from:"Dietmar Muehlboeck"

http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/24/nat21.htm

Turkey seeks long-term trade with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Turkish businessmen have shown interest in 
establishing long-term business relations with Pakistani entrepreneurs 
in various fields.

Addressing businessmen at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry 
(ICCI) here on Friday, the leader of the Turkish delegation Haci Boydak 
identified textile, PVC, IT, carpets, education, real estate and 
construction as potential areas of cooperation between the two countries.

He also invited Pakistani businessmen to visit Turkey and make joint 
venture and collaboration in the sectors of mutual interest. The meeting 
was attended by a large number of businessmen.

He said that there was great potential of two-way trade between Pakistan 
and Turkey which should be exploited. He was heading a 130-member 
Turkish business delegation to Pakistan.

The ICCI President Nasir Khan while addressing the delegation said more 
industrial estates and zones are being established in various parts of 
the country. Gawadar Port, textile cities at Karachi, Lahore, and 
Faisalabad, Sundar Industrial Estate at Lahore and Industrial city in 
Faisalabad offer excellent opportunities for investment, he said.

He invited Turkish businessmen to join the swarm of foreign investors in 
the sectors of telecom, power, engineering, agro- based industries, 
construction and tourism for profitable business ventures.

Mr Khan said that in past, trade volume between Turkey and Pakistan was 
low, as compared to the potential existed.

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[osint] Egypt launches campaign against illegal immigration

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Egypt launches campaign against illegal immigration
WRK-EGYPT-IMMIGRATION
Egypt launches campaign against illegal immigration

CAIRO, Feb 23 (KUNA) -- Egyptian Minister of Manpower and Immigration 
Aisha Abdel-Hadi said Friday her country would launch an awareness 
campaign against the risks of illegal immigration by Egyptian workers 
seeking employment abroad.

The campaign aims at informing these workers of the dangers involved in 
illegal immigration and the best methods to select legal alternatives 
for them if they insist on immigrating abroad, she told reporters.

Egypt and Italy signed a memorandum of understanding on the 
implementation of a campaign against illegal immigration and ways of 
furthering cooperation in the field of immigration regulation, Aisha 
pointed out.

In cooperation with the World Labor Organization (WLO), Cairo will host 
on Sunday an international symposium on immigration policies and 
importance of investment in human resources.

The symposium will focus on ways to improve movement of job seekers, 
control the immigrant flow and contain illegal immigration, she added.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian authorities managed to foil an attempt to 
infiltrate 98 illegal immigrants from the seaside resort of Batlim on 
the Mediterranean coast in northern Egypt to Italy. (end) bna.gb.


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[osint] U.S. experts to visit Ukraine in March to explain missile defense plans, official says

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U.S. experts to visit Ukraine in March to explain missile defense plans, 
official says
The Associated Press
Published: February 23, 2007


KIEV, Ukraine: Ukraine's acting foreign minister said Friday that 
American military experts will visit early March to explain plans to 
deploy U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.

There is widespread concern about the proposal in this former Soviet 
republic.

Pentagon specialists are due "to hold a range of consultations, 
presentations, explanations and meetings," said Volodymyr Ohryzko. "We 
ourselves are interested in getting detailed information as soon as 
possible."

Washington said in January it wants to put a radar system in the Czech 
Republic and a missile interceptor site in Poland — plans that have 
angered Ukraine's large eastern neighbor Russia, which is concerned 
about a possible U.S. military presence in the former Warsaw Pact countries.

Some Ukrainian officials have condemned the initiative, saying it poses 
a threat to Ukraine's security. Others have asked for more details; the 
government has not stated its position.

"We want to answer any and all questions that anyone in Ukraine may have 
about these systems in Poland and the Czech Republic," said U.S. 
Ambassador William Taylor.

Washington says the installations are meant to deal with a potential 
threat from Iran but Moscow has rejected the assurances, calling them an 
effort to strengthen U.S. military might in the region.

Ukraine is roughly divided between the Western-oriented western part of 
the country and the largely Russian-speaking east and south, where 
people are more sympathetic towards Russia and are deeply skeptical 
about NATO membership — an aspiration of President Viktor Yushchenko, 
whose efforts to turn the country Westward have been countered by the 
more Russia-leaning Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

Some Ukrainian supporters of NATO membership fear putting U.S. missile 
defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic would hurt their cause by 
reinforcing concerns that Ukraine could be used by NATO as a military 
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[osint] Israel seeks US green light for Iran attack: report

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Israel seeks US green light for Iran attack: report
(AFP)

24 February 2007

LONDON - Israel is seeking permission from the United States to fly its
jets over Iraq to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph
newspaper said on Saturday, citing sources.

A senior Israeli defence official told the conservative British
broadsheet in a dispatch from Tel Aviv that negotiations were taking
place for the US-led coalition in Iraq to provide an “air corridor” over
Iraq if the Jewish state decided on unilateral action.

“We are planning for every eventuality, and sorting out issues such as
these are crucial,” the official said.

“If we don’t sort these issues out we could have a situation where
American and Israeli war planes start shooting at each other.”

Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has in the past called for
Israel to be wiped off the map.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a report Thursday
saying that Iran had not halted, and in fact had expanded, its uranium
enrichment programme, defying a United Nations Security Council demand
to stop by this week.

The United States, France and Britain have called for tougher Security
Council sanctions on Tehran, while Germany, China and Russia have taken
softer stances. Iran denies US charges that it seeks nuclear weapons.

An Israeli officer involved in the military planning told The Daily
Telegraph: “One of the last issues we have to sort out is how we
actually get to the targets in Iran. The only way to do this is to fly
through US-controlled air space in Iraq.”

A senior Israeli security official who works on the strategic committee
set up to deal with the Iran threat, chaired by Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert, said: “The amount of effort we are putting into this single
issue is unprecedented in the history of the State of Israel,” the
newspaper reported.

Israel has refused to rule out pre-emptive military action against Iran.
Israeli warplanes in 1981 destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor near
Baghdad after suspecting Iraq of aiming to build nuclear weapons.

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[osint] N.J. shul: Buy West Bank land

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N.J. shul: Buy West Bank land
Arab residents of New Jersey are upset that a synagogue is holding a 
real-estate fair urging American Jews to buy land in the West Bank.

The expo, scheduled for Sunday at Congregation Bnai Jeshurun in Teaneck, 
will be run by the Amana Settlement Movement. The group sent a letter to 
potential Jewish buyers of West Bank land, urging them to buy houses for 
as little as $120,000 and rent them to settlers for $250 a month, 
according to the Bergen County Record.

“Almost all communities in the West Bank are full, with no possibility 
of accepting new young couples or families,” the letter says. “If we 
don’t find a solution now, we will create our own population freeze.”

At least one protest is being planned outside the synagogue, which is 
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[osint] Top Hamas man to visit Moscow

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Top Hamas man to visit Moscow

Moscow, Feb. 23: Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal will travel next
week to Moscow for talks, the Palestine foreign ministry said a day
after the Quartet of West Asia peace negotiators demanded that any
Palestinian government recognise Israel. During Mr Mashaal’s visit,
Russia planned to continue its efforts "toward stabilising the situation
in the Palestinian territories and overcoming the inter-Palestinian
discord that followed the Mecca agreement between the Hamas and the
Fatah," the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Russia also wanted to help in the forming of a Palestinian
national-unity government "that takes into consideration the well-known
criteria of the Quartet, and also the resumption of the
Palestinian-Israeli dialogue," the ministry said. (AP)

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[osint] UAE, Saudi can handle oil dip

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UAE, Saudi can handle oil dip
Saudi Arabia: 48 minutes ago
A report issued by the Deutsche Bank has revealed that Saudi Arabia 
needs to sell oil at $38 a barrel in order to balance its trade, while 
the UAE only needs to sell at $18, reported Bloomberg. The bank is 
forecasting a 2007 average price of $62 a barrel for New York traded 
crude and said both countries are well placed to handle any major dip in 
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[osint] Growing Iranian Regional Influence Worries Saudi Arabia

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-02-23-voa56.cfm

Growing Iranian Regional Influence Worries Saudi Arabia
By Gary Thomas
Washingotn
23 February 2007

Before the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq had been something of a 
counterweight to Iranian power in the Middle East. Now with Saddam gone, 
Iranian political influence has been expanding, not just in Iraq, but in 
the region. As VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, Saudi Arabia is 
not happy about the shift in what had been a delicate balance of power.

Empowering Iran was not one of aims of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. 
Nevertheless, analysts say, it has become one of its unintended 
consequences.

In an interview with a pro-Saudi group, Flynt Leverett, former senior 
director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, said 
it has been especially worrisome for Saudi Arabia.

"I think that the Iraq war has been almost disastrous from a Saudi 
perspective," he said. "It has completely upset the balance of power in 
the Gulf, enabled Iran's rise, created a dynamic in post-Saddam Iraq 
where the most powerful political forces are Islamist Shia with ties to 
Iran."

Chas Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, says Iran's 
growing influence is not just among the Shi'ite factions in Iraq, but 
extends to other pressure points in the region.

He said, "Friends of Iran are now in power in Baghdad, Hezbollah has 
become the dominant political force in Lebanon, and Western attempts to 
isolate Hamas and the government it runs in Palestine have forced that 
government and Hamas into the arms of the Iranians."

"So on every level, Iran has seen its influence in the region enhanced. 
And this is naturally disturbing to other countries in the region, which 
see it as producing a serious imbalance in power," he added.

The rivalry is rooted in both religion and politics. Saudi Arabia is a 
Sunni Muslim Arab state controlled by a royal family. Iran is a country 
of Persian Shi'ite Muslims that has been under the theocratic rule of 
Islamic clerics since 1979. Both are major oil-producing nations.

Secular Iraq, under the autocratic thumb of Saddam Hussein, was kind of 
a counterweight that kept regional power in check. Analysts say Saudi 
Arabia was quite content to see Iran and Iraq slug it out in a bloody 
war from 1980 to 1988 in which thousands died but no one emerged the 
clear victor.

Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, says both Iran 
and Saudi Arabia harbor ambitions to be leaders in the Islamic world.

"In many ways, Saudi Arabia views itself as a pan-Islamic power, it 
doesn't view itself only as a Sunni power," he said. "And, 
interestingly, Iran is sometimes characterized as the vanguard of the 
Shia of the region, but Iran also likes to think of itself as a 
pan-Islamic power. So in some ways, both of these countries are vying 
for the mantle of leadership in the Muslim world."

Saudi Arabia has had a security relationship with the United States 
since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

George Friedman, chief executive officer of the private intelligence 
company, Stratfor, says there is an upside [something positive] for the 
U.S. in the growth of Iranian influence.

He said, "The United States is not unhappy to see Iran herding Saudi 
Arabia back into a position of dependency on the United States. The 
United States is happy to calm their fears. The United States is also 
happy to see them afraid again of the Iranians."

"So one of the interests Saudi Arabia now has is to protect it [the 
U.S.] from Iranian power. One of the interests the Americans have is to 
protect the Saudis from Iranian power. And therein lies a marriage, and 
diplomatic marriages have been based from worse," he continued.

There are signs that both countries recognize that the sectarian 
fighting in Iraq has the potential to erupt into a wider regional or 
even a global pan-Islamic conflict.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was the Saudi ambassador to Washington, 
has recently held three meetings with Ali Larijani, national security 
adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He has also 
met with officials in Russia and the United States.

But Chas Freeman says the Arab world does not share the U.S. level of 
concern about Iran's alleged bid to build nuclear weapons.

"In the broader Arab world and within Saudi Arabia, concern about 
Iranian nuclear weapons is quite muted. That is a matter of 
extraordinary concern in Israel and, by extension, in the United States. 
It's not the main item of concern to the Saudis. They're concerned about 
Iranian political influence and the ability of Iran to influence, if not 
control, events in the region," said Freeman.

Nevertheless, analysts say, Western governments are concerned that if 
Iran gets nuclear weapons capability, it could set off a Middle East 
arms race in which Saudi Arabia and perhaps Egypt try to get nuclear 
weapons themselves. Israel is already believed to be a nuc

[osint] Sudan's president tells Nation of Islam leaders that U.S. is exaggerating Darfur troubles

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Sudan's president tells Nation of Islam leaders that U.S. is 
exaggerating Darfur troubles

JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press Writer

February 23, 2007 9:18 PM

DETROIT (AP) - Sudan's president told attendees of the Nation of Islam's 
national convention Friday that the United States is exaggerating 
troubles in his country's volatile Darfur region so it can control the 
country as it has in Iraq.

President Omar al-Bashir was invited to speak via satellite at the 
three-day convention by representatives of longtime Nation leader Louis 
Farrakhan. Al-Bashir said he was using the address, which was scheduled 
for live broadcast on Sudanese television, to call on the mass media and 
American public to learn the truth about his country.

''A number of governments, including the U.S., are putting pressure (on 
Sudan),'' he said. ''They're imposing solutions that don't respect the 
dignity of our nation.''

More than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million been chased 
from their homes in Darfur since 2003, when rebels from ethnic African 
tribes rose up against the central government.

A 7,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force has been trying to stop 
the ongoing violence in the region, but the force is underfunded and 
ill-equipped. Al-Bashir has rejected a United Nations Security Council 
resolution calling for 22,000 U.N. peacekeepers to replace the AU force.

He reiterated comments he made last week that he would not allow U.N. 
peacekeepers into his country. He suggested that Sudan could accept more 
African Union peacekeepers - with U.N. support.

He said the AU force is ''doing fantastically well'' while the Security 
Council resolution would put ''Sudan under the full mandate of foreign 
countries'' and gives U.N. troops ''the same position as coalition 
forces in Iraq.''

Al-Bashir said media reports of 400,000 casualties are false. He also 
denied reports of ethnic cleansing among tribes. He said Darfur is 
''quite calm,'' and said its problems are limited to a small section in 
the region's north.

The office of the International Criminal Court's prosecutor in The Hague 
said Thursday he would disclose the names next week of suspects in 
Darfur atrocities and present judges with evidence linking them to war 
crimes.

The judges will have the power to issue warrants, but it remains to be 
seen if they can be executed. Sudanese authorities have not signed the 
international treaty that created the court and claim it has no 
jurisdiction in the country.

Farrakhan's Chief of Staff Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad, who extended the 
invitation to al-Bashir, said after the speech it was an important 
message for Nation members and others to hear.

''Whatever happens in Africa is the business of black people,'' he said. 
''Don't you dare suggest this is beyond the business of the Nation of 
Islam.''

The conference ends Sunday with an address by Farrakhan at Ford Field, 
home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions. The event is being 
billed as the final major address for the 73-year-old leader, who ceded 
leadership last year to an executive board because of illness.

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[osint] Al Qaeda suspect held in Basra

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Al Qaeda suspect held in Basra
Published: Saturday, 24 February, 2007, 09:02 AM Doha Time
BASRA: Iraqi police have arrested a suspected Al Qaeda insurgent in the
southern city of Basra and seized a rocket launcher capable of being
used against aircraft, police said yesterday.
The man was arrested from his house in Al-Assmai neighbourhood on
Wednesday, Basra police spokesman Lt-Colonel Karim al-Zaidi said.
“Police found several arms, including a SAM-7 rocket launcher which can
be used against aircraft,” Zaidi said, adding the suspect is allegedly
linked to the Sunni Al Qaeda network.
Basra is a predominantly Shia city, from which British forces are to
withdraw in the coming months, amid fears that the city could become the
object of a struggle between rival factions.
On Thursday, Lt-General Raymond Odierno, the second-ranking US commander
in Iraq, said cells affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq are believed to be
stalking US helicopters.
Two or three of the eight helicopters that have been downed since
January 20 appeared to have been ambushed, Odierno told reporters in
Washington via video link from Iraq.
It was not immediately clear if the man arrested in Basra is being
linked to any of the helicopter incidents.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq has
vowed to take revenge for the alleged rape of a Sunni Iraqi woman by
three Iraqi police officers.
In a 10-minute audio recording broadcast on the Internet on Thursday,
Abu Hamza al-Muhajer said: “Fellow Muslim Mujahideen (Islamic fighters)
a rape was committed, religion has been violated, all Muslims have been
put to shame.”
Some 300 militants had “requested to conduct suicide operations to
avenge her honour” after the rape had been announced, al-Muhajer claimed
in the recording. – Agencies

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[osint] Ex-Indonesian general pleads guilty in arms export case

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Ex-Indonesian general pleads guilty in arms export case

BALTIMORE (AP): A retired Indonesian Marine Corps general pleaded guilty 
in U.S. court Friday to money laundering and conspiring to provide 
material support to the Tamil Tigers, a designated foreign terrorist group.

Erick Wotulo, 59, conspired last year to export weapons and other 
military technology to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known 
as the Tamil Tigers, operating in Sri Lanka, according to the plea 
agreement.

The state-of-the-art firearms, machine guns and ammunition, 
surface-to-air missiles and night-vision goggles were to be used against 
Sri Lankan government forces.

The conspirators contacted an undercover business in Maryland about the 
sale of military weapons. Erick helped acquire and arrange the proposed 
delivery to the Tamil Tigers, the plea agreement said.

Erick was arrested in September in Guam, where he had traveled to meet 
other conspirators and undercover agents posing as arms merchants.

Erick faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for conspiracy to 
provide material support and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison 
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[osint] Head of Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijani community: Russia hampers regional conflict settlement

http://www.regnum.ru/english/787187.html

Head of Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijani community: Russia hampers regional 
conflict settlement


“Minsk Group co-chairs always arrive Karabakh from Armenia. While being 
in Azerbaijan, they find no time to see me; but at the same time they 
have dinners at houses of Armenians, who illegally settled in Lachin 
District. The most sorrowful thing is that the co-chairs have talks with 
Arkady Gukasyan (the Nagorno Karabakh president — REGNUM). In this case, 
how can the OSCE Minsk Group settle the conflict fairly?” head of the 
Azerbaijani community in Nagorno Karabakh Nizami Bakhmanov said.

According to him, it is Russia that hampers settlement of regional 
conflicts. “Russian OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov once told 
me that joint living of Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh 
is impossible. Azerbaijan should secure itself from the double-standard 
policy conducted both by Russia and Western countries,” Bakhmanov is 
quoted by APAas saying.
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[osint] Maoists hand over nearly 3,500 arms

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Maoists hand over nearly 3,500 arms
Published: Saturday, 24 February, 2007, 09:02 AM Doha Time
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Maoists have surrendered nearly 3,500 weapons as part
of a peace deal with the government, but it was not clear if this
accounted for all the arms in their possession, the chief UN monitor
said yesterday.
The UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), which completed registering former
Maoist fighters and weapons at the weekend, said nearly 31,000
ex-guerrillas, most of them unarmed, had turned up at 28 camps set up
under the November peace deal.
“UNMIN is not and will not be in a position to state whether the weapons
it has registered correspond to the full total of weapons held by the
Maoist army,” Ian Martin told a news conference.
The UN announcement is the first official account of the size of the
Maoist army and its weapons since the peace deal ended a 10-year civil
war in which more than 13,000 people were killed.
The pact has seen the former rebels join a provisional parliament and
they are also due to enter the interim cabinet before elections to a
constituent assembly this year.
Martin said the arms registered in seven main camps and stored in
containers included mortars, machine guns, automatic rifles, shotguns
and home-made weapons.
In the past, the Maoists had said they had 35,000 fighters but had not
given details of their arms.
Defence analyst Indrajit Rai said it was estimated the Maoists had about
8,000 weapons.
“They have not shown all of them. They are not being honest in this
aspect,” he said.
Villagers and rights groups in the Himalayan country accuse the Maoists
of recruiting people despite the peace process which started in May in
an apparent attempt to boost their numbers. - Reuters
Ian Martin announces details of the arms surrender at a press conference
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[osint] CIA official known for briefing dies

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CIA official known for briefing dies

   -- The Associated Press

Published: February 23, 2007
Last Modified: February 23, 2007 at 07:18 AM

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Richard Lehman, a CIA official who worked with every 
president from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush and was credited with 
creating the president's daily intelligence briefing, has died. He was 83.

Lehman, who also was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, died 
Feb. 17 at Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association Hospice House.

Lehman, who worked at the CIA from 1949 to 1982, was awarded two 
Distinguished Intelligence Medals, the agency's highest honor. He was 
also recognized as one of 50 trailblazers who formed the CIA.

"We all thought we were saving a country from disaster through 
intelligence," John Kenneth Knaus, who spent 40 years with the CIA and 
is Lehman's brother-in-law, told the Concord Monitor. "He was the kind 
of guy you looked to pull things together and do it in an analytical and 
extremely objective way."

Lehman created the president's daily intelligence brief in June 1961, 
after Robert Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States, complained 
that the president had been blindsided after missing pieces of intelligence.

Kennedy loved the memos, nicknamed "pickle" after PICL, President's 
Intelligence Checklist. It was later renamed the President's Daily 
Brief. He would sometimes send the brief back with comments.

Lehman had a prominent role in keeping Kennedy informed of developments 
during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He became a CIA transition liaison 
for new presidents.

Not all presidents liked the memo, Lehman said in an interview with 
Richard Kovar, who served in the Directorate of Intelligence. Lyndon 
Johnson didn't read it.

"Johnson really was not that much of a reader; the thing didn't appeal 
to him the way it did to Kennedy," Lehman said in the interview. In the 
end, the agency gave the briefings to other members of Johnson's 
administration.

Lehman was chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1979 to 1981.

After retiring from the CIA, Lehman advised George H.W. Bush's 
administration when he transitioned into office in 1988. He had formed a 
relationship with Bush during the president-to-be's brief stint as 
Director of Central Intelligence.

Lehman later helped start a consulting business of retired intelligence 
officers.

He and his wife, Diane Harris Lehman, moved to Concord in 2001. She died 
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[osint] UZBEKISTAN: Three Protestants await trial, but one freed

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UZBEKISTAN: Three Protestants await trial, but one freed
Friday , 23 February 2007

Two Pentecostal Christians in the north-west of Uzbekistan – where all 
Protestant activity is illegal – are facing criminal charges for their 
religious activity, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The two - 
26-year-old Makset Djabbarbergenov and 32-year-old Salauat Serikbayev – 
each face up to five years' imprisonment if convicted. The Prosecutor's 
Office have repeatedly evaded any discussion of the cases with Forum 18. 
Elsewhere in Uzbekistan, Protestant pastor Dmitry Shestakov – arrested 
by the NSS secret police on 21 January – also awaits trial, with no date 
yet set. He is being held in prison. However, visiting Kazakh Protestant 
pastor Rishat Garifulin has been freed without charge, after being held 
by the NSS secret police for eleven days. But police in the south-west 
who raided a private home have detained six Protestants, as well as 
confiscating a Bible, two audiocassettes and three Christian books in 
Kazakh. Such confiscated literature - including the Bible - has often 
been burnt.



Two Pentecostal Christians in the north-western region of Karakalpakstan 
[Qoraqalpoghiston] – where all Protestant activity is illegal – are 
facing criminal charges for their religious activity, Protestant sources 
who prefer not to be identified for fear of reprisals have told Forum 18 
News Service. The two - 26-year-old Makset Djabbarbergenov and 
32-year-old Salauat Serikbayev – each face up to five years' 
imprisonment if convicted, though they are not in detention as the 
investigation continues. The charges come as Protestant pastor Dmitry 
Shestakov – arrested by the National Security Service (NSS) secret 
police on 21 January - awaits trial in Andijan in eastern Uzbekistan. 
However, visiting Kazakh Protestant pastor Rishat Garifulin was freed 
without charge in the south-western city of Samarkand [Samarqand] on 19 
February, after being held by the NSS secret police for eleven days.

Djabbarbergenov and Serikbayev have been charged under Article 216 of 
the Criminal Code, which punishes "violating the law on religious 
organisations" with sentences of up to five years' imprisonment. The two 
were among 18 Protestants detained in the evening of 15 January during a 
raid on a private home in the village of Kaskol-2 near Nukus, the 
capital of the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic. The raid was led by 
Abbat Utemuratov, senior assistant to the Nukus Town Prosecutor, and 
another assistant, Investigator Umirbai Kudaibergenov. Protestant 
sources have told Forum 18 that those detained on 15 January refused to 
write any statements, despite police pressure. They were then released.

Reached on 22 February, Utemuratov of the Prosecutor's Office told Forum 
18 that the case against Djabbarbergenov and Serikbayev is being led by 
Investigator Kudaibergenov. "I don't have the file in front of me and 
don't know all the details," Utemuratov said. He said Forum 18 should 
call back an hour later when Kudaibergenov would be back. However, each 
time Forum 18 called back the phone was immediately put down again. 
Prosecutors have three months in which to complete an investigation.

Serikbayev's Pentecostal church in the town of Muinak, north of Nukus 
near the Aral Sea – like all other Protestant churches in Karakalpakstan 
- has long faced hostility from local officials, including police raids 
and torture of individual church members. "In effect we are being forced 
to live like the early Christians of the catacombs," Serikbayev told 
Forum 18 back in 2003. "We have to hold our religious meetings in the 
desert, several kilometres from the town, for fear of persecution by the 
authorities." (See F18News 17 March 2003 
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=7 and eg. 3 July 2006 
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=807).

Serikbayev was among three church members fined last July for his 
religious activity by Muinak town court. All three were punished under 
Article 240 of the Code of Administrative Offences, which punishes 
"violating the law on religious organisations". Serikbayev and one of 
the other Protestants were fined about 552,000 Uzbek Soms [2,840 
Norwegian Kroner, 360 Euros, or 450 US Dollars], more than 50 times the 
minimum monthly wage in a town noted for its poverty, while the third 
received a seven-day prison term (see F18News 17 July 2006 
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=814).

But in a surprise move, in mid-February, the Supreme Court of 
Karakalpakstan on criminal cases reduced Serikbayev's fine to one-tenth 
of its previous level. Sixty four confiscated religious books and 
videocassettes will also be returned to him.

Religious activity is particularly difficult in Karakalpakstan. The 
regional authorities have banned the activity of all non-Muslim and 
non-Orthodox religious communities by denying them official 
registrat

[osint] Blast That Killed U.S. Diplomat Tied to Qaeda

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/world/asia/24pakistan.html?ex=1329973200&en=d2f43439460dcd2c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

February 24, 2007
Blast That Killed U.S. Diplomat Tied to Qaeda
By CARLOTTA GALL

KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb. 22 — The suicide bombing that killed an American
diplomat here last March, just before a visit by President Bush, was
organized by a small cell of Pakistani militants and masterminded by an
operative of Al Qaeda based in the Pakistan’s tribal areas, Pakistan says.

The charge is being made by Pakistani officials as they present evidence
— the result of months of investigations by the police, assisted by
F.B.I. investigators — at the trial of two men accused in the plot.

The men, Anwar ul-Haq, 27, and Usman Ghani, 26, both ethnic Pashtuns
from Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, grew up in the teeming
working-class neighborhoods of Karachi and fought with the Taliban in
Afghanistan, the investigators say. On Thursday, they sat behind bars,
wearing long beards and knitted prayer caps, at the back of a courtroom
in Karachi’s central jail, listening intently to an investigator outline
the evidence against them.

The case is one of the first in Pakistan to underline in court the links
between splinter cells of Pakistani jihad groups and Qaeda operatives in
Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s tribal areas, which have come under
increasing scrutiny as a staging area for suicide bombers and Taliban
insurgents battling NATO and American forces in Afghanistan.

Publicly, Pakistani leaders have sought to play down the importance of
the tribal areas as havens for militants. But the evidence being
presented by Pakistani investigators makes clear the threat contained in
Waziristan, not only for Afghanistan but for Pakistan itself, which has
suffered six suicide bombings in the last five weeks.

Two assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf in
December 2003 were also traced to Qaeda and militants who enjoyed a
haven in the same region, where the government has little control and
foreign and Pakistani militants operate almost unimpeded, according to
the home secretary of Sindh Province, Ghulam Mohatarem, a retired army
brigadier.

“They mostly come from the north,” he said of the bombers that have
plagued Karachi and other cities. “But they are provided with logistics
from small local cells that come up and then disappear.” United States
officials in Pakistan declined to be interviewed for this article.

The investigators’ conclusions, which are largely drawn from a
confession by Mr. Haq and from the infiltration of terrorist cells, are
the latest indication that Al Qaeda and its local operatives are still
able to operate from Waziristan.

Brigadier Mohatarem, the home secretary, said that the police in
Karachi, a sprawling and violent city of about 16 million, tracked down
and disrupted the activities of numerous terrorist splinter groups in
recent months.

Although Karachi has seen some of the worst terrorist attacks in
Pakistan since 2001, there have been no Qaeda-linked attacks here for
nearly a year since the consulate bombing.

“We are slightly more confident because the logistics have become more
difficult for them,” Brigadier Mohatarem said. Yet the threat of
terrorism remains, he and others agreed. “We cannot say it has been
wiped out,” a senior police official said of Al Qaeda.

Family members denied in interviews that the two defendants had gone to
Afghanistan, knew the bomber, Raja Tahir, 23, also from Karachi, or had
any jihad links. Both men are pleading not guilty, their lawyers said.

But the police say there is little doubt that the suicide bombing of
March 2, 2006, which killed the diplomat David Foy, his driver and three
others, had a Qaeda connection because of the timing, just two days
before Mr. Bush’s visit to Pakistan.

Investigators say they have traced other leads to Waziristan as well.
The stolen car used in the attack was packed with explosives there and
driven down to Karachi, according to one police report.

The police say all the suspects had spent time in Taliban ranks fighting
the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, and all three had links with the
now banned Pakistani jihadi group, Jaish-e-Mohammed.

The mastermind of the plot, Qari Mohammed Zafar, a man from Karachi with
known links to Al Qaeda, remains at large in Waziristan, the home
secretary said. “Behind him we don’t know who is there, if he is a
puppet in a chain,” he added.

Mr. Zafar is a local leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed militant
group that has been found to provide the manpower for Qaeda bomb attacks
in Pakistan in the past.

He bears the religious title of Qari, meaning he has memorized the
Koran. He fought in Afghanistan with the Taliban in the 1990s, and
forged links there with Al Qaeda, officials said, some of them speaking
on condition of anonymity because of their work in counterterrorism.

After the Taliban gov

[osint] Chossudovsky: "Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT)

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00208.htm

Chossudovsky: "Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT)
Saturday, 24 February 2007, 7:05 pm
Opinion: Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research Feature Article
"Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT)

by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
February 21, 2007

DUBAI, UAE, 21 February 2007. Code named by US military planners as 
TIRANNT, "Theater Iran Near Term" has identified several thousand 
targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is 
now in the final planning stages.

According to the Kuwait-based Arab Times, an attack on Iran under 
TIRANNT could occur any time between late February and the end of April. 
This assessment, however, does not take into account the disarray of US 
ground forces in Iraq as well as the untimely withdrawal of several 
thousand British troops from the Iraq war theater, many of whom were 
stationed in Southern Iraq on the immediate border with Iran.

Revealed last April by William Arkin, a former US intelligence analyst, 
writing in the Washington Post, TIRANNT was first established in May 
2003, following the invasion of Iraq.

"In early 2003, even as U.S. forces were on the brink of war with Iraq, 
the Army had already begun conducting an analysis for a full-scale war 
with Iran. The analysis, called TIRANNT, for "theater Iran near term," 
was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps invasion and a 
simulation of the Iranian missile force. U.S. and British planners 
conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same time. And Bush directed 
the U.S. Strategic Command to draw up a global strike war plan for an 
attack against Iranian weapons of mass destruction. All of this will 
ultimately feed into a new war plan for "major combat operations" 
against Iran that military sources confirm now exists in draft form. 
[This contingency plan entitled CONPLAN 8022 would be activated in the 
eventuality of a Second 9/11, on the presumption that Iran would be 
behind it]
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... Under TIRANNT, Army and U.S. Central Command planners have been 
examining both near-term and out-year scenarios for war with Iran, 
including all aspects of a major combat operation, from mobilization and 
deployment of forces through postwar stability operations after regime 
change." (William Arkin, Washington Post, 16 April 2006)

The decision to target Iran should come as no surprise. Already during 
the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had 
formulated in 1995 "in war theater plans" to invade first Iraq and then 
Iran.

 "The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in 
the President's National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman's 
National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United 
States Central Command's theater strategy. The NSS directs 
implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of 
Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, 
to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual 
containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region 
without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM's theater strategy 
is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as 
espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States' vital interest in 
the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil."

 (USCENTCOM, 
http://www.milnet.com/milnet/pentagon/centcom/chap1/stratgic.htm#USPolicy 
, emphasis added)

Consistent with CENTCOM's 1995 sequencing of theater operations, the 
plans to target Iran were activated under TIRANNT in the immediate wake 
of the invasion of Iraq. Confirmed by Arkin, the operational component 
of the Iran military agenda was launched in May 2003 "when modelers and 
intelligence specialists pulled together the data needed for 
theater-level (meaning large-scale) scenario analysis for Iran." (Arkin, 
op cit). In October 2003, different theater scenarios for an Iran war 
were contemplated:

"The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle plans 
and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation Iranian 
Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command, has 
inherited computerized plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran Near 
Term)." (New Statesman, 19 Feb 2007)

Concurrently, the various parallel components of TIRANNT were put in 
place including the Marines "Concept of Operations":

"The Marines, meanwhile, have not only been involved in CENTCOM's war 
planning, but have been focused on their own specialty, "forcible 
entry." In April 2003, the Corps published its "Concept of Operations" 
for a maneuver against a mock country that explores the possibility of 
moving forces from ship to shore against a determined enemy without 
establishing a beachhead first. Though the Marine Corps enemy is 
described only as a deeply religious revolutionary country named Karona, 
it is -- with its Revolutionary Gua

[osint] OSCE Calls For Fair Trials In Kazakhstan

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/02/91f86afe-42a4-44ef-a4cc-cf52e1e25ac8.html

OSCE Calls For Fair Trials In Kazakhstan
February 23, 2007 (RFE/RL) --An OSCE trial-monitoring report released in 
Kazakhstan has identified the need for further steps to be taken to 
uphold fair trial standards in the country.

They include the right of the public to attend court, equality between 
the parties, and the presumption of innocence.

The deputy head of the OSCE center in Almaty, Bjorn Halvarsson, said 
improving Kazakhstan's compliance with OSCE commitments on the right to 
a fair trial is crucial in light of the ongoing criminal justice reforms.

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[osint] US defense chief: China military capabilities worrisome

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US defense chief: China military capabilities worrisome

Fri Feb 23, 1:21 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed concern
Friday over China's developing military capabilities and the ease with
which military spending can be hidden from public view.

Gates' brief comments in response to reporters questions followed Vice
President
Dick Cheney's warning in Australia that China's rapid military build-up
was "not consistent with China's goal of a peaceful rise."

"There are developments underway with respect to Chinese military
capabilities that are a concern," said Gates, without elaborating.

In a speech in Sydney, Cheney singled out a recent anti-satellite test
in which China used a ballistic missile to des9

troy one of its own weather satellites in space.

A former Soviet analyst and director of the
CIA, Gates likened the problem of assessing China's military spending to
that of tracking Soviet military spending during the Cold War.

"In the absence of congressional oversight, it's pretty easy for other
states to disguise exactly how much they are spending on their military
forces. This obviously was a huge problem with the Soviet Union," he said.

"My suspicion is that the Chinese are spending more on their military
than what will be reflected in the state budget," he said.

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[osint] Japan launch completes set of spy satellites

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Japan launch completes set of spy satellites
(Reuters)

24 February 2007

TOKYO - Japan launched its fourth spy satellite on Saturday, improving
its ability to monitor potential threats including North Korea, whose
missile and nuclear tests have spooked the region.

An H-2A rocket, delayed three times by bad weather, finally lifted off
from the southern island of Tanegashima, carrying a radar satellite that
will join two optical satellites and another radar satellite already in
operation.

With the full complement of four satellites, Japan will be able to
monitor any point on Earth once a day, government officials have said.

Japan’s spy satellite programme was initiated after North Korea launched
a ballistic missile in 1998 that flew over Japan.

The programme was delayed in 2003 when a rocket carrying two satellites
veered off course and had to be destroyed in a spectacular fireball.

North Korea ratcheted up regional tensions last year when it conducted a
nuclear test in October after a salvo of missile tests in July.

In January, China destroyed one of its own satellites by firing a
ballistic missile at it, in an experiment that sparked criticism around
the world.

Japan’s space scientists have long complained that the country’s
technical prowess has fallen behind because of a 1969 parliamentary
resolution limiting the use of space to peaceful purposes.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is likely to
submit a bill to the current session of parliament that would ease
regulations and allow non-aggressive military use of space, LDP
officials have said.

The rocket launched on Saturday was also carrying an experimental
optical satellite, aimed at improving the level of detail obtained from
the next generation of satellites.

At present, Japan’s satellites can distinguish objects a metre (3 feet)
or more in diameter, whereas US military satellites are said to be able
to do so for items one-tenth as large.

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[osint] Iraq War Exacts Toll on Contractors

http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/02/23/ap/us/d8nfr8o81.txt

Iraq War Exacts Toll on Contractors

By MICHELLE ROBERTS

In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians 
working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 
3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military, according 
to figures gathered by The Associated Press.

Exactly how many of these employees doing the Pentagon's work are 
Americans is uncertain. But the casualty figures make it clear that the 
Defense Department's count of more than 3,100 U.S. military dead does 
not tell the whole story.

"It's another unseen expense of the war," said Thomas Houle, a retired 
Air Force reservist whose brother-in-law died while driving a truck in 
Iraq. "It's almost disrespectful that it doesn't get the kind of 
publicity or respect that a soldier would."

Employees of defense contractors such as Halliburton, Blackwater and 
Wackenhut cook meals, do laundry, repair infrastructure, translate 
documents, analyze intelligence, guard prisoners, protect military 
convoys, deliver water in the heavily fortified Green Zone and stand 
sentry at buildings _ often highly dangerous duties almost identical to 
those performed by many U.S. troops.

The U.S. has outsourced so many war and reconstruction duties that there 
are almost as many contractors (120,000) as U.S. troops (135,000) in the 
war zone.

The insurgents in Iraq make little if any distinction between the 
contractors and U.S. troops.

In January, four contractors for Blackwater were killed when their 
helicopter was downed by gunfire in Baghdad. In 2004, two Americans and 
a British engineer were kidnapped and decapitated. That same year, a mob 
of insurgents ambushed a supply convoy escorted by contractors, burning 
and mutilating the guards' bodies and stringing up two of them from a 
bridge.

But when contractors are killed or wounded, the casualties are off the 
books, in a sense.

The Defense Department issues a press release whenever a soldier or 
Marine dies. The AP obtained figures on many of the civilian deaths and 
injuries from the Labor Department, which tracks workers' compensation 
claims, after repeated efforts including a Freedom of Information Act 
request.

By the end of 2006, the Labor Department had quietly recorded 769 deaths 
and 3,367 injuries serious enough to require four or more days off the job.

"It used to be, womb to tomb, the military took care of everything. We 
had cooks. We had people who ran recreation facilities. But those are 
not core competencies you need to run a war," said Brig. Gen. Neil Dial, 
deputy director of intelligence for U.S. Central Command.

With the all-volunteer force, the military began more stringent 
recruiting of troops and made greater use of nonmilitary professionals. 
"It puts professionals in harm's way," he conceded.

Although contractors were widely used in Vietnam for support and 
reconstruction tasks, they have never before represented such a large 
portion of the U.S. presence in a war zone or accounted for so many 
security and military-like jobs, experts say.

Some of the workers are former U.S. military personnel. Some are 
foreigners. The companies and the U.S. government say they do not keep 
track of how many are Americans.

The contractors are paid handsomely for the risks they take, with some 
making $100,000 or more per year, mostly tax-free _ at least six times 
more than a new Army private, a rank likely to be driving a truck or 
doing some other unskilled work.

The difference in pay can create ill will between the contractors and 
U.S. troops.

"When they are side by side doing the same job, there is some 
resentment," said Rick Saccone, who worked as an intelligence contractor 
in Baghdad for a year.

If the contractor deaths were added to the Pentagon's count of U.S. 
military casualties, the number of war dead would climb about 25 
percent, from about 3,000 as of the end of 2006 to nearly 3,800.

If the contractors injured badly enough to be off the job for at least 
four days were added to the nearly 14,000 U.S. troops requiring medical 
air transport because of injuries, the injury total would rise by about 
the same percentage.

Early in the war, most of the casualties on the coalition side were 
military. But with the fall of Saddam Hussein, contractors flowed in 
behind the troops, and the number of deaths among the contract workers 
has been increasing each year.

Contractor deaths are less costly politically, said Deborah Avant, a 
political science professor at George Washington University.

"Every time there's a new thing that the U.S. government wants the 
military to do and there's not enough military to do it, contractors are 
hired," she said. "When we see the 3,000 service member deaths, there's 
probably an additional 1,000 deaths we don't see."

Houle's brother-in-law, Hector C. Patino, was driving a truck for a 
Halliburton subsidiary in the Green Zone

[osint] McCain says Iraq could end his career

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/16771264.htm

McCain says Iraq could end his career
CURT WOODWARD
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SEATTLE - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Friday that 
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sacrificed his career to support 
the Iraq war, and the Arizona senator acknowledged that he could face 
the same fate.

McCain, a staunch defender of President Bush's new Iraq troop deployment 
strategy, said he worries that a cutback of British troops in southern 
Iraq announced by Blair this week could lead to stronger control by 
"Iranian-backed Shiite" forces. But he said Blair and the British 
deserve gratitude for their efforts.

"He has literally sacrificed his political career because of Iraq," 
McCain said during an appearance before the World Affairs Council and 
the City Club of Seattle. "That is a great testament to his political 
courage."

Asked later by a reporter if he was in danger of making the same 
sacrifice, McCain responded, "Sure."

McCain, who lost the Republican nomination to Bush in 2000, is expected 
to formally announce his second campaign for the White House next month.

His appearance in Seattle initially focused on trade, security and 
diplomatic policy in Asia, which has strong economic and cultural ties 
to the Pacific Northwest. Iraq quickly came up, and McCain said 
Americans should give Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander of U.S. 
forces in Iraq, a chance to succeed.

"I believe that if we fail in Iraq, you will see chaos and genocide," 
McCain said.

The state Democratic Party criticized McCain for his support for the 
war, calling him "worse than Bush" in a statement.

After the speech, McCain was asked by an audience member if he was 
"sucking up to the religious right." He drew laughs by responding: 
"What's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"

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[osint] EU steps up engagement in the Middle East

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0702244439085347.htm

EU steps up engagement in the Middle East
Brussels, Feb 24, IRNA

EU-ME-Engagement
A top European Union official is traveling to the Middle East next week 
to raise Europe's engagement in the region following growing 
disillusionment with US polices in the region.

European Commissioner for External Relations and Neighborhood Policy 
(ENP) Benita Ferrero-Waldner will visit Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian 
territories and Jordan from February 26 to March 1 to discuss with key 
interlocutors ways to strengthen relations with the EU.

The visit will also be an opportunity to explore with all parties the 
current state of play in the Middle East peace process and how the EU 
can work with partners to create conditions for progress, said a 
Commission statement Friday.

"We all have an interest in maintaining the political momentum of recent 
weeks. I look forward to discussing with all parties how we can each 
play our part in keeping the hope of progress towards peace in the 
Middle East alive," said Ferrero-Waldner on the eve of her visit.

Earlier Friday in Brussels, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana met 
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and discussed with 
him the latest situation and developments in Palestine.

Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner will meet President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo 
on Monday to discuss ways to strengthen the partnership between the EU 
and Egypt through the ENP Action Plan, which will be adopted by the 
EU-Egypt Association Council on March 6 in Brussels.

Following the trilateral summit between Zionist Prime Minister Olmert 
and Abbas in the presence of US Secretary of State Rice and the Middle 
East Quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia) meeting in Berlin, Ferrero-Waldner 
will meet Zionist officials in occupied Al-Qods (Jerusalem) on Tuesday 
on ways to advance the peace process.

The following day she will hold talks with Abbas and other PA officials 
on how to maintain the momentum towards unity in the Palestinian 
political process following the Mecca agreement.

She will explore the ideas that the European Commission is developing to 
better coordinate and mobilize international assistance in support of 
the political process and to meet the needs of the Palestinian people, 
including through the existing Temporary International Mechanism.

Finally, on Thursday, Ferrero-Waldner will meet Jordanian Prime Minister 
Marouf al-Bakhit and other officials in Amman to exchange views on how 
to further improve the partnership between the EU and Jordan, the role 
the EU can play in supporting Jordan's reform agenda, and Jordan's role 
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[osint] Hezbollah leader: No talks on with Israel

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Hezbollah leader: No talks on with Israel
Posted on : Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:27:01 GMT | Author : World News Editor
News Category : World   

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 23 A Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament 
said Friday that the group is not involved in talks with Israel on a 
prisoner exchange.

Hezbollah continues to hold two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and 
Eldad Regev. Their kidnapping was one of the reasons for Israel's 
invasion of southern Lebanon last summer.

Any possible release of the soldiers would have to be part of a deal, 
Hassan Hub-Allah told Kol Al-Arab, a newspaper published in Nazareth. We 
demand the release of all the Lebanese, Arab and Palestinian prisoners, 
that will be conducted indirectly between us and the Zionist enemy.Other 
Hezbollah leaders have suggested negotiations are under way.

Hub-Allah also said Hezbollah is prepared to respond if Israel enters 
Lebanon again and plans to deal with violations of Lebanese air space.

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[osint] Iranian clashes 'kill 17 rebels'

Iranian clashes 'kill 17 rebels'
The Iranian military has killed 17 rebels in the north-west of the 
country, state media have reported.

A unit of Revolutionary Guards attacked the rebels in a remote area near 
the Turkish border, IRNA news agency said.

A military helicopter involved in the operation crashed in bad weather 
killing a Guards commander on board, Fars news agency reported.

There have been previous clashes in the area between Iranian security 
forces and militants linked to Kurdish groups.

"The Revolutionary Guards besieged these elements and started 
neutralising them," IRNA quoted a Guards commander as saying.

"In this operation at least 17 mercenary anti-revolution elements were 
killed and some were injured."

'Seeking insecurity'

Fars said that a Revolutionary Guards commander named Saeed Ghahari was 
killed in the helicopter crash, in West Azerbaijan province.

IRNA blamed the crash on bad weather.

West Azerbaijan province borders both Turkey and Iraq.

The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Yayha Rahim, blamed foreign 
countries for trying to stir up unrest in Iran's border regions.

"Enemies headed by the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime 
[Israel] who have had their goals defeated in the region are seeking 
insecurity in some border areas," Mehr news agency quoted Mr Rahim as 
saying.

The past two years have seen a rise in violent incidents in a number of 
regions inhabited by Iran's minorities, amid complaints of government 
oppression, discrimination or political or economic neglect, says the 
BBC's regional analyst Pam O'Toole.

A bomb attack on 14 February in south-east Iran killed 13 Revolutionary 
Guards in the majority Sunni city of Zahedan.

Last year also saw angry demonstrations by ethnic Azeris in Azerbaijan 
province, while in 2005 there was a wave of protests in Kurdestan province.
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[osint] 400 terrorists killed after security plan, says Iraq premier

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400 terrorists killed after security plan, says Iraq premier
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Saturday February 24, 2007   


Baghdad- Around 400 terrorists have been killed and 420
others detained since the new Baghdad security plan had kicked off in
Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.
Quoting al-Maliki at a press conference, the Voice of Iraq news
agency reported that new Baghdad security plan Fard al-Qanoun (law
enforcement) aimed to "disunite the infrastructure" of organizations
backing terrorists and outlaws.

Al-Maliki threatened to take measures under the terrorism law
against opposition leaders and politicians criticising the security
plan, saying their statements contradicted the "national will."

Al-Maliki added that the security plan was not limited to Baghdad,
but included "chasing terrorists in all provinces."

The much-vaunted security plan officially launched by al-Maliki
February 14 was backed by US troops against a background of
continuing civilian deaths in insurgent attacks.

It had been informally in effect since February 6 with operations
carried out under its aegis by Iraqi troops backed by multinational
forces in Baghdad and neighbouring cities.

As part of the plan Iraqi authorities closed Iraq's borders with
Syria and Iran on February 13. A week later al-Maliki announced that
42 terrorists had been killed and 330 others detained. Eight of the
terrorists killed had come from other Arab countries.

The new security operation also freed five hostages and helped 642
families who had fled to return to their homes, he said.

The Iraqi security forces also discovered large amounts of weapon
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[osint] Egyptian denies spying for Israel, says confession was forced

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/829683.html

Last update - 14:29 24/02/2007  
Egyptian denies spying for Israel, says confession was forced
By Reuters

CAIRO - An Egyptian man with Canadian citizenship denied Saturday spying 
for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and said a confession had been 
forced out of him.

Mohammed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, 31, standing trial on the outskirts of 
Cairo, denied any links with three Israelis charged in absentia with 
recruiting him to Mossad. If convicted, el-Attar and his co-defendants 
face a maximum life sentence, with hard labor.

Israel has dismissed the charges as baseless.

"No sir, none of this happened," Attar told the judge who asked him to 
comment on the charges.

"When I was at the [Egyptian] intelligence headquarters, I came under 
pressure to confess," he said. The trial was postponed until Wednesday.

Egyptian prosecutors say Attar confessed that Israeli agents had helped 
him to obtain a residency permit in Canada under a false name and found 
him a job in a bank.

They said Attar, who was arrested at Cairo airport in January, was paid 
$56,000 to spy on Egyptians and Arabs during stays in Canada and Turkey 
and tried to obtain information on Egyptian Coptic Christians abroad.

He was also expected to approach potential recruits.

The Egyptian media, which hailed Attar's arrest as a triumph for the 
country's intelligence services, has published what it said were details 
of his confessions and portrayed him as a spy who had betrayed his 
country and religion.

"El-Attar relates the details of his downfall," the state-owned al-Ahram 
daily newspaper wrote on Saturday, describing his acts as "shameful".

The purported confessions quote Attar as saying he had converted to 
Christianity and was homosexual, a taboo in the conservative Egyptian 
Muslim community.

Attar arrived at the court house on Saturday under heavy security and 
stood inside the defendants' pen. Dressed in a white T-shirt and 
trousers, he made a victory sign several times to reporters and 
television cameras.

In 1996, Egypt sentenced Azzam Azzam, an Israeli Arab textile worker, to 
15 years in jail for spying for Israel. Egyptian authorities said Azzam 
passed messages in women's underwear using invisible ink.

Both Azzam and Israel had denied the charges. He was released after 
eight years as part of a deal that included the release of six Egyptian 
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[osint] Italian arrested in India arms case

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Italian arrested in India arms case 
Quattrocchi has been wanted for 20 years [AFP]
An Italian businessman wanted in India in a bribery scandal involving a 
$1.3bn arms deal has been detained in Argentina, the Indian media has 
reported.

Ottavio Quattrocchi had been wanted since the scandal, which involved 
Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors, first broke 20 years ago and 
implicated the Gandhi political dynasty.

"The fugitive Italian buisnesman wanted in the Bofors payoff case has 
been detained by Argentine authorities," The Times of India newspaper said.

The case centres on accusations that Quattrocchi took bribes from AB 
Bofors for brokering the sale of 410 Howitzer field guns to Delhi in 1986.

"Significantly the government chose to keep the matter under wraps for a 
fortnight," the paper said.

Interpol notice

Reported to be close to the head of India's Congress party, Italian-born 
Sonia Gandhi, Quattrocchi was detained on February 6.

India was informed two days later. He was held under an Interpol notice 
issued at the request of India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) 
10 years ago.

The CBI said on Saturday it would send an extradition request for 
Quattrocchi to the government of Argentina.

Quattrocchi has always maintained his innocence saying his only crime 
was being a friend of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister, who was 
assassinated in 1991, leaving his widow Sonia at the helm of the dynasty.

Government confusion

The CBI has been critcised for failing to bring Quattrocchi back to 
India to face justice, amid allegations of political influence.

The agency was embarassed last January when Britain unfroze the 
Italian's bank accounts after it failed to supply evidence to prove the 
money was connected to the case.

Indian ministers and officials at the time distanced themselves from the 
case and the agency, with the law minister declaring there was no 
evidence against Quattrocchi.

But the CBI insists that Quattrocchi is still a wanted man in India and 
must face charges.

In 2005, the Delhi high court dismissed similar charges against the 
three Europe-based Hinduja brothers as well as against the late Rajiv 
Gandhi.

The scandal has dogged Indian politics ever since it erupted in 1986 and 
contributed to the defeat of Congress in 1989.Italian arrested in India 
arms case   
Quattrocchi has been wanted for 20 years [AFP]
An Italian businessman wanted in India in a bribery scandal involving a 
$1.3bn arms deal has been detained in Argentina, the Indian media has 
reported.

Ottavio Quattrocchi had been wanted since the scandal, which involved 
Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors, first broke 20 years ago and 
implicated the Gandhi political dynasty.

"The fugitive Italian buisnesman wanted in the Bofors payoff case has 
been detained by Argentine authorities," The Times of India newspaper said.

The case centres on accusations that Quattrocchi took bribes from AB 
Bofors for brokering the sale of 410 Howitzer field guns to Delhi in 1986.

"Significantly the government chose to keep the matter under wraps for a 
fortnight," the paper said.

Interpol notice

Reported to be close to the head of India's Congress party, Italian-born 
Sonia Gandhi, Quattrocchi was detained on February 6.

India was informed two days later. He was held under an Interpol notice 
issued at the request of India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) 
10 years ago.

The CBI said on Saturday it would send an extradition request for 
Quattrocchi to the government of Argentina.

Quattrocchi has always maintained his innocence saying his only crime 
was being a friend of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister, who was 
assassinated in 1991, leaving his widow Sonia at the helm of the dynasty.

Government confusion

The CBI has been critcised for failing to bring Quattrocchi back to 
India to face justice, amid allegations of political influence.

The agency was embarassed last January when Britain unfroze the 
Italian's bank accounts after it failed to supply evidence to prove the 
money was connected to the case.

Indian ministers and officials at the time distanced themselves from the 
case and the agency, with the law minister declaring there was no 
evidence against Quattrocchi.

But the CBI insists that Quattrocchi is still a wanted man in India and 
must face charges.

In 2005, the Delhi high court dismissed similar charges against the 
three Europe-based Hinduja brothers as well as against the late Rajiv 
Gandhi.

The scandal has dogged Indian politics ever since it erupted in 1986 and 
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[osint] Homeland Security likely to list Denver as risk site

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5374889,00.html

Homeland Security likely to list Denver as risk site
Dem convention may mean more federal grants

February 24, 2007
Denver may soon be among a handful of regions the Homeland Security 
department deems "high risk" for a terrorist attack. That translates to 
possibly more grant money for local security operations.

"Now that we have scheduled the Democratic National Convention here, I'm 
sure that the Secret Service in particular, and I'm presuming the 
Department of Homeland Security as well, will now upgrade Denver as a 
risk site," said U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

Hoyer, along with Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Golden, gathered Friday with 
leadership and rank-and-file of the West Metro Fire Rescue, Colorado 
Task Force One and other public safety agencies to talk about grant 
funding from the Homeland Security department.

Hoyer said he would meet with Colorado's Homeland Security delegation, 
senators and others to see how the convention could be factored into the 
metro area's risk assessment and possibly higher grant levels.

Homeland Security looks at the potential risk of terrorist attacks or 
catastrophic natural disasters each region has in determining the 
distribution for most grant money. Some smaller amounts go to lower-risk 
regions to increase the overall baseline of security.

Colorado received $21 million this year. That method has generated 
controversy. "We understand that every state and every community has 
needs, but at DHS we have the responsibility to look at the total 
picture of risk across the country and to set priorities, just as you do 
in your own states," said DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff during a speech 
at a midyear conference at the National Emergency Management Association.

Perlmutter, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee in Washington, 
D.C., said members of the committee are scheduled to come to Colorado as 
soon as April or May "to take evidence and testimony about the 
preparations for the convention as well as how the various departments 
and agencies are working together."

Legislative leaders meet with state agencies

The Homeland Security department may deem Denver "high risk" for a 
terrorist attack because the city has been selected to host the the 
Democratic National Convention in August 2008.

$21 million is the amount that Colorado has received in Homeland 
security grants this year.

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[osint] Spanish intelligence service warns of more attacks in Afghanistan

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Spanish intelligence service warns of more attacks in Afghanistan

Feb 24, 2007, 12:11 GMT

Madrid - The situation for foreign soldiers in Afghanistan is growing
ever more dangerous, according to the Spanish intelligence service.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais on Saturday reported intelligence service
sources as warning that the number of attacks by Taliban fighters on
NATO troops will rise steeply this year.

If the insurgents in an area come under pressure from NATO or Afghan
forces, they move to another area where they meet less resistance, the
newspaper quoted an intelligence expert as saying.

To date most of the attacks on NATO troops have been in the southern
Afghan provinces but in future attacks on foreign troops may also be
increased in other provinces, the sources said.

NATO forces in Afghanistan will repulse any Taliban attempt to launch a
spring offensive, Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in a
defiant message in Kabul Thursday, amid militant claims that thousands
of fighters are ready to engage the alliance.

The Taliban has claimed to have deployed 6,000 fighters in preparation
for a spring offensive by the Islamic militia which was toppled from
power in 2001.

Last year more than 4,000 people were killed in violence, about a
quarter of them civilians and including 170 foreign troops.

NATO leads the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which
together with US-led coalition forces has some 46,000 troops deployed in
Afghanistan. There are 690 Spanish troops in the ISAF.

A Spanish soldier was killed Wednesday when his convoy hit a mine in
eastern Afghanistan. He was the second Spanish soldier to be killed in
attacks in the country.

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[osint] Mercenaries cleared of African coup plot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/23/wcoup123.xml

Mercenaries cleared of African coup plot

By Emma Henry and agencies
Last Updated: 2:10pm GMT 23/02/2007

A South African court has dropped charges against eight men accused of 
planning a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: Mercenaries cleared of African 
coup plot
The mercenaries planned to topple Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

The Pretoria Regional Court dismissed the charges against the men, all 
South Africans, after their lawyers had argued that South Africa's 
government had tacitly backed the aborted 2004 coup attempt.

South African officials have denied the allegation.

Sir Mark Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher's son, was fined £265,000 by a 
South African court in 2005 after admitting he helped fund the planned coup.

During the trial prosecutors accused the suspected mercenaries of 
hatching a plot to kidnap Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial 
Guinea's president, and overthrow his government in the tiny West 
African nation.

Mr Obiang - who himself seized power in a 1979 coup - was to have been 
brought to the airport by ringleader Nick du Toit with the promise that 
a shipment of new 4x4 vehicles was on its way.

He would then have been overpowered and flown out of the country, while 
exiled opposition politician Severo Moto was to be flown in from Spain, 
a state witness told the court in South Africa's capital.

Raymond Archer, Victor Dracula, Neves Matias, Mazanga Kashama, Louis du 
Preez, Errol Harris, Maitre Ruakuluka and Simon Witherspoon were among 
61 people arrested at Harare airport on March 7, 2004 after their plane 
landed, allegedly to pick up weapons for the alleged coup.

Most of the suspected mercenaries were released from a Zimbabwean prison 
in 2005 after spending a year there, but Briton Simon Mann, the 
mastermind of the alleged coup plot, is still serving a four-year jail term.

Ten other men, including Du Toit, a South African, are serving sentences 
of between 13 and 34 years in jail in Equatorial Guinea for their part 
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[osint] Police in Iran kill four alleged drug traffickers, seize nearly 5 metric tons of narcotics

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/24/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Drugs.php

Police in Iran kill four alleged drug traffickers, seize nearly 5 metric 
tons of narcotics
The Associated Press
Published: February 24, 2007

TEHRAN, Iran: Police killed four alleged drug traffickers and seized 
nearly 5 metric tons (5.5 tons) of opium and morphine during armed 
clashes in southeastern Iran, the official Islamic Republic News Agency 
reported Saturday.

Gen. Eskandar Momeni, a top police commander, said 4,635 kilograms 
(10,218 pounds) of opium and morphine were seized in the mountains 
outside Bam, a city in southeastern Iran, on Friday night, IRNA reported.

Momeni said four alleged drug traffickers were killed and two others 
arrested after they exchanged gunfire for several hours, IRNA reported.

Iranian security forces frequently have armed clashes with drug 
traffickers. More than 3,000 police officers and soldiers have died in 
such gunbattles since 1979.

Iran has more than two million drug addicts and lies on a major drug 
smuggling route flowing from Afghanistan to Europe. Large drug seizures 
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[osint] German official: Kurnaz a 'security risk'

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/German_official_Kurnaz_a_security_risk/20070223-104010-2919r/

International Intelligence
Published: Feb. 23, 2007 at 10:58 AM
German official: Kurnaz a 'security risk'
BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A top German security official says
there was reason to believe that former Guantanamo inmate Murat Kurnaz
posed a security risk to take him back in 2002.

Heinz Fromm, head of the Verfassungsschutz, a federal German agency
tasked with monitoring extremists, said his agency has had reason to
believe that Kurnaz was "a potentially dangerous extremist."

Fromm added he had reason to believe that Kurnaz, who was arrested in
Pakistan in late 2001, didn't travel there for religious reasons.

The security official was testifying before a German parliamentary
inquiry trying to establish why the former German government in late
2002 blocked a U.S. offer to release to Germany the Gunatanamo Bay
prisoner Kurnaz, a German-Turkish man who was deemed innocent by U.S.
and German intelligence agents.

Fromm said that this assessment hadn't changed when Kurnaz was released
from the U.S. military prison in Cuba after four and a half years last
summer upon the intervention of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"You mean Frau Merkel acted against your advice?" Max Stadler, an
inquiry member of the Free Democrats, asked him.

"Our cognitions hadn't changed," Fromm replied.

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[osint] Weapons smugglers bring Glock weapons through northern Iraq

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Weapons smugglers bring Glock weapons through northern Iraq
Glock weapons are on the rise in Turkey, fueling debates on where and 
how the illegal guns are getting through.
Smuggled weapons entering Turkey through northern Iraq have been brought 
to Turkey's agenda once again in light of recent allegations that some 
US weapons lost in Iraq were used in the slaying of Father Andrea 
Santoro in Trabzon and in a May attack on the Council of State.
There has been a recent surge of Glock brand guns in Turkey. The gun 
can't be legally imported into Turkey, nor is it sold by the Mechanical 
and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKEK) responsible for the sale of 
imported weapons. Weapons smugglers, however, bring Glock guns into 
Turkey from northern Iraq. The guns, which are reportedly disbursed to 
Iraqi peshmergas by American soldiers, are sold to smugglers who bring 
them into Turkey. The guns may cost a few hundred YTL in northern Iraq, 
but are valued at up to $7,000 upon entering Turkey's borders.
Up until 2002, a large portion of smuggled weapons, including 
Kalashnikov rifles, entered Turkey through the Iraqi border under the 
direction of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
It is alleged that these smugglers have now shifted toward easier to 
transport guns, and are now smuggling 14-gauge guns that they buy for a 
minimal fee in northern Iraq. The guns arrive from Zaho, Iraq to 
İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir via two different routes. The first being 
from Saho through the hills of Silopi and Şırnak-Kopki to Batman; this 
route is filled with land-mines, and the smugglers well-versed in the 
area carry the weapons on mules. The second route is through Çukurca on 
to Nusaybin, Mardin and Diyarbakır.
Glock guns were first discovered on the Turkish market about two years 
ago. They are known to be a high-quality weapon that is light and not 
likely to lock up. It is said that the increasing demand for the gun, 
resulting from the belief that it can't be detected by an x-ray device, 
resulted in its price going up to 10-15 times its value from when it 
first entered Turkey at YTL 500-600. The gun gets its name from an 
Austrian engineer, Gaston Glock, the creator of the weapon. Austria is 
said to be the only country that produces the weapon, which is believed 
to have been brought to Iraq by the US following the country's invasion, 
and distributed among security forces in the region, eventually finding 
its way to Turkey through weapon smugglers.
The gun has been seized by Turkish police in raids conducted in the 
eastern provinces of Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Diyarbakır and Gaziantep within 
the last two years. The latest Glock seizure took place last year, in 
both Şanlıurfa's Viranşehir district and the province of Diyarbakır, 
where 37 such weapons were found.

24.02.2007
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[osint] Saeedi: Iran made 15-page document available to IAEA inspectors

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Saeedi: Iran made 15-page document available to IAEA inspectors
Tehran, Feb 24, IRNA

Nuclear-Saeedi-ElBaradei
Deputy Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency Mohammad Saeedi said here 
Saturday that Iran responded positively to the UN nuclear watchdog's 
call to see the 15-page document on production of metallic uranium.

He told IRNA that Iran prepared the grounds for making the document 
available to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, 
while it could have rejected the call.

Concerning plutonium tests, he said that in a letter, the IAEA called 
for more accurate and complete information on Iran's plutonium test.

About the reference to Arak heavy water projects in the report of IAEA 
chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, he said that according to the IAEA, the 
reactors have been tested and no problem has been observed.

Replying to the question about the activities underway at the Uranium 
Conversion Facilities (UCF) in Isfahan and Natanz, he said that their 
various stages are viewed by IAEA cameras and inspected by its inspectors.

He noted that the activities in Natanz facilities are conducted under 
the supervision of the IAEA and are inspected once a month.

Turning to the propaganda of Western media on the issue, he said that 
they continue despite ElBaradei's recent report which confirms that no 
reprocessing activities have been detected.

Saeedi pointed to another section of ElBaradei's report about no 
deviation to banned activities and material has been observed in Iran's 
nuclear activities and raised the question, "Why does the UNSC, which 
should provide the ground for promotion of peace and tranquility, itself 
cause insecurity and international chaos?" "ElBaradei has declared that 
based on NPT, Iran has facilitated access of IAEA inspectors to the 
nuclear facilities in Arak, Natanz and Isfahan, which shows that the 
propaganda of Western media on Iran are baseless," he added.

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[osint] Iraqi military arrests top terrorist north of Baghdad

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MIL-IRAQ-ARREST
Iraqi military arrests top terrorist north of Baghdad

Baghdad, Feb 24 (KUNA) -- U.S. and Iraqi forces have captured a 
prominent terrorist leader from the Islamic Army (Al-Jaish Al-Islami) 
organization during a raid the force was conducting north of Baghdad, 
Iraqi Director of National Command Center from the Interior Ministry 
Brigadier Albdul-Kareem Khalaf said on Saturday.

Khalaf told reporters Iraqi forces along with U.S air support executed a 
raid attack in the early hours today on a base which belongs to the 
terrorist organization in the town of AL-Mashahed, north of Baghdad.

Khalaf added the attack forces were able to kill as many as ten 
terrorists during the raid and capture its leader Saad Khalifah.

However, the Iraqi official did not disclose exact losses or estimates 
about the extent of damage caused by the terrorist organization's attack.

In a different incident, the Iraqi police said today that one mortar 
shell was targeted against the Al-Shaab bridge in Al-Shulah area, which 
resulted in injuring ten civilians nearby.(end) ahh.
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[osint] Indian Muslims to protest against 'terrorists tag' by gov't

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Indian Muslims to protest against 'terrorists tag' by gov't
New Delhi, Feb 24, IRNA

India-Muslims
Indian Muslims were unnecessarily being portrayed as 'terrorists and 
being termed as responsible for terrorist strikes in the country', a 
Muslim leader said on Saturday.

M H Jawahirullah, president of Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, told 
reporters here that even without proper investigation, police in a hurry 
arrested Muslims and held them responsible for different terrorist attacks.

He said his party did not have faith in violence and would never support 
terrorism.

His party in association with several other Muslim organizations in the 
country would take out a rally to Parliament on March 7, demanding 
exclusive reservation for Muslims.

The UPA government had completed more than two years in office but had 
not fulfilled its promises to minorities, contained in the common 
minimum program, he alleged.

It was true that for the first time, the Central government appointed a 
committee, headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar to find out the socio 
economic and educational status of Muslims.

The committee's findings had brought out facts on the poor educational, 
social and economic conditions of Muslims and established the need for 
proactive steps for the betterment of Muslims, he said.

The rally would emphasize all these points, he said adding on that day, 
the party would organize a social justice conference at New Delhi, in 
which several central ministers would participate.

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[osint] KAZAKHSTAN: NAZARBAEV’S SON-IN-LAW SENT TO AUSTRIA AMID MORE ACCUSATIONS

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp022406.shtml

  KAZAKHSTAN: NAZARBAEV’S SON-IN-LAW SENT TO AUSTRIA AMID MORE ACCUSATIONS
Bruce Pannier 2/24/07
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Rakhat Aliev, the son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, 
has had an eventful month. He was accused of kidnapping and beating two 
men and filed a lawsuit against his accusers. He was then dismissed by 
his father-in-law from his government post in Kazakhstan and sent to 
Vienna to be the Kazakh ambassador to Austria.

Controversy seems to always follow Rakhat Aliev, but this month he made 
the news in Kazakhstan for a number of reasons.

History Of Problems

Aliev was accused of kidnapping and personally beating at least one bank 
official; he is suing over that claim and, in the meantime, he was 
relieved from his post as first deputy foreign minister and sent to 
Austria as Kazakhstan’s ambassador.

It is not the first time Aliev was sent to Austria to try to defuse 
scandals surrounding him at home in Kazakhstan.

Aliev, 44, is married to Nazarbaev’s eldest daughter, Darigha. A doctor 
by training, Aliev has held posts in Kazakhstan’s police department, the 
national security committee, and the presidential security service. He 
has been the head of the country’s Olympic Committee, first deputy 
foreign minister, Kazakhstan’s special representative to the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and now, for the 
second time, ambassador to Austria.

Opposition groups in Kazakhstan have targeted him on numerous occasions 
as a prime example of nepotism, and they have connected Aliev to various 
scandals and criminal cases.

The Unusual Incident

The most recent allegations about Aliev are that he invited Nurbank 
Chairman Abilmazhin Gilimov and Deputy Chairman Zholdas Timraliev for 
talks, then held the two for 24 hours to compel them to sell their 
interest in a building in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital, Almaty.

After disappearing for a day, Timraliev returned and told his wife 
Armangul Qapasheva (note: Kazakh women often do not take their husband’s 
name after being married) what happened. He then disappeared again after 
receiving a summons to speak with the tax police. Qapasheva repeated to 
the press what she said her husband told her. Timraliev has not been 
seen or heard from since January 23.

"He said that he was handcuffed all night long to a weight machine and 
not allowed to sleep while Rakhat Aliev personally beat him," she said.

Acting on advice from her lawyer, Nazira Bazarbaeva, the Gilimov’s wife, 
has not commented on the accusations against Aliev except to say her 
husband was not beaten. Both men resigned from Nurbank after the meeting 
with Aliev. Both now face charges of fraud, including the alleged 
illegal transfer of $6.5 million in January.

Gilimov has been in police custody since the alleged kidnapping. 
Timraliev’s whereabout are unknown. The building in Almaty that Aliev 
wanted them to sell was, in fact, sold on January 22 -- four days after 
the alleged kidnapping -- for what some said is a very low price.

Accusations And Counteraccusations

Aliev is suing Qapasheva and Bazarbaeva for insulting his honor and 
dignity. Qapasheva remains defiant.

"I think I’m not guilty, I’m innocent," she said. "Whatever I said, it 
is true. If Rakhat Aliev says it’s not true, then he should bring my 
husband back and let my husband himself say it’s not true. Only after 
this can I say that I’m guilty."

But several media outlets reported Qapasheva’s comments and now Aliev is 
suing them as well. The newspapers "Svoboda Slova," "Tasjargan," 
"Vremya," and zonakz.net are all facing legal suits for reporting 
Qapasheva’s comments.

"Svoboda Slova" Chief Editor Gulzhan Ergalieva said her paper was told 
to print a retraction and an apology for printing Qapasheva’s open 
letter to President Nazarbaev. She told RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service she did 
not feel her newspaper has broken any laws.

"It is the right of any media outlet to cover events that take place," 
she said. "In this case here is the letter of Armangul Qapasheva 
addressed to the president. There is no violation of the law here."

Off To Vienna

The legal suits are pending but the plaintiff is no longer in the 
country. On February 9, as the accusations and counteraccusations grew, 
Aliev was sent to Vienna to be ambassador to Austria yet again.

Aliev was first named ambassador to Austria in 2002. Just months before 
that appointment a group of young and wealthy government officials 
formed an opposition group, the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan. This 
group alleged that Aliev was plotting to oust his father-in-law.

As the battle between Kazakhstan’s younger politicians heated up (Aliev 
and the leaders of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan are roughly the 
same age), Nazarbaev finally intervened.

Aliev was sent to Austria and Democratic Choice leaders G

[osint] Suicide bomber targets Iraq Shiite leader's house

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  AFP: Suicide bomber targets Iraq Shiite leader's house
24 February 2007 | 17:14 | FOCUS News Agency
Baghdad. A suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint protecting the home 
of one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders, Abdel Aziz Hakim, on 
Saturday, a security official said cited by AFP. The attack killed a 
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[osint] Muslim school looks to expand

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Muslim school looks to expand
It has 22 students through 2nd grade
By Laura Olson
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FISHERS -- The students came bounding on a recent Friday morning, 
chatting excitedly as they hung up their coats and backpacks then slid 
into their seats.
As first- and second-grade teacher Amanda Webster began discussing the 
Constitution with students, how she presented the lesson stood out more 
than what she said.
Webster and other teachers use both English and Arabic at Eman 
Elementary School, Fishers' only Islamic faith-based school.
A glance around the classrooms shows alphabet posters in both languages 
-- and 22 students who use both interchangeably.
The Alhuda Foundation, which also runs the only Fishers-area mosque, 
founded the Muslim school.
Eman is in its second year and has preschool through second-grade 
classrooms.
The school plans to expand into a complete elementary and middle school.
The building is too small, meaning a few of the rooms double as 
classrooms and worship space. The first phase of expansion would provide 
for separate worship spaces and classrooms.
Administrators also hope to be able to include preschool through fourth 
grade classes this fall with the additional space.
The school opened with just 16 students in preschool and first grade, 
and added second-graders this year.
The school always has been a goal of local Muslim parents, according to 
Mohammed Moslehuddin, a member of the school's academic committee.
Of the estimated 200 families who attend the mosque, many say they would 
like to have their older children also attend the school.
Teachers say parents like the small student-to-teacher ratio, as well as 
the faith hour, something they can't find in public schools.
"The difference is in terms of Islamic values, because two plus two is 
four everywhere," Moslehuddin said. "The additional thing that you have 
is the culture discussions."
Delays in planning the expansion, coupled with the lack of money -- the 
school is trying to raise $100,000 -- have pushed back construction, 
Moslehuddin said.
The mosque's former building on 96th Street is a warehouse, which 
teachers said worked fine for worship several hours each week but was 
not an ideal location for a school.
The new building, just south of 126th Street on Lantern Road and 
purchased in 2005, gave the group more worship space and classrooms.
An expansion postponed from December could begin in the next several 
weeks, said school officials.
Eman school and mosque officials emphasize positive community relations, 
Moslehuddin said. The foundation hosts a community lunch twice a year 
where others are invited to learn about the growing congregation.
"We really value the belief in all religions," he said. "We must be 
friends and learn from each other, and in order to do so, we must share 
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[osint] President Kalam Stresses Need for Missile Defense System

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President Kalam Stresses Need for Missile Defense System
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Dated 24/2/2007

With developed countries unlikely to give up their nuclear arsenals, 
missile defence and space-based systems will have to be developed to 
guard against nuclear attacks, President A P J Abdul Kalam said today.

Visualising a stage where combat will become increasingly hi-tech, he 
asked the armed forces to use virtual reality to train for a range of 
attacks, including strikes involving nuclear, chemical and electronic 
weapons.

"Despite the noise made against nuclear proliferation, the developed 
countries are not likely to reach the state of zero nuclear weapon under 
the NPT," Kalam told a gathering of military officials from India and 
foreign countries like the US at the Defence Service Staff College here.

"In the next two decades, anti-ballistic missile defence systems are 
going to a major force, after which space systems and strategic military 
satellites will come in a big way, to guard against nuclear weapons 
attack," he said.

Advocating the use of "virtual reality-based simulated warfronts" to 
train military officers for combat in all terrains and extreme 
conditions, he said, "Walk through during a space attack, chemical 
attack, nuclear attack and electronic encounters need to be visualised 
and proper counter-measure needs to be practiced."

The future battlefield will require synergised team work, joint services 
operations and the use of land, aerospace and ocean as important war 
theatres. "Future soldiers will be knowledge fighters," Kalam, also the 
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[osint] Defense secretary orders review of military hospitals

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Defense secretary orders review of military hospitals
By Julian Barnes
Los Angeles Times
Published: Saturday, February 24, 2007

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced plans Friday to 
form an independent review group to examine Walter Reed Army Medical 
Center and other military hospitals.

The action comes in the wake of reports indicating that seriously 
injured soldiers had been entangled in a bureaucratic morass and given 
substandard outpatient housing at Walter Reed. The review ordered by 
Gates will focus on rehabilitative care and administrative procedures at 
Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Medical Center.

''The men and women recovering at Walter Reed and at other military 
hospitals have put their lives on the line and paid a considerable price 
for defending our country,'' Gates said. ''They battled our foreign 
enemies. They should not have to battle an American bureaucracy.''
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Defense officials have said that there are no allegations of systemic 
problems at Bethesda or other military hospitals, but Gates said the 
commission will be able to examine all military hospitals. Articles in 
The Washington Post this week detailed shortcomings of the military 
health system, especially its outpatient facilities.

Gates said he was grateful to the reporters who brought the problems to 
light and said he was disappointed that the Defense Department had not 
found the problems earlier. He promised he would hold accountable the 
people who allowed the problems in outpatient care at Walter Reed to occur.

The Defense secretary's tone was in sharp contrast to comments Thursday 
by Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, the Army surgeon general, who challenged the 
Post report as a ''one-sided representation.'' Kiley, who used to 
command Walter Reed and oversees the hospital as head of Medical 
Command, said there was no ''failure of leadership.''

Gates did not criticize Kiley, but he said he was upset by the original 
articles and had not learned anything from Army officials that caused 
him to believe that the articles were wrong.

The review panel will report its results within 45 days.

The Defense Department already has begun making repairs at Walter Reed 
and taking other steps to address the problems, officials said. Gates 
said some of those directly involved with problems identified at Walter 
Reed have been ''relieved.'' Army officials said later that no officers 
have been removed from command positions but that there have been 
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[osint] Former Lebanese premier to visit Iran

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Former Lebanese premier to visit Iran
Beirut, Feb 24, IRNA

Iran-Lebanon-Cooperation
Former Lebanese prime minister will travel to Tehran on Sunday to confer 
with high-ranking Iranian officials on regional issues including 
Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine.

Salim Al-Hoss is to visit Iran at an official invitation, and will 
continue the tour by going on to Saudi Arabia and Syria.

As an unbiased politician, he played a decisive role in removing the 
current crisis, and bring the views of the two major political parties 
in Lebanon closer.

Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani told IRNA that 
Lebanese political parties will consider the efforts made by Iran and 
Saudi Arabia to settle the dispute, and make use of such efforts in line 
with its national interests, just like Al-Hoss' stance in this respect.

There are two very important issues in the way of settling crises in 
Lebanon: one is that the two political parties insist on holding an 
international court to try those who assassinated Rafik Hariri, the late 
Lebanese prime minister; and the other is the formation of a national 
government including one-third of the cabinet from opponents of the 
current administration.

Given the current condition and extensive protest rallies by groups 
opposing the Fouad Siniora administration, the cabinet has not yet 
accepted to change its stance, thus aggravating political crises in the 
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[osint] Activist: Americans seeking to isolate Iran from Muslim world body

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Activist: Americans seeking to isolate Iran from Muslim world body
Islamabad, Feb 24, IRNA

Iran-Pakistan-Analyst
A Pakistani political analyst Tanvir Ahmed Khan says Americans aim to 
isolate Iran from Muslim world's texture.

"Americans are trying to divide Shiites and Sunnis in an aim to 
undermine Iran," said former deputy foreign minister of Pakistan Tanvir 
Ahmed Khan in an interview with IRNA here on Thursday.

Americans and their regional allies want to build up pressure and have 
more control on Iran, a plot which would fail alike other hostile 
approaches of the US and other western states, the Pakistani political 
activist made it clear.

Noting that capture of Iranian diplomats is a sign of Americans' failure 
to solve problems in Iraq, Khan said the move will create more problems 
for Americans themselves in the future.

He said nuclear activity is not the reason for pressure, sanctions and 
problems of Iran, rather Islamic Revolution in principle and Islamic 
ideology of Iranian leaders, especially the late Imam Khomeini, is the 
cause.

Victory of the Islamic Revolution has put the interests of Americans at 
stake worldwide and any aggression on Iran will add to security problems 
of the region, he added.

He said that the Americans benefit from insecurity in the region as a 
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[osint] IAEA Chief: N. Korea Soliciting Talks

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IAEA Chief: N. Korea Soliciting Talks
Friday, Feb. 23, 2007 By AP/GEORGE JAHN

VIENNA, Austria — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Friday that 
North Korea has invited him to visit to discuss dismantling its nuclear 
facilities — a sign of the country's new willingness to subject its 
atomic program to outside scrutiny. Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the 
International Atomic Energy Agency, said he and North Korean authorities 
would discuss how to "implement the freeze of [nuclear] facilities" and 
"eventual dismantlement of these facilities."

IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said ElBaradei would probably visit in 
the second week of March, after the agency board meets on North Korea 
and Iran, the other country of international nuclear concern. While 
ElBaradei offered no details, his announcement signaled the North's 
further willingness to open its nuclear program to outsiders for the 
first time since withdrawing from the Nonproliferation Treaty three 
years ago and ordering agency inspectors to leave.

Under a Feb. 13 agreement, the North — which said it tested a nuclear 
weapon late last year — agreed to dismantle its nuclear facilities and 
to normalize its relationships with South Korea, Japan and the United 
States in exchange for oil shipments, other aid and security guarantees. 
The deal requires North Korea to first shut down and seal its main 
nuclear reactor, accept international monitors and begin discussions 
with the United States on its other nuclear facilities. In return, the 
nations will ship the North an initial load of fuel oil. If North Korea 
then declares all its nuclear programs and begins to disable its nuclear 
facilities, it will get a much larger shipment of fuel oil and aid.

Chun Yung-woo told foreign reporters in Seoul that the North appeared 
committed to at least disabling its existing nuclear programs under the 
six-country disarmament agreement last week in Beijing. But whether the 
country will also relinquish existing nuclear weapons and material, 
believed to be enough for as many as a dozen bombs, will depend on the 
other countries involved — China, South Korea, Japan, the United States 
and Russia. "What is important is not to give any excuse to North Korea 
to delay its denuclearization obligations and for it to avoid 
implementation of its end of the deal," he said. "What is important is 
to create a political climate that can address their threat perceptions."

Conservatives in Washington have berated the Bush Administration for 
caving in on what had been its previous tough stance on the North. The 
U.S. agreed to resolve financial restrictions it placed on a Macau bank 
— accused of complicity in counterfeiting and money laundering by North 
Korea — to pave the way for the disarmament-for-aid deal.

On Friday during a visit to Australia, Vice President Dick Cheney 
expressed caution about the agreement, calling it a "first hopeful 
step." "We go into this deal with our eyes open," said Cheney. "In light 
of North Korea's missile test last July, its nuclear test in October and 
its record of proliferation and human rights abuses, the regime in 
Pyongyang has much to prove."

Japan has also said it will not provide any aid under the deal or lift 
sanctions until the North takes concrete steps. Tokyo wants to address 
the issue of its abducted citizens that the North has admitted 
kidnapping but Japan says it has not been fully resolved. Chun said aid 
would not be enough to win a nuclear-free North Korea. "Much will depend 
on how the political climate evolves as we move forward on the road to 
denuclearization," Chun said.

A newspaper allied with the North Korean regime echoed that sentiment in 
a Friday commentary, while praising last week's deal as a "new 
milestone." "Now the point is whether [President] Bush can make a brave 
decision to boldly switch over his policy toward the [North] and choose 
the path of historic reconciliation and peaceful coexistence," the 
Japan-based Choson Sinbo wrote.

The latest nuclear crisis was sparked in late 2002 when U.S. officials 
accused the North of a secret uranium enrichment program in violation of 
a 1994 U.S.-North Korea disarmament deal. The North has never 
acknowledged the uranium program, which is separate from its publicly 
known plutonium-based program. Chun said other countries have an idea of 
the North's uranium program based on its outside purchases of equipment, 
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[osint] Female suicide bomber planning to target Pakistan Air Force installations in Peshawar

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Female suicide bomber planning to target Pakistan Air Force 
installations in Peshawar

Security agencies warned on February 23 that a female suicide bomber in 
fashionable clothes and sunglasses might target Pakistan Air Force (PAF) 
installations in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province, to 
avenge an air strike on a Madrassa (seminary) in Bajaur on October 31, 
2006. "This suicide bomber will be different from others. This one will 
not have a beard... it will be a good-looking girl with the aim to 
avenge the air strike," official sources told Daily Times. Sources said 
that the would-be suicide bomber would target PAF-run schools and 
colleges to kill as many male and female students as possible. However, 
PAF spokesperson Air Commodore Sarfraz Ahmed Khan said "We got no 
special threat."

The PAF might have been selected as a potential target after suspected 
militants warned earlier that they would attack its facilities in the 
same manner that "jets took off from Peshawar base to bomb the Madrassa 
in Bajaur." 82 people, including 12 teenagers, were killed during an air 
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[osint] Durrani: Any US strike on Iran will mean attack on Muslim ummah

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Durrani: Any US strike on Iran will mean attack on Muslim ummah
Islamabad, Feb 20, IRNA

Iran-US-Pakistan
Chief Minister of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Akram Khan 
Durrani said here Tuesday that any US strike on Iran would be considered 
as attack on Muslim Ummah.

"Any such attack would be dangerous for the US and its allies," said 
Durrani in a meeting with Turkish ambassador to Islamabad Aingon Soa-Sal 
here on Tuesday.

Dismissing Afghan government's allegations that Pakistan meddled in 
Afghan internal affairs, Durrani said, "Generally such claims are baseless."
He said the claims would disrupt attempts for establishment of peace 
between the two countries.

He added that any insecurity and unrest in Afghanistan would put both 
the country and its neighbors in danger.

Criticizing the US and other western states for invading Afghanistan, 
Durrani said that in future, situation in Afghanistan will be harmful 
both for the US and Europe.

"People of Pakistan are for peace, friendship and security worldwide; 
unrest in Afghanistan will jeopardize national interest and progress of 
Pakistan and of other regional states," warned Durrani.

Saying that US presence in the region has made it insecure, Durrani said 
that unfortunately, Muslim states become victims of the US aggressive 
policies one after another.

Unrest and anarchy in Afghanistan and Iraq are result of wrong policies 
of the western states, led by the US, added the Pakistani official.

He said that instead of looking into reasons of the 9/11 incident, 
westerners massacre innocent Muslim people of Afghanistan.

Pakistan, though being in front line of campaign against terrorists, is 
subject to the vain allegations, he complained.

He said Pakistan is mostly the target of such bitter events as suicide 
attacks, explosions, killing or injury of innocent citizens in its 
different cities due to being in front line of campaign.

At least four million Afghans sought refuge in Pakistani provinces 
following former Soviet's invasion on Afghanistan, he noted.

He hoped for stronger friendship between Pakistan and Turkey in the future.

Soa-Sal, stressing promotion of mutual political and economic relations, 
discussed issues of the two-way interest at the meeting.

The Turkish diplomat held a separate meeting with a Pakistani commander 
in the north of the country General Mohammad Hamed Khan.

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[osint] U.S. to test government's response to IED attacks

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U.S. to test government's response to IED attacks
Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:13pm ET26

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Saturday will test the
government's ability to respond to attacks inside the United States that
use improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the White House said.

In the "tabletop" exercise, officials from security agencies, including
the FBI, Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security, will
meet in the office building adjacent to the White House and discuss how
they would react to a fictional scenario of several IED attacks around
the country.

White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said the exercise was not in
response to any current threat.

The United States dealt with such attacks on its soil in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Insurgents
commonly use IEDs in Iraq to attack American troops.

The government has held similar exercises since 2005 to test
capabilities for dealing with disasters such as pandemic flu, hurricanes
and small pox.

"This is part of the administration's effort to test the policies,
plans, procedures to protect the American people," Stanzel said.

"The exercise is designed to tax the system, so we can learn more about
whether or not we have the appropriate policies in place," he said.

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[osint] 23.02.2007 Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1235

23.02.2007
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA
REVIEW TOPICS:
KGB maps on sale in the internet
Finnish ambassador to the Balkans demands Helsinki to look into 
espionage by KGB, Stasi
Yushchenko’s candidacy for Security Service chief to be shelved until he 
consults with the coalition
Georgians want lustration, not witch hunting

KGB maps on sale in the internet

KGB emblem (image: Wikipedia)   
KGB emblem  
Detailed maps of the UK created by the KGB between 1950 and 1990 have 
gone on sale in digital format for the first time, The Register reports 
today.
The maps show 16,000 square kilometers and 103 UK town and cities in 
more detail than Ordnance Survey maps. The Russians used satellite 
images and spies on the ground to create the maps, which include army 
camps and warehouses that don't appear on other maps.
The maps include other information likely to be useful for an invading 
army, such as the height of bridges and depths and contours of river 
beds. Strategically important buildings like telephone exchanges, 
government buildings, and power stations were all color-coded and 
identified with a numbered key.
It wasn't just the UK that was treated to such detailed attention - most 
of the rest of the world was put under similar scrutiny, albeit not to 
such an in-depth scale. For many countries in Africa and Asia the maps 
remain the most reliable and accessible source of geographic information.
Little is known of the how the USSR achieved such a mammoth task. The 
military cartography department was created in 1919 and the first map of 
the UK dates from 1938. The project accelerated from the mid-50s as the 
Cold War intensified. All place names on the maps are transcribed into 
Cyrillic script phonetically.
Some 80 British urban areas were mapped between 1950 and 1990 down to a 
scale of 1:10,000. The maps include a street index, a text description 
of the area, and a numbered list of important buildings. For some reason 
Reading and Slough are among the places missing, or excluded, from the 
remaining maps. In the case of the latter, perhaps the Soviet target 
planners took John Betjeman at his word.
Many of the maps were recovered when they were left in trains leaving 
Estonia and Latvia as the Russian military departed following the fall 
of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Finnish ambassador to the Balkans demands Helsinki to look into 
espionage by KGB, Stasi

Ambassadur Alpo Rusi (photo: hs.fi)
Alpo Rusi
Finland’s roving Ambassador to the west Balkans Alpo Rusi said Thursday 
that he wanted investigations opened on cases of Finnish cooperation 
with the intelligence agencies of the former Soviet Union and East 
Germany, the KGB and Stasi, STT news agency reports today.
Mr Rusi's challenge was made at the Helsinki district court on Thursday 
during a preliminary hearing for a case in which he has sued the Finnish 
state for 500,000 euros in damages on the grounds that he was falsely 
accused of espionage. "I was made a traitor in Finland and my family 
became a target for threats," Finland's roving ambassador to the west 
Balkans said in court. The state of Finland denies the accusations.
Mr Rusi and his lawyer Olli Santanen are demanding for the publication 
of the classified lists of former Stasi and KGB informants. "There are 
prominent politicians in the material from the 1980s. There has been a 
desire to remain silent about this," Mr Rusi said in reference to the 
classified documents.
The Supreme Administrative Court has previously approved a decision by 
the Finnish Security Police (Supo) to classify the lists. The issue is 
to be decided by the Helsinki district court in April.
The case between Mr Rusi and the Finnish state is to be given another 
preliminary hearing before the main trial, which is scheduled to begin 
next autumn.

Yushchenko’s candidacy for Security Service chief to be shelved until he 
consults with the coalition

Victor Korol (photo: gordon.com.ua) 
Victor Korol
The candidacies for the posts of foreign minister and head of the State 
Security Service (SBU) will not be approved until the President comes to 
an agreement with the anti-crisis coalition, the First Deputy Minister 
of the Cabinet of Ministers Olena Lukash said, as quoted by 
Interfax-Ukraine.
“It will last until the candidacies are submitted to approval,” she said 
when making comments on the President’s statement about the repeated 
nomination of Volodymyr Ohryzko for foreign minister and Viktor Korol 
for head of the State Security Service. Ms. Lukash admits the President 
has the right to the repeated submission of the candidacies as the 
Constitution of Ukraine does not restrict the number of submissions. At 
the same time she says the repeated submission of the same candidacies 
is not “very understandable politically”.
Ms. Lukash emphasizes that the Law on the Cabinet of Ministers allows 
the pa

[osint] 22.02.2007, Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

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22.02.2007
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA
REVIEW TOPICS:
Russia's new first vice premier, ex-KGB officer, given wide powers
Polish President and PM wage a `Political War' on ex-communist agents
Court to investigate allegations that former Warsaw archbishop 
collaborated with communist secret police
Czech Minister: Opening secret police archives will heal wounds
Police centralization talks fail in Bosnia, EU talks stall
Bulgaria's Parliament sifts out Secret Files Commission candidates
Romanian authorities deny CIA actions ever took place in Romania

Russia's new first vice premier, ex-KGB officer, given wide powers

Sergei Ivanov (photo: thewe.cc) 
Sergei Ivanov   
Russia's new first deputy prime minister, Sergei Ivanov, seen by many as 
a potential successor to the Russian president, has been placed in 
charge of a wide spectrum of activities, RIA Novosti reports.
Following a major government reshuffle last week, in which Ivanov was 
promoted from the posts of defense minister and vice premier, Prime 
Minister Mikhail Fradkov today assigned duties to his four deputies. "I 
would like to inform you that I have signed a document outlining the 
duties of deputies and first deputy prime ministers," Fradkov told a 
government session. The premier said responsibilities would be divided 
between his deputies along the priority lines of government policy.
Ivanov 54, a former KGB officer like Putin, will now supervise industry, 
transport, science, the defense industry, national defense, 
communications, law enforcement, and the nuclear and space sectors. 
"These are what we call the real economy, including the defense 
industry, on which we place high stakes to diversify the economy and 
develop the sector in innovative ways," the head of the government said. 
Ivanov will now enjoy equal authority with another first deputy prime 
minister, Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of gas giant Gazprom's board of 
directors, who is also a potential presidential successor. Medvedev will 
be in charge of education, healthcare and the social sector. He will 
guide socially oriented priority national projects in housing and 
demography, and will supervise the use of mineral and natural resources.
Alexander Zhukov has retained his responsibilities of deputy prime 
minister and will oversee lawmaking, intergovernmental fiscal relations, 
the main lines of the country's social and economic development and 
migration policy. "Overall, everything related to macroeconomics," 
Fradkov said.
The president also appointed the former government chief of staff, 
Sergei Naryshkin, as a deputy prime minister. He will be responsible for 
foreign trade, including with former Soviet republics, and property 
relations.
Naryshkin, 52, who worked in the St. Petersburg mayor's office in the 
early 1990s under Putin, who was then deputy mayor of Russia's second 
city, will also lead a government commission on economic integration 
with the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Polish President and PM wage a `Political War' on ex-communist agents
Almost 18 years after Poland broke away from Soviet domination, the 
country's ruling Kaczynski twins are clamping down on former communists, 
who they say have too much influence on Polish society, Bloomberg writes 
today.
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 57, is preparing a bill that would 
make public the names of people who spied for the secret services. His 
brother Lech Kaczynski, Poland's president, has signed a law that will 
ban people who collaborated with the secret services from working as 
judges or taking top positions in state-owned companies. The Kaczynskis 
say Poland needs these laws to complete its transition to democratic 
government. Critics say the brothers are conducting a witch hunt to 
deflect attention from more important issues such as Poland's 
unemployment rate, the highest in the European Union.
``Having a clean-up is long overdue,'' Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at 
the Institute for International Economics in Washington, said in a 
telephone interview with Bloomberg. ``But there is a suspicion here it's 
being used for political ends.''
Radoslaw Markowski, a political analyst at the Polish Academy of Science 
in Warsaw said: ``This is more like waging a political war.''
Poland has been slower than many of its eastern European neighbors to 
confront its communist past. The Czech Republic, for example, passed a 
law in 1991 preventing former collaborators from holding public office, 
and its interior ministry almost four years ago published an official 
list of people who cooperated with the secret police.
Most Poles support the idea of lifting the lid on who did what during 
communism. A September 2006 survey by the Warsaw- based Center for 
Public Research found that 58 percent believe that some or all of the 
files gathered by the secret services should be opened.
``These peo

[osint] Health teams visit mosques after yoghurt alert

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=296162007

Sat 24 Feb 2007
Health teams visit mosques after yoghurt alert

FEARS over a potentially germ-infested yoghurt sparked a citywide 
investigation by environmental health officers.

A nationwide alert was put out yesterday over Moubon yoghurt, which is 
normally sold through specialist Asian cash and carry stores and retailers.
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Inspectors in London put out the warning after finding poor hygiene 
standards at the premises where the yoghurts are produced. Three teams 
of environmental wardens visited the city's mosques and around 50 shops 
to check for the desserts.

They also contacted all likely wholesalers and cash and carry outlets to 
ensure that any products were withdrawn.

Councillor Sheila Gilmore, executive member for community safety, said: 
"Immediately on hearing of the potential problem posed by these food 
products, our staff went into action across the city. I want to thank 
our officers for acting quickly and ensuring that people likely to be 
exposed to these products were alerted to the risk."

She urged anybody who may have bought Moubon yoghurt elsewhere in the UK 
to throw it away.

It is in packaged in clay pots with an outer wrapper and purple label 
bearing the logo Moubon in a garland of flowers with the words "natural 
sweet yoghurt" below.

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[osint] 20 suicide bombers in D. I. Khan, says DPO

http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/25/nat10.htm

20 suicide bombers in D. I. Khan, says DPO


DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 24: The district police officer has said suicide 
bombers may target district courts because 20 suicide bombers, including 
eight women, have entered Dera Ismail Khan.

A special meeting in this respect was held here on Saturday which was 
attended by

DPO Abdul Rasheed Khan, additional session judge Sajjad Anwar Khan, 
District Bar Association president Hashmat Nawaz Khan and investigation 
circle in-charge Imtiaz Khan.

The district police officer told the meeting that the suicide bombers 
might strike within 15 to 20 days and stressed the need for preventive 
measures.

Highlighting security measures, he said motorcycles; cycles and any type 
of vehicles would not be allowed to enter the premises of the district 
courts. People will be checked before entering the courts.

He appealed to people, the courts administration and lawyers to 
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[osint] Economics of the suicide bomber

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2020570,00.html

Economics of the suicide bomber

by Heather Stewart
Sunday February 25, 2007
The Observer

Better-educated suicide bombers are given harder targets and succeed in 
killing more victims, according to research by American economists.

Efraim Benmelech and Claude Berrebi, of the National Bureau of Economic 
Research, studied almost 150 Palestinian suicide bombings, and found 
that older recruits, and those with more schooling, were assigned to 
tougher targets.

'The suicide bomber's age and education and the importance of the target 
are strongly correlated,' they say.

Previous research has suggested that suicide bombers may make a rational 
economic decision that fame, honour and support for their families 
outweigh any benefits they are likely to gain from a lifetime of 
ordinary paid employment.

Benmelech and Berrebi suggest that, since more educated bombers could 
earn more in the labour market, they may demand higher-profile targets, 
with greater potential rewards. At the same time, terrorist 
organisations are likely to want to direct their most educated recruits 
to the hardest jobs.

Of 148 bombers examined, 18 per cent had stayed in education beyond high 
school, compared with 8 per cent in the Palestinian population as a whole.

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[osint] Fuel tanker bomb kills 40 in western Iraq

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Fuel tanker bomb kills 40 in western Iraq
Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:29 AM GMT143

By Claudia Parsons and Ibon Villelabeitia

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A fuel tanker rigged with explosives killed 40
people when it blew up near a Sunni mosque in western Iraq on Saturday,
a day after the mosque's imam had criticised al Qaeda militants, police
and residents said.

The bomb exploded in a market in the town of Habaniya in the restive
province of Anbar, where U.S. forces are battling Sunni Arab insurgent
groups, including al Qaeda.

Local police said they believed the mosque was the target, adding that
the market had been destroyed and 64 people wounded. Women and children
were among the dead, they said.

In Baghdad, more than 20 loud explosions in quick succession rocked a
southern district of the capital after night fell.

The U.S. military said the cause of the blasts were "indirect fire".
Brigadier Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for Iraqi forces in the capital,
said the blasts were the result of military operations by Iraqi and U.S.
forces conducting a major security crackdown in Baghdad.

Residents said the imam of the mosque in Habaniya had criticised Sunni
al Qaeda during Friday prayers.

Some Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar are leading a campaign to fight al
Qaeda, which is deeply entrenched in the province. But the attack
signals an escalation of the power struggle in an area where U.S. troop
reinforcements are soon to be deployed.

U.S. President George W. Bush is sending 21,500 extra troops to Iraq to
help with the crackdown in Baghdad, aimed at stemming sectarian
bloodshed pushing Iraq towards all-out civil war.

Most are heading for the capital, but 4,000 will be sent to Anbar, the
most dangerous province in Iraq for American forces.

Attacks on mosques are a common feature in Iraq as militant groups seek
to stir up sectarian tensions.

Habaniya lies 85 km (50 miles) west of the Baghdad. U.S. forces imposed
a curfew in the area after the blast.

On Monday, two suicide bombers in nearby Ramadi killed 11 people when
they targeted the house of Sattar al-Buzayi, who has led the anti-al
Qaeda drive, which is backed by the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad
and the U.S. military.

Insurgents earlier stormed an Iraqi police checkpoint near Baghdad
airport, killing eight policemen in a bold challenge to the security
crackdown in the capital.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expressed optimism about the 10-day-old
security plan, saying U.S. and Iraqi forces had killed around 400
suspected militants since it started.

"BRAZEN ATTACK"

But the attack on the police checkpoint in an area not far from the main
U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad underlined the hurdles faced by
Iraqi security forces who are often out- gunned by increasingly
sophisticated insurgents.

"It was a brazen attack," said U.S. military spokesman Captain Curtis
Kellogg. "It was definitely coordinated. We expect this type of thing to
continue. They will try to test the Iraqi and U.S. security forces."

The U.S. military said eight to 10 gunmen attacked the checkpoint in two
vehicles. Militants in the first car got out firing assault rifles and
throwing grenades at the policemen.

The second vehicle was forced into a ditch where it was cordoned off on
suspicion it could be a suicide car bomb.

Two militants were killed in the fire fight. One was wearing a suicide
vest, Kellogg said.

Maliki visited the Baghdad operation's command centre on Saturday and
urged security forces not to be swayed by sectarian loyalties.

He told reporters 426 suspected militants had been detained in the
crackdown "and around that number have been killed" since it was
launched in mid-February. The campaign is regarded as the last chance to
prevent all-out civil war.

The Shi'ite prime minister is under pressure from Washington to root out
Shi'ite militias with as much determination as he has used against Sunni
Arab insurgents.

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[osint] Iran fires first rocket into space

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1856450.htm

February 25, 2007. 7:43pm (AEDT)
Iran fires first rocket into space

Iran says it has it successfully launched its first rocket into space 
carrying cargo intended for research, at a time of mounting tension with 
the West over its nuclear program.

"The first space rocket has been successfully launched into space," a 
state television anchor announced, without disclosing the rocket's range.

The head of Iran's aerospace research centre, Mohsen Bahrami, spoke to 
state television but did not give details on the nature of the cargo.

"The rocket was carrying material intended for research created by the 
ministries of science and defence," Mr Bahrami said.

"All the tests (leading up to the launch) have been carried out in the 
country's industrial facilities in line with international regulations.

"The manufacture of the rocket and the cargo was achieved by experts at 
the centre of aerospace research and the engineering centre at the 
ministry of agricultural planning."

Iran has been pressing ahead with a nascent space program, which has 
already seen an Iranian Russian-made satellite put into orbit by a 
Russian rocket in October 2005.

That satellite, called Sina-1, was Iran's first and so far only probe to 
be launched into space and was described by the Iranian press at the 
time as being for research and telecommunications purposes.

Iran has said it is planning the construction and launch of several more 
satellites over the next three years.

The announcement that Iran has succeeded in launching its first rocket 
into space comes amid mounting tensions with the United States over the 
country's nuclear program, which Washington alleges is cover for weapons 
development.

OPEC member Iran denies the charges, saying its atomic drive is solely 
aimed at supply energy for a growing population.

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[osint] Iran supports peace, stability in Iraq: envoy

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  Iran supports peace, stability in Iraq: envoy
Paris, Feb 25, IRNA

Iran-France-Ambassador
Iran's Ambassador to France Ali Ahani here Saturday dismissed US 
allegations on Tehran's interference in Iraq, stressing Iran has always 
called for establishment of stability and tranquility in Iraq.

Ahani, who was speaking on Algiers radio, said the US faced numerous 
problems in Iraq and wants to put the blame on others.

He added that restoration of stability and peace in Iraq would be in 
favor of Iran too. "Iran has good relations and deep cooperation with 
the Iraqi government."
He said: "Iran was among the first countries which officially recognized 
the Iraqi government and will continue bilateral cooperation."
The envoy stated, "Presence of foreign and US forces in Iraq is the main 
cause of insecurity and instability in the country." Ahani dismissed 
claims by the US officials that Iran supplied weapons to Iraq, saying, 
"These are just unfounded allegations."
Pointing to economic sanctions against Iran and their impact on economic 
ties with European states, he added, "Undoubtedly, economic punishment 
against Iran will not be in favor of European companies.

"All know that disputes over Iran's peaceful nuclear case will not be 
settled through economic sanctions. It should be resolved through 
negotiations."
Asked about recent remarks made by the French President Jacques Chirac 
that Iran's possession of one or two nuclear bombs would pose no serious 
threat, Ahani said, "Chirac is well aware of the region's complications 
and sensitivities.

"His remarks showed his concerns over further complication of the 
situation in the region which is the result of the US and Israeli 
propaganda to portray Iran a threat to the region." In response to a 
question on cooperation between Iran and Russia and Moscow's role in 
promoting Tehran's peaceful nuclear activities, he said Iran has 
deep-rooted cooperation with Russia. The two countries have common 
interests in the region, he noted.

"Russia made great efforts to prevent imposition of US demands in the 
Resolution 1737 against Iran. Moscow also played a great role in 
amending the resolution," the ambassador said.

He stated, "Russia also has its own interests although it has taken 
positive steps."
Asked about reports on a possible US military attack on Iran, he said, 
"The US intends to show that it is ready to fight against Iran but it is 
not true.

"Iran has proved its resistance over the years. It is ready to confront 
any threat by relying on its national unity."


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[osint] Spies oblivious to Attorney General's affair

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Spies oblivious to Attorney General's affair

By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:31am GMT 25/02/2007

The Security Service did not know that Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney 
General, had an extra-marital affair with a leading barrister.

Details of the affair, of which the Prime Minister also claimed to be 
ignorant, immediately raised concerns over the potential threat to 
national security due to the highly sensitive nature of the Attorney 
General's position.

Whitehall sources have admitted that MI5, the organisation responsible 
for Britain's national security, had no knowledge of Lord Goldsmith's 
affair with QC Kim Hollis.

Patrick Mercer, the shadow minister for homeland security, claimed it 
was the responsibility of MI5 to know about the private lives of Cabinet 
ministers. He said: "This is absolutely a matter for MI5. The Attorney 
General deals with top secret matters on a day-to-day basis. He has 
access to Cabinet briefings and top secret Government papers.

"His actions could easily have led to him being blackmailed, and that is 
a security matter."

Crispin Black, a former Army intelligence officer, said: "The Security 
Service has a standing instruction to be aware of any difficulties in 
the lives of prominent politicians. It is not designed to be intrusive 
and is entirely protective. MI5 is a clearing house for gossip and 
information, so it beggars belief that they didn't know the Attorney 
General was having an affair."

A Whitehall source said: "This is not a matter of national security. MI5 
have more important things to worry about, such as the threat to the UK 
from al-Qaeda. If the affair had been at the height of the Cold War and 
he was sleeping with a Russian spy, it might have been a different matter."

Lord Goldsmith, 57, a close ally of Tony Blair, said in a statement from 
his Whitehall office last weekend that he and his wife, Joy, were "very 
happy" and the allegations were a "private matter". Sources close to the 
peer, who played a crucial role in giving the legal go-ahead for the war 
with Iraq in 2003, said the affair with Miss Hollis, 49, who was the 
first female Asian lawyer to become a QC, had ended more than two years ago.

One source has also revealed that only a very close circle of friends 
knew about the affair and they were very discreet. "Not even Tony Blair 
was aware, he may have heard rumours but that was all," said the source.

Peter Goldsmith became the second senior legal figure in four days to 
face allegations of an affair. Ten days ago, it was disclosed that Sir 
Ken Macdonald, the 54-year-old Director of Public Prosecutions, had held 
private meetings with Kirsty Brimelow, 37, a barrister. Lord Goldsmith 
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[osint] 2 companies suspected of assisting terror organizations

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2 companies suspected of assisting terror organizations

Published:  02.25.07, 09:05 / Israel News

Police on Sunday stormed the offices of two Israeli companies, Chinterko 
and Maayan, suspected of assisting terror organizations.


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[osint] Sole leading Christian member in Jordan Islamic party resigns

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Sole leading Christian member in Jordan Islamic party resigns
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Sunday February 25, 2007 


Amman (dpa)- The only leading Christian member in the Islamic
Action Front (IAF), Jordan's largest political party, has resigned,
citing "rumours" that sought to offend his reputation, IAF sources
said Sunday.
Aziz Massaadeh's resignation came only one week after he was
elected to the membership of the administrative panel of Amman's
third constituency.

"My election to the administrative panel has sparked a campaign of
rumours that sought to offend my reputation," Massaadeh said in his
resignation letter which he faxed to the party's headquarters from
his southern city of Karak.

Massaadeh also cited "several other reasons" which he did not
mention.

However, he indicated in remarks to the daily newspaper Alghad that
he was accused of converting to Islam.

"I did not expect my election to the membership of the IAF
administrative panel to take such religious and social dimensions
that prompted me to resign," he said.

Massaadeh disclosed that 33 Christians had submitted applications
to join the IAF, which was founded in 1992 as the political arm of
the Muslim Brotherhood Movement, but that only three of them were
admitted as members of the Islamic party.

The IAF Deputy Secretary Geneal Rahil Gharaibeh expressed surprise
over Massaadeh's resignation.

He said he believed Massaadeh was "exposed to pressures from
certain circles which were displeased" by his election to the IAF
leading post.

"We are proud to be a political and not a religious party that
fights discrimination on the basis of religion, ethnic or sect," he
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[osint] France to deal with Palestinian govt if it forms on Mecca accords

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France to deal with Palestinian govt if it forms on Mecca accords

25.02.2007, 05.44

PARIS, February 25 (Itar-Tass) - Paris is ready to cooperate with a new 
Palestinian government if it will be formed on the basis of the accords 
reached in Mecca, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said 
after his meeting with Palestine’s leader Mahmoud Abbas.

He expressed the hope that the Mecca accords reached by the FATH and 
HAMAS movements on the formation of a government of national unity would 
allow beginning a process that will lead to the recognition of Israel by 
all Palestinian groups, primarily HAMAS.

The Mecca accord is a an important step to HAMAS’ acknowledging the 
three principles, for adherence to which the four mediators of Middle 
East settlement urge, referring to the recognition of the Israeli state, 
refusal to resort to violence and observance of all accords with Israel.

Abbas told a news conference that the Palestinian government would be 
formed in March.

“The government will be a basis on which we shall be able to begin work 
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[osint] Egypt takes pro-Sunni satellite TV off the air

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Egypt takes pro-Sunni satellite TV off the air
(AFP)

25 February 2007

CAIRO - An Iraqi satellite television channel that has angered the US
and Iraqi governments for broadcasting anti-US and anti-Shiite news
reports has been taken off the air by the Egyptian government, the press
reported on Sunday.

“The Iraqi Al Zawraa satellite channel on NileSat 101 was cut off after
it repeatedly interfered with the transmission of several other
channels,” the state-owned Al Gomhuriyah newspaper reported.

It said several channels had been experiencing transmission problems
that were traced to Al Zawraa.

The channel was initially disconnected on Thursday and the problems
stopped immediately. Subsequent efforts to reconnect the channel
resulted in further interference.

US and Iraqi authorities have repeatedly asked for the channel, owned by
Sunni Iraqi politician Mishan Al Juburi, to be taken off the air for
what they describe as broadcasts that “incite” violence.

Much of the channel’s news coverage is devoted to either insurgent
attacks against US forces, or alleged atrocities committed against
Iraq’s Sunnis by the Shiite-dominated security forces and death squads.

The channel was shut down inside Iraq itself, but for the past eight
months has been broadcasting from the Egyptian NileSat satellite which
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[osint] MI5 warn Harry: You are a target

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MI5 warn Harry: You are a target
25/02/07
EXCLUSIVE

By Gordon Thomas

PRINCE Harry has been warned by MI6 chief John Scarlett that insurgents 
in Iraq are plotting to kill him.

Mr Scarlett personally told the third in line to the throne of the grave 
risks he faces in going to Iraq, following a huge global 
intelligence-gathering operation.

Harry was informed that code breakers have smashed Al Qaeda’s 
communications system and uncovered information which shows that he will 
be a prime target for the terrorist hit squads.

Investigations by the Sunday Express also show that insurgents are 
desperately trying to crack the digital communications system used by 
our forces in Iraq.

They have obtained technical journals and papers to find out all they 
can about how it works, say sources.

If the terrorists manage to eavesdrop on that system, they will be 
closer to tracking the movements of the 22-year-old Prince, placing him 
and his fellow soldiers in the Blues and Royals Regiment in peril.

Mr Scarlett visited the Prince at his London home Clarence House on 
Tuesday afternoon. With him was a slim briefcase containing a file 
stamped with a small, red cross of St George.

Over sandwiches and cake, he presented the file to Harry and explained 
its contents.

At no time did he attempt to dissuade the Prince from going to Iraq but 
merely set out to ensure he had all the information available on the 
potential threat.

It is understood that Harry asked many questions, based partly on what 
he had learned about intelligence-gathering while training at Sandhurst.

“The great thing about Scarlett is that he is a master of his brief,” 
said the source.

“The paper in the briefcase was a leave-behind document for Harry to study.

“It is safe to assume that Harry would have asked the kind of questions 
he had put during his intelligence classes at Sandhurst.

“He insists he knows how to look after himself and his men. He is a 
stubborn little bugger.”

Threats to Cornet Wales come from both of the main warring factions in 
Iraq – Al Qaeda and other militant Sunni groups operating mainly in the 
West of the country, and Shia militias around Basra in the South, which 
are backed by Iran.

The main threat on the Shia side comes from the Mahdi Army, which is 
headed by the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. A message published on a 
website operated by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah includes a call for 
the Mahdi Army to locate Harry and adds: “God is capable of anything.”

A reply says: “I wish his end at the hands of the courageous Iraqi 
resistance.”
It is believed that Shia groups are largely responsible for the 
increasingly regular mortar and rocket fire targeting British bases in 
Basra.

The Mahdi Army is the main target of the American troop surge that is 
aimed at quelling inter-communal fighting between Sunni and Shia groups 
in and around Baghdad.

The Al Qaeda communications system is at the heart of a new HQ that 
Osama bin Laden has set up in the Waziristan area of north Pakistan.

It is from there that bin Laden overseas a network of camps that are 
hard to locate from the air and virtually inaccessible from the ground.

The communications system is run by bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman 
al-Zawahiri, who is believed to have created the various codes through 
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[osint] US meeting with Muslim leader invites Left ire

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US meeting with Muslim leader invites Left ire

Feb 25, 2007, 8:15 GMT

Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) A visit by the US Consul General here to the
office of Jamait Ulema-i-Hind leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury has sparked a
row in West Bengal as the Muslim group opposes farm land acquisition in
Nandigram village for industry.

'How can the consul general interfere in our state's affair?' a
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader asked even as party
supporters raised slogans outside the office of Chowdhury.

According to informed sources, Consul General Henry V. Jardine discussed
land acquisition as well as the condition of Muslims in the state Saturday.

Chowdhury is the latest bugbear of the CPI-M because of his outfit's
role in the Nandigram movement. The CPI-M has dubbed the Jamait protests
in Nandigram over land acquisition a 'communal campaign'.

'It is a people-to-people programme to know each other and nothing to do
with interference in the state government's internal matter,' Douglas
Kelly, director of the American Centre, told IANS Sunday.

'I agree that it is a sensitive issue (meeting Siddiqullah at this
point) but Jardine was very careful not to interfere in any internal
matter. It is part of our Muslim outreach programme and we do it in a
routine way everywhere.'

Siddiqullah added: 'People are scared the way land acquisition is going
on. We are not against industry but at the same it should not be (built)
over farmland, schools and religious places. I communicated this to the
consul general.'

Chowdhury told Jardine that the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) was an
American concept and it would not work in India.

CPI-M MP Mohammed Salim reacted cautiously.

'The government will comment on it. But Siddiqullah's association with
the US is nothing new. He had visited Washington earlier also as a
guest,' Salim said.

Nandigram, in east Midnapore district, has been rocked by violence
following attempts to acquire land for a SEZ to be set up by the
Indonesian Salim Group.

In 1999 then consul general Christopher Sandrolini ignited a similar
diplomatic minefield when he sent two US consulate officials to Birbhum
district following the massacre of 13 farmers allegedly by CPI-M men.

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[osint] China to enact national regulation on Muslim food management

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China to enact national regulation on Muslim food management
PPL-CHINA-MUSLIM-FOOD
China to enact national regulation on Muslim food management

TOKYO, Feb 25 (KUNA) -- China will enact a national regulation on the 
management of Muslim foods to guarantee the protection of customs of the 
Islamic ethnic minorities, the official People's Daily reported Sunday.

The draft regulation will be submitted to the State Council for approval 
after further soliciting opinions from different government departments, 
said the official from State Ethnic Affairs Commsion, according to the 
daily.

The regulation stipulates that Muslims should be involved in the 
management of companies or factories producing Islamic food, it said. It 
also sets out special criteria for Islamic food producers, and orders 
the use of special logos that are approved by the city's ethnic affairs 
authorities.

Many local governments in China have issued their own rules governing 
the production of Muslim food, the report said. Guangzhou, capital of 
southern Guangdong Province, introduced its first regulation on the 
management of Islamic food in 2003.

In many Chinese cities, special Muslim cafeterias are available in 
government buildings, schools, enterprises and institutions. Special 
beef and mutton markets are also set up in Muslim communities.

China now has 10 Islamic ethnic minorities including Uygur, Kazak and 
Ozbek, with a total population of about 20 million people. (end) mk.
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[osint] Algeria makes first Berber translation of the Quran

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Algeria makes first Berber translation of the Quran

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Algiers: Algeria has translated the Quran into the Berber language, 
Tamazight, for the first time, to promote Islam among a community that 
has long campaigned for more language and cultural rights, an official 
has said.

Religious Affairs Ministry spokesman Abdullah Tamine said the ministry 
had funded the printing this year of 6,000 copies of a full translation 
carried out by its experts.

Saudi Arabia financed the printing of 5,000 copies of a partial 
translation last year, he said. All 11,000 copies were distributed free 
and the ministry planned to print more.

Berbers were the original inhabitants of North Africa before the 7th 
century Arab invasion and make up a fifth of Algeria's 33 million people.

The Berber region of Kabylie was hit by unrest in 2001 fuelled by the 
death of a schoolboy in police custody.

Tamine said the translation was done at the request of officials from 
local mosques in Kabylie districts such as Tizi Ouzou where 
congregations did not understand Arabic.

Fruitful

"The translation is fruitful," he said. "Mosques in Tizi Ouzou were 
empty before the distribution of the copies. It is now very difficult to 
find a place there, particularly on Friday."

In 2002, the Algerian government recognised Tamazight as a national 
language, meaning it could be taught officially in schools in 
Berber-speaking regions for the first time.

But Berbers want Tamazight to be an official language, on equal status 
with Arabic. At present, it is not used in official documents.

Tamine said the translation would bring citizens closer to Islam. He 
denied that promoting the Quran was a political move, adding that the 
ministry had previously supervised translations into seven other 
languages, including English and Malay.

"We cannot translate the Quran into foreign languages only and ignore 
Tamazight," Tamine said. "Our efforts have nothing to do with politics, 
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[osint] Muslim militancy in the Philippines

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Muslim militancy in the Philippines

By NICOLAS B. TATRO, Associated Press (ASAP)
© February 25, 2007

The Philippines may not occur to many Americans as an obvious 
battleground in the fight to stamp out terrorism. But that's exactly 
what it is -- and a lot of American troops are in the country, advising 
Filipino soldiers who are battling Muslim militants.

The biggest target of these military efforts has been Abu Sayyaf, a 
group that's been linked to al-Qaida. The group, based in the southern 
part of the country, has been held responsible for bombings, kidnappings 
and beheadings.

What kind of success have the U.S. and the Philippines had in their 
fight against Abu Sayyaf? And how welcome are American troops in the 
archipelago?

AP deputy international editor Nicolas B. Tatro recently sat down with 
Paul Alexander, the AP's bureau chief in Manila, to talk about Muslim 
militancy in the Philippines. Listen to this podcast to hear some of 
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[osint] Deadly raid on Islamic Army base

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Deadly raid on Islamic Army base
Published: Sunday, 25 February, 2007, 09:41 AM Doha Time
BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops backed by US aircraft killed “tens” of insurgents
yesterday in a major assault on a Sunni militant group’s hideout north
of Baghdad, a senior interior ministry official said.
“An operation was launched against one of the bases of the Islamic Army
and tens of them were killed,” said Brigadier Abdel Karim Khalaf, head
of operations at the ministry.
The Islamic Army in Iraq, mainly composed of former members of executed
dictator Saddam Hussain’s party and armed forces, on Friday urged
revenge attacks after the alleged rape of Sunni women by members of the
mainly Shia Iraqi security forces.
During yesterday’s raid, Iraqi forces captured Saad Akram Khalifa, a
commander of the Islamic Army in northern Iraq, Khalaf said.
“The operation was carried out with US air support by the forces of the
interior ministry,” he added.
“It was carried out on orders of the minister to hit the bases of terror
around Baghdad and nearby provinces in support of Operation Fardh
al-Qanoon.”
More than 90,000 Iraqi and US troops are carrying out a large-scale
security operation - codenamed Fardh al-Qanoon (Imposing Order) - in
Baghdad to quell a year-long bout of bloodletting between rival Sunni
and Shia factions.
Meanwhile, a Kurdish brigade of the Iraqi army set off yesterday for
Baghdad to take part in a massive joint US and Iraqi military operation
to pacify the city, its commander said.
“Our participation in this security plan is proof of the fact that we
belong to the Iraqi Army,” said Brigadier General Nathir Asim Koran,
commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Army Division.
“We had decided to send 1,700 men but the number grew to 1,800,” the
general told reporters in the Kurdish capital Arbil.
“This demonstrates how keen soldiers in the province are to be part of
the plan.”
The Kurdish region of northern Iraq is autonomous, and many there still
dream of independence from the Arab south, but in public at least
regional officials insist they support national unity.
Nevertheless, some observers have warned that too big a Kurdish
contingent in Baghdad could spark tensions in the capital, especially as
many Kurds cannot speak Arabic.
The general emphasised however that his troops had been well-prepared
for their mission. “All our soldiers have completed training courses to
be ready to restore peace in Baghdad,” he said. – AFP

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[osint] Evidence against Muslim charity appears fabricated

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Evidence against Muslim charity appears fabricated
An official summary of an FBI-wiretapped conversation contains 
anti-Semitic slurs that do not appear in the actual transcript.
By Greg Krikorian, Times Staff Writer
February 25, 2007

When the Bush administration shut down the nation's largest Muslim 
charity five years ago, officials of the Dallas-based foundation denied 
allegations it was linked to terrorists and insisted that a number of 
accusations were fabricated by the government.

Now, attorneys for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development 
say the government's own documents provide evidence of that claim.

In recent court filings, defense lawyers disclosed striking 
discrepancies between an official summary and the verbatim transcripts 
of an FBI-wiretapped conversation in 1996 involving Holy Land officials.

The summary attributes inflammatory, anti-Semitic comments to Holy Land 
officials that are not found in a 13-page transcript of the recorded 
conversation. It recently was turned over to the defense by the 
government in an exchange of evidence.

Citing the unexplained discrepancies, defense lawyers have asked U.S. 
District Judge A. Joe Fish in Dallas to declassify thousands of hours of 
FBI surveillance recordings, so that full transcripts would replace 
government summaries as evidence.

The demand could force government prosecutors to either declassify 
evidence it has fought to keep secret or risk losing a critical portion 
of evidence in its case.

In December, the judge denied a defense request to declassify the 
documents so they could be examined by defendants in the case. Seven 
former foundation officials, six of them U.S. citizens, have been 
charged with funneling money to overseas charities controlled by Hamas, 
which the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The 
defendants have denied the charges.

Though defense attorneys already have government clearances that allow 
them to review the material, under the federal Classified Information 
Procedures Act they have been prohibited from sharing it with their 
clients. And unless the act's rules are declared unconstitutional in the 
case, defense attorneys argue, the defendants will have no way of 
proving that the statements attributed to them were misconstrued or 
never made.

The recently declassified summary of surveillance on April 15, 1996, 
asserts that during a conversation wiretapped by the FBI, Holy Land's 
former executive director Shukri Abu Baker told two associates there was 
no need to worry about the foundation being unfairly targeted because 
U.S. courts were not under the control of the American Israel Public 
Affairs Committee or its sponsor, "the government of the demons of Israel."

The summary portrays Baker as raging against "the Jews of the world" and 
as claiming that Jews have no allegiance to anything but "their pockets 
and to preserving the illegal Zionist state of Israel."

Additional anti-Semitic comments the FBI summary attributed to Baker or 
Ghassan Elashi, Holy Land's former board chairman, included:

•  "Their [Jews'] only purpose here in the U.S. is to purchase as many 
politicians as possible and to warp the way the American Christians feel 
and think not just about the Christian religion but mainly about the 
Palestinian people … and to rob as much money as possible from American 
taxpayers for the illegitimate excuse of protecting and preserving the 
chosen people of God."

•  "Even Jesus Christ had called the Jews and their high priests … the 
sons of snakes and scorpions."

•  "I am confident that in the end justice, and not the Jews, will 
prevail. I believe that there is still justice in America."

None of those quotes was contained in a 13-page transcript of the 
conversation, defense lawyers said in their motion to expand access to 
classified evidence.

"Throughout the run-up to trial, the government has insisted that the 
defendants can learn what is contained in the [surveillance] intercepts 
by reading the so-called 'summaries' of those intercepts," defense 
attorneys said in their papers.

But the recently disclosed transcript, attorneys said, shows that "not 
only are the summaries so inaccurate and misleading as to be useless," 
but that the "author of the attached summary has cynically and 
maliciously attributed to the defendants racist invective and 
inculpatory remarks the defendants never uttered."

"It is appalling that such summaries even exist, much less that the 
government represented that this is all our clients need to know in 
order to defend themselves."

Defense lawyers declined to comment about their motion. A federal 
prosecutor said the government would respond with its own filings to the 
court.

How the summary and transcript could be so different was unclear, though 
experts in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillan

[osint] WE'RE LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=we%2Dre-losing-the-war-on-terror--%26method=full%26objectid=18672832%26siteid=62484-name_page.html

25 February 2007
WE'RE LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR
EXCLUSIVE OFFICIAL Spy chiefs warn that al-Qaeda is getting stronger
By Rupert Hamer Defence Correspondent

BRITAIN and the US are losing the war on terror, according to a secret
Ministry of Defence report.

In the confidential document, intelligence chiefs warn that al-Qaeda is
making a powerful comeback across the world.

They also say there is a "far greater" number of UK-based fanatics
prepared to launch suicide attacks than previously thought.

Last month Home Secretary John Reid said 30 major terror plots in
Britain were investigated.

The latest report, which is marked "Restricted" and is dated February 7,
says: "The scale of AQ's (al-Qaeda's) ambitions towards attacking the UK
and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in UK attacks
are even greater than we had previously judged.

"The UK will remain a target of concerted efforts by AQ and others...
and further attacks are highly likely."

It adds: "We still believe that AQ will continue to seek opportunities
for mass casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure.
These attacks are highly likely to include the use of suicide
operatives." The document, circulated in Whitehall, Scotland Yard and
MI5, warns the terror group has members in virtually every Muslim
country in the world.

It says Afghanistan will overtake Iraq as the world's main terrorist
hotbed and will attract Muslim Jihadi fighters from around the world.

The report also claims the group's Pakistan branch is better funded than
ever, is "effective" in Iraq and is starting new groups in countries
like the Yemen.

A senior minister said last night: "It's grim news. We have to hope we
can turn the corner by winning hearts and minds of moderate Muslims."

The report also warns that British troops in Afghanistan will face
increasing attacks.

Meanwhile, in Habbaniyah, Iraq, 50 miles from Baghdad, 40 died when a
fuel tanker rigged with explosives blew up.

FOUR women are to be executed in Iraq for crimes committed by their men.
The young mums will be hanged in six days as "accomplices" to murders
and kidnappings.

DEATH TOLL

THIS WEEK

Allies 21

Iraqis 383

TOTAL SO FAR

Allies 3,410

Iraqis 65,110

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[osint] Homeland security has new watchdog

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/LOCAL17/702250437/1012

February 25, 2007

Newsmaker
Homeland security has new watchdog
By Ana Radelat
Gannett News Service
February 25, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bennie Thompson, who likes hunting rabbits in the 
Mississippi Delta, is training his sights these days on the Bush 
administration's homeland security policies.
Thompson, D-Miss., the new chairman of the House Homeland Security 
Committee, says the White House is trying to protect the nation "on the 
cheap."
Q: Why do you say the Bush administration is doing homeland security "on 
the cheap?"
A: They know a potentially serious threat can come to this country 
through our international ports, but we still screen only 25 percent of 
the cargo that comes into the country. So we could have a dirty bomb or 
something put into a container put into a major port and cause 
significant harm.
We know that about 20 percent of the cargo that travels in passenger 
airlines is screened. So we know the harm that went into the twin towers 
and the Pentagon could conceivably happen again. My feeling is the 
public expects us to do more.
Q: How many more security measures will people tolerate?
A: I think you have to be smart with what you do. When people think of 
more screening, they think of long lines, but we can come up with a 
combination of canines, a combination of various cameras (and) other 
technologies that would not impede passenger flow but give us a 
significant degree of security.
Q: Will you expect the committee to be more active than it was under 
your predecessor, New York Republican Rep. Peter King?
A: Absolutely. I think that what I saw former Chairman King subjected to 
was a micromanaged chairmanship by the Republican leadership.
Q: What's your position on the proposed border fence along the Rio 
Grande that the GOP promoted last year?
A: I'm in favor of a border security plan, and a fence by itself is not 
a plan. There might be areas along the border where a fence makes sense, 
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[osint] Terror threat to Britain worst since 9/11: report

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=164121

Terror threat to Britain worst since 9/11: report
02-25-2007, 02h54
LONDON (AFP)

The threat of a terrorist attack in Britain by home-grown Islamists is 
at its highest since the September 11, 2001 attacks, The Sunday 
Telegraph newspaper said, citing a secret government report.

British-based operatives loyal to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror 
network numbering potentially more than 2,000 are planning suicide 
attacks against "soft" targets, the document said, according to the 
weekly broadsheet.

The number is far greater than was previously thought by the security 
services.

"The scale of Al-Qaeda's ambitions towards attacking the UK and the 
number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even 
greater than we had previously judged," the document said, according to 
the newspaper.

"We still believe that AQ (Al-Qaeda) will continue to seek opportunities 
for mass casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure. 
These attacks are likely to involve the use of suicide operatives."

The document said that "attack planning" against Britain was to increase 
this year, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

Britain was rocked in July 2005 when four British Islamists carried out 
suicide attacks on London's transport system, killing themselves and 52 
others, the first such attacks in the kingdom.

The secret report said Al-Qaeda, which was behind the September 11, 2001 
attacks on New York and Washington, had a foothold in almost every 
majority-Muslim country.

Entitled "Extremist Threat Assessment", it said that Afghanistan was 
expected to overtake Iraq as the hotbed for terrorists plotting attacks 
against Western forces.

The US-led 37-nation coalition in Afghanistan is expecting to face a 
renewed assault on its forces by the Taliban, which was ousted from 
power following the 2001 attacks on the United States.

"With violence in Afghanistan intensifying, and therefore receiving 
greater media attention, the country may well become more attractive as 
a venue for foreigners wishing to fulfil their jihad ambitions," the 
document said.

A senior political source told the newspaper that the outlook was 
"particularly bleak and unlikely to improve for several years.

The security services have constantly warned that the task of countering 
Islamist terrorism is a daunting one. There will be more attacks in 
Britain."

Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, 
disclosed in November last year that her agents were tracking over 1,600 
suspects from 200 groups, most with Al-Qaeda ties.

The spy chief warned of nearly 30 terror plots under investigation.

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[osint] Muslim nations to sever ties with Israel: OIC

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\25\story_25-2-2007_pg7_31

Muslim nations to sever ties with Israel: OIC

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia, the chair of the 57-member Organisation of the 
Islamic Conference, said Saturday the grouping had agreed to sever ties 
with Israel over its works at the Al-Aqsa mosque, according to state media.

Foreign Minister Syed Hamid said OIC foreign ministers had agreed in 
principle to Malaysia’s proposal to cut diplomatic relations at an 
extraordinary meeting in Saudi Arabia during the week.

“We suggested that Islamic countries having diplomatic relations with 
Israel sever the ties or recall their ambassadors temporarily to show 
that we are serious and do not engage in mere empty talk,” the Bernama 
news agency quoted Syed Hamid as saying.

The minister said the OIC’s secretary general, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, had 
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[osint] 'Non-Specific' Terror Threat Made Against LAX

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_056024030.html

Feb 25, 2007 12:06 am US/Pacific
'Non-Specific' Terror Threat Made Against LAX

(CBS) LOS ANGELES A "non-specific" terror threat was made against Los 
Angeles International Airport Saturday night.

Airport officials are tight-lipped about the unspecified threat, which 
was received about 8 p.m. Officials have not shut down any airport 
operations as a result, and no flights were canceled or delayed, said 
Nancy Castles of Los Angeles World Airports.

The threat was "non-specific," Castles said.

Due to an ongoing investigation, she would not say who made the threat 
or how it was delivered.

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[osint] Turkey PM denies anti-Shia tie-up

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D76ECBFA-FBB2-452F-804B-1CE4B32FD8CC.htm

Turkey PM denies anti-Shia tie-up

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, has said that a series of 
meetings planned by Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, for leaders 
of key Muslim Sunni states are not aimed at forging an alliance against 
Shia Iran.

Pakistan will host a meeting of foreign ministers from seven Muslim 
states in Islamabad on Sunday.

The ministers plan to discuss how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict and bring peace to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Media reports in the Arab world suggested, however, that Musharraf was 
aiming to establish up a Sunni alliance to confront the rising influence 
of Iran in the region.


Turkish denial

Erdogan told Al Jazeera in an interview recorded earlier on Saturday in 
Istanbul: "This is not designed to isolate any country. It should not be 
taken from this (point of view)."

Musharraf has toured the Middle East and Asia recently to garner support 
for a Muslim initiative to stem the deepening conflicts that are 
destabilising parts of the Islamic world.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan and 
Saudi Arabia will gather in Islamabad to lay the groundwork for a summit 
of Muslim leaders at an unspecified date in the holy city of Mecca, 
Saudi Arabia.

The Pakistani foreign minister said in a statement that the goal of the 
summit is "a new initiative to address the grave situation in the Middle 
East, in particular the Palestinian issue, and for harmony in the 
Islamic world".

Musharraf has visited Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey 
and Iran in the last few weeks to seek common ground for his initiative.

He did not invite Iran or Syria for the meeting in Islamabad on Sunday.

Erdogan said Iran and Syria will be invited in a later stage.

Pakistan denial

Tasnim Aslan, Pakistan's foreign ministry spokeswoman, also denied the 
conference aims at forming a Sunni alliance.

Aslan told Al Jazeera: "It is not for Sunni countries, they are Islamic 
countries."

Khursheed Kasuri, Pakistan's foreign minister, said earlier this month 
that conflicts in the Muslim world were fostering Islamic extremism.

Musharraf said he was trying to gather countries who support "a 
conciliatory approach instead of a confrontationist approach" to the 
region's problems.

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[osint] Sneh: Israel not planning to attack Iran

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Updated Feb. 24, 2007 23:18
Sneh: Israel not planning to attack Iran
By YAAKOV KATZ AND AP

Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh flatly denied a report published
Saturday in a British newspaper claiming that Israel had opened
negotiations to fly through US-controlled airspace in Iraq in the event
that it would decide to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

The Daily Telegraph quoted an unnamed Israeli defense official as saying
the discussions were aimed at planning for all scenarios, including any
future decision to target Iran's nuclear program. Israeli bombers would
need a corridor through US-administered airspace in Iraq to carry out
any strikes, the official was quoted as saying.

Calling the report "baseless," Sneh, the highest-ranking Israeli
official to comment Saturday, claimed that the publication was meant to
divert the world's attention from the need to impose sanctions on Iran.
The international community's focus should be on imposing economic
sanctions on Iran for defying UN Security Council resolutions, he said.

"No request to coalition forces was made by Israel," Sneh said. "This
publication is meant to try to make Israel the one responsible for
solving the Iranian problem."

While Sneh rejected the validity of the report, the quickest and most
convenient route to Iran would be over Jordan and Iraq. According to
Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Shlomo Brom of the Institute for National Security
Studies from Tel Aviv University, Israel would be best off flying the
longer route over the Indian Ocean with minimal penetration of other
states' airspace. Israel could also jeopardize the entire mission by
asking Jordan or the US for permission prior to the flights.

"Flying through Jordan without the explicit or implicit permission of
the Jordanians would hurt relations with a friendly Arab state," Brom
wrote in a recent article in the book Getting Ready for a Nuclear Iran.
"Flying over Iraq without coordination with the United States would lead
to a clash with US interceptors."

On Monday, officials from the five permanent members of the Security
Council - Britain, the US, France, China and Russia - and Germany are
due to meet in London to discuss new sanctions against Teheran.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said last week that Iran had
ignored a council ultimatum to freeze its uranium enrichment work - a
possible pathway to nuclear arms - and had expanded its program.

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[osint] ElBaradei report best document on Iran's peaceful N-program

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0702252468121343.htm

  ElBaradei report best document on Iran's peaceful N-program
Algiers, Feb 25, IRNA

Iran-Soltaniyeh-Nuclear
Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali-Asghar 
Soltaniyeh said the report presented by the IAEA Director-General 
Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday was the best document prepared by the 
agency on Iran's peaceful nuclear program.

Speaking on the Egyptian television, Soltaniyeh added that ElBaradei's 
report stressed that Iran's nuclear program follows no military purposes 
and is legal.

He said the IAEA inspectors visited Iran's nuclear sites and once again 
confirmed the peaceful nature of the activities.

In his report, the IAEA head said Iran has enriched uranium just less 
than five percent, Soltaniyeh said, adding it was the best response to 
the UN Security Council threats.

He called on the US to end its misleading propaganda on Iran's peaceful 
nuclear program.

The envoy stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran regards 
continuation of negotiations as the best solution to disputes over its 
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[osint] Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies

PARAMETERS

US Army War College Quarterly
Winter 2006-07, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4

full document: 
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Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies:
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[osint] "Not in our name"

Spiegel 9/2007, 26 February 2007, print page 17

"Not in our name"

Mina Ahadi (50) a Cologne based human rigts activist of Iranian origin 
in an interview on the "Central Council of Ex-Muslims" 
[http://www.ex-muslime.de/], co-found by her, which will be presented to 
the public this week in Berlin.

SPIEGEL: Your group of 30 immigrants from Muslim countries states to 
recant Islam. What's your goal?

Ahadi: I left Islam some 30 years ago and I'm critcal towards Islam and 
handling of Islam by the German Gov't. German Muslim organizations like 
the "Central Council of Muslims" [ZMD - http://zentralrat.de/] or Mili 
Gorus [http://www.igmg.de/] try to be influental in German politics and 
interfere in daily life. Both have been invited to the German conference 
on Islam [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Islamkonferenz]. But 
their goals are misogynous and misanthropic.

SPIEGEL: Why?

Ahadi: They want to force women to wear a headscarf and intensify a 
climate forbidding pre-marriage relations to girls, forbidding them 
going out and demoniz homosexuality.
I know Islam first hand and to me it means death and pain.

SPIEGEL: What kind of activities are planned by your organization?

Ahadi: An exmaple: A representative of ZMD issued a statement that 
Islamists with bomb belts as showed at carnival are an insult to 
Muslims. I cant see a proof for that. We have to signal that this is not 
in our name. We are quite different, being secular humanists, and we aim 
to give such people a voice. We promote human rights.

SPIEGEL: There are members of your group active in communist 
organizations in their countries of origin.

Ahadi: Yes, some have been active in leftist groups. But ours is a 
different engagement. We collected more then a hundred applications for 
membership during the last days. We want to create a movement acitve in 
other European nations as well, I hope we will be about 10k in a short 
while, represanting many more.

SPIEGEL: Don't you fear your group will harden fronts?

Ahadi: I do not believe that it is possible to modernize Islam, we want 
to set an antipole to Muslim organizations. That we need police 
protection doing so, only shows that there's an urgent need for our 
initiative.

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[osint] Founder of ex-Muslim group threatened

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070223-014518-1922r/

Founder of ex-Muslim group threatened
COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The founder of a group in Germany for 
former Muslims has sought police protection after receiving death threats.

Mina Ahadi, a native of Iran living in Cologne, said about three dozen 
people have joined the Central Council of Ex-Muslims.

"I happened to be born in a Muslim family, and I have decided not to be 
a Muslim," she told the magazine Focus.

Ahadi said she and other members of the group have been "terrorized" and 
have received death threats, most of them sent via e-mail.

In many Muslim countries, people who abandon the faith face the death 
sentence under Sharia law.

Ahadi said she hoped to represent the interests of former Muslims who do 
not practice the religion. She chose the name as a play on the Central 
Council of Muslims, which has about 800,000 members and is the largest 
Islamic group in Germany.

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[osint] Iraq president in Jordan hospital

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Iraq president in Jordan hospital
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is being treated at a hospital in the 
Jordanian capital, Amman, after being flown there from northern Iraq 
earlier in the day.

Mr Talabani, 73, had become ill as a result of "continuing hard work 
over the past few days", his office said.

There was "no cause for concern", it added in a statement.

Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said Mr Talabani had suffered a drop 
in blood pressure, while another ally said he had been having kidney 
problems.

Mr Talabani, a Kurd, was last seen in public on Saturday in the northern 
city of Sulaimaniya, where, according to one report, he was hospitalised 
for several hours.

On arrival in Amman, he was driven directly to the specialist King 
Hussein Medical Centre, reports said.

Mr Talabani - widely referred to by Kurds as Mam (uncle) Jalal - is one 
of the longest-serving figures in Iraqi Kurdish politics.

He was sworn in as president in April 2005, after weeks of deadlock in 
parliament over the appointment to the largely ceremonial post.

Mr Talabani is also the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 
(PUK), one of the two main parties controlling Iraq's Kurdish region.

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[osint] The criminal parts of the Koran

http://siad.wordpress.com/

The criminal parts of the Koran
Filed under: — siad @ 19:29

It seemed that the mainstream media in Denmark would not release our 
press release. But one newspaper has just defied the fear(!) and made an 
article (in danish): http://politiken.dk/indland/article251308.ece

We have send it to Al Jazeera, and we will try to get in touch with the 
foreign medias. Maybe they are not  so reluctant as the danish, who 
definately are afraid of making another Muhammed crisis.

The danish party, SIAD, demands parts of the Koran forbidden in Denmark 
in accordance with the Danish ConstitutionSIAD hereby draws attention to 
the fact that the Koran is in violation of the
Danish Constitution’s paragraphs 67 and 69. SIAD further claims that mosques
should be forbidden in consonance with paragraph 78, clause 2. SIAD also 
demands that all koran verses incompatible with Danish customs and
traditional values should be banned in accordance with the Danish
Constitution’s paragraphs 67 and 69, which states that “Citizens have the
right to form communities with a view to practising religion in accordance
with their faith, but on condition that nothing is taught or done that is at
odds with morality or public order”. Paragraph 69 explains this 
injunction in more detail.  “The status of
religious communities outside the Danish Folkekirke shall be specified by
law”.We also demand that the Minister of Justice apply paragraph 78, 
clause 2 of
the Danish constitution, which states that “societies using violence or
seeking to achieve their ends with violence, fomentation of violence or 
other
unlawful pressure on those of a different opinion, shall by dissolved by 
law”.

According to paragraph 78 clause 2 this automatically includes every mosque
in so far as those parts of the koran in inciting to violence, murder or
threats to people of different opinions are read out there.
SIAD has previously demanded a  prohibition of the koran in 2005, but this
time we demand it in accordance with the Danish Constitution, which the
minister of justice has sworn to uphold.

SIAD, Stop the islamification of Denmark

For contact: Anders Gravers

Tlf: +45 96771784  mobile: +45 61916026

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[osint] New US covert operations helping Sunni Muslim radicals

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New US covert operations helping Sunni Muslim radicals
WASHINGTON (AFP)

The United States is stepping up covert operations in Iran in a new 
strategy that risks sparking an "open confrontation" and benefits Sunni 
radicals, a US magazine reported Sunday.

26/02/2007 04:40

In The New Yorker magazine, Seymour Hersh reports that US military and 
special-operations teams have increased their activities inside Iran, 
entering from Iraq to gather intelligence and to pursue Iranians who 
operate inside Iraq.

Hersh also reports, citing unnamed sources, that the US Defense 
Department recently formed a special planning group to plan possible 
attacks on Iran "that can be implemented, upon orders from the 
president, within 24 hours."

The planning group, though, has in the past month turned its focus from 
targeting Iran's nuclear sites and attempting to oust the current Tehran 
leadership to hitting targets "involved in supplying or aiding militants 
in Iraq."

Hersh said US clandestine operations in Iran, Lebanon and Syria aim at 
strengthening Saudi-supported Sunni Islam groups and weakening 
Iran-backed Shiites.

He said that since last August US-led forces in Iraq have been rounding 
up Iranians there to be interrogated, and were at one point holding 500 
-- though some were just humanitarian and aid workers.

The operations under the new tack have been guided by Vice President 
Dick Cheney and rely heavily on Saudi Arabia's national security advisor 
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, according to the report.

However, Hersh said, "a by-product of these activities has been the 
bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of 
Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al-Qaeda."

"The 'redirection,' as some inside the White House call the new 
strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation 
with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening 
sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims."

Some US aid distributed to Sunni groups in Lebanon falls into the hands 
of radical groups, US, European and Arab officials told Hersh, who named 
Fatah al-Islam, based in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, and Asbat 
al-Answar in a Palestinian refugee camp in the country as beneficiaries.

The article also suggested the US policy was benefiting the radical 
Sunni Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and that influential Lebanese 
politician Walid Jumblatt had encouraged US support for the group in a 
meeting late last year with Cheney.

But unnamed officials told Hersh that the approach was dangerous, 
enhancing radical groups which also consider the United States an enemy.

"We're spreading the money around as much as we can," a former senior 
intelligence official said.

"In this process, we're financing a lot of bad guys with some serious 
potential unintended consequences. ... It's a very high-risk venture."

In some cases, the clandestine operations rely on Saudi Arabia and 
Bandar, who was the ambassador to Washington for two decades, to provide 
the funding so that operations remain secret.

Hersh wrote that, according to one source, a government consultant, 
Bandar and the Saudi government have assured Washington that they will 
keep any dangerous Sunni groups potentially strengthened by the new 
policy under control.

Hersh said, however, that one of the key Shiite targets of US policy in 
the Middle East, Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah -- which Washington says 
is directed by Tehran -- said it opposed a sectarian Islamic conflict 
and was willing to talk with the United States.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told Hersh in an interview that he 
believed the US, together with Israel, was trying to split Islam, and to 
partition Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

However, he said: "If the United States says that discussions with the 
likes of us can be useful and influential in determining American policy 
in the region, we have no objection to talks or meetings."

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[osint] Islamic Jihad says willing to join PLO

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UPDATED: 09:09, February 26, 2007
Islamic Jihad says willing to join PLO

Mohammed al-Hindi, a senior Islamic Jihad (Holy War) official, said on 
Sunday that his movement was ready to join the Palestine Liberation 
Organization (PLO) when it is reshuffled.

Al-Hindi told media that a reformed PLO would have a "true political 
partnership with everyone" and the organization was the only way out of 
the political crisis.

Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haneya of Hamas is holding talks with 
all factions on forming a national unity government, al- Hindi said, 
adding that his movement will not join any government or institution 
based on the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians.

Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement to end infighting and form a 
power-sharing government in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this month.

In addition, al-Hindi justified continuous attacks against Israel by 
saying that "resistance is the only way to respond to the occupation."

"No one meets the occupation by laying down weapons and resorting to 
negotiations as the only political way," he said.

Israel and the Palestinians reached a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip last 
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[osint] Psychics 'hired to find Bin Laden'

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Psychics 'hired to find Bin Laden'
by BEN CLERKIN - 11:54am on 23rd February 2007

Psychics were recruited by the Ministry of Defence to locate Osama Bin
Laden's secret lair, it was claimed yesterday.

Newly declassified documents revealed that the MoD conducted an
experiment to see if volunteers could 'see' objects hidden inside an
envelope.

It is claimed the ministry hoped positive results would allow it to use
psychics to 'remotely view' Bin Laden's base and also to find weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq.

However, after running up a bill of £18,000 of taxpayers' money, defence
chiefs concluded there was 'little value' in using psychic powers in the
defence of the nation and the research was taken no further.

The study, conducted in 2002, involved blindfolding test subjects and
asking them to 'see' the contents of sealed brown envelopes containing
pictures of objects and public figures.

The MoD tried to recruit 12 'known' psychics who advertised their
abilities on the Internet, but when they all refused they were forced to
use 'novice' volunteers.

The report, released under the Freedom of Information Act, shows 28 per
cent of those tested managed to guess the contents of the envelopes,
which included pictures of a knife, Mother Teresa and an 'Asian individual'.

But most subjects, who were holed up in a secret location for the study,
were hopelessly off the mark. One even fell asleep while he tried to
focus on the envelope's content.

A former MoD employee who received a copy of the report said the timing
of the study must have been related to military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

Nick Pope, who ran the MoD UFO research programme and worked at the
ministry for 21 years, said: "It can only be speculation, but you don't
employ that kind of time and effort to find money down the back of the sofa.

"You go to this trouble for high-value assets. We must be talking about
Bin Laden and weapons of mass destruction."

The MoD last night defended its decision to fund the secret tests
despite the questionable use of taxpayers' money.

And Mr Pope said: "I don't think this was a waste of public money. Many
people will say so, but I think it is marvellous that the Government is
prepared to think outside the box.

"And this is as outside the box as it gets."

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[osint] Film’s View of Islam Stirs Anger on Cam puses

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/movies/26docu.html

February 26, 2007
Film’s View of Islam Stirs Anger on Campuses
By KAREN W. ARENSON

When “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” a documentary 
that shows Muslims urging attacks on the United States and Europe, was 
screened recently at the University of California, Los Angeles, it drew 
an audience of more than 300 — and also dozens of protesters.

At Pace University in New York, administrators pressured the Jewish 
student organization Hillel to cancel a showing in November, arguing it 
could spur hate crimes against Muslim students. A Jewish group at the 
State University of New York at Stony Brook also canceled the film last 
semester.

The documentary has become the latest flashpoint in the bitter campus 
debate over the Middle East, not just because of its clips from Arab 
television rarely shown in the West, including scenes of suicide bombers 
being recruited and inducted, but also because of its pro-Israel 
distribution network.

When a Middle East discussion group organized a showing at New York 
University recently, it found that the distributors of “Obsession” were 
requiring those in attendance to register at IsraelActivism.com, and 
that digital pictures of the events be sent to Hasbara Fellowships, a 
group set up to counter anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses.

“If people have to give their names over to Hasbara Fellowships at the 
door, that doesn’t have the effect of stimulating open dialogue,” said 
Jordan J. Dunn, president of the Middle East Dialogue Group of New York 
University, which mixes Jews and Muslims. “Rather, it intimidates people 
and stifles dissent.”

The documentary’s proponents say it provides an unvarnished look at 
Islamic militancy. “It’s an urgent issue that is widely avoided by 
academia,” argued Michael Abdurakhmanov, the Hillel president at Pace.

Its critics call it incendiary. Norah Sarsour, a Palestinian-American 
student at U.C.L.A., said it was disheartening to see “a film like this 
that takes the people who have hijacked the religion and focuses on them.”

Certainly it is a new element in the bitter campus battles over the 
Middle East that have encompassed everything from the content and 
teaching of Middle East studies to disputes over art exhibitions about 
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to debates over free speech.

“The situation in the Middle East has been a major issue on campus for 
decades, but the heat has noticeably turned up lately,” said Greg 
Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in 
Education.

At San Francisco State University, for example, College Republicans 
stomped on copies of the Hamas and Hezbollah flags last October at an 
“antiterrorism” rally. At the University of California, Irvine, the 
Muslim Student Union drew criticism last year for a “Holocaust in the 
Holy Land” program about Israel.

Brandeis University officials pulled an exhibition of Palestinian 
children’s drawings, including some of bloodied Palestinian children, 
designed to bring the Palestinian viewpoint to the campus, half of whose 
students are Jewish.

Three years ago a video produced by a pro-Israeli group featuring Jewish 
students’ complaints of intimidation by Middle East studies professors 
at Columbia set off a campus-wide debate over freedom of speech and 
academic freedom, prompting an investigation that found some fault by 
one professor but “no evidence of any statements made by the faculty 
that could reasonably be construed as anti-Semitic.”

Into this milieu stepped the producer of “Obsession,” Raphael Shore, a 
45-year-old Canadian who lives in Israel, with the documentary. It 
features scenes like the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and 
Muslim children being encouraged to become suicide bombers, interspersed 
with those of Nazi rallies.

The film was directed by Wayne Kopping of South Africa, who had worked 
with Mr. Shore previously on a documentary about the failure of the Oslo 
peace efforts in the Middle East. Mr. Shore said in a recent interview 
that they had not set out to make a film for college students but to 
spur action against Islamic terrorism. “We want to spread this message 
to all people that will stand up and make a difference in combating this 
threat,” he said.

When no traditional film distributors picked it up, he said, colleges 
were an obvious outlet — it was screened on 30 campuses last semester — 
along with DVD sales on the Internet (ObsessionTheMovie.com), and 
showings at synagogues and other locales, including conservative ones 
like the Heritage Foundation in Washington. There were also repeated 
broadcasts of abbreviated versions or excerpts on Fox News in November 
and again this month, and on other media outlets like CNN Headline News.

“College students have the power with their energy, resources, time and 
interest to make a difference, often more than other individuals,” Mr. 
Shore said.

He hired a c

[osint] Seven Muslim nations urge peaceful solution over Iran nuclear program

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Seven Muslim nations urge peaceful solution over Iran nuclear program
Posted: 2007/02/26
From: Source

Ministers from Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey 
and Pakistan warned of a ''dangerous escalation of tension'' over Iran's 
nuclear program and urged to resolve the conflict without resorting to force

International Herald Tribune (AP)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Seven Muslim nations have warned of a "dangerous 
escalation of tension" over Iran's nuclear program and urged that the 
standoff be resolved without resorting to force.

The statement of concern came after ministers from Egypt, Indonesia, 
Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met to seek ways to 
resolve the conflicts involving Iraq and the Palestinians, as well as Iran.

"The ministers viewed with deep concern the dangerous escalation of 
tension especially over the Iranian nuclear issue," Pakistan's Foreign 
Minister Khursheed Kasuri quoted from a joint statement after the meeting.

"It is vital that all issues must be resolved through diplomacy and 
there must be no resort to use of force," he said. "There is need for 
de-escalation instead of aggravation and confrontation in the Gulf region."

The United States and several of its Western allies fear that Iran is 
using its nuclear program to produce an atomic weapon — charges Iran 
denies, saying its aim is to generate electricity.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, while visiting Australia on Saturday, 
criticized Iran's defiance of a U.N. deadline for freezing its uranium 
enrichment programs. Cheney said that while the U.S. seeks a peaceful 
resolution with Iran, "all options" were on the table.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said his country would 
move forward with its disputed nuclear program despite international 
demands that it halt uranium enrichment, comparing Iran's program to a 
train without brakes, state-run radio reported.

Sunday's meeting, also attended by the secretary general of the 
57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, was supposed to lay 
the groundwork for a summit of Muslim leaders in the holy city of Mecca, 
Saudi Arabia. No dates have been announced for that meeting.

While expressing concern that violence in Iraq is a cause for "deep 
distress and anxiety to all Muslims," the ministers urged the Iraqi 
government to work for "national reconciliation" in the strife-torn 
country, Kasuri said.

On Palestine, the ministers urged the international community to give 
financial help to the Palestinians following a power sharing deal last 
month between President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction and the Hamas 
militant group to share power, he said.

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[osint] Imams to debate Sheik's future

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Imams to debate Sheik's future

THE Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) is considering 
whether to strip Sheik Taj al-din al-Hilali of his title as official 
leader of Australia's Muslims.

Ikebal Patel, elected yesterday as president of the AFIC, the nation's 
peak Islamic body, said he would seek direction from the Australian 
National Imams Council, which will meet in April.

Sheik al-Hilali came under fire late last year when he compared 
immodestly dressed women to uncovered meat and suggested they invited 
sexual assault.

The AFIC created the position of mufti of Australia in 1989, but Mr 
Patel said the future of Sheik Hilali rested with the council, which was 
established last November.

The council consists of 77 senior imams from around Australia, including 
Sheik Hilali.

"It's not really a decision for the Australian Federation of Islamic 
Councils per se, but it is something that is going to be looked at by 
the National Board of Imams within months," he said on ABC radio.

"I would be hoping for direction from the Board of Imams who are really 
the authority and scholars in Islam who can make a decision, and we will 
go from there.

"There is a need now to have a Board of Imams, which didn't exist at the 
time when the position of mufti was created, to deliberate on the 
matter, to give it robust debate and come up with some recommendations 
which the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils certainly will take 
into consideration."

Mr Patel said the sheik was "totally out of line" when he compared women 
to uncovered meat.

"Those comments in no way help the situation ... for Australian 
Muslims," he said.

"Any flippant comment by anybody who has got a following or a position, 
of mufti for instance, has to be taken with a lot of responsibility.

"I think Sheik Taj al-din has said things that I would not say, and I 
think he himself realises that the context he has said it in is probably 
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[osint] In Chaotic Gaza, Islamists Firebomb Internet Cafes Over Morals

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In Chaotic Gaza, Islamists Firebomb Internet Cafes Over Morals

By Daniel Williams

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Soon after a firebomb exploded at 3 a.m. and 
destroyed four computers in the Al-Shawa Online Internet Cafe in Gaza, 
owner Alaa al-Shawa clicked onto his e-mail at an undamaged machine.

The first message surprised him: It was from the bombers themselves, 
explaining that establishments such as his were keeping Muslims away 
from prayer and providing pornography. That's why it was hit.

``This just shows how confused these fanatics are,'' said Al-Shawa, 27. 
``Even they use the Internet to circulate their statements, but they 
think everyone else uses it for porno.''

About 45 Internet outlets have been bombed since Dec. 1, according to 
figures from Gaza's Central Police Office. The attacks are occurring 
against a backdrop of intense infighting between Fatah, the main faction 
of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Hamas, the Islamist party 
and militia that has grown into the Palestinians' dominant political 
force. The street clashes have led to general lawlessness in the area.

``Gaza society tends toward conservatism, and some people are suspicious 
of the Internet, but the attacks on Internet cafes come in the context 
of general chaos,'' said Isam Younis, director of Gaza's independent 
Al-Mizan Center for Human Rights. ``Simply, there's an absence of law.''

Claiming Responsibility

A group called the Swords of Islamic Righteousness has claimed 
responsibility for the attacks. In a leaflet distributed at Al-Azhar 
University last month, it said it attacked Internet cafes ``which are 
trying to make a whole generation preoccupied with matters other than 
jihad and worship.''

The group also claimed to have blown up the car of someone who played 
his stereo loudly. ``If people don't listen, we will take further 
steps,'' the leaflet warned.

Police have been unable to find or identify any suspects in the Internet 
attacks. Hamas, which promotes piety as part of its political program, 
denies any links.

In addition to Web establishments, Swords of Islamic Righteousness has 
firebombed pharmacies it suspects of peddling narcotics and recreational 
drugs, police say.

The government-run Palestinian Commission for Citizens' Rights reported 
that 41 Palestinians died in political violence last year in the West 
Bank and Gaza Strip and another 193 in common crime, a 50 percent 
increase over 2005.

The Internet is a means for some 1.4 million residents to break out of 
the isolation of the Gaza Strip, where there is no functioning airport 
or seaport and where crossing the borders into Israel or Egypt is 
subject to tight control.

Damage

The bomb placed above the door at Al-Shawa's store on Dec. 25 broke 
windows and destroyed an air conditioner as well as the computers. The 
damage totaled $4,000, he said. ``The cafe is my only source of 
income,'' said Al-Shawa. ``I reopened, and if they bomb it again, I will 
reopen again.'' He invested $30,000 to start the business in September 
2001, he said.

``My cafe has a good reputation,'' he added. ``I have a filter to block 
out porno.''

On a recent sunny day, a few customers occupied the wooden booths inside 
Al-Shawa's shop. Muhammed Shpeir, a 19-year-old psychology student at 
Azhar University, said he came to the cafe to chat and e-mail friends 
and occasionally do school research. ``I've never traveled outside Gaza, 
so this is the only place I can communicate with people far away,'' he 
said. ``Morocco, Algeria? It's a good way to pass time. I don't think 
there's anything wrong with it.''

Shukri Jubri, 15, a high-school student, noted that there are no cinemas 
or discos in Gaza. ``Except for television, there's not much 
amusement,'' he said. ``Also, I do my homework with Internet help,'' he 
said.

``The funny thing is, people have Internet at home now,'' Al-Shawa said. 
``So what are the bombers going to do? Attack the houses, too? Believe 
me, if anyone is watching porno, it's at home.''

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[osint] Arrested Muslim Leader: No Islam Fundamentalism in Bulgaria

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Arrested Muslim Leader: No Islam Fundamentalism in Bulgaria

25 February 2007, Sunday.

There is no Islam fundamentalism in Bulgaria, the former Sofia mufti Ali 
Hayredin claimed at a press conference on Sunday.

The conference on Islam and fundamentalism was triggered by Hayderin's 
arres earlier in the week on accusation he was the leader of a group 
that incited to radical Islamism and changes in the Bulgarian constitution.

Hayredin claimed the web page, islam-bg.net, for which he works does in 
no way incite to radical Islamism and jihad. If there is such site on 
the Internet, it is now developed, updated and owned by the Muslim 
Brothers Union, whose chairman is Hayredin, he himself added.

"If I was such a dangerous criminal, do you think the court would have 
arrested me for just 72 hours and let me go on a BGN 100 bail," he asked 
rhetorically.

As a conclusion of the conference, Hayderin said he will seek his right 
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[osint] Islam spreading fast among black Americans

http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/26/int10.htm

Islam spreading fast among black Americans

By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA: Islam is growing fast among African Americans, who are 
undeterred by increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States since 
the Sept 11 attacks, according to imams and experts.

Converts within the black community say they are attracted to the 
disciplines of prayer, the emphasis within Islam on submission to God 
and the religion’s affinity with people who are oppressed.

Some blacks are also suspicious of US government warnings about the 
emergence of new enemies since the 2001 attacks because of memories of 
how the establishment demonised civil rights leaders Martin Luther King 
and Malcolm X.

As a result, they are willing to view Islam as a legitimate alternative 
to Christianity, the majority religion among US blacks.

“It is one of the fastest-growing religions in America,” said Lawrence 
Mamiya, professor of religion at Vassar College, speaking of Islam among 
black Americans.

He said there were up to two million black US Muslims but acknowledged 
there are no precise figures.

“It’s not viewed (by authorities) as a threat because the numbers are 
small and once we get past the war on terror and all the negative images 
then it will continue to spread.”

Black Americans typically attend mosques separate from Muslims from 
immigrant backgrounds despite sharing common beliefs, according to 
Aminah McCloud, religious studies professor at DePaul University in Chicago.

But imams in Atlanta, a US centre for black Muslims, said they were 
subjected to less scrutiny than Muslims from the Middle East and Indian 
sub-continent.

RAP BROWN’S MOSQUE: Many blacks converted during the civil rights era, 
when Malcolm X helped popularise the Nation of Islam, attracting boxer 
Mohammad Ali among others. Islam still attracts prominent blacks such as 
rapper Scarface, a recent convert.

But the Nation of Islam has declined as a force at the expense of an 
association of mosques led by Warith Deen Mohammad, the son of Nation of 
Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who died in 1975.At a street-corner mosque 
in one of Atlanta’s oldest and poorest neighbourhoods, a recent Friday 
sermon illustrated the power of the history of Islam in the United 
States for blacks.

Men and women sat separately on the mosque floor, heads covered, as 
cleric Nadim Ali recounted stories from history of Muslim slaves brought 
from Africa who struggled to uphold their faith in the face of 
slaveholders’ opposition.

If Muslims could remain true to Islam under slavery, the audience should 
follow their example, Ali said at the Community Masjid of Atlanta in the 
city’s West End district.

“You are talking about a people who were cut off from their roots  
Islam reconnects you with Africa and with other parts of the world so 
your peoplehood transcends race,” Ali said later in an interview.

The mosque has a direct link to a slice of black history.

It was founded by H. Rap Brown, a one-time member of the 1960s Black 
Panthers group. Brown became a Muslim in prison in the 1970s and changed 
his name to Jamil al-Amin.

He was convicted for killing a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia in March 2000 
and is serving a sentence of life without parole, but in his absence the 
mosque has continued what Ali said was the low-profile work of building 
a local Muslim community.

CONVERSION: The mosque teaches there was no distinction between Sunni 
and Shia within Islam, according to people who attend regularly. Sermons 
urged Muslims to find work, stay free from crime and drugs and maintain 
stable family lives.

Ali said he assumed the mosque was bugged and infiltrated by informers, 
in part because its leaders remained sceptical about US policies since 9/11.

“They (the government) unplug black people and plug in Arabs or Muslims. 
They unplug Arabs and plug in communists.

America needs war to maintain its economic status,” he said.

The larger Masjid of al-Islam mosque in another mainly black 
neighbourhood of Atlanta is part of Warith Deen Muhammad’s group. Its 
imam, Plemon el-Amin, said he was involved with local interfaith work as 
well as with a local Islamic school.

One recent Friday, Mark King, a new convert, and hundreds of others at 
the mosque listened to a preacher urge Muslims to seek God through the 
Holy Quran. Followers of other faiths should seek God through their own 
holy books, the preacher said.

King, who wears his hair in dreadlocks, converted after visiting Africa 
for the first time and in Gambia read the Quran and realised its 
teaching chimed with his own beliefs, not least in fighting injustice.

“For young African Americans, there is some attraction to learning about 
traditions that have been associated with resistance to European 
imperialism,” said King, who has adopted the name Bilal Mansa since his 
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[osint] Muslim girl ejected from tournament for wearing hijab

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/25/hijab-soccer.html?ref=rss


Muslim girl ejected from tournament for wearing hijab
Last Updated: Sunday, February 25, 2007 | 10:12 PM ET
CBC News

Five young teams from across Canada walked out of a Quebec soccer 
tournament Sunday because a young Muslim girl was ejected for wearing a 
hijab.

Calling the rule banning the headscarf worn by Muslim women racist, four 
other teams followed Asmahan Mansour's team, the Nepean Selects from 
Ottawa, after she was thrown out for running afoul of a Quebec Soccer 
Association rule.

"The referee was staring and pointing. 'She can't play,'" said Asmahan, 
Asi to her friends. "I was like why? Why can't I play?"

Because of a safety rule, league spokesman Lyes Arfa said. He pointed 
out that the referee is Muslim himself, and that the ban on hijabs is to 
protect children from being accidentally strangled.

"We have to protect the players on the field, and that's the main point. 
It's not against the Muslims."

And the league had told organizers about the rule — "The wearing of the 
Islamic veil or any other religious item is not permitted" — before the 
game.

Asi's team was aware of the rule, but didn't expect it would be enforced.

So when it was, many players and adults were outraged.

Girls backed up teammate

"I automatically went back to the referee: 'Are you sure this is what 
you wanna do?'" said Louis Maneiro, the Selects' head coach. When 
nothing changed, he said, "I just decided that there's no way that I 
would allow our team to continue, and the girls backed up Asi very 
strongly."

Asi's teammates supported the move. "I felt disgraced, I was crushed, I 
couldn't see Asi like that," said Lisa Furano.

"It's just a piece of material, it can't do any harm," added Alicia 
Stainton.

The Selects left the tournament in good spirits. But they say they won't 
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[osint] European Islam expert says some parts of Sharia applicable in Europe

[Rohe might be brainwahsed, before becoming a lawyer he worked 1978-79 
as a cook in Saudi-Arabia; dm+]

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0702259570145408.htm

European Islam expert says some parts of Sharia applicable in Europe
Brussels, Feb 25, IRNA

EU-Islamic Sharia
Sharia laws have a broad space to follow and certainly parts of Sharia 
are applicable in Europe since it concerns religious norms like praying, 
fasting, building of mosques, according to Professor Dr. Matthias Rohe, 
a judge at the court of appeals in the German city of Nuremberg and an 
expert on Islamic law.

In an interview with IRNA, Rohe said even some legal aspects of Sharia 
are applicable in Europe.

He noted that in two countries in Europe, Bulgaria and Thrace in Greece, 
Muslims are living under Sharia law.

The freedom of religion is granted in all European societies, said Rohe 
who was in Brussels to take part in a conference on multiculturalism.

"We would accept that in other countries there are other set of rules 
which to some extent would contradict our ideas and our rules." "But to 
a certain extent we are ready to accept these kind of differences and 
would apply the norms. When people cross the border, when they come to 
us we wouldn't destroy their family structures even if we wouldn't agree 
to this model because people are already relying on it," said the German 
professor.

He cited a example of mehr agreement in Islamic marriage law which would 
be acceptable under German family law.

Rohe who has worked on Muslim laws in India said there is a pluralistic 
system of personal laws there.

So the Hindus follow their laws, Christian their laws and Muslim their 
own personal law but which is not the European model.

In Europe you have the model of a unique law which creates individual 
regulations.

"We don't separate communities and give them their own personal laws. 
Our approach is to give individual freedom to create legal relations 
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[osint] Moving Kosovo On

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/opinion/26mon3.html

February 26, 2007
Editorial
Moving Kosovo On

Earlier this month, a United Nations envoy, Martti Ahtisaari, presented 
a sensible plan for the future of Kosovo. The small Serbian province has 
been administered by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO went to 
war to defend its ethnic Albanian majority. Mr. Ahtisaari’s proposal 
would effectively grant Kosovo independence, but with strict limits, 
extensive international supervision, and protection for the ethnic Serbs 
and other minorities who live there.

The plan has been attacked by all sides. Kosovo’s Serbs, and their 
allies in Belgrade, say they will never recognize an independent Kosovo. 
Kosovo’s Albanians will accept nothing less.

There are few heroes in this story. Kosovo’s Albanians have failed to 
live up to standards of human rights and democratic governance laid down 
by the U.N. That is why their independence must be conditional. Kosovo’s 
European stewards have repeatedly delayed decisions on independence, 
hoping the Serbs’ anger would cool. It has not. Further delay, we fear, 
will not bring the two sides to a consensus.

The United States and Europe should press the Security Council to 
quickly endorse the Ahtisaari plan. The international community and NATO 
— having invested so much in Kosovo — must continue to stay deeply 
involved. It would not be surprising if, after seven years, interest has 
flagged. But without more outside help, there is little hope for 
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[osint] Mosque bombed after imam outcry

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/25/Worldandnation/Mosque_bombed_after_i.shtml

Mosque bombed after imam outcry

 The blast kills 39 after criticism of militants.

Associated Press
Published February 25, 2007

BAGHDAD - A truck bomb detonated beside a Sunni mosque and public market 
near Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least 39 people and wounding at 
least 62 more a day after the imam there condemned Sunni militants, 
according to Iraqi security authorities.

The blast, which struck during a prayer service in Habbaniyah, a town 
between Fallujah and Ramadi in one of the most dangerous areas of 
Sunni-dominated Anbar province, was unusual in that such bombings are a 
staple of Sunni insurgents. Attacks of that sort are usually directed at 
Iraqi police and soldiers, or at Shiite sites or mixed neighborhoods.

Residents of Habbaniyah said that the mosque's imam had condemned 
al-Qaida militants during Friday prayers, and there was immediate 
speculation that the attack was linked to his sermon.

The bombing was the worst of several attacks in Iraq on Saturday, 
including one that left at least eight Iraqi national policemen dead at 
a checkpoint about two miles south of Baghdad International Airport.

According to the U.S. military, witnesses said as many as 10 insurgents 
rushed to the checkpoint and leaped out of a vehicle, firing assault 
rifles and lobbing grenades at the police.

Two attackers were killed, a military statement said.

In another car bombing, at least three people were killed and nine 
wounded in an attack in Baghdad near the compound of Abdul-Aziz 
al-Hakim, leader of the powerful Shiite party Supreme Council for 
Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Interior Ministry said.

On Friday, U.S. forces detained and then released Hakim's eldest son, 
Amar, after he crossed the border from Iran back into Iraq. The 
detention spurred demonstrations in Basra and the Shiite holy city of 
Najaf, and prompted the U.S. military to issue a statement on Saturday 
calling the episode "unfortunate" but suggesting members of Amar Hakim's 
convoy had provoked the scuffle.

Amar Hakim complained at a news conference in Najaf that U.S. forces had 
physically abused his guards and treated him roughly and disrespectfully.

President Jalal Talabani demanded that U.S. soldiers responsible be held 
accountable.

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[osint] Aziz felicitates new Bosnia and Herzegovina PM

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?170127

Aziz felicitates new Bosnia and Herzegovina PM

Sunday February 25, 2007 (0256 PST)

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has felicitated Nikola Spiric for 
assume the office of Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In a press release issued here Saturday, the Prime Minister has extended 
his felicitations to Nikola Spiric on his assumption of the office of 
the Chairman of the council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Prime Minster has expressed his hope that the existing ties of 
friendship between the two friendly countries would further enhance 
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[osint] Rethinking ‘Islam and the West’

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazarDetay.do?haberno=103850

Rethinking ‘Islam and the West’

To avoid a devastating clash of cultures between Islam and the West we 
have to re-conceptualize the way in which Islam-West relations have been 
formulated. It is not enough to say that the two are not necessarily in 
conflict with each other. New thinking that questions the assumptions 
and propositions of the conventional approach is required. The meeting 
taking place today in Cairo on “Islam, the West and Modernization,” 
organized by the Abant Platform and the Al Ahram Center, promises a new 
beginning in this direction.
Analyzing Islamic communities with a globalization perspective is 
certainly a fruitful enterprise. Challenges that globalization bring 
about touch upon issues of identity, gender relations, democratic 
government, development, etc. They have to be properly debated, 
understood and resolved.
However, the globalist perspective should also be broadened so as to 
“rethink” “Islam and the West.” We usually take it for granted that the 
basic parameters of this relationship were defined a century ago when 
the West dominated the Islamic world. It is therefore widely assumed 
that the relationship between the two is one of Western domination and 
the subordination of the Islamic world. That is to say, an arrogant and 
unfair Western superiority and rightful resistance and rebellion of 
Islam. Such a description no longer fits the reality. Globalization, 
while empowering the weak with unconventional means of power, made the 
powerful ever more vulnerable.
The first step in rethinking Islam-West relations is to recognize the 
fact that each side is equally vulnerable and capable of inflicting 
significant damage on the other side in case of open and violent 
confrontation. Not only are the lots of Islamic communities fragile but 
the West’s too. There is no civilization, in this age of globalization, 
that is capable of crashing the other without harming or even destroying 
itself. Yes, it is a new global balance of terror… This is so because 
the economies of nations have become interdependent and societies have 
turned out to be interpenetrated. Splitting one cultural-civilizational 
element from the other in any given political unit is virtually 
impossible without destroying social and political peace.
Thus, an understanding that “cultural purity” is achievable and 
sustainable is a great fallacy. We had better see that we all live in a 
world where there may still be distinct civilizations, yet these 
civilizations are equally vulnerable and at the same time capable.
Can Islam be confronted violently as part of a clash of civilizations -- 
in France with 6 million Muslims, or in Germany with 4 million Muslims, 
or in Britain with 1.5 million Muslims -- without destroying democracy 
and welfare in these countries. What about Europe as a whole where 120 
million Muslims live when Russia and Turkey are included?
There is no Islam and the West; but Islam in the West and the West in 
Islamic communities worldwide. While the West should understand its 
vulnerabilities, the Islamic world had better realize its capabilities. 
If only they both saw they were equally fragile and powerful then we 
would take the first step in eliminating the annihilating danger of a 
clash of civilizations.
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[osint] PM underlines need to adopt holistic approach to meet challenges within Muslim Ummah

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PM underlines need to adopt holistic approach to meet challenges within 
Muslim Ummah

Monday February 26, 2007 (0934 PST)

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has emphasized the need to adopt 
a holistic approach to meet the challenges within the Muslim Ummah as 
well as the external factors that confront the Islamic World.

The Prime Minister was talking to OIC Secretary General Prof. Ekmeleddin 
Ihsanoglu and the OIC Foreign Ministers who called on him here on Sunday.

The Prime Minister said the deteriorating security situation in Middle 
East demands solidarity among Muslim States and a fresh initiative is 
needed to solve the festering disputes. The Prime Minister said 
unanimity of views among Islamic World will help an early resolution of 
festering disputes in Middle East.

He said the initiative taken by President General Pervez Musharraf and 
today's conference will lay the foundation for strengthening of peace 
process in Middle East. It is the first step towards a long journey for 
the solution of conflicts in Middle East and we are encouraged by the 
fact that His Majesty King Abdullah has agreed to convene a summit 
meeting of a core group of Muslim countries.

The Prime Minister emphasized the need to solve the long-standing issues 
through dialogue and understanding as the present situation fallowed to 
continue would have disastrous consequences for the region and the world.

The Prime Minister said efforts should be made to fight terrorism and 
extremism and to promote harmony among different cultures, faiths and 
civilizations.

The OIC Foreign Ministers and OIC Secretary General discussed situation 
in Middle East with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. They welcomed and 
supported the initiative by President General Pervez Musharraf for the 
solution of issues in Middle East and said the initiative will 
strengthen the Middle East peace process and will lay the foundation of 
durable peace there.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister 
of Turkey Mr. Abdullah Gul, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Prince Saud 
Al Faisal, Foreign Minister of Egypt, Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheti, Foreign 
Minister of Malaysia Mr. Dato Syed Hamid Al-Bar, Foreign Minister of 
Indonesia Dr. N. Hassan Wirajuda, Foreign Minister of Jordan Mr. Abdul 
Elah Al Khateeb. From the Pakistan side Federal Minister for Foreign 
Affairs Mr.Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri, Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister 
on Foreign Affairs Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Minister for Information 
and Broadcasting Mr. Muhammad Ali Durrani, Minister of State for 
Information and Broadcasting Mr. Tariq Azeem, Minister of State for 
Foreign Affairs Khusro Bakhtiar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister 
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[osint] Serbia faces judgment day on Bosnia

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20070225-104925-9487r.htm

Serbia faces judgment day on Bosnia

By Arthur Max
ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 26, 2007

THE HAGUE -- In one of the most momentous cases in its 60 years, the 
United Nations' highest court will deliver its judgment today on 
Bosnia's demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, 
terrorizing, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.
 If it rules for Bosnia, the International Court of Justice could 
open the way for compensation amounting to billions of dollars from 
Serbia, the successor state of Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. Specific 
claims would be addressed later.
 Such a ruling also would be a permanent stain on Serbia in the eyes 
of history, regardless of any effort by Belgrade to distance itself from 
the brutality of those years.
 Reflecting the complexities, the 16 judges have deliberated for 10 
months since hearing final arguments. Officials at the World Court, as 
it is informally known, say that reading out the summary of the judgment 
is likely to take three hours.
 The court was created after World War II to adjudicate disputes 
among U.N. members, most often over borders or treaty violations. Its 
decisions are binding, without appeal and enforceable by the Security 
Council.
 The Bosnia case touches deep nationalist chords and arouses strong 
emotions. Among survivors expected to stand vigil outside the baroque 
Peace Palace while the decision is read are women from Srebrenica, where 
about 8,000 men were killed in July 1995.
 Bosnia first approached the court 14 years ago, during the chaos of 
Yugoslavia's bloody disintegration. The political landscape has since 
changed dramatically, with both Bosnia and Serbia separately seeking 
membership in the European Union.
 "This will be a very significant judgment, both from the 
perspective of the aftermath of the conflict and for international law 
generally," said Andre Nollkaemper, director of the Amsterdam Center for 
International Law at the University of Amsterdam.
 Other courts already have ruled that acts of genocide occurred 
during the Bosnian war, when more than 100,000 people were killed in a 
Bosnian Serbian campaign that gave the world the phrase "ethnic cleansing."
 Two Bosnian Serbian officers have been convicted by the 
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Gen. Radislav 
Krstic is serving a 35-year prison term for aiding and abetting 
genocide, and Col. Vidoje Blagojevic is appealing his 18-year sentence 
for complicity in genocide. Mr. Milosevic died last year in his prison 
cell in the final weeks of his four-year-long genocide trial.
 The World Court case, entirely separate from the tribunal's 
deliberations, is not about people. Bosnia says the Serbian state must 
accept blame.
 It argues that Serbia's nationalist ideology incited genocidal 
hatred, its financial and military aid to the Bosnian Serbs gave them 
the tools for genocide, and Yugoslav army officers actively participated 
in driving out Muslims.
 Serbia says it's not that simple. Genocide, by definition, requires 
the clear intent to wipe out an ethnic or racial group, in whole or in 
part, in specific territories. Serbia says it never waged such a 
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[osint] Nation of Islam at a Crossroad as Leader Exits

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Nation of Islam at a Crossroad as Leader Exits

DETROIT, Feb. 25 — Louis Farrakhan, the departing leader of the Nation 
of Islam, gave what was billed as his last major public address here on 
Sunday, with his extended illness throwing into sharp focus the question 
of whether the group will shift toward more mainstream Islamic teachings 
to survive once it loses its central charismatic figure.

  Mr. Farrakhan, 73, looking fairly robust for a man who emerged from 
major surgery six weeks ago, spent most of his two-hour address 
denouncing the war in Iraq and calling for the impeachment of President 
Bush.

“If you don’t want to impeach him,” Mr. Farrakhan said, “censure him, 
say to the world something went wrong with our leadership and we repent 
after our wrongdoing.”

He also made an appeal for religious unity in the address before 
thousands at Ford Field, home to the Detroit Lions football team, 
capping an annual convention of Nation of Islam members.

It was his first major speech since August, when health problems forced 
him to turn over control of the Nation of Islam to an executive 
committee. His health problems stemmed from radiation seeds implanted a 
decade ago to combat prostate cancer, said Ishmael Muhammad, the 
organization’s national assistant minister. The treatment obliterated 
the cancer but also damaged nearby organs.

Given his age and health problems, and the lack of an obvious successor, 
questions loom large about the future and direction of the Nation of Islam.

Nation members dismiss the notion that the organization’s viability is 
linked to one man. But academic experts and Muslim leaders say they 
believe that without Mr. Farrakhan’s leadership, the Nation — which has 
been divided over its teachings in the past — will shrink even more 
dramatically unless it shifts toward mainstream Islam’s beliefs.

The 77-year-old Nation of Islam once enjoyed a near monopoly over 
interpreting Islam for black Americans, using the faith as a vehicle to 
promote black separatism.

But it now competes with sects that branched away, and with groups 
ascribing to the more traditional and inclusive Islam followed by 
millions of Muslim immigrants and their offspring.

Along with a significant bloc of former Nation members, many of these 
Muslim branches oppose crucial aspects of the organization’s beliefs, 
which some consider blasphemy.

Leadership changes have altered the Nation’s direction in the past. 
Elijah Muhammad, the organization’s leader for more than 40 years until 
his death in 1975, was succeeded by one of his sons, Warith Deen, who 
broke with his father over the issue of Islamic orthodoxy (and changed 
his last name to Mohammed). Following Warith Deen Mohammed, this branch 
embraced diversity and traditional Sunni Islam’s teachings on unity.

Although members of his branch and Mr. Farrakhan’s now profess to 
respect each other and display less public animosity than in the early 
days of their split, they still spar over their beliefs.

Imam Muhammad Siddeeq, an Indianapolis cleric and senior aide to Mr. 
Mohammed, said that for the Nation of Islam to survive, it must turn 
more toward mainstream Islam.

“In the final analysis they have no option but to move in the direction 
we are or to just dissipate or disappear,” Mr. Siddeeq said. “This 
community is going to reconcile itself to pure Islam and reconcile 
itself to being American citizens who are part of a multicultural society.”

He echoes many others in arguing that the Nation should abandon some of 
its teachings. The Nation holds, among other teachings, that the group’s 
founder, W. Fard Muhammad, was the Mahdi, or savior, sent by God to 
Detroit around 1930 and that spaceships hovering above the earth will 
eventually play a major role in smiting sinners and rescuing the righteous.

“Those are ideas for kindergarten, a trip to Oz,” Mr. Siddeeq said. 
“Those are not ideas for people living in the real world.”

Ishmael Muhammad, 42, the Nation’s national assistant minister, who said 
he was among the youngest of Elijah Muhammad’s 21 children, said the 
Nation’s message of social reform still resonated, especially its call 
for black economic empowerment.

“There are a few black politicians and a few millionaires and a couple 
billionaires, but the fact is that our people are dying,” he said in an 
interview. “Our struggle to integrate and be accepted has left the 
masses behind.”
Ishmael Muhammad has sometimes been named as a possible successor to Mr. 
Farrakhan, as have a couple of Mr. Farrakhan’s sons, but none of them 
enjoy the same wide following as the departing leader.

But Ishmael Muhammad responds that the era of charismatic leaders is 
over — that one main goal of the Nation is teaching people to be 
self-sufficient, particularly in their relationship to God.

Despite his frail health, Mr. Farrakhan on Sunday demonstrated the same 
passio

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