[osint] Arab media coverage of Catholic leader's death infuriates Islamists

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id= 13966 Arab media coverage of Catholic leader's death infuriates Islamists By Agence France Presse (AFP) Monday, April 04, 2005 DUBAI: The Arab world's leading satellite television channels have been giving unprecede

[osint] SAUDI ARABIA: Four Islamist Insurgents Killed in Fierce Gunbattle in al-Qasim

Saudi raid turns into deadly firefight Monday 04 April 2005, 1:40 Makka Time, 22:40 GMT Saudi security forces have exchanged fire with members of an armed group they had attempted to arrest, resulting in at least four deaths and many more wounded. Aljazeera has learned that at least one Saudi

[osint] Border Group Reports Illegal Immigrants

Story location: http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking &storyId=1013625&tw=wn_wire_story Border Group Reports Illegal Immigrants AP logoMonday, April 04, 2005 4:

[osint] Technology Transfers Help Further Repression

The Wall Street Journal April 4, 2005 COMMENTARY Technology Transfers Help Further Repression By FRED ARMENTROUT April 4, 2005 Those advocating the lifting of the arms embargo that was imposed on China after the 1989

[osint] The Philosopher-Pope

The Wall Street Journal April 4, 2005 COMMENTARY The Philosopher-Pope By PAUL JOHNSON April 4, 2005; Page A14 LONDON -- The death of John Paul II removes from the world a great force for order and rectitude. He was o

[osint] Mourning and Remembrance

The Wall Street Journal April 4, 2005 COMMENTARY Mourning and Remembrance By GEORGE WEIGEL April 4, 2005; Page A14 He once described his high-school years as a time in which he was "completely absorbed" by a passion f

[osint] The Second Coming of Franco

The Wall Street Journal April 4, 2005 COMMENTARY The Second Coming of Franco By MATTHEW KAMINSKI April 4, 2005 MADRID -- In the middle of the night, veteran politicians are disappearing without a trace across Spain. A

[osint] A Man for All Seasons

The Wall Street Journal April 4, 2005 REVIEW & OUTLOOK A Man for All Seasons April 4, 2005; Page A14 When the white smoke curled up from the Sistine Chapel on that October evening back in 1978, it signaled that a new po

[osint] Suspects die in Saudi shoot-out

[Excerpt: The province of Qassim is one of the most religiously conservative areas in the kingdom...The shoot-out began early on Sunday and gunfire and grenade explosions could still be heard on Monday morning, according to witnesses.] http://212.58.240.132/1/hi/world/middle_east/4407351.stm Las

[osint] Yushchenko discusses challenges ahead

MSNBC.com Yushchenko discusses challenges ahead Confirms missile sales to Iran, says health improving By Preston Mendenhall Correspondent NBC News Updated: 11:34 a.m. ET April 4, 2005 KIEV, Ukraine - Ahead of his first visit to the U

[osint] High-tech passports coming; complaints already in

USA Today * High-tech passports coming; complaints already in By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The dark blue cover will look the same, but U.S. passports are getting a high-tech makeover this year. Blue-jacketed tourist passpo

[osint] Islamic Hypocrisies

Islamic Hypocrisies By: Vernon Richards , author of Islam Undressed  America is hated in large parts of the Middle East and Asia, but the more educated and affluent Muslims usually wear Levi jeans while shouting 'dea

[osint] Terrorism Case Puts Words of Muslim Leader On Trial in Va.

Terrorism, and the advocacy thereof, is not a First Amendment issue...or even a Constitution issue. If the government wins this case they could, and should, shut down at least the 80% of the mosques in the US that are bin-Laden Wahabbists. -Bruce Washington Post April 4, 2005 Terrorism Case Pu

[osint] French opposition to EU treaty intensifies

Good. Bruce French opposition to EU treaty intensifies By John Lichfield in Paris 04 April 2005 The Independent Hostility to the European Union constitution is hardening in France, despite increasingly desperate attempts by government and opposition leaders to rescue the collaps

[osint] Madrid rejects Eta's offer of talks

Only negotiations possible with terrorists are their terms of surrender.and even then, maybe not. -Bruce Madrid rejects Eta's offer of talks By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid 04 April 2005 The Independent As Basques prepare for regional elections in a fortnight, Eta separatists seized t

[osint] Some Help for Jack Nargundkar (was Re: OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today - April 4, 2005)

At 12:04 PM -0400 4/4/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >Some Help for Jack Nargundkar >http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/opinion/l01schiavo.html > >Jack Nargundkar of Germantown, Md., is confused, as he made clear in a >letter to the editor of the New York Times the other day (third letter): > >*** QUOTE

[osint] Samurai swordsman kills woman, hacks man's hand off

Double-tap to the head would have taken care of this problem.if everyone in the church wasn't unarmed.(or un-handed). In any event, he was no "Samurai swordsman" but a Darwinian reject with a samurai sword. -Bruce Samurai swordsman kills woman, hacks man's hand off April 4, 2005 - 1

[osint] Gun Battle in al Ras, Saudi Arabia

Gun battles continue in Saudi Arabia by Sunday 03 April 2005 8:36 AM GMT Saudi security forces have killed eight insurgents in an ongoing siege in the northern town of al-Ras, according to security sources. Aljazeera said clashes were still going on as insurgents hurled grenades at police f

[osint] Saudi analysts say insurgency still alive

[Excerpt: Al-Faqih said the insurgents have changed their focus from attacking foreigners and security forces to attacking oil installations and the royal family itself"The fact that there have been extensive security checks all over Saudi Arabia in recent weeks means that the regime definitel

[osint] Egypt students hold anti-Mubarak rally

[Excerpt: The Save Egypt Front demands Mubarak's impeachment and says an interim presidential council of the country's four top judges should oversee the writing of a new constitution that limits the president's power and gives parliament more authority Asked how realistic their goals were, Sa

[osint] Japan women get own subway cars

[Excerpt: A police report in February said groping on Tokyo trains had tripled over the past eight years. It urged rail firms to set up more women-only cars. ] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C624B9D1-7435-4EF5-A611-FF2B39A04B4F.htm Japan women get own subway cars Monday 04 April 2005, 9

[osint] Prisoners riot at US-run camp in southern Iraq: ICRC

[Excerpt: "There was a riot at Camp Bucca on April 1. An ICRC delegation was there that day on one of its regular prisoner visits and it is now following up the situation," said Christophe Beney, the head of the ICRC's Baghdad delegation."There have been no reports of mistreatment of detainees

[osint] Iraq Prison Clash Leaves 16 Wounded

[Excerpt: Friday's protest at Camp Bucca - which holds about 6,000 prisoners, nearly two-thirds of all those in Iraq - caused only minor injuries before being brought under control, authorities said. It was the third major incident at an Iraqi prison in three days.] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s

[osint] Police held over Brazil killings

[Excerpt: The attacks began in Nova Iguacu, when gunmen fired on a crowd at a street-corner bar, in what Brazilian media describe as a drive-by shootingFifteen people were found dead in and around the bar and three more victims died of their injuries in the hospital on Friday.] http://212.58.

[osint] Abu Ghraib Probe Suggests CIA Role in Iraqi Deaths

[Excerpt: But sworn statements provided to Army investigators by military intelligence and police at Abu Ghraib contain at least four references to CIA detainees dying during interrogations that do not correspond with the al-Jamadi case.] http://64.94.180.107/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyI

[osint] TSA's Pro-Bin Laden Screener

Muslims in sensitive positions...some people are too dumb to learn. Bruce April 1, 2005 http://www.debbieschlussel.com TSA's Islamic, America-Hating Screener By Debbie Schlussel = Feel Unsafe, Very Unsafe: TSA's Islamic, America-Hating Screener Ap

[osint] Mohammed Atta and his federal loan officer

Mark Steyn -- Mohammed Atta and his federal loan officer National Post (Toronto) June 10, 2002 Mohammed Atta and his federal loan officer No matter how dumb he was, officialdom was always dumber When last in this space, 10 days ago, I was writing about whether political correctness kills

[osint] Curveball and US Intelligence

>From the UK: "The Americans never had direct access to Curveball - he was controlled by the German intelligence services who passed his reports on to the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's spy agency." US relied on 'drunken liar' to justify war 'Crazy' Iraqi spy was full of misi

[osint] Thais fear bomb unrest may spread

[Excerpt: Britain and the United States have also warned their citizens against travelling to the region as there was a "high threat from terrorism throughout Thailand, particularly in the four southern provinces."..."The far south of Thailand has recently experienced increasingly serious and freq

[osint] Military court upholds guilty verdict on nine convicted terrorist

Military court upholds guilty verdict on nine convicted terror conspirators By JAMAL HALABY Associated Press Writer AMMAN, Jordan Jordan's military court upheld its guilty verdict Monday for nine militants convicted in a bungled terror conspiracy that involved attacking Americans and Israelis usin

[osint] French flag tribute to Pope sparks left-wing anger

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005040414340002831097&dt=2 0050404143400&w=RTR&coview= French flag tribute to Pope sparks left-wing anger PARIS, April 4 (Reuters) - As Catholics mourned the death of Pope John Paul, French leftwingers and a major teaching union criticised the