[osint] Unknown persons blow up gas pipeline in Pakistan

[Dietmar Muehlboeck]

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200702/21/eng20070221_351486.html

Unknown persons blow up gas pipeline in Pakistan

Unknown persons blew up a 16- inch diameter gas pipeline in the 
outskirts of the southwestern Pakistani city Quetta on Tuesday, the 
state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported, quoting gas company 
officials.

The blast in Akhtarabad near Quetta city, the capital of Baluchistan 
province, caused disruption of gas supply to certain areas of Quetta and 
nearby districts.

A special team has been sent to repair the damaged pipeline, which 
belongs to the state-run Sui Southern Gas Company.

No person or group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Anti-government tribespeople in Baluchistan province usually attack 
government installations and public assets to pressure the federal 
government to offer them greater autonomy and bigger royalities share of 
local natural resources.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060401-090504-2895r.htm 
 
  

The Washington Times
  www.washingtontimes.com
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Al   Qaeda's
secret agent -- online

Published April 2, 2006
Until late 2005, the Internet hacker who called himself "Irhabi 007" --
"irhabi" is Arabic for "terrorist" -- was a key enabler of Abu Musab
Zarqawi's Internet recruiting and propaganda efforts outside Iraq. He is now
in custody in the United Kingdom. It turns out "Irhabi" is a 22-year-old
West Londoner fluent in Arabic and English whose rather unremarkable
combination of Islamist sympathies and technological aptitude ended up
making him indispensable to the world's most dangerous terror network. 
The story of how and why he was apprehended, just now trickling out
thanks to researchers at the Washington-based SITE Institute, suggests a mix
of technological savvy and old-fashioned gumshoeing to fight the Internet
jihad. 
"Irhabi 007" made his mark in al Qaeda message forums helping insurgents
and propagandists spread videos and multimedia, tighten Internet security
and hack Web sites. It's not yet clear to what extent he aided al Qaeda
outside forums and Web sites. But his role as teacher and Web expert was
extolled by his cohorts; he offered a "Seminar on Hacking Websites" and is
said to have demonstrated it on sites run by the state of Arkansas and
George Washington University. "You are one of the top people who care about
serving your brothers," one admirer wrote on a message forum. "Carry on
serving jihad and its supporters." 
The intelligence community apparently knew about "Irhabi" long before he
was apprehended and followed his work with interest. But for reasons not yet
clear, Western governments did not stop him. Perhaps they failed to locate
him; perhaps they preferred to keep him free as a means of tracking
terrorists and communications networks. 
The "Irhabi 007" connection unravelled in the last several months, when
British authorities linked the cessation of the hacker's activities -- the
summer of 2005 marked the end of his exploits, according to SITE -- to the
Oct. 21 arrest of 22-year-old Younis Tsouli of West London. Mr. Tsouli,
arrested with three others under the Britain's Terrorism Act, is charged
with several acts of conspiracy and possession of terrorism-related wares. 
It might turn out that Mr. Tsouli's activities in support of al Qaeda in
Iraq extended beyond his computer into London's shadowy terrorist cells. But
it might also turn out that this technologically capable young Islamist
acted alone from an apartment in ways that greatly aided a deadly
insurgency. 
As frightening and unpredictable as the Internet jihad seems, in some
respects it is fought on our own territory. Western nations are wealthier
and more technologically advanced than al Qaeda; we possess the resources to
regain the upper hand. With the proper means to trace the electronic
fingerprints, plus the time-honored know-how to unravel the connections, the
West can find the Internet jihadis and win this war. 




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Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2006


 

 

 




 

 


 





REVIEW & OUTLOOK 


 

 

 


Hobbes in Sudan



At places like Davos and Harvard, the world's sages rarely stop fretting
about the dangers of a too powerful America. Well, if you want to know what
the world looks like without U.S. leadership, Exhibit A is Darfur in Sudan.

Today's leading authority on Darfur is the political philosopher Thomas
Hobbes, who prophesied a world "nasty, brutish and short." At least 200,000
civilians have been killed in the past three years and two million more have
become refugees. The source of the problem is the Arab rulers in Khartoum,
who have pursued an ethnic cleansing campaign against black Muslims in
western Sudan. They've equipped the Janjaweed Arab tribesmen to do the dirty
work, and that militia is now attacking civilians across the border in Chad,
creating 20,000 more refugees.

To his credit, Kofi Annan started shouting about the problem two years ago,
and former Secretary of State Colin Powell labeled it "genocide" not long
after that. The U.N.'s mighty peace-making machinery then started to roll
and . . . nothing. The Chinese (who have close commercial ties to Khartoum)
and Russians have blocked any serious intervention. Arab members of the
Security Council have also opposed any attempt to single out Khartoum.

The Arab League -- so quick to denounce Danish cartoons -- has also stymied
any global intervention to stop the murder of their fellow Muslims. Here's
League Secretary General Amr Musa earlier this month: "In Sudan, there is a
problem related to Darfur. We will listen to the Sudanese state minister to
explain to us the developments in the issue of Darfur . . ." The League
plans to hold its meeting next week -- in Khartoum.

The African Union has at least sent 7,000 troops to the region, but they are
under-funded and under-equipped to enforce a truce that Sudan blatantly
flouts. But the African failure is also political. In January the Union held
its own summit in Khartoum, and next year it plans to award Sudan its
presidency. The rule seems to be never to say a discouraging word about
other African leaders, no matter how murderous.

As for Europe, France would be ideal to lead an intervention force. The
French have military bases in neighboring Chad and could establish a no-fly
zone to stop Janjaweed bombing. However, Paris is already occupied with
another intervention in the Ivory Coast, and with its own business interests
in Sudan isn't volunteering in any case.

Amid this global abdication, Mr. Annan finally decided last month to call in
the American cavalry. He visited the White House and, with media fanfare,
all but begged President Bush to do something. Despite U.S. obligations in
Afghanistan, Iraq and many other places, Mr. Bush responded by proposing an
expanded U.N. peacekeeping force under "NATO stewardship."

But Sudan President Omar al-Beshir quickly played to type and withdrew
support for a U.N. force. He also threatened that "Darfur will become the
graveyard for the United Nations and foreign intervention." And rather than
stand up to such threats, U.N. envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk has wilted. He's now
talking up intelligence about al Qaeda terrorists in Khartoum who could
retaliate against U.N. peacekeepers. And he's warning against any NATO
intervention without Security Council approval -- as if that would be
forthcoming. All of this is a repeat of the same feckless U.N. pattern we've
seen in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.

So that leaves . . . guess who? The cowboy President, the American
unilateralists, the Yankee imperialists -- or, to put it another way, the
only nation with the will and wallet to provide order in an otherwise
Hobbesian world. However, that will and wallet are being stretched today in
Iraq and elsewhere, and Mr. Bush is rightly wary of committing more American
blood and treasure to a conflict in Sudan that the rest of the world doesn't
seem serious about ending in any event. One lesson of Darfur is that there
really are limits to American power, and in its absence the world's savages
have freer reign.


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 





 


 

 

 


 

 


 

 

 



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Adams to join Holyoke parade


Thursday, February 16, 2006

By JO-ANN MORIARTY

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WASHINGTON - Gerry Adams, the head of the political wing of the Irish
Republican Army, will march in the St. Patrick's Parade in Holyoke after
accepting the invitation of U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield. 

Neal's Capitol Hill office made the announcement yesterday. 

Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, is a key player in the long and rocky road to
a peace accord in Northern Ireland. It was after the British and Irish
governments and other Northern Ireland political parties - which represented
both Protestants and Catholics, allowed representatives of Sinn Fein at the
peace table in the mid-1990s that ultimately brought the standing 1998 peace
accord known as the Good Friday Agreement. 

Neal, who is the co-chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs in the
House of Representatives, was the first member of Congress to travel to
Northern Ireland and meet with political leaders following the Sept. 1,
1994, IRA cease-fire. 

On that trip, Neal met with Adams at his Belfast headquarters in the
Catholic section of the city. Hours later, the building where Adams and Neal
had met was hit by an explosive, tearing off part of the brick building. 

The Protestant paramilitary groups followed with their cease-fire six weeks
later. 

Neal said, "it's been a long journey." 

"Adams is now the leader of the largest nationalist political party in the
North and he is an elected member of the British Parliament," Neal said.
Adams won't take a seat in the House of Commons because he refuses to swear
his loyalty to the British Crown. Last July, the IRA announced that it would
abandon its weapons and seek the rights to equal education, housing and
employment through the political process. An independent commission observed
and verified the decommissioning of IRA's weapons. 

It will be Adams' second trip to western Massachusetts. 

He visited the John Boyle O'Reilly Club in Springfield in September 1994 at
a rally hosted by Neal. Neal, who has received the St. Patrick's Parade's
highest honor, the JFK Award, will march the 2.9 miles of the parade route
with Adams. It begins at 11:30 on March 19. 




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[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.army.mil/professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/october_2005/10_05_3
.html
 
  

The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for U.S. Strategy


"The fight against the enemy nearest to you has precedence over the fight
against the enemy farther away. . . . In all Muslim countries the enemy has
the reins of power. The enemy is the present rulers." --Muhammad Abd
al-Salam Faraj, tried and hanged in connection with the 1981 assassination
of Anwar al-Sadat1
  

"Victory for the Islamic movements . . . cannot be attained unless these
movements possess an Islamic base in the heart of the Arab region." --Ayman
al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden deputy, 20012
  

"We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi
Arabia. . . . The real issue is not whether, but how to destabilize. We have
to ensure the fulfillment of the democratic revolution." --Michael Ledeen,
American Enterprise Institute, 20023
  

The leader of Sadat's assassins, Bin Laden's chief ideologue, and a leading
American neoconservative supporter of Israel all call for a revolutionary
transformation of the Middle East. However, the United States, the existing
Arab regimes, and the traditional Sunni clerical establishments all share an
interest in avoiding instability and revolution. This shared interest makes
the establishments in the Sunni world America's natural partners in the
struggle against al Qaeda and similar movements. If American strategists
fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the
revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the
radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. 

Outsiders of the Sunni World 

Sunni Islam is a very big tent, and there always have been insiders and
outsiders within Sunnism playing out their rivalries with clashing
philosophies.4
  Throughout the past century, the most important of these clashes
have occurred between Sunni reformers and the traditional Sunni clerical
establishment. The ideology espoused today by al Qaeda and similar groups
can be traced directly from the 19th-century founders of modernist reform in
Sunnism. Al Qaeda's leading thinkers are steeped in these reformers' long
struggle against the establishment. The teaching of the reformers has been
heterodox and revolutionary from the beginning; that is, the reformers and
their intellectual descendants in al Qaeda are the outsiders of today's
Sunni world. 

For the most part this struggle has been waged in Egypt, Sunni Islam's
center of gravity. On one side of the debate, there is Cairo's Al-Azhar, a
seminary and university that has been the center of Sunni orthodoxy for a
thousand years. On the other side, al Qaeda's ideology has its origins in
late-19th-century efforts in Egypt to reform and modernize faith and
society. As the 20th century progressed, the Sunni establishment centered on
Al-Azhar came to view the modernist reform movement as more and more
heterodox. It became known as Salafism, for the supposedly uncorrupted early
Muslim predecessors (salaf, plural aslaf) of today's Islam. The more
revolutionary tendencies in this Salafist reform movement constitute the
core of today's challenge to the Sunni establishment, and are the chief font
of al Qaeda's ideology. 

A Century of Reformation 

In contemporary Western discussions of the Muslim world, it is common to
hear calls for a "reformation in Islam" as an antidote to al Qaeda.5
  These calls often betray a misunderstanding of both Sunni Islam
and of the early modern debate between Catholics and Protestants. In fact, a
Sunni "reformation" has been under way for more than a century, and it works
against Western security interests. The Catholic-Protestant struggle in
Europe weakened traditional religious authorities' control over the
definition of doctrine, emphasized scripture over tradition, idealized an
allegedly uncorrupted primitive religious community, and simplified theology
and rites. The Salafist movement in the Sunni Muslim world has been pursuing
these same reforms for a century. 

More important, the contemporary pundits' calls for "a reformation in Islam"
carry with them an implication that the traditional Sunni clerical elite is
the ideological basis for al Qaeda, and that weakening the traditional
clerical establishment's hold on the minds of pious Sunnis would promote
stability. In fact, the opposite is clearly the case in most of the Sunni
world. The mutual condemnations that the establishment and Salafist camps
have exchanged over the past century, not to m

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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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[Bruce Tefft]

 

August 2, 2005 

 

Good Evening :

 

A few short months ago, the “Peoples Truth Forum”
  set out on an extraordinary mission –
one of establishing a grass-roots initiative to disseminate the truth
regarding “radicalized” factions of Islam and the threat they pose through
their acts of barbarism to Western Society and our very way of life

 

As you know, “PTF”   is sponsoring an
educational symposium titled, “The Radical Islamist Threat to World Peace
and National Security.” It will take place on September 21, 2005 in
Plantsville, Connecticut. This symposium will delve into the minds of those
who use terror as a tool. It will paint a profile of those who would
slaughter innocents and it will educate both professional and average
citizen on how terrorism threatens our way of life today.

 

Naïve ideologues contend that Islamic “freedom fighters” are lashing out at
the West – and especially Americans – because of the provocative nature of
Western life and/or the Western presence in Islamic States. To hold these
short-sighted contentions is to be blind to the truth either through
ignorance or deliberate oversight. 

 

No doubt, the recent tragedy in London caught our attention and rekindled
memories of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001. Just short of
four years have passed since that horrific day – a day that many amongst us
have chosen to erase from their memories. However, I’m not one of them. I
have not forgotten.

 

I have not forgotten the legions of stunned faces walking along the bridges
out of Manhattan. I have not forgotten the desperation of rescuers digging
for survivors only to find none. I have not forgotten the pictures of our
fellow citizens choosing to jump to their deaths rather than face the
infernos created by cowards on hijacked jetliners. And I have not forgotten
the sounds of celebration that came from too many locations in the Middle
East.

 

This is no time to embrace apathy or political correctness, not when
confronting the alarming prospect that thousands, of radical Islamists are
committed to bringing death and destruction to millions of innocents on our
soil.  

 

Debate continues regarding the appropriate response to a nuclear detonation
within our borders - whether Mecca, Medina or other holy Muslin sites should
be targeted in retaliation.  However, of greater relevance should be the
administration’s implementation of safeguards preventing catastrophic events
from occurring in the first place. 

 

In the face of evil, our citizenry has been advised to be “vigilant”. Yet,
the term, as presented, rings hollow. What is it that we are to be vigilant
about? What should we be looking for? What kind of information can be
defined as information of interest? The simple fact of the matter is that no
one has ever told the American people what it is they should be looking and
listening for.

 

At the symposium, Dr. Harvey Kushner will present vital information
outlining how radical Islamists have succeeded in their quest to infiltrate
our political, educational, religious and penal institutions - facts which
were previously maintained as “privy” to selected law enforcement agencies.
Brigitte Gabriel, Laura Mansfield and Robert Spencer will contribute
substantially to the program by sharing their own personal experiences and
professional expertise.  In fact, the entire program will be fact-based,
non-partisan, provocative and educational.

 

Additionally of interest:

 
1. Congressman Kurt Weldon of Pennsylvania, Vice Chairman of the Armed
Services Committee, released a new book titled Countdown to Terror. In this
work, he not only brings CIA intelligence failures to light, but provides
specific details of a foiled attempt by Militant Islamists to kill several
hundred-thousand Americans in the Northeast. Radical Islamic Terrorists
planned to target Boston’s nuclear reactor with commandeered Canadian
passenger aircraft. I strongly recommend that everyone secure a copy of the
Congressman’s book. 

 

2) Most counter-terrorism experts are convinced that a WMD attack on our
soil is imminent – beliefs which are supported by senior ranking members of
the “Administration” including Vice-President Dick Cheney.   

 

3) Terrorist attacks have taken place on our soil since 9/11. A number of
these strikes were reclassified as non-terrorist related. 

 

4). Last week, one of my associates questioned a Muslim foreigner as to
whether he or  his ”brothers” could be trusted. In response, the man
emphatically stated  “NEVER” adding  “ that they are taught to be great
neighbors and obey the laws of the countries  in which they reside until
they are called up.  Then, they will slice your throats as easily as they
came to your BBQ’s ”

 

 5) Media Bias and the politically correct environment:

 

a) The BBC is cleansing broadcasts by refusing to credit specific attacks to
Islamist perpetrators.   Shockingly, they’re

[osint] Unknown group claims attack in Qaeda's name

[Bruce Tefft]

Irrelevant.  It was al-Qaeda regardless of what group is named/claimed.

Bruce


http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1423845,00050003.htm
Unknown group claims attack in Qaeda's name
Reuters
Milan, July 7, 2005

A previously unknown group claimed responsibility in the name of Al-Qaeda
for a series of blasts in London that killed at least two people and wounded
185, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Thursday.

The "Secret Group of Al-Qaeda's Jihad in Europe" claimed the attack in a Web
site posting and warned Italy and Denmark to withdraw their troops from Iraq
and Afghanistan, ANSA said.

The claim could not be verified and did not appear on any of the Web sites
normally used by Al-Qaeda.






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