[osint] Al-Qaeda number two warns West it faces thousands of dead, economic collapse

2005-02-20 Thread Bruce Tefft
Al-Qaeda number two warns West it faces thousands of dead, economic collapse DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri warned the West it faced defeat in what he termed its "new crusade" against the Islamic world, as well as thousands of dead and economic collapse, in a vid

[osint] Al Jazeera airs new videotape by Ayman Zawahiri

2005-02-20 Thread Bruce Tefft
With thanks to: www.homelandsecurityus.com and www.lauramansfield.com for the translation -Bruce Al Jazeera airs new videotape by Ayman Zawahiri Earlier today, Al Jazeera aired a one minute, 33 second excerpt from a longer video tape containing a message from Al Qaeda second in command

[osint] Syria planned Hariri murder

2005-02-20 Thread Bruce Tefft
Report: Syria planned Hariri murder http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer &cid=1108696749523&p=1101615860782 _ JPost Staff and AP, THE JERU

[osint] Jordan's king: attack that killed former Lebanese PM too sophisticated to be work of terrorists

2005-02-20 Thread Bruce Tefft
His reasoning is wrong.it is not too sophisticated to be work of terrorists, but Jordan clearly thinks the Syrians/Iranians are behind it. (AP) Jordan's king: attack that killed former Lebanese PM too sophisticated to be work of terrorists MADRID, Spain The bombing that killed former Lebanese

[osint] Former Spy Master Was Murdered by Paris Gang: Monthly Chosun

2005-02-20 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200502/200502180005.html Former Spy Master Was Murdered by Paris Gang: Monthly Chosun Updated Feb.18,2005 09:28 KST Missing former KCIA Director Kim Hyung-wook was murdered in Paris in 1979 by a local crime syndicate at the orders of a KCIA operativ

[osint] nuke sale murder trail

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Kerjman
AP Exclusive: Ukrainian Probe Into Illicit Weapons Sales to Iran and China Led to Secret Indictments, Arrests By Aleksandar Vasovic Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 4, 2005 KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - A government probe into lucrative illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former Presid

[osint] What's US policy on Europe? No giggling

2005-02-20 Thread R.A. Hettinga
The Telegraph 02/2005) Two years ago, I wrote that America and Europe were now engaged in a new Cold War. And just like the old Cold

[osint] INDIA: CPI warning on Bangladesh design

2005-02-20 Thread Dak Bangla
+ Accusing the CIA of being the originator of the design, Gogoi recalled that it had put into operation its secret mission codenamed 'Operation Brahmaputra', to destabilize the North-east, which has immense strategic importance due to its geographical location and natural resources. Gogoi said, Am

[osint] ASSESSMENT:Threat of Civil War grows in Pakistan province

2005-02-20 Thread Dak Bangla
+ In the vast jumble of rocky deserts and mountains that dominate southwestern Pakistan, "the Baluch people are ready for a war," said Mohammed Din, an unemployed Bugti tribesman who kept an eye on an outpost of Pakistani troops here last week.Diplomats and scholars in this country agree: Presiden

[osint] INDIA:The politics of region

2005-02-20 Thread Dak Bangla
+South Asia has not forgotten that India bifurcated Pakistan and a few years later annexed the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim. Good Indians may be astonished, but many outsiders see India if not as an expansionist power, then as a nation that does not allow scruples to stand in the way of serving wha

[osint] BANGLADESH: Catch Bomb-Throwers Now

2005-02-20 Thread Dak Bangla
+ When the government has to hide truth, it needs both scapegoats and sacrificial goats. Even a couple of cabinet secretaries, one of whom was so close to the power, had to be sacrificed on the altar of lies. And the ASP is not the only man to embrace such an ignominious fate, at least one of his

[osint] ISLAM: What would you rather be: Ethnic Minority, Gentile or Dhimmi?

2005-02-20 Thread Dak Bangla
+ If anything it is the Muslims that have always shown the greatest degree of tolerance. Consider the following example the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Africa and the Middle East are in far better position than the Muslim minorities in India. You cannot find the equivalen

[osint] BANGLADESH: Anup Chetia extradition - Two govts may discuss it if there is official request

2005-02-20 Thread Dak Bangla
+ A highly placed source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka told The New Nation last night that India sought extradition of Anup Chetia since his arrest in December 1997 when the Awami League was in power. The matter might be discussed between the two countries if official communication w