[osint] Hamas Leader: Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza or Israel's Right to Exist?

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD108306 Hamas Leader: Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza or Israel's Right to Exist? Special Dispatch - Palestinian Authority February 1, 2006 No. 1083 Hamas Leader Mahmoud Zahar on Al-Manar TV: Palestine Means Palestine in its Entirety - From the

[osint] NSA spying: Why is there confusion?

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0206/0206nsa.htm NSA spying: Why is there confusion? By Jim Kouri web posted January 30, 2006 The President possesses broad constitutional powers to take military action in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11,

[osint] Atomic Agency Sees Possible Link of Military to Iran Nuclear Work

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
Atomic Agency Sees Possible Link of Military to Iran Nuclear Work By http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylLv1=ELAINE%20SCIOLINOfdq=19 960101td=sysdatesort=newestac=ELAINE%20SCIOLINOinline=nyt-per ELAINE SCIOLINO and

[osint] Germany: Federal Intelligence Service to have made Osthoff release difficult

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.germnews.de/archive/dn/2006/01/30.html#12 Federal Intelligence Service to have made Osthoff release difficult Agents of the Federal Intelligence Service are accused to have hampered negotiations on the release of Susanne Osthoff in Iraq. Two Agents of the Federal Intelligence

[osint] Palestinians Debate Shades of Islamic Law

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
Taliban on the West Bank. Bruce Palestinians Debate Shades of Islamic Law By http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylLv1=IAN%20FISHERfdq=1996010 1td=sysdatesort=newestac=IAN%20FISHERinline=nyt-per IAN FISHER New York Times February 01, 2006 Rina Castelnuovo for The New York

[osint] Basij - The Revolutionary People's Militia of Iran

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
Basij - The Revolutionary People's Militia of Iran By Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh* Introduction Iran's annual Basij Week, initiated 27 years ago by Islamic Revolution founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was celebrated November 26- December 1, 2006. The Basij (Persian for mobilized), which is

[osint] Fight the bullies of Islam

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/02/01/184653.ht ml http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/02/01/184653.htm l COLUMNS Fight the bullies of Islam Feb 1, 2006 by Michelle Malkin Something very important is happening in Denmark -- a showdown

[osint] Gulf States Join Call for Tougher Action Toward Tehran

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
Gulf States Join Call for Tougher Action Toward Tehran By HASSAN M. FATTAH New York Times February 01, 2006 DUBAI, Jan. 31 - After years of hesitating, Persian Gulf states are joining the call for tougher action on

[osint] DMV workers, outsiders charged in fake driver's license scheme

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
DMV workers, outsiders charged in fake driver's license scheme By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot C February 1, 2006 NORFOLK - Three Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles employees were arrested Tuesday on charges of selling phony driver's licenses across the counter to customers for

[osint] Information warfare: The need to know your enemy

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://appserv.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2 http://appserv.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2 story.id=38107 story.id=38107 Information warfare: The need to know your enemy 01/26/06 By William Jackson, GCN Staff

[osint] FRANCE: Enough lessons from reactionary bigots [Muslims]

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
They Can't Bomb Us All http://www.eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/931/They_Can't_Bomb_Us_All.html By EURSOC Two 01 February, 2006 France Soir http://francesoir.quotidiano.net/ has become the first newspaper outside Denmark and Norway to show solidarity with Denmark's Jyylands-Posten

[osint] Telling the Difference Between Hamas and Shinola

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=020106C Telling the Difference Between Hamas and Shinola javascript:; http://www.tcsdaily.com/images/clear.gif http://www.tcsdaily.com/images/clear.gif By Ralph Kinney Bennett : 01 Feb 2006

[osint] Islamic Tactics: Threaten One, Intimidate a Million

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,druck-398532,00.html SPIEGEL ONLINE - February 1, 2006, 03:55 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,398532,00.html OPINION Threaten One, Intimidate a Million By Henryk M. Broder A couple of simple caricatures printed in a

[osint] DENMARK: Punishing Denmark, the wrong enemy [3 rants]

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
Feb 2, 2006 Punishing Denmark, the wrong enemy By Ramzy Baroud [From: Asia Times Online] Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting the Prophet Mohammed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no

[osint] US Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
The persistent use of stop-loss underscores the fact that the war-fighting burden is being carried by a handful of soldiers while the vast majority of citizens incur no sacrifice at all. When you sign up for the military, you're saying, 'I'll give you, say, six years and then after six years I get

[osint] Coalition Faces More Frequent, Sophisticated Military Operations

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
These big operations, the attack on the police commando compound and Abu Ghraib, some rock star put those together, said Lt. Col. Shawn Weed, an intelligence officer with the 3rd ID. Those were complex, professional-style attacks, militarily thought out, planned and resourced operations. The

[osint] Dormant al-Qaida cells exist

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060201-122912-3646r Intl. Intelligence Dormant al-Qaida cells exist in S. Arabia RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdel Aziz said dormant al-Qaida cells exist in Saudi Arabia, but police have aborted

[osint] Aerial IEDs Show Adaptive, Resilient Enemy

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
While there appears to be some debate within the military on the nature of this threat (Defense News, Jan. 16 issue), the use of aerial IEDs can provide several insights into the organization and nature of the enemy...this tactic shows that insurgent forces in Iraq are able to mount complex

[osint] Arabs and Muslims Must Choose between Western Civilzation and Middle Ages

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.freemuslims.org/document.php?id=68 Arabs and Muslims Must Choose between Western Civilzation and Middle Ages Libyan Intellectual Dr. Muhammad Al-Houni: The Arabs Must Choose Between Western Civilization and the Legacy of the Middle Ages The attacks of September 11, 2001 have

[osint] Wounded piece of the union

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
This is the state of our wounded piece of the union: fragile http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-2/113869101379000.xml Wounded piece of the union Tuesday, January 31, 2006 The State of the Union address is a moment for presidents to make Americans feel good about the

[osint] Islam as terrorism

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/waronterror_openletter.html Terrorism is a tactic, not a foe. To declare war on terror is akin to saying that World War II should have been fought to rid the world of naval armadas and blitzkrieg. If we had focused our energies on killing every kamikaze

[osint] Tehran takes steps to protect nuclear facilities

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
Iran has been pursuing a clandestine programme in co-operation with North Korea, estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, to construct a network of underground tunnels to conceal and protect its military nuclear programme.

[osint] A Liberal Arab Columnist on the Sources of Arab Antisemitism

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archivesArea=sdID=SP31401 Area=sdID=SP31401 December 14, 2001No.314 http://memri.org/images/bgmaroon.gif A Liberal Arab Columnist on the Sources of Arab Antisemitism Hazem Saghiyah, a

[osint] Have terrorists hijacked Islam?

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/waronterror_openletter.html Muslims, like Communists, do not honor treaties. The Qur'an says that any treaty between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is not binding on the Muslim. Muhammad used this tactic when he had too insufficient a force to invade and

[osint] What Mohammed said about terrorism

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/quotes1.html#terrorism Bukhari:V4B52N220 Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been made victorious with terror.' Qur'an 8:12 I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle. Qur'an 8:57 If you gain

[osint] French and German papers run Danish Islam cartoons

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNewsstoryID=2006-0 2-01T172158Z_01_L01441468_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-DENMARK-FRANCE.xml French and German papers run Danish Islam cartoons Wed Feb 1, 2006 12:22 PM ET By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - Newspapers in France and Germany

[osint] ''Condoleezza Rice Completes Washington's Geostrategic Shift''

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
Wrapped in the language of the Bush administration's campaign to encourage democracy around the world and explained under the rubric of transformational diplomacy, Rice laid out plans to reposition diplomatic resources from Europe and Washington to emerging power centers in Asia, Africa, South

[osint] Factbox: Islam and blasphemy in the arts

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNewsstoryID=2006-0 2-01T172151Z_01_L01426579_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xmlrelated=true FACTBOX: Islam and blasphemy in the arts Wed Feb 1, 2006 12:22 PM ET (Reuters) - A French newspaper reprinted on Wednesday a series of 12 Danish newspaper

[osint] Shamil Basayev: 'Nalchik attacked by 217 Mujahideen'

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2005/10/17/4156.shtml Shamil Basayev: 'Nalchik attacked by 217 Mujahideen' Kavkaz Center agency has received via email a statement from Military Amir Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris (Shamil Basayev) on results of assault operation in Nalchik on 13

[osint] ISLAM: The faith that makes the terrorist tick

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
* The real import of Habeck's book is its suggestion that because the jihadis really believe what they say they do - and act on it - studying their texts and comments could yield the effective anti-terrorism that so far has eluded George W. Bush's administration. _

[osint] The Cure for the Wahhabi Virus

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=19853 The Cure for the Wahhabi Virus By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com | October 17, 2005 The West is gearing up to stop the much-feared pandemic of Avian flu at its sources. Two decades ago, it should

[osint] February 1, 2006: Islam and Cartoon Physics

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
February 1, 2006: Islam and Cartoon Physics by Laura Mansfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who have appointed themselves as protectors of the good name of Islam have gone too far once again with the outcry over the cartoons published in the Danish newspaper. But all of the uproar is

[osint] Good News: Terror group leader in Algeria: dead.

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
Islamist group says leader died in Algeria http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68art_id=qw1138776840421A426s et_id art_id=qw1138776840421A426set_id= February 01 2006 at 09:21AM Paris - A radical Algerian Islamist

[political-research] Bloglines - Rush: quot;Osama Is Irrelevantquot;

2006-02-01 Thread smcbride2
Bloglines user SeanMcBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent this item to you. Crooks and Liars John Amato's new On-Line, Virtual Magazine. C is averaging more than 135,000 hits a day via Blogads. Rush: Osama Is Irrelevant Rush: "Osama Is Irrelevant" Listen to

[osint] Iranian President Answers Bush: Superpowers Made of Straw are Behind All Wars

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9P1=1019 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Bushehr Responds to President Bush: Superpowers Made of Straw are Behind All Wars and Conspiracies in the World Special Dispatch - Iran February 2, 2006 No. 1084 The following are excerpts from a speech by

[osint] How suicide bombers work on periphery of terrorist networks

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/how_suicide_bombers_work_on_periphery_of_ter rorist_networks_9913 http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/how_suicide_bombers_work_on_periphery_of_terr orist_networks_9913 How suicide bombers work on periphery of terrorist networks Submitted by BJS on Tue,

[osint] Muslims in Europe

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Tefft
French language original, below. http://www.lexpress.fr/info/monde/dossier/islamisme/dossier.asp?ida=436712 Inquiry into the rise of Islam in Europe by Eric Conan, Christian Makarian Between immigration and conversions, the Islamic religion makes more and more followers on the Old

[osint] EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against ATT for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
The lawsuit alleges that ATT Corp. has opened its key telecommunications facilities and databases to direct access by the NSA and/or other government agencies, thereby disclosing to the government the contents of its customers' communications as well as detailed communications records about

[osint] Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
...the security of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked. As the programme reports here, the passport was read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws built into the system, whereupon all of the biometric data could be read. The crack is attributed to Delft smartcard

[osint] Katrina’s Paper Trail

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
# A unified national homeland security planning structure does not exist. # The National Response Plan did not function as planned. # The bureaucratic process delayed the Federal response. # NORTHCOM [the U.S. military command covering the continental USA] was not fully aware of its deployed

[osint] 'Textbook' rescue saves 72 Canadian miners

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
Seventy-two Canadian potash miners Monday walked away from an underground fire and toxic smoke on Monday after being locked down overnight in airtight chambers packed with enough oxygen, food and water for several days. The company said the textbook case of safe underground mining was due to

[osint] Big Five recommends referring Iran to UN Security Council

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
Israel's policy of keeping a low public profile on this issue to keep it from turning into an Israeli-Iranian issue, rather than an international one, would continue. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1138622520048pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Big Five recommends referring Iran

[osint] In a Lean Budget Year, A Pledge for Research

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
...after years of cuts, Bush's proposals would barely get renewable-energy funding back to where it was at the end of his predecessor's administration, said Dan Reicher, an assistant energy secretary for renewable fuels and conservation under President Bill Clinton. I wish the president had seen

[osint] White House, Chertoff Faulted Over Katrina

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
observations referred to in this article is provided at the end of the article. Please note that the GAO has no affiliation with any political party. David Bier http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_go_co/katrina_washington White House, Chertoff Faulted Over Katrina By LARA JAKES JORDAN

[osint] Soldiers sue over out-of-pocket costs

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
...Massachusetts National Guard soldiers are taking the question straight to the top. They have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they are owed $73 million in food, lodging, and commuting expenses they paid out-of-pocket while activated under state orders to protect sites such as military

[osint] Transition of wounded back home has flaws

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
For some war wounded and their families, the gaps between the systems remain frustrating, even dangerous, according to stories shared during a meeting earlier this month of the Veterans Disability Benefits Commission.

[osint] Fitzgerald admits White House may have destroyed some emails relevant to CIA lea

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
Fitzgerald, who is fighting Libby's request, said in a letter to Libby's lawyers that many e-mails from Cheney's office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy. Nixon redux? David Bier

[osint] Official: Army Has Authority to Spy on Americans

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
...about 12,500 Talon reports would have been filed during the approximately 2½ years the program has existed, The Washington Post concluded Tuesday. Contrary to popular belief, there is no absolute ban on [military] intelligence components collecting U.S. person information, the U.S.Army's top

[osint] Multimillion dollar Abramoff client gave $50,000 to GOP after meeting with Bush,

2006-02-01 Thread David Bier
I will not comment about what Abramoff did outside of the commonwealth, Fitial told the Marianas Variety Online. But if you ask me what he did for the commonwealth, (Abramoff) protected our Covenant. Covenant is Fitial's political party. Fitial was elected governor of the Northern Marianas in

[osint] UN-Saddam-Australia: Coleman request

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Kerjman
Some news might not so commonly be found in world media: We want the real story, US tells Australia http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/we-want-the-real-story- us/2006/02/01/1138590569506.html AWB exec held goverment job http://theage.com.au/news/national/awb-exec-held-goverment-