri, a Beirut-based Middle East expert. What Syria can and can not do will not decide the future of Iraq, but it can help. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] 30 militants killed in Afghanistan
http://www.rxpgnews.com/asia/30-militants-killed-in-Afghanistan_11837.shtml 30 militants killed in Afghanistan More than 200 militants, according to officials, have been killed so far this year. By Xinhua, [RxPG] Kabul, Jan 14 - Afghan and NATO forces killed 30 Taliban in the troubled Helmand province of south Afghanistan, provincial police chief Mohammad Nabi Mullahkhil said here Sunday. 'In an operation launched by Afghan and NATO troops against insurgents in Kajaki district Saturday, 30 enemies were killed and 20 others were wounded,' said Mullahkhil. The operation was carried out in the wake of militant's attack and the killing of a NATO soldier in the restive province. Meantime, Taliban's purported spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi disputed the claim, saying militants in the engagement had killed three NATO and Afghan soldiers, injuring eight others. Militancy has been on rise as three bomb attacks shocked Qalat and Spin Boldak towns in the south and Mimana in northwest of post-Taliban Afghanistan in a single day on Sunday. More than 200 militants, according to officials, have been killed so far this year. Taliban-linked violence claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people mostly the rebels in 2006 and Taliban's elusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed to step up attacks this year. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Six wounded by suicide car bomber in Afghanistan
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/InternationalNews/tabid/187/articleID/18250/Defaul t.aspx Six wounded by suicide car bomber in Afghanistan A suicide car bomber drove toward Afghan soldiers patrolling in Paktika province's Bermel district and blew himself up, wounding six soldiers. The area is often targeted by rocket attacks against Afghan and foreign troops. On Sunday a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan destroyed a vehicle and killed a woman, her two newborn babies and the children's grandmother. NATO led troops and Afghan forces also killed two suspected Taliban insurgents and arrested four others in Mizan district in Zabul province on Sunday. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] TERRORISTS' 'JIHAD' MAKES NO NATION SAFE
http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=6794_0_1_0_M TERRORISTS' 'JIHAD' MAKES NO NATION SAFE By Gordon Bishop on Jan 15, 07 After the 9/11 terrorists attacks on America, leaving some 3,000 innocent men, women and children dead, the world finally realized that if a global superpower is not safe, then no country can be safe from these mass murderers. Consider the inter-connectedness of the following incidents (cited by Don Feder of FrontPage Magazine.com), all of which took place in the past few months: . In Indonesia, three Christian schoolgirls were beheaded. . In Iraq, a Syrian Orthodox priest was kidnapped, tortured and murdered. . In Somalia, a nun was shot to death as she left the hospital where she worked, tending the sick and dying. . In Lebanon, just weeks ago, a cabinet minister was assassinated. . In Britain, authorities uncovered a conspiracy in which native-born Muslim Brits plotted to blow up several trans-Atlantic flights, attempting to kill as many as 3,000 passengers. . In Afghanistan, suicide bombers are at work again. . In Iraq, they never stopped. Additionally, a few weeks ago a group of worshippers were abducted from a mosque, doused with gasoline and burned to death in what's described as sectarian violence. . In France, a high school philosophy teacher is in hiding after very credible death threats following publication of a September 19th commentary in Le Figaro. . Some 139 people died in riots in Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan - following the publication of Danish cartoons. . Europe is experiencing the worst wave of anti-Semitic violence since Hitler's Kristallnacht. The former director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum reports there an average of 12 assaults a day on Jews in Paris. . In Kosovo, 90 percent of Serbs gave been ethnically cleansed from the province since 1999. The rest live I a state of siege. . In Mumbai, India, a series of blasts killed almost 200. . In Gaza, terrorists recently celebrated the latest ceasefire by raining more rockets on southern Israel. . And the leader of more than a billion Catholics (the Pope) received death threats and demands that he convert (to Islam) after giving a speech in which he called for a balance of fair and reason, and quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor. Remember, all Muslims are not terrorists. But almost all terrorists are Muslims. When will America wake up and declare a global war on terror? When terrorists attack another American landmark like the World Trade Center's twin towers? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] War with Traditional Islam
http://www.aqoul.com/archives/2007/01/war_with_tradit.php War with Traditional Islam An interesting blog post from miltiary specialist and commentator Col. Pat Lang (a real colonel, unlike my old Col appelation, a mere shortening of my name) on http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2007/01/ideologies_exis. html War Against the Boogey Men, critiquing the American approach to the Iraq war and the larger engagement with the Middle East. The item that caught my eye was this: Freedom and Islamic Fascism clearly have special meanings here. I say that freedom as the bushies use the term is code and really means westernization and globalization in the sense that we want to see the world ironed out flat so the it meets the egregious Friedman's dream of a homogeneous world. Islamic Fascism means, I think, simply Islam. That is, Islam as it has been understod by millennia of Muslims. That is, as an all encompassing view of the world and man's relationship to God. Ah, but these are not real Muslims, I can hear the outcry now. Rubbish. We non-Muslims can not dictate to any particular group of Muslms what Islam means to them. We want an Islam similar in its role in life to the emasculated role that Christianity plays for most Americans in their lives? Sorry! We do not get to choose for them. There wil be a reaction to what I have written here. It will be similar to the outrage vented on me by a former congressman from the Midwest who went on and and on about the nice ladies who come to his office to tell him that Muslims are a peaceful lot. Peaceful? Yes? Within limits. My analysis leads me to the belief that we are fighting against traditional Islam. Emphasis added. While I am not in agreement of necessity with what appears to be a poke at globalisation - although it can also be taken as a poke at the cartoonish idiocy of Friedman's understanding of globalisation - I found his statement on the presumption of the American (and to a not very much lesser extent European) engagement with Islam to be of import and worthy of discussion. Far too much of American and indeed European policy presumes to engage in social enginering - which one can at least say for the Europeans is not contrary to their general philosophy, excluding to a certain extent the UK where a touch of liberalism exists. Outsider driven social engineering does not have a brilliant history of successful change, and worse, in my opinion tends to short-circuit insider change - e.g. take a look at the ever-weakening position of liberals in the Arab world, whose grass roots weakness is only compounded by their need and all too often apparent desire to call upon European and American Big Daddies to push their agendas. In the economic realm I am rather more tolerant as there I see a greater scope for outsider supported change - largely via market forces but also directly; but touching on things emotional like family and sexual relations - intimate relations perhaps - well, I know of no society that reacts well to outsiders there. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Blocking Turkey 'keeps Islam out of the European Union'
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/France/10097209.html Blocking Turkey 'keeps Islam out of the European Union' By Emmanuelle Landais, Staff Reporter Dubai: Nicolas Sarkozy's recent comment that Turkey does not have its place in the European Union is just to keep Islam out of Europe, according to the former editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. Currently on a three day tour of the UAE, Alain Gresh, former editor and author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and expert on the Middle East, on Monday said problems associated with Islam are socio-economic rather than religious. In France today, as in other Western countries, the simple mention of Islam can cause a debate, at least a concern, and even sometimes an unconscious fear, added Gresh. Religious differences have replaced the social differences in the public speech, and there lies the real threat, he said. Personally I'm against any enlargement of the European Union. They expanded to 25 countries too fast, no decisions are made because it is too big. To keep Turkey out of Europe is a way political parties think because it is popular to talk about it, said Gresh. In France Muslims tend to be poor immigrants. They were discriminated against because they are Arab and now they are being discriminated against because they are Muslim. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Iran: Thinking the Unthinkable
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Is Israel, supported by the Bush Administration, preparing to launch an
atomic war against Iran? On January 7, the London
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242249,00.html Sunday Times claimed
that the Israeli government is planning to attack Iran's uranium enrichment
facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. While the Israeli government
denies the story, recent statements by top Israeli officials and military
figures -- along with recent White House threats against Iran and Syria and
a shuffling of American commanders in the Middle East -- suggest that the
possibility is real.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls Iran an existential threat, and
Deputy Minister of Defense Ephraim Sneh recently said, The time is
approaching when Israel and the international community will have to decide
whether to take military action against Iran. An Israeli Defense Force
(IDF) official told
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFul
lcid=1159193427838 the Jerusalem Post that only a military strike by the
U.S. and it allies will stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.
Brigadier General Oded Tira, former commander of the IDF's artillery units,
not only urges http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html
an attack on Iran, but because President Bush lacks the political power to
attack Iran, Israel and its supporters must lobby the Democratic Party and
U.S. newspaper editors to lay the groundwork for such an attack. Tira says
that if the Americans don't act, we'll do it ourselves.
According to the Times, the attack will use a combination of conventional
laser-guided bombs and one kiloton tactical nuclear bunker busters. The
targets would be the centrifuges at Natanz, a uranium conversion plant near
Isfahan, and the heavy water reactor at Arak.
One source told the Times, As soon as the green light is given, it will be
one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished.
Bluster or Bunker Buster?
Bombast to scare the Iranians? Maybe, but a number of pieces have fallen
into place over the past month that suggest that the Bush administration is
also seeking to widen the Middle East conflict, and that time may be running
out for Iran.
In his January 10 speech announcing an escalation in Iraq, the president
singled out Iran and Syria as aiding terrorists, and warned, We will seek
out and destroy the networks that are training and arming our enemies in
Iraq. According to
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/world/middleeast/12raid.html?_r=1hpex=1
168578000en=584bde7a750714ffei=5094partner=homepageoref=slogin The New
York Times, the president ordered several raids against diplomats and
advisors in Iraq, accusing them of supplying advanced improvised explosive
devices to Iraqi insurgents.
While the last election was a repudiation of the neo-conservative's policies
of aggressive militarism, many of those neo-conservatives are steering the
current escalation in Iraq. President's Bush's new way forward is lifted
directly from a policy paper
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25396/pub_detail.asp by
Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the
neoconservative think tank that pushed so hard for the initial invasion of
Iraq. Kagan -- along with William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative
Weekly Standard -- designed the plan that will send more than 20,000 troops
to Iraq.
But is the escalation just about Iraq? According
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/010807.html to Robert Parry, author of
Secrecy Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, and
former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter, one source familiar with
high-level thinking in Washington and Tel Aviv said an unstated reason for
the Bush troop 'surge' is to bolster the defenses of Baghdad's Green Zone if
a possible Israeli attack on Iran prompts an uprising among Iraqi Shiites.
The neoconservatives may well have engineered the ouster of John Negroponte,
National Security Director, because he said that Iran could not produce a
nuclear weapon until sometime in the next decade. The statement outraged
neoconservatives and directly contradicted alarmist Israeli intelligence
assessments that Tehran could have a warhead in less than two years.
If the United States does intend to hit Iran, or to support such an attack
by Israel, then it just appointed the right man for the job. The new head of
Central Command (CENTCOM) that oversees the Middle East, Admiral William
Fallon, is the former head of U.S. Pacific Command and an expert on air war.
Fallon commanded an A-6 tactical bomber wing in Vietnam, a carrier wing, and
an
[osint] Pentagon: militia gangs more dangerous than al Qaeda
They all serve the same purpose. Bruce . http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/InternationalNews/tabid/187/articleID/17081/Defaul t.aspx Pentagon: militia gangs more dangerous than al Qaeda http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/InternationalNews/tabid/187/articleID/17081/Defau lt.aspx A new Pentagon report on Iraq has told the White House armed militia gangs have replaced al Qaeda as the most dangerous accelerant inciting sectarian violence. Shi'ite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army is singled out as the number one threat. And in gloomy new figures on the violence, the report says attacks by insurgents and sectarian militias jumped 22 percent from mid-August to mid-November, and civilians suffered the bulk of casualties. The average number of attacks reported each week has jumped during that period from nearly 800 to almost 1000. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] U.S.: Iraq oil won't be nationalized
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/20453.html U.S.: Iraq oil won't be nationalized WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 President Bush is confident Iraq won't nationalize its oil sector and, instead, will open it up to investors, including U.S. oil companies. White House Spokesman Tony Snow said Friday that when the dust clears in the fight over Iraq's new oil law, it will look more like Alaska than the oil sectors of Saudi Arabia. It's no more a nationalized oil industry than the hydrocarbon law in Alaska makes Alaska a fiefdom of petro-socialism, Snow said, gulfoilandgas.com reports. Alaska has state control over oil and natural gas, which supports nearly its entire budget, and gives its citizen annual payments from the hydrocarbon take. Iraq's oil and gas future isn't known. It has the world's third largest reserves at 115 billion barrels. Political wrangling over an oil law governing all new oil deals is ongoing. Despite the fact parliament hasn't seen a final version, let alone approved it, the Bush administration hand is evident. The Independent reports BearingPoint, a U.S. consulting firm, was given a contract to help reorganize Iraq's financial sectors, including oil. It is advising on the oil law itself. In Bush's speech last Wednesday, he predicted oil money to be redistributed to all Iraqi's, something that, if true, would be detailed in the final version of an oil law. Snow said Iraq's national government will collect the money. And, when it's all said and done, U.S. companies will be allowed into the sector. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Fact, fiction or bioterror drill? How to cook up a ricin scare
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/15/ricin_scare_mashup/ Fact, fiction or bioterror drill? How to cook up a ricin scare Take one reservoir, two tons ricin mash, stir vigorously By George Smith, Dick Destiny http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2007/01/15/ricin_sca re_mashup/ → More by this http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=George%20Smith%2C%20Dick%20Destiny author Published Monday 15th January 2007 17:48 GMT We Yanks love to be scared. The more scared we can be, the better. The Effect of Bioterrorism Messages on Anxiety Levels, a recent article in a peer-reviewed health quarterly, put a point to it. Those covering the science of terror beat in the United States have known for a bit that the mainstream media's uncritical transmission of expert hectoring on doom has had the proper effect. Epidemiologist Hillel Cohen and two colleagues performed a small study in which graduate students were advised of the gravity of bioterror through excerpts from Richard Preston's http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/reviews/971102.02harrist.html The Cobra Event (review) or another warning (see Can bioterrorism warnings make you sick? http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1222/3 ). Unsurprisingly, those who read the material based on Preston were more scared of bioterror. Preston, for those who don't recall, is the non-fiction/fiction writer equivalent of the grindhouse movie director. (Gentle fans, please hold the hate mail.) He turned the relatively rare and terrible hemorrhagic diseases caused by the Ebola and Marburg viruses into an infotainment franchise. Preston never met a virus that didn't cause ichors to spurt. The Cobra Event was his fictional treatment, continuing the flogging of a favorite riff. For it the bioterror weapon was a custom-made virus that destroys you with a fatal case of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/lesch_nyhan/lesch_nyhan.htm , an exceedingly rare and ugly genetic disorder. Preston's bioterror casualties bit off their lips, chewed fingers, plucked out eyes, squirted fluids and mewled like kittens with their tails caught in a door. Unbelievable and disturbed, it was a bestseller, good stuff for President Bill Clinton who apparently felt it was one appropriate example among a number of justifications upon which to gin up fear. The Cobra Event was a fantasy - but anything delivered via the news, no matter how fantastical, is legitimate. If a feat is impossible, it's not an obstacle. American emergency responders and terror experts drill for things that can't happen on a regular basis. Before the New Year, one such drill ran in State College, Pennsylvania, based on the idea that ricin http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/16234876.htm/ would be put in the water in time for a collegiate game of pigskin. Readers should know States College's Beaver Stadium holds over 100,000. On Saturdays in season, State College becomes the third largest city in Pennsylvania. A terrorist team striking it with something like ricin, through the water, would have to envision contaminating a water supply of some goodly size. We can do some figures on the back of an envelope to show the how impractical it is, even if we toss out the reality that Penn State football fans bring most of their beverages, like bottled and canned beer, in their SUVS and RVs. We start with the work of Porton Down whose scientists conveniently http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/nsn/nsn-050413.htm worked out the science of terrorist ricin-making during the trial of Kamel Bourgass. Bourgass's ricin recipe, they determined, starting from five grams of castor seed, would not be a fatal dose, but would cause nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Now assume you want to hit a water supply serving 150,000 people. How should that five grams be apportioned to sicken the public? Per cup or per pint? Keep in mind an awful lot of water will go down the toilet and into the drain during showers. One has to aim big. Assuming the low ball estimate of 150,000 pints, Biochemical Ali needs, at the very least, 750 kilograms of castor mash, or about 1650 pounds. Make it a ton to allow for modest losses in milling. This means you must install a castor mill where none exists and then figure out how to get a dumptruck of bean mash evenly distributed within a central water supply. The bean mash is also filled with a certain amount of insolubles. These will turn to a gluey glop when they hit water, necessitating stirring - hoo boy (!), a lot of stirring, a godlike amount of agitation. It's not salt. So much for that plan! Now one understands the attraction of car bombs. Moving on to polonium, you mistakenly thought the Litvinenko assassination was a British affair. Wrong, it's about us. Starting with the New York Times and traveling subsequently through the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, each major newspaper did a big feature on how terrorists could use
[osint] Imam suspected of sexually harassing 3 students
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3352688,00.html Imam suspected of sexually harassing 3 students Fifty-seven year-old Muslim cleric from Jerusalem accused of indecent assault, attempted rape of students inside mosque. Cleric's arrest extended by 4 days Efrat Weiss Published: 01.15.07, 18:07 A 57-year-old imam (Muslim cleric) who is a resident of a village in northern Jerusalem was arrested on Monday under suspicion of performing indecent assault and attempted rape of three 15-year-old boys who are residents of east Jerusalem. The complaint leading to the arrest of the imam was filed on Saturday by one of the boys. Following the filing of the complaint an investigation was opened against the imam and on Sunday the cleric was apprehended by Jerusalem police detectives who had his arrest extended on Monday, for four days in the Jerusalem magistrate court. The cleric is suspected of committing indecent assault on the boys for the past few months. He supposedly committed the assault on two of the boys in his car while he was giving them a lift. The third boy was allegedly harassed inside a mosque. The suspect has denied the allegations and claimed that the three boys had come to him asking to study the Quran. On Monday, the imam's arrest was extended by four days. During his hearing it was revealed that during his last assault, the subject was attacked by a number of residents from the village who saw him committing the indecent deeds on a boy and beat him. The police investigation will continue in order to determine if indecent assault was forced on any other boys. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Group Charges U.S. Troops Engaged Al-Qaida
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006143225 Group Charges U.S. Troops Engaged Al-Qaida Linked Philippine Insurgents January 15, 2007 11:29 a.m. EST Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Correspondent Manila, Philippines (AHN) - A leftist organization in the Philippines has accused Washington of violating the nation's constitution, as it alleged that U.S. troops have taken part in combat operations against guerrillas with ties to the al-Qaida terror network in southern Philippines. But U.S. Embassy spokesman Matthew Lussenhop denied the allegations and said no U.S. troops have been involved in any military operations in the Philippines. Lussenhop said, according to AP, Visiting U.S. troops in the Philippines advise, assist, share information with their Philippine counterparts, but they do not engage in combat and they have no direct role in combat operations. Any combat operations are 100 percent Filipino. Herbert Docena of Focus on the Global South cited a series of U.S. military writings, doctrines and eyewitness accounts to corroborate his claim and called for an independent probe to establish if U.S. troops have taken part in any military actions in the Philippines in direct violation of the constitution. Several hundred American troops have been stationed in the Philippines since 2002 to provide training and assistance to Filipino troops in hunting down Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf, believed to have ties with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. U.S. troops were also providing training to local troops in their hunt for members of the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists in Mindanao. Lussenhop said the number of U.S. Special Forces in the Philippines average no more than a few hundred at any one time. He added that the American facilities and camps used by the U.S. troops were only temporary. Docena said his group interviewed eyewitnesses who claimed seeing U.S. troops near hostilities, operating military equipment, defusing land mines and performing other war-related activities. The unmanned U.S. aircraft that crashed last year while conducting surveillance over a hostile area was operated by an American soldier, Docena claimed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Islam in the Russian Federation
http://austrolabe.com/2007/01/15/islam-in-the-russian-federation/ http://austrolabe.com/2007/01/15/islam-in-the-russian-federation/ Islam in the Russian Federation January 15th, 2007 by http://austrolabe.com/author/delicious/ Austrolabe The http://da.mod.uk/ Defence Academy of the United Kingdom have released a http://www.defac.ac.uk/colleges/csrc/document-listings/russian/06%2853%29MA S.pdf fascinating paper [PDF] on the state of Islam and Muslims in the Russian Federation. According to this study, Muslims have a much higher birthrate than the Slavic component of the society, with Russia set to become increasingly Islamic over the coming decades. Although there is no Muslim lobby in Russian politics, the demographic shifts will almost certainly lead to an increased Islamic or Muslim influence on Russian society and politics (including foreign policy). This will, the report warns, lead to increased tensions between Slavs and Muslims; tensions which are already becoming evident. The entire report is worth reading, but part of the first section on demographics paints an interesting picture: In the last USSR census of 1989, Moslems in the Russian Federation were reckoned to be 12 million, or 8 per cent of the Russian Federation population. The 2002 Russian Federation census reveals that the Moslem component of the Russian Federation is 14.5 million (out of a total population of 144 million).3 However this is claimed in some quarters to be an underestimate. Ravil Gaynutdin, head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, announced in August 2005 that Russia's population contains 23 million ethnic Moslems.4 The Moslem population has been boosted by the influx of immigrants from Moslem parts of the former Soviet Union. An estimated 3-4 million Moslems are migrants from former Soviet regions, including 2 million Azeris, 1 million Kazakhs, and several hundred thousand Uzbeks, Tajiks and Kyrgyz. Moreover, the growth rate of the Moslem population is faster than that of the Slavic population of the Russian Federation. Although the total Russian population dropped by 400,000 in the first half of 2005, it increased in 15 regions, such as the Moslem republics of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. The birth rate is 1.8 children per woman in Dagestan, versus 1.3 for Russia as a whole. Male life expectancy is 68 in Dagestan, versus 58 for Russia overall. Russia had about 300 mosques in 1991 and now there are at least 8,000 (more than in Egypt, which has a population of 75 million), about half of which were built with money from abroad, especially from Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia. There were no Islamic religious schools in 1991 and today there are between 50 and 60, teaching as many as 50,000 students. There are 3098 registered Moslem communities. The number of Russians going on the hajj each year has increased from 40 in 1991 to 13,500 in 2005. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The left, feminists and Afghanistan
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/L ayout/Article_Type1 http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/ Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1168816508978call c=Articlecid=1168816508978call _pageid=1020420665036col=1112188062581 The left, feminists and Afghanistan No one doubts that the Taliban in Afghanistan were and are Islamic fundamentalists. To the mullahs who control the movement, the duty of women is to serve their husbands and fathers, to be covered at all times except in the home and not to hold a job outside the family's confines. Violators can be punished severely, even killed. Similar draconian rules apply to female children who are best left uneducated. Their schools, their teachers and occasionally the girls themselves can be executed for violating such rules. This is monstrous policy by any standard, utter medieval lunacy in the guise of religious faith. It offends Western values deeply and it has much to do with the reasons that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban and trying to bolster the more moderate Karzai government in Kabul. But to judge by the silence of Canada's left and its feminists, there are worse sins occurring out there than the repression of Afghan women and children. What could be worse? The whole War on Terror, the American and NATO interventions in Afghanistan, and Canadian complicity in Washington's many and varied sins. In other words, the silence of the Canadian feminist lambs suggests strongly that this is a classic case where anti-Americanism and anti-Bush sentiment, combined with anger at Stephen Harper's Conservative government and its policies, easily outweigh the harm done to Afghan females by a fundamentalist cabal. Not that the feminists and the left have been completely silent on Muslim outrages against women. Consider the case of Darfur where New Democrat Leader Jack Layton, female colleagues in his caucus, and many Canadian feminists have been demanding that Canada act to stop the killings and rapes by Muslim militias, aided by the Sudanese government. The brutality in Darfur is horrid, no doubt of this, and the world community has been slow to act, not least because Khartoum has until recently refused to permit the intervention of United Nations forces within Sudan's borders. But why is a Darfur intervention a good and necessary response while the war in Afghanistan is not? There are a variety of pathologies at work here. One is that Darfur is now to be a UN peace enforcement mission and the United Nations and peacekeeping of any variety are, by definition, good. Afghanistan, by contrast, is seen on the left as a U.S. war, aided and abetted by NATO. It doesn't appear to matter that after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the UN Security Council passed resolutions authorizing intervention in Afghanistan. For the feminists and the left, if the Americans are involved, at root it must be about oil, about President Bush's failed policies or about the American obsession with the War on Terror. Another factor is that in Darfur, the United States, along with Canada and most Western nations, was loathe to intervene. It was not so much that the democracies condoned the brutality of the militias. They didn't. It was that the Darfur deserts were inhospitable, to say the least, that the logistics involved in supporting Western forces there were a nightmare and troops were in short supply. Moreover, the presence of white, largely Christian soldiers would not necessarily have a calming effect when the Muslim government in Khartoum was pledging a jihad if infidels dared to intervene in their affairs. In other words, until the Sudanese government accepted UN intervention, any Western help in Darfur could only be offered after an invasion. To the West and its governments, it seemed better, safer, and smarter to try to bolster the Organization of African Unity's small peacekeeping forces in Darfur. But to the feminists and the left, it was easy to portray these sensible and practical concerns as if Washington and its friends were deliberately shirking their responsibilities to the women of Darfur. American intervention in Afghanistan was a bad thing by definition. America's refusal to intervene in Darfur was an evil, a deliberate abandonment of Sudanese women and children to the brutal militias who were raping and killing wantonly. The United States, in other words, was damned if it did and condemned if it didn't act. Those who believe that the rights of women and children in Afghanistan matter enough to deserve protection need to play on this ideological confusion on the left. Jack Layton and his feminist friends want Canada's troops out of Afghanistan and into Darfur. But how abandoning the women of Kandahar province to the not-so-tender mercies of the mullahs will help bring peace and justice there is very hard to comprehend. Yes, the West
[osint] Jihad Jimmy
http://www.federalistjournal.com/fedblog/?p=2882 http://www.federalistjournal.com/fedblog/?p=2882 Jihad Jimmy The http://www.nypost.com/seven/01152007/postopinion/editorials/jimmy_for_terro r_editorials_.htm NY Post catches Jimmy Carter seeming to offer approval of Palestinian murder-suicide bombers: Has a former president of the United States - a Nobel Peace Prize winner, no less - given his blessing to wanton murder and terrorist assaults against Israel? Sure looks that way. How else to read that astonishing statement on page 213 of Jimmy Carter's new anti-Israel screed, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid? To wit: It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel. (Emphasis added.) You don't have to read between the lines here. Carter isn't calling on the Palestinians to give up terror and murder now as a way to convince Israel they are serious about peace. Rather, he says they can wait until they've achieved their goals at the bargaining table. No need, says Carter, to give up terrorism until then. This execrable man's reputation as some sort of great humanitarian is a sham. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Financial burden of war in Iraq reaches historic proportions
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/NEWS/70115 0339/1002 Financial burden of war in Iraq reaches historic proportions By Joel Havemann, Los Angeles Times Washington | By the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975, it had become America's longest war, shadowed the legacies of four presidents, killed 58,000 Americans along with many thousands more Vietnamese and cost the U.S. more than $660 billion in today's dollars. By the time the bill for World War II passed the $600 billion mark, in mid-1943, the United States had driven German forces out of North Africa, devastated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway and launched the vast offensives that would liberate Europe and the South Pacific. The Iraq war is far smaller and narrower than those conflicts, and it has not extended beyond the tenure of a single president. But its cost is beginning to reach historic proportions, and the budgetary burn rate for Iraq might be greater than in some periods in past wars. If U.S. involvement continues on the current scale, the cost of the war on terrorism - including the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and on other foreign fronts - is projected to surpass this country's Vietnam spending sometime next year. And the accumulating cost is adding to resistance to President Bush's war policy in Congress as well as in public opinion. Last week, when Bush unveiled his new war plan - which included sending an additional 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq and launching another effort to provide jobs and public services in Baghdad - the cost issue was raised by Republicans as well as Democrats. But it had been simmering for more than a year. Members of Congress have talked relatively little about the war's increasing price because of the human costs, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said. But certainly we're cognizant of it, she said. When you say for what we're spending in a month in Iraq you could fully fund and double the science budgets of the United States and come up with a viable alternative to oil, it puts it in perspective. Even so loyal a Republican as Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who chaired the budget committee until the Democrats took control of the Senate this year, criticized the administration's approach to war costs, calling it without any discipline as to how much is going to be spent. At a media briefing before Bush's speech Wednesday night, a senior administration official said the president's plan would entail $5.6 billion in military expenses and an additional $1 billion in reconstruction and other civilian costs. In the broad landscape of federal spending, those are not huge numbers, although $6.6 billion is more than enough to cover the budgets for all the country's national parks, national forests, historic monuments, protected wetlands and wildlife refuges for a year. What makes the cost issue increasingly sensitive is not just questions about whether it will buy success but also the fact that the new plan's cost will add to a mountain of bills for earlier military and reconstruction efforts with what many people see as little or no positive return on the investment. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
[osint] What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm http:// What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad By Ted Sampley U.S. Veteran Dispatch January 2007 Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during his ceremonial swearing-in. Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota. The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America's founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived in the library. Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in college, said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that a visionary like Jefferson believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources. There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be gleaned from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic Barbary states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli. Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic Barbary states. Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the African and Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing slaves. The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal villages had a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders to kill off as many of the non-Muslim older men and women as possible so the preferred booty of only young women and children could be collected. Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as concubines in Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual interests of Muslim men by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one time and to have as many concubines as their fortunes allow. Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to create eunuchs who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of the Middle East. Muslim slave traders created eunuch stations along major African slave routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It was estimated that only a small number of the boys subjected to the mutilation survived after the surgery. When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the Dey of Algiers--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria. Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States. Congress appointed a special commission consisting of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, to oversee the negotiations. Lacking the ability to protect its merchant ships in the Mediterranean, the new America government tried to appease the Muslim slavers by agreeing to pay tribute and ransoms in order to retrieve seized American ships and buy the freedom of enslaved sailors. Adams argued in favor of paying tribute as the cheapest way to get American commerce in the Mediterranean moving again. Jefferson was opposed. He believed there would be no end to the demands for tribute and wanted matters settled through the medium of war. He proposed a league of trading nations to force an end to Muslim piracy. In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey of Algiers ambassador to Britain. The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress' vote to appease. During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that
[osint] Feds Defend Partnership With Islamic Group Under Scrutiny
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200701/NAT2007011 6a.html Feds Defend Partnership With Islamic Group Under Scrutiny By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com Staff Writer January 16, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Federal government agencies are defending their continuing cooperation with a high-profile Islamic organization at a time when its alleged ties to terrorists have come under renewed scrutiny. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has historic links to a U.S.-based group charged with terrorist funding, and several individuals associated with CAIR have been jailed for terror-related offenses (See http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200701/CUL2007 0116a.html Related Story). Its critics also charge that while CAIR officials condemn terrorist attacks, they commonly refuse to condemn terror groups by name, particularly the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese-based Hizballah. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is the latest lawmaker to criticize the organization, based on concerns raised in law enforcement circles that CAIR gives aid to international terrorist groups. At the same time, CAIR describes itself as the go to civil rights organization for federal agencies that deal with Muslims. CAIR works on sensitivity training projects and outreach programs with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other agencies. That's a situation some believe should change. We wish the federal government was more aggressive at looking into CAIR, or at least stop working with them and providing them a platform, said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group in Washington. CAIR is not a legitimate ... civil rights organization, Fitton said in an interview. The federal government needs to stop treating it as if it is. The TSA recently reproduced on its own official website an unedited CAIR press release. In the release, CAIR praised the TSA for providing sensitivity training to airport workers ahead of the Hajj, or the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Judicial Watch and others criticized the TSA's publication of the press release, arguing that taxpayer dollars were being misused to subsidize the group's public relations message. TSA spokeswoman Amy Kudwa told Cybercast News Service the posting of the unedited release had been a mistake, resulting from a miscommunication with technical personnel. Hajj training is a policy we've had in place for some time, Kudwa said. This is not a new policy. For example, the U.S. airport security staff was advised to relax the usual no-liquid-or-gels regulation, as Muslim travelers carried holy water back from Mecca, she added. 'They never bring these issues up' CAIR's partnership with government agencies goes a lot further. Officials with the organization - which has 32 local chapters and more than 50,000 members - have met with Bush administration officials, members of Congress, state lawmakers and local officials across the country. The organization points to numerous cases of working closely with federal law enforcement, including: * After the August 2006 arrest in Britain of men accused of planning bomb attacks on U.S. bound airliners, the FBI invited CAIR along with other Muslim organizations to participate in a joint press conference; * In July 2006, CAIR-New York sponsored a meeting between some 50 Muslim leaders and officials from the FBI and Immigration Customs Enforcement; * CAIR conducted sensitivity training and education programs for FBI offices in Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Arizona and Michigan; * FBI officials attended CAIR-Arizona's annual banquet; * FBI and officials from the U.S. attorney's office in St. Louis visited a mosque open house; * In July 2004, CAIR conducted a sensitivity and diversity training workshop at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which was broadcast live to all NASA employees; * In 2003, CAIR officials spoke at a joint press conference with the FBI in Miami urging residents to assist law enforcement; and * In November 2002, the State Department hosted a Ramadan dinner that included several Muslim groups, including CAIR. While collaborating in these ways, CAIR also opposes certain U.S. policies, including the USA Patriot Act, which was passed by Congress to counter the terrorism threat. CAIR also is a party in a lawsuit demanding that the federal government do away with the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. Last month, the group hosted a meeting featuring speaker Imad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, who criticized the U.S. war in Iraq. CAIR is proud of its work with the government, said the group's spokesman Ibraham Hooper. I can't tell you the number of times we have done sensitivity training when we've worked with the TSA, the DHS, Hooper told Cybercast News Service. I can't
[osint] Backgrounder: What Critics Say About CAIR
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200701/CUL20070 116a.html Backgrounder: What Critics Say About CAIR By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com Staff Writer January 16, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Criticism leveled at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has focused primarily on its sources of funding and on terror-related convictions handed to some office-bearers in the organization. The most controversial organization with a known affiliation to CAIR was the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, shut down in 2001 when the U.S. Treasury Department froze its assets after alleging it provided funding to Hamas. The foundation sent CAIR $5,000 in a wire transfer in 1994, the year CAIR -- which now has more than $5 million in assets -- was first established. Tax records reveal that some of the largest gifts to CAIR, a non-profit organization, have come from abroad. CAIR raised funds to build its $3.5 million national headquarters in Washington, D.C. According to the deed for the building, dated Sept. 12, 2002, the Al Maktoum Foundation in Dubai - a charity that funds the building of mosques and educational and medical programs - granted $978,031 to CAIR. In August of 1999, the Islamic Development Bank, a consortium of 56 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), gave CAIR $250,000. OIC members include traditional U.S. allies like Egypt but also countries such as Libya, Syria and Iran. In 2002, CAIR received $500,000 from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, chairman of the Kingdom Holdings Company, according to congressional testimony. One of the world's wealthiest men, bin Talal is also a key stockholder in News Corporation and Citicorp. According to published reports in the Arab press, CAIR began recruiting money in the Middle East in the summer of 2006 for a $50 million, five-year, public relations campaign in the United States, and met with Dubai businessmen in the United Arab Emirates. Steve Emerson, executive director of The Investigative Project, a data-gathering center on Islamist groups, said the fact that CAIR has accepted so much foreign money should raise alarms. Who is pulling the strings? Emerson asked Cybercast News Service. Should they register as a foreign agent? Emerson, a long-time CAIR critic, argued that the organization should be forced to disclose how much money is coming from outside the country. Terror ties? Lawmakers and others critical of CAIR have often pointed to the controversies surrounding some of the organization's office-bearers. Among them, according to court records: * Randall Royer, a civil rights coordinator for CAIR, pleaded guilty in January 2004 in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., to possession of firearms and explosives after being indicted on terrorist conspiracy charges and helping four others gain entry to a terrorist training camp, and was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment; * Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, was reportedly convicted in July 2004 of sending computers to Libya and Syria and in April 2005 of doing business with Mousa Abu Marzook (a senior Hamas leader who has been on the U.S. government's list of specially designated terrorists since 1995 and remains on the most up-to-date list published last week.) Elashi is serving a six-year prison term and faces further charges; * Bassem Khafagi, a former CAIR community relations director who was born in Egypt, pleaded guilty in September 2003 to lying on his visa application and passing bad checks. He was deported; and * Rabih Haddad, a CAIR fundraiser, was arrested and deported for his work with the Global Relief Foundation, designated by the U.S. Treasury Department to be a sponsor of terrorism. CAIR spokesman Ibraham Hooper told Cybercast News Service that the convicted men and their activities were unrelated to the organization. Nothing these named individuals did or didn't do had anything to do with CAIR, he said. They didn't do it in the name of CAIR, on CAIR's time or in association with CAIR. Fifty-thousand members are held responsible for actions we didn't take. That standard is not applied to any other group except a Muslim group. Nine individuals associated with or defended by CAIR are named in a civil lawsuit brought by the estate of John P. O'Neil, the former counter-intelligence officer with the FBI who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center. The civil racketeering suit identifies CAIR, among many co-defendants, as having loose ties with 9/11 and tries to establish a connection based on CAIR's various financial connections. It's not worth addressing, Hooper said of the lawsuit, which is pending. It's nonsensical. He said critics refuse to look at what CAIR has done for the past 13 years, so they are reduced to guilt by association [accusations]. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[osint] Venezuela, Iran to finance opposition to US
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=48899NewsKin d=Current%20Affairs Venezuela, Iran to finance opposition to US Monday, January 15, 2007 - C2005 IranMania.com Related Pictures Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, fiery anti-American leaders whose moves to extend their influence have alarmed Washington, said they would help finance investment projects in other countries seeking to thwart US domination, The Associated Press reported. LONDON, January 15 (IranMania) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, fiery anti-American leaders whose moves to extend their influence have alarmed Washington, said they would help finance investment projects in other countries seeking to thwart US domination, The Associated Press reported. The two countries had previously revealed plans for a joint $2 bln fund to finance investments in Venezuela and Iran, but the leaders said Saturday the money would also be used for projects in friendly countries throughout the developing world. It will permit us to underpin investments ... above all in those countries whose governments are making efforts to liberate themselves from the [US] imperialist yoke, Chavez said. This fund, my brother, the Venezuelan president said, referring affectionately to Ahmadinejad, will become a mechanism for liberation. Death to US imperialism! Chavez said. Ahmadinejad, who is starting a tour of left-leaning countries in the region, called it a very important decision that would help promote joint cooperation in third countries, especially in Latin America and Africa. Iran and Venezuela are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and Chavez said Saturday that they had agreed to back a further oil production cut in the cartel to stem a recent fall in crude prices. We know today there is too much crude in the market, Chavez said. We have agreed to join our forces within OPEC ... to support a production cut and save the price of oil. OPEC reduced output by 1.2 mln barrels a day in November, then announced an additional cut of 500,000 barrels a day, due to begin on February 1. Dow Jones Newswires reported Friday that OPEC is discussing holding an emergency meeting later this month to reduce output by another 500,000 barrels a day. Venezuela and Iran have been leading price hawks within OPEC. Ahmadinejad's visit Saturday, his second to Venezuela in less than four months -- comes as he seeks to break international isolation over his country's nuclear program and possibly line up new allies in Latin America. He is also expected to visit Nicaragua and Ecuador, which both recently elected leftist governments. Increasingly united Chavez and Ahmadinejad have been increasingly united by their deep-seated antagonism toward the Bush administration. Chavez has become a leading defender of Iran's nuclear ambitions, accusing the Washington of using the issue as a pretext to attack Tehran. Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, has called Chavez the champion of the struggle against imperialism. US officials have accused Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, of authoritarian tendencies, and National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said recently in an annual review of global threats that Venezuela's democracy was at risk. The US also believes Iran is seeking to use its nuclear program to develop an atomic bomb. Tehran says its program is peaceful and geared toward the production of energy. The increasingly close relationship between Chavez and Ahmadinejad has alarmed some Chavez critics, who accuse him of pursuing an alliance that does not serve Venezuela's interests and jeopardizes its ties with the United States, the country's top oil buyer. Venezuela is among the top five suppliers of crude to the US market. In a speech earlier Saturday, Chavez called for the US government to accept the new realities of Latin America, as he brushed aside restrictions that limit presidents to two consecutive terms. He vowed to stay in office beyond 2013, when his term expires, saying he would revise the constitution to get rid of presidential term limits. But Chavez also said in his state of the nation address to government officials and legislators that he had personally expressed hope to a high-ranking US official for better relations between their two countries. Chavez said he spoke with Thomas Shannon, head of the US State Department's Western Hemisphere affairs bureau, on the sidelines of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's inauguration earlier this week. We shook hands and I told him: 'I hope that everything improves,' Chavez said. I'm not anyone's enemy. Chavez prompted a crash in Venezuelan share prices this past week when he announced he would seek special powers from the legislature to push through revolutionary reforms, including a string of nationalizations and unspecified changes to business laws and
[osint] The Issue of Music in Islam
http://truthline.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/the-issue-of-music-in-islam/ http://truthline.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/the-issue-of-music-in-islam/ The Issue of Music in Islam http://truthline.wordpress.com/files/2007/01/bismigold.jpg http://truthline.wordpress.com/files/2007/01/bismigold.jpg I was recently involved in a discussion on another blog regarding the Somali Islamic Courts Union's ban on some forms of music. My stance on the issue is that they are right to ban certain types of music because the scholars of Islam consider it to be haram (prohibited), as well as anything else that can lead to sinful and prohibited acts. I grew up listening to many forms of rock roll and pop music, which celebrates sex, exploitation of women, drugs, and violence. I know quite well the effects music can have on a persons psychy and that most of the lyrics are contrary to the teachings of Islam. I am also aware of the overwelming influence music can have on youth in their development within the society. I have always believed the prohibition to make very good sense. Thats not to say that I walk around in public with my fingers in my ears, but I do listen to talk radio as opposed to music stations. While most of the scholars agree that listening to music, besides that of the duff, to be haram, there are those that hold a different view and say that the evidences of the former are weak or fabricated. Since there are other forms of music besides that I once listened to, I decided to research both sides and list their evidences here for the pleasure of Allah the most high, and with intentions of helping other Muslims that might be confused on the subject. I ask Allah (ta aala) to forgive us and I Ask him to guide us to the way that will earn his pleasure. Ameen. Evidences Prohibiting listening to Music: 1. And of mankind he who purchases idle talks to mislead (people) from the Path of Allaah without knowledge, and takes it (the Path of Allaah) by way of mockery, For such there will be a humiliating torment. quran 31:6 Al-Wahidi, along with other scholars of Tafsir (explaining the Quran), said that Idle Talk in this Ayah is singing. The following companions gave this Tafsir: Ibn Abbas, Ibn Masud, Mujahid and Ikrimah said, By Allah, whom there is no God except Him, idle talk is singing. 2. Allah the most high says about the disbelievers: Their prayer at the House (Kabah) was nothing but Muka'an and Tasdiyah. quran 8:35 The companions Ibn Abbas, Ibn Umar, Atiyyah, Muj ahid, Ad-Dhahh'ak, AlHasan and Qatadah (radi allahu anhum) said, that Muka'an means whistling, and that Tasdiyah means clapping of hands. 3. Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari: that he heard the Prophet(SAWS) saying, From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection. 4. Imam Ibn Taymiyyah said, Listening to music and sinful fun are among what strengthens the satanic ways the most. This is exactly what the disbeliever's used to do. Allah (SWT) said And their prayer at the House (of Allaah) was nothing but Muka 'an and Tasdiyah. 8:35 This was the Mushrikeen's way of worship. Imam Ibn Taymiyyah also said, also said regarding the person, whose habit is to listen to music, His state of emotions becomes less passionate when he hears the Quran. On the contrary, when he listens to instruments of the devil (music), he dances a lot. If the prayer is established, he either prays while sitting down or performs it as fast as when the roaster picks seeds. He dislikes listening to the Quran and does not find beauty in it while reciting it. He has no taste for the Quran and feels no love for it or pleasure when it is read. Rather, he finds pleasure if he listens to Mukaa' or Tasdiyah. These are satanic pleasures and he is among those whom Allah mentioned in the Ayah, And whosoever turns away from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent (Allah), We appoint for him Satan to be a companion for him. quran 43:36 Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim said,Of the tricks of the enemy of Allah, Satan, that he uses to trap those who do not enjoy much intelligence, knowledge or sincerity in religion, are M ukaa' and Tasdiyah. These people of ignorance listen to and use musical instruments that are prohibited and which lead the hearts to abandoning the Quran. These hearts are indulging in sin and disobedience of Allah. Music, then, is Satan's Quran and the barrier between one and Allah. It is the way to sodomy and adultery.
[osint] U.S military strike on Iran seen by April, 2007
U.S military strike on Iran seen by April, 2007 U.S. might launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times released on Sunday said in a report. The report, written by Arab Times' Editor-in-chief Ahmed al- Jarallah citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all Arab countries in the Gulf. Recent statements emanating from the United States indicated the Bush administration's new strategy for Iraq doesn't include any proposal to make a compromise or negotiate with Syria or Iran, added the report. The source told al-Jarallah that U.S. President George W. Bush recently had held a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other assistants in the White House, where they discussed the plan to attack Iran in minute detail. Vice President Dick Cheney highlighted the threat posed by Iran to not only Saudi Arabia but also the whole Gulf region, according to the source. Tehran is not playing politics. Iranian leaders are using their country's religious influence to support the aggressive regime's ambition to expand, Dick Cheney was quoted by the source as saying. Indicating participants of the meeting agreed to impose restrictions on the ambitions of Iranian regime before April 2007 without exposing other countries in the region to any danger, the source said they have chosen April as British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it will be the last month in office for him. The United States has to take action against Iran and Syria before April 2007. Claiming the attack will be launched from the sea and not from any country in the region, he said the U.S. and its allies will target the oil installations and nuclear facilities of Iran ensuring there is no environmental catastrophe or after effects. The source added that the U.S. has started sending its warships to the Gulf and the build-up would continue until Washington has the required number by the end of this month. U.S. forces in Iraq and other countries in the region will be protected against any Iranian missile attack by an advanced Patriot missile system, the source noted. The Bush administration believes that attacking Iran will create a new power balance in the region, calming down the situation in Iraq and paving the way for their democratic project, which have to be suspended due to the interference of Tehran and Damascus in Iraq, according to the source. Source: Xinhua http://english. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/15/eng20070115_341128.html peopledaily.com.cn/200701/15/eng20070115_341128.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] And still they're preaching poison...
And still they're preaching poison by SUE REID http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_page_id=711in_o verture_ua=catin_start_number=0in_restriction=bylinein_query=sue%20reidi n_order_by=relevance+date Last updated at 22:00pm on 12th January 2007 Secretly filmed: Dr Ijaz Mian calls for the destruction of British institutions Every Friday, the Muslim worshippers begin to arrive just after midday on an anonymous Home Counties urban street. They are hoping to secure a good spot during the weekly Islamic prayer meeting, a short walk from the Surrey town of Sutton's bustling High Street and the old parish church of St Nicholas. They include teenage boys, college students and adult men - a crowd of 100 people, some in white robes and carrying the Koran. Here, in Robin Hood Lane, they are eager to hear the words of a preacher called Abdul Latif and to join him in prayer. It seems an unlikely setting but it is in places such as Sutton that one can discover the uncomfortable truth about how deeply the tentacles of radical Islam have spread. The Muslim cleric preaching hatred and Islamic supremacy is a middle-aged family man with two daughters. He is a skilled orator - by profession an engineer and a brilliant teacher of Arabic who has lived in Britain for three decades. Yet what he preaches at Friday prayers is a chillingly vituperative litany against his adopted country and the non-Muslims who live here. This is despite the fact that under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act brought in last year, it is an offence to stir up racial or religious hatred, intentionally or otherwise, in a public or private place, including mosques. Mr Latif has called Tony Blair a 'murderer'; he says that every British soldier in Iraq should be killed and he proclaims that the London bombings in July 2005 (an atrocity in which 57 innocents died) was orchestrated by the Government. 'We don't have Muslim terrorists... they do not exist. But anything that they (the Government) claim is Muslim terror, they do it themselves,' Mr Latif informed his devoted followers one week. A week later, he said: 'The British soldiers are the soldiers of Satan, the soldiers of evil, of evilness. And I pray to Allah openly and in English that they will not return back except when they are dead - all of them.' During these religious speeches, monitored by the Mail over a period of a month, he also condemned the Pope as a loud-mouthed drunk and said President Bush's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was an unclean fornicator. Non-Muslims in Britain, declared Mr Latif, are dirty, unclean people who never wash their hands and become ill because of their own sexual promiscuity. He went on to denounce British democracy as 'demon-ocracy' and praised the shariah laws of Islam under which thieves have their hands cut off and adulterous women are stoned to death in public. In another inflammatory outburst, made directly to 'youngsters' at the prayer meeting, Mr Latif said that the British and Americans were deliberately trying to destroy the reputation of Islam and Muslims. And the reaction of his congregation in a youth centre sports hall (rented to Mr Latif's religious organisation, Companions of the Mosque, by Sutton local education authority)? A few murmured their approval but, much more disturbingly, when the cleric pretended to forget the person he called 'the dictator of Britain', a young man listening from his prayer mat quickly shouted out: 'Blair!' As one worshipper told us: 'Please don't think that Mr Latif is alone in what he says. In many mosques, whether they are in the suburbs or the towns or the cities, there are imams (Islamic clerics) just like him giving powerful speeches which are turning Muslim worshippers against this country. 'The preachers say that Christians, the Jews and other religions will always be the enemy. A whole generation of young Muslims is being brainwashed into believing such inflammatory things,' the middle-aged professional man who is a devout follower of Islam told us. Similar stories emerging from Britain's mosques have long been dismissed as untrue by the Muslim community and their leaders. The Muslim Council of Britain says most imams are moderate men. So the Mail asked Mr Latif why he had voiced such explosive views at his Friday meetings, particularly to an audience that included impressionable young Muslims under 25. Speaking to us by telephone, he did not deny a word, saying: 'I was, though, speaking at private prayers. I would not say the same things in public, out on the street, because it wouldn't bring harmony.' He refused to comment further. Yet on Monday, another investigation into Britain's mosques, by Channel 4's respected Dispatches programme, will reveal worrying evidence of just how rife Islamic extremism is among Muslim preachers. The undercover TV inquiry, conducted over ten months, reveals some religious clerics urging their
[osint] Be careful when judging Islam, Moslems
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/local/16458753.htm Be careful when judging Islam, Moslems One positive result of Pope Benedict's Regensburg lecture that linked Islam and violence was an open-letter response sent by 38 Moslem religious leaders and scholars, including several grand muftis. The letter is a small, but significant step in opening up a much needed dialogue between Islam and Christianity, and, more generally, between Islam and the West. The tone of the letter is very respectful, addressing the pope as Your Holiness. The authors applaud Benedict's efforts to oppose the dominance of positivism and materialism in human life and appreciate the pope's own expressions of profound respect for all Moslems. But in the spirit of open exchange that the pope had called for, the authors also critique some errors that they find in the lecture. The pope had cited the work of Ibn Hazm, a Moslem theologian, who argued that God is so far beyond human comprehension that he could issue commandments that (in human understanding) would be unreasonable or even immoral. The pope implied that this could include God's command to use violence in spreading religion. The scholars responded that Ibn Hazm does not represent the mainstream of Islamic thought. This mainstream tradition has in fact sought to balance the demands of reason and faith: While human reason on its own can never grasp ultimate truth, the will of God as revealed in the Quran does not contradict human reason. The authors quote the Quran, We shall show them our signs in the horizons and in themselves until it is clear to them that it is the truth, (41:53). The pope had noted that Quranic passage that rejects the use of force in religion (There is no compulsion in religion, (2:256), but attributed it to the early, more peaceful, part of Mohammed's career, contrasting it to later Quranic commandments regarding holy war. The scholars deny this distinction, arguing that the standard Moslem view is that one cannot force religious belief on people. As an example, they point out that in the early Moslem conquests, people of the book (primarily Jews and Christians, but also groups such as Zoroastrians), were not compelled to convert. The letter argues further that the term holy war is a misleading translation of the Arabic word jihad. Jihad may include war, but generally means any struggle against evil. In the Islamic tradition, a military jihad must follow certain principles: (1) non-combatants are not legitimate targets; (2) religious belief alone does not make anyone the object of attack; (3) Moslems can and should live peacefully with their neighbors. The fact that some Moslems have disregarded these principles should not obscure the fact that they are solidly established in Islamic tradition. We can only appreciate this step toward greater mutual understanding. In particular, I appreciated the letter's many quotations from the Quran, and the point that the Islamic tradition has in its own way tried to balance faith and reason. But some of the letter's points are themselves open to further question. While it's certainly true that people of the book were not forced to convert when Moslems conquered their lands, they were forced to pay a special tax, and did not enjoy the same rights as Moslem citizens. The whole question of jihad also needs further clarification. The authors admit that as a political entity Islam was partially spread by conquest, but deny that the purpose of jihad was to force conversion. While this is true, I see it as misleading to separate political Islam from religious Islam - in the classical Moslem view they are inseparable. As the scholar Daniel Pipes argues, military jihad is indeed not intended to force religious conversions, but it is intended to spread the rule of Shari'a - Islamic law, under which non-believers have some rights, but quite diminished ones. One should also consult Andrew Bostom's book The Legacy of Jihad, for classical Moslem views that are much more militant than those portrayed in the letter. Like any religion, Islam is a complex, ever changing reality. It's overly simplistic to stereotype it as inherently violent, but it's also na.ve to deny the potential for violence and coercion in the classical doctrine of Shari'a rule. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] The Muslim Problem in Australia, and some Suggestions for addressing it
http://www.henrytho http://www.henrythornton.com/print-article.asp?article_id=4150 rnton.com/print-article.asp?article_id=4150 The Muslim Problem in Australia, and some Suggestions for addressing it A distinguished Australian, onetime Secretary of Treasury, onetime Senator and permanant serious contributor to Australia's welfare, addresses our Muslim problem. The author was a keynote speaker at a recent Quadrant dinner, and an edited version of this fine speech will presumably appear in Quadrant in due course. When Peter Kelly first asked me to give this talk, I hesitated before accepting. I have written previously about Australia's Muslim problem - principally on the Opinion page of The Australian, and also, at greater and hence more considered length, in the quarterly National Observer[i] last October - and have been the subject of assorted abuse for doing so. While I wear most of that as a badge of honour, I have also been described (not by name, but collectively) as a fool by Andrew Bolt,[ii] a columnist whose views I generally respect. Greg Sheridan, whose foreign policy views I usually hold in high regard, described some much more limited remarks on this topic by Peter Costello earlier this year as cheap, lazy, nasty populism. His remarks were foolish, lazy, incendiary and idle rhetoric that demonizes Islam.[iii] Since Costello's comments were a mere trifle comparatively, I hesitate to imagine Sheridan's opinion of my own views. The reason that I risk even more such opprobrium is that, despite the ever-mounting level of evidence, there appears to be very little recognition at the national political level in Australia of the clear and present danger confronting us. In attempting to restate that danger, it would be easy to focus on the crimes which, over recent years, have emanated from Australia's Muslims. Two and a half years ago former detective Tim Priest spoke to a Quadrant dinner about his concerns in that regard.[iv] Since then we have seen, among many other such developments, the revelations over the gang-raping of white Aussie sluts by young Muslim men of Pakistani origin; the increasing Muslim lawlessness in south-western Sydney; and the concerted raids on some eastern suburbs by car-load convoys of young Muslim men responding, so they said, to the Cronulla riot of December 11, 2005. Incidentally, while I do not condone that riot, it is worth remembering that it was clearly provoked by the mounting anger over the behaviour of similar young Muslim men at Cronulla and other beaches for some years previously. It would be easy to point to such specific acts of lawlessness, and to the ineffectual rections of those responsible for law and order in New South Wales -- including, now, a Premier whose own electorate centres on Lakemba and whose party is responsible for the continued presence here of one of our foremost Muslim troublemakers, the Imam of the Lakemba mosque, Sheikh Al-Hilali. It would also be easy to point out that there has still not been a significant prosecution of the Muslims involved in those December raids. It would be easy -- and it would largely miss the point. It would do so because the point does not reside in these individual criminal or otherwise offensive incidents, such as the presence of violently anti-Western literature in assorted Muslim bookshops. If we focus only on such matters, the responses of our politicians will consist on the one hand of such things as enhanced policing, sterner anti-sedition laws, more expenditure on ASIO and the Australian Federal Police, and so on. On the other hand, we shall see their further attempts to embrace the Muslim community while arguing that, just like former immigrant groups in post-war Australia, in due course it too will meld into our great national diversity. Even the Prime Minister (of whom I am known to be a strong supporter) has not been guiltless of this form of cultural appeasement Meanwhile, the Islamic cancer in our body politic not only remains untouched, but continues to grow -- stealthily, unobtrusively, even unknown to many Australians busy about their daily lives. One day, however, we shall experience a terrible national pain -- awakening, for example, to the equivalent of the London bombings of last July, or the French riots that my wife and I witnessed last October (from the comfort of our television screens);and we shall ask ourselves, How did it come to this? It will come to this because of a failure to focus upon the real problem, as distinct from those serious, but nevertheless superficial manifestations of it of which, a moment ago, I was saying it would be easy to speak. It will come, in other words, from focusing on symptoms, rather than causes. It will also come to this because, as usual in our democracy, few elected politicians, even if they recognise that problem's headlight coming down the track, want to rush forward and derail it before it can over-run what
[osint] The Anti-Profiling Agenda
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26388 The Anti-Profiling Agenda By Robert Spencer http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1240 FrontPageMagazine.com Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) has been http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/16427461.htm named to the House Judiciary Committee. Ellison said in a statement: I look forward to pursuing a progressive agenda in the committee, including the restoration of American citizen's civil liberties that have come under increasing attack over the past six years. The American citizens Ellison, the nation's first Muslim congressman, has in mind are likely Muslims who charge that they have been subjected to unjust scrutiny and inconvenience in the aftermath of 9/11. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shares this view: she has http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501status=a rticleid=247968254375265 announced her intention to correct the Patriot Act, and wants to criminalize scrutiny of Muslims at airports and elsewhere: Since September 11, many Muslim Americans have been subjected to searches at airports and other locations based upon their religion and national origin. We must make it illegal. Helping make it illegal with Ellison on the House Judiciary Committee will be John Conyers (D-MI), the new chairman of that committee. The policies of the Bush administration, he http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501status=a rticleid=247968254375265 has declared, have sent a wave of fear through our immigrant communities and targeted our Arab and Muslim neighbors. Pelosi, Conyers, and Ellison by all appearances seem less concerned about any wave of fear that may be sent through American non-Muslims by continued jihad terror activity on American soil. But just this week there have been numerous indications that that jihad activity is continuing: [1] Talib Abu Salam ibn Shareef (Derrick Shareef), a convert to Islam, pled not guilty Tuesday to plotting a terrorist attack against a shopping mall in Rockford, Illinois. As they were discussing his plans before his arrest, Shareef http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/203599,rockford010907.article told an undercover agent: Any place that's crowded, like a mall is good, anything, any government facility is good. I swear by Allah man, I'm down for it too, I'm down for the cause, I'm down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man. What cause? In a videotaped http://www.suntimes.com/news/165607,1208_terror.article statement discovered after his arrest, Shareef tied his plans explicitly to his Islamic faith: I am from America, and this tape is to let you guys know, who disbelieve in Allah, to let the enemies of Islam know, and to let the Muslims alike know that the time for jihad is now...be strong, oh Mujahideen...May Allah protect me on this mission we conduct...so do not cry, do not mourn for me. [2] Mohammed Yousuf Mullawala, a Muslim citizen of India, is http://www.projo.com/news/content/DRIVER_PROBE9_01-09-07_AG3PUO3.2f614be.ht ml the subject of a continuing investigation in Rhode Island after enrolling in a truck driving school, inquiring about getting a permit to carry hazardous materials, and telling instructors that he did not need to learn how to back up. Also, Rhode Island State Police Major Steven O'Donnell revealed that we've tied some of his cell-phone records to people of interest nationally - that is, people who are suspected of terrorist activity. They're not your typical person's cell-phone history . the volume of contacts obviously raises the level of suspicion. Referring to Mullawala's own possible connection to jihad terror activity, O'Donnell said: We don't know whether he's a major player, a minor player, or any type of player. But the indicators lead us to believe that his behavior is not normal. [3] Imam Fawaz Damra, the former leader of the largest mosque in Cleveland, was http://www.cleveland.com/newslogs/plaindealer/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_plain dealer/archives/2007_01.html#222015 deported to the West Bank last Thursday. When he arrived, Israeli http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_imam_held authorities promptly arrested him for his ties to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. His failure to disclose those ties got him deported in the first place. He was also captured http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/007385.php on videotape telling http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/002058.php an Islamic audience that the first principle is that terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation.. If what they mean by jihad is terrorism, then we are terrorists - despite http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/07/the_amer ican_is.html having been a signer of the Fiqh Council of North America's much lionized condemnation of terrorism. [4] On Monday, a Pakistani Muslim, Shahawar Matin Siraj, was sentenced to
[osint] U.S. Terror, Espionage Suspects
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politicsid=4935497 id=4935497 U.S. Terror, Espionage Suspects Cheney Defends Bank, Credit Records Searches By Pentagon, CIA Jan. 14 - Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people's rights by examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage in the United States. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel will be the judge of that. National security letters permit the executive branch to seek records about people in terrorism and spy investigations without a judge's approval or grand jury subpoena. The Defense Department gets involved because we've got hundreds of bases inside the United States that are potential terrorist targets, Cheney said. The Department of Defense has legitimate authority in this area. This is an authority that goes back three or four decades. It was reaffirmed in the Patriot Act, he said. It's perfectly legitimate activity. There's nothing wrong with it or illegal. It doesn't violate people's civil rights. In a statement Sunday, Reyes promised that his panel would take a careful look at those claims. Any expansion by the department into intelligence collection, particularly on U.S. soil, is something our committee will thorough review, Reyes said. We want our intelligence professionals to have strong tools that will enable them to interrupt the planning process of our enemies and to stop attacks against our country, he said. But in doing so, we also want those tools to comply fully with the law and the Constitution. The Pentagon and the CIA, to a lesser extent, have used this little-known power, officials said. The FBI, the lead agency on domestic counterterrorism and espionage, has issued thousands of such letters since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The letters have generated criticism and court challenges from civil liberties advocates who claim they invade the privacy of Americans' lives, even though banks and other financial institutions typically turn over the financial records voluntarily. The vast majority of national security letters are issued by the FBI, but in rare circumstances they have been used by the CIA before and after Sept. 11, according to a U.S. intelligence official. The CIA has used these noncompulsory letters in espionage investigations and other circumstances, the official said. The New York Times, which reported Sunday on the expanded use of the technique by the Pentagon and CIA, said military intelligence officers have sent the letters in up to 500 investigations. This is a dramatic story, but I think it's important for people to understand here this is a legitimate security effort that's been under way for a long time, and it does not represent a new departure from the standpoint of our efforts to protect ourselves against terrorist attacks, the vice president said. Cheney was interviewed on Fox News Sunday. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies
Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies: Adapting to the New Adversary MARTIN J. MUCKIAN [From: Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly Winter 2006-07, Vol. XXXVI] The ongoing conflict in Iraq has sparked a renewed interest in the study of counterinsurgency, leading many to comb the wars of the twentieth century, the golden age of insurgencies, for lessons that can be applied to today.1 Much of this recent analysis has focused on the knowledge gained from fighting Marxist revolutionaries. The insurgent of today, however, is not the Maoist of yesterday. His organization and methods are strikingly different from his twentieth century predecessors. The modern insurgent aims to defeat his opponent by psychological warfare and terrorism instead of military action.2 He draws his support from criminal networks as opposed to popular mobilization. He fights a netwar not a People's War. These dissimilarities raise the question of just how much of twentieth century counterinsurgency thought can be applied to twenty- first century conflicts. Methods from past wars are put forth as guiding principles with only a nod towards these differences.3 Applying these principles without examination could lead, at best, to wasted effort, at worst, to defeat. Sun Tzu said, Know your enemy.4 The structure of a movement, meaning its organization and methods, is the key to understanding it. Modern and Maoist insurgencies are structurally different. In order to be effective, those conducting counterinsurgencies must take into consideration these differences and adapt their methods to the structure of modern adversaries. This article examines the distinction between Maoist and modern insurgencies and the implications for counterinsurgency methods. First, it contrasts the two types of insurgencies in terms of their organizations and strategies. Building on that information, it analyzes the vulnerabilities of Maoist and modern insurgencies in their organization, political cohesion, support base, and use of information technology. From this analysis, it draws conclusions about how to modify twentieth century methods to combat the modern insurgent. The purpose of this article is not to propose a comprehensive strategy for a modern counterinsurgency. Instead, it examines one component of such a plan-understanding and exploiting the insurgent's structural vulnerabilities. It does not exhaust this analysis; the conclusions drawn here are demonstrative of the possibilities inherent in this methodology. Throughout this article, the conflict in Iraq is used as an illustrative example of a modern insurgency. The Iraqi insurgency is thus far the most advanced embodiment of netwar, where small groups coordinate, communicate, and conduct their campaigns in an internetted manner, without a precise central command.5 As such, this conflict is a powerful predictor of the future of insurgency. Structure of the Maoist and Iraqi Insurgencies The first step in learning to defeat this new netwar adversary is to understand how its structure differs from past movements. The following contrasts the organization and strategy of the Maoist and Iraqi insurgencies. Organization The last half of the twentieth century witnessed the appearance of several effective revolutionary movements based on Mao's strategy of the People's War.6 Examples include the Hukbalahap in the Philippines, the Malaya Races Liberation Army (MRLA) in Malaya, and the Viet Cong in Vietnam. These groups were all organized in similar hierarchies.7 For example, at the head of the Viet Cong was the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), a committee composed of the top political and military leaders. Below the COSVN were six regional committees, each of which oversaw several provincial and district offices. At the district level was an extensive support organization including medical personnel, weapon manufacturers, training teams, and fiscal auditors. At the lowest level, the cadres organized the entire population to support the movement. Armed bodies consisted of main force units, local guerrillas, and village militias. These military units were fully integrated with the political hierarchy, giving the Viet Cong tight organizational control.8 In contrast, the Iraqi insurgency is a constantly shifting network of disparate organizations.9 There are currently three main armed groups: Tandhim al-Qa'ida fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (al Qaeda's Organization in Mesopotamia), Jaysh Ansar al-Sunna (Partisans of the Sunna Army), and al-Jaysh al-Islami fil-'Iraq (The Islamic Army in Iraq). There are also a number of smaller groups.10 The International Crisis Group has suggested that each of these is more a loose network of factions involving a common `trademark' than a fully integrated organization.11 Each group is composed of many small, compartmented or autonomous cells, some as small as two or three
[osint] Iraq backs Iranians seized by US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6255335.stm Iraq backs Iranians seized by US Six Iranians held in a US military raid in northern Iraq were working there with the approval of the authorities, Iraq's foreign minister has said. They were part of an Iranian liaison office which had been operating for many years, Hoshyar Zebari said. He said the office in Irbil did not yet have full consular diplomatic status but that this was under consideration. The US said it believed the six people seized in Thursday's raid had targeted Iraqi and US-led coalition forces. Mr Zebari said details of the detainees had now been passed to the Americans. We contacted the US embassy and submitted all the information available to us on the nature of their work and the place of their work, he said. They have been working under the approval of the government. One of the group, seized when US troops stormed the building, has since been released. Mr Zebari said the other five remained in US custody. Ambassadors summoned The troops raided the building at about 0300 (0001GMT), taking away computers and papers, according to local media. AFP news agency quoted Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman as saying he did not know the nationality of the six but said they were suspected of being closely tied to activities targeting Iraq and coalition forces. The US is adamant that the building did not have diplomatic status. However, Tehran said the attack violated all international conventions. It has summoned ambassadors from Switzerland - representing US interests - and Iraq. A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry described the raid as an attempt to sabotage Tehran's relations with Iraq. One Iranian MP said it showed America's cruelty and meanness. US accusations The raid comes amid high Iran-US tension. In a major speech on Wednesday, President George W Bush said the US would take a tough stance towards Iran and Syria, whom he accused of destabilising Iraq. BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the raid could signal a ratcheting up of pressure on the Iranians, in line with the rhetorical thrust of his speech. The US also accuses Iran of seeking nuclear arms. Iran denies both charges. Tehran counters that US military involvement in the Middle East endangers the whole region. In December, US troops detained a number of Iranians in Iraq, including two with diplomatic immunity who were later released. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Blizzards versus hurricanes
This from the Denver Post: This text is from a county emergency manager out in the central part of Colorado after today's snowstorm. WEATHER BULLETIN Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a Weather Event of Biblical Proportions --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44 inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands. FYI: George Bush did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government. No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either. CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted. Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything, either. No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera. No Sean Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found. Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families. Families took in the stranded people - total strangers. We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is Work or Die. We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks. Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves. In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate. It does seem that way, at least to me. I hope this gets passed on. Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living. -- Fate loves the fearless. - James Russell Lowell [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Private Arm of the Law
The state of North Carolina has given police powers to dozens of private security firms, part of a growing trend in various parts of the country. At present, there are about 700,000 sworn U.S. law enforcement officers, compared with 1 million contract security officers and roughly another 1 million security guards who work directly for U.S. companies. Security experts say that the U.S. public police force is becoming similar to the public health system, with the government providing a basic level of policing and private security firms providing more in-depth policing for those who are willing to pay for it. The North Carolina private sector policing firms, dubbed company police agencies, are attempting to convince the state's legislature to expand their powers. Private security patrols without police powers provide security in wealthy South Florida communities and for the Tri-Rail commuter trains that run between Miami and West Palm Beach. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100 665_pf.html The Private Arm of the Law Some Question the Granting of Police Power to Security Firms By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A04 RALEIGH, N.C. -- Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light. He pulled out two open Bud Light cans, an empty Corona bottle, rolling papers, a knife, a hammer, a stereo speaker, and a car radio with wires sprouting out. Who's this belong to, man? Watt asked the six young Latino men he had frisked and lined up behind the car. Five were too young to drink. None had a driver's license. One had under his hooded sweat shirt the tattoo of a Hispanic gang across his back. A gang initiation, Watt thought. With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special Police. It is one of dozens of private security companies given police powers by the state of North Carolina -- and part of a pattern across the United States in which public safety is shifting into private hands. Private firms with outright police powers have been proliferating in some places -- and trying to expand their terrain. The company police agencies, as businesses such as Capitol Special Police are called here, are lobbying the state legislature to broaden their jurisdiction, currently limited to the private property of those who hire them, to adjacent streets. Elsewhere -- including wealthy gated communities in South Florida and the Tri-Rail commuter trains between Miami and West Palm Beach -- private security patrols without police authority carry weapons, sometimes dress like SWAT teams and make citizen's arrests. Private security guards have outnumbered police officers since the 1980s, predating the heightened concern about security brought on by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. What is new is that police forces, including the Durham Police Department here in North Carolina's Research Triangle, are increasingly turning to private companies for help. Moreover, private-sector security is expanding into spheres -- complex criminal investigations and patrols of downtown districts and residential neighborhoods -- that used to be the province of law enforcement agencies alone. The more than 1 million contract security officers, and an equal number of guards estimated to work directly for U.S. corporations, dwarf the nearly 700,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. The enormous Wackenhut Corp. guards the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and screens visitors to the Statue of Liberty. You can see the public police becoming like the public health system, said Thomas M. Seamon, a former deputy police commissioner for Philadelphia who is president of Hallcrest Systems Inc., a leading security consultant. It's basically, the government provides a certain base level. If you want more than that, you pay for it yourself. The trend is triggering debate over whether the privatization of public safety is wise. Some police and many security officials say communities benefit from the extra eyes and ears. Yet civil libertarians, academics, tenants rights organizations and even a trade group that represents the nation's large security firms say some private security officers are not adequately trained or regulated. Ten states in the South and West do not regulate them at all. Some warn, too, that the constitutional safeguards that cover police questioning and searches do not apply in the private sector. In Boston, tenants groups have complained that special police, hired by property managers to keep low-income apartment complexes orderly, were overstepping their bounds, arresting young men who lived there for trespassing. In 2005, three of the private
[osint] FBI probes terror threat against BWIA
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,48601.html FBI probes terror threat against BWIA Sunday, December 3 2006 BWIA INTERNATIONAL and two US carriers flying out of Guyana have been threatened with a chemical attack from an independent militant group. Government officials in Georgetown confirmed that the threat was made in e-mails sent to newspapers, airlines and the US Embassy in Guyana. It said that toxic chemicals would be used on flights by BWIA, American Airlines and North American Airlines from Georgetown to other Caribbean destinations as well as North America and Britain. The sender's name and e-mail address were listed as Yuv Ata and [EMAIL PROTECTED] In an official statement, the Guyana Government said, Although the threat is suspected to be a prank, the government is taking the issue seriously. The government said it has since mobilised the Joint Services and representatives of the airline industry operating in Guyana and has been in discussion with its bilateral partners in the international security arena. The FBI and the US Transportation Safety Authority have also begun an investigation, US Embassy spokesman Niles Cole said. The US government takes threats against American citizens seriously at all times regardless whether or not the threat turns out to be valid or credible, he said. The threats came just as Guyana is making security a priority before next year's Cricket World Cup, when the country expects about 30,000 visiting fans. Flights to and from Georgetown have not been affected by the scare. Officials of BWIA could not be reached yesterday for comment on the situation and police officials here told Sunday Newsday they were not aware of any threats to the national carrier. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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.shtml http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[osint] Tracking terror, policemen find success most at rail stations
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=211805 Tracking terror, policemen find success most at rail stations 10 out of 28 militant arrests this year took place at Capital's 3 main terminals http://www.expressindia.com/about/[EMAIL PROTECTED] com Aditya Kaul New Delhi, December 2: IT would appear that the Delhi Police's Special Cell has a special knack of nabbing militants at railway stations considering it has arrested 10 alleged terrorists from the capital's three main railway stations this year. Monday's arrest of two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed militants at Old Delhi Railway Station was another reminder of how easy it appears to have become for police to find explosives and militants at railway stations. Even so, the number of terrorists arrested by the Special Cell this year has dipped from 46 last year to 28, police say. Ten of these militants have reportedly confessed allegiance to the Lashkar-e-Toiba. Delhi Police first struck it rich on February 26 this year when they arrested two Bangladeshi nationals allegedly owing allegiance to LeT as they got down from the Howrah-New Delhi Express at New Delhi Railway Station. We nabbed the terrorists the moment they stepped into the capital, a senior police officer said. In May, two more alleged Lashkar operatives were arrested at Nizamuddin Railway Station when they got off the Golden Temple Express. Based on their information police laid a trap at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium for Mohammed Iqbal who was killed in retaliatory firing when he fired at police. Police later recovered a large quantity of arms from the accused's hideout in Ballabhgarh. The trend of station arrests continued through August when the Special Cell arrested two Lashkar terrorists. Only this time, police allowed the militants to get off the Sarvodaya Express and shadowed them till the Uttar Pradesh Roadways office outside the station where they arrested them. And in mid-October two Lashkar men were arrested as they got off the Pooja Express at Old Delhi Railway Station. The militants were nabbed with 1.5 kg of explosives which they had acquired from Jammu and Kashmir. Intelligence agencies and Delhi Police have been on their toes this year to avert an attack like the Diwali Eve blasts last year and it is probably no coincidence that they have seized around 26 kg of explosives from the arrested militants this year. Most of modules that were busted were receiving directions and assistance from across the border to carry out strikes in the Capital. The quantity of explosives that have been seized is enough to blow up a city, a senior Special Cell officer said. Interestingly, Railway Police officials say have had little to do with the militants' arrests. We might provide them with assistance if needed but most of the times except senior officers, no one is aware of these operations, a Railway Police official said. Another favoured spot for police this year appears to have be the Azadpur wholesale market from where they have nabbed two militants. STATION ARRESTS February 26 - Lashkar operatives Anishul Murhlin and Muhibbul Muttakin arrested from New Delhi Railway Station. Three kg RDX, detonators, pistols, fake currency seized. May 8 - Two Lashkar men Firoz Abdul Latif Ghaswala and Mohammed Ali arrested from Nizamuddin station. Four kg RDX, detonators, cash seized. August 10 - Lashkar operatives Mohammed Isa and Anas arrested from outside New Delhi railway station. Two kg RDX detonators seized. October 16 - Lashkar militants Mohammed Alamgir Hussain and Abdur Razzaq Jeewon arrested from Old Delhi railway station. November 27 - Two Jaish-e-Mohammed militants arrested from Old Delhi Railway Station with 2 kg RDX. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Taxi driver, commuter helped ATS solve 7/11 blast case
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1067331 Taxi driver, commuter helped ATS solve 7/11 blast case MUMBAI: A taxi driver and a commuter, who had identified the accused as the people who planted bombs in commuter trains, have helped the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in solving the July 11 train blasts case. A commuter was hit with a bag carried by a person who barged into the first class compartment of the train as it was leaving Churchgate. He even got into an argument with the person carrying a heavy bag purportedly having a bomb, the chargesheet, filed in a special court on Friday, said. When the commuter read in newspapers about the bombs being planted in pressure cookers kept in bags by various persons separately in seven local trains, he rushed to the ATS and informed them about the altercation he had with a fellow commuter in the first class compartment and offered to identify him. The ATS, on rounding up accused, arranged for an identification parade in which the commuter identified the accused. In another instance, a taxi driver narrated his experience in a statement to ATS saying two persons had hired his taxi on July 11 from suburban Bandra and asked him to take them to Churchgate. They kept a bag on the front seat and sat behind. On the way the taxi driver applied the brakes and the bag was on the verge of falling. This prompted the duo to scold the driver for driving in a rash manner. The taxi driver went to the ATS after the bomb blasts and identified an accused as one of the persons who had hired his taxi on July 11, said the chargesheet, which was filed four months after the blasts that killed nearly 200 people. Both taxi driver and railway commuter are cited as witnesses in the case and their statements form part of the chargesheet. ATS has listed a total of 2,200 witnesses in the case. The chargesheet also said that ATS has seized a Maruti car in which bombs, assembled in suburban Govandi, were shifted to the house of accused Mohammed Faisal in Bandra before being planted in local trains on July 11. The car seized by police has traces of RDX, chargesheet pointed out. The bombs were assembled in the house of co-accused Shaikh Mohammed Ali Shaikh in Govandi area of North-east Mumbai and was kept for a day in Faisal's house before being planted in the trains, it said. About 200 persons were killed and 817 injured when bombs went off in seven local trains between Churchgate and Virar on July 11. A total of 28 accused figure in the chargesheet and of them 13, including Shaikh Mohammed Ali Shaikh and Faisal, are in judicial custody while the remaining 15 are abscounding. ATS spent Rs 27 lakh on intelligence gathering and 246 investigators were involved in the probe. The total loss suffered by Western Railway was to the tune of Rs 2.28 crore. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] RE: Islam in America?
All of this nonsense, and I mean the absolute garbage coming from certain American muslims like Imam Omar Shahin, from CAIR, etcetera, etcetera, about the so-called radicals who are not true Muslims or have nothing to do with true Islam is all an absolute crock. When they talk about the true Islam they are talking about Shari'a Law as it comes from the Qur'an. They are talking about Islam as it is seen in the video in the link below. This is the Islam as preached by Imam Omar Shahin, by CAIR, and as adopted by freshman Congressman Keith Elliott. This is the Islam as they wish it to be practiced in America and in the whole world. Make no mistake, this is the true Islam. There is no difference between this Islam and that of Al Qaeda and the rest of the so-called radical Muslim's. Islam is Islam is Islam. http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9 http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9P1=1322 P1=1322 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Homeland security chief tours state's anti-terror center
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061202/LOCAL19/61202050 2/-1/ZONES04 Homeland security chief tours state's anti-terror center Office that coordinates crime-fighting efforts will more than double size of staff by January By Will Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] December 2, 2006 The Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center, the state's newest crime-fighting tool, expects to add 17 employees by January, more than doubling the size of the fledgling agency. On Friday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff toured the fusion center's office, launched in March, and spoke afterward about its importance. I see this as one of a network of fusion centers working together to spot trends or actual conspiracies, Chertoff said. Their job is to connect the dots, to anticipate and prevent attacks on the homeland. Indiana is one of about 20 state fusion centers across the country, with others set to open soon. The center was created by the Indiana General Assembly and an executive order by Gov. Mitch Daniels to coordinate anti-terrorism efforts among regional and local law enforcement agencies by analyzing data in search of crimes that may be developing. Indiana's fusion center, like those in other states, gives Homeland Security a sort of one-stop shop for terrorism-related information in Indiana. The center does the same for the hundreds of law enforcement agencies in Indiana. Say the Fort Wayne Fire Department has a 'white powder event.' They call us, so we have a record of that. So, say Evansville then calls with a 'white powder event.' Now we've got two dots to work with, said center head Monte McKee. He said some tips come directly from the public. He declined to say how often the phone rings but said his staffers are busy. He said that after the new hires come aboard, the center would be open 24 hours a day every day. Fusion staffers monitor law enforcement Web sites, looking for patterns that could suggest looming trouble. The local group also will target other, more mundane crimes, such as methamphetamine distribution. The center's staff is all on loan from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Salaries are paid by their respective agencies. The center is funded by a $3.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, part of $380 million the department has given to cities for similar operations. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Islam and Nazis: Match made in Hell
Home http://www.militantislammonitor.org | Weblog http://www.militantislammonitor.org/docs?type=2 | Articles http://www.militantislammonitor.org/docs?type=1 | Satire http://www.militantislammonitor.org/docs?type=3 | Links http://www.militantislammonitor.org/links.php | About http://www.militantislammonitor.org/about.php | Contact Militant http://www.militantislammonitor.org Islam Monitor Articles http://www.militantislammonitor.org/docs/type/1 From Al Husseini to Hitler :Radical Islam and the Nazi connection - Pan Arabism to the PA From Al Husseini to Hitler :Radical Islam and the Nazi connection - Pan Arabism to the PA November 17, 2006 http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:HMq1RDwRPMMJ:beethoven.beglobal.com/~mic key/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D4584%26view%3Dnext%26sid%3D4b7f9d8a50e0a9349b 57026863b21ba0+hanjer+tranlation http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:HMq1RDwRPMMJ:beethoven.beglobal.com/~mi ckey/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D4584%26view%3Dnext%26sid%3D4b7f9d8a50e0a9349 b57026863b21ba0+hanjer+tranlationhl=engl=usct=clnkcd=1 hl=engl=usct=clnkcd=1 Quote: Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam DefenseWatch ^ | 12-18-2002 | Tom Knowlton Posted on 01/03/2003 6:47:36 AM PST by Conservative News Hound The Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam By Tom Knowlton The recent Letter to the American People allegedly authored by Osama bin Laden is a virtual ideological manifesto for Islamic extremists. It serves to outline the perceived grievances of radical Muslims against Israel and the West. The letter claims, It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses, dating the conflict between Jews and Arabs back to the Biblical conflict between Abraham's two children: his eldest son, Ishmael (from who Arabs are believed descended), and his younger son, Isaac (from who Jews are believed descended). Some Muslims believe that Isaac usurped Ishmael's birthright. Likewise, prominent imams such as Abu Qatada, Omar Muhammad Bakri, and Abu Hamza regularly echo this claim that Arabs and Jews have been bitter enemies from the dawn of time. However, if one examines the history of the Middle East, there is very little evidence of constant warring and animosity between Jews and Arabs. In fact, when the city of Jerusalem fell to Christian Crusaders in 1099, the defenders of the holy city had been a combined force of Jews and Muslims. After the Crusaders captured the city, they massacred Muslim and Jewish citizens alike and left the survivors to flee Jerusalem. Not until the Muslim hero Saladin defeated the Crusaders in 1187, did the Jewish population even begin to return to Jerusalem. Jerusalem's Jewish community continued to prosper under the Muslim Nahmanides in 1267. But the community's true renaissance occurred during the 15th and 16th centuries, when a large influx of Jews were welcomed into Jerusalem by the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Spain. For four centuries under Ottoman rule, Arab and Jewish neighborhoods peacefully coexisted. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the region came under British mandate. The early days under the British also saw relatively peaceful coexistence continuing and manifesting itself in the form of Arab and Jewish neighborhoods springing up in the garden neighborhoods of Talpiot, Rehavia and Beit Hakerem. However, after over 700 years of peaceful coexistence, the true start of the Arab-Israeli conflict can be dated to 1920 and the rise of one man, Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem. As grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the highest Muslim authority in the British mandate. History shows Al Husseini to be a brutal man with aspirations to rule a pan-Arabic empire in the Middle East. He rose to prominence by actively eliminating those Jews and Arabs he considered a threat to his control of Jerusalem's Arab population, and he heavily utilized anti-Jewish propaganda to polarize the two communities. In 1920 and again in 1929, Al Husseini incited anti-Jewish riots by claiming the Jews were plotting to destroy the Al Asqa mosque. The riots resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Jewish civilians and a virtual end to the Jewish presence in Hebron. The 1936 Arab revolt against the British is believed to have been at least partially funded by Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and Al Husseini again ordered armed Arab militias to massacre Jewish citizens. When British authorities finally quelled the rebellion in 1939, Al Husseini fled to neighboring Iraq and helped to orchestrate a 1941 anti-British jihad. As in Jerusalem, the British successfully put down the rebellion and Al Husseini fled to Nazi Germany. Al Husseini found the Nazis to be a strong ideological match with his anti-Jewish brand of Islam, and schemed with Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy to
[osint] Simulation tests bioterrorism readiness
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_bioterror16.389b0 38.html Simulation tests bioterrorism readiness RIVERSIDE COUNTY: The scenario begins with a powerful virus and a hijacked school bus. 11:36 AM PST on Thursday, November 16, 2006 By JOHN ASBURY The Press-Enterprise A simulated bioterrorism attack Wednesday on a school bus in Moreno Valley with 40 paramedic students was a sobering test in preparing for a large-scale disaster in Riverside County. Mark Zaleski / The Press-Enterprise Kevin Palmer, with the Riverside City College paramedic program, plays the role of one of the injured during a training exercise on Wednesday. Firetrucks, ambulances and police cruisers converged on an overturned school bus at March Air Reserve Base to begin the practiced bioterrorism exercise. Paramedic students from Riverside and Mt. San Jacinto community colleges acted as victims infected with influenza who were trapped in the bus, howling for help and drenched in fake gore. The countywide simulation tested the procedures health agencies and police and fire responders would follow to deal with an actual bioterrorism scenario, said March Air Reserve Maj. Donald Traud. From the radio calls to dispatchers to the arrest of a terror suspect, the first responders and students practiced communication and rescue procedures. This tests our capabilities to respond to a mass-casualty accident or terrorist attack on a soft target in the area, Traud said. Because of this area's infrastructure and growing population, a terrorist attack of this scale is definitely a potential scenario. The scenario involved a fictional terrorist group infecting its members with a genetically engineered virus and hijacking a school bus in Riverside County. Pursued by police, the bus would crash and flip onto its side. Firefighters wearing surgical masks broke through the back of the bus and used an A-frame ladder to rescue students in the overturned vehicle. Student actors were carried out on stretchers, designated as having minor to serious injuries and taken away by ambulance. Every emergency agency and all but one hospital in the county participated in the $300,000 drill. After the simulated bus accident, inoculation centers were set up at the Riverside Convention Center and the Palm Springs Corporate yard to hand out placebo candies to simulate the medications that would be dispensed to prevent a large-scale virus outbreak. The Riverside County Department of Public Health received about $5 million this year for terrorism response and preparedness, said Kim Saruwatari, the department's chief of bioterrorism preparedness. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Saruwatari said, county agencies have been working on simulations to improve preparation and communication. She said the biggest challenges for her department involve preparing hospitals that are already crowded for the possibility of a multiple-casualty situation. This reinforces or plans and tests us to refine our procedures to make them better, Saruwatari said. There are so many types of threats we have to deal with that we always continue to be ready and evolve. When the simulation was conducted two years ago, the agencies found communication flaws and problems with relaying information back to main operation centers. Since then, Saruwatari said, the Public Health Department has reformulated procedures and upgraded 800-megahertz radios to be able to communicate with central command centers. On Tuesday, another terrorism exercise took place in San Bernardino County. More than 1,000 people from 70 local, state and federal agencies practiced drills at the Hyundai Pavilion in Devore, dealing with explosive devices and biological weapons, a San Bernardino County news release said. The California Golden Gate Homeland Security exercise also measured a large-scale earthquake response. Today, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center will practice disaster drills using 16 decontamination showers and two decontamination tents. The equipment can be set up within 10 minutes and can treat contaminated individuals while preventing the spread of harmful components, hospital spokesman Jorge Valencia said in a news release. -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Dozens of Pakistani Immigrants Arrested
Final sentence: Bureaucrats are committed to a program rife with fraud. Bruce http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-religious-visa-arrests,0,41 83446,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines Dozens of Pakistani Immigrants Arrested By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer November 15, 2006, 6:43 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Dozens of Pakistani immigrants who came to the United States posing as religious workers were arrested Wednesday, authorities said, as Homeland Security agents tried to close a commonly exploited avenue for illegal immigration. Immigrants who were supposed to be teaching or conducting religious ceremonies were arrested across the East Coast, where authorities said many worked as gas station attendants, taxi drivers, landscapers and factory workers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been scrutinizing the religious worker visa program, which a 2005 review found was rife with problems. Homeland Security officials found fraud in one of every three religious visas they reviewed. What we see are religious institutions such as churches that may exist only on paper but are sponsoring people, ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said. Our concern is we don't know who these people are. They're obviously not who they say they are and they don't have religious training. Those arrested include a textile factory worker in Atlanta, a truck driver in Philadelphia and a gas station attendant in New York, officials said. Most of the 33 people were from Pakistan. Though most were not performing religious work, authorities said two Massachusetts imams were arrested for using fraudulent documents. In the report released last year, officials found cases where workers could not be found and addresses could not be verified. In one incident, the address on the visa application was found to have been used by a terrorist suspect, though Boyd said there was no indication of a terrorist threat in Wednesday's case. He said the aliens paid large fees to get people or organizations to sponsor them for visas. Arrests were made in Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. In June, Washington state pastor Dong Wan Park was convicted of helping South Korean nationals file fraudulent religious visa applications. None of the applicants was ever employed at the church. The aliens arrested Wednesday were held on immigration violations and could face criminal charges. Boyd said the agency is committed to the visa program, which is said is important for legitimate religious institutions, but said it must not be exploited. Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] More Terror May be Waiting Nearby in The Caribbean
http://www.bloggernews.net/11994 More Terror May be http://www.bloggernews.net/11994 Waiting Nearby in The Caribbean By David Schussler Washington - AP- Katherine Shrader -The government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007. This was posted in today's news columns. The hatred for the U.S. may be endemic in the Caribbean today as well as in the other current theaters of strife and war. It's very important that we do not become so distracted by the events in the Middle East and other hot spots that we neglect to pay attention to those nearby who, for years, have been waiting for an opportunity to hurt us. In the event of Castro's death what will happen to the leadership of Cuba, and consequentially, the amalgamated haters of North American democracy in Central, South America, and the Caribbean? The recent public outbursts by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are reason enough to give us additional concern. As reported by Greg Morsbach in Caracas, Saturday March 04, 2006, in The Guardian, Around 500,000 Venezuelans will start a four-month military training program today to turn them into members of the country's territorial guard. They are the first group of a total of 2 million Venezuelan civilians who have so far signed up to become armed reservists. ..By the summer of 2007, Venezuela is likely to have the largest military reserve in the Americas, which is expected to be almost double the size of that in the United States. Cuba's active military which is already in the control of Raul Castro, numbers currently over fifty thousand, and, although not in the best of condition, they are still well equipped and maintain a readiness to expand their forces. Venezuela today provides over 2.5 billion dollars in various necessary subsidies to Cuba including military. In Bolivia, June 2005, the U.S. Department of State pulled nonessential personnel out of what was then a specter of civil war intended to change control of the government. The reason for the uprising was instigation by Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Colombia's drug cartel. The United States slapped a full arms ban on Venezuela in mid May but in 2004 the U.S. alone had shipped $8 million in arms to Venezuela, and $51 million in the three years previous to that. Chavez has also bought planes from Brazil, ships from Spain, and helicopters and assault rifles from Russia. Some of these Venezuelan arms have turned up in the hands of Colombian based terrorists. In concert with Castro, Chavez has challenged the U.N.'s attempt to halt weapons of mass destruction and terrorism while courting the governments of Iran, Algeria, Libya, and China. All of these countries although trying to maintain their independence from each other with their desire for personal power, are actually becoming more and more interdependent on each other. It is assumed by most Caribbean analysts that Cuba will most likely become somewhat unraveled in the event of Castro's death and although his brother Raul has been by his side since 1959, it is still undetermined how the public will accept him as the ultimate leader as they perhaps try for new freedoms. It is also unknown what kind of changes Raul will attempt to make. Raul is 75 years old and there is no successor in line to replace him due to the fact that he and Fidel felt that an announced successor in line would offer an opportunity for revolution. All of this lends towards an unstable set of circumstances in this area of the world with several leaders displaying real displeasure with the United States. Although it would be difficult for these leaders to unite due to their narcissistic natures, it is not unreasonable to think that they would use one another in concert for individual gain. It is therefore important that we do not let down our guard, or think that our only battles are against radical Islamic terrorists. We are also facing Marxist fascism, drug politics, oil for power brokers, thriving black marketeers, and other sponsors of terrorism in the Caribbean today. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] NYPD's Falkenrath Aims To Keep N.Y. Safe - Day by Day
http://www.nysun.com/article/43295 NYPD's Falkenrath Aims To Keep N.Y. Safe - Day by Day The new deputy commissioner for counterterrorism at the New York Police Department, Richard Falkenrath, is one of the people responsible for keeping 8 million New Yorkers safe. It's a stressful job. Mr. Falkenrath said that when he wakes up every morning at 6:20 a.m. and heads into the office for his 9 a.m. meeting with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the deputy commissioner for intelligence, the CIA veteran David Cohen, he assumes today is going to be the day. By that, he means today is going to be the day that extremist Islamist terrorists attempt to hit New York with a nuclear, chemical, biological, or even a conventional attack aimed at inflicting at least dozens, maybe even tens of thousands, of casualties on New York City. If I had to pick one area where we are most likely to get hit, I think it is the subways, Mr. Falkenrath said in an exclusive interview with The New York Sun, his first sit-down since starting on the job in New York on July 10. It's a target for Al Qaeda. Mr. Falkenrath, 37, is the most recent in a string of prize recruits that Mr. Kelly has been able to lure back to public service after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Mr. Cohen, a 35-year veteran of the CIA who, unusually, served as both deputy director of intelligence and deputy director of operations (and as a confidante of the new nominee to be secretary of defense, Robert Gates), left a comfortable berth at AIG to become the NYPD's deputy commissioner for intelligence. NYU's general counsel, Andrew Schaffer, became the NYPD's deputy commissioner for legal matters. Another legal talent, Martin Karopkin, a former New York Supreme Court justice, recently became the NYPD's deputy commissioner for trials. Upon returning to the NYPD in 2002, Mr. Kelly called IBM's CEO, Louis Gerstner, to recommend someone to revamp the NYPD's ailing information technology office, and landed James Onalfo, a former Kraft Foods, Stanley Works, and Perot Systems CIO, to bring Fortune 500 IT experience to Police Plaza. Mr. Falkenrath said that when Commissioner Kelly telephoned him with a job offer, he felt like he could be knocked over with a feather. Even in a job that might give a lot of people sleepless nights, Mr. Falkenrath seems able to take mental time-outs. The screen saver on his computer is a shot of the house he grew up in, perched in the woods of Northern California. He slept there, he said, with a double-barreled 12-gage shotgun next to his bed for when the quail got in the vegetable garden. Ask him for his phone number, and he begins with 202 before catching himself. He spent the last few years in Washington, serving as an aide on the National Security Council, deputy homeland security adviser, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, and even as a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. Before coming to Washington, he worked for seven years at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. As head of the counterterrorism bureau, Mr. Falkenrath supervises more than 100 NYPD detectives assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a cooperative venture between the NYPD and the FBI. He has a series of counterterrorism inspectors, senior NYPD officials embedded in major commands within the police department to put a priority on counterterrorism. He runs counterterrorism training for the whole NYPD; a special projects team that probes for vulnerabilities; a shield group that works with businesses to protect their facilities, and a weapons of mass destruction unit that has deployed sensor systems throughout the city to detect an unconventional attack. Mr. Falkenrath said that when he first met as a White House official with his predecessor in the NYPD counterterrorism post, another former White House aide, Michael Sheehan, and with Mr. Cohen, he was blown away by the extent of the police department's programs. There is nothing like it in the country, he said. Mr. Falkenrath said New York faces the threat of both domestic homegrown terror plots, like the Herald Square attack prevented by the NYPD and prosecuted at the federal level, and internationally-planned plots such as the attacks of September 11. We have the most information about the international plotting, he said. But that doesn't mean it can be the sole focus. You can't be like the drunk looking for his wallet under the lamp post, he said. Mr. Falkenrath's Washington experience has supplied him with a series of ideas about how the federal government can help cities such as New York protect themselves, and he wants to expand the counterterrorism bureau with some new staff specializing in policy. We would like to see the federal government regulate ammonium nitrate, he said, referring to the fertilizer used to make the bomb that leveled the federal building in Oklahoma City. He mentions that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has reported 350
[osint] Mock terror strike tests local response
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/116306745619050. xml http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/116306745619050 .xmlcoll=1 coll=1 Mock terror strike tests local response Emergency crews from area team up for Redstone drill Thursday, November 09, 2006 By SHELBY G. SPIRESand STEVE CAMPBELL Times Staff Writers [EMAIL PROTECTED]@htimes.com The Tennessee Valley's tendency for severe weather helped emergency workers in a drill Wednesday simulating a terrorist chemical attack on Redstone Arsenal. About 250 personnel from Huntsville, Redstone, the city of Madison, and Madison and Morgan counties took part in the exercise built around a scenario of a small plane spraying a chemical that would severely blister and possibly kill people, said Greg Avila, Redstone Arsenal Garrison exercise coordinator. Our goal is to test the first responders, the police and firefighters, and to learn from that, Avila said. Arsenal emergency workers sprayed down troops with water in a simulated chemical decontamination exercise. Also, portable showers were established within minutes to wash chemical agents away. But no chemicals were used, Avila said. Troops were taken to Huntsville Hospital and Crestwood Medical Center for mock treatments to test local responses to an attack, Avila said. We like to say there is no fence between Huntsville and Redstone, said Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer. We go through these planning exercises at least twice a year with Redstone to make sure that we can take care of any type of attack or even a natural disaster. It's good for North Alabama and it is good for Redstone. Huntsville-Madison County EMA Director John Russell said Huntsville's frequent severe weather and proximity to chemical plants forces the region to have disaster plans that can be applied to a terrorist attack. It's very easy to take a response plan for a tornado touchdown and tailor it to an explosion because the trauma is the same. The damage is the same, Russell said. Army Command Sgt. Maj. William Cole said the exercise was about being prepared to meet a terrorist attack similar to what we've seen they are capable of doing with bombs in England, Spain or the nerve gas attack in Japan. We have to be prepared. The act of making Redstone more prepared for an attack could prevent one, he said. Cole said the exercise has been planned for more than a year. Terrorists are like us or other military units, Cole said. They do their homework and reconnaissance just like we do. If a target is heavily protected and it is a lot of trouble to attack, then they are going to find another target or not attack. The drill was difficult despite thorough planning and helpful technology, but that's the point, Huntsville Police Chief Rex Reynolds said. Reynolds said the drill familiarizes police and local agencies with technology that would be used to handle a real emergency. You want drills like this to be overwhelming, Reynolds said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Caribbean: US Ambassador warns of terrorism
http://www.cbc.bb/content/view/8235/45/ US Ambassador warns of terrorism Wednesday, 08 November 2006 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Newly appointed United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Mary Ourisman warned Wednesday that Cricket World Cup 2007 could bring to the Caribbean region persons who may try to disrupt the game and cause destruction and harm. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for Caribbean participants at a United States-sponsored Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programme, the diplomat warned that terrorist activities were not a matter for the United States alone. Terrorism is not just a concern for the United States, it is a concern for us all, said Ourisman, who replaced Ambassador Mary Kramer who returned to the Untied States in late October. We must work together to ensure that we provide our citizens with the safest means of travel, working together to protect our nations. Twenty-three Customs and Law Enforcement officials from Barbados, St. Kitts-Nevis, Antigua, St. Lucia, Grenada and Dominica graduated from the training course which focused on airport security management. Since September 11, 2001, there have been dramatic changes in Airport Security, Ambassador Ourisman told the graduates. In the Caribbean, the airline industry is the primary means of transportation. It is you and your respective government who bear the responsibility to ensure that safety is paramount for all travelers to and from your islands. When we all come together as one, and function as a single security body, we increase not only the security posture of one airport; we strengthen the security of the Caribbean as a whole. The one week course presented key elements for a standard of civil aviation security at international airports that complies with international airport standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security has provided seven security courses and specialized equipment valued at over US$100,000 to assist the Caribbean prepare for CWC 2007. Other bureaus of the Department of State and other Departments of the United States government have also been providing training, equipment and planning assistance to the CWC 2007 countries over the past two years. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Hundreds dead in Mumbai train serial blast
http://www.newasiatimes.com/news/reports/?report=11407 Hundreds dead in Mumbai train serial blast NAT News Network 7/11/2006 10:17:26 PM The Indian financial capital Mumbai was rocked by as many as seven serial blast in the western line train leaving scores of people dead and injured. The Indian financial capital Mumbai was rocked by as many as seven serial blast in the western line train leaving scores of people dead and injured. These explosions occurred during evening rush hour within 30 minutes duration at seven different places in the first class coaches of local trains, which is considered as the life line of the city. The city's police Chief AN Roy said on a TV channels as many as 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 hurt. The first explosion went off at about 1830 local time during the peak of the evening rush hour in the suburbs of Meera Raod on the busy Western Railway. Mumbai city has been sealed and the capital Delhi have been put on high alert as well as the state of Gujarat and Mumbai's entire rail network has been shut down. Alternate measures are being taken to enable the people to reach their destination but a state of chaos and a sense of fear prevails in the city. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appealed for calm and described the incidents as a shocking and cowardly attempt to spread a feeling of hatred. Pakistan President General Musharraf has condemned the bomb explosion and has expressed his concern over the incident. Other Pakistani leaders have also condemned the blasts as a despicable act of terrorism. Congress president Ms. Sonia Gandhi and Indian home minister Mr. Shivraj Patil has left for Mumbai. Mumbai seems to have no respite from disturbance for some weeks now. First it was the heavy rain that took many lives and then there was the issue of statue desecration which agravated a section of the people and now it is the blast. One should not forget the blast of 1993 which rocked the city and as many as 250 people were dead in it. Incidently the Indian troubled state Sri Nagar faced five blasts in the after noon within four hours. These incidents clearly proves that India is facing challenge to combat terrorism. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Mumbai trains to test upgraded security after bombing
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/nmirror/mmpaper.asp?sectid=1 http://www.mumbaimirror.com/nmirror/mmpaper.asp?sectid=1articleid=11520062 322028111520062305315 articleid=11520062322028111520062305315 Coming soon: City's biggest security check Every commuter entering or leaving Churchgate station and CST will be frisked during peak hours on Nov 12, 13 and 14 Binoo Nair Mumbai is all set to witness the biggest security check in its train history. On November 12, 13 and 14, each and every commuter coming into or stepping out of Churchgate station and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) will be frisked by railway officials in an effort to find out if such a mammoth exercise is indeed possible if the need arises. Crucially, the frisking will happen during morning and evening peak hours, when a crowd of 1,300 to 1,500 enters both stations by the minute. Between them, the two stations see 25 lakh commuters every day. Apart from checking the feasibility of the exercise, the railways want answers to two questions: 1) is it possible to frisk at least one out of five people every day, and 2) is it possible to have airport-type stringent security at a railway station? The drill, railway officials feel, will help find these answers because the difficulties involved will reveal possibilities. If at least 20% of commuters are frisked every day, most commuters would be checked in a week's time as a majority of them are regulars, railway officials feel. 20% per cent frisking is a credible deterrent even abroad, an official who did not wish to be named said. Records show that at present, Railway Protection Force (RPF) and railway police frisk only about 15,000 people every day at Churchgate and CST though the total number of commuters on either line is over 32 lakh. Men and machines for the drill The idea for the exercise emerged during a security review meeting held by the state chief secretary recently, officials said, adding that multiple agencies -- Mumbai police, Central intelligence agencies, RPF, railway police and the Central Industrial Security Force (that provides security to airports) -- have come together to make it work. The agencies are currently working out the maths and buying equipment. At Churchgate alone, we will need about 250 RPF officers and an equal number of railway police officers to conduct the exercise, a Western Railway official said. CST needs far greater strength as it is more porous, a Central Railway official said. While Churchgate has just four platforms with 13 entrances, CST has 17 platforms, 16 'official' entrances, an adjoining yard, outer roads and many more unauthorised entrances. About 15 lakh people use the suburban section in CST and around 60,000 use the long-distance train platforms. At the moment there are 12 frisking desks set up by railway police, but for this drill we will require more than 300 constables and several more railway metal detectors. It will all be worked out before November 9, when all agencies meet again to give finishing touches to the plan, the CR official noted. Railway security agencies have started hiring the security equipment that would be needed. About 40 door-frame metal detectors, 20 walkie-talkies for internal communication, 35 hand-held metal detectors and two dogs on shifts are being brought for the Churchgate drill, a senior WR official said. However, WR officials said it was not certain if they would be able to procure eight x-ray machines that would be needed to examine every piece of luggage. The machines are priced at Rs 83 lakh each, and getting so much money at such short notice will not be easy, officials noted, adding that hiring was also not possible as nobody had extra machines to spare. The ones at the airport are also far too bulky and are needed there full-time, officials said. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond
[osint] The Threat of Islamic Radicalism in Suriname
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370193 The Threat of Islamic Radicalism in Suriname By Chris Zambelis The threat of radical Islamism in Latin America and the Caribbean remains a vital concern for U.S. and regional security officials, particularly in light of allegations that al-Qaeda nuclear terrorist Adnan Shukrijumah lived in Suriname at one point. The region's reputation for porous borders, political and economic instability, endemic corruption and poverty make it a center of transnational organized crime involving the smuggling of drugs, arms and people, money laundering, document fraud, counterfeiting and other illicit activities. While currently there is not a tangible threat to U.S. national security emanating from this region, many observers believe that al-Qaeda is poised to exploit these factors to strike a future blow against the United States or its interests in the region. Based on these assumptions, it is no surprise that the region's modest, albeit dynamic and diverse Muslim community is receiving increased attention from security analysts. Many observers believe that al-Qaeda's proven track record of inspiring sympathizers with no past ties to terrorism to its cause to take the initiative and act in Western Europe and elsewhere is a warning sign of developments to come. Al-Qaeda's success in attracting some Muslim converts to its violent program is also raising alarm bells about growing Muslim conversion trends in the region. Given this context, it is worth considering the position and outlook of the Muslim community in Suriname, subjects that have received little academic and media attention. The former British and later Dutch colony is renowned for its ethnic, religious and cultural diversity. It is the country with the largest percentage of Muslims out of its total population in the Western Hemisphere. Suriname is also a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Instability and Radicalism Although there is no current credible evidence pointing to a burgeoning radical Islamist current in Suriname, the country has experienced an alarming surge in violent crime in recent years. Suriname's small population, dense rainforest and network of rivers that traverse its widely uninhabited territory, strategic position on the northern ridge of South America and direct air and sea connections to Europe and the Caribbean islands, have made it an attractive trans-shipment point for drug and arms traffickers. The country was mired in a bloody insurgency in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Suriname also made U.S. and regional headlines when some sources alleged that Shukrijumah might be hiding there. These reports have not been confirmed (Trinidad Guardian, November 20, 2004). In December 2004, the U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo closed its consular services section after receiving what diplomats described as a credible threat of a possible terrorist attack. No further details were made available. According to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, however, the embassy received threats about an impending strike against the facility or another location in Suriname affiliated with the United States (Caribbean Net News, December 3, 2004). The U.S. Embassy is located on a busy one-way street. Fearing a possible car bombing, embassy officials requested that Surinamese officials close the street and extend the grounds of the facility in order to create a more secure buffer from possible attacks (Caribbean Net News, December 3, 2004). Reports that Jamaat al-Fuqra (JF), an obscure Muslim group with branches in Pakistan and North America that has been linked to terrorism and crime, is making inroads into the Caribbean, especially among Afro-Caribbean Muslim converts and East Indian Muslims in nearby English-speaking Trinidad and Tobago and neighboring Guyana, raise concerns about Suriname (The Trinidad Guardian, April 8). Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, JF's founder and leader, is believed to have spearheaded the movement in Pakistan in the early 1980s. Gilani also heads the International Quranic Open University (IQOU), which is affiliated with the Muslims of the Americas (http://www.iqou-moa.org). JF has been implicated in a series of murders and bomb plots targeting religious and ideological rivals in the United States and Canada. In the United States, JF is comprised primarily of African-American Muslim converts. The group is best known for establishing a number of isolated rural communities across the United States for its members (Terrorism Monitor, August 10). Organized Crime and Corruption In June, Shaheed Roger Khan, also known as Short Man, a Guyanese national of East Indian descent and reputed narcotics and arms kingpin wanted by U.S. authorities on an outstanding warrant for crimes committed while residing in the United States, was arrested in the Surinamese capital of Paramaribo; three Guyanese associates and eight Surinamese nationals
[osint] Explosives screening for rail passengers begins Tuesday in Buffalo, NY
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--tsatrains1106nov06, 0,3735841.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Explosives screening for rail passengers begins Tuesday By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. Rail passengers in Buffalo will undergo explosives screening as part of a program being tested by the Transportation Security Administration. Beginning Tuesday, randomly chosen carryon bags of Amtrak travelers and passengers using the city's Metro Rail system will be swabbed and checked with portable machines capable of detecting minute traces of explosives. The pilot program is meant to give security officials another tool should the nation's terror alert level rise from its current status of yellow, or elevated, said Brett O'Neil, spokesman for the TSA in Buffalo. We're preparing ourselves for, hopefully, something that never happens, but probably will at some point in time if they make specific threats against the ground transportation system, O'Neil said. Buffalo was chosen as one of the first cities to test the screening program because of its location on an international border, as well as for its relatively light rail passenger load. It gives us a little bit of a chance without being inundated with passengers to be able to develop a process and procedure, O'Neil said. Philadelphia has been conducting the screenings for several months, he said. The TSA was created by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks to oversee security of all transportation modes. The Madrid railway bombings that killed 191 people in March 2004 focused greater attention on rail security. About 29 million people take commuter trains, subways and buses daily in the United States and experts warn they may be tempting terrorist targets because of their predictability. We have to adjust our security strategies to make it more difficult to plan and carry out a potential terrorist act, said Lawrence Meckler, executive director of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which oversees Buffalo's Metro Rail system of above- and below-ground trains. Under the pilot program, TSA officers, assisted by Amtrak, NFTA and Depew police officers, will staff different boarding points at various times throughout November. After that, the technology will be used on a random basis and when the threat level is increased, authorities said. We are very pleased to be one of the first sites in the country to be rolling out this type of risk-based approach to passenger screening, said David Bassett, the TSA's federal security director in Buffalo. In addition to the screening devices, passengers also may encounter two newly trained canine explosives teams at rail stations and stops. 061106 202341 Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Thieves Using Secret Weapons To Break Into Homes
Thought this was worth passing around as anyone can become a victim to this little known secret. A good alarm system and a large dog are good deterrents too. http://www.wesh.com/news/10224422/detail.html?taf=orl Thieves Using Secret Weapons To Break Into Homes POSTED: 4:09 pm EST November 2, 2006 UPDATED: 11:38 pm EST November 2, 2006 Many people have been reporting that thieves broke in; stole their TVs, stereos, computers and cash; and then disappeared, leaving no trace they were even there. WESH 2 I-Team reporter Stephen Stock has uncovered a pattern of these crimes popping up across Central Florida, and he reported that every homeowner needs to take action right now. It's a phenomenon about which even the police know little. It's one that's been kept a dirty little secret among thieves, locksmiths and experts for decades. But it's now coming to light thanks to the Internet, and it could cost people the loss of everything they own if they don't take precautions. This summer, newlyweds Glynda and Jerry Arroyo's new life in paradise suddenly was stolen. A week in, I get robbed. I said, 'I want to go home,' Glynda Arroyo said. A burglar broke into their Courtney Springs apartment, taking more than $5,000 worth of possessions. Two Apple computers, an antique necklace (that's) irreplaceable, Glynda Arroyo said. Across the hall, Nathan and Karrie Jensen discovered that they too had been hit. It kind of feels (like we were) violated, Karrie Jensen said. It's kind of crappy, Nathan Jensen said. Like, you feel that you had no control over the situation, Karrie Jensen said. Fifty miles away, a thief took $2,000 worth of Mike Kuftic's stuff. I couldn't believe that somebody could just be able to walk right in here like nothing was happening, and nobody knew it was happening, he said. In fact, from Port Orange to Winter Springs and from Orange City to Clearwater, the I-Team has uncovered a pattern of burglaries stretching across Central Florida. At least 50 different Central Florida apartments and homes were burglarized during the last year alone -- often in the middle of the day. The most the thief took was $29,000 worth of possessions from a local apartment. They were all consistent. All the burglaries were the same, said Capt. Mike Nolan of the Winter Springs Police Department. And each time the burglar left behind nothing, no trace that the crook had even been there. The windows were intact, doors were untouched and the locks weren't picked. Police believe the burglars did it with something called a bump key. It's a key that is specially made and ground down just right. It can open nearly every mechanical lock ever made. This is something that we need to take very seriously, said Cmdr. Tim Girard of the Port Orange Police Department. But for more than 50 years, the bump key has remained a well-kept secret among burglars and locksmiths. In fact, until, most experts didn't want the public to know about bump keys because once they learn the technique, they can break into just about any mechanical lock in seconds. It is really, really easy, said Seth Posner of AA Loc Doc in Ocala. If you do it right, no lock can stop you. And that's the scary part. Many people wouldn't be able to spot a bump key if they had it in their hand. To the untrained eye, a set of bump keys looks no different than regular keys, but in the wrong hands, they could open millions of locks all around the world. Bump key. I didn't know what a bump key was until now, Nathan Jensen said. Jensen isn't alone. Many police departments are in the dark, too. In fact, when the I-Team checked with two dozen property crime detectives, only three of them had even heard of a bump key. So little is known in the law enforcement community about bump-keying that the I-Team had to search all the way to Camden, S.C., to find one of the world's foremost authority on the practice. This was the old hotel thief's trick, said Lee Griggs. Griggs guards all of the secrets about bump keys in his home office in South Carolina. It takes practice, he said. But no real skill? Stock asked. No real skill, Griggs said. You were doing it when you were 12? Stock asked. Yeah, Griggs said. He said the technique is so easy that he could spend three minutes showing a child on the street how to use it and the child could do it right away. Griggs is a forensic locksmith. He has testified as an expert in trials around the country. In fact, police said it was Griggs who looked at locks from burglarized apartments in Central Florida, and he was the one who first alerted police that a bump key thief was at work burglarizing apartments and homes like in communities from Clearwater to Ormond Beach. It's troubling, isn't it? Stock asked Girard. It is because it represents a real threat -- a threat that is kind of new, that is difficult to adjust to quickly, Girard said. The experts said people
[osint] TSA to Investigate Threats of SSI Litigants
http://cryptome.org/tsa110106.htm 1 November 2006 _ [Federal Register: November 1, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 211)] [Notices] [Page 64288-64289] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr01no06-101] --- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Transportation Security Administration New Emergency Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Sensitive Security Information Threat Assessments AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS. ACTION: Notice of emergency clearance request. --- SUMMARY: This Notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency processing and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The ICR describes the nature of information collection and its expected burden. DATES: Send your comments by December 1, 2006. A comment to OMB is most effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication. [[Page 64289]] ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to Nathan Lesser, Desk Officer, Department of Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via electronic mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] or faxed to (202) 395-6974. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katrina Kletzly, Attorney-Advisor, Office of the Chief Counsel, TSA-2, Transportation Security Administration, 601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 22202-4220; telephone (571) 227-1995; facsimile (571) 227-1381. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments Invited In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. Therefore, in preparation for OMB review and approval of the following information collection, TSA is soliciting comments to-- (1) Evaluate whether the proposed information requirement is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including using appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Information Collection Requirement Title: Sensitive Security Information Threat Assessments. Type of Request: Emergency processing request of new collection. OMB Control Number: Not yet assigned. Forms(s): Security Threat Assessment Application. Affected Public: Individuals seeking access to Sensitive Security Information (SSI) for use in civil proceedings in Federal court. Abstract: Section 114(s) of title 49 of the U.S.C. requires the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to promulgate regulations governing the protection of Sensitive Security Information (SSI). SSI includes information that would be detrimental to transportation security if publicly disclosed. TSA's SSI regulation, 49 CFR part 1520, establishes certain requirements for the recognition, identification, handling, and dissemination of SSI, including restrictions on disclosure and civil penalties for violations of those restrictions. Individuals may only access SSI if they are a covered person with a need to know as defined by the regulation. Section 525 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2007 (DHS Appropriations Act) provides that in civil proceedings in the U.S. District Courts, where a party seeking access to SSI demonstrates a substantial need for relevant SSI in the preparation of the party's case and an undue hardship to obtain equivalent information by other means, the party or party's counsel shall be designated as a covered person under 49 CFR part 1520.7, provided that the overseeing judge enters an order protecting the SSI from unauthorized disclosure; the individual undergoes a criminal history records check (CHRC) and threat assessment; and the provision of access to the specific SSI in question in a particular proceeding does not present a risk of harm to the nation. TSA is implementing sec. 525 of the DHS Appropriations Act by establishing a process whereby a party seeking access to SSI in a civil proceeding in Federal court that demonstrates a
[osint] Investigation finds Massachusetts unprepared for terror attack
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO32651/ Investigation finds Massachusetts unprepared for terror attack BOSTON -- A Beacon Hill committee believes local leaders aren't doing enough to protect the Bay State. A new report by the senate post audit committee is based on a three-year investigation. The results are not promising. Just last month, homeland security officials staged a major terror disaster in Massachusetts. Comittee members say state and local governments are not properly prepared for emergencies and natural disasters. The committee has suggested a number of measures that could increase preparedness. Those include strenghtening the National Guard and better emergency planning by cities and towns. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Police: Briton slain in his Trinidad home; no arrests
http://www.thenewanatolian.com/ap-340563.html Police: Briton slain in his Trinidad home; no arrests PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad Two armed intruders invaded a home in Trinidad and killed a 67-year-old British national in his bed, a police spokesman said Tuesday. David Power, who sold and rented household appliances out of his home in Santa Cruz, a suburb east of the capital of Port-of-Spain, was shot at close range by the gunmen early Monday morning, police spokesman Richard Sellors said. The pair fled the scene to leave Power, who had lived in the Caribbean nation for five years, dead in bed, Sellors said. No arrests have been made. The killing appeared to be a botched robbery, but it wasn't clear if the intruders had taken money or other valuables from the house, Sellors said. Power's home had been robbed last month and he was known to keep money there, Sellors said. Local media reports said Power was originally from Surrey in southern England, but police could not confirm that. 061024 200405 Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] With Beheadings and Attacks, Drug Gangs Terrorize Mexico
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?_r=1oref=sl oginref=americaspagewanted=print oref=sloginref=americaspagewanted=print With Beheadings and Attacks, Drug Gangs Terrorize Mexico By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. URUAPAN, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/me xico/index.html?inline=nyt-geo Mexico Norteño music was blaring at the Sol y Sombra bar on Sept. 6 when several men in military garb broke up the late night party. Waving high-powered machine guns, they screamed at the crowd to stay put and then dumped the contents of a heavy plastic bag on the dance floor. Five human heads rolled to a bloody stop. This is not something you see every day, said a bartender, who asked not to be named for fear of losing his own head. Very ugly. An underworld war between drug gangs is raging in Mexico, medieval in its barbarity, its foot soldiers operating with little fear of interference from the police, its scope and brutality unprecedented, even in a country accustomed to high levels of drug violence. In recent months the violence has included a total of two dozen beheadings, a raid on a local police station by men with grenades and a bazooka, and daytime kidnappings of top law enforcement officials. At least 123 law enforcement officials, among them 2 judges and 3 prosecutors, have been gunned down or tortured to death. Five police officers were among those beheaded. In all, the violence has claimed more than 1,700 civilian lives this year, and federal officials say the killings are on course to top the estimated 1,800 underworld killings last year. Those death tolls compare with 1,304 in 2004 and 1,080 in 2001, these officials say. Mexicos law enforcement officials maintain that the violence is a sign that they have made progress dismantling the major organized crime families in the country. The arrests of several drug cartel leaders and their top lieutenants have set off a violent struggle among second-rank mobsters for trade routes, federal prosecutors say. The old order has been fractured, and the remaining drug dealers are killing one another or making new alliances. These alliances are happening because none of the organizations can control, on its own, the territory it used to control, and that speaks to the crisis that they are in, said José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, the top federal prosecutor for organized crime. Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said a steadily rising tide of drug addiction within Mexico had spurred some of the murders, as dealers fought for local markets. At the same time, more and more honest police officers are trying to enforce the law rather than turn a blind eye to drug traffickers, often paying with their lives, prosecutors say. But those assessments, other authorities say, are overly rosy and may explain only part of the picture. Some experts say the Mexican police forces, weakened by corruption and cowed by assassinations, are simply not up to the task of countering the underworld feuds unleashed by the arrests of cartel leaders over the last six years. Many of the dead made their living in the drug trade and perished in a larger struggle for territory between a federation of cartels based in Sinaloa, on the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf Cartel from the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, federal prosecutors say. The five men beheaded in Uruapan, in Michoacán, were street-level methamphetamine dealers, addicted themselves to the synthetic drug. They were linked loosely to the Valencia family, which once controlled most of the drug trade in the state and is a part of the Sinaloa group, the police say. The killers came from a gang called The Family, believed to be allied with the Gulf Cartel. A day before, the killers had kidnapped the five men from a mechanics shop they had been using as a front for selling ice, as crystal methamphetamine is called on the street. They sawed their victims heads off with a bowie knife while they were still alive shortly before going to the bar, law enforcement officials said. You dont do something like that unless you want to send a big message, said one United States law enforcement official here, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The beheadings, in fact, have become a signature form of intimidation aimed at both criminal rivals and federal and local authorities. In the tourist town of Acapulco, killers from one drug gang decapitated the commander of a special strike force, Mario Núñez Magaña, in April, along with one of his agents, Jesús Alberto Ibarra Velázquez. They jammed the heads in a fence in front of the municipal police station. So you will learn to respect, said a red note next to them. This year has been one to forget, a black year, said Jorge Valdez, a spokesman for the Acapulco police. Its the most violent year in the last 50 years, and the acts are
[osint] FW: Bobblehead
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[osint] Irish Govt urged to take more serious approach to terror threat
_ From: CodeTen7 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:06 PM To: ##WDSI## Subject: Govt urged to take more serious approach to terror threat http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=199266382 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=199266382p=y99z67x88 p=y99z67x88 Govt urged to take more serious approach to terror threat 24/10/2006 - 07:45:38 The Government is being urged to take a more serious approach to the threat of international terrorist cells using Ireland as a launching pad for attacks on other countries. The call follows reports that up to six Islamic terrorists cells, including one with links to al-Qaida, were active in this country in 2003. Fine Gael defence spokesman Billy Timmins says the Government has a duty to protect its own people as well as those of other nations. He has accused the Government of not taking the matter seriously enough in the belief that the international terrorist threat will not have an impact on Ireland. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Multiple Terrorist Doctrine
http://www.borelliconsulting.com/articles/multerdoctrine.htm Multiple Terrorist Doctrine By: Frank Borelli with thanks to John Giduck Not long ago I read through the book, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976775301/ref=sr_11_1/002-9360529-6320037 ?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Terror At Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools by John Giduck (review of the book here http://www.borelliconsulting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=161 ). The book so convinced me that we in law enforcement are training for the wrong threat (Active Shooter) that I doubted my own thought process. So, to double check my understanding, this past week I attended a presentation by John Giduck given at a conference in Washington, DC. What I found was that not only did I understand the book correctly, but the situation is worse than I actually perceived it. Understand that all of the following is provided thanks to Mr. John Giduck and his insights into the Beslan incident. I am merely reiterating his material and hope I got it all right out of my notes. Through his presentation, Mr. Giduck explains the terrorist thought process and how the attacks / sieges they've committed have been motivated, planned and performed. Yes, I said sieges. As Mr. Giduck explained: There are two types of prevalent terrorist attacks - The Decimation Assault - such as suicide bombings, drive by shootings, etc. The Siege - otherwise known as a Mass Hostage Siege. Recent history shows us two that were reported in the popular media: The taking of over 800 hostages at the NordOst Theater in Moscow, and the taking of over 1,200 students, teachers and parents at the school in Beslan. As Mr. Giduck pointed out: the Beslan siege had a larger number of hostages than that of the NordOst theater. Every time the terrorists attack they have to do something bigger and better. Follow that to the logical conclusion and that means that IF or WHEN they take over a target in America, the number of hostages will HAVE to be in excess of 1,200. Now let's take a look at the popular targets, preferred method of attack and the resultant bad news for the United States: 1) Transportation: public transit systems can be attacked to cause interuption in service. The preferred method of attack is a Decimation Assault - suicide (although I prefer the term HOMICIDE) bomber. Poison has been used in other attacks, but the end affect is still roughly the same - there are a limited number of victims and a relatively short burst of media attention. 2) Malls: although we have these in abundance in the United States, the number of terrorists required to actually take over, secure and hold a mall would be difficult to mount. Therefore, the preferred method of attack would likely be the Decimation Assault. Not that the numbers of victims would be small. Virtually any urban mall on a Saturday night is packed with potential casualties. 3) Places of Worship: bearing in mind that a number of Imams have specifically stated that places of worship are viable targets. Skip Saturday night at the mall and you can hit Sunday morning in the churches all around our country. It is not coincidental that our heartland is largely populated by conservative devout citizens. Again, the method of attack would most likely be a Decimation Assault simply because there are very few churches where any terrorist would have a hope of taking more than 1,200 hostages. 4) Schools: Here is the bad news. We have schools in abundance. A great many high schools, and even plenty of our junior high / middle schools have student counts in excess of 1,200. I went to a private high school and even it had a student count near 1,000. Add in teachers and staff and how quick can you reach 1,200 or more? Now let's make it even scarier. We all know how the country reacted to two students killing thirteen people at Columbine. Those were high school students and a teacher. All of them were at least fourteen years old. Look at what the reaction was. Now imagine what it would have been had that been an elementary school and that those thirteen dead had been children under the age of ten. At Beslan, the terrorists had, as their hostages, babies still in diapers and children of all ages. Now consider this: Al Queda trains to hit four targets at once. Why? As Mr. Giduck explains, because even terrorists understand Murphy's Law: what can go wrong will. If they plan and attempt to execute four simultaneous attacks, they expect at least two to move forward. If only ONE does and they get the kind of media attention they crave, then they've succeeded in part of their goal. Now, before I attended Mr. Giduck's presentation, I would have assumed that there was simply no way that 49 or 50 terrorists could infiltrate the United States, secure weapons, plan the attack(s) and execute them. If you look at the recent news reports you can find - on any given day - reports on how many illegal immigrants are flowing into our country. How many
[osint] CRICKET: Ashes action on terror threat
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0200sport/0400cricket/tm_headline=ashes-a ction-on-terror-threat- http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0200sport/0400cricket/tm_headline=ashes- action-on-terror-threat-method=fullobjectid=17976768siteid=50061-name_pag e.html method=fullobjectid=17976768siteid=50061-name_page.html Ashes action on terror threat Oct 23 2006 By Richard Gibson, Daily Post AUSTRALIA are planning one of the largest security operations in the nation's history to ensure the upcoming Ashes series is incident-free off the field. Following the revelation that terrorists plotted to kill players during last year's series in England, Cricket Australia have begun putting in place a comprehensive security plan covering all five host cities - Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. We haven't yet finalised the review of venue security arrangements for the forthcoming Ashes series, but it is fair to say there will be greater scrutiny than at any previous series we've witnessed, spokesman Peter Young said. It's an unfortunate fact of life, but with each passing year security grows tighter. It's tighter now than it was five years ago and in 10 years it will be greater still. Cricket Australia will be working closely with all the venues and state police forces and have conceded some security measures will have a direct impact on fans. The principle discussions are taking place between Cricket Australia, the states' cricket associations, the individual venues and their management, he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Peace Bridge Bomb Threat
Peace Bridge - Buffalo, NY http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/ http://www.homelandsecurityus.com 20 October 2006: The Northeast Intelligence network has received information that the Peace Bridge, spanning from Buffalo, NY to Fort Erie, Canada has been closed due to a bomb threat. The closure took place shortly before 1100 ET. Traffic has been stopped in both directions, causing major traffic delays in Buffalo and Fort Erie, Canada. Although there was a fire drill scheduled to take place earlier this morning, the bomb threat appears to be completely unrelated to the drill. The timing of this is very suspicious, very disconcerting, stated a law enforcement source on site when contacted by this agency. The Northeast Intelligence Network remains in contact with law enforcement on site. We are following this situation closely and will provide updates as further information is developed. Douglas J. Hagmann Director, Northeast Intelligence Network www.HomelandSecurityUS.com BLOCKED::http://www.HomelandSecurityUS.com Editor, HQ INTEL-ALERT Author: Tactical Surveillance Copyright C 2003 Member: International Counter-Terrorism Officers' Association (ICTOA) Member: International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLOCKED::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATIVE WORK PRODUCT: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and legally privileged information. It is intended solely for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this e-mail and its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or e-mail. Thank you. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] UK number one al Qaeda target
Doubtful.but everyone wants to be #1! UK happens to be one of the the easiest targets because of it's policy of offering refuge to terrorists and its cluelessness about Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaeda is NOT your father's IRA. Bruce BBC NEWS UK number one al Qaeda target Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC. Security sources say the situation has never been so grim, said BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore. They believe the network is now operating a cell structure in the UK - like the IRA did - and sees the 7 July bomb attacks as just the beginning. Each cell has a leader, a quartermaster dealing with weapons, and volunteers. University worry According to our correspondent, each cell works on separate, different plots, with masterminds controlling several different cells. Training is taking place in the UK and Pakistan. It was thought that five years ago al-Qaeda was a number of loosely-connected organisations with common aims, but it is now more organised, she said. It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack Crispin Black Security analyst Security officials are concerned the group is targeting universities and the community, and are less worried about mosques, she added. However, intelligence analyst Crispin Black said another attack in the UK was not inevitable, citing the UK's considerable successes against the IRA. He said the security services had a good idea about who they were dealing with, saying: We still have that expertise and training present within our military forces and intelligence. It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack. We have some pretty good clues and information on where we should be looking, he added. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/6065460.stm Published: 2006/10/19 10:28:23 GMT C BBC MMVI [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Southcom commander speaks
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15793262.htm http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15793262.htm The Southcom commander speaks Two days ahead of his formal installation, Adm. James Stavridis sat down with The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg and her colleagues from The Associated Press, EFE, and the Defense Department American Forces Information Service. In a nearly hourlong interview in temporary quarters in Coral Gables, he discussed his new job as chief of the Southern Command, his relationship to the region, South Florida and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who spoke at his U.S. Navy Academy commencement in 1976. Stavridis, 51, comes to Miami from the post of senior military assistant to the secretary of defense, a key insider job at the Pentagon, where he was also a frequent squash partner of Rumsfeld. EFE News Service: What are the main challenges in Latin America for the United States? Admiral Stavridis: I think our approach at U.S. Southern Command, and that's what I'll talk about because I'm the commander of U.S. Southern Command. I wouldn't speak for the whole United States. But for U.S. Southern Command our objectives are to be engaged in a positive way with as many of our regional partners as we possibly can. And by doing that, we enhance the security of the United States, and we enhance the security of our partners as well. So we want to -- at a military to military level -- from Southern Command be as engaged as we possibly can with as many of the countries in the region. And that covers a wide range of activities, from exercises to training to medical teams that we work with, veterinary teams, educational symposia, conferences. So there's a wide spectrum of engagement activity and I think our real challenge is to be involved in this wonderful part of the world in a positive way for the security of this country and for regional security as well. EFE: And do you have any specific concerns about Venezuela? Admiral: I'd like to start by saying that historically the United States has in the past enjoyed a very positive relationship with Venezuela. In the very recent past the United States has had excellent military-to-military contact with Venezuela. I will say that I'm concerned when I look at the arms buildup that we all see going on in Venezuela, particularly buying many AK-47 rifles, building a factory, new jets, new helicopters. It's a concern any time that any nation in the region embarks on a large arms purchasing operation without any seeming visible threat. So that's I think a matter of concern. Naturally we're concerned when we see the government of Venezuela make statements that are anti-American in certain ways -- and that's a concern also. But I would say we are hopeful as always that we can have a positive relationship at some level, perhaps in military to military, and in the meantime we will continue to talk to other regional partners and create as stable an overall environment as we can. Associated Press: Do you feel that there's a growing influence in the region by other nations outside The Hemisphere, and what can be done about that? Specifically China, but others as well, and how do you see that as complicating your job? Admiral: I think the world is a complicated place and one of the effects of globalization, of the tendency of all these economies to fit together in new ways creates situations where nations that perhaps historically had not been engaged in a large way in a region might tend to be more engaged. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I think that we, the United States, enjoy an extremely strong trading relationship throughout Latin America, a great economic relationship. A large part of our trade flows north and south, particularly when you include Mexico and Canada in the mix. There are always opportunities in the region for the United States to work with partners. I don't feel an over sense of concern about outside actors coming in because I think we have such a comparative advantage in the United States. I mean Latin America is part of our DNA and we are part of theirs. It's all one Americas. And I think that's a very positive factor. And I think over the long run we, the United States, will be a very positive partner -- I would say a partner of choice for the vast majority of nations in this region. AFIS: With all that's going on in the world and all the varied focuses of the U.S. military, why is Southcom so important? Admiral: Well I would say going back to the question I just answered for Curt, one significant reason is that we have such cultural and demographic linkages to this region. Forty million plus Americans speak Spanish as a significant language in their lives, there are lots and lots of immigrants currently coming to the United States, many have come over the years to the United States from virtually every part of this region. So there's an enormous cultural and demographic linkage. Secondly, we have to always be mindful
[osint] How Al Qaeda views a long Iraq war
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p01s04-woiq.html How Al Qaeda views a long Iraq war A letter from Al Qaeda leaders found in Iraq shows that the group sees the war as a boon for its cause. By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CAIRO In appearances across the US, President Bush has been campaigning against withdrawing troops from Iraq, arguing that to leave now would hand a historic victory to Al Qaeda and inspire new generations of jihadists to attack the US. But a letter that has been translated and released by the US military indicates that Al Qaeda itself sees the continued American presence in Iraq as a boon for the terror network, which has recently shown signs of expanding into the Palestinian territories and North Africa. The most important thing is that the jihad continues with steadfastness ... indeed, prolonging the war is in our interest, says the writer, who goes by the name Atiyah. The letter, released last week, was recovered in the rubble of the Iraqi house where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by a US bomb in June. If the letter is accurate, it provides a window into the group's strategic thinking on Iraq that differs starkly from the one the Bush administration has been expressing publicly - a view the president reiterated Wednesday when he said that Al Qaeda believes that America is weak, and if they can kill enough innocent people we'll retreat. That's precisely what they want. While the letter was released only recently, Atiyah, thought to be a senior Al Qaeda leader whose full name Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, apparently wrote it last December from the Pakistani region of Waziristan. It has surfaced among a flurry of other communiqués from Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a videotape this week in which he lashed out at Mr. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI. On Sept. 28, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, believed to have replaced Mr. Zarqawi as the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, published an Internet statement in which he reached out to Sunni tribal leaders who have been in conflict with Al Qaeda. And a new group claiming to be Al Qaeda in Palestine issued a video attacking Palestinian political leaders. But the Atiyah letter, reflecting as it does the candid opinions of Al Qaeda, rather than the group's propaganda statement crafted for public consumption, appears to offer the most insight. It is largely focused on the fact that Zarqawi's tactics were alienating Iraqi Sunni leaders, and urges him to move with more caution. He strongly warned Zarqawi against assassinating Sunni leaders. Al Qaeda is a Sunni organization that has been trying to use minority Sunni anxiety in Iraq to build support. The letter also called the Zarqawi-organized bombing of three hotels in Jordan in 2005 a mistake, arguing that expanding Iraq's jihad beyond its borders too soon will cost them public support. At one point, Atiyah muses that perhaps Zarqawi should step down from his leadership role, if you find at some point someone who is better and more suitable than you. Since Zarqawi's death, a more suitable figure from Al Qaeda's standpoint has indeed emerged. In order to understand this letter one has to see the circumstances of when this letter was released,'' says Rita Katz, the director of the SITE Institute, which is devoted to tracking Islamist militant groups. This followed after Zarqawi had an audio message ... in which he threatened the tribes of the Sunnis who wouldn't cooperate with him. That was a real turning point. The letter from Atiyah is basically his response to this. He's telling him that instead of fighting Sunni opponents, you should reach out with more peaceful solutions. Ms. Katz says Mr. Muhajir's Sept. 28 statement shows he has taken that advice to heart. She points out that a number of Sunni tribes in Iraq's turbulent Anbar Province have turned against Al Qaeda's main umbrella group in Iraq, the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC), in recent months. Al-Muhajir's latest speech was quite interesting, because he basically said sorry to the heads of the Sunni tribes. 'We need you. We'll work together to defeat the enemy.' The day before his speech, Al Jazeera reported a statement it said was delivered by Ahmad Naji al-Juburi, head of the tribal council in Salahuddin Province north of Baghdad, in which he lashed out at Al Qaeda for killing civilians, defenseless people, police and security men ... Al Qaeda said it came to Iraq for jihad and to liberate it from occupation [but] what Al Qaeda is doing is utterly at odds with what it announced. Katz and others say Muhajir is eager to mend fences with Sunni leaders, because he knows that if Al Qaeda loses the support of Sunni tribes, it will be in a very tenuous position. Al-Muhajir took another step toward undoing some of the alienation Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had created in Iraq's Sunni community, Michael Scheuer, who ran the CIA's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999 and
[osint] AFGHANISTAN: War in Afghanistan: Drugs, Money Laundering the Banking System
The War in Afghanistan: Drugs, Money Laundering and the Banking System by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya October 17, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca http://www.globalre http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? search.ca/index.php? context=viewArticlecode=NAZ20061017articleId=3516 The iron law of the market is that demand breeds supply. -The Economist The landlocked state of Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent, and the Middle East. It is geo- strategically and economically important for a number of reasons. Firstly, Afghanistan is a major geo-strategic hub that conveniently flanks Iran, the former Soviet Union, and China. Afghanistan's location has always been significant. For most of its history, the geographic area has been a frontier between Iran, India, and China. Later, since its Independence from Iran, it has acted as a buffer state between Iran, Tsarist Russia succeeded by the Soviet Union, and India under British colonial rulelater succeeded by the Republic of India and Pakistan. Afghanistan is an ideal place to create a wedge between the major Eurasian powers and to establish a permanent military presence for future operations in Eurasia. Secondly, Afghanistan also constitutes a doorstep into energy-rich Central Asia, which bypasses the territories of Iran, the Russian Federation, and China. This is an important factor because external forces from outside the region such as the United States or Britain can use Afghanistan to circumvent these rival regional powers. A pipeline corridor running through Pakistan and Afghanistan from the oil and gas fields of Turkmenistan and Central Asia has been a major project for the United States and its oil corporations for years. NATO combat missions, under the auspices of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are concentrated in Southwest and Northwest Afghanistan where the strategic oil and gaz pipeline corridor from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean is to be located. Prior to September 11, 2001, Washington had been involved in negotiations with the Taliban government with a view to securing this oil and gas route. U.S. oil and gas interests in Afghanistan have a direct incidence on the post-Taliban political setup. The Afghan President Hamid Karzai was initially selected (December 22, 2001) by the U.S. government and the international community. This choice, however, was the result of the lobbying by Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL). Karzai was not only a former employee of UNOCAL, he had also been collaborating with the Taliban government, in negotiations pertaining to the construction and royalties of the prprosed trans-Afghan pipeline. In fact, several UNOCAL officials, such as Zalmay Khalilzad1, were appointed as U.S. special envoys in both Afghanistan and Anglo-American occupied Iraq. The NATO offensives in the western half of Afghanistan can be seen as a means to securing the territory needed for the building of a geo- strategic pipeline from Central Asia to Pakistan through Afghanistan. There even seem to be plans in reconfiguring both the boundaries of Afghanistan and Pakistan to facilitate the flow of oil and gas from Central Asia to the shores of the Indian Ocean. Once built, the pipeline corridor and the terminal on the Indian Ocean coastline would be a major victory over competing Russian, Chinese, and Iranian energy interests in the Caspian Basin and Central Asia. This would be the United States' second geo-strategic victory after the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Oil Terminal, another terminal that circumvents around Russia, Iran, and China. Control of Afghanistan is vital in deciding the future balance of power in Central Asia and Eurasia, thus whosoever controls Afghanistan has great leverage in the resource-rich Eurasian landmass. Thirdly, Afghanistan constitutes a major area of production of opium, which feeds the illicit narcotics trade out of Afghanistan. This is significant since illicit trade in narcotics is classified third in terms of World trade turnover, after oil and the trade in weapons. The Half-forgotten Opium Wars Opium and illicit narcotics have played a relatively unknown, yet historic and central, role in world economics and international relations. There were major wars launched because of opium. Britain and British companies had shared interests in the trade and trafficking of narcotics. One of these companies was the British East India Company (BEIC). India was administered and governed by the British East India Company. Essentially corporate interests and government interests in British-ruled India and British colonies were unified and overlapping. Whole cultures and nations have historically been warped and changed to appease latent or unseen economic interests. British commercial interests have coerced change in many societies and places. For example, the British coerced Iran into
[osint] Terror fear at 'unchecked' air cargo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6154273,00.html Terror fear at 'unchecked' air cargo Press Association Wednesday October 18, 2006 12:53 AM An investigation has revealed major security flaws in the air cargo industry, it has been reported. Cargo on passenger flights is being sent without checks or X-rays in oversights that could potentially threaten the lives of the passengers, BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight said. The security gaps emerged following a drug smuggling case heard at Kingston Crown Court in south-west London. The BBC said it began an investigation when the hearing revealed that the known shipper system used by air courier and cargo companies had been broken into by drug smugglers and used to import large amounts of cocaine into the UK from America. During the case, a former employee of Federal Express admitted selling the confidential account numbers of reputable firms at Fedex's depot in Vauxhall, south London, the BBC said. This reportedly allowed a student and his accomplices abroad to smuggle in drugs using the security clearance and accounts of innocent companies unaware that their accounts were being abused. The student was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of one count of conspiracy to import drugs and another of conspiracy to supply drugs. The former employee of Fedex and two other men and a woman were acquitted of all charges. The BBC reported that Brian Fenn, head of UK security for Fedex, admitted in evidence during the case that the known shipper system could also potentially be used to smuggle a bomb on to a plane undetected. The BBC said companies or individuals were vetted before being allowed to use the system, and any parcels or cargo they sent for shipping were assumed to be safe and legal and not X-rayed or inspected unless they were considered suspicious. The BBC said its investigation revealed that the web-based system for tracking parcels could be used by terrorists to target particular flights. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] (Lack of) Buffalo disaster response troubling
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/over_20_in_.html Over 200,000 in Buffalo Still Without Power, But Federal Disaster Not Declared Yet October 18, 2006 1:42 PM Maddy Sauer and Brian Hartman Report: Over 200,000 homes are still without power in the Buffalo, N.Y., area, yet residents and local businesses are still awaiting federal reimbursement funds as a full disaster declaration has not yet been made. Meanwhile, fire departments and other public facilities are requesting new generators as their emergency generators are running out of power after almost a week of use. Local politicians have criticized FEMA's response to the snowstorm, which took place last week. FEMA's tepid response to our region in the aftermath of this debilitating storm is inexcusable and borders on negligence, said Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY). FEMA has headquartered their operation out of Albany, about 300 miles from Buffalo, and has been flying and driving staff into the Buffalo area to conduct assessment. They also dispatched a public affairs official to Buffalo today to deal with the criticism. Rep. Higgins questioned why FEMA officials didn't come to the city of Buffalo sooner, but did tour the suburbs which is part of Rep. Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) district, who is in a tight race for re-election. It is wholly unacceptable that the FEMA Regional Director surveyed suburban damage without touring the City of Buffalo and other hard-hit areas, said Rep. Higgins, and it speaks to the unfortunate politicization of this once impeccably run agency. FEMA says disaster teams are still assessing damage, and if they establish that the threshold, determined by the number of households impacted or destroyed and the cost of the damage, for a federal disaster has been met, then a declaration will be made, and citizens and public entities will be able to apply for reimbursement funds. Army Corps of Engineers officials on the ground in Buffalo said today that power may not be restored until the end of this week, and they expect that requests for emergency generators for public facilities will rise quickly. Almost 100 emergency generators are standing by just outside the city ready to serve soup kitchens, fire stations and other public facilities. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Computer-based training helps first responders strengthen decision-making
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_20/emerging-tech/29508-1.html Washington Technology home http://www.washingtontechnology.com/ 10/16/06 issue http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_20/ 10/16/06; Vol. 21 No. 20 Practice makes perfect http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_20/emerging-tech/29508-1.html## By Doug http://www.washingtontechnology.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.author.contact.view?clie nt.id=wtonline-teststory.id=29508pg=1 Beizer Staff Writer Computer-based training helps first responders strengthen decision-making Whether it's a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, first responders need to react and make decisions quickly. For the Indiana Army National Guard, getting the kind of training needed for those situations was not easy. Then Col. Barry Richmond learned about the computer-based training that the Army is using for officers at Fort Knox, Ky. Think Like a Commander takes officers through decision-making exercises to prepare them for real-life experiences. Each scenario might be different, but the core concepts and ideas that you want to reinforce are resident in all the scenarios, said Richmond, installation commander at Camp Atterbury, a training and mobilization center. And I thought, boy, it would be nice if we could come up with some similar scenarios based on homeland security and defense, so we could improve our interoperability with our civilian first-responder counterparts. The National Guard worked with the U.S. Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences and Aptima Inc. of Woburn, Mass., to develop a similar application for guardsmen and other first responders. The result is the Red Cape: Crisis Action Planning and Execution multimedia training program. Red Cape lets officers practice their crisis management skills on 15 realistic homeland security and national disaster scenarios, including earthquakes, dirty-bomb attacks, prison and sports riots and snowstorms. The technology builds on the Army's work in deliberate practice to hone cognitive skills, relying on that long-used practice of repeating the exercise of a skill until it becomes second nature. We understand, in physical skills, the idea of overlearning something so it becomes automatic behavior, said Michael Paley, vice president of government programs for Aptima. You do that through deliberate practice. You go to the rifle range over and over again to master that skill, and then you can apply it in times of stress. Nine keys of success For the National Guard training using Red Cape, scenarios are portrayed primarily through still photographs with voiceovers, although video clips also could be used. The multimedia training is developed in Adobe Flash, with photos, video and other media integrated via the Flash Player interface. The Flash files are dropped into a shell that contains the supporting materials for the training scenario, such as an introduction and background information. The module guides students through the process, acting as the instructor. MPRI, an L-3 Communications company, helped develop some of the training modules. One of the key things we developed is this idea of what to train for, Paley said. We defined nine key skills within crisis management, such as using all available assets and thinking in shades of gray, not black and white. The actual training scenarios that hone those nine skills were then developed. Producing events that reproduced the interagency complexity of the National Guard's work was a challenge. When you look at an event, you need to view it through multiple lenses, Paley said. You need to see it through the eyes of the Guard, through the eyes of the local police, the state police the [Federal Emergency Management Agency] guys and so on. In one scenario, for example, there is an industrial plant explosion in Gary, Ind. The exercise starts with a map to locate the event site. Then a voiceover gives the time elapsed and the extent of the damage, followed by photos of an actual plant explosion. Details follow on what's happening at local hospitals, how nearby schools are being handled and where the media is. In the scenario, it turns out that guardsmen are preparing for a weekend drill, so they're already on alert when the incident happens. That fact ends up being crucial when trainees are evaluated on using all available assets. The idea behind these adaptive leader training modules is to take some of those core concepts that you always need to consider and have them repeated enough, Richmond said. Because you have exercised those concepts a number of times, they become intuitive. Something for everyone The suite of computer-based exercises was developed with stakeholder-specific feedback, so that non-military first responders, coordinating agencies and supporting agencies as well as the National Guard can use them, Richmond said. In another scenario, a tanker spill occurs,
[osint] New Computer Program CopLink To Link LAPD Databases
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10091227/detail.html New Computer Program CopLink To Link LAPD Databases POSTED: 5:53 pm PDT October 16, 2006 LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Police Department will begin using a $1.3 million computer program in two months aimed at linking multiple databases while freeing up officers for other duties, it was announced Monday. CopLink will allow the department to target violent criminals by linking four of the department's databases -- including the booking and dispatch systems, the citations database and information compiled during field interviews -- providing ready access to information that would otherwise require a time-consuming search through each system. The department signed a contract agreeing to use the program two months ago, according to Robert Griffin, president of Knowledge Computing Corp., the Tucson-based company that licenses CopLink. Although the program is already being installed, the Los Angeles Police Commission and the City Council have not yet approved the contract, according to officials close to the project. Providing officers with effective tools for driving down crime, thwarting gang activity and countering terrorist threats is critical to sustaining and improving on the results we've already achieved in Los Angeles, police Chief William Bratton said in a statement. With CopLink in our arsenal, the LAPD will be able to combine the knowledge of our officers with powerful analytical, visualization and decision support tools to speed connecting suspects and associates with their crimes and getting them off the street faster. The department has tried for more than three years to purchase CopLink, but costs hampered the city from purchasing the computer program, which will cost about $110,000 annually to maintain. The system will likely be funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Urban Area Security Initiative grant program, according to Griffin and city officials. This is a tool that all of the police agencies very much want to have because there's already such great cooperation regionally in Los Angeles, said City Councilman Jack Weiss, who chairs the council's Public Safety Committee. This will provide the ability to knit those close relations together. More than 300 law enforcement agencies use Cop Link, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is scheduled to start using the system next month,Griffin said. The sheriff's department is expected to link with the LAPD's database by the start of next year. Law enforcement agencies using the CopLink system in San Diego and Orange counties are already linked with each other, according to Griffin. CopLink is a tactical and analytical tool that allows us to take information and mine that data to find leads and basically take bad guys off the streets, Griffin said. It helps us find associations between crimes, and it's been proven to be very valuable tactically to fight crime. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Indictments Against Drug Gang and Kidnappers of US Undercover Agent
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=6057 Indictments Against Drug Gang and Kidnappers of US Undercover Agent Jim Kouri October 15, 2006 On Friday, 56 suspects were indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering charges within Puerto Rico, Colombia, St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles, the US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic. The arrests are reportedly part of the Immigration Customs Enforcement/Drug Enforcement's Operation Watusi and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Operation Green Traketon, both operating under the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Among the charges, one of the indictments alleges that an accused leader of one of the organizations, Luis Peña-Peña, coordinated the kidnapping of an undercover ICE agent in Medellin, Colombia, on December 13, 2005. The indictment also alleges that a ransom of $2,000,000 was requested for the release of the undercover ICE agent. During the extensive anti-drug operation, US and foreign law enforcement officers conducted simultaneous arrests in several countries that resulted in the total arrest of 27 individuals. To date, these joint investigations have resulted in the seizure of numerous foreign and domestic bank accounts, $3.1 million in US currency, approximately 1,900 kilos of cocaine, and six vessels. Two of the eight indictments allege that the defendants, and their coconspirators, coordinated the transportation of multimillion dollar shipments of cocaine from South America to Puerto Rico via motor vessels. Seven of the eight indictments allege that the defendants and their coconspirators laundered the narcotics proceeds through various financial transactions. The currency is alleged to have been laundered through a complex money laundering scheme known as the Black Market Peso Exchange. The indictments also seek the forfeiture of the proceeds of the crimes. During the investigation, federal agents were able to infiltrate the money laundering and drug trafficking organizations, identifying the source of the supply of the drugs, the foreign and domestic drug transporters, a distributor, and money launderers. As a result of these simultaneous arrests in the US and in several foreign countries, federal agents have dismantled several drug trafficking and money laundering organizations. The narcotics offenses charged in the indictments involve a sentence of a minimum of ten years of imprisonment and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and a fine of not more than $4,000,000.00. The penalties for the money laundering offenses alleged in the indictments involve a maximum of 20 years of imprisonment, a fine of not more than $500,000.00 or twice the value of the property involved in the transaction, whichever is greater. This indictment is the result of a joint investigation conducted by agents from ICE, DEA, and FBI, the Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico Department of Justice, Puerto Rico Department of Treasury (Hacienda), the San Juan Commissioner of Public Safety, and the US Attorney's Office. The governments of Colombia, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and the British Virgin Islands assisted in this investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Timothy R. Henwood. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL
[osint] Congress gives DHS six months to revise terrorist watch lists
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35246 http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35246printerfriendlyVers=1 printerfriendlyVers=1 Congress gives DHS six months to revise terrorist watch lists By Chris Strohm, CongressDaily http://www.nationaljournal.com/about/congressdaily With frustration levels apparently reaching an all-time high, lawmakers have given the Homeland Security Department a hard deadline to revamp its process for clearing individuals who have been wrongly put on terrorist watch lists. The fiscal 2007 Homeland Security appropriations bill -- signed into law last week -- requires the department within six months to establish revised procedures for expeditiously clearing individuals whose names have been mistakenly placed on a terrorist database list or who have names identical or similar to individuals on a terrorist database list. Frustration and anger has grown in Congress during the last year that government watch lists are riddled with inaccuracies, especially in the aviation arena where innocent U.S. citizens and even lawmakers themselves have been detained because their names appeared on one of the lists. If we're going to have a watch list that works, we should fine-tune it, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said during a June hearing. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said in February that his wife, Catherine, was questioned at airport checkpoints because her name matched that of a singer formerly known as Cat Stevens. And well-known Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, and civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., also have said they were wrongly placed on a watch list and stopped many times. A spokesman for the Homeland Security Department was unable to provide comment as of Tuesday afternoon. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Secretary of State Rice last January announced that the government would accelerate efforts to establish a government-wide traveler screening redress process to resolve questions if travelers are incorrectly selected for additional screening. Last Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union called for the government to shut down its aviation watch lists. The demand came in response to a CBS 60 Minutes report disclosing that the lists include many common names along with people who are dead, in prison, or are international dignitaries, such as the president of Bolivia. The report also said the lists do not include the names of some suspected terrorists because agencies do not want to share them outside the government. Until Homeland Security can figure out a way to create a genuine, narrow, targeted list of real terrorists rather than harming innocent people, Congress needs to shut this monstrosity down, said Tim Sparapani, ACLU legislative counsel. The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration operates three aviation watch lists: one with names of individuals who are not allowed to fly; one with names who need secondary screening; and one with names who have been cleared through a redress process. The FBI's Terrorist Screening Center is responsible for managing and consolidating all government watch lists. The FBI and TSA both issued statements in the last two days defending watch lists as valuable counterterrorism tools and clarifying current redress procedures. A TSA spokeswoman said about 35,000 people have sought redress for mistakenly being on an aviation watch list. Both TSA and the FBI declined to reveal names or how many people are on any of the lists, saying that information is secret. This document is located at http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/101006cdpm1.htm FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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] 8 counties participating in terror exercise
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_4479056 8 counties participating in terror exercise mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] n:%208%20counties%20participating%20in%20terror%20exercise By VICKY TAYLOR Staff writer If terrorists ever strike south central Pennsylvania, first responders here say they will be ready. That is the word from organizers of a massive terrorism exercise planned for Saturday at three regional military installations and 16 hospitals in eight counties. The exercise is being billed by its organizers as the largest such event ever to be planned and carried out by the South Central Pennsylvania Regional Counter-Terrorism Task Force. Franklin County Emergency Services Director Jerry Flasher said it is probably the biggest practice run by emergency responders to be attempted in the state. The task force includes emergency services departments in Franklin, Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties. This will validate the concept of a regional approach to handling not just a potential terrorist attack, but any catastrophic event, natural or manmade, Flasher said. Simulated terrorist events will be staged simultaneously Saturday morning at Letterkenny Army Depot, Fort Indiantown Gap and the Defense Distribution Center Susquehanna in New Cumberland. Throughout the morning and into the afternoon, emergency responders, such as firefighters, police, hazardous materials specialists, emergency medical personnel and hospital staff, will work together to treat victims, clean up hazardous materials, contain simulated damage and protect the public from whatever it is that the terrorists plan for that day. More than 700 mock victims will be treated at 16 hospitals throughout the region, and more than 2,200 people are expected to participate in the exercise at the various locations. The military installations will be the sites for the field portions of the exercise, according to Bernadette Lauer, the task force's public information officer. Fire and hazmat personnel, as well as medical, law enforcement and other emergency units, will respond as directed by their respective county emergency management agencies, she said. All eight county emergency operations centers, including Franklin County's, will be activated for the exercise, but Lancaster will host the task force's multi-agency operations center and coordinate the activities planned during the exercise. Flasher called the upcoming exercise a massive effort. Lebanon, York and Franklin counties will be the targets, Flasher said. We will try to make this (exercise) as realistic as possible. He said the exercise will address more than 50 federal guidelines for response to terrorist attacks. Lauer said disruptions to normal operations at the county's 911 center will be minimal, but residents may notice increased activity among the county's first responder units, such as fire and police departments. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Four Muslims face charges after pregnant woman held, sexually assaulted
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=fa1c2a3c-8b04-4a36-8d 38-beb5767a023f http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=fa1c2a3c-8b04-4a36-8 d38-beb5767a023fk=97548 k=97548 canada, canadian search engine, free email, canada news Tuesday October 3 2006 Four men face charges after pregnant woman held, sexually assaulted The Ottawa Citizen Friday, September 29, 2006 Four men, who police say are affiliated with a gang, face criminal charges after a pregnant woman was held in Gatineau and repeatedly sexually assaulted over a two-day period. Police said the woman as sexually assaulted by two men in Ottawa on Sept. 22 after being told they were gang members. The woman was then taken against her will to Gatineau and assaulted again, police said. She was later brought back to Ottawa and the attacks reported to police. Police said that in the days leading up to the sexual assaults, the woman's boyfriend was beaten and forced to run errands for the men, who were occupying the couple's home. One of the gang members was seen with a handgun, police said. Police said Mohamed Dib, 19, of Ottawa is charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, intimidation and threatening. Chireh Youssouf, 20, is charged with charged with sexual assault, party to a sexual assault, forcible confinement, intimidation, threats, assault and breach of undertaking, police said. Police said two other males have also been identified and will be charged. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Gurkha spirit triumphs in siege of Nawzad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/05/wafghan05.xm l Gurkha spirit triumphs in siege of Nawzad By Tom Coghlan (Filed: 05/10/2006) Daily Telegraph The Gurkhas were never supposed to fire a shot in anger in Helmand. Their main duty was to protect the main British Army base at Camp Bastion. Capt Paul Hollingshead Capt Paul Hollingshead, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, on patrol in the wadis surrounding Camp Bastion, Helmand But as British forces found themselves fighting a full-scale war, the Gurkhas were thrust into the front line and became involved in some of the fiercest fire fights of the summer-long campaign. One of the most dramatic engagements took place in the town of Nawzad, a key strategic post in southern Helmand. The Gurkha commanders realised that trouble was brewing when the town centre emptied of civilians. As night fell they heard the sounds of holes being chipped through the walls of the buildings close to their fortified ''platoon house, the town's police station. Then the sound of civilian electricity generators in the town abruptly ceased, so that in the silence approaching British helicopters could be heard sooner. We knew it was the calm before the storm. We sensed what was coming, said Major Dan Rex, 35, the Gurkhas' tall, softly spoken commander. During the next 10 days, the 40 Gurkhas sent to Nawzad to hold the police station fought tenaciously to defend themselves as they were subjected to 28 attacks lasting one to six hours each, including five full scale efforts by hundreds of Taliban fighters to over-run their compound. Senior British officers say it was one of a series of gruelling attritional sieges that have characterised the bloody first six months of the British deployment to Helmand. They paid tribute to the courage displayed by the 110- man mixed force from the 1st and 2nd Gurkha Rifles, particularly those who fought so valiantly to defend the Nawzad police station. I held a Shura (meeting) with the town elders to discuss the deteriorating situation just before the attacks began, Major Rex said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph. Several of those present eyeballed me throughout, and I subsequently discovered they were the Taliban commanders coming to size me up. Afghanistan graphic The first major attack began at 1.50am when a Gurkha corporal spotted armed men leopard crawling towards the compound 60 yards away. He opened fire killing four. Ten minutes later a coordinated assault began from three directions. Every one of the six sand-bagged positions around the compound and on its roof were hit by rocket-propelled grenades. The command post on the roof received four separate hits. For many of the Gurkhas, seven of whom had just finished training, it was their first experience of combat. For the first five minutes under fire I was just so frightened, said Tkam Paha Dur, a 19-year-old Gurkha rifleman, to the amusement of his comrades.After that it became just like a live firing exercise. With the Taliban closer than 50 yards, Rifleman Nabin Rai, 20, manning a heavy machinegun on the roof, had several rounds ricochet off his weapon before a bullet went through the gunsight and hit him in the face. His commander called for him to be medi-vacced out, but he refused to come down from the roof, said Major Rex. Later he was again hit, this time in the helmet. He sat down and had a cigarette, then went back to his position. With a full moon negating the advantage of British night vision equipment, the Taliban launched another full-scale assault the next night, using dried up underground watercourses to move men and ammunition around the British position. We took two or three RPG hits on one position and significant machinegun fire from a range of about 20 yards, said Lt Angus Mathers, 26. They had used tunnels and knocked holes in the compound walls to get close. The Gurkhas threw 21 grenades at the Taliban position before an Apache helicopter arrived overhead. The pilot later described the situation as like the Wild West, with tracer converging on him from numerous positions. He hovered 20 yards above the compound firing back with the helicopter's cannon while the empty shell cases cascaded on to the heads of the Gurkhas below. The Gurkhas faced constant danger from several snipers and Taliban mortar teams. The snipers had positions in buildings two rooms back with holes cut through the walls to give them a field of fire, said Major Rex. British troops could not show themselves during the day and a signaller was shot in the back, but survived his injuries. In response the Gurkhas flew in a specialist sniper. It was cat and mouse for a couple of days, said Major Rex. Then our sniper, Corporal Imbahadar Gurung, got four confirmed kills. Two mortar positions were spotted and destroyed by aircraft but the third continued to elude British spotters for several days. Eventually my JTAC (ground-air coordinator) caught the
[osint] France in virtual Civil War with Muslims
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/intifada-in-french-suburbs-say-police/2006/ 10/05/1159641462841.html Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent (Filed: 05/10/2006) Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared intifada against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy was warned of an 'intifada' As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were in a state of civil war with Muslims in the most depressed banlieue estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin. It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones. The number of attacks has risen by a third in two years. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the taboo of attacking officers on patrol has been broken. Instead, officers - especially those patrolling in pairs or small groups - faced attacks as soon as they tried to arrest locals. Senior officers insisted that the problem was essentially criminal in nature, with crime bosses on the estates fighting back against tough tactics. The interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the leading centre-Right candidate for the presidency, has sent heavily equipped units into areas with orders to regain control from drug smuggling gangs and other organised crime rings. Such aggressive raids were disrupting the underground economy in the estates, one senior official told Le Figaro. However, not all officers on the ground accept that essentially secular interpretation. Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the hardline Action Police trade union, has written to Mr Sarkozy warning of an intifada on the estates and demanding that officers be given armoured cars in the most dangerous areas. He said yesterday: We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their 'comrades' free when they are arrested. He added: We need armoured vehicles and water cannon. They are the only things that can disperse crowds of hundreds of people who are trying to kill police and burn their vehicles. However, Gerard Demarcq, of the largest police unions, Alliance, dismissed talk of an intifada as representing the views of only a minority. Mr Demarcq said that the increased attacks on officers were proof that the policy of retaking territory from criminal gangs was working. Mayors in the worst affected suburbs, which saw weeks of riots and car-burning a year ago, have expressed fears of a vicious circle, as attacks by locals lead the police to harden their tactics, further increasing resentment. As if to prove that point, there were angry reactions in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux following dawn raids in search of youths who attacked a police unit on Sunday. The raids led to one arrest. They followed clashes on Sunday night when scores of youths attacked seven officers who had tried to arrest a man for not wearing his seat belt while driving. That driver refused to stop, and later rammed a police car trying to block his path. The mayor of Les Mureaux, Francois Garay, criticised aggressive police tactics that afterwards left the people on the ground to pick up the pieces. david.rennie@ mailto:david.rennie%40telegraph.co.uk telegraph.co.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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
[osint] Police to Start Inspecting Bags on Boston Subway
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/us/05boston.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/us/05boston.html?_r=1oref=sloginpagewan ted=print oref=sloginpagewanted=print Police to Start Inspecting Bags on Boston Subway By http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylLv1=KATIE%20ZEZIMAfdq=19960 101td=sysdatesort=newestac=KATIE%20ZEZIMAinline=nyt-per KATIE ZEZIMA BOSTON, Oct. 4 - The police will begin inspecting passengers' bags on the Boston subway system in the next few days, Gov. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/mitt_romney/in dex.html?inline=nyt-per Mitt Romney said on Wednesday. The inspections will be random for the most part, but could be mandatory at some stations, Mr. Romney said in an interview. The program was not in response to a specific threat against the transit system here, he said, but to the general threat of terrorism. I think we recognize globally that transit systems, airport systems and the like have been targets, Mr. Romney said, and therefore we have to adjust our security parameters to no longer focus on just crime, but to add the additional threat of terror. Boston was the first American city to randomly inspect bags on its subways. At the Democratic National Convention in 2004, police officers inspected bags on the subway and searched the bags of people standing in lines near the convention site. Both practices were stopped after the inspections, which were compulsory, were challenged in federal court. The decision to resume inspections comes nearly two months after a federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of random visual inspection of bags on the New York City subway system, which started in July 2005 in response to the London train bombings. Rather than conduct visual searches, Boston police officers will swab a bag, its seams and its handles with an electronic device that checks for traces of explosives. They will search a bag if they think there is probable cause. In addition, behavior-recognition teams will be dispatched throughout the subway and bus system as part of the program. Those officers will be authorized to search a person's bag if they believe it is warranted. Mr. Romney, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republi can_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org a Republican, and Joseph C. Carter, chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police, which will be conducting the searches, said they believed the Boston system was in line with the system ruled constitutional in New York, because the searches would be short and would be done in public and with advance notice. They affirmed the right of transit agencies to carry out this kind of a security program, Mr. Romney said. We believe the program will fall within the parameters the court outlined. It is not discrimination based on racial profiling. The hallmark of the program is the lack of predictability. Mr. Romney said there would be no pattern to where police officers were stationed or how many of a person's bags would be searched. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Homeland Security grants overhaul to begin as key official departs
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/100406cdpm1.htm Homeland Security grants overhaul to begin as key official departs President Bush on Wednesday signed the fiscal 2007 Homeland Security spending bill that will make major changes in how urban anti-terror grants are awarded, just days after the official in charge of the program abruptly resigned. The Homeland Security Department came under heated criticism from lawmakers in late May when it announced that New York City and Washington, D.C. were getting about a 40 percent cut in Urban Areas Security Initiative grants, which are designed to bolster anti-terrorism efforts in major metropolitan regions. That set in motion an internal department feud that resulted in changes in the UASI program and the resignation Monday of Tracy Henke, director of the office of grants and training, administration officials and other sources said Wednesday. Henke had received a recess appointment from Bush in February. Facing a political backlash over the UASI grants, sources say she faced little chance of being confirmed. Sources also said she was finally forced out by the administration. After the way she handled the UASI grants, she was persona non grata and basically was cut out, one source said. It was pretty obvious that her days were numbered. Another source countered, however, that the grants process was micromanaged by Homeland Security higher-ups, meaning Henke did not have a chance to make the process work. She was really made a scapegoat from where I sit, the source said. She was never given a chance to do a good job. Henke is expected to stay until the end of October and then go to work at the Ashcroft Group under her old boss, former Attorney General John Ashcroft. In an effort to prevent the problems from recurring, Congress is mandating changes in the UASI program through the Homeland Security spending bill. Lawmakers direct the department to make applications for the program available within 45 days. States will have 90 days to apply, and the department must act on an application within 90 days of receiving it. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff also plans to work more closely with communities to adjust their applications and maximize the amount of funding they can get, Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said. Cities like New York, L.A. and Washington, D.C., are always going to be highest in risk and they'll consistently see the most significant portions of funding allocated by Congress, Knocke said. Risk, however, is not exclusive to these cities, and we have an obligation to consider the security of the entire country. He denied that Henke's resignation was a result of the UASI controversy. One source noted, however, that Congress continues to provide less UASI funding than the administration requests. In fiscal 2006, for example, the administration requested about $1 billion for the program; Congress provided $765 million. For fiscal 2007, the administration requested $838 million. Congress has provided $770 million in new spending bill. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] DHS Awards $399 Million in Grants to Secure the Nation's Critical Infrastructure
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_1008.xml DHS Awards $399 Million in Grants to Secure the Nation's Critical Infrastructure For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: (202) 282-8010 September 25, 2006 FY http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interweb/assetlibrary/FY2006IPPPressKit092506F inal.pdf 2006 Infrastructure Protection Program (PDF, 32 pages - 576 KB) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that grants are being distributed to ports, transit and intercity bus systems to strengthen the nation's ability to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies. These awards are part of the Infrastructure Protection Program (IPP), which are comprised of seven programs that constitute major critical infrastructure sectors. Today's announcement provides awards to three competitive grant programs: the Port Security Grant Program; the Transit Security Grant Program; and the Intercity Bus Security Grant Program. In July, funding was directly allocated to four programs within the IPP: the Buffer Zone Protection Program; the Chemical Buffer Zone Protection Program; the Intercity Rail Transit Program; and the Trucking Security Program. In total, $399 million is being awarded for the FY2006 IPP grants to protect critical infrastructure throughout the United States. The Infrastructure Protection Program helps to protect our nation's critical infrastructure from threats and hazards that could cause major loss of life, economic impact, and disruption of services. These resources will further enhance risk-based initiatives to increase security around vital assets ranging from ports, to chemical facilities, to transportation systems, said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. The IPP grants also represent a major step forward in how the department integrates expert input and risk-based formulas into the allocation of limited resources. The funding allocations for port, transit and intercity bus security programs are as follows: * Port Security Grant Program: More than $168 million will be provided for port security grants to create sustainable, risk-based efforts for the protection of critical port infrastructure from terrorism. Fifty out of 100 eligible ports contained on the United States Coast Guard's most critical seaport list, plus one additional port not contained on that list but was eligible in 2005, will receive funding for projects to enhance security measures at critical port facilities. The ports were grouped into four tiers, with Tier 1 representing the highest risk to Tier 4 representing the lowest risk. Funding was awarded for specific projects within each port area based on that port's relative risk and the relationship of each project to identified port security priorities. These 101 eligible seaports represent 95 percent of the foreign waterborne commerce of the United States. This list was developed by the Coast Guard using commercial, demographic and geographic data from various sources. Since 2002, the department has provided more than $876 million to enhance security at the nation's critical ports and maritime facilities. * Transit Security Grant Program: The Infrastructure Protection Grant Program is providing more than $136 million to the owners and operators of the nation's critical transit infrastructure through the Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP). TSGP-eligible rail, intracity bus and ferry systems were divided into two tiers based on risk formulas encompassing threat, vulnerability and consequences. Last July, $123 million was allocated to Tier 1 urban areas, which are composed of high passenger density and rail systems with significant infrastructures such as underwater tunnels and underground stations and all ferry systems. Urban areas that received funds in previous years, but were not named in Tier 1, were able to apply and compete for the remaining TSGP funds. Today, the Department is releasing $13 million for the second Tier of the TSGP. The FY 2006 Tier 2 TSGP allocations place a strong emphasis on prevention and detection of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). In addition, eligible Tier 2 transit systems were permitted to focus on other priorities, including emergency drills, employee training and public awareness programs that support overall system preparedness. * Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP): Approximately $9.5 million is being provided to eligible owners and operators of fixed route intercity and charter bus services to protect bus systems and the traveling public from terrorism. The FY 2006 IBSGP placed a strong emphasis on prevention and detection of IEDs. In addition, the program focused on facility security enhancements in defined UASI jurisdictions; driver and vehicle security enhancements; emergency communications technology; coordination with local police and emergency responders; and
[osint] Blair defends military action in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=enDSNO=910836 DSNO=910836 Blair defends military action in Afghanistan LONDON, Oct 5 (KUNA) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair Thursday defended military action in Afghanistan after fears were raised about its humanitarian effects. Challenged on a report that more than 90,000 people had been displaced by the ongoing conflict, the Prime Minister insisted things had been worse under the former Taliban regime. Speaking in No 10 Downing Street after holding talks with his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen, Blair told journalists Sure there are people in Afghanistan who are suffering as a result of the fighting that's taking place. But they suffered a lot more under the Taliban. Blair added that the NATO mission in Afghanistan was absolutely critical for global security, and was backed by a UN resolution. We do not want al Qaida and Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, using it as a training ground for terrorism around the world, he emphasized. The report from the UN refugee agency yesterday said the heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan recently had driven some 90,000 people from their homes. The largest figure bring the total number of displaced persons in the area to about 200,000, according to the UN. NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has just taken over responsibility for eastern provinces from the United States, to add to its duties in the north, south and west. Blair thanked the Prime Minister of Finland, who currently holds the EU presidency, for that countrys contribution to the force in Afghanistan. The British leader also stressed his belief that the international community should be willing to intervene again in similar situations if required. He said Because of the way the world is today and because of this global terrorist threat, it is important that we have the capability and also the political will to go into places like Afghanistan and sort things out. Asked if other NATO countries should have a bigger role in operations such as Afghanistan, Blair replied It is always for each individual member of NATO to decide how they contribute. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Brotherhood's Early Ties to Violent Islam
The Muslim Brotherhood is STILL a terrorist organization. It is behind the PLO and now HAMAS and the Islamic Jihad (of Egypt and Palestine) as well as the fomentors of the al-Qaeda (Sunni) alliance with Iran (Shi'ites). Bruce http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/10/the_brotherhoods_early_ties_to.php The Brotherhood's Early Ties to Violent Islam By Douglas Farah A new http://www.ctc.usma.edu/brachman/CTC-Paradigmatic_Jihadi_Movements-10_06.pd f document by the West Point Combating Terrorism Centerexamines the 1,600 page Islamist treastise by veteran jihadi thinker, propagandist, and historian Abu Mus'ab al-Suri. Published in 2005, the jihadi document lists 25 paradigmatic jihadi movements, or particularly edifying historical cases, where jihadis have both succeeded and failed to rally supporters, defeat their opposition, or establish territorial control. The CTC document examines four of the jihadi movements that al Suri, who was attempting to write the definitive jihadi cirriculum for the coming generation. What is particularly interesting is that even the more obsucre groups discussed all have ties back to the international Islamic Brotherhood, some to the late 1960s. The Haraka al-Shabiba in Morocco, though little known and enjoying almost no success during its brief existence in 1969, drew almost all of its inspiration from the writings of Sayyid Qutb and Hasan al Banna, the Brotherhood's two most influential thinkers. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] National Driver's License and the Fading Right of Anonymity
The REAL ID Act says that agencies issuing driver's licenses must require from applicants a photo ID, birth certificate, proof of the person's Social Security number, and evidence of lawful status. http://www.counterpunch.org/cox10032006.html A National Driver's License and the Fading Right of Anonymity Real Bad ID All totalitarian dystopias, in life and in art, seem to be obsessed with identifying people. The obligatory scene in which a stern, uniformed man demands your papers, please has evolved into the automatic scanning of various body parts, but the purpose is always the same: to abolish the right to be anonymous. In the coming weeks, we'll learn how much it will cost Americans in the future -- in money, time, and annoyance, as well as personal and political freedom -- to convince government officials that we are who we say we are. Under the REAL ID Act, which was passed as part of a 2005 emergency Iraq war funding bill, the Department of Homeland Security will soon set national standards for state driver's licenses, which are to include a common machine-readable technology, with defined data elements. The cards will not only be required for driving a car, but will have to be presented and scanned before entering any federal building or upon any contact with federal agencies, as when passing through airport security. But a report released in September by the National Governors Association and two other state-government groups has sparked a coast-to-coast rebellion against REAL ID. Estimating the program's cost to state governments at a shocking $11 billion over the first five years, the report concluded, Even with full funding and aggressive state implementation plans, the difficulties of complying with yet-unpublished regulations by the statutory deadline of May 2008 are insurmountable. In urging Washington to deep-six the program, an editorial in the Sept. 27 Baltimore Sun charged that Congress' boneheaded plan to convert 50 state driver's license bureaus into de facto immigration and homeland security agencies is proving every bit the disaster critics anticipated. Permission creep The REAL ID Act says that agencies issuing driver's licenses must require from applicants a photo ID, birth certificate, proof of the person's Social Security number, and evidence of lawful status. The agencies must keep digital copies of everything and store the copies on the card's electronic chip. State officials will be required to verify with the issuing agency the issuance, validity, and completeness of each document. A visit to the driver's license office, already one of America's least-favorite pastimes, is going to get a lot longer, and be more infuriating than ever. And it doesn't matter if your current license is good until 2012 or 2016 -- you'll have to get a new one in the next couple of years to comply with REAL ID, and you'll be required make a trip to the licensing office every time you move to a new address, even within your own town or state. Licenses will undoubtedly become more expensive as well. The states' estimate of $11 billion amounts to $55 per driver in additional costs. Your card's common machine-readable technology will have all the usual information such as name and address, as well as a mandatory facial image capture (that is, a digital photo). Under the Act, Homeland Security and the states will be free to require, in addition, biometric data such as fingerprints or iris scans, but they aren't expected to do that immediately. Until the department issues the standards, no one knows how much and what kinds of data might be put into the vast storage space on those chips, what might be added in the future, or who besides government agencies will have access to it. In America, where 39% of respondents told a July Gallup poll that Muslims should be required to carry special identification cards, it is tempting to view the REAL ID Act as poetic justice. And there's splendid irony in the government's use of driver's licenses as a weapon in a so-called war on terror that has come about largely because of our addiction to gasoline. Nevertheless, the Act's provisions should give citizens of all political stripes good reason to be apprehensive. The American Civil Liberties Union and some other liberal groups have opposed REAL ID, but to date, the most vocal condemnation has come from the far right. Religious fundamentalists, in particular, claim that it portends the mark of the Beast described in Revelation 13:16-17: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. But you don't have to be a survivalist or end-times crackpot to worry about the national driver's license. Even if, at the beginning of the program, its digital storage contains no more information than is visible on your current
[osint] EU-US air data deal in 'legal chaos'
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/news/2006/10/sec-061002-irna0 1.htm EU-US air data deal in 'legal chaos' IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency Brussels, Oct 2, IRNA EU-US-Air Data The European Union appears to be in a fix after the 25-member bloc failed to negotiate a new deal over air passenger data transfer to US security officials. In 2004 the EU and US signed an agreement allowing European airlines to handover passenger name records (PNR) to US authorities to assist the US in the fight against terror following the 9/11 attacks. But the European Court of Justice, following objections by the European Parliament, in May ruled against the deal arguing it was not based on a suitable legal foundation in European law. The court gave the two sides to negotiate a new deal by September 30, but Brussels and Washington failed to reach a deal leaving the airlines in a legal limbo. We risk a situation of legal chaos, legal uncertainty, said an European Commission official in Brussels speaking with reporters on condition of anonymity. The European Commission in a statement said it has urged the US to continue to apply the safeguards for PNR data that were laid down in the now-lapsed 2004 agreement until such time as a new agreement is reached so as to minimize the risk of legal uncertainty and disruption to EU-US flights. But till Monday the US had not responded to Brussels request for assurances. European airlines now face a dilemma. US authorities could deny them entry into the US if they do not provide the PNR. If they do, the airlines will be breaching EU laws. If they transfer data they will be held responsible according to the rules of individual member states, said the Commission official. Airlines are compelled to provide US authorities with details about passengers including addresses, telephone numbers, email, credit card information, food preferences, 15 minutes before departure of a flight. The issue will be discussed by EU justice ministers on Thursday. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] North Korea plans nuclear test
http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16099 http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16099 North Korea plans nuclear test Seoul, Oct 3 (DPA) North Korea announced Tuesday it plans to carry out a nuclear test, saying it was being compelled to do so because of US sanctions and hostility. Such a test would strengthen the nuclear deterrent of North Korea, said a statement from the foreign ministry that was distributed on the official Korean Central News Agency. DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test, the statement said, using the acronym for North Korea's official name, the http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16099 Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It did not say when a test might be carried out. North Korea had previously said it possesses nuclear weapons, but it is not yet known to have carried out a nuclear test. The already declared possession of nuclear weapons presupposes the nuclear test, Tuesday's statement said. The US extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure compel North Korea to conduct a nuclear test, an essential process for bolstering nuclear deterrent as a corresponding measure for defence, it added. The statement came as six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear programme have been stalled for a year. In September 2005, North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear programme in return for aid and security guarantees, but later that month and in October, the US imposed financial sanctions on it. Pyongyang has refused ever since to return to the negotiating table with the US, http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16099 South Korea, China, Japan and Russia. North Korea's statement Tuesday heaped scorn on the US and blamed Washington's actions for Pyongyang's future nuclear test. It accused the US of preparing for a second Korean war and threatening North Korea's sovereignty. It added that it would never use nuclear weapons first and prohibits any nuclear transfers. However, Washington has charged Pyongyang with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and some of the financial sanctions it imposed in autumn 2005 targeted firms it said were engaged in the trade of such weapons. North Korea's relations with the US have deteriorated under the administration of President George W. Bush, who called Pyongyang part of an axis of evil in 2002. Bush warned in August this year that a http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16099 North Korean nuclear test would be a threat and urged the international community to work toward ensuring Pyongyang cannot jeopardise stability. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Foreign Fighters Influence Increasing in Somalia
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/10/mil-061003-voa04 .htm Foreign Fighters Influence Increasing in Somalia By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 03 October 2006 In Somalia, recent terrorist attacks in Baidoa and reports of foreigners training and fighting alongside Islamic court militias have raised serious questions about whether the country's increasingly powerful Islamist leadership poses a threat to regional peace and security. Last month's suicide car bombings, which targeted the president of Somalia's U.N.-backed secular interim government in Baidoa, shook many Somalis, who had never seen such acts committed on their soil before. It is still not clear who carried out the unsuccessful assassination attempt. But interim government leaders blame al-Qaida and its sympathizers inside the Islamic courts. Islamist leaders in Mogadishu deny any involvement in the attack, but they lost much of their credibility, last week, when Islamists acknowledged foreign fighters linked to al-Qaida helped them seize the strategic southern port city, Kismayo. In a rare public appearance, the Islamists' top military chief Aden Hashi Ayro, who is believed to have been trained in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, reportedly told residents in Kismayo that foreign fighters would now be a part of the Islamist militia in Somalia. A senior analyst with U.S.-based Power and Interest News Report Michael Weinstein, says, if there were any questions about the existence of radical hardliners in the Islamic courts, these latest incidents have erased all doubt. The car bombing in Baidoa - and this is not a part of Somali resistance culture - does mean that there has been a change. I am reaching the conclusion that there definitely is what I call an Islamic revolutionary wing, said Weinstein. I do not like to call them terrorists because terrorism is a tactic. But I call them Islamic revolutionaries because I think that is exactly what they are. Since riding a wave of popular support to oust factional leaders in Mogadishu in June, some senior members of Somalia's Islamic courts have been dogged by allegations that their true aim for the country is not to unite it under Islamic sharia law and bring law and order, but to turn Somalia into a haven for Muslim extremism. In the 1990s, the Islamist group's supreme leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, headed a militant Somali Islamic organization called al-Itiyaad al-Islamiya, which is believed to have received support from al-Qaida. Aweys is still on a U.S. list of terror suspects. In recent months, young militants in Mogadishu, loyal to Islamist military chief Aden Hashi Ayro, have formed a shadowy extremist group known as Shaabab. Shaabab's exact role is unclear, but many people in the capital say members were hand-picked by Ayro and are being trained, possibly by foreigners, to carry out terrorist acts. If al-Qaida fighters are operating in Somalia, it would not be the first time. In 1993, 18 U.S. Army Rangers were killed in a battle in Mogadishu, after Somalis shot down two Blackhawk helicopters. Three years later, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden boasted that some of his fighters fought alongside Somali factional militiamen. But Michael Weinstein says al-Qaida's reported involvement in Somalia now poses a much greater threat. I think it is more serious of a problem than it was then because you are carrying along a lot of popular support with this [Islamist] movement, which can allow it to provide cover for more international revolutionary elements, he said. Meanwhile, reports of foreign fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Muslim countries streaming into Somalia are causing anxiety for ordinary Somalis, neighboring countries and the West. In a report to the United Nations Security Council last week, a U.N. monitoring team stated that it had received reports of Afghanistan's Taleban fighters being trained in Somalia. In an interview with VOA in May, the then-chairman of the Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, vehemently denied the presence of any foreign fighters in Somalia and said that none would ever be welcomed by the courts. Italy's special envoy to Somalia, Mario Raffaelli, says it is possible what Ahmed said may have been sincere. He says he believes the Islamic court has never been a unified group - split internally among moderates who follow Ahmed and hardliners allied with Aweys. We knew this from the beginning, he said. It was very clear that the Islamist movement in Mogadishu was made up of different components and these people, the Shaabab people, are probably the most radical in the movement. Nairobi-based regional analyst Matt Bryden says he believes the internal battle is intensifying and it is still far from clear which side will emerge as the victor. The courts themselves are in a process of transition and reorganization and this process is still playing itself out, said Bryden. I think we will not have a clear idea of how
[osint] USS IKE deployed to gulf
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-69-med07.htm Dwight D. Eisenhower Strike Group MED 07 Deployment IKEBATGRU CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower IKE In September 2006 it was reported that the Eisenhower Strike Group was under orders to depart the United States in early October 2006, slated to arrive in the Persian Gulf on or aabout 21 October 2006. Some observers were alarmed that this was part of the Bush Administration's plans to attack Iran's WMD facilities immediately prior to the November 7th Congressional election. This seems improbable. In recent years the Navy has normally stationed one carrier in the Persian Gulf to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. The IKE will replace the Abraham Lincoln in this role. After spending 44 months in Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard for a major mid-life Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) successfully completed Crew Certification Phase II Nov. 16, 2004 and was then certified ready for sea. The crew was inspected by Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMNAVAIRLANT) and Afloat Training Group (ATG) staff. The goal of the certitication was simple: to determine and report Ike's fitness, readiness and material conditions that might limit her capability to carry out assigned missions. The findings of these inspections are invaluable to determine the occupational safety and health status of the ship. Crew certification is a three-stage process. The final stage, Phase II, was the process by which the Immediate Superior in Command (ISIC), COMNAVAIRLANT, ensured the ship is combat ready to proceed safely to sea with a trained and qualified crew. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) simulated an underway replenishment (UNREP) on March 18, 2005, with the Military Sealift Command ship USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189) while pierside at Naval Station Norfolk. The last time Ike had performed a real-life UNREP had been in 2000, shortly before the ship's mid-life Refueling Complex Overhaul began at Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) (CVN 69) returned to Naval Station Norfolk, VA, 09 May 2005 after completing her shakedown underway period - 10 days at sea where the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier took another step toward becoming combat ready. This was the fourth time Ike has been underway since completing her four-year, mid-life overhaul. The primary purpose of this underway was to give Ike's chain of command the opportunity to evaluate the readiness of the ship. The carrier went out with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 and exercised the ship and the air wing and all the different departments of the ship, and we see what works and what doesn't. During her shakedown underway period, Ike completed two connected replenishments (CONREP) with USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201). Ike's crew successfully completed various shipwide damage control drills, which encompassed every aspect of the ship, ranging from Ike's medical department to the bridge team, to CVW-7. Weapons department built and delivered inert ordnance to CVW-7 Sailors on the flight deck, and Ike commenced cyclic flight operations for the first time in more than four years. Ike entered her Post Shakedown Availability (PSA) in summer of 2005, where remaining work was completed. Following that, the warship began the process of becoming surge ready. IKE finished a four-month Post Shakedown Availability and Selected Restriced Availability in October 2005. IKE was training for an anticipated deployment in 2006 and received Blue Water Certification on May 6, 2006. The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group successfully completed its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) 08 May 2006. COMPTUEX is an intermediate-level strike group training exercise. It typically represents the first time in a training cycle that a carrier strike group operates together as a cohesive team and is a critical step toward the final certification to deploy overseas. With that COMPTUEX is completed, the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group continued to train for future deployment. More than 16,000 service members from five countries participated in Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) 06-2 Operation Bold Step, 21-31 July 2006. Operation Bold Step present US, interagency, and coalition forces with realistic and dynamic exercise threats that closely replicate operational challenges military forces routinely encounter around the world. It was designed to provide quality, realistic, dynamic training environments to prepare US forces for joint, interagency, and combined operations, and sustainment training for units that recently returned from deployment. JTFEX 06-2 serves as the forward-certifying event for the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) Carrier Strike Group, and sustainment training for units from the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Carrier Strike Group and USS Bataan (LHD 5) Expeditionary Strike Group. JTFEX 06-2 also served as a significant training
[osint] SUDAN: Uneasy calm after 11 killed in Darfur
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/10/mil-061003-irin0 3.htm SUDAN: Uneasy calm after 11 killed in Darfur clashes KHARTOUM, 3 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Clashes between fighters loyal to the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) have left at least 11 civilians dead in Gereida town, South Darfur State in western Sudan, sources said on Tuesday. The AU [African Union] military group in Gereida reported that SLM combatants had driven most of the men out, Noureddine Mezni, an AU spokesman, said in Khartoum. The combatants were busy looting the properties of the men and raping the wives. Fighting began late last week, when rebels from the JEM attacked the SLM members, prompting some agencies to withdraw staff from the town. An uneasy calm returned to Gereida over the weekend. Information from the area is scanty, but the fighting took place in town, an aid worker in Darfur told IRIN on Tuesday. It has definitely calmed down in the last two days, but the situation remains extremely tense. Gereida Camp is home to 130,000 internally displaced Darfuri civilians. The situation is very, very tense and we are very concerned about this situation, Mezni said. Animosity between rebel groups has run high since one faction of the SLM, led by Minni Minnawi, signed an AU-brokered peace agreement with the Sudanese government in May. Other groups, including the JEM, refused the deal, saying it did not meet their basic demands. According to the United Nations Mission in Sudan, the security situation has particularly worsened in Gereida. Despite international pressure to allow a UN mission to replace the cash-strapped AU, Sudan has rejected the proposal, with President Omar al-Bashir calling it an attempt to recolonise his country. On Tuesday, the Sudanese government said it may not extend the mandate of the AU mission in Darfur beyond December. The statement was a response to the UN envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, who suggested last week that the AU should remain in the country into 2007. Sudan has no problem with the AU forces, but what is available now is an extension until December, Fadlalla Ibrahim, the acting spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday. At least two million people have been driven from their homes in three years of fighting in Darfur between the Sudanese government, allied militias and rebel forces. The conflict began when rebels in Darfur attacked government positions, saying the remote region remained undeveloped due to Khartoum's neglect. Sudan is charged with arming militias known as Janjawid to crush the rebellion using a campaign of rape and murder. Sudan denies these charges. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] A Prime Minister Surrenders
http://www.kashmirherald.com/main.php?t=OP http://www.kashmirherald.com/main.php?t=OPst=Dno=204 st=Dno=204 A Prime Minister Surrenders G. PARTHASARATHY Since July 2005 there have been five major terrorist attacks outside Jammu and Kashmir (JK) in Ayodhya, Delhi, Varanasi, Bangalore and Mumbai. While investigations are still on to determine who was responsible for the Mumbai bomb blasts that killed nearly 200 people, there is substantial evidence to conclude that the terrorists who carried out the other four attacks were either Pakistani nationals or Bangladeshi and Indian nationals linked to the Bangladesh based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), or the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). It is known that while HuJI is based in Bangladesh it has had links with Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since the days of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Never before has the Indian heartland been subject to such a barrage of terrorist attacks. Moreover, for the first time, tourists from across India visiting JK were systematically targeted for terrorist attacks during the past months. Just after the Mumbai blasts of July 11, Dr. Manmohan Singh asserted: We are certain that the terrorist modules responsible for the Mumbai blasts are instigated from across the border. Yet, speaking at Havana after his meeting with President Musharraf on September 16, 2006, he said: The fact is that terrorism is a threat to Pakistan. And it has been a threat to India. We need to have a collective mechanism to deal with it. Dr. Manmohan Singh has thus acquired the strange distinction of being the first Indian Prime Minister to equate India, a victim of terrorism, with Pakistan, a perpetrator of terrorism. For twenty years the international community and people in India have been made aware of the use of terrorism as an instrument of State Policy by the military establishment of Pakistan. Following the Mumbai bomb blasts of 1993, Pakistan came close to being designated a State sponsor of terrorism by the Clinton Administration. Yet the Prime Minister of India today glibly equates Pakistan with India and declares that Pakistan, like India is a victim of terrorism It is not India alone that has accused Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism. President Hamid Karzai has given details of how Pakistan is providing safe haven, arms and training to the Taliban on its soil, leading to a substantial increase of suicide and armed attacks on American, NATO and Afghan Government forces in Southern Afghanistan. Indian workers assisting in road construction have been brutally killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, which sustains itself with Pakistani assistance. The three major non-Kashmir terrorist groups operating in JK, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and the LeT have been declared as international terrorist organizations by the US, UK, all major western powers and under UN Security Council Resolution 1363. Yet General Musharraf allows them to operate freely under new names. Shortly after the Mumbai serial bombings this year, The New York Times report by a correspondent in Islamabad noted that functionaries of the LeT confirmed that they train over fifty persons annually for terrorist attacks across India. The Amir (Chief) of the LeT, Hafiz Mohammed Sayeed, regularly proclaims that his cadres are waging jihad against India in JK and elsewhere. We are told by our Prime Minister that General Musharraf appeared sincere in his assurances that he would do his best to control terrorism directed against India. However, speaking to a gathering made up largely of his own countrymen and Pakistani and Mirpuri expatriates in Brussels on September 12, 2006, General Musharraf twice referred to India as the enemy and categorically said that he would not favour even a cease-fire by Kashmiri militant groups at present. He said: I don't hold a whistle to stop them (militant groups). There are a lot of free lance terrorists operating. One can try and influence them. A total or complete cease-fire is impossible. I am against such attempts without moving forward and then everybody will fall in line. They will fall in line once the Kashmir issue is settled. In effect, what General Musharraf acknowledged was that there are indeed what he called free lance terrorists that operate across the Line of Control (LoC) in JK. What he did not dwell on was how the world could accept this when there were regular meetings, reported in the Pakistan press, of a so called United Jihad Council operating right under the nose of Pakistani Army authorities in Muzaffarabad, with the Council's leaders publicly proclaiming how they intended to let loose terrorist violence across the LoC. India has sought the extradition of the leader of this Council. The request for extradition has been refused on the grounds that the Councils leader, Syed Salahuddin, is a freedom fighter. On January 6, 2004, President Musharraf pledged that he would not allow
[osint] Eight US Soldiers, Two Marines Die in Iraq
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/10/mil-061003-voa01 .htm Eight US Soldiers, Two Marines Die in Iraq By VOA News 03 October 2006 The U.S. military in Iraq says eight American soldiers were killed in insurgent attacks in Baghdad on Monday. The military says four soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. The others were killed in separate attacks elsewhere in the Iraqi capital. The military also announced the deaths of two U.S. Marines, who died Saturday and Sunday of wounds sustained during combat in al-Anbar province, west of Baghdad. Meanwhile, Iraq's political leaders are trying to work out details of a plan announced by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday to quell growing sectarian violence. The prime minister wants to set up committees in Baghdad neighborhoods to monitor efforts by security forces to stem the violence. The committees are to include representatives of different political factions and their work would be supervised by a similar central committee. Hours before Mr. Maliki's announcement, gunmen kidnapped 14 people from computer shops in central Baghdad, and 50 mutilated bodies were recovered in the capital. Iraqi officials said another 13 Iraqis were killed in violence in Baghdad and elsewhere Monday. Iraqi lawmakers also renewed the country's state of emergency for 30 more days. The state of emergency has been in effect for nearly two years. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] War on Iran? Peace Movements must act now !
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=COA20061002 articleId=3367 code=COA20061002articleId=3367 War on Iran? Peace Movements must act now ! For some years now there has been concern about the confrontation between the United States and Iran. This has continuously given rise to apprehension, as leaks from the American Intelligence Services, and the notable dispatches of Seymour Hersh have raised alarm from time to time. But there have been other voices which, without being sanguine, have been somewhat more reassuring. Discounting the apologists for the American administration, there have been serious voices from the United States Intelligence, and the American military, explaining why the military and social costs of an extension of the Middle East war to Iran would be prohibitive, wreaking far more damage on American interests than it would be rational to risk. This view has not usually been founded on any moral rejection of the awful consequences of war, but on calculations of its likely consequences. Quite generally this nowadays excludes the possibility of any ground offensive. What has been a more open question has been whether the United States might launch air attacks. Rational people might have expected that. The remarkable story of the offensive against Lebanon, which suffered prolonged Israeli bombardment and immense destruction, and yet remained undefeated, would have given serious thought to military planners in the United States. It certainly seems that the opposition of the British and American Governments to an immediate ceasefire was based on the calculation that given sufficient time the Israelis would be able to destroy Hezbollah, even if this process involved the most widespread destruction, and very large numbers of civilian casualties. But Hezbollah was not crushed, and indeed, according to its leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, it emerged from that terrible conflict stronger in popular support, and indeed, even in a stronger military position than it had at the beginning. But there have been insistent noises from the Bush entourage, not only accusing Hezbollah of being proxies for Iran, but also threatening to visit a similar destruction upon Iran from the air, like that which has afflicted Lebanon. As sometimes happens, events that might provide an awesome deterrent to rational people may sometimes be an incentive to military adventurism. Now there is a careful report from Sam Gardiner, the retired Air Force Colonel who has been evaluating the prospects for a military onslaught on Iran.Gardiner thinks that the consequences of a serious air strike on Iran can be incalculable. But he thinks that whereas military rationality might have prevailed heretofore, today the issue is perilously more uncertain. His conclusion is very chilling. Just prior to any anticipated strike, he says we can expect the quiet deployment of Air Force tankers to staging bases, and we will see additional Navy assets moved to the region. There will also be a fierce intensification of the propaganda preparations for war on terrorism. All of us are well aware of some of the recent propaganda moves in this direction. Now, more ominously, the latest news is that a significant Strike Group of ships is heading for the Persian Gulf. On September 21st it was reported in The Nation that: the Eisenhower Strike Group bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received orders to depart the United States in a little over a week . other official sources . confirm that this armada is scheduled to arrive off the coast of Iran on or around October 21st. If such an air strike is scheduled, then we need only look at the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon to see what is likely to happen. Certainly, just as the Lebanon was comprehensively flattened, we can expect immense devastation to be wrought on Iran. This is adequately reported by Gardiner. We can also expect serious retaliation, and quite possibly immense economic damage as oil supplies are cut off. Of course, Gardiner may not be right about the economic consequences. Oil may not reach the spike of $125 per barrel, leave alone $200. The anticipated paralysing recession may not happen. If the state of mind of American military planners can be deduced from what is said by Gardiner, there can be little doubt that they have been intensively studying the lessons of Hezbollah in Lebanon, which are most likely to be applied in Iran when that is levelled by even larger air attacks. But the global economic consequences of attacks on the Lebanon will not be in any way comparable with the potential ruin that can be brought about by attacks on Iran. Colonel Gardiner has tried to estimate what these might be. The only conclusion a sane person can draw is that the very idea of such an offensive is suicidal lunacy. There is quite a lot of evidence that this appreciation
[osint] The New Face of Canada
While on a visit to Canada, the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, put the anti-war Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in its place. In an interview, he told the CBC that Canada should stop complaining about its casualties in Afghanistan, saying his country had lost 600 dead in combat compared to Canada's less than 40, putting the issue in perspective. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24720 The New Face of Canada By Stephen Brown http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=411 FrontPageMagazine.com | October 3, 2006 He headed them off at the pass. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a western Canadian from Alberta where cowboy hats and boots are still proudly worn, played the sheriff well at the 53-nation Francophone summit in Bucharest last week when he stopped a last-minute publication of an anti-Israel amendment on the conference's last day. Harper, the leader of Canada's ruling Conservative party, shot down the amendment, sponsored by Egypt, because it deplored the effects of the recent war in Lebanon without recognizing Israeli suffering. The amendment wants to recognize and deplore the war and recognize the victims of Lebanon. We are able to deplore the war, we are able to recognize the victims, but on both sides, said the Prime Minister at a news conference. The Francophonie cannot recognize victims according to their nationality. Recognize the victims of Lebanon and the victims of Israel. Harper's tough stance, according to the report in Canada's National Post, set off a lively argument in the Romanian parliament where the summit was being held. The leaders left the final news conference to hold another closed-door meeting to try and reach a compromise on the amendment. As it turned out, Harper's riding herd on the delegates, the majority of whom supported the amendment, paid off. The final version of the amendment was evenhanded, saying the Francophonie deplores the tragedy in Lebanon and the dramatic consequences for all civilian populations. Harper, a staunch supporter of the War on Terror whose response to anti-war criticism at home was to send more troops and a squadron of tanks to bolster Canada's 2,200 man contingent in Afghanistan, prevented the Francophone conference from being used to promote anti-Israeli bias, as other international conferences have been used in the past. Switzerland and France also deserve credit for supporting Canada in her effort to change the amendment. But it was America's northern neighbor who came in for special criticism from Lebanon's culture minister who, according to the Post, complained that everyone originally agreed on the amendment except Canada. But this is beside the point. The Francophone summit, held to promote French language and culture, should stick to its traditional, non-political agenda. However, in the Post report, the Lebanese culture minister said there are plans for the summit to take political positions on international conflicts, a forewarning if there ever was one. The Lebanese president, Emile Lahoud, was not invited by Romania to attend the event because of his pro-Syria and Hezbollah stance, which indicates the dismal direction these plans are probably going to take. But as long as Harper is around, they won't have much success. His hard-nosed stance to change the amendment's wording, he said, was to avoid a similar attack on Israel in the future, a similar response and a similar result. And while Canada's prime minister was putting things in order abroad, there were also a couple of minor victories scored against the anti-American Left at home. While on a visit to Canada, the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, put the anti-war Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in its place. In an interview, he told the CBC that Canada should stop complaining about its casualties in Afghanistan, saying his country had lost 600 dead in combat compared to Canada's less than 40, putting the issue in perspective. The CBC and other media outlets have been playing the casualty card to get Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, crying crocodile tears over Canadian losses to advance its agenda. The leader of Canada's anti-American, socialist New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, besides calling for a Canadian withdrawal, actually wants to negotiate with the Taliban. As a result of his cowardly behavior, the President of Afghanistan refused to meet with him when he visited Canada recently despite several requests from Layton. Moreover, a non-political Support Our Troops in Afghanistan rally on Toronto's downtown Dundas Square I attended last Friday went ahead despite initial difficulties. Citing bylaw and rigid regulations and codes, officials from the NDP-dominated city administration actually kicked a military vehicle off the Square that had a banner on its side for people to sign to be sent to the troops in Afghanistan. Ironically, while Canadian troops are dying in Afghanistan for their
[osint] Real Intelligence Estimate, By Numbers: Terrorism and Conflict Not Up
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=12358 A Real Intelligence Estimate, By Numbers: Terrorism and Conflict Not Up Worldwide With most of the opposition still in the throes of post-NIE euphoria, few have bothered to give a politically uncompromised analysis of the reports unsupportable and dissonant claims on a global, empowered jihad. Indeed, Democrats and proxy pundits have found the rather obvious conclusions of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to be so politically convenient that they have utterly forfeited the opportunity to question its remaining flaws, which are of far-reaching consequence to the country. To put it simply, the numbers do not back up the reports assertions on jihad. A rigorous, empirical analysis proves that both terrorist attacks (excluding Iraq) and casualties from armed conflictall part of the public recordhave not significantly increased in recent years. If, for example, the number of terrorist incidents, injuries, and fatalities from the Iraq War are deducted from worldwide totals, domestic terrorist incidents have been only marginally higher than they were during the three years prior to September 11, 2001. Even without conducting a rigorous scrutiny of publicly available data as described and plotted on graphs below, there are some assertions in the report that any person with an ounce of commonsense would question. The NIE maintains, for example, that Americas combined intelligence assets cannot measure the extent to which self-identified jihadists have increased or spread geographically, but it categorically affirms that such increases and expansion has occurred. The secrecy associated with such assessments must be justified on the grounds that we do not want our enemies to know how poorly informed we remain. (See supporting graphs provided in appendix.) Terrorist attacks not up worldwidejust in Iraq According to calculations derived from the Terrorism Knowledge Base (www.tkb.org/AnalyticalTools.jsp), the actual number of international terrorist incidents worldwide between 1970 and 2005 ranged from a high of 452 during 1985 to a low of 104 during 2000, while only 112 incidents have been recorded during the first nine months of 2006. The total number of injuries and deaths resulting from international terrorist incidents between 1996 and 2005 ranged from highs of 5,350 during 1998 and 3,188 during 2001 and lows of 85 and 43 during 2000. Domestic terrorist incidents worldwide remained essentially flat at plus or minus 1,300 a year from 1998 through 2001, rose to 2,362 during 2002, and dropped again to 1,625 during 2003. But in 2004 the number of incidents increased again to almost 2002 levels and then more than doubled during 2005a doubling accounted for almost entirely by Iraq. Almost half of all domestic terrorist incidents worldwide during 2005 occurred in Iraq. Further, that country alone accounted for 49 percent of injuries and a full 60 percent of fatalities worldwide from January 2003 through December 2005. And that trend appears to be worseningIraq accounts for 63 percent of terrorist incidents worldwide recorded through September 27, 2006, as well as 73 percent and 78 percent of injuries and fatalities. Similar data no doubt contributed to the NIEs conclusion that Al-Qaeda is exploiting the situation in Iraq to attract new recruits and donors and to maintain its leadership role .[while] other affiliated Sunni extremist organizations are likely to expand their reach and become more capable of multiple and/or mass-casualty attacks outside their traditional areas of operation. The NIE is also, no doubt, correct that fighters with experience in Iraq are a potential source of leadership for jihadists [that deploy] improvised explosive devices and suicide attacks. But the reports conclusion that those groups will work together to target the United Statesto the exclusion of more local goalsappears to be no more than unsubstantiated conjecture. The world is not more dangerous Despite the headlines and eruptions of violence in Lebanon, Darfur, and the subways in London and Madrid, the world as a whole is becoming safer. According to a database on Major Episodes of Political Violence 1946-2005 (members.aol.com/cspmgm/warlist.htm), the number of major armed conflicts has been declining steadily since the peak year of 1991to essentially the same level as during the height of the Cold War. And that decline does not have anything to do with anti-terror measures undertaken by the United States either before or after 9/11. It is true that life remains dangerous in several countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. However, even within most of those countries, threats to life and limb are localized, sporadic, and arise from long-standing domestic civil and ethnic conflicts. Thus, a full 83 percent of major armed conflicts between 1946 and 2005 were intra-state rather than inter-state. Muslims not the primary
[osint] Norway to strengthen fight against terrorism
http://english.people.com.cn/200610/03/eng20061003_308430.html Norway to strengthen fight against terrorism javascript:void(0); http://english.people.com.cn/200610/03/images/spacer.gif javascript:void(0); Norway http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/norway.html 's fight against terrorism will be strengthened, and the Department of Foreign Affairs will appoint a special representative to coordinate efforts in the fight against international terrorism, report reaching here from Oslo said on Monday. The new representative will coordinate both the national and international efforts, involving those of EU and NATO, newspaper Aftenposten reported. The newspaper based its report on a draft paper prepared by the department at the request of the United Nations. According to the draft paper, the department will take the initiative to set up a project group which will also include Norwegian voluntary organizations and research institutions in the work. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
