[osint] FW: Don't click on links allegedly from friends if no subject line

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>From a 2ampd pal.  I DID open the link since it was sent "by" him, and it
redirects you to the online drugstore.  The problem is that it may infect
your machine and send itself to everybody in your address book.  But I sent
it to myself at Earthlink with no ill effects...that could be because of my
Mac, however.

Subject: subject line
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Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 6:05 AM

It seems that there is a virus going around and it is hitting everyone ...

If you get a email from a friend or a member of one of your groups and there
is nothing in the subject line then DO NOT OPEN IT

It is a email junk from a drug store in Canada..

Your computer becomes a Zombie and uses your email list to send out to all
of your email groups..

It is coming from Face book and also Yahoo has it..

I got hit by opening a email from one of our members the other day and as I
was turning on my computer this morning it was sending out the same email
that I received from that person...

It is fast

H J

 



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Japan terms N. Korea talks 'worse than stalemate' 
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Japan terms N. Korea talks 'worse than stalemate' 

Tokyo is frustrated that talks with North Korea did not produce
results on the issue of abductions of Japanese nationals and other
matters. 
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi termed the lack of results
"discouraging" but called for patience. 

A senior Foreign Ministry official said the "outcome was worse than a
stalemate." 

In response to Japanese requests for further action on North Korea
resolving the cases of missing Japanese who were abducted and used for
intelligence training in North Korea, Pyongyang made counter demands
that Japan turn over nongovernmental workers helping North Korean
defectors. 

The counter-demand "makes us skeptical about just how sincere they are
to come to a conclusion over their abduction of our people," said
Kunio Umeda, Japan's lead negotiator on abduction issues. 

The talks employed a new three-track format, with separate panels
discussing the abductions of Japanese nationals, normalization of
diplomatic relations, and Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs. 
Japan's strategy was to dangle economic benefits in return for more
efforts by Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue. 

North Korea also demanded the lifting of economic sanctions as a
condition for returning to the six-party nuclear talks. 








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Published on Monday, February 13, 2006 by the Inter Press Service 

'Muslims Angry at War on Terror, Not Cartoons' 
by Baradan Kuppusamy
 
KUALA LUMPUR - Delegates at an international conference here entitled
'Who Speaks for Islam? Who speaks for the West', were inclined to
blame the ferocity of reactions against the cartoon controversy, which
gripped the world this past week, on the 'war on terror' in Iraq and
Afghanistan. 

The cartoons, depicting Prophet Mohammad as a terrorist and first
published in a Danish newspaper, dominated the two-day conference
which ended Saturday. The timing of the meet was a matter of coincidence. 

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, current chairman of the
Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), urged Muslims and the western
world to join hands against fringe elements in both societies that, he
said, are ''hell bent on keeping us apart''. He called for bridges to
be built so that ''the West will speak for Islam and Muslims speak for
the West''. 

Badawi declared possession of the cartoons illegal. Meanwhile, the
Borneo-based paper Sarawak Tribune, which reprinted the cartoons, was
shut down. The paper had to apologise for what it called an editorial
oversight. 

Badawi blamed the ''hegemony of the centres of power in the West'' for
the widening chasm between Islam and the West. ''They (Muslims) see
the subjugation of Palestine as an indirect concretisation of this
hegemony. They see hegemony manifested directly in the attack upon
Afghanistan and in the occupation of Iraq.'' 

At the same time, said Badawi, the West wrongly equated Islam with
violence. ''They think Osama bin Laden speaks for the religion and its
followers. Islam and Muslims are linked to all that is negative and
backward,'' he said, adding that the United States-led 'war-on-terror'
has widened the chasm. 

Badawi told delegates from 100-odd countries that ''those who
deliberately kill non-combatants and the innocent; those who oppress
and exploit others; those who are corrupt and greedy; those who are
chauvinistic and communal,'' cannot speak on behalf of Islam. 

''We must acknowledge that in the West, principles such as freedom and
equality have found concrete expression in the rule of law, public
accountability, acceptance of political dissent and respect for
popular participation. However, for a lot of Muslims today, this is
not the face of the West that they see,'' he told an audience of
academics and policymakers. 

Anger against the cartoons has been muted in this multi-ethnic country
that officially practices 'Hadhari', a moderate form of Islam on the
appeal of which, Badawi enjoys a solid electoral mandate, controlling
nearly 90 percent of the 217 seats in parliament. 

Prominent among the foreign delegates was former Iranian president
Muhammad Khatami who, in comments to reporters, said that he hoped
lessons had been drawn from the caricature controversy. `'The Muslim
world has reacted to this issue and if this policy continues, we will
be engaging in continuous violence,'' he warned. 

While Malaysian newspapers were full of the rage that swept the Muslim
world over the week, none of the anger was reflected in this country's
many mosques. 

Badawi himself expressed sadness at the mischief the cartoons have
caused and went out of his way to say that Malaysia would not boycott
Danish products unlike many other Middle Eastern countries. 

The only official sign of discomfort was when Danish ambassador Borge
Petersen was 'summoned' and told that Malaysia deplored publication of
such insensitive cartoons. 

Denmark has, in fact, requested Malaysia's help in restraining Muslim
rage at the European nation whose media first published the
caricatures of Prophet Mohammad but was quickly reprinted by media in
other countries. 

Malaysian foreign minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said, on the
sidelines of the conference, that he took a telephone call from his
Danish counterpart Per Stig Moller seeking Malaysian support in
containing the rage. 

Albar vowed that the fires raging around the world over the cartoons
''would not find kindle wood here in Malaysia.'' 

Leading Malaysian Islamic thinker Chandra Muzaffar credits the
quietness in this country to a lack

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Muammar Gaddafi: One Day Islam May Rule Europe
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Muammar Gaddafi: One Day Islam May Rule Europe
 13 February 2006 | 20:03 | FOCUS News Agency 



Tripoli. In his first public statement after the braking out of the
scandal with the cartoons with Prophet Muhammad the Libyan Leader Col.
Muammar Gaddafi announced that one day the Islam will disseminate its
power over the European countries, the web edition of Libya 
Todayreports. In his statement Gaddafi calls those who had published
the cartoons "slanderers who disseminate religious hatred". 

He went on criticizing European schools that teach the children that
the Muslim Prophet was not a messenger of Allah but a liar.

According to Gaddafi the riots in the poor suburbs of Paris last year
were "only the beginning of the armed struggle of the Muslims against
discrimination in Europe". 

"Probably one day Europe will be subordinated to the Islam", Col.
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Aoun and Nasrallah 
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http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/02-2006/Article-20060211-59965235-c0a8-10ed-004d-8d5058e6989a/story.html

Aoun and Nasrallah 

Abdel Wahab Badrakhan Al-Hayat - 11/02/06//

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and General Michel Aoun's meeting has been
widely perceived as a tough political blow, well brewed and shocking,
though expected by all the Lebanese political circles on the eve of
Baabda - Aley by-elections. A masterstroke indeed! For this meeting
couldn't have been held at a better time with the fears fomented by
Sunday's Tabaris demonstration still fresh. Perhaps, we must thank
both leaders for their commendable step that has foiled a latent, but
easily sparkled sedition.

"The Free Patriotic Movement" and "Hezbollah" are not said to have
forged an alliance but an acceptable and satisfactory agreement.
Nonetheless, it is hard to believe that their supporters have been
finally convinced, have understood, and heartily blessed this
breakthrough. Like all other Lebanese, they need to watch things
closely to fully grasp this meeting symbolically held at St. Michael
Church. Yet, symbols alone do not effect real change on the ground.
In truth, General Aoun followers have never been zealous sympathizers
of  "Hezbollah" and its leader. With no doubt, some do respect Sayyed
Nasrallah and the party, appreciating the Resistance great role in
liberating South Lebanon. Yet, the majority has endured since 1990 and
until 2005 a harsh political and psychological climate. Throughout
this period, the two movements were neither enemies nor friends. 

Most importantly, they have never thought they could meet on strategic
bases. On the other hand, "Hezbollah" supporters have never admired
Aoun-led demonstrations against the Syrian presence before the
withdrawal and prior to PM Rafik Hariri's assassination. Likewise,
they remember quite well that Aoun supporters were the driving force
behind the "Independence or March 14 Intifada" against "March 8
Intifada," which was never portrayed as struggling for independence
and sovereignty, but as one staged by the parties rejecting Syria's
then imminent withdrawal.

For this reason, it would be interesting and important to see both
parties demonstrate side by side on any future occasion, whether
against the government or the international pressures on Iran and
Syria. If this takes place, it will not only constitute a putsch, but
one of the miracles of the well-known "Lebanese experience.

" Why not? For everything is possible and authorized on a national
basis. But nothing conclusively proves that this "common document" can
pave the way for such project, especially that "Hezbollah" has joined
a majority government representing the Shiite bloc too. As we all
know, this government has also adopted a statement synonymous of a
"common document" but more important, since it does not only bind the
political parties, but also the State and its institutions. Still,
this party has failed to embrace the government project, supposedly a
national one too. While searching for allies to its other "project,"
the party has indeed found one - General Aoun.

Congratulations for the two new "allies!" With no doubt, they realize
their meeting will be put to the test before the Lebanese to determine
to what extent it serves the country or personal interests. 
Generally speaking, when two parties fail to achieve the strategic
goals they have espoused, their meeting will be then depicted as built
on mere tactics. In other words, General Aoun cannot guarantee
Hezbollah's weapons. Nor can the party alone elect Aoun president. 

In the same vein, Aoun cannot brush aside UN resolution 1559, alleging
it has been internally implemented. In parallel, "Hezbollah" cannot
build alone 'sound relations' with Syria. But if their meeting was, by
contrast, intended to vex other confessions and parties, then their
intention will be soon unraveled. Until recently, Walid Jumblatt,
previously "Hezbollah" ally - rather arms companion  - is now harshly
in conflict  with it. 

Anyway, the Majority in the Cabinet must now reconsider its activities
and alliances. With a competent and skillful Prime Minister still
needing a more effective political support, this majority seems with
no leader. Its opponents are even capable of imposing their own agenda
with al

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Iran buys three Russian fighters 
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Iran buys three Russian fighters=20

MOSCOW =97 Iran has acquired three fighter jets from Russia.=20
Russian industry sources said Teheran has procured three Su-25UBT
twin-seat attack aircraft from Moscow. The sources said the contract
was concluded in 2005 and deliveries are to occur in 2006.=20
The deal marked the first Iranian purchase of the Su-25. In 2001, Iran
negotiated with Georgia for surplus MiG-25s, but the two countries
failed to reach agreement.=20

The Su-25UBT marks the most advanced model of the attack aircraft. The
fighters have new electronic warfare and jamming systems.=20
Iran and Russia have also progressed in efforts to upgrade Iran's
MiG-29 fighter-jets. An agreement could be reached in early 2006 and
would include a lifetime extension contract.
=20
Teheran has 35 MiG-29s. Most of the aircraft came from Iraq, sent by
the Saddam Hussein regime in 1990 to avoid being a target of U.S.
strikes on the eve of the Gulf war.=20
In 2005, Iran increased its military budget by $3 billion. Iranian
government sources said the allocation comprised an emergency budget
controlled by supreme leader Ali Khamenei.=20

Khamenei has also established a Supreme Council of Military Planning
to prepare for any Israeli or U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
Former Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani heads the council.=20
Last week, Iranian Defense Minister Mustafa Mohammed-Najar warned that
Teheran would retaliate "with double force" against any foreign
strike. Najar said Iran has succeeded in developing a Shihab-3
ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers.=20

"We are not seeking a military confrontation, but if that happens we
will give the enemy a lesson that will be remembered throughout
history," Gen. Abdolrahim Moussavi, head of the Iranian Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told troops on Feb. 5. "This nation has proved its will many
times to its enemies. Why do they want to test this great nation once
again?"=20







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Iran starts production of its own air defense missiles=20

NICOSIA =97 Iran has begun producing an indigenous man-portable air
defense system.=20

The Defense Ministry has begun serial production of the Misagh-2
short-range surface-to-missile missile. The ministry said the Misagh-2
could intercept low-altitude targets.=20

"The Misagh-2 is capable of tracking and destroying aerial targets
that fly at low altitudes and in the blind spot of radar systems," the
ministry said in a statement.=20

The statement called Misagh-2 an advanced missile that could resist
counter-measures. The missile could operate in all weather.=20
"This missile gives our forces, army and Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps a drastic advantage, agility and flexibility in our air
defenses," Defense Minister Mustafa Mohammed Najar said in the statement.=20

Iran has been developing a range of short- and medium-range missiles
and rockets. Teheran has utilized both liquid- and solid-fuel
propulsion systems.=20

Teheran has also produced variants of the SA-7 and other Soviet-made
missiles. Western intelligence sources said Iran has developed a
variant of the U.S.-made Stinger shoulder-fired missile.=20
Officials said Iran has been developing an air defense network to
protect its nuclear facilities from possible Israeli and U.S. strike.
In December 2005, Iran ordered 29 TOR-M1 mobile short-range air
defense systems from Russia.=20






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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=3D196982006

Wed 8 Feb 2006

The children's author who ignited a worldwide protest

EVA LANGLANDS 

KARE Bluitgen has just received a death threat. "Wanted: dead or
alive" said the placards showing the Dane's face borne by crowds in
Thailand in the latest protest against the cartoons depicting the
Prophet Muhammad. 

The news will not have come as a shock for Bluitgen, a children's
author, who is well aware that he started the storm. It was his failed
attempt to find artists to illustrate a book about the Prophet that
prompted the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten to invite 12
illustrators to draw the Prophet as they saw him. 
The cartoons accompanied an article on censorship in September and
have since been published in papers across Europe. 

Five months on, Bluitgen shakes his head at what he describes as the
"absurdity" of recent events. Not only has his face been hoisted on
placards in the streets of Bangkok. An imam from Denmark has appeared
on al-Jazeera TV holding a copy of his new book, claiming it
misrepresents Islam. And two Saudi Arabian newspapers have run
articles criticising the author and his book, which they claim is an
attack on Islam. 

Bluitgen's role in the saga has set alarm bells ringing for him. 
"The imam on television mistranslated my book and clearly got his
facts wrong," Bluitgen says. "Not only does it show how this has spun
out of all control; it also shows to what lengths some people will go
to further their own agenda. These people have the will to cause havoc
on the streets and spread misinformation. Yet all along I've attempted
to represent the Prophet as accurately as possible from this flat in
Copenhagen. 

"I don't feel responsible for what has happened - this was out of my
control as soon as the Danish newspaper decided to publish its
cartoons. I realise it was originally my idea that has set the wheels
in motion, but it's not about religion any more - it's about politics.
The people behind the protests are extremists who want to further
their cause. They don't know anything about me, the book or the
drawings." 
Like some other organisations and individuals embroiled in this saga,
which has seen demonstrations across the world, Bluitgen feels he is
being grossly misunderstood. His new book, The Koran and the Life of
the Prophet Muhammad, published in late January, was intended to
create understanding between Danes and immigrants. By telling the life
story of one the Muslim world's most significant figures, Bluitgen
hoped Danish children would be in a better position to understand
their Muslim counterparts. 

Instead, the former school-teacher has become a target for protests
about the cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten, which are not the
same as the illustrations in his book. 

While informed onlookers can easily spot the difference between the
illustrations in the paper and those in the book - neutral, simple and
devoid of associations with terror groups - it is clear from the
protests in Thailand and the media coverage in the Middle East that
not everyone makes the distinction. 
A short stroll outside Bluitgen's flat provides evidence enough that
the author lives right in the thick of things as far as integration
goes in Denmark. 

He lives in Norrebro, the area of Copenhagen with the highest
concentration of immigrants. Between 80 and 90 per cent of
schoolchildren are from immigrant or second-generation families,
making Bluitgen's daughter, 13, and son, 17, in a minority in school.
Bluitgen's mantra is clear: more understanding of different cultures
from an early age is vital if integration has any chance of success. 
While Bluitgen refers to the situation in his back yard, he says it
shows a failure to address integration across Europe. 

"If we don't meet each other in primary school, when can we?" he says.
"I think it's hugely important we learn each other's culture in
school. The riots in France recently show that you need to intervene
early on. If you only meet people like yourself, you will become
narrow-minded. 

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Denmark Tries to Act Against Terrorism as Mood in Europe Shifts

Law Raises Concerns of Civil Libertarians
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, August 29, 2005; A09

COPENHAGEN -- Said Mansour, a slightly built man with a bushy beard,
believes Muslims have a right to kill Americans in Iraq because, he
said, "This is war; it's not a picnic."

So, he explained in an interview last week, he had no qualms about
downloading and burning CDs of Internet videos depicting beheadings in
Iraq and speeches by Abu Musab Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind
behind much of the Iraqi insurgency.

Now, Danish police intend to make Mansour, 45, a Moroccan-born Danish
citizen, the first person ever charged under an anti-terrorism law
enacted in 2002 that forbids instigation of terrorism or offering
advice to terrorists. Police sources said Mansour would probably be
charged for distributing CDs that contained the inflammatory jihadist
speeches and gruesome images.

The law contains curbs on free speech that are remarkable in a country
famous for tolerating all points of view. It illustrates how
democracies across Europe are adopting tougher measures in an era of
rising extremist violence, despite protests that civil liberties are
being sacrificed in the process.
The 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people, and the
London bombings last month, which killed 56 people, including the four
bombers, have added new urgency to the issue.

"We have to look at reality," said Rikke Hvilshoj, Denmark's minister
of refugee, immigration and integration affairs, noting that some have
abused Denmark's free speech guarantees to encourage violence and
killing. "The day we don't have freedom of speech, the fundamentalists
have won," she said. "On the other hand, we can't be naive."
Experts said the debate about how to balance anti-terrorism
protections with individual freedoms is at the top of the agenda for
European nations. The issue is particularly acute in Denmark, Italy
and Poland -- which have troops in Iraq as part of the U.S.-led
military coalition and fear they could be the next target -- and in
Spain, following the train attacks there.

"The mood has shifted in Europe more toward security than it was
before the London bombings," said Daniel Keohane, senior research
fellow at the Center for European Reform in London. "The Europeans
have always been very nervous about infringing on civil liberties. But
when you experience terrorism, it changes your views."

France, with Europe's largest Muslim community -- 6 million people --
has just announced plans to strengthen its anti-terror laws, already
among Europe's strongest. Britain now plans to ban or deport those who
incite terrorism, close bookshops or places of worship used by radical
groups and criminalize speech that "foments, justifies or glorifies"
terrorism.

Human rights groups and Muslim civic leaders called those measures too
broad.
"What may be seen as a glorification of terrorism by one person might
be seen as an explanation of the causes of terrorism by another
person," said Azzam Tamimi, a senior leader of the Muslim Association
of Britain.
Some political activists here said their government was trampling free
speech guarantees contained in the Danish constitution.

"They have crossed the line," said Naser Khader, 42, a Syrian-born
member of Parliament who has been a vocal critic of Muslim extremists.
"The society must be open and free. If you close it and make a lot of
restrictions, the terrorists get what they want."
But a recent survey found that 80 percent of Danes supported the new
laws to battle terrorism and control immigration. In Britain, 73
percent of people polled by the Guardian newspaper in mid-August said
that they were willing to give up some civil liberties to improve
security.

"The terror is getting closer," said Morten Messerschmidt, a member of
Parliament from the strongly anti-immigration Danish People's Party.
"First it was D.C. and New York, then Madrid and now London. Who's
next? There's no doubt we are in a potential threat situation, and
that scares people."

Messerschmidt said curbing free speech was "very tough and emotional
to do 

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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=106127

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Woman Claimed To Have Ties To Al-qaida Released In Istanbul
Published: 2/1/2006

 
ISTANBUL - A Turkish woman, who was detained in Istanbul on charges of
having ties to Al-Qaida terrorist organization, was released on Tuesday.
 
The woman was detained at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport after she had
been deported from Pakistan to Turkey. 

She was released after her interrogation at the Istanbul Prosecutor's
Office. 

Speaking to reporters, the woman said that she was kidnapped by armed
men in Pakistan where she had gone with her husband to help earthquake
victims, adding that she returned to Turkey after kidnappers released
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http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD108206

 
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1082 February 1, 2006 No.1082  

Al-Qaeda Deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Latest Video on Al-Jazeera TV 

The following are excerpts from a videotape of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman
Al-Zawahiri, aired by Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2006. 

*TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT:
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1015. 
*TO VIEW MORE AL-QAEDA CLIPS, VISIT:
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=139. 

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri: "With the collaboration of
Musharraf the traitor and his security agencies, the servants of the
Crusaders and the Jews, American airplanes attacked the village of
Damdula, in Bajuar, shortly after the Feast of the Sacrifice. The
planes killed 18 Muslims - men, women, and children - in their fight
against the jihad, which they call terrorism, claiming that they were
trying to kill yours truly and four other brothers. The whole world
witnessed the extent of the American lies and frustration, as well as
the extent of its barbarism, in its war against Islam and the Muslims. 

"In response to this incident, I would like to convey several
messages. The first message I convey to the butcher of Washington,
Bush, to whom I say: Bush, not only are you a defeated liar, but,
Allah be praised, you are also a complete failure. 

You bring misfortune upon your nation. You have brought and will bring
catastrophes and tragedies upon it. Know, oh Bush, you failing
Crusader, that your conflict is with the nation of monotheism, with
us, who believe in Allah, the One, the Unique, 'who begets not, nor is
He begotten, and none is like him,' and who has sent His Prophet to us
with a well-preserved book, which has not been altered or forged like
the books that preceded it. No human being is capable of producing a
similar miraculous book. Allah told us, in His eternal and miraculous
book, that 'every soul shall taste death,' and that the day of death
is predetermined and predestined, and I will meet my predestined
death, according to the will of Allah. However, if my time to die has
not yet come, neither you nor all the forces of the world - and even
all creations - could hasten my death even by a second. 

"Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses, and I am
enjoying the grace Allah has bestowed upon me - I am enjoying their
support, generosity, protection, and their participation in the Jihad
against you, until we defeat you, Allah willing." 
[...] 

"My second message is to the American people, which is immersed in
illusions: Bush and his gang are shedding your blood, and wasting your
money in failed adventures. They are involving you in a conflict with
the Muslims, which you cannot win, in order to increase their wealth.
They are drawing up a future for you which is painted with the color
of blood, the smoke of bombings, and the darkness of fear. The mujahid
lion of Islam, Sheik Osama bin Laden, has offered you an honorable way
out of the crisis you are in. But your leaders - because of their
desire to accumulate wealth - insist upon casting you into perdition
and causing your deaths, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even, Allah
willing, within your own home. Your leaders have responded to Sheik
Osama's initiative by saying they do not negotiate with terrorists and
that they are winning the war against terrorism. I say to them: You
greedy liars, you war merchants - who is withdrawing from Iraq and
Afghanistan, we or you? Whose soldiers are committing suicide out of
despair, ours or yours? 

"Oh American mothers, if the Department of Defense phones to inform
you that your son will be returning to you in a coffin - think about
George Bush. Oh British wives, if the Ministry of Defense phones to
inform you that your husband will return paralyzed, chopped into
pieces, and burned - think about Tony Blair." 








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Danish paper evacuated after bomb threat over Mohammed cartoons
31/01 07:56 PM (GMT)

ATTENTION -with evacuation over, ADDS hacker attacks ///
� 2006 AFP
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - The offices of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten,
which published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have caused
uproar across the Muslim world, were evacuated for several hours due
to a bomb threat on Tuesday. 

The paper's offices in both the northern town of Aarhus and in
downtown Copenhagen were evacuated in the evening, according to an AFP
reporter at the scene in Copenhagen.
"At approximately three minutes past five, an English-speaking person
gave a message that there would be a bomb attack at the
Jyllands-Posten offices 10 minutes after," Copenhagen police spokesman
Flemming Munch told AFP, adding that the threat had been called in.

"The newspaper itself took the decision to evacuate the two offices,"
he said, adding that police with bomb-sniffing dogs were being sent in
to search the paper's Copenhagen office, where some 50 people work.
Danish news agency Ritzau and foreign correspondents who work in the
same building were also evacuated and could not return to the building
until 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), AFP observed.

Jyllands-Posten reported on its website that dogs were also used at
the Aarhus offices, where some 300 people were evacuated until just
after 6:30 pm (1730 GMT). 

Also on Tuesday, the paper reported that hackers had been trying to
shut down its website, with more than 80,000 emails flooding the its
inboxes, but that technicians had managed to ward off the attack.
The bomb threat and hacker attacks came as Muslim anger over 12
cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten last September depicting the
Prophet Mohammed boiled over into a diplomatic crisis threatening
Danish trade relations with the Muslim world.

Reports of Danish flag-burnings, protest rallies, boycotts, and
threats against Scandinavians in Muslim countries have flourished in
recent days, and both Jyllands-Posten and a Norwegian Christian
magazine that republished the drawings earlier this month have
received death threats.

The editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, Carsten Juste, told Danish
news agency Ritzau that the bomb threat was an attack on democracy.
"It is an attack on the freedom of the press and against one of
democracy's most important prerequisites, the free word," Juste said.







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an. 29, 2006 22:27 | Updated Jan. 30, 2006 12:54

Saudi Arabia promises PA $100m
By HERB KEINON

Saudi Arabia could bail the Palestinian Authority out of an impending
fiscal crisis following the landslide victory of Hamas if it transfers
the $100 million to the Palestinian Authority that it pledged to PA
chairman Mahmoud Abbas when he visited there in late December. 
In addition to bailing out the PA, the money would also give Israel
and the world more time to ponder how to deal with the PA following
Wednesday's Hamas victory. 

According to western diplomatic sources, Saudi Arabia pledged the
money to Abbas because the European Union refused to transfer payment
of some $60 million in November after the PA embarked on campaign
economics: raising salaries and putting more people on its payroll.
The Saudi money would be enough for the PA to pay January's salaries -
about $60 million - and give it some additional breathing room. 

Israel is scheduled to transfer to the PA some $60 million in taxes
and customs revenues it collects for the PA on Friday. Acting Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert said at Sunday's cabinet meeting that Israel
still had not decided whether - in light of the Hamas victory - it
would indeed transfer the funds. 

In the evening, at a press conference with visiting German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Olmert said that Israel "has no intention of
transferring funds" that will aid terrorists. Underscoring that Israel
was "very sensitive" to Abbas's position, he said Israel had to be
very careful that money it transferred would not later be used against
Israel. 
Merkel said that Europe should not fund the PA as long as Hamas does
not recognize Israel and disarm. 

Government officials have said that Israel had the option of delaying
the decision for a few days to see what developed in the PA, who would
be a part of the new government, and whether international pressure
would force Hamas to renounce terrorism and repeal its charter. One of
Israel's concern is that if the international community cuts off all
funds to the PA, Iran will step in, increasing its influence and sway
over the PA. 

If the Saudis make good on their $100 million pledge, the funds from
Israel would be less critical for the PA, and Israel would buy some
more time to watch the developments in the PA before deciding what to
do with the funds. The money, government officials have pointed out,
is not Israel's but rather tax and customs money it collects on behalf
of the Palestinians. Israel held up the transfer of this money to the
Palestinians in November 2000, soon after the outbreak of violence,
for some 18 months, before restarting the transfers following intense
international pressure. 

Israel is not the only party interested in buying some time to see
what develops in the PA, and whether Hamas forms or is part of the
future PA government, before deciding their aid policy to the PA.
 
On the eve of two key international meetings Monday that will go a
long way toward setting the tone as to how the world will now deal
with the PA - a meeting of the Quartet in London and the EU foreign
ministers in Brussels - Israeli diplomatic officials said the
international community basically agreed with Israel about the need
for Hamas to disarm and recognize it, but was also waiting to see what
happens over the next few weeks before setting policy.

Quartet envoy James Wolfensohn, for example, will not be turning to
donor countries for aid to the PA in their current fiscal crisis - as
has been done in the past -until the Quartet sets a clear policy
regarding what type of dealings it will have with the PA now that
Hamas won the elections. 

While the Quartet is expected to release a statement following
Monday's meeting praising the PA for running a fair election, they are
also expected to call on Hamas to renounce violence, disarm and
recognize Israel. But the Quartet is not expected to get into finer
policy matters - such as whether the international community should
continue to support the PA - until it sees how Hamas behaves over the
next few weeks. 
Likewise, no operative decisions are expected to come out of the EU
meeting in Brussels. According to assessments reaching Jerusa

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Behind the cult of Chavez

ISN Security Watch's Sam Logan searches for the cult of personality
that keeps President Hugo Chavez in popular power in Caracas, Venezuela.

 Venezuela Information and Justice Ministry=20
By Sam Logan in Caracas for ISN Security Watch (19/01/06)

I boarded a plane in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a long flight to
Caracas, Venezuela. The plane was packed with Venezuelans. Some of
them, judging from their dress, manner of speech, and number of
electronic gadgets, had traveled to Argentina as part of Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez's security detail for the Mar del Plata Summit.
The rest, farmers in shabby clothes with worn, wrinkled hands, had
been sent to fill the stands with Venezuelan blood, hot enough to
shout in favor of their leader.

The elderly lady sitting next to me said Venezuelan state agents had
recruited her from her small family farm just hours before takeoff.
She was to attend the summit as a Chavez fan, watching her leader
stand side by side with Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and
then-Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales to denounce US
foreign policy in the region and promote Chavez's region-wide call for
socialism.=20

She and her husband referred to Chavez endearingly as "Huguito", or
"little Hugo", and said state agents had instructed them as to when
and how to cheer for "Huguito" in Argentina.

Observers have long talked about Chavez's cult of personality, but it
was the first time I had seen it first hand, and in the genuine,
cheerful faces of these small-time farmers.

Chavez, who has served as Venezuela's president for nearly a decade,
faces elections in December 2006, and all indications are that he will
secure another six years in power. For all intents and purposes, he is
the president, the government, and all but an autocrat.
For six hours, the elderly couple talked about their beloved leader,
who would one day deliver them from misery.

"Chavez represents the typical Venezuelan," the couple explained. "He
grew up in the county in a house with a dirt floor. Raised by his
grandmother, Huguito was able to get into the military academy because
he was an exceptional baseball player, not because he had money."
Most Venezuelans are poor like Chavez was before he became president.
This is the part of Chavez's personality that the Venezuelan
government promotes, and it is why so many Venezuelans love him.

Chavez has been harshly criticized by large parts of Venezuela's
middle and upper classes referred to as the "opposition". He has been
accused of electoral fraud, human rights violations, and political
repression. He has survived a brief 2002 coup and a failed 2004 recall
referendum. The poorer classes tend to view him as a socialist
liberator, while the middle and upper classes tend to view him as an
authoritarian demagogue. Regardless of the labels, Chavez is one of
Latin America's most complex and controversial figures.

>From Mexico to Argentina, poor Latin Americans appreciate his
rhetoric, his charisma, and talk of plans for a better future. He
makes promises and keeps them. Within Venezuela, Chavez has setup
medical clinics for the poor. Located in the shantytowns that surround
Caracas, Cuban doctors run the clinics; service is free of charge.
State-run markets, where the prices for basic food staples are
controlled and very low, are popular with Chavez's supporters.=20

And his talk of land appropriation, a very difficult promise to keep,
has moved forward, giving poor, landless Venezuelans hope that one
day, they will have their own land.

Chavez is the keeper of the faith. He has spearheaded a movement in
Venezuela and abroad, that, more than any other substantial outcome,
has delivered hope to millions of impoverished Latinos.

At the airport outside of Caracas, one is abruptly introduced to the
loud, badgering, and careening nature of Venezuelan culture. But amid
the constant motion and liveliness, and despite the faith in Chavez, a
growing sense of doom-and-gloom seems to have descended upon Caracas.
Having lived in major cities in Argentina and Brazil, I have grown
accustomed to the red bricks and corrugated tin roofs of South
America's slums. But the shantytowns in Caracas were something
different a

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d=3D968332188854&call_pagepath=3DNews/World&pubid=3D968163964505Videos



Videos carry deadly threats for U.S.
Al Qaeda No. 2 warns of attack
Journalist makes tearful release plea
Jan. 31, 2006. 01:00 AM

CAIRO, Egypt=97Arab television broadcaster Al-Jazeera aired two new
videotapes yesterday targeting the United States.
In one, Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri called U.S. President George
W. Bush a "butcher" and a "failure" because of a deadly American air
strike in Pakistan targeting him, and threatened a new attack on the
United States.
In the other, kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll is shown
wearing an Islamic veil and weeping as she purportedly appealed for
the release of female Iraqi prisoners.
The video of Carroll, 28, is dated Saturday, two days after the U.S.
military released five Iraqi women detainees. U.S. officials said the
release had nothing to do with the kidnappers' demands.
The video had no sound, but the Al-Jazeera newscaster said Carroll
appealed to the U.S. military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry to free
all women in their prisons and said this "would help in winning her
release."
At one point, Carroll's cracking voice can be heard from behind the
newsreader's voice. All that can be heard is Carroll saying, "... hope
for the families ...''
Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was
seized Jan. 7 by the previously unknown Revenge Brigades, which
threatened to kill her unless all women prisoners were released.=20
Meanwhile, on a separate video, al-Zawahri, speaking in a forceful and
angry voice, threatened a new attack in the U.S. =97 "God willing, on
your own land."
The video provided the first concrete evidence that al-Zawahri was
still alive after the Jan. 13 air strike in eastern Pakistan that
targeted him but killed four other Al Qaeda leaders and 13 villagers.
"Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also
a failure. You are a curse on your own nation and you have brought and
will bring them only catastrophes and tragedies," al-Zawahri said,
referring to Bush.
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=3D19010&only

monday, january 30, 2006

The Cartoon Jihad Continues=20

The Religion of Peace=99 is raging today over those Danish cartoons
depicting Mohammed: Protests Over Muhammad Cartoon Grow.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The controversy over Danish caricatures of Prophet
Muhammad escalated Monday as gunmen seized an EU office in Gaza and
Muslims appealed for a trade boycott of Danish products. Denmark
called for its citizens in the Middle East to exercise vigilance.

Denmark-based Arla Foods, which has been the target of a widespread
boycott in the Middle East, reported that two of its employees in
Saudi Arabia were beaten by angry customers. Aid groups, meanwhile,
pulled workers out of Gaza, citing the threat of hostilities.

The 12 drawings =97 published in a Danish paper in September and in a
Norwegian paper this month =97 included an image of the prophet wearing
a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. Islamic tradition bars
any depiction of the prophet, even respectful ones, out of concern
that such images could lead to idolatry.

Danish government officials have expressed regret over the furor but
have refused to get involved, citing freedom of expression. The
Jyllands-Posten newspaper has refused to apologize for publishing the
drawings and has said it did not mean to insult Islam.
Denmark's prime minister is standing up against the seething. So far.
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen briefed European Union colleagues
about the matter Monday.=20
He has repeatedly rejected calls to intervene.
But some Danes are quite eager to give in to the threats and violence.
But Arla Food's executive director urged the Danish government to take
action. "Freedom of expression is an internal Danish issue BUT this
has a totally different dimension," Peder Tuborgh said. "This is about
Denmark having offended millions of Muslims."
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Why Hamas did so well in the Palestinian election
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http://www.geostrategy-direct.com

Why Hamas did so well in the Palestinian election=20

The ballots have closed, but it is clear that the Palestinian
Legislative Council elections have nothing to do with being free or
democratic. Hundreds of Western observers won't change that assessment.=20
The reason: The observers did not monitor the campaign by Palestinian
legislators. Had they done so, they would have found how Fatah
candidates aligned with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
used PA security officers to intimidate rivals and extort money from
businessmen. They would have also seen how Fatah candidates deal with
difficult questions by voters.=20

Take Mohammed Dahlan, long the great American hope for Palestinian
leadership. Flush with American money and support, Dahlan still can't
seem to shake off the Palestinian image of him as a thug.=20
Part of the reason is that when Dahlan is pressed, he lashes out
physically.=20

Consider Dahlan's appearance at the Open Al Quds University in Gaza
City on Jan. 17. A PLC candidate to represent the Khan Yunis area of
the Gaza Strip, Dahlan gave his usual speech highlighting his
accomplishments and warned of a Hamas victory. The audience seemed
friendly.=20
Then, Dahlan decided to take some questions. One student from the
Fatah-aligned Al Azhar University asked Dahlan a question that struck
a touchy subject =97 corruption.=20

The question concerned Dahlan's purchase of property in Khan Yunis in
December 2005 and about embezzlement of PA funding.=20
Palestinian sources are familiar with the story: Dahlan pocketed
millions of dollars in Western funding and gave some of it to his
supporters. He also obtained some choice land from former Jewish
settlements evacuated by Israel in September 2005 and gave some to his
political allies.=20

Dahlan, long head of the most lethal Palestinian security force in the
Gaza Strip, went ballistic. "How do you know such information, and
where did you get it from?" Dahlan shouted.=20
Dahlan's bodyguards jumped into the crowd, grabbed the questioner and
threw him out.=20

Hamas has not used these tactics. Little wonder that the Palestinians
are likely to vote en masse for a group on the State Department
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Muslim group asks L.A.-area radio show host for apology

8:31 p.m. January 26, 2006=20

ANAHEIM =96 A Muslim civil liberties group demanded an apology Thursday
from the host of a Los Angeles-area radio show for making fun of a
stampede that killed hundreds of Muslims during an annual pilgrimage.=20
The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked for an apology from
KFI-AM 640 host Bill Handel, who allegedly made fun of the deaths the
same day they happened during a segment he called the "Annual Stampede
Report."

A spokeswoman for KFI, which is owned by Clear Channel Communications,
did not immediately return a message left Thursday. Handel's producer,
Michelle Kube, also did not return calls for comment. Handel had left
work for the day and attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.=20
At least 363 pilgrims were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede
Jan. 12 in Mecca, where thousands of people were rushing to carry out
a symbolic ritual of stoning the devil.=20

According to the civil liberties group, Handel imitated the people
screaming and then joked that the Muslims at the pilgrimage should use
a helicopter to monitor pilgrimage traffic, as is done in Los Angeles
with the freeways.=20
The group quoted Handel as saying: "This is Mahmoud Nolan. Hajj in the
Sky. There is an accident. ... Ali lost his sandal on the on-ramp to
the Martin Luther King Jr. freeway."=20

In March 2004, KFI issued an on-air apology after the group filed a
complaint with the Federal Communications Commission following a skit
that claimed Muslims have sex with animals, don't bathe and hate Jews.=20
"The deaths of hundreds of people engaged in religious observances is
no laughing matter," Sabiha Khan, the group's spokeswoman, said in a
statement. "KFI needs to distance itself from Mr. Handel's
unbelievable insensitivity by issuing a formal apology and a reprimand."=20






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Islamic banks open in Syria during 2006
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Islamic banks open in Syria during 2006

Syria, Economics, 1/27/2006 
Syria's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Abdullah Al-Dardari
said Thursday the current year will witness the opening of several
Islamic banks in Syria for the first time.

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad had issued a decree to grant licenses
for Arab banks and financial institutes to establish Islamic banks in
the country, with a capital of 100 million US dollars.

Al-Dardari said in statements to the press, that the Islamic banks had
started paper work for obtaining the licenses and presenting all
applications to the Syrian government.

He added, the Syrian market is ready for such developed activities,
and added that the banking sector in Syria will participate in
developing the public monetary sector, to enable it to develop and
finance trade and investments in the country.

The Syrian government had permitted the opening of commercial banks in
2002, within the framework of the economic reform program in the country.









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Note from Daniel Pipes: This article replies to USA Today's house
editorial, "Ballot box gains for Hamas pose dilemma for U.S., allies,"
that argues in favor of prodding Hamas "to make its new image more
than cosmetic."

Don't deal with terrorists

by Daniel Pipes
USA Today
January 25, 2006
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3309
As Hamas, the Islamist terror group, surges in the polls with a
prospect of joining the Palestinian Authority or even running it,
governments worldwide must decide on their responses.

An increasing number of voices are calling for Hamas to be recognized,
arguing that the imperatives of governance would tame it, ending its
arch-murderous vocation (it has killed around 600 Israelis) and
turning it into a responsible citizen. Even President Bush made this
argument in early 2005: "There's a positive effect when you run for
office. Maybe some will run for office and say, `Vote for me, I look
forward to blowing up America.' ... I don't think so. I think people
who generally run for office say, `Vote for me, I'm looking forward to
fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table.'"

The historical record, however, refutes this "pothole theory of
democracy." Mussolini made the trains run, Hitler built autobahns,
Stalin cleared the snow and Castro reduced infant mortality =97 without
any of these totalitarians giving up their ideological zeal nor their
grandiose ambitions. Likewise, Islamists in Afghanistan, Iran, and
Sudan have governed without becoming tamed. If proof is needed, note
the Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons amid an apocalyptic fervor.

Hamas might have hired a spin doctor to improve its image in the West,
but its leadership candidly maintains it has no intention of changing.
Responding to a question on whether Bush is correct that U.S.
engagement with Hamas would moderate the terror group, Mahmoud Zahar,
a Hamas founder, laughed and declared that this tactic "will not
succeed." In recent days, Zahar has publicly reiterated that Hamas
still intends to destroy Israel.

Fortunately, U.S. policy remains steadfast: "We haven't dealt with
Hamas, and we won't deal with Hamas members who are elected," says
U.S. embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle in Israel. That is a good start;
ideally, there should be no dealings at all with a Palestinian
Authority that includes Hamas in its leadership.

It was a mistake to permit Hamas to compete in elections. Like
al-Qaeda, Hamas should be destroyed, not legitimated, much less courted.








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Man acquitted of terrorism charges scheduled to be released
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(01.23.06) =97 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A man acquitted of taking part in a
Tampa terrorist cell will be released from jail this week.=20

That's according to the Saint Petersburg Times. The newspaper says
Sameeh Hammoudeh will return to Jordan with his wife and six children.
He has spent nearly three years in prison.=20

Hammoudeh was on trial with former South Florida professor Sami
Al-Arian, who was acquitted of eight of the 17 counts against him.
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Although a jury found Hammoudeh not guilty of all charges in December,
he remains in jail awaiting deportation.=20

Hammoudeh and his wife were sentenced in June to probation for
mortgage fraud, immigration fraud and federal tax fraud charges.=20

Those charges are leading to their deportation. He tells the newspaper
he'll open a bookstore in the West Bank.







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Paranoia seen motivating Kim's secret China visit 

U.S. officials say the secret visit to China by North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il shows that the communist ruler is growing increasingly
paranoid over his personal safety. 
 

Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, and North Korea's Kim Jong Il,
left, toast during a banquet at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on
Jan. 18, in a framegrap from Chinese television. AP Photo/Kyodo News 
 
Published reports disclosed that Beijing supported Kim's secrecy. A
Chinese government spokesman, asked about the visit, told reporters,
"there is at present no substantive endorsement for me to release the
news to you." 

Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan also referred questions about the
secret visit to the CPC International Liaison Department, a sign that
China's Foreign Ministry does not address issues related to foreign
communist parties and that China values and places party relations
between the CPC and the DPRK's Worker's Party above state-to-state ties. 

Kim traveled by train from North Korea to northern China. 

According to intelligence sources, Kim is extremely cautious about his
personal security and rarely stays in one location for more than one
night. He travels frequently between some eight or nine locations in
North Korea.
 
Kim believes the United States will target him with precision guided
missiles or bombs in an effort to decapitate the leadership in a
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Amman is new hub for Western intel on Mideast 

Amman has become Grand Central Station for security exchanges in the
Middle East. The Jordanian capital is the unofficial venue for
sessions by top Western intelligence analysts and operatives sent to
examine strategic developments throughout the region. 
 

A Jordanian security guard mans a position outside the Hyatt hotel in
Amman, Jordan. AFP/Khalil Mazraawi 
 
Amman's Grand Hyatt Hotel is the first stop for many of these
intelligence officials. In the hotel lobby, one can find CIA, MI6,
Mossad, and FSB collar members of Iraqi and Palestinian intelligence.
Iranian and Syrian intelligence operatives, often posing as
businessmen or diplomats, also pop in. 

Overseeing this is Jordanian intelligence. The kingdom's espionage
agencies are regarded as the best in the Middle East, already in the
league of the Mossad regarding developments in such hard-to-penetrate
countries as Saudi Arabia and Syria. Jordanian intelligence also knows
more about Al Qaida's Iraqi network chief, Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, than
just about anybody else, including the United States. 

Little wonder then that Amman has become Al Qaida's leading target. 
Over the weekend, Jordan intelligence learned of another Al Zarqawi
plot to detonate suicide bombs in Western and other diplomatic
locations in the Jordanian capital. 

In November 2005, several leading foreign intelligence operatives were
killed in coordinated suicide bombings in the Grand Hyatt and other
hotels. Two of the operatives were Bashir Nafeh, commander of
Palestinian Special Forces, and Abed Alun, a senior official of the
Palestinian Preventive Security Apparatus. 

Alun was a fountain of intelligence for Western security agencies. He
served as liaison to the CIA, MI6 and Israel's National Security
Agency. In return, these agencies paid Alun handsomely and provided
the PA with advanced equipment. 
Amman has become more dangerous for Western intelligence in recent
weeks amid warnings of additional Al Qaida attacks. But some senior
officials might just brave the danger considering that Baghdad,
Beirut, Damascus, Riyad or even Tel Aviv are not viable alternatives. 







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Why Islam Can Never Be Appeased
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Why Islam Can Never Be Appeased
War on Terror/Pete Fisher

January 16, 2006 - I have to shake my head in disbelief just about
every day when I listen to people who have no clue about Islam or what
is happening all around the world.

I still have a very hard time buying into the claims by many of our
politicians and media that this is somehow a peaceful religion. This
does not mean that every Muslim out in this world is violent. I am not
saying that at all. But what I AM saying is that Islam is the perfect
spring board for violent acts of every kind and is simply unchecked by
it's own members.

This week in Mecca we can watch the video from Memri where in the
height of the Muslim spiritual Hadj, the holiest time and holiest site
in all of Islam, are Muslims screaming for the death and mutilation of
all infidels, but specifically Americans and Jews. They cry to their
god for our hands to be chopped off and to be murdered while thanking
Allah for his greatness.

And in Mount Arafat this week the people who were on Hadj were told
that there was a huge holy war against Islam ongoing in this world
right now, according to the Grand Mufi of Saudi Arabia.

We are now finding that Saddam did provide for terrorist training, we
see evidence that Syria was involved in goading Iraqi terrorists into
action, we see recruiting in Europe and Canada as well as the USA. We
see Muslims worldwide who refuse to live as their host nations live,
but rather demand those nations bend to the will of Islam. Rapes have
become the crime of choice for many Muslim men living in Australia and
Europe, where violent crimes in many of these countries has risen to
heights unknown before the Islamic immigration into those nations.

The Palestinians will never be satisfied with the way Israel has bent
backwards trying to appease them. They still scream for blood, and
they still train their children in the ways of death and slaughter.

Iran has snubbed their nose at the IAEA and the rest of the world with
it's cat and mouse tactics on nuclear technology. They claim they need
the power, but in truth, the population of Iran has never been the
concern of the mullahs running the place. All they care about is
pushing Islam as a world power and desire the technology to use it as
a terror threat when they deem it necessary.

Islam has no concern for human rights if one looks around the world.
There are no storms of people protesting the rapes and oppression by
the millions, even when perpetrated on Muslims, by Muslims. They have
no care for the Sudan where they shoot at innocent women and children
as they drink from the muddy Wadi because they have no other source of
water due to Muslims destroying their lives, land and population.

The funny thing is, Muslim women have written to me telling me the
wonderful rights they have, all the while being forced to wear a head
cover and not even being able to drive or shop without a male escort.
And the Saudis are concerned that when we report such inane and evil
events that we as the West are chasing people away from Islam.

However, this to me is the typical Islam double standard and total
lack of responsibility so prevalent in the religion. Like not long ago
in Sydney where a well known Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed publicly
condoned raping of women by saying they had no one to blame but
themselves. It is not the fault of the Muslim male; it had to be the
fault of the victim.

Much like the Democrats in America, the criminal did what they did for
any other purpose that by personal choice. Whether it is their
upbringing, abuse, poverty, wealth, illness, being bullied, all lame
excuses that have actually been used in our courts. And because of
this like minded philosophy, Islam can never blame itself for its own
shortcomings or actions. If one of them rapes, it was the fault of the
victim for wearing no socks. If a school house got bombed and children
slaughtered in innocent blood, it was the fault of the village or
country not accepting Islam that made them bomb it.

If Palestinians are starving in dire poverty due to Arafat having
skimmed the coffers and pocketed the money, then it must be the Jews
who are not allowing them into Israel. If the Jews do not want them in
Israel becaus

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Turkish journalists charged with helping Kurd rebels
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World (as of 10:36 AM)
 
Turkish journalists charged with helping Kurd rebels


ANKARA - Turkish state prosecutors on Monday charged nine people,
including a journalist who works for Reuters news agency, with
spreading propaganda on behalf of Kurdish separatists. 
If found guilty the nine, who include other journalists and human
rights activists, face up to three years in jail.

Turkish national Ferit Demir, a stringer for Reuters based in the
eastern town of Tunceli, was detained last August when he observed the
handover of a soldier abducted by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels
to representatives of a human rights group.

He and the other men were then freed pending investigations.
Journalists have often fallen foul of Turkish authorities over
coverage of a conflict in the southeast that has cost some 30,000
lives. A government pursuing European Union entry has eased curbs on
the media and on Kurdish language and culture, but the judiciary
remains a conservative force.
In its indictment, the Tunceli prosecutor's office accused the nine of
using the kidnapped soldier to promote the cause of the PKK, which has
waged an armed struggle against Turkish security forces in the
impoverished southeast since 1984.

Demir denied the accusations.

"It is absolutely out of the question that I conducted PKK propaganda.
I was only doing my job as a journalist," he said.
The prosecutors set March 3 as the date for the first hearing in the
trial.
PKK rebels held the soldier captive for nearly four weeks in a remote
region of the southeast before releasing him.

Turkey blames the PKK, classified by the United States as a terrorist
organization, for the deaths and economic damage inflicted on the
region over two decades. Violence eased after the 1999 capture of
rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan but has grown again since PKK ended a
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4577966.stm

Last Updated: Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 14:42 GMT  
 

Vigilance call over terror threat 
 
The anti-terror campaign will run for four weeks
Scotland Yard has urged the public to remain vigilant to the threat of
terrorism, with a new campaign that highlights the risk of further
attacks. 

The campaign's message is: "Terrorists won't succeed if someone
reports suspicious activity." 
Almost six months since the London bombings, it urges people to report
suspicious bags, vehicles or behaviour. 

The Metropolitan Police said it was not in response to a specific
threat but "we cannot afford to be complacent." 
The head of Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorist Branch, DAC Peter Clarke,
said: "Everyone who lives in London, or visits the city for work or
pleasure, has a role to play in making it as difficult as we can for
terrorists to operate here. 

"We can all help by being vigilant and aware of what is happening
around us. If it seems suspicious to you, please make that call." 
The campaign tells people to call 999 if they notice anything
suspicious, or the anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789321 if they have
information about possible terrorist-related activity. 
Landlords targeted 
Campaign posters will be displayed on bus shelters, beside roads and
at train stations across London for four weeks. 


Advertisements will also appear in newspapers and on radio. 
In a statement, Scotland Yard said: "Terrorists need places to live
and to store equipment and materials. 
"They need people to help them and may need transport in order to
carry out their plans." 
It said three posters focused on the rental or sale of accommodation,
garage and lock-up facilities, and of vehicles. 
Another encourages retail and bank staff to be aware of fraudulent
transactions that may be linked to terrorist fundraising and a fifth
focuses on the need for vigilance within the river and marine
environment. 
The campaign was developed with British Transport Police, City of
London Police, Transport for London and the Mayor's Office. 









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Posted on Tue, Jan. 03, 2006

Egypt to deport 650 Sudanese migrants

MARIAM SAMI
Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt will deport 654 Sudanese refugees who were
violently evicted from a protest camp in a Cairo park last week, a
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday.

They will be flown home Thursday because "they were either found to be
illegal immigrants or refugees who had violated security conditions,"
spokeswoman Fatma el-Zahraa Etman told The Associated Press.
On Friday, thousands of riot police using water cannons and truncheons
cleared a ramshackle Sudanese refugee camp, and security officials
said at least 20 refugees died in the melee. Protest leaders said 26
were killed.
The violence capped a night in which authorities intermittently
conducted last-ditch negotiations and sprayed squatters with jets of
water before launching the assault to end the three-month protest at
the camp.
Hundreds of Sudanese have been living in the park since September to
protest the U.N. refugee agency's refusal to consider them for refugee
status. They want to be resettled in a third country, such as the
United States or Britain, rather than go home after a peace deal ended
the 21-year-long civil war in Sudan.






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Lanka wants new EU leader to act against LTTE terrorism 
 
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The Island
Publication Date : 2006-01-01 

Sri Lanka expects the new EU leader Austria to proscribe the LTTE for
brazenly violating the Oslo-arranged Cease-Fire Agreement regardless
of the EU warning following the assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign
Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar last August.

Austria takes over the EU leadership today (Jan 1) from the UK.

"We believe Austria would take a tougher line against the LTTE
(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)," a senior government official said
referring to India's recent call to proscribe the LTTE in EU member
states.

India's call was made in the backdrop of stepped up terrorist attacks
and denying a large group of Tamil speaking people in the northern and
eastern province their right to exercise their franchise at the Nov 17
presidential polls.

Another official expressed the belief that the EU would act before the
forthcoming visit here by EU External Affairs Commissioner Ms Benita
Ferrero Waldner, a former Austrian Foreign Minister. Waldner is
expected early this year.

The LTTE was continuing attacks even after the EU Ambassador based in
Colombo Julian Wilson and British High Commissioner Stephen Evans
representing the EU presidency, Japanese Ambassador Akio Suda and the
Deputy Norwegian Ambassador demanded an immediate end to attacks
during a meeting at Kilinochchi last Saturday (Dec 24).

The LTTE blew up an army truck at Puloly (west) three days later
killing 12 personnel.

EU is co-chair to the Tokyo Donor Conference. An effective EU ban
would automatically cripple LTTE operations in over a dozen member
states including France and Germany that bring millions of Euros to
the Tigers' war chest annually. 

"We want a genuine crackdown," a senior security official said
pointing out the shortcomings in a UK-style ban that would allow
Tigers to operate freely threatening death and destruction unless the
government resumed talks on their terms.

Government sources said that the EU decision announced in late
September not to receive LTTE delegations in member states obviously
did not have the desired effect. This announcement was made in the
backdrop of Kadirgamar's assassination.

With India taking part in the consultations with co-chairs Colombo
firmly believes that there could be a significant change in the
decision making process. India had participated at the last
consultations, the sources said.

The government is of the view that the ongoing efforts to resume peace
talks should not in anyway hinder the decision making process.
 






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Muslims converge on Saudi for haj
Tuesday Jan 3 07:02 AEDT

More than 1.3 million Muslims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the
annual haj pilgrimage but their numbers will be slightly lower than
last year due to safety concerns, a Saudi official says.

About 1.5 million foreign pilgrims are expected to arrive in the
Muslim holy city of Mecca from all over the world by Sunday when the
five-day ritual, which is a duty at least once in a lifetime for every
able-bodied Muslim, begins.

"Last year we had 1,534,000 (foreign) pilgrims. But the tendency of
the new minister of haj affairs is to decrease the number," said Osama
al-Bar, who heads a government haj centre.
Bar said about a million Saudi-based pilgrims were licensed to take
part in the haj. Up to 300,000 more were expected to slip into Mecca
without permits, taking the number of total pilgrims to more than 2.5
million.
=20=20

A new minister of pilgrimage affairs took over this year.
Some 250 pilgrims died in a stampede during the stoning of three stone
pillars, which symbolise the devil, at the Jamarat bridge on the third
day of haj in January 2004.
Authorities say they have tightened health controls for this year's
pilgrimage, which health experts have warned could create the
conditions in which a fatal flu pandemic could emerge.
Many pilgrims come from Asian countries, where the deadly H5N1 form of
bird flu has killed more than 70 people since 2003.

Bar, who heads the Institute for Haj Research, said renovations to the
Jamarat bridge begun last year would be completed after this year's
haj, allowing more pilgrims to come in the future.
Last year, each of the three pillars was transformed into a wall,
making it easier for pilgrims to direct their stones. But there
remains the danger of deadly crushes on the bridge where thousands of
pilgrims converge toward the walls.

"The bridge will be demolished after this year's haj and (replaced
with) a new one costing 4.2 billion riyals ($A1.53 billion)," Bar
said, outlining a four-level system of entrances and exits to the
three walls, including a subway.

Haj has been plagued by a series of deadly tragedies in recent years.
In 1990, 1,426 pilgrims died in a stampede and in 1997, 343 pilgrims
were killed by a fire in a camp.
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Anti-terror money turns into leisure fund in J&K  
M Saleem Pandit
[ Monday, January 02, 2006 12:08:19 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


SRINAGAR: There would be few things to beat this, both on an irony and
corruption scale: swindling and misuse of money meant for
anti-terrorism activities in terrorism-hit Kashmir. 

The adversary may be formidable, but that doesn't stop top officials
and ministers in J&K from using the Rs 521 crore assigned for
`security-related expenditure' to "construct and renovate VIP
bungalows, furnish houses of bureaucrats and, in some cases, do up
private residences of ministers." 

According to sources, successive state governments since 1990 have
misused this money received from the Centre every year to organise
logistics and meet other expenses which should go into fighting
militancy in the state. 

In fact, those at the forefront, the 36,000 special police officers
(SPO), who risk their lives everyday fending off well-trained and
well-equipped terrorists, receive a paltry remuneration of Rs 1,500 to
2,000 per month. 
When contacted, CM Ghulam Nabi Azad told TOI that he was surprised to
learn about the misuse of the security-related expenditure (SRE). "The
misuse of SRE is a major scandal and I have proposed an inquiry into
the scam," he said. 

Sources revealed that Rs 20 crore was being spent on lodging and
boarding of bureaucrats each year, while some portion of the SRE was
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Iranian Soldiers Kidnapped Near Pakistan Border 
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Sunday, 01 January 2006

Iranian Soldiers Kidnapped Near Pakistan Border 
 


(RFE/RL)
1 January 2006 -- There are reports that nine Iranian soldiers have
been kidnapped in Iran by a little-known Sunni Muslim rebel group.


The soldiers are said to have gone missing from their post close to
Iran's border with Pakistan. 

On 31 December, a caller speaking on behalf of a group calling itself
Jundollah (God's Soldiers) told the Al-Arabiya television station that
the group wants Tehran to release 16 jailed members of its group in
exchange for the soldiers. 

News agencies quote Iranian officials as saying they are investigating
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Monday, 02 January 2006

Russia Cuts Gas To Moldova 
 


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2 January 2006 -- Moldova says Russia has cut off its gas supplies for
the last two days because of a price dispute.


President Vladimir Voronin said today Moldova did not sign a contract
with Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom on new prices for
natural gas deliveries in 2006.

He said Gazprom wants $160 per 1,000 cubic meters, or twice as much as
the country paid in 2005.
In Moscow, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kuprianov said the new price was
"absolutely justified."

Moldova buys three billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually
through a pipeline in neighboring Ukraine, which is also embroiled in
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Kurdish group added to banned list

December 15, 2005 - 7:34PM

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been outlawed as a terrorist
organisation under the federal government's counter-terrorism laws.
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the PKK had been listed as a
terrorist organisation on the advice of competent authorities.
"The PKK has now been included on the list of terrorist organisations
proscribed under counter-terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code Act
1995," Mr Ruddock said in a statement.
"These provisions make a criminal offence of involvement in
recruitment, training, funding and other forms of association or
support for proscribed terrorist organisations."

Mr Ruddock said members of listed terrorist organisations faced
prosecution and penalties of up to 25 years' imprisonment.
The PKK is already listed as a proscribed terrorist organisation by
the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and the
European Union.

It is already subject to federal government counter-terrorism
financing regulations, which makes it an offence to have financial
dealings with terrorists and allows Australia to freeze a terrorist
organisation's assets.
The PKK is a Kurdish separatist organisation founded in Turkey in
1974, and is suspected of having been responsible for numerous attacks
on civilians and security forces in Turkey in recent times.
Mr Ruddock said Australian intelligence agencies had assessed the PKK
as continuing to prepare, plan and foster the commission of acts
involving threats to human life and serious damage to property.
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The Palestinian Threat -December 14, 2005
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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20051214.aspx

The Palestinian Threat 

December 14, 2005: The Palestinian Authority is turning out to be a
major source of support for Islamic terrorism, even though it says (in
English) that it is not. Recently, the Palestinian Authority passed a
law awarding pensions to the families of suicide bombers. 

The Palestinian Authority is also letting exiled (by Israel) Islamic
terrorists back in, via the checkpoints they now control on the Gaza
border with Egypt. The Palestinian Authority has long continued making
monthly payments (totaling about $4 million) to men convicted of
terrorist acts and held in Israeli prisons. 
 
In the decade that Yasser Arafat ran the Palestinian Authority, he did
practically nothing to build the infrastructure of the Palestinian
territories he controlled, but instead invested heavily in creating
several security and intelligence organizations, several of which
evolved into Islamic terrorist organizations. 

Worse, Arafat put a lot of money into a propaganda (including mass
media and school curriculum) that stressed anti-Semitism and the need
to destroy Israel. This has created a generation of Palestinians who
see the destruction of Israel as more important than making peace with
Israel. 
 
The Palestinian terrorist groups have also been accepting aid from
Iran (via the Lebanese based Hizbollah), and Palestinians regularly
show up in al Qaedas ranks. Since the Palestinian Authority is
subsidized by many international organizations (UN, EU and even the
United States), this pro-terrorist policy of theirs is becoming rather
embarrassing, and deadly.






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Terrorist bomb detonates on bombers
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Releases/Dec/051220c.htm

December 20, 2005=20
Release A051220c

Terrorist bomb detonates on bombers

TIKRIT, Iraq =96 One terrorist was killed and another severely injured
when the improvised explosive device they were attempting to emplace
detonated prematurely. The incident occurred Dec. 19, near the city of
Tikrit.

Tikrit police and Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st
Brigade Combat Team responded to the explosion. The police officers
performed first-aid on the injured bomber, who was taken to a nearby
hospital for treatment.

The IED was composed of a 155 mm artillery shell and a detonating
device, according to an explosives ordnance team investigating the
explosion.=20

Soldiers searching the area discovered another artillery round and
several other IED components in a nearby vehicle.
In addition to the wounded bomber, two other men were detained for
allegedly attempting to help the surviving bomber avoid the responding
security forces.=20
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Turkey synagogue bombing suspects' trial adjourned
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309618865&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Dec. 21, 2005 0:03 | Updated Dec. 21, 2005 0:46

Turkey synagogue bombing suspects' trial adjourned

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISTANBUL, Turkey 

A lawyer defending al-Qaida-linked suspects standing trial for the
2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul told a court Tuesday that jihad, or
holy war, was an obligation for Muslims and his clients should not be
prosecuted. 

At the end of the 12-hour-long hearing, the presiding judge adjourned
the trial to Jan. 24.
Twenty-nine of the suspects were brought to the courthouse for the
hearing, handcuffed and escorted by paramilitary police. They sat in
the middle of the courtroom, surrounded by police.
 
"I'm not a member of al-Qaida, but I've thought about killing Israeli
and American pilots," defendant Sait Ertul said. 

Defense counsel Cihat Madran said they were motivated to act by
outrage over attacks against Muslims in Afghanistan, Chechnya and
elsewhere. 
Thirty-seven defendants face between seven and 22 years in prison for
charges ranging from aiding and abetting terrorism to membership in a
terrorist group. Many have been held in prison for more than two years. 
The November 2003 blasts targeted two synagogues, the British
Consulate and the local headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank,
killing 58 people.







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WHAT IS THE NSA UP TO
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"...there's something involved here that goes far beyond ordinary
wiretaps, regardless of the technology used. Perhaps some kind of
massive data mining, which makes it impossible to get individual
warrants?"

Certainly if phone calls were the object, Echelon is still up and
running with transcripts from those foreign governments only a FISA
warrant away. Why would Bush43 ignore all that and go it alone?
There were rumors that Poindexter's TIA had gone black shortly after
Congress refused to fund it at DARPA. With Rockefeller's comments as a
key, it would appear that a TIA type operation might just be the case
with NSA phone taps being only the initial step in data mining
comprehensive profiles of the persons with foreign contacts. And then
the natural next step is to flesh out that person's contacts in the
U.S. in order to paint the picture of a possible terrorist cell or
network. Of course a complete data mining job on them too and then
all of their contacts too. And on and on and on. They call certain
pizza parlors and cleaners and various other businesses for services.
Each of those establishments whose numbers are called by targeted
persons has scores or even hundreds of steady customers who call for
various business services. Bingo! On the list! The ripple effect has
to be HUGE! By now probably at least a million U.S citizens in the
NSA list. With comprehensive data mining profiles on EACH ONE. Do
you eat Middle Eastern food? Use a dry cleaner run by a middle
easterner? A tax preparer from Lebanon? Well, welcome to the Bush
List. How soon will you be an enemy combatant?

David Bier

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_12/007812.php

December 19, 2005

WHAT IS THE NSA UP TO?So what's the nature of the secret NSA
bugging program? Why did the Bush administration feel like they
couldn't continue to seek warrants via the usual FISA procedures? Take
a look at the following quotes and you can see a single thread that
starts to emerge:

*

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, telling reporters why Bush
didn't simply ask Congress to pass a law making the program clearly
legal: "We've had discussions with members of Congress, certain
members of Congress, about whether or not we could get an amendment to
FISA, and we were advised that that was not likely to be =E2=80" that was
not something we could likely get, certainly not without jeopardizing
the existence of the program, and therefore, killing the program."

*

President Bush, answering questions at Monday's press
conference: "We use FISA stillBut FISA is for long-term
monitoringThere is a difference between detecting so we can
prevent, and monitoring. And it's important to know the distinction
between the twoWe used the [FISA] process to monitor. But
alsowe've got to be able to detect and prevent."

*

Senator Jay Rockefeller, in a letter to Dick Cheney after being
briefed on the program in 2003: "As I reflected on the meeting today,
and the future we face, John Poindexter's TIA project sprung to mind,
exacerbating my concern regarding the direction the Administration is
moving with regard to security, technology, and surveiliance."

*

New York Times editor Bill Keller, explaining why the Times
finally published its story last week after holding it back for over a
year: "In the course of subsequent reporting we satisfied ourselves
that we could write about this program =E2=80" withholding a number of
technical details =E2=80" in a way that would not expose any
intelligence-gathering methods or capabilities that are not already on
the public record."

None of these quotes makes sense if the NSA program involved nothing
more than an expansion of ordinary taps of specific individuals. After
all, the FISA court would have approved taps of
domestic-to-international calls as quickly and easily as they do with
normal domestic wiretaps. What's more, Congress wouldn't have had any
objection to supporting a routine program expansion; George Bush
wouldn't have explained it with gobbledegook about the difference
between monitoring and detecting; Jay Rockefeller wouldn't have been
reminded of TIA; and the Times wouldn't have had any issues over
divulging sensitive technology.

It seems clear that there's something involved here that goes far
beyond ordinary wiret

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WHAT IS THE NSA UP TO?
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"...there's something involved here that goes far beyond ordinary
wiretaps, regardless of the technology used. Perhaps some kind of
massive data mining, which makes it impossible to get individual
warrants?"

Certainly if phone calls were the object, Echelon is still up and
running with transcripts from those foreign governments only a FISA
warrant away.  Why would Bush43 ignore all that and go it alone?
There were rumors that Poindexter's TIA had gone black shortly after
Congress refused to fund it at DARPA. With Rockefeller's comments as a
key, it would appear that a TIA type operation might just be the case
with NSA phone taps being only the initial step in data mining
comprehensive profiles of the persons with foreign contacts.  And then
the natural next step is to flesh out that person's contacts in the
U.S. in order to paint the picture of a possible terrorist cell or
network.  Of course a complete data mining job on them too and then
all of their contacts too.  And on and on and on.  They call certain
pizza parlors and cleaners and various other businesses for services.
 Each of those establishments whose numbers are called by targeted
persons has scores or even hundreds of steady customers who call for
various business services.  Bingo! On the list!  The ripple effect has
to be HUGE!  By now probably at least a million U.S citizens in the
NSA list.  With comprehensive data mining profiles on EACH ONE.  Do
you eat Middle Eastern food?  Use a dry cleaner run by a middle
easterner?  A tax preparer from Lebanon?  Well, welcome to the Bush
List.  How soon will you be an enemy combatant?

David Bier

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_12/007812.php

December 19, 2005

WHAT IS THE NSA UP TO?So what's the nature of the secret NSA
bugging program? Why did the Bush administration feel like they
couldn't continue to seek warrants via the usual FISA procedures? Take
a look at the following quotes and you can see a single thread that
starts to emerge:

*

  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, telling reporters why Bush
didn't simply ask Congress to pass a law making the program clearly
legal: "We've had discussions with members of Congress, certain
members of Congress, about whether or not we could get an amendment to
FISA, and we were advised that that was not likely to be =E2=80" that was
not something we could likely get, certainly not without jeopardizing
the existence of the program, and therefore, killing the program."

*

  President Bush, answering questions at Monday's press
conference: "We use FISA stillBut FISA is for long-term
monitoringThere is a difference between detecting so we can
prevent, and monitoring. And it's important to know the distinction
between the twoWe used the [FISA] process to monitor. But
alsowe've got to be able to detect and prevent."

*

  Senator Jay Rockefeller, in a letter to Dick Cheney after being
briefed on the program in 2003: "As I reflected on the meeting today,
and the future we face, John Poindexter's TIA project sprung to mind,
exacerbating my concern regarding the direction the Administration is
moving with regard to security, technology, and surveiliance."

*

  New York Times editor Bill Keller, explaining why the Times
finally published its story last week after holding it back for over a
year: "In the course of subsequent reporting we satisfied ourselves
that we could write about this program =E2=80" withholding a number of
technical details =E2=80" in a way that would not expose any
intelligence-gathering methods or capabilities that are not already on
the public record."

None of these quotes makes sense if the NSA program involved nothing
more than an expansion of ordinary taps of specific individuals. After
all, the FISA court would have approved taps of
domestic-to-international calls as quickly and easily as they do with
normal domestic wiretaps. What's more, Congress wouldn't have had any
objection to supporting a routine program expansion; George Bush
wouldn't have explained it with gobbledegook about the difference
between monitoring and detecting; Jay Rockefeller wouldn't have been
reminded of TIA; and the Times wouldn't have had any issues over
divulging sensitive technology.

It seems clear that th

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Sudanese islamist Turabi, is back on the scene
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http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=3D12966

Sudanese islamist Turabi, is back on the scene
Saturday 10 December 2005 00:52.

By Edmund Sanders, The Los Angeles Times
Dec 9, 2005 (KHARTOUM) =97 A turbaned Hassan Turabi sinks back into a
large, plush sitting-room sofa, his stockinged feet barely touching
the floor.
It's hard to comprehend that this aging former law professor with a
chipmunk grin is the same man condemned by Western leaders as a
terrorism-loving extremist and jailed repeatedly by Sudanese dictators
he once helped empower.=20
"I'm an old man," the white-bearded Turabi, fresh out of his latest
stint in prison, says with unconvincing modesty.
But behind the glinting teeth and rectangular spectacles is one of
Africa's most influential Islamists, a man who has arguably had more
impact on Sudan than anyone else.

Nicknamed "The Fox" at home and "The Pope of Terrorism" abroad, Turabi
is climbing his way back onto Sudan's political stage, forging an
opposition alliance, preparing candidates for the next election and
criticizing the recently formed unity government as a failure.
Insiders in the Sudanese capital predict, some with a touch of dread,
that even at 73, Turabi may have one more act to play out in his career.
"He's trying to make a comeback," said Edward Ladu Terso, an editor at
the Khartoum Monitor, one of Sudan's few independent newspapers.
"Turabi is addicted to power."
Since jumping into politics in the 1960s, Turabi has either been
whispering in the ear of the president or languishing in a prison cell
on charges of treason.

In the 1980s, Turabi helped ignite a 20-year civil war by trying to
impose Islamic Sharia law on animists and Christians in southern
Sudan. He was a founder of the National Islamic Front, which joined
the government of Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who seized power
in a 1989 coup. As the power behind the throne, Turabi turned Sudan
into a haven for militants, opening borders to terrorists such as
Osama bin Laden and Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the
Jackal.
Turabi's hand is even seen in the conflict in the western region of
Darfur, where the Muslim scholar has long enjoyed support. A disciple
of Turabi's heads one of the main rebel armies there, the Justice and
Equality Movement.

"If you trace everything back, you find Hassan Turabi," said Eltayeb
Hag Ateya, director of the Peace Studies Institute at the University
of Khartoum. "Turabi is a very dangerous person. I'm sure the
government is worried. Sudan is in a very precarious transition right
now. People should expect just about anything."

Sudanese officials are watching Turabi's latest moves with a mixture
of amusement and alarm. One bureaucrat joked privately that he was
happy that elections wouldn't take place for four more years because
"maybe Turabi will be dead by then."
In a 90-minute interview, Turabi said he was not slowing down. He's
drafting a new manifesto for his opposition alliance, which includes
his once-banned Popular Congress party and former Prime Minister Sadek
Mahdi's Umma Party. The alliance, which is also reaching out to
communists and southern rebel parties, is to hold its first conference
in Khartoum, the capital, this month.

Repeated prison sentences - Turabi spent 11 of the last 36 years in
jail - have done little to silence him. Upon his release in June,
Turabi immediately began denouncing the new constitution, which
brought some former southern rebels into a coalition government in
Khartoum. He's once again a regular face on Arab channels, though TV
hosts have had a hard time finding guests willing to face off against
the sharp-tongued scholar.

Turabi is a master of telling an audience what it wants to hear.
During a recent interview with the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al Awsat,
Turabi lambasted Americans as the "world's ignoramuses." Speaking to
U.S. media a few days later, he stressed democracy, women's rights and
Americans' "generosity."

Turabi denies any desire to hold office again and sees his role as
guiding an Islamic revolution in Sudan and around the world.
"There is an awakening everywhere, even in America," Turabi told The
Times. "Muslims are all awakening to their identity. Spirituality
produces energy, and if it is not misguided, it

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Albania Seizes Assets Of Bin Laden Associate 
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http://www.serbianna.com/news/2005/02210.html

Albania Seizes Assets Of Bin Laden Associate 

TIRANA (AP)--The Albanian government has seized the assets and bank
accounts of a man who allegedly worked with Osama bin Laden and others
to provide support to terror networks in Albania, the Finance Ministry
said Wednesday.  
Abdul Latif Saleh, who holds Jordanian and Albanian citizenship, was
placed on a U.N. sanctions list in September, requiring all U.N.
members to impose a travel ban on him and block his assets.  
Albania earlier had blocked 33 bank accounts in three commercial banks
as well as assets and investments in Saleh's businesses and civic
organizations he was involved with. Saleh used six different names,
said spokeswoman Eva Simoni.  
She said she did not know how much money was in the accounts.  
The Finance Minister's order also required people to report any link
to Saleh or his businesses and prohibited them from doing business
with him.  
The U.S. Treasury Department alleges that bin Laden provided Saleh
with funds to encourage the creation of extremist groups in Albania,
where he is believed to be closely associated with groups linked to
the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group connected to al-Qaida.  
It said Saleh founded an Albanian jihadist group that has been
bankrolled by the Al Haramain Foundation, an Islamic charity with
alleged links to al-Qaida.  
Saleh is believed to be associated with Yasin al Qadi, a Saudi
businessman that the U.S. accused of being a terrorist in October
2001. The department said Qadi was an active fund-raiser for Saleh's
jihadist group.  
Saleh is also being investigated for alleged money-laundering for
al-Qaida. He left Albania more than three years ago.  
Earlier this year, Albanian authorities seized property and froze the
assets of four foundations and a married couple accused by the United
Nations of funding terrorist activities.  
  
  
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051208/2005120810.html

Al-Qaida affiliate group rescues a member from hospital

Iraq, Military, 12/8/2005 
The Iraqi arena on Wednesday witnessed attacks that covered various
parts of Iraq, the most remarkable of which was that gunmen attacked a
hospital in Karkouk city that ended in their liberation of one
detainee linked to al-Qaida organization before they were able to flee.

Sources in the Iraqi police said that more than 20 gunmen attacked the
public hospital in Karkouk north of Iraq and opened fire at the guards
and this resulted in killing three of them and injuring other 6.

The source added that the attackers liberated their colleague
affiliates to a cell from al-Qaida organization, planning for the
assassination of a judge in the court before which the former Iraqi
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Airport codes leaked onto Internet
Dec. 9, 2005 at 4:19AM 
Passwords for restricted areas in 17 airports have been leaked onto
the Internet from a Japan Airlines co-pilot's personal computer, the
airline said Friday. 
  Japan's Transport Ministry notified the airline after it noticed
Wednesday that passwords for 16 Japanese airports -- including the two
serving Tokyo -- as well as for Guam International Airport had been
posted on Internet bulletin boards, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Friday. 
  Moreover, the ministry confirmed that the Boeing 767 instruction
manual had been leaked. JAL has asked the operators of the 17 airports
to change their code numbers and tighten security. 
  The information was leaked from a computer that a 29-year-old
Boeing 767 co-pilot kept at his home after it was infected with a
computer virus. The co-pilot used the peer-to-peer file-sharing
program Winny at home. 
  Three- to five-digit code numbers are used to unlock doors to
restricted areas within the airports. However, ministry officials said
there is not a route through which outsiders can go straight to
aircraft without going through immigration. 
  JAL prohibits ground staff members from taking work-related
information out of their offices, while setting guidelines for ways
that crew members manage and take out such information. 
 







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http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/10/stories/2005121007061500.htm

Iraqi Sunnis reverse policy, to join poll 
Atul Aneja 
Leaders urge kidnappers to free foreign hostages; disavow Al-Zarqawi's
actions 

DUBAI: As the countdown for parliamentary elections begins, Iraq's
Sunni community is likely to show up in strength at polling stations.
Unlike Iraq's previous elections, which have been boycotted, the
hardline Sunni factions, who are known to have links with resistance
fighters, have been appealing in mosques for a larger turnout during
the December 15 elections. A cleric from The Association of Muslim
Scholars told worshippers that the upcoming elections would be a
"landmark event." 

"It is a decisive battle that will determine our future. If you give
your vote to the wrong people, then the occupation will continue and
the country would be lost. Participation in the elections is a must
and it is a religious duty," he said. Buoyed by inroads made by
resistance fighters, Sunni factions have now begun to acquire a larger
political profile. They were represented at last month's Cairo
conference, where Iraq's Sunni-dominated neighbouring countries,
including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan were present, apart from Iran
and the United States.
 
The Arab League sponsored conference acknowledged that resistance to
foreign occupation in Iraq was legitimate. The participants, however,
made it clear that they opposed terrorism as perpetrated by the
Al-Qaeda linked Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's group. Reinforcing their
rejection of terrorism, Sunni clerics have urged kidnappers to release
an American, two Canadians and a Briton who had been abducted on
November 26. 

During prayers in the Al-Imam Al-Aadam mosque in Baghdad's y Sunni
Arab neighbourhood, cleric Ahmed Hassan stressed on the "necessity to
release the four kidnapped foreigners who have helped the residents of
Azamiyah." 







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http://www.geostrategy-direct.com

Terrorists using Belgian passports 

Islamist terrorists are using stolen Belgian passports to travel,
authorities in Belgium said last week.
 
Some 1,500 international passports were stolen from the Italian
consulate in Liege in October 2004 and are being used by extremists,
federal police told the De Standaard newspaper Dec. 2. 

Islamists who plan to travel to Iraq to conduct operations and suicide
bombings are among those believed to be using the passports. 
Police recently arrested five Iraqis and one Syrian in Brussels. They
were linked to stolen passport trafficking and to the passport theft
in Liege last year. 

The investigation began in April following the interception of an
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Six charged with ecoterror crimes 
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"The FBI estimates that ecoterror groups have committed more than
1,100 crimes in the United States since 1976, causing about $110
million in property damage, and the building industry group says $8
million of that damage has been in Washington state since 1996."

Nice to hear the FBI is finally getting serious about ELF and other
ecoterrorists with that $100K reward tactic.  Now if only they would
pursue the Army of God's terrorists bombing and arsoning abortion
clinics (with deaths and injuries and property damage approaching
$100M since 1992) just as seriously, by offering $100K rewards and
actually calling the attacks terrorism (instead of just terming them
criminal acts which have lesser penalties), we would finally be
getting a handle on both of the two main groups of domestic terrorists. =
=20
Comparing the thousands of acts of those domestic terrorists in the
U.S. with the widely publicized, but very few actual acts of Muslim
Salafist terrorists on U.S. soil would seem to indicate that the
average American citizen is much more likely to be a victim of a
domestic terrorist attack than one from a Muslim terrorist group.

David Bier

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Six charged with ecoterror crimes=20

Northwest arsons, blast tied to Earth Liberation Front

The Associated Press
Updated: 11:45 a.m. ET Dec. 9, 2005


SEATTLE - Six people have been arrested in connection with
ecoterrorism attacks dating to 1998, including a fire at an Oregon
poplar farm set at the same time as a devastating blaze at the
University of Washington=E2=80=99s Center for Urban Horticulture.

The university fire =E2=80" one of the Northwest=E2=80=99s most notorious a=
cts of
ecoterrorism =E2=80" was set early on May 21, 2001. About 110 miles away in
Clatskanie, Ore., fire ripped through buildings and vehicles at the
Jefferson Poplar Farm, causing more than $1 million in damage.=20

The Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy collection of environmental
activists, claimed responsibility for both fires, which caused no
injuries.

The arrests were made Wednesday in New York, Virginia, Oregon and
Arizona, and each defendant has been indicted in the Northwest, the
U.S. attorney=E2=80=99s office said Thursday.=20

Besides the tree farm fire, the attacks included three other arsons in
Oregon, a $1.2 million fire at a U.S. Department of Agriculture
facility in Olympia, and the toppling of a Bonneville Power
Administration transmission tower near Bend, Ore., as the millennium
drew near.

$100,000 rewards

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Friedman declined to say what led to
the arrests after years of investigation. The FBI and the Building
Industry Association of Washington recently began offering $100,000
rewards for information in ecoterror cases.

The FBI estimates that ecoterror groups have committed more than 1,100
crimes in the United States since 1976, causing about $110 million in
property damage, and the building industry group says $8 million of
that damage has been in Washington state since 1996.

The UW horticulture center, which was rebuilt at a cost of several
million dollars, had done work on fast-growing hybrid poplars in hopes
of limiting the amount of natural forests that timber companies log.
The ELF said after the fire that the poplars pose =E2=80=9Can ecological
nightmare=E2=80=9D for the diversity of native forests.

Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, 28, and Daniel Gerard McGowan, 31, were
charged in the poplar farm fire. They face a maximum sentence of life
in prison if convicted of several counts of arson and use of
incendiary devices.

Meyerhoff was arrested in Charlottesville, Va., where he attended
Piedmont Community College. McGowan was arrested in New York City.

Other charges, possible prison terms
Kevin M. Tubbs, 36, and William C. Rodgers, 40, face up to 20 years
each if convicted of a June 21, 1998, arson at the Agriculture
Department=E2=80=99s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services facility i=
n
Olympia.

Tubbs was arrested in Springfield, Ore., and Rodgers was arrested in
Prescott, Ariz.

Sarah Kendall Harvey, 28, an administrative assistant at Northern
Arizona University, was arrested in Flagstaff after being charged in a
Dec. 27, 1998, fire at U.S. Forest Industries in Medford, Ore. That
fire caused an estimated 

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Wrongful Imprisonment Anatomy of a CIA Mistake
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"Masri was held for five months largely because the head of the CIA's
Counterterrorist Center's al Qaeda unit "believed he was someone
else," one former CIA official said. "She didn't really know. She just
had a hunch."
"a German prosecutor continues to work Masri's case. A Macedonia bus
driver has confirmed that Masri was taken away by border guards on the
date he gave investigators. A forensic analysis of Masri's hair showed
he was malnourished during the period he says he was in the prison.
Flight logs show a plane registered to a CIA front company flew out of
Macedonia on the day Masri says he went to Afghanistan."

A German court could file criminal or war crimes charges under German
law because a German citizen was the victim of the situation.  That
would be very bad news for the CIA.

David Bier

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Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake

German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition'

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 4, 2005; A01

In May 2004, the White House dispatched the U.S. ambassador in Germany
to pay an unusual visit to that country's interior minister.
Ambassador Daniel R. Coats carried instructions from the State
Department transmitted via the CIA's Berlin station because they were
too sensitive and highly classified for regular diplomatic channels,
according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.

Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully
imprisoned one of its citizens, Khaled Masri, for five months, and
would soon release him, the sources said. There was also a request:
that the German government not disclose what it had been told even if
Masri went public. The U.S. officials feared exposure of a covert
action program designed to capture terrorism suspects abroad and
transfer them among countries, and possible legal challenges to the
CIA from Masri and others with similar allegations.

The Masri case, with new details gleaned from interviews with current
and former intelligence and diplomatic officials, offers a rare study
of how pressure on the CIA to apprehend al Qaeda members after the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has led in some instances to detention based
on thin or speculative evidence. The case also shows how complicated
it can be to correct errors in a system built and operated in secret.

The CIA, working with other intelligence agencies, has captured an
estimated 3,000 people, including several key leaders of al Qaeda, in
its campaign to dismantle terrorist networks. It is impossible to
know, however, how many mistakes the CIA and its foreign partners have
made.

Unlike the military's prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba -- where 180 prisoners have been freed after a review of their
cases -- there is no tribunal or judge to check the evidence against
those picked up by the CIA. The same bureaucracy that decides to
capture and transfer a suspect for interrogation-- a process called
"rendition" -- is also responsible for policing itself for errors.

The CIA inspector general is investigating a growing number of what it
calls "erroneous renditions," according to several former and current
intelligence officials.

One official said about three dozen names fall in that category;
others believe it is fewer. The list includes several people whose
identities were offered by al Qaeda figures during CIA interrogations,
officials said. One turned out to be an innocent college professor who
had given the al Qaeda member a bad grade, one official said.

"They picked up the wrong people, who had no information. In many,
many cases there was only some vague association" with terrorism, one
CIA officer said.

While the CIA admitted to Germany's then-Interior Minister Otto Schily
that it had made a mistake, it has labored to keep the specifics of
Masri's case from becoming public. As a German prosecutor works to
verify or debunk Masri's claims of kidnapping and torture, the part of
the German government that was informed of his ordeal has remained
publicly silent. Masri's attorneys say they intend to file a lawsuit
in U.S. courts this week.

Masri was held for five months largely because the head of the CIA's
Counterterrorist Ce

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Report Finds Cover-Up in an F.B.I. Terror Case
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"Mr. German would alert F.B.I. officials that the Orlando agent
handling the case had "so seriously mishandled" the investigation that
a prime opportunity to expose a terrorist financing plot had been
wasted. He said agents had not adequately pursued leads, had failed to
document important meetings with informants, and had tolerated
violations of rules and federal law on the handling of wiretaps."
"The agent who first alerted the F.B.I. to problems in the case, a
veteran undercover operative named Mike German, was "retaliated
against" by his boss, who was angered by the agent's complaints and
stopped using him for prestigious assignments in training new
undercover agents, the draft report concluded."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/politics/04fbi.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133714747-3ju2WyLq3X7KFy0j6cs46g


December 4, 2005

Report Finds Cover-Up in an F.B.I. Terror Case

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
mishandled a Florida terror investigation, falsified documents in the
case in an effort to cover repeated missteps and retaliated against an
agent who first complained about the problems, Justice Department
investigators have concluded.

In one instance, someone altered dates on three F.B.I. forms using
correction fluid to conceal an apparent violation of federal wiretap
law, according to a draft report of an investigation by the Justice
Department inspector general's office obtained by The New York Times.
But investigators were unable to determine who altered the documents.

The agent who first alerted the F.B.I. to problems in the case, a
veteran undercover operative named Mike German, was "retaliated
against" by his boss, who was angered by the agent's complaints and
stopped using him for prestigious assignments in training new
undercover agents, the draft report concluded.

Mr. German's case first became public last year, as he emerged as the
latest in a string of whistle-blowers at the bureau who said they had
been punished and effectively silenced for voicing concerns about the
handling of terror investigations and other matters since Sept. 11, 2001.

The inspector general's draft report, dated Nov. 15 and awaiting final
review, validated most of Mr. German's central accusations in the
case. But the former agent, who left the bureau last year after he
said his career had been derailed by the Florida episode, said he felt
more disappointment than vindication.

"More than anything else, I'm saddened by all this," Mr. German said
in an interview. "I still love the F.B.I., and I know that there are
good, honest, hard-working agents out there trying to do the right
thing, and this hurts all of them."

Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., has emphasized
repeatedly, both publicly and in private messages to his staff, that
employees are encouraged to come forward with reports of wrongdoing
and that he will not tolerate retaliation against whistle-blowers.

Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has been a
frequent critic of the bureau, said of Mr. German: "Unfortunately,
this is just another case in a long line of F.B.I. whistle-blowers who
have had their careers derailed because the F.B.I. couldn't tolerate
criticism."

Michael Kortan, an F.B.I. spokesman, said the bureau had not been
briefed on the findings. But Mr. Kortan said that when the F.B.I.
received the report, "if either misconduct or other wrongdoing is
found, we will take appropriate action."

Ann Beeson, associate legal director for the American Civil Liberties
Union, said that the inspector general's findings, coming just days
after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from an earlier
F.B.I. whistle-blower, pointed to the need for tougher measures to
protect those who report abuse. "With courts reluctant to protect
whistle-blowers, it is crucial that Congress pass additional
protections," Ms. Beeson said.

Mr. German's case dates to 2002, when the F.B.I. division in Tampa
opened a terror investigation into a lead that laundered proceeds,
possibly connected to a drug outfit, might be used to finance
terrorists overseas. The F.B.I. was considering initiating an
undercover operation to follow the lead, and Mr. German, who had
extensive experience infiltrating militias, skinh

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Report Finds Cover-Up in an F.B.I. Terror Case
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"Mr. German would alert F.B.I. officials that the Orlando agent
handling the case had "so seriously mishandled" the investigation that
a prime opportunity to expose a terrorist financing plot had been
wasted. He said agents had not adequately pursued leads, had failed to
document important meetings with informants, and had tolerated
violations of rules and federal law on the handling of wiretaps."
"The agent who first alerted the F.B.I. to problems in the case, a
veteran undercover operative named Mike German, was "retaliated
against" by his boss, who was angered by the agent's complaints and
stopped using him for prestigious assignments in training new
undercover agents, the draft report concluded."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/politics/04fbi.html?ei=5088&en=473930307796f497&ex=1291352400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1133712092-cchUWBmooJ8m3vftQC/mjA

December 4, 2005

Report Finds Cover-Up in an F.B.I. Terror Case

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
mishandled a Florida terror investigation, falsified documents in the
case in an effort to cover repeated missteps and retaliated against an
agent who first complained about the problems, Justice Department
investigators have concluded.

In one instance, someone altered dates on three F.B.I. forms using
correction fluid to conceal an apparent violation of federal wiretap
law, according to a draft report of an investigation by the Justice
Department inspector general's office obtained by The New York Times.
But investigators were unable to determine who altered the documents.

The agent who first alerted the F.B.I. to problems in the case, a
veteran undercover operative named Mike German, was "retaliated
against" by his boss, who was angered by the agent's complaints and
stopped using him for prestigious assignments in training new
undercover agents, the draft report concluded.

Mr. German's case first became public last year, as he emerged as the
latest in a string of whistle-blowers at the bureau who said they had
been punished and effectively silenced for voicing concerns about the
handling of terror investigations and other matters since Sept. 11, 2001.

The inspector general's draft report, dated Nov. 15 and awaiting final
review, validated most of Mr. German's central accusations in the
case. But the former agent, who left the bureau last year after he
said his career had been derailed by the Florida episode, said he felt
more disappointment than vindication.

"More than anything else, I'm saddened by all this," Mr. German said
in an interview. "I still love the F.B.I., and I know that there are
good, honest, hard-working agents out there trying to do the right
thing, and this hurts all of them."

Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., has emphasized
repeatedly, both publicly and in private messages to his staff, that
employees are encouraged to come forward with reports of wrongdoing
and that he will not tolerate retaliation against whistle-blowers.

Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has been a
frequent critic of the bureau, said of Mr. German: "Unfortunately,
this is just another case in a long line of F.B.I. whistle-blowers who
have had their careers derailed because the F.B.I. couldn't tolerate
criticism."

Michael Kortan, an F.B.I. spokesman, said the bureau had not been
briefed on the findings. But Mr. Kortan said that when the F.B.I.
received the report, "if either misconduct or other wrongdoing is
found, we will take appropriate action."

Ann Beeson, associate legal director for the American Civil Liberties
Union, said that the inspector general's findings, coming just days
after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from an earlier
F.B.I. whistle-blower, pointed to the need for tougher measures to
protect those who report abuse. "With courts reluctant to protect
whistle-blowers, it is crucial that Congress pass additional
protections," Ms. Beeson said.

Mr. German's case dates to 2002, when the F.B.I. division in Tampa
opened a terror investigation into a lead that laundered proceeds,
possibly connected to a drug outfit, might be used to finance
terrorists overseas. The F.B.I. was considering initiating an
undercover operation to follow the lead, and Mr. G

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Noted Immunologist Explains How China Is Mishandling Bird Flu
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"Right now, it is not spreading from human to human. But when
human-to-human spread starts, I am afraid that will be too late. The
U.S. is prepared to close its borders at any moment; Australia is
doing the same. The U.S. may restrict travel; a bill to invest 7.1
billion dollars in bird flu is currently before Congress, and the U.S.
has given Chiron 62.5 million dollars and Sanofi Pasteur 100 million
dollars to develop bird flu vaccines. The U.S. has adopted many
measures. However, no country would be spared [in a pandemic], since
it would involve everyone. This will be the pandemic of this century,
and every scientist will tell you that it will come. The only question
is whether it will come sooner or later."

Hopefully the good doctor is right and human to human transmission has
not yet started. But I suspect she did not have access to the WHO
doctor's unofficial report indicating limited human transmission has
already taken place when this interview was done.

Anyway, good background intelligence on the bird flu situation and its
potential in comparison with the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 caused
by a much weaker virus.

David Bier

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-11-24/34933.html

Noted Immunologist Explains How China Is Mishandling Bird Flu

Sound of Hope Radio Interviews Dr. Lili Feng
Sound of Hope
Nov 24, 2005

Sound of Hope Radio:Our subject today is a very popular topic: the
bird flu. For many, when they hear the words "bird flu," they become
very fearful. Why is that? Because it is spreading not only in Asia
but also in Europe via Russia. Many countries have taken or are
contemplating measures to prevent bird flu.

In today's program, we'd first like to ask Dr. Lili Feng to tell us
about bird flu. What is it? What is the H5N1 virus?

Dr. Lilli Feng:There are two ways to classify bird flu. This is just a
general classification. There are more detailed categories.

The first way to classify it is to differentiate by nucleoprotein and
matrix protein. Nucleoprotein and matrix protein allow influenza
viruses to be classified as types: A, B and C. Subtype A can be
further divided based on the surface protein: one is hemagglutinin and
the other is neuraminidase. H stands for hemagglutinin and N for
neuraminidase. These can then be subdivided into other categories. For
example, H has 16 subtypes, and N has nine subtypes.

Hemagglutinin (H) is a very important protein that is related to virus
proliferation and pathogenic ability. It can be categorized even
further, based on whether protease can be cleaved in different areas
of the body, such as the lungs, small intestines or throughout the
body. It could also be categorized according to whether the virus will
cause regional or whole-body infections. The virus can also be
categorized into highly pathogenic or less pathogenic according to its
area of infection. Less pathogenic means that the infection is
regional. Highly pathogenic viruses include the H5 type that people
often hear about. Actually, both H5 and H7 are highly pathogenic viruses.

SOH:So the H5N1 type bird flu we often hear about is a highly
pathogenic virus?

Dr. Feng:Yes. It can multiply in any part of the body, because every
part of the body has the kind of protease needed to cleave it.

SOH:We have heard of bird flu before, but it didn't seem so scary in
the past. For example, in the last century, I think bird flu occurred
in Spain and caused a lot of deaths. The most recent research says
that the type of flu in Spain was the same bird flu we have now.

Dr. Feng:This is not entirely accurate, although it's easy to make
that mistake. In 1918, when the Spanish flu occurred, the lungs of
most of those who died were completely destroyed. After very careful
research, scientists found three people whose lungs remained
relatively well and used a technology called polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) to get the virus. Actually, the bird flu in Spain was not H5N1,
but H1N1, a less pathogenic type of virus. I will talk about their
differences. This was discussed in an article inNaturein 2004. It was
very interesting. Its symptoms were similar to today's, but there were
differences, too.

SOH:In other words, it was also bird flu, but of a different kind. It
wasn't as bad as what we have now.

Dr.

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"Right now, it is not spreading from human to human. But when
human-to-human spread starts, I am afraid that will be too late. The
U.S. is prepared to close its borders at any moment; Australia is
doing the same. The U.S. may restrict travel; a bill to invest 7.1
billion dollars in bird flu is currently before Congress, and the U.S.
has given Chiron 62.5 million dollars and Sanofi Pasteur 100 million
dollars to develop bird flu vaccines. The U.S. has adopted many
measures. However, no country would be spared [in a pandemic], since
it would involve everyone. This will be the pandemic of this century,
and every scientist will tell you that it will come. The only question
is whether it will come sooner or later."

Hopefully the good doctor is right and human to human transmission has
not yet started.  But I suspect she did not have access to the WHO
doctor's unofficial report indicating limited human transmission has
already taken place when this interview was done.

Anyway, good background intelligence on the bird flu situation and its
potential in comparison with the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 caused
by a much weaker virus.

David Bier

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-11-24/34933.html

Noted Immunologist Explains How China Is Mishandling Bird Flu

Sound of Hope Radio Interviews Dr. Lili Feng
Sound of Hope
Nov 24, 2005

Sound of Hope Radio:Our subject today is a very popular topic: the
bird flu. For many, when they hear the words "bird flu," they become
very fearful. Why is that? Because it is spreading not only in Asia
but also in Europe via Russia. Many countries have taken or are
contemplating measures to prevent bird flu.

In today's program, we'd first like to ask Dr. Lili Feng to tell us
about bird flu. What is it? What is the H5N1 virus?

Dr. Lilli Feng:There are two ways to classify bird flu. This is just a
general classification. There are more detailed categories.

The first way to classify it is to differentiate by nucleoprotein and
matrix protein. Nucleoprotein and matrix protein allow influenza
viruses to be classified as types: A, B and C. Subtype A can be
further divided based on the surface protein: one is hemagglutinin and
the other is neuraminidase. H stands for hemagglutinin and N for
neuraminidase. These can then be subdivided into other categories. For
example, H has 16 subtypes, and N has nine subtypes.

Hemagglutinin (H) is a very important protein that is related to virus
proliferation and pathogenic ability. It can be categorized even
further, based on whether protease can be cleaved in different areas
of the body, such as the lungs, small intestines or throughout the
body. It could also be categorized according to whether the virus will
cause regional or whole-body infections. The virus can also be
categorized into highly pathogenic or less pathogenic according to its
area of infection. Less pathogenic means that the infection is
regional. Highly pathogenic viruses include the H5 type that people
often hear about. Actually, both H5 and H7 are highly pathogenic viruses.

SOH:So the H5N1 type bird flu we often hear about is a highly
pathogenic virus?

Dr. Feng:Yes. It can multiply in any part of the body, because every
part of the body has the kind of protease needed to cleave it.

SOH:We have heard of bird flu before, but it didn't seem so scary in
the past. For example, in the last century, I think bird flu occurred
in Spain and caused a lot of deaths. The most recent research says
that the type of flu in Spain was the same bird flu we have now.

Dr. Feng:This is not entirely accurate, although it's easy to make
that mistake. In 1918, when the Spanish flu occurred, the lungs of
most of those who died were completely destroyed. After very careful
research, scientists found three people whose lungs remained
relatively well and used a technology called polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) to get the virus. Actually, the bird flu in Spain was not H5N1,
but H1N1, a less pathogenic type of virus. I will talk about their
differences. This was discussed in an article inNaturein 2004. It was
very interesting. Its symptoms were similar to today's, but there were
differences, too.

SOH:In other words, it was also bird flu, but of a different kind. It
wasn't as bad as w

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Italy 'warned Saddam intelligence was  bogus' 

John  Hooper in Rome
Friday November 4, 2005
_The  Guardian_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)  

Italian  intelligence warned the United States about bogus information on 
Saddam  Hussein's nuclear ambitions at about the time President Bush cited them 
as a  crucial reason for invading Iraq, an Italian parliamentarian said 
yesterday.  
Massimo Brutti of the opposition Left Democrats made his claim to reporters  
after listening to evidence from Italy's chief spymaster, General Nicolo  
Pollari, in the latest episode to undermine the motivations for the Iraq war.  
The Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi was and remains a key ally of the 
 Bush administration. Italian intelligence has been linked to a dossier 
alleged  to have been forged by an Italian that purported to show that Iraq had 
been  seeking to buy uranium from Niger to make nuclear weapons. 
Italy 'warned Saddam intelligence was  bogus' 

John  Hooper in Rome
Friday November 4, 2005
_The  Guardian_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)  

Italian  intelligence warned the United States about bogus information on 
Saddam  Hussein's nuclear ambitions at about the time President Bush cited them 
as a  crucial reason for invading Iraq, an Italian parliamentarian said 
yesterday.  
Massimo Brutti of the opposition Left Democrats made his claim to reporters  
after listening to evidence from Italy's chief spymaster, General Nicolo  
Pollari, in the latest episode to undermine the motivations for the Iraq war.  
The Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi was and remains a key ally of the 
 Bush administration. Italian intelligence has been linked to a dossier 
alleged  to have been forged by an Italian that purported to show that Iraq had 
been  seeking to buy uranium from Niger to make nuclear  weapons.


 
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http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/VernonRichards51012.htm

The Ever-Changing Islamic God, Allah=20

By: Vernon Richards, author of: `Islam Undressed'=20

  Following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Islamist
sites all over the world praised it as a divine act by Allah. In their
minds, it became proof manifest that Allah is on their side and wants
to help them destroy the infidels. Goggling reveals 126,000 hits on
the subject of Allah punishing the US through Katrina. Such logic
claiming Allah caused 1000 American causalities is difficult to
reconcile with the much larger losses in the Qam, Iran earthquake, the
125,000 causalities (plus 110,000 missing) suffered in the Muslim
world by virtue of the Dec tsunami, or the 30,000 or so causalities
suffered from the most recent earthquake in Pakistan / Kashmir. Devout
Muslims in the past attempt to get around this quandary by claiming
the tsunami was aimed at bad Muslims in South Asia involved in
homosexuality and fornication, or part of an Indian/Israeli/American
conspiracy. I would guess that a high percentage of the dead would
take issue with the claims they were bad Muslims.=20

  It would appear that if Allah punishes through nature, he is
currently much more intent on killing Muslims than infidels. When one
tries to find goggle hits of articles relating to Allah punishing
Muslims by earthquake in Pakistan one finds only about 9,000 hits, and
most of those are `shoe on the other foot' pieces mocking the earlier
Muslim claims regarding Katrina. Interesting though, there are a few
Muslim pundits claiming Allah is punishing the ultra-fundamentalist
region because of Pakistani alliances with the US . Islamists can
always find a way out of their own arguments, apparently.=20

  Should we conclude that the people hurt and killed in this
latest natural catastrophe are all evil apostates? Or can we infer
that Allah has changed his mind (again) and now favors another
religion over Islam? If God changed his mind once, then what is to
keep the all powerful one from switching his alliances again?
According to the Muslim Qur'an, Allah suddenly decided one day while
speaking to Muhammad that he only loves people who believe in his
designated psychopath, and no longer had any feelings whatsoever for
all other creations. He further revealed that the proper path in
dealing with unbelievers was through the sword, slavery, and death.=20

Quite a switch, really, from everything he had previously communicated
to his designated representatives. So perhaps now He has tired of all
the murderers arriving in heaven to claim their mansions, 72 wide-eyed
virgins, and dozens of boys like pearls. Perhaps he took a new
decision to find a better class of neighbors to rub shoulders with.
All those mujahedeen miscreants have undoubtedly proven to be a total
bore to socialize with, since all they want to talk about is sex and
violence. So Allah might well have changed his mind again deciding to
only accept as neighbors men and women who care for and help their
fellows.=20

  Or here is a radical thought, as long as we are drawing
reasonable inferences from empirical data, =85perhaps God never changed
after all! In fact, wasn't He already supposed to be omnipotent and
omniscience prior to Muhammad? And since already fully formed and
perfect, isn't it reasonable to assume such a mature being is not
likely to exhibit adolescent tantrums nor wild personality swings?=20

Maybe, =85just maybe, this Muhammad guy is a total farce who never had
an inkling what God was like, let alone communicated with Him. Maybe
God never changed, and all Muhammad's claims otherwise are
self-serving lies designed to assist in his version of Arab
Imperialism. M=85 The reasoning here seems sound, and leaves one to
feel sorry for Muslims worldwide deceived by such a ridiculous and
transparent notion that God switched his personality, likes and
dislikes, and his modus operandi in dealing with His creations.=20

  The rest of the world can breath a sigh of relief, =85the Muslim
God Allah is not affiliated with the actual Creator, and its only
mortal men who want to kill us. Whew =85that was a close one!=20
  For Muslims the problem is much bigger. You see, their usual
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Doctor says Al-Qaida suspect was whipped

U.S. citizen charged with plotting to kill Bush says he was abused in
custody
Updated: 8:43 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2005

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A U.S. citizen charged with plotting to kill
President George W. Bush was whipped and forced to stand with his
handcuffed hands attached to a chain that was suspended from the
ceiling while he was in Saudi custody, a doctor said on Tuesday.
The physician was testifying in a hearing to determine whether a
confession signed by Ahmed Abu Ali in Saudi Arabia should be used at
trial in federal court or whether it should be thrown out because it
was obtained by coercion.

Allen Keller, a doctor who specializes in diagnosis and treatment of
torture victims, said Abu Ali told him that while in Saudi Arabian
custody for 20 months he was whipped, beaten and forced to stand for
hours with his handcuffed hands over his head attached to a chain
suspended from the ceiling.
"In my opinion, Mr. Abu Ali was subjected to torture, and in fact to
several forms of torture," Keller said. He based his comments on an
8-hour exam of Abu Ali conducted in April.
Keller was retained by Abu Ali's lawyers, who claim their client was
beaten after being arrested in Saudi Arabia in June 2003. Abu Ali, 24,
was detained while studying in Saudi Arabia and was held near Riyadh
for 20 months before returning to face trial on charges of plotting
with al-Qaida to kill Bush.

Abu Ali wants U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce to throw out
confessions made by Abu Ali while in Saudi custody in which he admits
to plotting with al-Qaida to kill Bush in addition to other possible
attacks.
Disputable evidence that he was tortured
Prosecutors say the statements should be allowed because there is no
credible evidence that Abu Ali was tortured.
Keller said he found about 10 scars on Abu Ali's back that were likely
caused by beatings.
"He told me he was repeatedly struck with a foreign object on his
back," Keller said. "The marks were...all the same width =97 that
strongly suggested that all of those linear marks were caused by the
same object."

But two other doctors, called by the U.S. government to testify,
disagreed with Keller's findings.
Robert Katz, a dermatologist, said earlier on Tuesday that he had
examined photographs of Abu Ali's back and he believed the marks were
just abnormal pigmentation of his skin.
"They are not scars," said Katz, who only saw four marks on Abu Ali's
back.
When asked if the marks were caused by whipping, Katz replied: "It's
unlikely. The four marks show no evidence of scarring, and they're
limited to the upper back."
`It's just pigmentation'
He said there was no sign of a thickening or thinning of the skin,
which is normal when skin scars. He also said there was no
"randomness" in the marks, which would be expected if someone was whipped.
"It's just pigmentation," he said.

A contract doctor for the FBI, Richard Schwartz, testified that he saw
the marks on Abu Ali's back when he examined him as he was being
transported from Riyadh back to the United States earlier this year.
Schwartz also described the marks as areas of increased pigmentation
and said they did not look like scars.

Schwartz said the marks appeared so inconsequential that he did not
mention them in his report of his physical evaluation of Abu Ali.
He said Abu Ali denied being mistreated in prison.
Abu Ali has pleaded not guilty to a nine-count indictment charging him
with conspiring to kill the president and with providing support and
resources to al-Qaida. No date or year for the plot has been specified
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http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/groffensive.asp

lanning the Great Ramadan Offensive

Laura's note: The following post was made on the Firdaws forum by
person using the name "Ossama1". 
The posting was unattributed and was made in English. The quality of
the English is quite good; in fact, it's good enough that I suspect it
was either written by a native English speaker, or may very well have
been copied from the media. I have attempted to find the source of the
material using Google and Google News but have not been able to locate
it to date. 

Planning the "Great Ramadan Offensive" BY LATE AUGUST 2005, the
Islamist-jihadist movement was increasingly consumed by great
anticipation for a dramatic breakout: a "Great Ramadan Offensive" led
by both Osama bin Laden and Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, in person and from
Iraq. This offensive, several Islamist-jihadist leaders and commanders
were convinced, would overshadow the dramatic impact of the September
11, 2001, spectacular strikes. 

Islamist-jihadist leaders were convinced that the Great Ramadan
Offensive would include a "fateful confrontation" with the US and
Israeli forces in the Middle East, as well as a series of
unprecedented spectacular strikes in Western Europe, Russia, and,
perhaps, even the United States. 

Throughout the Muslim world, widespread anticipation for the Great
Ramadan Offensive has been reinforced by a series of virtually
simultaneous communiques starting around August 24, 2005. This was the
first time so many significant doctrinal-theological statements had
been issued at the same time, reinforcing the belief in a forthcoming
well-coordinated global onslaught. 

First came the report of a new recorded message by Abu-Musab
al-Zarqawi. Apparently made on August 21, 2005, the existence of the
message was announced around August 24, 2005. The report that emerged
included the key passage from Zarqawi's message about the next phase
of the jihad. "What happened in Andalusia [Spain], London, the
Jordanian Al-Aqabah, and other places and what is going to happen,
with the consent of God Almighty, is accomplished by our devoted
mujahedin," Zarqawi explained. "The mujahedin in Iraq have, praise be
to God, moved the battle from the ground [in Iraq] to the land of the
cross." 
Zarqawi stressed that "jihadist units had been founded in all of
Western Europe, to defend the powerless within the nation. "For the
crimes the Crusaders have committed against the Muslims, they will
reap in their own homes [countries], God willing." 

A statement on the doctrine of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi at the helm of the
al-Qaida Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers emerged a few days
later. While most attention has been paid by analysts to the "war of
vengeance" in Iraq, Zarqawi's priority is actually establishing the
foundations for greater things. Al-Qaida's strategy aims to ensure
that an Iraqi state will never function, irrespective of the extent of
US help and involvement by isolating the government and its supporters
-- local and foreign -- from the bulk of the Iraqi people, as well as
through the elimination of militias and "traitors" among the Shi'a and
"clearing the stage of all possible rivals before the withdrawal of
the US military". 

However, the ultimate objective of Zarqawi in pursuing all of these
activities is not to seize power in Iraq, but rather to turn it into a
springboard for the establishment of the Caliphate throughout the
Middle East and strike out into the heart of the West.
 
The statement stresses that the real objective of the al-Qaida
Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers should be viewed as "an
establishment of another base that will export jihad to all parts of
the world the same way the mother al-Qaida in Afghanistan was". 
Second came the decree dated August 23, 2005, but announced only on
August 25, 2005, on the establishment of an "emergency government" by
the Islamist-jihadist rebels in Chechnya. 

The significance of the decree lies in the explanation of the logic
for this decree which followed. "President" Abdul-Halim Sadulayev
announced in the decree the formation of a "new government" in which
Shamil Basayev "reassumed the role of deputy prime minister" and
radical ideologue Movladi Udugov was nominated press minister. The
decree also announced the e

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Wednesday, 19, October, 2005 (16, Ramadhan, 1426)=09

=20
Police Defuse Powerful Bomb in Iranian City
Agencies
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TEHRAN, 19 October 2005 =97 Iranian police said yesterday they defused a
powerful bomb planted under a bridge in the southwestern city of Ahvaz
just days after a double bomb attack there killed six people and
injured more than 100.

The country's judiciary maintained that "foreign states" were involved
in the unrest, after senior officials pointed the finger at British
troops based across the border in Iraq. Police told state television
they acted on a tip-off from local residents who spotted a suspicious
package under a busy bridge in the city, the capital of oil-rich
Khuzestan province and dominated by ethnic minority Arabs.
The report said the package =97 wired up and containing eight
anti-personnel mines, around a kilogram of TNT, one stun grenade and a
large number of fuses =97 was successfully defused late on Monday.
Khuzestan's deputy governor general in charge of security affairs,
Gholam Reza Shariati, and other officials also told the student news
agency ISNA that the bomb was clearly aimed at destroying Kianpars
bridge, which links the east and west of Ahvaz city.

Two bombs exploded outside a crowded market late Saturday in Ahvaz.
Funerals of the victims were held on Monday, but the death toll could
still rise given that several of those injured remain in critical
condition.

Iran's leading newspapers yesterday called on the government to cut
diplomatic ties with Britain after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
accused London of being behind the bombings. Britain has denied any
link with the bombings as well as a series of attacks earlier this
year in Khuzestan province, the heart of Iran's oil industry, which
borders southern Iraq.

Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei told the official
IRNA news agency that more than 20 suspects had been arrested. But it
was not clear if the arrests were related to the Oct. 15 blasts or
previous bombings and unrest in Khuzestan this year.

Kayhan, one of Iran's four leading hard-line newspapers, called on the
government to reconsider its ties with London. "Tolerating imposed
crisis is against our dignity," Kayhan said in an editorial. "We
should start with mild reactions like closing the British Embassy and
eventually sever the ties."
The hard-line Siyasat-e-Rouz newspaper also accused Britain of
masterminding the bombings. "Severing ties is the minimum we can do to
prevent Britain's interference in Iran."
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Terrorism doesn't warrant fear: report
October 18, 2005 - 5:14AM
=20
There are fewer wars than there used to be, and terrorism does not
warrant such widespread worry among the public, an Australian war
expert has said.

Andrew Mack, the director of the Human Security Centre in Vancouver,
made the findings in his report into global trends in political
violence, Fairfax newspapers report.

He said wars were becoming less deadly, casualties from terrorist
attacks were minimal and acts of genocide were becoming less common.
The report, titled War and Peace in the 21st Century, suggests the
Cold War brought about more benefits that are commonly acknowledged.

The most severe conflicts - those with more than 1,000 casualties a
year - declined by 80 per cent in the 1990s, the report found.
The average battle deaths per conflict dropped from 38,000 in 1950 to
600 in 2002.

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Many Liberian Women See the Ballot Box as a Step Up 

By LYDIA POLGREEN
Published: October 19, 2005

MONROVIA, Liberia, Oct. 14 - Clutching her voter registration card in
one hand and leaning on a second-story balcony railing with the other,
Mabel Tobee waited to vote. 
 It was almost 6 p.m. on Oct. 11, and Ms. Tobee had been waiting since
about 5 a.m., when she lined up with about a million others across the
country to cast her ballot in Liberia's first election since it
emerged two years ago from 14 years of brutal civil war. But her
patience did not wane. 
"It would be good for a woman to rule this country," Ms. Tobee said,
tired from standing for so long with no food. "Men have done nothing
for us. They just fool us." 

She said she planned to cast her vote for Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a
Harvard-educated economist once jailed for seven months by the
authoritarian government of Samuel Doe. Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf, 66, hopes
to become Africa's first woman to be elected head of state. 
Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf, who finished second in the vote for president,
will be in a runoff on Nov. 8 against the top vote-getter, George
Weah, a former soccer star and hugely popular with the country's
impoverished youth.
Women turned out in huge numbers here on election day, from young
mothers with babies strapped to their backs to the well-heeled
daughters of the tiny Liberian elite. 

"I don't know about statistics, but from my view many more women came
than men," said Kollie Mulrah, presiding officer at a polling station
in Monrovia's impoverished Paynesville neighborhood. "They are very
zealous about this election."
 
Women were victims and commodities in the long civil war - some
combatants were effectively paid by being given the right to rape, to
brutalize women and girls in captured towns and villages. But as the
nation emerges from war and joins the growing family of African
democracies, women have emerged as a key voting bloc in what may be
this nation's first truly free and fair elections. 

Women's groups were also a major force in forging the peace accord
that led to the departure of Charles Taylor, the warlord who became
Liberia's president in 1997 and presided over the civil war that had
begun in 1989 and wreaked havoc throughout the region. The head of the
election commission, Frances Johnson-Morris, is a former Supreme Court
justice, and three other commission members are women. 

As democracy takes hold on the continent, African women have taken to
the ballot, often registering to vote in numbers equal to men and
heading to the polls despite social and economic tasks - child care,
housekeeping and poorly paying work in the informal economy - that
could keep them from the voting booth. 

While there is a woman at the top of the ballot, and many women voted,
few women in Liberia can be found in positions of political power in
between. 
"So far, women's role has been using their numbers to get someone else
elected," said Sidi M. Diawara, director of the Liberia office of the
National Democratic Institute, a nonpartisan group that has been
helping parties get ready for elections. "Many women simply don't have
the means or the support to mount successful campaigns." 
Indeed, while Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf has made a splash as a presidential
candidate, just 14 percent of legislative candidates are women,
despite an effort by the National Election Commission to institute a
quota of 30 percent. 

The barriers can be high. One woman, a would-be candidate, tried to
mount a campaign for the House of Representatives for the All Liberian
Coalition Party and came to Mr. Diawara for advice, he said. She could
not afford the $750 fee and asked the party president for help. The
party chairman offered her $500, and said she should find the rest.
But with little financial support, she had little choice but to
abandon the race. A man took her place. 

Leadership of political parties remains the preserve of men. Ashley
Barr, director of the local office of the Carter Center, which helps
monitor elections, said that at meetings with political parties, the
only woman in the room was often the leader of the women's wing of the
party. "More often there were no women there at all," M

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"They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving
them all of that,"

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Cheney may be target of probe

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - A special prosecutor's intensifying focus into who outed
a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself
is involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday.

At least one source and one reporter who have testified in the probe
said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney's role in the
Valerie Plame affair.

In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers - most
members of the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the
grand jury, including the vice president's top honcho, Lewis (Scooter)
Libby, and two top Cheney national security lieutenants.

Cheney's name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging
closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a secret
snitch.

"They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving
them all of that," a source who has been questioned in the leak probe
told the Daily News yesterday.

Cheney was questioned last year byprosecutors and has hired a private
attorney, former colleague Terrence O'Donnell, who declined to comment
when contacted by The News.

Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride only offered the standard canned
response that her boss is cooperating.

Libby and President Bush's political mastermind Karl Rove remain the
focus of the probe into whether Plame's cover was blown in a scheme to
embarrass her husband, ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who debunked
claims that Iraq tried to buy nuclear materials in Niger.

Libby is often described as "Cheney's Cheney," a loyal and discreet
lieutenant who shares his boss's hard-line philosophy and bareknuckle
attitude toward political enemies of the Bush administration.

Cheney and Libby spend hours together in the course of a day, which
causes sources who know both men very well to assert that any attempts
to discredit Wilson would almost certainly have been known to the vice
president.

"Scooter wouldn't be freelancing on this without Cheney's knowledge,"
a source told the Daily News. "It was probably some off-the-cuff
thing: 'This guy [Wilson] could be a problem.'"

The News reported in July that Libby was "totally obsessed with Wilson."

Whether that obsession amounts to criminal misconduct will be decided
by Fitzgerald - but if Libby is indicted or implicated in wrongdoing,
Cheney's reputation will suffer as well.

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"Senior U.S. officials say it could take a decade to quell the
insurgency, with successful withdrawal years away."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106333,00.html

Sunday, Sep. 18, 2005

Chasing the Ghosts

With doubts about Iraq growing at home, U.S. forces are struggling to
put down an elusive and inexhaustible enemy. Michael Ware reports on
the state of the counterinsurgency from the front lines of the biggest
battle of the year

By MICHAEL WARE

The troops call it Route Barracuda, a patch of terrorist territory in
the northern Iraqi town of Tall 'Afar, where thousands of U.S. and
Iraqi forces have converged for the biggest battle in nearly a year.
On this sweaty September afternoon, the neighborhood is living up to
its name. A squad of U.S. commandos enters an abandoned house and
clambers up to the roof. The 2-foot lip doesn't give much cover from
the bullets raining down on them from insurgent gunmen firing from a
building 200 yards to the north. Rounds flying at supersonic speed
crack inches from the troops' ears. "Get down, goddammit," a Green
Beret hollers to his Iraqi counterparts. On their bellies, two weapons
sergeants start loading an 84-mm M-3 antitank recoilless rifle. "They
got guns," says a commando shouldering a rocket launcher. "Let's
f___ do this." He kneels, exposing himself without any choice,
takes aim and fires. Whump. The top of the insurgents' building
blossoms black smoke. Over the cacophony of machine-gun fire and
explosions, the leader of the commando team bellows to his men that
the insurgents have spotted them. "Displace, displace--they got our
position!" he yells, as the troops vacate the open rooftop in a
stooped sprint.

The offensive in Tall 'Afar, which wound down last week, was this
year's Fallujah--a mass assault involving 7,000 U.S. and Iraqi
soldiers and hundreds of Bradleys, battle tanks, artillery pieces, all
combined with AC-130 Spectre gunships, F-16 fighter jets and attack
helicopters. Unlike the Fallujah battle, Tall 'Afar raged mostly
unseen, with accounts of the fighting limited largely to the reports
of U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad, who declared that the
onslaught had succeeded in driving out the bands of rebels--local
units commanded by al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi--from their
latest safe haven. But almost as soon as the offensive ended, the
cycle of mayhem started anew: two days after the capture of al-Qaeda's
stronghold in Tall 'Afar, al-Zarqawi unleashed a retaliatory wave of
11 suicide bombings in Baghdad, killing more than 150 people in the
deadliest day of attacks in the capital since the start of the war.
Iraq's Defense Minister, Sadoun Dulaimi, responded to the attacks by
telling reporters, "I think what is happening is the last breath of
the terrorists"--an assessment that even some U.S. commanders found
unduly upbeat after yet another bloody week. "We have not broken the
back of the insurgency," says a high-ranking U.S. officer. "The
insurgency is like a cell-phone system. You shut down one node,
another somewhere else comes online to replace it."

Two and a half years since the U.S. invasion, nine months after the
election of a government in Baghdad and weeks before millions of
Iraqis will vote on a constitution that threatens to further split the
country, this is the reality of the beleaguered U.S. mission in Iraq:
a never-ending fight against a seemingly inexhaustible enemy
emboldened by the U.S. presence, the measure of success as elusive as
the insurgents themselves. For months, the intractability of the
fighting and Iraq's momentum toward civil war have caused a gradual
but still manageable erosion in public support for the Bush
Administration's stick-it-out strategy, which depends on training
Iraqis in sufficient numbers to take over combat duties and allow U.S.
troops to begin pulling out. Senior U.S. officials say it could take a
decade to quell the insurgency, with successful withdrawal years away.
But the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the massive price
tag for rebuilding the Gulf Coast have ratcheted up the sense of
urgency among lawmakers and some Administration officials about
finding an exit strategy. In a TIME poll taken 10 days after the
hurricane, 57% said they disapproved of President Bush's handling of
th

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Martial Law on the Mississippi
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"The scenery here looks like the set of a disaster film in which the
extras and even the guards have gone home for the night. The windows
of stores have been broken. The skyscrapers stretch into the
pitch-black heavens and occasionally a helicopter circles them. Other
than the flashing of police lights, the city is completely dark."

SPIEGEL ONLINE - September 4, 2005, 04:57 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,373074,00.html

Martial Law on the Mississippi
 
Baghdad, New Orleans

By Matthias Gebauer in New Orleans

When night falls in New Orleans, the city descends into chaos. The
once vibrant metropolis feels like the abandoned stage of a disaster
film. Bands of looters are roaming the streets, but most residents
have already fled. Police are now using what remains of their strength
to restore order in the city.

New Orleans - The iron-grill-reinforced door of a small electronics
shop on Magazine Street didn't want to cooperate with the authorities
on Saturday night. Kevin Deal rammed it repeatedly with the shaft of
his M-16 gun. The 22-year-old policeman's forehead was dripping with
sweat. "Let daddy in," his colleague Josh Valek said, standing behind
him. The police are here to loot the store on behalf of the state --
and Valek has a better tool to ram the door open. With his greatest
possible strength, he hurls a car battery against the iron bars. After
the third attempt, they pry the door open. The cops quickly search the
store for anything that might be useful.

But after just a few minutes, they leave empty-handed. For hours now,
Deal and his colleague have been desperately searching for
battery-powered pumps. Like thousands of other people in and around
New Orleans, they've run out of gas for their car. But nearby, a gas
station holds thousands of gallons of the sought-after fuel in an
underground tank. But without power, the gasoline is as secure as an
uncrackable safe. For now, they're going to have to siphon gasoline
from private car owners: two gallons of gas, just over seven liters,
is enough for them to continue patrolling the city for two hours.

The neighborhood the two police are patrolling is especially popular
with the looters. Hardly anybody is left here in Uptown -- most fled
from their homes. Indeed, many doors are wide open to thieves or
people who are just trying to put a roof over their heads. Without
power, the area is pitch black at night, like much of the rest of the
city. "As soon as it gets dark, the time for the looters has come,"
says Valek. The police, he concedes, have very little chance of
catching them.

The alarm's been ringing for days

The only sign of the fact that only a few days earlier, thousands of
people still lived here, is a brightly illuminated supermarket. The
store must have an emergency generator somewhere. And for the past two
days, the store's alarm system has been going off at short intervals.
The doors have been barricaded with boards. But through a crack, you
can see the empty shelves. Torn up packaging can be seen strewn all
across the floor. Puddles of juice and milk cover the floor near the
refrigerators. "A mob of about 40 people ransacked the place," says
Valek. The police officer and his colleagues were only able to stop
the looting by firing gunshots into the air.

The chaos that followed the disaster is visible throughout the
supermarket's neighborhood. Many wooden houses have been destroyed or
badly damaged. Uprooted trees are spread across the streets. And
Deal's and Valek's patrols almost always end in dead-ends -- either
trees or cars moved by the forces of the hurricane or flooding block
the roads. Valek closely inspects the cars using his search light.
Cars have become a dangerous place for people to hide, he says,
because looters could come along at any time, pull them out of their
cars and take anything they have left.

Martial law, just like in Iraq

Last year, 26-year-old Valek was still fighting in Iraq as a soldier.
>From his experience in Baghdad, the brawny officer, who still has a
crew cut, knows the rule of war: He who shoots first survives. He says
he finds it shameful that his hometown could spiral into a crisis zone
in which martial law had to be imposed. "If people take food and water
from stores, I can understand that as a police offi

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Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill'
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"No one is sure when recovery of those killed by Katrina =97 whether in
the floodwaters the hurricane left behind or the violence that erupted
in its wake =97 will begin. It is unclear how those without wallets or
papers on their bodies might be identified. And, of course, it is
unclear how many there will be.

"I don't think we're quite ready for all of that," Nagin said."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bodies4sep04,0,7138065=
.story?coll=3Dla-home-headlines

KATRINA'S AFTERMATH

Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill'

With efforts focused on helping survivors, corpses lie scattered
around the city. Trucks will serve as roaming morgues.

By Scott Gold and Alan Zarembo
Times Staff Writers

September 4, 2005

NEW ORLEANS =97 No one knew much about him. He was a black man with
close-cropped hair who looked to be in his 40s. He had a high school
class ring. He had been at the convention center for four days, no
different from thousands of others.

Friday night, he lost it. While others tried to sleep on the
sweltering sidewalk around him, he began to mumble to himself, kicking
aside piles of trash. He yelled something about his missing wife. Just
before midnight, a police car screamed down Convention Center Drive,
and from there, the stories diverge.

Some said he just ended it =97 ran out in front of the car. Some said he
was trying to flag it down for help when it clipped him. Some said he
had a gun and was either shot or run over.

In some fashion, he died in the street, his blood draining toward the
curb and congealing under a pile of crushed orange juice cartons and
dirty diapers. He was still there Saturday afternoon, and chances are
he is still there today.

"Right where he fell. Like roadkill," said Larry Martin, 35, another
evacuee.

Until now, the nation has focused on the survivors. But at some point
in coming days, as New Orleans continues to depopulate, the city will
reach a tipping point. There may be more dead people here than living
as the human exodus continues. And no one knows what will be done with
the bodies.

Paramedics walked Saturday in front of the convention center pushing a
gurney, but did not pause at the man's body. They were trying to
rescue an elderly woman who was bleeding from her right leg and had
not gotten out of her chair in three days.

Twin-blade helicopters thundered overhead, and they were trying to get
her to a hospital in Lafayette.

"I know it's a tragic situation," said Miles Watts, a city paramedic.
"But we need to save people who are alive first. We're going to have
to deal with the dead ones later."

Officials are devising a plan to cope with the dead, but it is still
in its infancy.

Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who predicted that the death toll could reach into
the thousands, said Saturday that officials were assembling
refrigerated 18-wheelers that would serve as roaming morgues.

Nagin said it might be impossible to find enough room to bury the
bodies; they might all be cremated.

Unburied corpses present little, if any, risk of infectious diseases,
experts agree. For one thing, people in the Katrina disaster did not
die from infectious disease and thus do not likely harbor infectious
agents to spread. Moreover, infectious agents in corpses do not
survive long, said epidemiologist Oliver Morgan of the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

"After these big events, where there are large numbers of fatalities,
there is a rush to dispose of the dead and a lot of scare stories
about imminent epidemics," Morgan said. "But the risk of disease
transmission is really coming from the surviving population."

No one is sure when recovery of those killed by Katrina =97 whether in
the floodwaters the hurricane left behind or the violence that erupted
in its wake =97 will begin. It is unclear how those without wallets or
papers on their bodies might be identified. And, of course, it is
unclear how many there will be.

"I don't think we're quite ready for all of that," Nagin said.

Until they are, the bodies continue to surface: on the steps of the
Superdome; in the besieged 9th Ward; at an elementary school where a
man's body washed up on the steps inside a basement classroom; under a
freeway ramp next to a submerged SUV.

Teams searching for survivors in attics and

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"Ms. Knapp said the case provided some validation for librarians who
had been complaining that the library provisions in the Patriot Act
were a breach of privacy and could be invoked too easily. She said it
rebutted comments by some supporters of the Patriot Act, who have said
that librarians and their customers have little to fear from the act.

"Here, we have a case where it is, in fact, being used," she said,
"and all of the things we were concerned about, about the right of our
patrons to have privacy, are justified."

"Careful reading of court records released on Wednesday in the
Bridgeport case, with large sections heavily blacked out, indicate
that the recipient of the national security letter was a library
consortium based in Connecticut, not a public library."

"The recipient has remained unidentified, though it has gone into
court to lift the order of silence so it can speak out against the
Patriot Act before Congress, which is considering whether to extend
important elements of the act after this year."

Many public libraries have established policies for fast destruction
of customer records so that Patriot Act requests need not be honored
and the privacy rights of library members are protected from
unwarranted (national security letters are not court warrants)
exposure. It would appear that the FBI is now going to the consortiums
that support groups of libraries to get the records (processed by the
consortiums) that the individual libraries have destroyed.  Now, in
order to achieve non-compliance with the Patriot Act and protect their
patrons' individual privacy rights, it appears libraries might have to
stop low cost out-sourced back office processing by organizations like
the Library Connection.

David Bier

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/nyregion/02library.html

September 2, 2005
Hartford Libraries Watch as U.S. Makes Demands
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN

Librarians in Connecticut say they are closely following a federal
case in a Bridgeport courthouse involving a demand for library
records, both to learn more about the identity of the people at the
center of the case and to underscore their concerns about such orders.

Weeks earlier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had quietly
demanded that one of their peers turn over library records under the
USA Patriot Act. The case became public after the subject of the
demand retained the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge the
constitutionality of the request, as well as the order of silence that
accompanied it.

Librarians from Stamford, Westport and Bridgeport were observers in
the courtroom during an emergency hearing on Wednesday before Judge
Janet C. Hall in Federal District Court in downtown Bridgeport as
lawyers discussed objections to the nondisclosure order. There,
Carlton Greene, a lawyer for the Justice Department in Washington, and
Kevin J. O'Connor, the United States attorney for the district of
Connecticut, defended the need for secrecy and other powers granted
under the Patriot Act to aid in the investigation of terrorism.

Challenging every assertion was Ann Beeson, a lawyer for the civil
liberties union. The judge is expected to issue her ruling on the
order of silence within the next week.

Among the spectators that day was Alice Knapp, the president of the
Connecticut Library Association; she is the director of public
services for Stamford's Ferguson Library.

Ms. Knapp said the case provided some validation for librarians who
had been complaining that the library provisions in the Patriot Act
were a breach of privacy and could be invoked too easily. She said it
rebutted comments by some supporters of the Patriot Act, who have said
that librarians and their customers have little to fear from the act.

"Here, we have a case where it is, in fact, being used," she said,
"and all of the things we were concerned about, about the right of our
patrons to have privacy, are justified."

In the case being heard in the Bridgeport courtroom, authorities
issued a document called a national security letter to request
information, asserting that the information was needed in an
investigation of terrorism. The subject of the investigation and the
circumstances were not disclosed. In addition, the recipient of the
letter is permanently barred from di

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Down the River
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"When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve
rights and the position of women. But look what has happened -- we
have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It's a big
disappointment."

"Souhail said the United States, a crucial backstage player keen for a
deal that meets U.S.-backed deadlines, had let the Shi'ite Islamists
and Kurds in government do as they wish. "We have received news that
we were not backed by our friends including the Americans. They left
the Islamists to come to an agreement with the Kurds," she said.

A good opportunity to see just who has been betrayed by Bush43.=20
Souhail in six months has gone from being idolized by Bush43 and
hugged by Laura to betrayed by Bush...along with millions of other
Iraqi women who will now be essentially slaves in their own nation.=20
By law agreed to and supported by Bush43's ambassador to Iraq.  Check
out the photo of Souhail...it might be the last time you will ever be
permitted to view her face.

What more can you expect from a chickenhawk warrior for Iraqi
democracy and freedom?  An islamist nation welded to a creed that
dictates death to infidels.  US!

Down the river indeed...without a paddle and being fitted for a chador.

David Bier


http://billmon.org/archives/002105.html

Down the River

Secular Iraqis said on Wednesday a proposed new constitution left
no room for doubt about the Islamist path the country was heading down
two years after a U.S.-led invasion was supposed to produce greater
freedoms . . .

The draft says Islam is the official religion of the state and
there can be no law that contradicts the "fixed principles of its
rulings." . . . Language guaranteeing "rights and freedoms" is
subordinate to the primary position given to Islam, opponents say.

Reuters
Iraq secularists denounce "Islamist" constitution=20
(http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=3DtopNews&storyID=
=3D2005-08-24T144832Z_01_SCH449958_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-SECULARISTS-C-COL.XM=
L)
August 24, 2005

"When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve
rights and the position of women. But look what has happened -- we
have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It's a big
disappointment."

Safia Taleb al-Souhail
Iraq's ambassador to Egypt
Reuters interview
(http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=3DtopNews&storyID=
=3D2005-08-24T144832Z_01_SCH449958_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-SECULARISTS-C-COL.XM=
L)
August 24, 2005

__

There was an emotional moment during Wednesday's State of the
Union address when the mother of a 25-year-old Marine killed in Iraq,
Janet Norwood, embraced an Iraqi voter, Safia Taleb al-Souhail. They
were among the guests invited to sit with the president's wife Laura
Bush for the annual address.

Voice of America
Iraqi Voter and Marine's Mother
Embrace During State of the Union
(http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-03-voa11.cfm)
February 3, 2005

As lawmakers stood and cheered, al-Souhail, holding back tears,
flashed a "V" sign and showed her voting finger, too.

CNN
Bush pushes his agenda
(http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/sotu.main/)
February 3, 2005


victory.jpg (http://billmon.org/archives/victory.jpg)


"One of Iraq's leading democracy and human rights advocates is
Safia Taleb al-Souhail . . . Three days ago in Baghdad, Safia was
finally able to vote for the leaders of her country -- and we are
honored that she is with us tonight."

George W. Bush
State of the Union Address
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050202-11.html)
February 2, 2005

There was a cheap metaphor to be had in the remarkable moment when
Safia al-Souhail, who had just voted in the Iraqi elections, and Janet
Norwood, whose U.S. Marine son was killed in Iraq, embraced during the
President's State of the Union speech last week . . . Why is it cheap
to see it as a metaphor? Because nothing should detract from the
emotional truth of the moment, the magnitude of Norwood's loss, the
exhilaration of al-Souhail's ballot . . . It is a moment for solemn
appreciation of the Iraqi achievement=97however it may turn out=97and for
hope.

Joe Klein
The Incredible Shrinking Democrats
(http://www

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U.S., Turkey Fail To Agree on PKK Problem
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"It's no longer the good old strategic partnership between the two
countries," said Bulent Aliriza, director of the Turkey Project at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based
think tank. "I don't expect to see much more than a working,
business-like relationship in the foreseeable future."

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3D1041027&C=3Damerica

Posted 08/22/05 07:58=20=20=09=20

U.S., Turkey Fail To Agree on PKK Problem
By UMIT ENGINSOY, WASHINGTON And BURAK EGE BEKDIL, ANKARA

Relations between the United States and Turkey, already damaged over
the 2003 Iraq invasion, took a further blow when the two NATO allies
failed to agree on measures to be taken against separatist Kurdish
rebels using northern Iraqi territory for attacks against Turkish targets.

"We have recently discussed what can be done against the PKK
[Kurdistan Workers Party] presence in northern Iraq," a senior Foreign
Ministry official in Ankara said Aug. 15. "Unfortunately, what the
Americans say they can do falls short of our expectations. We
understand the Americans rule out all military action and they say
they can mainly work to curb the PKK's financial assets."

U.S. State Department, and Turkish Foreign Ministry officials met in
Washington Aug. 6 with one Iraqi Kurdish official to discuss the PKK
problem. Both Ankara and Washington consider the PKK a terrorist group.

"The United States says its military capabilities are limited in Iraq
and that we should mainly discuss anti-PKK measures with the Iraqi
government and Iraqi Kurds, who are controlling northern Iraq," the
Turkish Foreign Ministry official said. "But we believe a substantial
U.S. involvement is necessary to deal with the PKK military presence
inside Iraq."

The top priority for U.S. forces in Iraq is to fight against the
ongoing Sunni Arab insurgency, mainly in the country's central
regions, one U.S. State Department official said.

A Different Approach

Nancy McEldowney, the U.S. charg=E9 d'affaires in Ankara, said the
United States would work with Iraqi and Turkish authorities to stop
PKK attacks from northern Iraq into Turkey, but made no mention of a
possible military action.

"We want to intensify our efforts to work to shut down the financial
flows that come from Europe and elsewhere in the world to provide
support to the PKK," McEldowney told reporters in Ankara Aug. 9 after
a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "In a democratic
and united Iraq, there is no place for terrorism. We want the Iraqi
authorities to stop the terrorism that is resulting in the deaths of
Turks here in Turkey."

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the
United States, Turkey and Iraq would continue to discuss the PKK matter.

"There were agreements to have follow-on discussions and to establish
working groups to work on technical issues between now and then," he
said Aug. 10.

Nearly 40,000 people were killed between 1984 and 1999 during a PKK
rebellion aimed at establishing a separate Kurdish state in
southeastern Turkey, bordering Iraq and Iran. The fighting subsided in
1999 after Turkey captured the PKK's leader with American help.

But the PKK canceled its unilateral cease-fire in June 2004, and has
since killed nearly 200 Turkish security force members. It also has
carried out bombing attacks in Turkish holiday resorts; a July attack
in the western town of Kusadasi killed five people, including a Briton
and an Irish woman.

The PKK has safe havens in the mountains of northern Iraq bordering
Turkey, and Turkish military officials estimate the group's military
strength there at around 4,000 militants.

Erdogan last month talked about a possible Turkish cross-border or
hot-pursuit operation inside Iraq, but U.S. officials, worried about
internationalization of the Iraq conflict, sternly warned Ankara that
it was not a good idea.

A Cooler Relationship

"The present PKK problem is a casualty of Turkey's failure to help the
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq," says Zeyno Baran, director of
international security and energy programs at the Nixon Center, a
conservative think tank in Washington.

Traditionally close U.S.-Turkish defense and political ties were
damaged when Turkey's parliament in March 2003 rejected a bill that
would

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"After the =E2=80=9COrange Revolution=E2=80=9D in December of last year and=
 Viktor
Yushenko taking the President=E2=80=99s office, a lot of Russian companies =
had
encountered problems with entering Ukrainian market. =E2=80=9CIt looks like
that somebody issued a decree =E2=80=9CDo Not Sell!=E2=80=9D Ukrainian asse=
ts to the
Russian investors if there is another alternative present,=E2=80=9D Alexand=
er
Malis, Vice-President of Korbina Telecom, explains. =E2=80=9CIt is clearly
seen that the Ukrainian entrepreneurs are trying to sell their assets
to a Western investors. If it does not work, they try to sell the
business to our compatriots who became Western businessmen.=E2=80=9D

http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=3D1&id=3D602325

Aug. 19, 2005

Ukrainian Connection Has Interferences

// The Kiev authorities are not letting Russian business in
As Kommersant found out, the attempt of the Moscow alternative
operator Comstar to acquire second largest Ukrainian
business-communication company Farlep fell through. The deal was
canceled after the anti-monopoly organs already approved it. The
representative of Ukrainian authorities announced that they will not
accept appearance of the Russian monopoly in Ukraine=E2=80=99s
telecommunication market.

The information about the acquisition deal between Comstar and owners
of Farlep-Invest appeared in February, when Anti-Monopoly Committee of
Ukraine approved it. Both sides kept the amount of the deal and
conditions secret. The business analysts suggested that Comstar agreed
to pay no less than $35-$40 million for 51 percent of stocks. This May
the Comstar representatives were saying the deal is close to conclusion.

Yesterday, the Director of Comstar Semyon Rabovsky told Kommersant
that the purchase of Farlep is frozen. This information was confirmed
by Farlep as well. =E2=80=9CThe information about the purchase of corporate
rights of Farlep-Invest, which is the main structure of
telecommunication group Farlep, by the Comstar, was premature,=E2=80=9D Ser=
gey
Tash=E2=80=99I, Director of the Legal Department of Farlep, said. =E2=80=9C=
This
information was based on successful preparation for the acquisition,
including the approval from Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine.=E2=80=9D Bo=
th
sides do not tell the reason for the deal failure.

According to the source, which was closed to the negotiations, after
the approval of Anti-Monopoly Committee, the sellers of Farlep
suddenly jacked the price up by 1.5 times. Comstar did not accept that.

The experts speculate that the main reason for the refusal of Farlep
owners to finalize the deal was change of the authorities in Ukraine.
After the =E2=80=9COrange Revolution=E2=80=9D in December of last year and =
Viktor
Yushenko taking the President=E2=80=99s office, a lot of Russian companies =
had
encountered problems with entering Ukrainian market. =E2=80=9CIt looks like
that somebody issued a decree =E2=80=9CDo Not Sell!=E2=80=9D Ukrainian asse=
ts to the
Russian investors if there is another alternative present,=E2=80=9D Alexand=
er
Malis, Vice-President of Korbina Telecom, explains. =E2=80=9CIt is clearly
seen that the Ukrainian entrepreneurs are trying to sell their assets
to a Western investors. If it does not work, they try to sell the
business to our compatriots who became Western businessmen.=E2=80=9D
=09
  i
Farlep is the second largest alternative operator in Ukraine. By the
end of 2004 the company was servicing about 100,000 subscribers in
Kiev, Nikolaev, Odessa, Lvov and Dnipropetrovs=E2=80=99k. Last year the
company sales reached $37 million. Farlep belongs to the holding
company Farlep-Invest. Sergey Taruta, Farlep=E2=80=99s Chairman, and Oleg
Mkrtchian, General Director of Industrial Union of Donbass, own 70
percent stock of the holding company. Makeevsky Machine Plant owns
12.08 percent of the Farlep-Invest shares.

Other participants of the market also see the preference changes in
Ukrainian business environment. For instance, in the end of May Evgeny
Chervonenko, Minister of Transportation and Communications of Ukraine,
announced that he =E2=80=9Cdoes not want Russian monopolies in Ukrainian
communication market.=E2=80=9D He said that while commenting on the
application of the national communication operator Ukrtelecom to
receiv

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"We have a very talented work force with the expertise and passion to
get the job done," Ms. Forman said. "And while the kinds of financial
investigations they have undertaken are long and complex, they are
essential if we are to beat the criminals at their own game."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050814-115522-8631r.htm

Terror prober aims to 'choke off' illicit cash
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published August 15, 2005
Terrorists looking to move millions of dollars out of the United
States to fund global strikes have resorted to a kaleidoscope of new
schemes aimed at hiding illicit cash, but one of the nation's top
terrorism investigators says law-enforcement authorities are up to the
challenge.
Marcy Forman, who supervisors 6,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents at 156 field and 52 foreign offices as head
of the agency's Office of Investigations, said newly created
law-enforcement partnerships are "choking off the money supply that
will choke off the terrorists."
Those same partnerships, Ms. Forman said during an interview at
her ICE headquarters office, also are working to target criminal
syndicates, including alien and drug smugglers, violent street gangs,
arms dealers and money launderers.
Those partnerships, she said, are a key component of "Operation
Cornerstone," ICE's flagship initiative aimed at safeguarding the U.S.
economy by targeting the schemes terrorists and criminals use to
divert and store illicit cash.
"Terrorist and criminal organizations are constantly looking for
new ways to hide the illicit profits they make from their illegal
ventures, so it is important for us to be able to adapt and adjust to
respond to that environment," she said.
While millions of dollars in illegally obtained cash is being
routed through phony financial institutions, smuggling operations and
fraudulent commodity trading, Ms. Forman said, "there is always a
financial component" that authorities, working with the private
sector, can target.
"Our goal is to dismantle these criminal organizations and
eliminate systemic vulnerabilities before they can exploit them for
their own purposes," Ms. Forman said.
The veteran of 25 years of law enforcement is no stranger to the
challenge of tracking down illicit cash and the criminals who hide it.
Before the creation of ICE in 2003 as the investigative arm of the
Department of Homeland Security, she led "Operation Green Quest," a
multiagency financial-crimes task force headed by the U.S. Customs
Service.
During a 19-month period, Green Quest seized more than $35 million
in illicit profits in an initiative designed to freeze accounts, seize
assets and bring charges against those funding terrorism.
Under her new venture, Operation Cornerstone, Ms. Forman said, ICE
has expanded its working partnership with federal, state and local
law-enforcement authorities and with the financial and trade sectors
to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities.
During fiscal 2004, the Office of Investigations conducted 7,670
financial probes, seized $202 million in illicit profits, made 1,368
arrests and obtained 895 criminal indictments. It also met with 20,600
private-sector representatives to share information on financial and
trade investigations.
"We have a very talented work force with the expertise and passion
to get the job done," Ms. Forman said. "And while the kinds of
financial investigations they have undertaken are long and complex,
they are essential if we are to beat the criminals at their own game."






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"We have a very talented work force with the expertise and passion to
get the job done," Ms. Forman said. "And while the kinds of financial
investigations they have undertaken are long and complex, they are
essential if we are to beat the criminals at their own game."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050814-115522-8631r.htm

Terror prober aims to 'choke off' illicit cash
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published August 15, 2005
Terrorists looking to move millions of dollars out of the United
States to fund global strikes have resorted to a kaleidoscope of new
schemes aimed at hiding illicit cash, but one of the nation's top
terrorism investigators says law-enforcement authorities are up to the
challenge.
Marcy Forman, who supervisors 6,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents at 156 field and 52 foreign offices as head
of the agency's Office of Investigations, said newly created
law-enforcement partnerships are "choking off the money supply that
will choke off the terrorists."
Those same partnerships, Ms. Forman said during an interview at
her ICE headquarters office, also are working to target criminal
syndicates, including alien and drug smugglers, violent street gangs,
arms dealers and money launderers.
Those partnerships, she said, are a key component of "Operation
Cornerstone," ICE's flagship initiative aimed at safeguarding the U.S.
economy by targeting the schemes terrorists and criminals use to
divert and store illicit cash.
"Terrorist and criminal organizations are constantly looking for
new ways to hide the illicit profits they make from their illegal
ventures, so it is important for us to be able to adapt and adjust to
respond to that environment," she said.
While millions of dollars in illegally obtained cash is being
routed through phony financial institutions, smuggling operations and
fraudulent commodity trading, Ms. Forman said, "there is always a
financial component" that authorities, working with the private
sector, can target.
"Our goal is to dismantle these criminal organizations and
eliminate systemic vulnerabilities before they can exploit them for
their own purposes," Ms. Forman said.
The veteran of 25 years of law enforcement is no stranger to the
challenge of tracking down illicit cash and the criminals who hide it.
Before the creation of ICE in 2003 as the investigative arm of the
Department of Homeland Security, she led "Operation Green Quest," a
multiagency financial-crimes task force headed by the U.S. Customs
Service.
During a 19-month period, Green Quest seized more than $35 million
in illicit profits in an initiative designed to freeze accounts, seize
assets and bring charges against those funding terrorism.
Under her new venture, Operation Cornerstone, Ms. Forman said, ICE
has expanded its working partnership with federal, state and local
law-enforcement authorities and with the financial and trade sectors
to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities.
During fiscal 2004, the Office of Investigations conducted 7,670
financial probes, seized $202 million in illicit profits, made 1,368
arrests and obtained 895 criminal indictments. It also met with 20,600
private-sector representatives to share information on financial and
trade investigations.
"We have a very talented work force with the expertise and passion
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"...Fitzgerald's investigation appears to be in its final stages.

Nineteen months ago, when Comey appointed him as special prosecutor,
reporters pressed Comey during the announcement as to what was behind
his dramatic action. All that he would say at the time was: "If you
were to speculate in print or in the media about particular people, I
think that would be unfair to them.=E2=80=9D

Then he added, almost as an afterthought: "We also don't want people
that we might be interested in to know we're interested in them."=20

http://villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=3D0533&page=3Dwaasweb1&id=3D66=
861

What Now, Karl?
Rove and Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair
by Murray Waas
August 13th, 2005 2:39 PM
=09





Rove consulted on three of Ashcroft=E2=80=99s political campaigns, earning
$746,000.
photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
Murray Waas will be writing more about the latest in the Plame affair
at www.whateveralready.blogspot.com.
Justice Department officials made the crucial decision in late 2003 to
appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of the identity
of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame in large part because
investigators had begun to specifically question the veracity of
accounts provided to them by White House deputy chief of staff Karl
Rove, according to senior law enforcement officials.

Several of the federal investigators were also deeply concerned that
then attorney general John Ashcroft was personally briefed regarding
the details of at least one FBI interview with Rove, despite
Ashcroft's own longstanding personal and political ties to Rove, the
Voice has also learned. The same sources said Ashcroft was also told
that investigators firmly believed that Rove had withheld important
information from them during that FBI interview.

Those concerns by senior career law enforcement officials regarding
the propriety of such briefings continuing, as Rove became more
central to the investigation, also was instrumental in the naming of
special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

Up until that point, the investigation had been conducted by a team of
career prosecutors and FBI agents, some of whom believed Ashcroft
should recuse himself. Democrats on Capitol Hill were calling for him
to step down, but he did not. Then on December 30, 2003, Ashcroft
unexpectedly recused himself from further overseeing the matter, and
James B. Comey, then deputy attorney general, named Patrick J.
Fitzgerald as the special prosecutor who would take over the case.

The Justice Department declined to publicly offer any explanation at
the time for either the recusal or the naming of a special
prosecutor=E2=80"an appointment that would ultimately place in potential
legal jeopardy senior advisers to the president of the United States,
and lead to the jailing of a New York Times reporter.

During his initial interview with the FBI, in the fall of 2003, Rove
did not disclose that he had ever discussed Plame with Time magazine
correspondent Matthew Cooper, according to two legal sources with
firsthand knowledge of the matter. Federal investigators were also
skeptical of claims by Rove that he had only first learned of Plame's
employment with the CIA from a journalist, even though he also claimed
he could not specifically recall the name of the journalist.

As the truthfulness of Rove's accounts became more of a focus of
investigators, career Justice Department employees and senior FBI
officials became even more concerned about the continuing role in the
investigation of Ashcroft, because of his close relationship with
Rove. Rove had earlier served as an adviser to Ashcroft during the
course of three political campaigns. And Rove=E2=80=99s onetime political
consulting firm had been paid more than $746,000 for those services.

In response to these new allegations, Representative John Conyers of
Michigan, the current ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary
Committee, and former chairman of the committee as well, said in a
statement: "There has long been the appearance of impropriety in
Ashcroft's handling of this investigation. The former attorney general
had well documented conflicts of interest in this matter, particularly
with regard to his personal relationship with Karl Rove. Among other
things, Rove was employed 

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"...China could use nuclear weapons against the United States in a
conflict over Taiwan. Given the potential cost of miscalculation over
the Taiwan Strait, one might have expected a stiff riposte from
Washington. None was forthcoming."

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3D1035084&C=3Dcommentary

Posted 08/15/05 14:57=20=20=09=20

Striking the Right Note With China
By DAVID J. SMITH

The dean of China=EF=BF=BDs prestigious National Defense University recentl=
y
remarked that China could use nuclear weapons against the United
States in a conflict over Taiwan. Given the potential cost of
miscalculation over the Taiwan Strait, one might have expected a stiff
riposte from Washington. None was forthcoming.

Next month, U.S. President George W. Bush will have an opportunity to
set things straight when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington.

Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu dropped his bombshell at a July 14 gathering of
Hong-Kong-based journalists, and it was first reported in the
Financial Times. The Pentagon demurred to comment, while State
Department spokesman Sean McCormack waited for the next daily briefing
to =EF=BF=BDhope that these are not the views of the Chinese government.=EF=
=BF=BD

McCormack=EF=BF=BDs subdued response teed up Shen Guofang, his Chinese Fore=
ign
Ministry counterpart, to assure us that what Zhu =EF=BF=BDtalked about were
just his personal views.=EF=BF=BD Within days, Zhu=EF=BF=BDs comments were
overshadowed by the announcement that the People=EF=BF=BDs Bank of China wo=
uld
revalue the renminbi.

Gaining action on China=EF=BF=BDs undervalued currency was a big victory fo=
r
Bush, but Washington is mistaken to let Zhu=EF=BF=BDs words pass so easily.

It is unlikely that Zhu was just expressing personal views =EF=BF=BD Chines=
e
two-star generals do not do that. Moreover, Zhu spoke at an event
organized by the Chinese government.

=EF=BF=BDIf the Americans are determined to interfere,=EF=BF=BD said Zhu, =
=EF=BF=BDwe will be
determined to respond.=EF=BF=BD If Chinese territory, including ships and
aircraft, were targeted, he said, =EF=BF=BDI think we will have to respond
with nuclear weapons.=EF=BF=BD

This, despite China=EF=BF=BDs official =EF=BF=BDno-first-use=EF=BF=BD polic=
y on nuclear
weapons, which, according to the Taipei Times, Zhu said the Chinese
leadership is under internal pressure to change.

If Zhu=EF=BF=BDs penchant for tough words had displeased his superiors, the=
y
have had ample time to reassign him to a road-building brigade in
Xinjiang. Writing of Taiwan and possible U.S. intervention in 2000,
then-Senior Col. Zhu said, =EF=BF=BDChina is a country that has certain
abilities of launching strategic counterattack and the capacity of
launching a long-distance strike.=EF=BF=BD

His article appeared in People=EF=BF=BDs Liberation Daily, the official org=
an
of the People=EF=BF=BDs Liberation Army (PLA). The PLA has since promoted h=
im.

Nor is Zhu alone. In 1996, Gen. Xiong Guang Kai, now No. 2 in the PLA,
argued that the United States would not come to Taiwan=EF=BF=BDs aid becaus=
e
China would =EF=BF=BDrain nuclear bombs on Los Angeles.=EF=BF=BD

Drawing Line on Taiwan

Zhu and Xiong may rankle Washington =EF=BF=BD probably even Beijing =EF=BF=
=BD but
their words reflect a certain logic that may not be at odds with
Chinese doctrine. Should there be a move toward =EF=BF=BDTaiwan independenc=
e,=EF=BF=BD
says China=EF=BF=BDs 2004 defense white paper, =EF=BF=BDthe Chinese people =
and armed
forces will resolutely and thoroughly crush it at any cost.=EF=BF=BD

In other words, a conflict over Taiwan is not one from which Beijing
could backpedal. Since China cannot match American conventional power
projection, U.S. involvement could lead it to consider nuclear
weapons, forcing rethought or redefinition of the =EF=BF=BDno-first-use=EF=
=BF=BD
policy. Zhu may have afforded us a glimpse into an ongoing internal
debate.

None of this is to say that China wants war over Taiwan or
confrontation with the United States. On the contrary, Zhu and Xiong
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"The terrorists aim for disruption on a dramatic scale, so the
destructive power of WMD has a clear attraction,"

Posted 08/15/05 15:57=20=20=09=20

Globalization Makes WMD Trafficking Easier: Singapore Minister
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, SINGAPORE

Globalization has made it easier for weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
to fall into terrorists=EF=BF=BD hands, Singapore Defense Minister Teo Chee
Hean said Aug. 15.

Teo was speaking at the start of a five-day exercise that is part of
the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to stop illegal
exports of weapons technology.

=EF=BF=BDThe terrorists aim for disruption on a dramatic scale, so the
destructive power of WMD has a clear attraction,=EF=BF=BD he said.

=EF=BF=BDShould the terrorists ever succeed in using WMD in their attacks, =
it
is not just the physical consequences that would be catastrophic.

=EF=BF=BDThe psychological impact, in terms of the fear that would permeate
across the globe, would be equally profound.=EF=BF=BD

Teo said globalization has made it easier for terrorists to acquire
WMD and they would do anything to get hold of such weapons.

=EF=BF=BDWith globalization has come the dense network of linkages across t=
he
world to enable the speedy and free flow of goods, people and ideas.
These linkages are necessary for economic growth,=EF=BF=BD Teo said.

=EF=BF=BDBut they have also created more conduits and opportunities for
proliferators to do their nasty business =EF=BF=BD proliferation is truly a
global enterprise.=EF=BF=BD

Teo said the PSI, launched by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003,
was one effective way for the world to stop such weapons from falling
into the hands of terrorists.

=EF=BF=BDPSI provides the international community with a useful means of
plugging the gaps in the existing counter-proliferation system,=EF=BF=BD sa=
id Teo.

=EF=BF=BDWhen domestic systems of export controls fail, and when the treaty
regimes are circumvented, PSI creates an effective mechanism for
states to work together to interdict WMD-related cargoes that are
already in transit by sea, air or land,=EF=BF=BD he said.

The PSI allows for the seizure of missiles and other potential
components of WMD while they are being transferred at sea or in the air.

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"The e-passport initiative has its roots in legislation passed by
Congress in May 2002 to improve border security. It called for 27
countries whose citizens don't need visas for entry into the USA to
convert to electronic passports by October 2004. Congress has since
delayed the deadline until October 2006."


http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-08-08-electronic-passports_x.htm

Electronic passports set to thwart forgers
By Roger Yu, USA TODAY
The U.S. passport is joining the digital age. After three years of
research and discussion, the State Department has finalized most of
the technical and logistical details of new, supposedly tamper-proof
passports embedded with a "smart-card" chip.
A "contactless smart chip and antenna" is flexible enough to embed
in the cover of a standard passport booklet.

If current plans hold, they'll become standard issue for U.S.
travelers as soon as February.

Proponents say the chip, which will contain the holder's personal data
and digital photo, should allow speedier entry at borders for most
travelers.

Because the chip's data can't be altered, proponents say, forging
passports will be virtually impossible. That, they say, gives
authorities a potent new anti-terrorism weapon.

When swiped across an electronic reader, the chip in the passport
wirelessly transmits data to a customs officer's computer screen. The
e-passport relies on radio frequency identification technology (RFID).
E-passport development
May 2002: The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act
requires the USA and other countries whose citizens don't need visas
for entering the USA to develop electronic passports.
The act sets a deadline of October 2004.

March 2004: The Bush administration asks Congress to delay the
deadline to October 2006 to allow participating countries more time to
address technical issues. Congress agrees.

April 2005: The State Department closes comment period, begins to firm
up plans for the new e-passport.

December 2005: State Department plans to test the new passport with
diplomats and select government officials.

February 2006: State Department expects to make e-passports available
to U.S. travelers.

Source: The State Department

The new passport looks much like the traditional type. But the
smart-card chip, embedded in the back page, makes it slightly thicker.
If the chip is broken or malfunctions, the holder can continue to use
the passport as a non-electronic passport, or buy a new one.

Once the new version is available, it would take up to a year for all
new passports to be issued in the new format. Americans with valid
traditional passports won't have to replace them until they expire.

The new passport will cost $97, or $12 more than the traditional version.

Initially, U.S. diplomats will use the e-passport as a test, probably
starting in December, says Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary of
State. If successful, the new passport will be available to the public
next year, possibly as early as February, Moss says.

Calls for better border security

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks prompted calls for improved border
security. The new e-passport is perhaps the most visible aspect of the
government's foray into digital technology for border control.

The e-passport has raised concerns among critics who say it lacks
adequate privacy safeguards. Wireless transmission of data compromises
security, and important personal data could fall into the wrong hands,
they say. With proper equipment, someone could remotely intercept
personal data, they say.

Wireless transmission could lead to what's called "skimming" or
"eavesdropping," says Cedric Laurant of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.

In skimming, an intruder secretly uses a device to read the chip's
data from as far away as several feet.
ELECTRONIC PASSPORTS
The new U.S. electronic passport will look like its predecessor in
size and shape, although it will be slightly thicker. Photos of owners
will still be included. How the new electronic features will be used:

What happens at passport control

(1) The officer swipes the data page through a special reader to read
the two lines of printed characters on the bottom of the data page.
This provides a key that';s unique to the passpor

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"The e-passport initiative has its roots in legislation passed by
Congress in May 2002 to improve border security. It called for 27
countries whose citizens don't need visas for entry into the USA to
convert to electronic passports by October 2004. Congress has since
delayed the deadline until October 2006."


http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-08-08-electronic-passports_x.htm

Electronic passports set to thwart forgers
By Roger Yu, USA TODAY
The U.S. passport is joining the digital age. After three years of
research and discussion, the State Department has finalized most of
the technical and logistical details of new, supposedly tamper-proof
passports embedded with a "smart-card" chip.
A "contactless smart chip and antenna" is flexible enough to 
embed
in the cover of a standard passport booklet.

If current plans hold, they'll become standard issue for U.S.
travelers as soon as February.

Proponents say the chip, which will contain the holder's personal data
and digital photo, should allow speedier entry at borders for most
travelers.

Because the chip's data can't be altered, proponents say, forging
passports will be virtually impossible. That, they say, gives
authorities a potent new anti-terrorism weapon.

When swiped across an electronic reader, the chip in the passport
wirelessly transmits data to a customs officer's computer screen. The
e-passport relies on radio frequency identification technology (RFID).
  E-passport development
May 2002: The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act
requires the USA and other countries whose citizens don't need visas
for entering the USA to develop electronic passports.
The act sets a deadline of October 2004.

March 2004: The Bush administration asks Congress to delay the
deadline to October 2006 to allow participating countries more time to
address technical issues. Congress agrees.

April 2005: The State Department closes comment period, begins to firm
up plans for the new e-passport.

December 2005: State Department plans to test the new passport with
diplomats and select government officials.

February 2006: State Department expects to make e-passports available
to U.S. travelers.

Source: The State Department

The new passport looks much like the traditional type. But the
smart-card chip, embedded in the back page, makes it slightly thicker.
If the chip is broken or malfunctions, the holder can continue to use
the passport as a non-electronic passport, or buy a new one.

Once the new version is available, it would take up to a year for all
new passports to be issued in the new format. Americans with valid
traditional passports won't have to replace them until they expire.

The new passport will cost $97, or $12 more than the traditional version.

Initially, U.S. diplomats will use the e-passport as a test, probably
starting in December, says Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary of
State. If successful, the new passport will be available to the public
next year, possibly as early as February, Moss says.

Calls for better border security

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks prompted calls for improved border
security. The new e-passport is perhaps the most visible aspect of the
government's foray into digital technology for border control.

The e-passport has raised concerns among critics who say it lacks
adequate privacy safeguards. Wireless transmission of data compromises
security, and important personal data could fall into the wrong hands,
they say. With proper equipment, someone could remotely intercept
personal data, they say.

Wireless transmission could lead to what's called "skimming" or
"eavesdropping," says Cedric Laurant of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.

In skimming, an intruder secretly uses a device to read the chip's
data from as far away as several feet.
  ELECTRONIC PASSPORTS  
The new U.S. electronic passport will look like its predecessor in
size and shape, although it will be slightly thicker. Photos of owners
will still be included. How the new electronic features will be used:

What happens at passport control

(1) The officer swipes the data page through a special reader to read
the two lines of printed characters on the botto

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WHEN A BRITON BLOWS UP A BRITON
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"Israel is the immediate suspect in any mass terror attack in the
world. Either it initiated the attack itself, as is commonly claimed
in the Arab media, or it knew in advance but did not prevent it, as in
the conspiracy theories that abounded after September 11, or its bad
behavior in the territories fed the suicidal urges of Arabs and
Muslims, as suggested by Blair and his fellow-Europeans."


WHEN A BRITON BLOWS UP A BRITON

=E2=96=BA Haaretz / by Aluf Benn
=E2=96=BA Intelligence Digest / by Glenmore Trenear-Harvey / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.com

Jul 28 2005 =E2=96=BA Jul 27. When Britons blow up other Britons in the
Underground, Prime Minister Tony Blair blames "critical issues in the
Middle East" that need to be "taken care of and sorted out" - and
everyone understands to whom he is referring. When scores of people
are killed in Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian commentator blames the
Mossad. Could this be the same commentator who accused Israeli
intelligence of blowing up the twin towers?

Israel is the immediate suspect in any mass terror attack in the
world. Either it initiated the attack itself, as is commonly claimed
in the Arab media, or it knew in advance but did not prevent it, as in
the conspiracy theories that abounded after September 11, or its bad
behavior in the territories fed the suicidal urges of Arabs and
Muslims, as suggested by Blair and his fellow-Europeans.

So what if the perpetrators of the terror attacks in London grew up in
the British welfare state and never knew what a roadblock, an
occupation or a Jewish settlement is? The important thing is that it
is possible to export the blame to the Jewish state.

These reactions are bothersome. It is not pleasant to hear that your
country bears such responsibility for the spread of international
evil, and the knowledge that these assertions are utter lies is no
consolation. Nevertheless, it is sometimes difficult to take the
defamers to task when Israel itself insists on butting in. Israel's
longing to be a part of the West and the enlightened world, and to
link Palestinian terror to some "international conspiracy" instead of
seeing it as a local problem oversteps the bounds of common sense and
reason. Sometimes it is best to remain silent and let others take care
of their own problems.

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom went to pay a condolence visit in
London this week. Before he departed for Britain he announced that he
would discuss "the terror attacks in London, Sharm and Israel" with
Blair, as if there was a connection between the explosions in the
Underground and the murder of the Kols near Kissufim or the firing of
Qassams. True, all of them were committed by Muslims, but so far no
deeper con-nection has been discovered.

After every terror attack abroad, reports are published to the effect
that the Mossad intelligence service had known something, had tracked
the perpetrators and had issued a warning that was ignored.=20

Pre-sumably the public relations people at the Mossad encourage such
reports, in the belief that the image of its "long arm" and
omniscience will encourage foreign services to cooperate and exchange
information with their colleagues in Israel. The problem is that one
who insists on appearing like the supreme fighter of international
terror is liable to create unnecessary enemies for himself.

The height of absurdity was reached by the front-page headline in the
mass circulation daily Maariv last Friday. The head of Military
Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze'evi Farkash, told the newspaper
about a plan he had submitted to the government wherein, in return for
suitable funding, within three years he would cause 70 percent of
international terror activity to be thwarted, assisting many
countries, "mainly in Europe." In that same "closed discussion,"
Farkash also said that Israel was not an Al Qaida target.

These remarks give rise to a number of questions: If Israel is not an
Al Qaida target, why should it make itself one? How does Farkash know
how to thwart "70 percent" of terror attacks, and not 69 percent or 82
percent? What does Military Intelligence know about Bin Laden and his
colleagues that is being kept from the CIA? And perhaps there is
something to accusations that Israel does not reveal everything to its
friends abroad?

Here 

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"I fear those na=C3=AFve Muslims who think that they are beating the West
have now achieved their worst crime of all. The West is now going to
war against not only Muslims, but also, sadly, Islam as a religion.
In this new cold and hot war, car bombs and suicide bombers here and
there will be no match for the arsenal that those Westerners are
putting together - an arsenal of laws, intelligence pooling,
surveillance by satellites, armies of special forces and indeed,
allies inside the Arab world who are tired of having their lives
disrupted by demented so-called jihadis or those bearded preachers
who, under the guise of preaching, do little to teach and much to
ignite the fire, those who know little about Islam and nothing about
humanity."


THE MUSLIM MIND IS ON FIRE
=E2=96=BA http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=3D20050726-073=
844-6818r

=E2=96=BA The Middle East Times / by Youssef M. Ibrahim [a former Middle Ea=
st
correspondent for The New York Times and energy editor of the Wall
Street Journal, is managing director of the Dubai-based Strategic
Energy Investment Group]
=E2=96=BA CCISS / by Martin Rudner / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jul 29 2005 =E2=96=BA Jul 28. The world of Islam is on fire. Indeed, the
Muslim mind is on fire. Above all, the West is now ready to take both
of them on.

The latest reliable report confirms that on average 33 Iraqis die
every day, executed by Iraqis and foreign jihadis and suicide bombers,
not by US or British soldiers. In fact, fewer than ever US or British
soldiers are dying since the invasion more than two years ago.
Instead, we now watch on television hundreds of innocent Iraqis lying
without limbs, bleeding in the streets dead or wounded for life. If
this is jihad someone got his religious education completely upside down.

Palestine is on fire, too, with Palestinian armed groups fighting one
another - Hamas against Fatah and all against the Palestinian
Authority. All have rendered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
impotent and have diminished the world's respect and sympathy for
Palestinian sufferings.

A couple of weeks ago London was on fire as Pakistani and other
Muslims with British citizenship blew up tube stations in the name of
Islam. Al Qaeda in Europe or one of its franchises proclaimed proudly
the killing of 54 and wounding 700 innocent citizens was done to
"avenge Islam" and Muslims.

Madrid was on fire, too, last year, when Muslim jihadis blew up train
stations killing 160 people and wounding a few thousands.

The excuse in all the above cases was the war in Iraq, but let us not
forget that in September 2001, long before Iraq, Osama Bin Laden
proudly announced that he ordered the killing of some 3,000 in the
United States, in the name of avenging Islam. Let us not forget that
the killing began a long time before the inva-sion of Iraq.

Indeed, jihadis have been killing for a decade in the name of Islam.
They killed innocent tourists and na-tives in Morocco and Egypt, in
Africa, in Indonesia and in Yemen, all done in the name of Islam by
Mus-lims who say that they are better than all other Muslims. They
killed in India, in Thailand and are now talk-ing of killing in
Germany and Denmark and so on. There were attacks with bombs that
killed scores inside Shia and Sunni mosques, inside churches and
inside synagogues in Turkey and Tunisia, with Muslim preachers saying
that it is okay to kill Jews and Christians - the so called infidels.

Above all, it is the Muslim mind that is on fire.

The Muslim fundamentalist who attacked the Dutch film director Theo
Van Gogh in the Netherlands, stabbed him more than 23 times then cut
his throat. He recently proudly proclaimed at his trial: "I did it
because my religion - Islam - dictated it and I would do it again if
were free." Which preacher told this guy this is Islam? That preacher
should be in jail with him.

Do the cowardly jihadis who recruit suicide bombers really think that
they will force the US Army and Brit-ish troops out of Iraq by killing
hundreds of innocent Iraqis? US troops now have bases and operate in
Iraq but also from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain
and Oman.

The only accomplishment of jihadis is that now they have aroused the
great "Western Tiger". There was a time when the United States and
Europ

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"Earl destroyed and stole national security documents while working
for Lt. Col. Oliver North during a se-cret arms deal with Iran in
which the United States passed money from those weapons sales to
Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua, according to a report to Congress by
independent counsel Lawrence Walsh."

PENTAGON CONFIRMS IRAN-CONTRA FIGURE IN SENIOR JOB
=E2=96=BA Reuters
=E2=96=BA http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3D967927&C=3Damericas
=E2=96=BA Defense News
=E2=96=BA Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade / by Frank Slijper /
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 29 2005 =E2=96=BA Jul 12. Robert Earl, who destroyed national security
documents during the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, is working as chief of
staff to acting Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, the Pen-tagon
said on July 11.
Earl destroyed and stole national security documents while working for
Lt. Col. Oliver North during a se-cret arms deal with Iran in which
the United States passed money from those weapons sales to Contra
guerrillas in Nicaragua, according to a report to Congress by
independent counsel Lawrence Walsh.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed Earl was a senior England
aide, a fact first reported in the Los Angeles Times on July 10. He
added, "I wonder why it's an issue now." "It was a long time ago,"
Whitman said. "He has served ably for many years in the department and
in industry." Earl was granted immunity for his testimony in the
Iran-Contra scandal and was never prosecuted.
John Ullyot, spokesman for Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman
John Warner, said the Penta-gon informed the committee about the
issue. He declined any further comment.=20
But congressional watchdog groups raised questions about the
administration's decision to give such a senior job to a person with a
record of tampering with the very kinds of classified national
security docu-ments he will now oversee. "That fact is that this is a
very sensitive and critical job," said Mary Boyle, spokeswoman for
Common Cause. "While it is true that people can pay their debts to
society ... this is a job that should be filled by someone who is
beyond reproach."






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"If people flee to southern Africa, it is because there is an
infrastructure there that can hide, move and protect them. One does
not wander into Zimbabwe and Zambia in the hope of finding those
things. The infrastructure exists as a safe harbor and arriving there
is not an accident. Zambia has surfaced in several other al Qaeda
cases, often with suspects tied to South Africa."

THE GROWING LONDON-AFRICA CONNECTION
=E2=96=BA http://www.douglasfarah.com/
=E2=96=BA Farah Douglas
Jul 30 2005 =E2=96=BA A prime suspect in the July 21 London bombing is
arrested in Zambia, after having earlier spent time in South Africa.
He reportedly entered Zambia through Zimbabwe. Two other suspects are
originally from East Africa. Seems like a disturbing pattern, again
highlighting the growing role of Sub-Saharan Africa in al Qaeda's
emphasis and infrastructure.
The passage of Haroon Rashid Aswat through Zimbabwe should be of
particular concern. The regime of Robert Mugabe is the successor to
the regime of Charles Taylor in Liberia, and is rapidly becoming a
functioning criminal enterprise that gives support and shelter to a
range of international criminal organiza-tions. If there is one state
that is ideal for harboring al Qaeda, like Liberia before it, it is
Zimbabwe, for all the same reasons: the ability of the regime to
control entry and exist points, access to government perks such as
diplmatic passports, protection by the security forces, and the other
reasons failed states with authoritarian regimes attract these groups.
As in Liberia, it is a serious mistake to think Mugabe (or Taylor) has
any ideological or religious affinity with al Qaeda or anyone else.
They deal with al Qaeda for money, to get back at the outside world
(par-ticularly the United States) and because they can. One of the
major misunderstandings of the FBI and CIA in the Liberia case was
their thinking and telling me and others that a Taylor-al Qaeda
convergence was impossible because Taylor was a Christian. Perhaps in
the loosest possible way, but he was primarily about money, not
religion. I hope the same misanalysis is not being applied in Zimbabwe.
Another important point: If people flee to southern Africa, it is
because there is an infrastructure there that can hide, move and
protect them. One does not wander into Zimbabwe and Zambia in the hope
of finding those things. The infrastructure exists as a safe harbor
and arriving there is not an accident. Zambia has surfaced in several
other al Qaeda cases, often with suspects tied to South Africa.
Not too long ago, my good friend Bobby Block, the intrepid Wall Street
Journal correspondent in Southern Africa for many years, wrote about
al Qaeda in Southern Africa and South Africa, as well as ties to the
tanzanite trade in Tanzania. Guess what happened next? He was
denounced not only by South Africa, but by the same agencies in this
country that dismissed my work. Interesting how, a few years later it
is clear that, had those warnings been heeded, perhaps the
infrastructure in an abandoned continent would not have grown to the
point of presenting a national security threat to the United States
and Europe.
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"The Turkish authorities reported that local cells linked to al Qaeda
had planned car bomb attacks on the Israeli tourists when they
disembarked at the harbor terminal and boarded the buses picking them
up for trips."

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=478

Al Qaeda terror threat diverts four Israeli cruise ships with 3,500
tourists from S. Turkish port of Alanya to Cyprus

August 6, 2005, 12:32 AM (GMT+02:00)

The alert was transmitted by Ankara which has imposed a blackout on
the investigation. Two vessels anchored Friday night, August 5, under
heavy Cypriot guard at Limassol and Larnaca. The location of the
fourth has not been revealed.

DEBKAfile adds: The Turkish authorities reported that local cells
linked to al Qaeda had planned car bomb attacks on the Israeli
tourists when they disembarked at the harbor terminal and boarded the
buses picking them up for trips.

They said al Qaeda and its affiliates had prepared a new offensive
against Israeli, Jewish, American and British targets on a scale
comparable to the 2003 Istanbul synagogue and British consulate bombings.

The Turkish police report 1,000 people in Istanbul alone are on their
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"The Islamist extremists whose rage the world is feeling today are
primarily Sunni MuslimsThose extremists see the Shiites as impure
and have no compunction about targeting Shiite civilians. For some
scholars of Islam, the US, in replacing a Sunni regime with a
Shiite-dominated one, faces unforeseen challenges as the shift in
power is worked out. Some see wider dangers as its neighbors jockey
for influence: What happens if turmoil in the new Iraq leads to an
open confrontation between a Shiite-dominated Iran and the Sunni-ruled
Saudi Arabia?

Experts also see trouble for the US if its eventual withdrawal from
Iraq opens the door to a Shiite-led cleansing of Sunni Muslims - the
much-discussed "civil war" that some Iraqis, including former Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi, say has already began.

"It could be very dangerous if the US pulled out entirely," says
Martha Crenshaw, a terrorism expert at Wesleyan University in
Connecticut. "The jihadists would say that is what the US wanted all
along, the extermination of the Sunnis in Iraq It could mean huge
new problems for the US."


http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0803/p04s01-wogi.html

World > Global Issues
from the August 03, 2005 edition

Special Briefing: Jihad: Who's joining, and why?
By Dan Murphy and Howard LaFranchi | Staff writers of The Christian
Science Monitor

In Tuesday's edition, a report in this space looked at the origins and
goals of Islamist militancy, and of Al Qaeda in particular. This
briefing explores how the movement is evolving at a time of concern
about terror cells in Western cities such as London.

Is the global jihad spreading to Europe?

It seems clear that this is happening. Events like the London
bombings, as well as online postings by Islamist extremists calling
Muslim brethren in Western countries to action, suggest to many
counterterrorism experts that the global jihad has entered a new
phase. All of the members of the London terror cells were longtime
residents of Britain, and some were born there, confirming the view
that Islamist extremism has taken root. While attacks appear to have
ebbed in places such as Indonesia, they have spread to what experts
consider the fertile ground of the "ummah" or Islamic community of Europe.

Who is joining the jihad?

Experts don't foresee jihadism becoming a mass movement. Still, if the
Al Qaeda ideology hooks a few hundred followers in countries with many
Muslim immigrants, that is enough to wreak havoc. Recruitment in
Europe is fueled by the sense of isolation and disappointment in
Western culture.

Another factor may be freedom of speech. Hate-filled rhetoric and
extremist ideals have been spread in European mosques and over the
airwaves, some experts point out, even as the governments of these
countries have pressed Muslim nations to curb the freedom and
teachings of radical clerics.

Is the same thing happening in America?

Perhaps not, or at least not as fast. Mainstream Muslim organizations
in America note that US Muslims differ from their counterparts in
Europe - they are generally more prosperous (often from more
prosperous backgrounds in their home countries) and less confined to
Muslim ghettos. Still, experts point out that the British Islamist
bombers were not living in poverty. The key problem appears to be
alienation that opens minds to radical thinking. And in that sense,
America may have a problem. Recent cases in Virginia and California
involving clerics allegedly recruiting young Muslims for jihad suggest
the dissemination of extremist ideals exists in isolated cases.

Are new groups emerging as Al Qaeda franchises, such as in Egypt?

The word "franchise" can be useful, hinting at how Al Qaeda might
inspire or indirectly fund an attack without organizing it. But the
word is misleading if it implies that terrorists are organized into
neat, understandable groups. For instance, if the "Abdallah Azzam
Brigades" were in fact behind last month's resort bombing at Sharm
el-Sheik, its surviving members are now on the run. If they manage to
evade capture, they may well emerge to strike again, but could do so
under a different name. Conversely, the brigades' claim of
responsibility could have come from an uninvolved sympathizer. The key
question is the overlapping personal relationshi

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Beating a restrained, helpless POW to death is a war crime under both
the U.S. Federal War Crimes Statute, international treaties and the
Geneva Convention.  Especially when the death, in a wired-up sleeping
bag, came after 16 days of massive physical abuse some would define as
torture.  

It is understandable why the details of the general's death are
classified.  If made public, the International Criminal Court and the
U.N. (weak as it is) could end up involved. Charges against both
military and CIA members could be filed by virtually anyone, including
the Hussein defense team which could use the issue as a distractor, or
by a U.S. anti-war group determined to push their agenda.

Also, regardless of any punishment meted out to the military members
by courts-martial, those military members could also be tried by the
ICC along with others who could be shown to have authorized or
participated in such actions.  

No wonder the Bush administration has fiercely resisted any
jurisdiction over the U.S. by the ICC and made waiver of such
jurisdiction a condition when granting favorable trade agreements or
other agreements with individual nations.  

I fully support the troops in Iraq fighting the murderous and
bloodthirsty insurgents and jihadis. And I understand that the
treatment of those rebel elements could differ radically from that
required to be provided to POWs.  

But POW treatment that conforms to law and international agreements is
essential in the long term to the safe and humane treatment of U.S.
POWs in any future conflict.  And key also to our perception that we
are a humane and law abiding nation.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941.html?nav=hcmodule

washingtonpost.com

Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs

Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi
Squad Are Among Details

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 3, 2005; A01

Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his
American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative
interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the
morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military
guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped
him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to
work. Again.

It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his
last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S.
soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. Two days
before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working
with Army interrogators, had beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using
fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents.

The sleeping bag was the idea of a soldier who remembered how his
older brother used to force him into one, and how scared and
vulnerable it made him feel. Senior officers in charge of the facility
near the Syrian border believed that such "claustrophobic techniques"
were approved ways to gain information from detainees, part of what
military regulations refer to as a "fear up" tactic, according to
military court documents.

The circumstances that led up to Mowhoush's death paint a vivid
example of how the pressure to produce intelligence for anti-terrorism
efforts and the war in Iraq led U.S. military interrogators to
improvise and develop abusive measures, not just at Abu Ghraib but in
detention centers elsewhere in Iraq, in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. Mowhoush's ordeal in Qaim, over 16 days in November 2003,
also reflects U.S. government secrecy surrounding some abuse cases and
gives a glimpse into a covert CIA unit that was set up to foment
rebellion before the war and took part in some interrogations during
the insurgency.

The sleeping-bag interrogation and beatings were taking place in Qaim
about the same time that soldiers at Abu Ghraib, outside Baghdad, were
using dogs to intimidate detainees, putting women's underwear on their
heads, forcing them to strip in front of female soldiers and attaching
at least one to a leash. It was a time when U.S. interrogators were
coming up with their own tactics to get detainees to talk, many of
which they cons

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Rebuild Ground Forces
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"Politicians publicly venerate the uniform, but both parties are
responsible for the hollowing out of our combat units. Iraq made the
problem critical, but it dates from the end of the Cold War and our
so-called peace dividend.

A key factor is the pernicious American fascination with bombardment
warfare at the expense of engagement warfare. Throughout history,
bombardment has been the complement and support to engagement forces.
In recent decades, the U.S. ability to strike targets with air and
naval power led many Americans to think that destroying and killing
from a distance is modern war.

This is wrong. Only a fool would compromise this country=EF=BF=BDs
extraordinary aviation and naval capabilities, but our experiences in
Afghanistan and Iraq are vivid reminders that war is still about
finding the enemy on his home ground and engaging him in a test of
both skill and will. This is the job of ground troops."

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Rebuild Ground Forces
U.S. Tech Focus Diminishes Infantryman=EF=BF=BDs Role

The debate on an exit strategy from Iraq focuses far too much on what
may be good for Iraq and not enough on what is important =EF=BF=BD even
essential =EF=BF=BD for America. The top of our priority list should be
restoring and rebuilding this country=EF=BF=BDs precious ground combat forc=
es:
the Army and Marine Corps.

Politicians publicly venerate the uniform, but both parties are
responsible for the hollowing out of our combat units. Iraq made the
problem critical, but it dates from the end of the Cold War and our
so-called peace dividend.

A key factor is the pernicious American fascination with bombardment
warfare at the expense of engagement warfare. Throughout history,
bombardment has been the complement and support to engagement forces.
In recent decades, the U.S. ability to strike targets with air and
naval power led many Americans to think that destroying and killing
from a distance is modern war.

This is wrong. Only a fool would compromise this country=EF=BF=BDs
extraordinary aviation and naval capabilities, but our experiences in
Afghanistan and Iraq are vivid reminders that war is still about
finding the enemy on his home ground and engaging him in a test of
both skill and will. This is the job of ground troops.

After the Soviet collapse, the notion got around Washington that
America could rely on technology for warfare and ground troops could
be utilized for other duties, like peacekeeping. President Bill
Clinton=EF=BF=BDs administration was particularly prone to finding things f=
or
our ground forces to do, even if secondary or tangential to U.S.
national interests.

Worse, the post-Cold War force was restructured to depend on Reserve
and National Guard units for any substantial or sustained deployment,
meaning these backup units had already experienced multiple call-ups
before America was attacked.

After 9/11, we had a golden opportunity to expand our active-duty
forces, as young Americans were willing and able. Unfortunately, that
opportunity was lost, with blame at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Today=EF=BF=BDs reality is what Gen. Eric Shinseki, former Army chief of
staff, warned about: an Army with many more obligations than
battalions. Each day=EF=BF=BDs news proves there is no substitute for ample
infantry when facing a determined and resourceful enemy.

While technology, air power, intelligence and logistics are vital
complements to the infantryman, there is no substitute for him.

Sadly, the news also shows the continuing erosion of our ground
forces. The hemorrhage of talented noncommissioned officers =EF=BF=BD the
backbone of any great army =EF=BF=BD and of junior officers is far more
ominous than recruiting shortfalls.

Among veterans with long memories, there is talk of the generation it
took to rebuild America=EF=BF=BDs ground forces after Vietnam. Will we have=
 a
generation of peace after Iraq to do it again? Hopefully, the task
will not be nearly so bad. The drug culture, racial tensions and
poisonous political atmosphere of those days do not afflict our troops
now. There is, however, no basis for complacency.

The state of the Reserves and National Guard is perhaps more serious
today. Worse is the pirating of 

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"Russia and Japan never signed a peace treaty formally ending their
World War II hostilities and the dispute over the islands remains a
major obstacle to improved bilateral relations despite much talk in
Moscow and Tokyo since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union about
resolving the argument."

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Posted 07/28/05 13:21=20=20=09=20

Kurils Impasse "No Big Deal": Russian Defense Minister
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MOSCOW

A half-century dispute between Russia and Japan over possession of the
Kuril Islands remains at an impasse but this is =EF=BF=BDno big deal=EF=BF=
=BD, Russian
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said July 28.

=EF=BF=BDIt is obvious that resolution of the territorial dispute with Japa=
n
on possession of the Kuril Islands is at an impasse,=EF=BF=BD ITAR-TASS New=
s
Agency quoted Ivanov as saying during a visit to the Kamchatka
peninsula in Russia=EF=BF=BDs Far East.

=EF=BF=BDI see no big deal in this impasse,=EF=BF=BD he said, noting that d=
espite
their argument over the islands, occupied by Soviet troops in the
closing days of World War II and known in Japan as the Northern
Territories, the armed forces of two countries cooperated today on a
friendly basis.

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"...the greatest combat threat the Chinese pose to the United States
is a �tremendous capability to turn out a lot of conventionally tipp=
ed
ballistic missiles.� Should the Chinese develop an ability to maneuv=
er
those missiles � rather than have them simply fall from a ballistic
target track � �that would be a significant denial capability=
,"

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3D934527&C=3Damerica

Posted 07/25/05 15:18=20=20=09=20

China-U.S. Sea Showdown Predicted
By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS And ANDREW SCUTRO

On July 19, the Pentagon finally released its annual assessment of
China�s military strength. It was expected months earlier but was
reportedly held up because of its extreme sensitivity.

The 45-page, congressionally mandated report for 2005 finds that the
People�s Republic has continued modernizing its armed forces to clos=
e
a �perceived technology gap between modern Western forces and its
own,� while refining its doctrine to include asymmetric and
unconventional means.

The report estimates China�s 2005 defense budget to be $90 billion,
behind only the U.S. and Russia, �the largest in Asia� and ju=
st a
fraction of the U.S.�s roughly half-trillion-dollar defense budget.

The report � vetted by other agencies and departments � inclu=
des
inventories of China�s intercontinental ballistic missile force, whi=
ch
can hit all of the United States except southern Florida. Its
expanding naval and air forces as well as geopolitical considerations,
like the demand for oil to fuel its economy, are highlighted.

Of particular interest to the U.S. Navy is China�s acquisition of
eight quiet Russian-built, Kilo-class submarines and four
Sovremenny-class destroyers. Any Chinese aspirations to create a
global navy seem to be remote with the absence of aircraft carriers or
significant replenishment assets.

Also of concern has been China�s possible development of
over-the-horizon sensors and guided ballistic missiles for use against
ships, although few details are given in the report.

China�s naval buildup is a natural consequence of its strategic
position, an Asian affairs analyst told a Washington audience June 20.

�From a Beijing point of view,� retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. M=
ichael
McDevitt said at an American Enterprise Institute seminar on future
U.S. Navy strategy, �the vast majority of their outstanding,
unresolved sovereignty or strategic issues are maritime in nature.�

As a result, McDevitt said, �control of the western Pacific by the
U.S. Navy is certainly the greatest potential spoiler� of Chinaʏ=
33;s
ability to deal with those issues.

McDevitt, an East Asia expert with the Center for Naval Analyses�
Center for Strategic Studies, Washington, said the greatest combat
threat the Chinese pose to the United States is a �tremendous
capability to turn out a lot of conventionally tipped ballistic
missiles.� Should the Chinese develop an ability to maneuver those
missiles � rather than have them simply fall from a ballistic target
track � �that would be a significant denial capability,ᦙ=
3; he said.

Bob Work, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary
Assessments, said concern about Chinese military expansion does not
automatically translate into conflict. He said the U.S. Navy logically
would take the measure of any rising and potentially competitive
military power.

The Navy wants to maintain a �hedge against a disruptive maritime
competition in China.� But, he added, such a hedge �doesnA=
533;t mean you
have to fight them.�

McDevitt recommended several courses for the Navy to counter China�s
rise in maritime power:

=95 Maintain air superiority in the Taiwan Strait as a barrier to
Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

=95 Prepare to disrupt the targeting system China would use to control
ballistic missiles, and develop a capability to destroy the missiles
in flight.

=95 Improve its anti-submarine capabilities.

=95 Move more nuclear attack subs from Atlantic to Pacific.

The model for Chinese naval development seems to be �the Soviet Unio=
n
sea-denial strategy, updated with Chinese characteristics,� McDevitt
said, noting such a force would feature land-based aircraft carrying
cruise missiles. The strategy includes using subs offensively, similar
to what the Soviets did, and creating a �modest� amphibiou

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"They say, 'I'm going to support those people, I believe in those
people and God bless those people,' " he said. "By doing that, they
can wash their hands of it."


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/politics/24troops.html

July 24, 2005
All Quiet on the Home Front, and Some Soldiers Are Asking Why
By THOM SHANKER

WASHINGTON, July 23 - The Bush administration's rallying call that
America is a nation at war is increasingly ringing hollow to men and
women in uniform, who argue in frustration that America is not a
nation at war, but a nation with only its military at war.

>From bases in Iraq and across the United States to the Pentagon and
the military's war colleges, officers and enlisted personnel quietly
raise a question for political leaders: if America is truly on a war
footing, why is so little sacrifice asked of the nation at large?

There is no serious talk of a draft to share the burden of fighting
across the broad citizenry, and neither Republicans nor Democrats are
pressing for a tax increase to force Americans to cover the $5 billion
a month in costs from Iraq, Afghanistan and new counterterrorism missions.

There are not even concerted efforts like the savings-bond drives or
gasoline rationing that helped to unite the country behind its
fighting forces in wars past.

"Nobody in America is asked to sacrifice, except us," said one officer
just back from a yearlong tour in Iraq, voicing a frustration now
drawing the attention of academic specialists in military sociology.

Members of the military who discussed their sense of frustration did
so only when promised anonymity, as comments viewed as critical of the
civilian leadership could end their careers. The sentiments were
expressed in more than two dozen interviews and casual conversations
with enlisted personnel, noncommissioned officers, midlevel officers,
and general or flag officers in Iraq and in the United States.

Charles Moskos, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University
specializing in military sociology, said: "My terminology for it is
'patriotism lite,' and that's what we're experiencing now in both
political parties. The political leaders are afraid to ask the public
for any real sacrifice, which doesn't speak too highly of the citizenry."

Senior administration officials say they are aware of the tension and
have opened discussions on whether to mobilize brigades of Americans
beyond those already signed up for active duty or in the Reserves and
National Guard. At the Pentagon and the State Department, officials
have held preliminary talks on creating a Civilian Reserve, a sort of
Peace Corps for professionals.

In an interview, Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for
policy, said that discussions had begun on a program to seek
commitments from bankers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, electricians,
plumbers and solid-waste disposal experts to deploy to conflict zones
for months at a time on reconstruction assignments, to relieve
pressure on the military.

When President Bush last addressed the issue of nationwide support for
the war effort in a formal speech, he asked Americans to use the
Fourth of July as a time to "find a way to thank the men and women
defending our freedom by flying the flag, sending a letter to our
troops in the field or helping the military family down the street."

In the speech, at Fort Bragg, N.C., on June 28, Mr. Bush mentioned a
Defense Department Web site, Americasupportsyou.mil, where people can
learn about private-sector efforts to bolster the morale of the
troops. He also urged those considering a career in the military to
enlist because "there is no higher calling than service in our armed
forces."

While officers and enlisted personnel say they enjoy symbolic signs of
support, and the high ratings the military now enjoys in public
opinion polls, "that's just not enough," said a one-star officer who
served in Iraq. "There has to be more," he added, saying that the
absence of a call for broader national sacrifice in a time of war has
become a near constant topic of discussion among officers and enlisted
personnel.

"For most Americans," said an officer with a year's experience in
Iraq, "their role in the war on terror is limited to the slight
inconvenience of arriving at the airport a fe

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"So far the disclosures about the involvement of Karl Rove, among
others, have not exacted any substantial political price from the
administration. And nobody has suggested that the investigation
directly implicates the president.

Yet Mr. Bush has yet to address some uncomfortable questions that he
may not be able to evade indefinitely."

And Rove and Libby may find themselves indicted for obstruction of
justice and lying under oath if they can't reconcile differences
between their sworn testimony and the testimony given by journalists
that contradicts the Rove and Libby versions.  At that point, Bush43
may have to either fire them or apply his Texas twang to the phrase,
"I am not a crook."

David Bier

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/politics/24bush.html

July 24, 2005
For Bush, Effect of Investigation of C.I.A. Leak Case Is Uncertain
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON

WASHINGTON, July 23 - His former secretary of state, most of his
closest aides and a parade of other senior officials have testified to
a grand jury. His political strategist has emerged as a central figure
in the case, as has his vice president's chief of staff. His spokesman
has taken a pounding for making public statements about the matter
that now appear not to be accurate.

For all that, it is still not clear what the investigation into the
leak of a C.I.A. operative's identity will mean for President Bush. So
far the disclosures about the involvement of Karl Rove, among others,
have not exacted any substantial political price from the
administration. And nobody has suggested that the investigation
directly implicates the president.

Yet Mr. Bush has yet to address some uncomfortable questions that he
may not be able to evade indefinitely.

For starters, did Mr. Bush know in the fall of 2003, when he was
telling the public that no one wanted to get to the bottom of the case
more than he did, that Mr. Rove, his longtime strategist and senior
adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of
staff, had touched on the C.I.A. officer's identity in conversations
with journalists before the officer's name became public? If not, when
did they tell him, and what would the delay say in particular about
his relationship with Mr. Rove, whose career and Mr. Bush's have been
intertwined for decades?

Then there is the broader issue of whether Mr. Bush was aware of any
effort by his aides to use the C.I.A. officer's identity to undermine
the standing of her husband, a former diplomat who had publicly
accused the administration of twisting its prewar intelligence about
Iraq's nuclear program.

For the last several weeks, Mr. Bush and his spokesman, Scott
McClellan, have declined to address the leak in any substantive way,
citing the continuing federal criminal investigation.

But Democrats increasingly see an opportunity to raise questions about
Mr. Bush's credibility, and to reopen a debate about whether the White
House leveled with the nation about the urgency of going to war with
Iraq. And even some Republicans say Mr. Bush cannot assume that he
will escape from the investigation politically unscathed.

"Until all the facts come out, no one is really going to know who the
fickle finger of fate points at," said Tony Fabrizio, a Republican
pollster.

The case centers on how the name of a C.I.A. operative came to be
appear two years ago in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak, who
identified her by her maiden name, Valerie Plame. The operative, who
is more usually known as Valerie Wilson, is married to Joseph C.
Wilson IV, a former diplomat who had publicly accused the
administration eight days before Mr. Novak's column of twisting some
of the intelligence used to justify going to war with Iraq. Under some
conditions, the disclosure of a covert intelligence agent's name can
be a federal crime.

The special prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, has kept a
tight curtain of secrecy around his investigation. But he spent more
than an hour in the Oval Office on June 24, 2004, interviewing Mr.
Bush about the case. Mr. Bush was not under oath, but he had his
personal lawyer for the case, James E. Sharp, with him.

Neither the White House nor the Justice Department has said what Mr.
Bush was asked about, but prosecutors do no

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London Blasts Claimed by Al Qaeda
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Today's blasts in London have been claimed by Al Qaeda's European
chapter, Qaeda't al-Jihad in Europe.

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000884.php

London Blasts Claimed by Al Qaeda

Today's blasts in London have been claimed by Al Qaeda's European
chapter, Qaeda't al-Jihad in Europe. A statement has been posted on a
site often used by Qaeda agents, www.qal3ati.com. The statement
follows (translated by one of my staff here in Baghdad):

Announcement on London's Operation 7/7/2005

   Jamaat al-Tandheem Al-Sierri (secret organization group)
   Organization of Qaeda't al-Jihad in Europe

   In the name of God the most merciful...

   Rejoice the nation of Islam, rejoice nation of Arabs, the time of
revenge has come for the crusaders' Zionist British government.

   As retaliation for the massacres which the British commit in Iraq
and Afghanistan, the mujahideen have successfully done it this time in
London.

   And this is Britain now burning from fear and panic from the north
to the south, from the east to the west.

   We have warned the brutish governments and British nation many times.

   And here we are, we have done what we have promised. We have done
a military operation after heavy work and planning, which the
mujahideen have done, and it has taken a long time to ensure the
success of this operation.

   And we still warn the government of Denmark and Italy, all the
crusader governments, that they will have the same punishment if they
do not pull their forces out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

   So beware.

   Thursday 7/7/2005
   Jamaat al-Tandheem Al-Sierri (secret organization group)
   Organization of al Qaeda't al-Jihad in Europe.

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"The Palestinian Jihad Islami plans this week to commemorate the 10th
anniversary of its founder, Fathi Shikaki=E2=80=99s assassination in Malta.=
 He
took five bullets from two motorcyclists as he stepped out of his
Malta hotel in October 1995."

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=3D1048

Why Film Director Steven Spielberg Should Avoid Malta this week

DEBKAfile Exclusive Counter-terror Report

July 2, 2005, 2:23 PM (GMT+02:00)

Wednesday, June 30, Steven Spielberg began filming in Malta the
highly-charged account of the undercover Mossad team which was ordered
by the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir to hunt down and
assassinate Palestinian terrorists after the massacre of Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Conscious of the project=E2=80=99s extreme sensitivity, Spielberg has
surrounded himself with advisers from outside the film world. They
include President Clinton=E2=80=99s former Middle East envoy Dennis Ross, h=
is
White House spokesman Mike McCurry and Allan Mayer, a Hollywood
specialist in crisis communications. Ross is liaising with the Israeli
government.

While the operation may be seen as Israel=E2=80=99s first targeted
assassinations of terrorists, Spielberg is quoted by the New York
Times as noting: =E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s easy to look back at historic events=
 with the
benefit of hindsight. What=E2=80=99s not so easy is to try to see things as
they must have looked to people at the time.=E2=80=9D

But the director adds: =E2=80=9CBy experiencing how the implacable resolve =
of
these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling
doubts=E2=80=A6 I think we can learn something important about the tragic
standoff we find ourselves in today.=E2=80=9D

Spielberg=E2=80=99s interest in making the film appears to transcend the
Israel-Palestinian conflict.

He called the Munich attack by Black September, an arm of the Fatah,
and the Israeli response =E2=80=9Ca defining moment in the modern history o=
f
the Middle East. It bears, he said, on the question of a civilized
nation=E2=80=99s proper response to terrorism. The film will be shot in Mal=
ta,
Budapest and New York.

DEBKAfile=E2=80=99s counter-terror experts comment that, while these aspect=
s
of the film are compelling, the filmmakers=E2=80=99 security also requires
proper attention to the defining elements of terrorism, prior
intelligence. Our sources say this is not a good week to start
shooting in Malta. The director of the War of the Worlds and his crew
would be well advised to give the Mediterranean island a wide berth
for the moment because of certain events that might even place them in
harm=E2=80=99s way..

The Palestinian Jihad Islami plans this week to commemorate the 10th
anniversary of its founder, Fathi Shikaki=E2=80=99s assassination in Malta.=
 He
took five bullets from two motorcyclists as he stepped out of his
Malta hotel in October 1995. The killers identified their quarry
although he had shaved off his beard and wore a large wig. Israel has
never either confirmed or denied that the killers were Mossad. Under
Shikaki=E2=80=99s leadership, Jihad murdered dozens of Israelis in terroris=
t
attacks. This murderous campaign continues under his successor up
until the present day.

According to our sources, US and Israeli security authorities are
worried that the Jihad Islami may typically decide to mark its
commemoration date by hitting American or Israeli targets somewhere in
the Middle East.

Jihad has more than one reason for lashing out in the coming few days.

Its kingmaker, Professor Sami Aal-Arian, is on trial in Florida for
conspiracy to collect funds for the Jihad Islami=E2=80=99s terrorist
operations against Israel. Many Israeli victims of the organization=E2=80=
=99s
terrorist attacks have been called to testify.

The prosecution=E2=80=99s case against the professor uncovers his close tie=
s
with Shikaki. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 209 of June 10 relates how in 1990, the
dead leader=E2=80=99s successor and current chief Abdallah Ramadan Shalah w=
as
brought over to America by al-Arian who helped him find a lecturing
post at South Florida University and a place on the American academic
scene.

It is worth considering the possibility of the concatenation of date,
US trial, and the filming

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"The Palestinian Jihad Islami plans this week to commemorate the 10th
anniversary of its founder, Fathi Shikaki=E2=80=99s assassination in Malta.=
 He
took five bullets from two motorcyclists as he stepped out of his
Malta hotel in October 1995."

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=3D1048

Why Film Director Steven Spielberg Should Avoid Malta this week

DEBKAfile Exclusive Counter-terror Report

July 2, 2005, 2:23 PM (GMT+02:00)

Wednesday, June 30, Steven Spielberg began filming in Malta the
highly-charged account of the undercover Mossad team which was ordered
by the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir to hunt down and
assassinate Palestinian terrorists after the massacre of Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Conscious of the project=E2=80=99s extreme sensitivity, Spielberg has
surrounded himself with advisers from outside the film world. They
include President Clinton=E2=80=99s former Middle East envoy Dennis Ross, h=
is
White House spokesman Mike McCurry and Allan Mayer, a Hollywood
specialist in crisis communications. Ross is liaising with the Israeli
government.

While the operation may be seen as Israel=E2=80=99s first targeted
assassinations of terrorists, Spielberg is quoted by the New York
Times as noting: =E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s easy to look back at historic events=
 with the
benefit of hindsight. What=E2=80=99s not so easy is to try to see things as
they must have looked to people at the time.=E2=80=9D

But the director adds: =E2=80=9CBy experiencing how the implacable resolve =
of
these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling
doubts=E2=80=A6 I think we can learn something important about the tragic
standoff we find ourselves in today.=E2=80=9D

Spielberg=E2=80=99s interest in making the film appears to transcend the
Israel-Palestinian conflict.

He called the Munich attack by Black September, an arm of the Fatah,
and the Israeli response =E2=80=9Ca defining moment in the modern history o=
f
the Middle East. It bears, he said, on the question of a civilized
nation=E2=80=99s proper response to terrorism. The film will be shot in Mal=
ta,
Budapest and New York.

DEBKAfile=E2=80=99s counter-terror experts comment that, while these aspect=
s
of the film are compelling, the filmmakers=E2=80=99 security also requires
proper attention to the defining elements of terrorism, prior
intelligence. Our sources say this is not a good week to start
shooting in Malta. The director of the War of the Worlds and his crew
would be well advised to give the Mediterranean island a wide berth
for the moment because of certain events that might even place them in
harm=E2=80=99s way..

The Palestinian Jihad Islami plans this week to commemorate the 10th
anniversary of its founder, Fathi Shikaki=E2=80=99s assassination in Malta.=
 He
took five bullets from two motorcyclists as he stepped out of his
Malta hotel in October 1995. The killers identified their quarry
although he had shaved off his beard and wore a large wig. Israel has
never either confirmed or denied that the killers were Mossad. Under
Shikaki=E2=80=99s leadership, Jihad murdered dozens of Israelis in terroris=
t
attacks. This murderous campaign continues under his successor up
until the present day.

According to our sources, US and Israeli security authorities are
worried that the Jihad Islami may typically decide to mark its
commemoration date by hitting American or Israeli targets somewhere in
the Middle East.

Jihad has more than one reason for lashing out in the coming few days.

Its kingmaker, Professor Sami Aal-Arian, is on trial in Florida for
conspiracy to collect funds for the Jihad Islami=E2=80=99s terrorist
operations against Israel. Many Israeli victims of the organization=E2=80=
=99s
terrorist attacks have been called to testify.

The prosecution=E2=80=99s case against the professor uncovers his close tie=
s
with Shikaki. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 209 of June 10 relates how in 1990, the
dead leader=E2=80=99s successor and current chief Abdallah Ramadan Shalah w=
as
brought over to America by al-Arian who helped him find a lecturing
post at South Florida University and a place on the American academic
scene.

It is worth considering the possibility of the concatenation of date,
US trial, and the filming

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"A judge also has issued a separate arrest warrant for Omar, news
agencies ANSA and Apcom said. In that warrant, Judge Guido Salvini
claimed the seizure of Omar represented a violation of Italian
sovereignty, Apcom reported."

Sounds like a tricky way to generate an Interpol warrant which might
cause the Egyptian government to cough up Omar out of prison where he
undoubtedly ended up after intercept of his phone calls about the torture.

David Bier

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Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents

Jun 24, 9:28 AM (ET)

By AIDAN LEWIS 

ROME (AP) - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents
for allegedly helping deport an imam to Egypt as part of U.S.
anti-terrorism efforts, an Italian official familiar with the
investigation said Friday.

The agents are suspected in the seizure of an Egyptian-born imam
identified as Abu Omar on the streets of Milan in February 2003,
according to the official, who requested anonymity because he was not
authorized to release the information.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome declined to comment.

Prosecutors believe the agents seized Omar as part of the CIA's
"extraordinary rendition" program, in which terror suspects are
transferred to third countries without court approval, according to
reports Friday in newspapers Corriere della Sera and Il Giorno.

Investigators traced the agents through check-in details at Milan
hotels and their use of Italian cell phones during the operation, the
reports said. All the agents are American and include three women, Il
Giorno said.

The reports said another six agents were being investigated for
helping prepare the operation.

They said police also received an eyewitness account from an Egyptian
woman who heard Omar calling for help and saw him being bundled into a
white van as he walked from his house to a mosque.

The report said Omar was taken to Aviano, a joint U.S.-Italian base
north of Venice, and was flown from there to another U.S. air base in
Ramstein, Germany, before being taken in a second jet to Cairo.

A judge also has issued a separate arrest warrant for Omar, news
agencies ANSA and Apcom said. In that warrant, Judge Guido Salvini
claimed the seizure of Omar represented a violation of Italian
sovereignty, Apcom reported.

Earlier this month, Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro told The
Associated Press that the prosecution was treating the disappearance
of Omar as an abduction.

Spataro declined to say who was suspected for the alleged abduction,
but he said Omar's disappearance damaged an ongoing operation by
Italian authorities. He said he visited the air base in February.

Omar was believed to have fought with jihadists in Afghanistan and
Bosnia, and prosecutors were seeking evidence against him before his
disappearance, according to a report last year in La Repubblica
newspaper, which cited intelligence officials.

Italian papers have reported that Omar, 42, called his wife and
friends in Milan after his release last year, recounting he had been
seized by Italian and American agents and taken to a secret prison in
Egypt, where he was tortured with electric shocks.

Italian officials believe he now is living in Egypt, although Italian
newspaper accounts suggested he was returned to custody shortly after
his release.






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http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=3D583190

The Service Oil Pipeline

The imprisonment of YUKOS's owners and the division of their legacy
was a powerful incentive to the development of democracy in Russia. It
is not inconceivable that a two-party system will finally appear in
the country: OOO Liberalneftegaz and ZAO Patriotneftegaz will be
competing for power and property.
What will happen to Russian statehood in the nine years that former
executives and still the largest owners of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky
and Platon Lebedev must serve in a medium-security prison camp
according to the sentence handed down by the Meshchansky Court? For
the time being, the following is most probable scenario for the
development of events on Russia's oil and gas scene: genuine
competition and a progressive movement towards democracy will appear
by 2006. Instead of a single political hydrocarbon concern, i.e.,
Presidential Administration =96 Gazprom =96 Rosneft =96 United Russia with
subsidiaries in the White House and the Prosecutor General's Office,
two competing structures will appear =96 OOO Liberalneftegaz and ZAO
Patriotneftegaz =96 representing the two most popular ideologies in
Russia in both corporate policy and business practice.

Khodorkovsky accomplished a fair amount in the recent history of the
Russian economy. Leaving aside State Prosecutor Shokhin's ideas of the
achievements of YUKOS's management in the organized crime business,
which are of little use for discussion anywhere except in the
Meshchansky Court, you can't ignore the fact that it was Khodorkovsky
who influenced the formation of two parties in near-Kremlin circles (a
group of like-mined people in the old European interpretation of this
term). And a juicy chunk of YUKOS property, Yuganskneftegaz, which,
during its owner's time in prison, was thrown out for division into
the political and economic field and became the missing link for the
splitting of these parties in the business environment. We have only
to wait until the parties form into holdings in the business field and
into political parties in the political field. In the purely human
sense, it seems that a division into us and them has already occurred
in the Kremlin, despite the appeals of Vladimir Putin and the head of
his administration, Dmitry Medvedev to preserve unity in the face of
ill-wishers.

 Photo: Dmitry Azarov=09
Dmitry Medvedev, head of OOO Liberalneftegaz

In principle, you could very well say that Khodorkovsky's fate was not
decided in the Meshchansky Court, the Kremlin, in Old Square, or at
meetings at Rosimushchestvo, where an unprecedented battle for and
against the merger of Gazprom and Rosneft took place in the spring of
2005. Recall that it was Yuganskneftegaz that decided the fate of the
deal during a murky Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) auction held
on December 19, 2004. Rosneft's purchase of Yuganskneftegaz became the
main argument against the formation of the largest oil and gas company
in Russia, which was supposed to emerge from the united Gazprom and
Rosneft and in which the state had a controlling interest.

The formation of the order-bearing, efficient, socially oriented state
company Gosneftegaz based on Gazprom in a quasi-compulsory alliance
with Surgutneftegaz and Transneft was almost declared outright, for
example, in documents dealing with development strategies for the oil
and gas reserves of Eastern Siberia and the Far East. But
Yuganskneftegaz, which went to Rosneft in the end, wrecked this
orderly plan. As a result of a compromise in the Kremlin and
surroundings, each kept its own.

But what does "its own" mean? The dispute between Medvedev and Igor
Sechin, the chairmen of the boards of Gazprom and Rosneft,
respectively, led the Russian government elite to create two state oil
and gas companies, which were supposed to take shape by the end of the
summer of 2005. The first was Rosneft, which already controlled 60
percent of YUKOS's production and probably controlled the remaining 40
percent of production and at least part of the refining operations.
The second was Gazprom. Officially, it received nothing; but there was
a very high possibility that the $8-10 billion it was supposed to
receive from the state through Rosneft loans would be spent on oil
projects

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"...April 23, the Khuzestan Front's No. 2 leader Said Taher Naamahad
paid a secret visit to the White House."=20

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=3D1040

Ethnic Arab Intifada Targets Richest Iranian Oil Resource

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report from Iran

June 14, 2005, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)

On the march against the Tehran regime since April, the ethnic Arab
rebels of Iran's southwest province of Khuzestan have for the first
time struck an Iranian oil target. This attack, revealed here by
DEBKAfile's Exclusive Iranian sources, took place Wednesday, June 8.
The guerrillas struck the new petrochemical installations of the
Karoun Oil and Gas Production's drilling and well services, east of
the provincial capital of Ahwaz.

Saturday night, June 11, President Mohammed Khatami flew in to the
restive region which supplies 80% of Iran's oil output to assess the
damage.

Four hours after he returned to Tehran, Arab guerrillas detonated four
bombs in Ahwaz =96 one at least by a suicide bomber - against the
Iranian planning ministry near the governor's seat, the central post
office, the housing ministry and the home of the Tehran-appointed
director of the local television station. At least eight people were
killed, up to 35 injured

Later Sunday, June 12, a busy Tehran square was the scene of another
bombing attack, the first the Iranian capital had experienced in a
decade. One person was killed, according to the Iranian interior ministry.

The Khuzestan Arab guerrillas, calling their movement Nahda
(Renaissance), hit the two Iranians cities five days before the June
17 presidential election. They brought to a climax bombing attacks for
weeks against trains, banks and government buildings - and most
recently nightly shooting attacks on the Ahwaz campaign offices of
presidential candidates Hashemi Rafshanjani and former Revolutionary
Guards commander Mohsein Rezai. Nahda appears to represent a coalition
of Khuzestan's at least eight anti-government groups.

About two weeks ago, Iranian security arrested thousands of Arab
community leaders in Khuzestan, releasing them later against bonds
running into hundreds of thousands of dollars against their abstinence
from anti-government activities. A second round of mass arrests took
place Sunday. Khuzestani Internet links were also cut.

The ethnic Arabs of Khuzestan, some 3% of Iran's 67 million
inhabitants, are now threatening to boycott next Thursday's election.
This organized protest by the 2 million Shiite Arab inhabitants of
Iran's most abundant oil center would be a severe blow for the Islamic
regime.

Teheran has accused US and British intelligence of engineering Arab
unrest in Khuzestan from across the border in Iraq. Iraq Kurds are
also believed to be assisting the rebels. The Iranians countered two
weeks ago by halting all Iranian pilgrimage to Iraqi Shiite shrines,
virtually shutting their borders with Iraq. Iranian Arabs, mostly
Shiites, had been making regular pilgrimages to Najef and Karbala in
the last two years. Officials in Tehran accused US and Iraqi
intelligence of recruiting these pilgrims and sending them back home
trained for anti-government guerrilla action.

On April 22, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 203 lead article explored the Khuzestan
Arab Spring offensive. On May 6, DNW 204 revealed that April 23, the
Khuzestan Front's No. 2 leader Said Taher Naamahad paid a secret visit
to the White House.=20




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Turkey, Pakistan pursue cooperation on advanced military systems=20

ANKARA =97 Turkey and Pakistan have agreed to bolster defense cooperation.=
=20

Officials said Turkey's state-owned Aselsan has briefed Pakistan's
military on the company's line of electronic warfare systems. Aselsan
has begun a major project to produce Stinger-based missile defense
systems for the Turkish Ground Forces Command.=20
Under the Turkish proposal, Aselsan would be joined by the state-owned
Havelsan and the private FNSS for projects in Pakistan. Under the
proposal, the three Turkish companies would help establish joint
production facilities in Pakistan. FNSS produces combat vehicle
platforms, and Havelsan is considered to be Turkey's leading defense
software developer.=20
An obstacle to defense cooperation, officials said, was Pakistan's
debt to Turkey. The two sides decided to arrange a meeting at the
ministerial level to discuss debts owed to Turkish companies operating
in Pakistan.
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Officials said Turkey and Pakistan intend to pursue defense industrial
cooperation in 2006. The cooperation could include joint arms
development and production of attack naval craft, main battle tanks
and personnel carriers.=20
"This visit is a turning point in our relations in terms of our desire
to raise the level of cooperation between our countries," Pakistani
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told a joint news conference with Turkish
counterpart, Recep Erdogan, on June 1.=20

In 2004, Pakistan and Turkey conducted $400 million in trade, the
lion's share in the civilian sector. Officials said the two countries
want to increase trade to at least $1 billion a year by 2010.=20
"I have invited the [Turkish] business community to invest in
Pakistan," Aziz said. "Pakistan is open to business, with very
attractive opportunities for investment, for trade and for Turkish
contractors to participate in our infrastructure development programs."=20
For his part, Erdogan said Ankara and Islamabad have agreed to
increase defense industry cooperation. He said the aim was to
establish joint investment projects in the defense sector.=20
"There is a potential to take many steps," Erdogan said. "There are
certain steps Turkey and Pakistan will jointly take in the defense
industry."=20








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A vote to veto 1559
The second round of Lebanese elections was a vote against disarming
Hizbullah, Omayma Abdel-Latif reports from south Lebanon 
 
For 75-year-old Sarreya Baydoun, a resident of Bint Jbeil in south
Lebanon, the elections held on Sunday were a vote against Resolution
1559 and the Israeli- American schemes for Lebanon. "This election,"
she explained, "is not about how many seats Hizbullah will have in the
parliament, it is about where we Lebanese stand regarding the
resistance and the American designs for Lebanon. It was a vote for or
against the resistance," Baydoun said.
 
Baydoun's sentiments were shared by many voters in the southern part
of the country who went to the polls on Sunday in the second round of
the Lebanese elections, which began last week.
 
The latest round of elections were overshadowed by increasing
political tension in the country following the assassination of writer
and journalist Samir Kassir. Despite the tension, the electoral
contest went quietly and smoothly in the two southern constituencies
of Sidon and Nabatiya. 
In a break with Lebanese electoral tradition, the main feature which
emerged from Sunday's poll was the remarkably high turnout. In the
first constituency of Sidon, Zahrani, Tyre and Bint Jbeil, 45 per cent
of registered voters turned out at voting stations whereas 42 per cent
of voters turned out in the second constituency of Nabatiya, Jzeen,
Hasbyia and Marjayoun. 

One of the alarming signs which emerged from the second round,
however, was what was viewed as a continuation of the Christian
boycott of the elections. Reports of an unprecedented low turnout were
recorded in a number of Christian-dominated areas including Jzeen.
"People feel isolated and marginalised when they know they don't even
have the right to elect the representatives they see fit for the job.
With or without us they will be deputies," a Jzeen resident told
Al-Ahram Weekly. The turnout in Jzeen was not clear but was estimated
at seven per cent. 
In the first round in Beirut, a very low turnout was also recorded in
Christian areas, a sign which many believe reflected the simmering
discontent among Lebanon's Christians with the whole electoral process. 

The current electoral law, known as the 2000 law, allows for a
Christian deputy to be elected with 18,500 votes, whereas a Muslim
deputy needs to garner 25,000 votes. for a seat in parliament. The
Lebanese parliament consists of 128 seats divided equally between
Lebanon's Muslim and Christian population, according to the Taif
Accord signed in 1990 which put an end to the Lebanese civil war. 
Many feared that a Beirut scenario where voters showed up in
relatively low numbers would repeat itself in the southern parts of
the country. But Hizbullah's efforts to mobilise voters to go to the
polls seemed to have borne fruit. 

In Bint Jbeil, a predominantly Shia village on the borders with
Palestine, cars were patrolling the streets with flags of both the
Amal and Hizbullah movements, reflecting the alliance the parties had
established weeks before which resulted in a unified list they called
the "Development, Liberation and Resistance" list. During the past
week, party cadres provided southern voters living in different
regions of Lebanon with free transportation to the south for the
elections. 
The party's electoral machine has been on full alert to ensure that
some of the practices committed by Shia voters in Beirut will not be
repeated in the south. 

Last week, Hizbullah's alliance with Tayar Al-Mustaqbal, Saad
Al-Hariri's political bloc, was rocked by leaked reports that some
Shia voters in Beirut did not adhere to the party line by voting for
the Al-Hariri-Junblatt-Hizbullah list. Instead, some voters,
dissatisfied with the party's alliance with members of the opposition,
voted for the independent, Nasserist leaning candidate Najah Wakim,
against Atef Majdalani of the Al-Hariri bloc. Also, Ghenoua Jaloul,
another deputy from Al-Hariri's bloc, accused Shia voters of crossing
her name off of the voting list. 

Despite Hizbullah's attempts to downplay the incidents, party sources
told the Weekly that such practices angered Hassan Nasrallah, leader
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/746/op4.htm

Arabs and the EU
By Salama A Salama
 
The French and Dutch rejection of the EU constitution does not mean
the collapse of European unity though it does set a ceiling on hopes
for a United States of Europe that could vie with and counterbalance
the US. 

Not that this should overly concern the Arab world. Recent history has
shown the more cohesive and influential the EU becomes the more it
will pressure the Arab world. These pressures tend to conform to
American policy in the Middle East in the expectation the US will
reciprocate in other areas. We saw this dynamic in action in the
handling of the Iranian nuclear issue, when Europe worked in tandem
with the US. It manifested itself more explicitly in the recent
Euromed conference in Luxemburg, during which the EU attempted to
remove the Arab-Israeli conflict from the agenda. It's an old subject
and it's being handled at another international level so why keep
bringing it up in meetings that should be concentrating on political,
economic and cultural reform in Arab countries? So ran the argument,
echoing Washington's insistence upon prioritising the spread of democracy.

The Arabs halted this bid. It's hardly in their interests to be at the
mercy of two large power blocs -- the US and the EU -- all the more so
when the pressures work in favour of Israel, aim to sap Arab resources
and subjugate the Arab world under such sobriquets as European
partnership, Euromed dialogue and cooperation with NATO.

The French and Dutch rejections of the constitution suggest the
Europeans are unwilling to place their fate unconditionally in the
hands of their leaders, even if those leaders are democratically
elected. The European people are determined to put the breaks on the
dreams of an elite of professional politicians who seek a European
entity steered by a single governing apparatus, ruled by a single
constitution and adopting uniform domestic and foreign policies
regardless of how these might clash with the interests of its 25 members. 

The French detected and expressed more quickly than other peoples of
"old" Europe the problems involved in admitting 15 new members to the
EU from Eastern ("new") Europe. To the French this development became
a vehicle for their mounting anger and frustration. It was not just
that social benefits were crumbling, unemployment rates climbing and
economic security was threatened by an influx of cheap labour from
Eastern Europe. Nor was it just right- wing xenophobia or more general
fears over European culture and values aggravated by Turkey's EU
candidacy. There was strong scepticism about the very feasibility of a
United States of Europe and a general reluctance to being swallowed up
in a unified European identity.

The constitutional referendum debacle may have powerful repercussions.
German Chancellor Schroder, Chirac's foremost ally in promoting the EU
constitution, is currently so unpopular that if elections were held
tomorrow he would certainly loose. EU partners face a long period of
discord over the next steps to take as well as over their relations
with the US which did not even bother to hide its pleasure at the EU
setback. 

It is difficult to predict the direction Europe will take next. Will
it overhaul the constitution and put it to referendum again or will it
place the whole thing on hold? Will it opt for some compromise
solution, such as a two-tiered approach that will permit some
countries to fully integrate and others to hold off for a while? 
Whatever route the Europeans go one thing is certain. The Arabs, as
they currently stand, are too weak to benefit from a strong united
Europe and too weak to benefit from a fragmented quarreling Europe.
They remain, as ever, easy prey for all.









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In the short term, Zarqawi's absence will have some impact on his
element of the insurgency but even if he does not return, others he
has trained will step in to his shoes and go forward.  Such is the
nature, unforturnately for our side, of such insurgencies.=20=20

A recent example cited at the GOVSEC Conference by Richard Clarke was
the insurgency in Algeria.  He cited the movie Battle for Algiers in
which French counterintelligence developed the organization chart
(much like the one of al Qaeda requested from Mr. Clarke by Presiden
Bush on 9/12/2001) for the major insurgency group and proceeded to
eliminate all of the leaders in it; putting a big red X across the
photo of each deceased leader.  The last one was crossed off in the
movie's final scene.  And then scrolling up the screen was the
information that two years later the French were thrown out of
Algeria.  While the French busily eliminated the old leaders, new
ones, and many recruits generated by the brutal methods of the French,
took their place and sucessfully drove out the French.=20=20

The message is that you have to fight the baseline reasons for the
insurgency, not just violently act against insurgent leaders, in order
to win; as the British did in Malaysia.  No doubt they learnes some
lesson from their being thrown out of Iraq by a successful insurgency.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1632576,00.html

Wounded terror chief flees Iraq for emergency surgery
Hala Jaber and Tony Allen-Mills, Washington
IRAQ=E2=80=99S most wanted terrorist has fled the country for emergency
surgery after an American airstrike left him with shrapnel lodged in
his chest, according to a senior insurgent commander in close contact
with his group.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has a $25m bounty on his head after being
blamed for suicide bombings, assassinations and the beheadings of
western hostages =E2=80" including Ken Bigley, the Liverpool engineer =E2=
=80" is
now believed to be in Iran.

He has suffered from bouts of high fever since being wounded by a
missile that struck his convoy three weeks ago as he fled an American
offensive near the town of al-Qaim in northwestern Iraq, the commander
said.

His condition late last week was described as stable, but supporters
were said to be preparing to move him to another =E2=80=9Cnon-Arab=E2=80=9D=
 country
for an operation to remove the shrapnel.

=E2=80=9CShrapnel went in between the right shoulder and his chest, ripped =
it
open and is still stuck in there,=E2=80=9D said the commander.

Officials in Washington believe that US forces may have lost their
chance of capturing or killing him for now. =E2=80=9CIf he=E2=80=99s got to=
 Iran,
there=E2=80=99s not much we can do,=E2=80=9D said one.

Uncertainty has surrounded the fate of the Jordanian-born Zarqawi
since The Sunday Times reported two weeks ago that a doctor at Ramadi
general hospital in western Iraq claimed to have treated him for a
wound that was bleeding badly. Supporters were urged to pray for him
and some reports suggested that he may have died.

The insurgent commander said that Zarqawi had initially directed
resistance to the US offensive in al-Qaim but had been advised to
leave when the position became too dangerous.

He had been with eight other men in a convoy of three cars when the
missile struck, although sources in Washington said that US forces had
had no evidence that Zarqawi was in their sights.

According to the commander, two pieces of shrapnel injured Zarqawi in
his vehicle. One passed through his body but the other tore away a
large chunk of flesh just beneath the shoulder.

Zarqawi was apparently treated with first aid, but a fever would
suggest that the wound had become infected. He is said to have been
taken to the Ramadi hospital four days after being hit but left soon
afterwards despite being urged by the doctor to let himself be
admitted as a patient.

The account could not be independently corroborated. Some western
officials believe that false reports are being circulated as a
smokescreen to cover Zarqawi=E2=80=99s movements, but the source has proved
reliable in the past.

Experts are divided over the impact that his departure, however
temporary, may have on the insurgency. A Japanese manager taken
host

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http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050513/APN/505130570&cachetime=3&template=dateline

Former officers of Islamic charity arrested on federal charges

By THEO EMERY
Associated Press Writer

May 13, 2005
Two former officers of a Boston-based Islamic charity have been
arrested on federal charges of lying to authorities investigating the
charity's alleged ties to terrorist organizations.

Emadeddin Z. Muntasser, the former president of Care International,
and Muhamed Mubayyid, the group's former treasurer, were arrested
Thursday after they were indicted the previous day on charges of
concealing information from federal agencies, conspiring to defraud
the United States, and making false statements to the FBI. The charity
is now defunct.

The indictment was disclosed the same day Muntasser was scheduled to
have a hearing in U.S. District Court in Boston on his application for
U.S. citizenship.

Muntasser's attorney, Jeremiah Friedman, declined to comment. U.S.
District Judge Rya Zobel held off on ruling on Muntasser's bid for
citizenship while the criminal charges are pending.

Muntasser, reached at his home Thursday evening, declined to comment.
Mubayyid has been detained, and a message left at a phone listing for
his wife was not immediately returned.

Muntasser, 40, of Braintree, the owner of the Logan Furniture chain
and a Libyan national, was a founding president of the Boston-based
charity, Care International.

Mubayyid, 40, of Shrewsbury, Care's treasurer, has been employed by
Ptech Inc., a Quincy software firm that was in the news two years ago
after federal agent searched its offices as part of an investigation
into funding of terrorist groups. No charges were ever brought against
Ptech or its officers.

Care International was the Boston branch of the Al-Kifah Refugee
Center, based in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Known by various spellings, the center was a recruitment office for
Mektab al Khidmat, or MAK, which Osama bin Laden co-founded in the
1980s to recruit mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan,
according to the 9-11 Commission.

The U.S. government has called MAK the "precursor organization to
al-Qaida." Some people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
were connected to the Brooklyn center. President Bush designated
MAK/Al-Kifah a global terrorist organization soon after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.

Care International says in its promotional materials that it was
formed to help war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. The
organization, which is not affiliated with the global relief group
CARE International, raised $1.7 million in donations from 1993 to 2001.

According to the indictment, Care was raising and spending money to
support and promote mujahideen fighters and jihad, and published a
pro-jihadist newsletter, al-Hussam, or The Sword. It didn't reveal
those activities in its tax forms filed with the government, and
didn't reveal its links to Al-Kifah.

Muntasser also failed to tell the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in
a 1999 interview about the group's support for jihad, and didn't
mention that on a trip to Pakistan several years earlier, he also
traveled to Afghanistan, according to the indictment.

Muntasser has described his work with Care as humanitarian. He applied
for U.S. citizenship in late 2002, but didn't disclose his association
with Care and Al-Kifah, or his travel to Afghanistan, according to the
indictment. Nor did he tell it to the FBI in 2003, when he was
interviewed again, according to the indictment.

When the government took no action on his citizenship application,
Muntasser sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming his
application had been needlessly delayed.

In response, prosecutors filed documents in court revealing that
Muntasser was the subject of an FBI investigation. That investigation
led to the indictment Wednesday, and the arrest of the two men.

Several people acquainted with Muntasser through his charitable works
had recently filed letters supporting his naturalization bid. One man,
the Rev. Jean Wesner Jolimeau of Haiti, wrote that Muntasser, who had
aided Haitian relief efforts, had a "benevolent character."






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http://www.sana.org/english/headlines/3-5/president_assad_calls_to_moderni.htm


President Assad Calls to Modernize the Syrian Army

Damascus, May, 3 (SANA)
President Bashar al-Assad asserted the necessity for modernizing the
armed forces and boosting their defense abilities, pointing out to the
importance of the ideological army which fights for the issues it
believes in.
In a meeting with senior Officers of the Army and the Armed Forces on
Tuesday, President Assad underscored significance of depending on self
capabilities and cementing national cohesion in the face of the
current and future challenges.
President Assad also talked about the Party's 10th Regional
Conference, pointing out to the top issues to be discussed in the
Conference.
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The problem is not that Abbas doesn't want to disarm the militants;
the problem is that he can't. He simply lacks the force within the
Palestinian community to prevail..



Peace Process in Crisis: Abbas' Dilemma 

By George Friedman
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is now facing its first serious
crisis since the death of Yasser Arafat. The process may not survive.
The problem is the same that has plagued previous attempts at peace:
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas is not able to guarantee that all
Palestinian factions will honor an agreement. 
The problem exists on both sides, obviously. There are Israelis who
oppose the peace process as well as Palestinians. The Israeli
opposition, however, is unlikely to derail the peace process so long
as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains committed to it. Sharon is a
man of the Israeli Right, and in many ways, historically, has embodied
it. Many of his fellow Rightists are appalled at what he is doing, but
in the end, this can never be more than a relatively small faction.
When you are as far to the right as Sharon, your right-wing opposition
is going to be more noisy than significant. Sharon can deliver if he
wants to. 
Abbas has a different problem: There is no equivalent consensus among
the Palestinians. Instead, they are divided into three factions. 
First, there are those who are prepared to accept a Palestinian state
as a permanent solution and are prepared both to recognize Israel's
right to exist and to permanently abandon a military option against
Israel. 
Second, there is the faction that is prepared to accept a peace
agreement as a temporary solution -- perhaps one lasting for several
generations -- but not a permanent one. In other words, this faction
sees peace in terms of an extended cease-fire rather than as a
permanent solution. 
Third, there is the faction that will not accept even an extended
cease-fire. This faction intends to continue waging war against Israel
until it achieves its political ends, which for most include the
destruction of the state of Israel. 
For Israel, accepting the existence of a Palestinian state rests on a
single premise: that there will be a state structure in place that can
impose an agreement with Israel on all factions of the Palestinians.
Most important, the Israelis expect a Palestinian state to suppress
the third faction, which intends to continue carrying out attacks
against Israel regardless of any political settlements. For Israel,
unless there is a cessation of violence, the creation of a Palestinian
state has no validity. 
Sharon has a problem with his right wing, but in the end, he can
control them. Abbas has a problem with his militant wing, but it is
not at all clear that he can control them. The question of control is
not theoretical. It has a simple, essential characteristic: Abbas must
be able to disarm the militants, and his security forces must be able
to halt attacks against Israel without the presence of the Israeli army. 
It is becoming clear that Abbas is in no position to disarm the
militants. Earlier this week, he ordered security forces to use an
"iron fist" in containing Palestinian militants, after two armed Hamas
members who clashed with Palestinian police were detained in Gaza on
May 2. According to a PNA Interior Ministry spokesman, the men had
rockets that they planned to launch against Israeli targets. Hamas
then successfully pressured the PNA, with the help of an Egyptian
official in Gaza, to release the two militants on May 3. 
On May 4, Abbas' Palestinian Authority stated that it had no intention
of disarming militants. Rashid Abu Shbak, head of the PA's security
service, told a news conference that "we have no intention of
withdrawing arms of resistance." Now, this did not come from Abbas,
but it came from his security chief. Abbas can back off, but the
statement is pretty blunt. 
The problem is not that Abbas doesn't want to disarm the militants;
the problem is that he can't. He simply lacks the force within the
Palestinian community to prevail. Pushing the issue would trigger a
civil war, and it is not clear that Abbas would win. If Hamas gives up
its weapons, it loses its leverage in Palestinian politics. That won't
happen. 
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Finding lessons in an explosive region
A conversation with newsman, Mideast expert Lawrence Pintak
Sunday, April 24, 2005BY ANNE RUETER
News Staff Reporter

Like a fair number of scholars at the University of Michigan, Lawrence
Pintak is an avid Mideast watcher. Between classes as a visiting
lecturer and professor, he scans stories from half a dozen
international news sources online each day. One site he's sure to
check daily is the Beirut Daily Star, where he can read stories like
"Lebanon PM Hopes to Get Polls Back on Track," about preparations for
a crucial election in May, or "Coffins on wheels put public safety at
risk," about Lebanon's unscrupulous dealers who pass off as used cars
wrecked, hastily patched-up vehicles imported from more affluent
countries.

What's happening in Beirut is not a purely academic matter for Pintak:
As a CBS News Mideast correspondent in Beirut in the early 1980s, he
covered Lebanon's chaotic civil war, including the 1983 suicide truck
bombing of barracks in Beirut in which more than 200 U.S. Marines
died. He brought American TV viewers scenes of a city under siege by
opposing factions of Christians, Islamic Shiites, Druze and others,
some 25 militias in all, in many cases financed by outside nations.
Lebanon is a lesson book, Pintak says, because the world saw the birth
there of today's terrorist strategies in the region - suicide car
bombings, assassinations - in the actions of Hezbollah.

Pintak is able to read between the lines of today's stories from the
Mideast with the eyes of one intimately acquainted with the political
forces at work there. So we asked him to help us read between the
lines too, to understand more deeply what forces are at work in
Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel and other volatile parts of the Mideast.

Here is Pintak's take on some of the situations in the Mideast:

Iran

Three years ago, there was a significant liberalization movement
there. Clerics began to have less power. But then, The U.S. war in
Iraq "played into Iran's hands." The war shifted public concern in
Iran to an external enemy, which traditionally unifies a nation.
Anti-reform forces consolidated power and could crack down on the
reform movement.

Iran benefited two ways from the war: It got rid of its biggest enemy,
Iraq, and U.S. forces got bogged down in Iraq, so the United States
now poses less of a threat to Iran.

In the current debate between the United States and European nations
over how to handle Iran's nuclear capability, he says, "Our rhetorical
bluster is further enabling them (the conservative forces in Iran) to
consolidate their position." They know the United States can do little
to interfere.

Al-Qaida

With this Iran situation as a backdrop, he sketches out one nightmare
scenario:

Osama bin Laden, who still has some operational capacity, "might carry
out another attack in the United States, with Iran's fingerprints on it."

The United States would be likely to blame an arm of Hezbollah based
in Iran known to currently engage in terrorist tactics. Then, Pintak
speculates, the United States could strike back at Iran, and fuel more
hatred. That would likely have the unfortunate effect of halting any
reconsideration of attitudes toward America going on now in the Mideast.

Iraq

"The danger in Iraq is the splintering." He doesn't see a breakup as
inevitable, despite tensions among Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis over
control of the country's rich oil reserves. For now, he says,
respected moderate Shiite cleric Ali Husseini al-Sistani keeps in
check more radical Shiites forces in Iraq, which renewed their calls
for immediate U.S. troop withdrawal earlier this month on the second
anniversary of the pulling down of Saddam Hussein's statue in a
Baghdad square. He sees a possible future Iraq in which "everybody
settles into a tolerance of each other."

But, he says, "If Sistani gets assassinated, all bets are off. He's
the reason we don't have anti-American violence (in Iraq) right now."
He calls radical Shiites like those led by rebel cleric Muktada
al-Sadr "the wild card" in Iraqi politics.

Pintak sees many parallels between the divided ethnic and religious
groups in Iraq today and the more volatile mix of gr

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http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=63474

Bulgarian police official warns terrorists could target the Balkans

The Associated Press, Apr. 14, 2005 
SOFIA, Bulgaria

Bulgaria's top police official warned on Thursday that pockets of
Islamic fundamentalism in the Balkans are creating a favorable
environment for the establishment of terrorist groups.
Speaking at a regional police anti-crime conference, Gen. Boiko
Borisov urged for "joint efforts to fight the global terrorism network."

He warned that despite the elimination of several al-Qaida bases the
level of threat remains high.

"The Balkans as a part of Europe are a potential target, a possible
ground for terrorists," he said, without mentioning any specific
threats. "Our countries are backing the anti-terror coalition and this
makes them possible targets of terrorist attacks."
"At different places around the globe exist "sleeper" bases," Borisov
said.

He urged for international efforts to limit terrorists' access to
financing and to enhance security of transport and border control.
Senior police officials from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Luxembourg, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, Croatia
and Germany participated in the conference.










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http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/01/npara01.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/01/ixhome.html

RAF 'not good enough' for SAS parachute training

By Thomas Harding
(Filed: 01/04/2005)

The Special Air Service is to move its parachute training to the
United States because it believes that the Royal Air Force no longer
has the skills to train its soldiers in Britain.
 
 
SAS officers and the Parachute Regiment have accused the RAF of being
more interested in preserving "jobs for the boys" than providing
adequate parachute training for live operations, according to a leaked
e-mail.

There are fears that combat parachute skills will be further eroded if
plans go ahead for training to be contracted out to a civilian company.

Some senior Army officers have accused RAF officers of failing to
understand the equipment and training requirements for specialised
parachuting because they have no operational experience.
A Special Forces e-mail passed to The Telegraph, titled "What is going
on with Britain's parachute training school?", said the SAS "in
exasperation" had withdrawn from the RAF's High Altitude Low Opening
(Halo) course to train with the US special forces at Fort Bragg. The
SAS and members of the Paras' Pathfinders platoon use Halo as a
highly-skilled method to drop behind enemy lines.
 
Matters came to a head when the SAS "had enough of asking for the
course to be updated to prepare troopers more realistically for the
hard business of jumping from 25,000 feet at night, with large
operational loads, onto dark and unmarked drop zones". 
This "shocked the RAF out of its complacency" and a new course was
devised at the parachute training school in Brize Norton, Oxon. But,
the e-mail said, RAF officers at the Parachute Department headquarters
in High Wycombe "have not delivered the end product".
"Those in the know at Hereford [where the SAS is based] will tell you
that this is because they do not understand the difficulties of
jumping on to unmarked DZs [Drop Zones] at night because they have
never done it."

While RAF officers talked about it, very few did "hard-core"
parachuting familiar to the SAS's air troop. "Yet, those officers
would be the first to try to bask in the reflected glory of the SAS,
often implying they were some form of superior being as they 'taught
the SAS'," the e-mail added.

Britain is unique in having its parachute training controlled by
officers from a branch with no operational experience, the RAF, to
train the Paras, Royal Marines and SAS. While the NCO instructors "are
well respected as pure parachutists" the Army has bitterly complained
that not enough thought is given to teaching operational skills.

There appeared to be some movement towards allowing Army instructors
in when Wg Cdr Nigel Gorman, the parachute school's head, supported
the proposal.
But at High Wycombe "this was seen as a threat to the whole business
of jobs for the boys", the e-mail said. 

Wg Cdr Gorman, who the e-mail called "a breath of fresh air for the
operational community", is now facing a disciplinary tribunal on
bullying and corruption charges made by colleagues last December.
A source at the Ministry of Defence's Directorate of Air Operations
said a five-year study had recommended to the director of Special
Forces and the Parachute Regiment's commander that more instructors
were needed from "an operational background".

A senior Parachute Regiment officer criticised the "flat earth
society" in the RAF who did not want change.
"They want more time training themselves than those who are doing a
job in the front line," he said. "They are not providing us with the
right sort of training."

An MoD spokesman said all the parachute courses were under constant
evaluation to ensure that they met the correct standards.
"The Parachute Training School works very closely with all users to
develop appropriate and tailor-made courses," she added.
While there were no immediate plans to introduce instructors from the
Army or Royal Navy, "suitably qualified instructors could be
considered in the future".

It is also believed that training could be privatised with a contract
going to Serco, a civilian company.
The MoD said there were no plans to involve external contractors or
"civilianise" RAF instructors.
 







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