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Posted on 06/01/2006 7:04:43 PM PDT by nwctwx
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"The Al-Qaeda Times (by Michael Reagan)"
FrontPageMagazine ^ | June 30, 2006 | Michael Reagan
Posted on 06/29/2006 9:42:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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"U.S., Canadian officials release details of aerial drug-smuggling operation"
CBC News ^ | 30/06/06
Posted on 06/29/2006 10:03:19 PM PDT by Clive
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U.S. and Canadian officials say they have busted a massive drug-smuggling operation that involved helicopters transporting marijuana and cocaine across the border.
Authorities revealed on Thursday details of the two-year investigation, known as Frozen Timber, which began in November 2004 and led to the arrests of 40 people in the U.S. and six in Canada.
The smugglers would fly helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft into remote wooded areas in Washington state and B.C., including locations in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanagan National Forest, and North Cascades National Park, officials said. High-grade marijuana would be smuggled into the U.S. and cocaine into Canada.
Officials released videotape of the operation captured by surveillance cameras. It showed a helicopter flying into a wooded area in the Okanagan National Forest and using a sling to drop off a package alleged to contain 150 kilogram loads of marijuana, followed by a man rushing to it.
Another clip showed a package being dropped off in a different location in the national forest and taken away in a waiting truck.
Many of the Canadian pilots were not licensed to fly. In the last 13 months, at least two helicopters alleged to be connected to the smuggling ring crashed, resulting in the deaths of three people, officials said."
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Iraqi Documents: Plans To Produce Prohibited Chemical Weapons Precursors (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents ^ | June 28 2006 | jveritas
Posted on 06/28/2006 6:34:38 PM PDT by jveritas
Document http://70.168.46.200/released/04-20-06/CMPC-2003-013956.pdf dated in the year 2000 and document http://70.168.46.200/Released/06-21-06/ISGQ-2003-00044424.pdf dated January 2002 contain memos that talk about finalized research and the plans to locally produce Chemical Materials that can be used as Precursors for Chemical Weapons and that are prohibited by the United Nations for Iraq to produce locally. These materials were allowed to be imported under strict UN regulation because it can be used for other civilian industries and that Iraq should have declared exactly the imported quantities of these materials and where it is used and the balance in bi-yearly report to the UN. However Iraq was absolutely prohibited from manufacturing it locally because it will not be controlled by the UN and thus it can be used to produce Chemical Weapons.
Some of the Chemical Weapons Prohibited Precursors include DICYLOHEXYLDIACARBODIIMIDE which can be used as a Precursor to make SARIN Nerve Gas. SODIUM CYANIDE AND POTASSIUM CYANIDE can be used as a Precursor to make TABUN Nerve Gas. These materials fall under the List A of the United Nation Monitored Iraq Import/Export Goods, see page 9 (A.36, A.37) and page 11 (A.50) http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/S-2002-515.pdf , but again these materials were absolutely prohibited to be locally produced in Iraq whereas it is very clear from these memo that the Iraqi were set to produce these Chemical Precursors locally. The Sodium Cyanide and Potassium Cyanide were listed under “Drug research” programs to make it less suspicious.
Translation of page 5 in document ISGQ-2003-00044424
In the Name of God the Most Merciful The Most Compassionate
The Republic of Iraq
The Ministers Cabinet
The Industrial Committee
Number: S/8/431
Date: 24/5/2000
To the Office of The Director Of the Military Industrialization Commission
Subject: The Drugs Researches Project
Following up to the letter of the Industrial Committee number 552 on 2/7/1998.. we attach the final reports for the research listed below and that was achieved within the drug researches project.
We plead with you to ask the appropriate parties from your side to study it and determine the requirement for prototype production and the required capacity to achieve this and inform us.. with regards
Researches: 1. Preparation of insecticide Raydomil. 2. Preparation of insecticide Facron. 3. Preparation of insecticide Avitrol. 4. Preparation of insecticide Cosayde. 5. Preparation of insecticide Morket, 6. Preparation of POTASSIUM CYANIDE. 7. Chloroform. 8. Preparation of Fructose material.
Attachments: Report number (8)
Signature
Samir Hussein Aouni
The Industrial Commission Secretary
5/2000
End of translation of page 5
Translation of page 63 in document ISGQ-2003-0004424
In the Name of God the Most Merciful The Most Compassionate
The Republic of Iraq
The Ministers Cabinet
The Industrial Committee
Number: S/8/431
Date: 20/3/2000
To the Office of The Director Of the Military Industrialization Commission
Subject: The Drugs Researches Project
Following up to the letter of the Industrial Committee number 552 on 2/7/1998.. we attach the final reports for the research listed below and that was achieved within the drug researches project.
We plead with you to ask the appropriate parties from your side to study it and determine the requirement for prototype production and the required capacity to achieve this and inform us.. with regards
Researches: 1. Methyl Cyanide. 2. 2-4,7 DiChloroConiolene. 3. SODIUM CYANIDE.
Attachments: Report number (3)
Signature
Samir Hussein Aouni
The Industrial Commission Secretary
15/3/2000
End of translation of page 63
Partial Translation of different pages from document CMPC-2003-013956
Meeting with the Committee for Chemical Materials Prototype Production
Thursday 24/1/2002
Status of the report
From the 85 research reports 37 reports are ready to transform for prototype production, 26 reports require minor observations, 63 reports and what constitute 75% it is possible to transform it to prototype production.
Table number (2), reports are fulfilled technically
The Majd Company is ready to transform for Prototype Production
T:12. Number of report: 1 K/6. Name of The Research DICYLOHEXYLDIACARBODIIMIDE. The Researching Party: Chemistry/Science/Mosul. The Economic Benefit: UNDEFINED The Symbolic according to the limitation of the Chemical Material Committee: P
P= Primary Material (precursor)
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AP Blog: Al-Qaida Cameraman Speaks [Zawahiri's As-Sahab Cameraman]
Associated Press ^ | June 29, 2006 | Kathy Gannon
Posted on 06/29/2006 8:42:35 PM PDT by ganeshpuri89
This day I am going to meet a wanted man by the name of Qari Mohammed Yusuf. He is a cameraman for al-Qaida's production company called As Sahab or The Cloud. He's wanted by the Afghan government.
Jamal Mutalab Beg, police chief in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province until last month, confirmed his identity and said he is being hunted by his government, which believes Yusuf tried to carry out acts of sabotage last year. The former police chief also confirms Yusuf's family details. He is the youngest of five brothers. His eldest brothers are all dead.
Two died fighting with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was a U.S.-backed resistance fighter in the 1980s and today is a wanted terrorist. The other two died fighting with the Taliban, and they had been close to Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's No. 2 man. Yusuf's eldest brother played a particularly important role for al-Qaida, having been a liaison of sorts between Tajik and Uzbek militants and the Taliban, helping the Central Asian fighters to make their way to other parts of Afghanistan. Yusuf's family, although ethnic Pashtuns, like most Taliban, are from northern Afghanistan.
It has taken me a month of pleading and searching and pleading some more for a link to As Sahab with old contacts who still maintain close ties to Hekmatyar.
Hekmatyar has always been close to those Arab militants who answered the call to fight the communist Red Army. Those contacts are still solid today.
The pleading finally paid off.
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The story Miss Gannon filed on the "wanted man," Quri Mohammed Yusuf, can be found here.
To find Quri Mohammed Yusuf, inquire with Kathy Gannon or her bosses at AP.
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"Cameraman Sheds Light on al-Qaeda Videos
AP Enterprise: Cameraman Sheds Light on al-Qaida Video Production Line"
By KATHY GANNON
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Jun 25, 2006 (AP)
What is your opinion of the fact that we haven't seen a video tape of him?
Whatever happened to the United States of America? Inch by inch, little by little we're being globalized without any say in the process. Many of the countries buying up American land, businesses and buildings have laws in their own countries preventing Americans from doing the same in their country. In America, if people (corporate, foreign, evil-doers) have the money to spend, cities, states, politicians and citizens appear to relish greed (money in hand) more than love of country and protecting our sovereignty.
I've seen whole small cities listed for sale. What happens when a foreign country decides to purchase one (legaleze for purchased by unknown entities)? Corporations are bought and sold this way all the time (with straw officers listed as stockholders).
Happy you enjoyed it.
Yeah, but if they had a night of skating for gay people, the watchdog agencies would declare that to be politically correct and wouldn't blink an eye. It is more than enough to turn one's stomach. Doesn't Human Rights protect groups of people called Christians too? Evidentally NOT!
http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3673
"Group Profile:
Riyad us-Saliheyn Martyrs' Brigade
Aliases: Islambouli Brigades, Riyadh-as-Saliheen, Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs
Base of Operation: Chechnya; Russia"
Snip: This just in. It has recently been discovered that Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda have access to a technologically sophisticated, multi-million dollar intelligence gathering operation. It has agents on all continents, and sources within every agency of the US government. Even worse, this organization is actively being shielded from disruption by the American court system. It goes by the nickname 'The Gray Lady', but is officially known as The New York Times.
No information is too secret, no secret too important to national security not to be revealed in its pages, all in the name of the 'public interest'.
Last week, the Times took it upon itself to reveal the US government's top secret program to track the international financial transactions of terrorists. This is the same New York Times that six months ago revealed to terrorists that the US was secretly listening to their phone calls. This is also the same New York Times that in December of 2001, tipped off a terrorist front organization in New York, known as the Global Relief Foundation, that it was about to be raided by the FBI.
All of which begs the question, 'what do you have to do to get locked up for treason in this country?'
If a news organization had pulled this type of stunt during WWII, revealing our intelligence gathering practices against the Germans or Japanese, someone would have gone to jail.
It would be nice to think that these people truly comprehend that we are in a war. That they appreciate that there are people in this world who want to kill Americans, who would love to acquire weapons that would do far more damage than what we experienced on September 11th. People that wouldn't hesitate to incinerate New York City or Washington, DC if they could.
In truth, the fact that they can't is all that's stopping them. But give them enough time and money and they will be successful, which is why our government is trying to find and kill them before they have a chance. Letting them know how we are trying to prevent them from being successful gives them aid and comfort, the Constitutional definition of treason.
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"Report: Mubarak demands Hamas be expelled from Syria"
Jerusalem Post ^ | Jun. 30, 2006 1:26 | Updated Jun. 30, 2006 9:37 | JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 06/30/2006 12:04:09 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
How many Islamic terrorists does it take to screw a dead horse?
I don't think I can count that high.
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Iran’s spies set up base in Iraq’s Shiite city – report
Iran Focus Baghdad, Jun. 30 – Agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) are fomenting unrest in Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the Iraqi daily az-Zaman reported on Thursday.
Az-Zaman quoted Iraqi counter-intelligence sources as saying that fighters were being trained in Lebanon under MOIS supervision and sent via the Iranian border to infiltrate Basra.
Some of the fighters were being incorporated into the al-Hussein Battalion which has been responsible for numerous targeted killings and assassinations in Basra.
The daily quoted the sources as saying that the MOIS was the most powerful and influential intelligence service that had infiltrated Basra and several other key Iraqi cities including the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.
“In Basra alone it has eight large intelligence bases”, it said, adding that the bases were operating under various guises.
Among the responsibilities the MOIS has in Iraq is to train and arm extremist militias for attacks on targets designated by Tehran.
Other responsibilities include gathering intelligence about large institutions and their political affiliations and pressuring heads of government departments and institutions to take positions in defence of Iran’s actions in Basra, Karbala, and Najaf, it said.
The report said that Tehran had put aside a billion dollars from state funds for meddling in Iraq.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was involved in oil smuggling in Iraq, it said, adding that the IRGC and the MOIS were jointly conducting the operation from a command headquarters in the Iranian border town of Ahwaz.
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"U.S. says funds flow in from Saudi Arabia to Somalia"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - Funds are flowing into Somalia from Saudi Arabia and Yemen to support the Islamic Courts movement that seized the capital Mogadishu this month, said a senior U.S. official on Thursday.
The State Department's point person on Africa, Jendayi Frazer, told a hearing on Capitol Hill that the United States and others were reaching out to the Arab League about the flow of funds into Somalia from Arab countries.
"I don't want to say the Saudi government is supporting any particular (Islamic) court but I do know that there is money coming in from Saudi Arabia," Frazer told the House of Representatives International Relations Committee.
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The rise of Aweys has alarmed the United States, which fears the Islamists want to establish Taliban-style rule in Somalia, despite repeated denials by Ahmed."
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HotAir.com: VENT with Michelle Malkin: "JIHAD RAP" (June 29, 2006)
http://hotair.com/archives/vent/2006/06/29/jihad-rap/
Big-City Police Chiefs Assail Homeland Security's Secrecy
By ROBERT BLOCK
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Nearly five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law-enforcement authorities around the country say Washington's efforts to share vital security information with them are in shambles.
While police departments from several big cities have representatives working full time with the Department of Homeland Security to glean sensitive information about terror threats, some of these departments say they still are denied access to timely, relevant information about threats and terrorist activity. And often the information they get from federal agencies -- if they get any -- is confusing, late and little better than what's on television news channels, they say.
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