Bin Laden Says Will Take Fight to America
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said his group reserved the right to fight the United States on its land and warned Washington and the world community against sending forces to Somalia, according to an Internet audio tape.

"We will fight its (U.S.) soldiers on the land of Somalia ... and we reserve the right to punish it on its land and anywhere possible," said the speaker, who sounded like the Saudi-born militant.

"We warn all of the countries in the world not to respond to America by sending international troops to Somalia," he said of the African nation where Islamists' power is rising.

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1,921 posted on 07/29/2006 7:14:40 PM PDT by Cindy

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"This is one post/quote that shows the stage is set for war with no question whatsoever."

And adding 46 million into the palestinian warchest turns on one heck of a stage light in the globe theatre!

1,922 posted on 07/29/2006 7:24:49 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...this aint Shakespeare in love!)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16266

"Secure the Border Now—Not Two More Years From Now"
Posted Jul 28, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that the U.S. will have “operational control” of the border by 2008 -- two years sooner than they had anticipated.

That isn’t soon enough.

And what does “operational control” mean, anyhow?"

1,923 posted on 07/29/2006 7:40:00 PM PDT by Cindy

1,924 posted on 07/29/2006 7:41:24 PM PDT by Cindy

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THANKS to Jet Jaguar for the ping to this thread.
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3 Abu members linked to Korean kidnapping captured
Sun.Star ^ | 7/30/06 | Al Jacinto

Posted on 07/29/2006 6:13:04 PM PDT by Valin

SECURITY forces captured three members of the Abu Sofia group implicated in the 2002 kidnapping of a South Korean citizen in the southern Philippines, officials said on Friday. Officials said policemen, backed by soldiers, stormed a terrorist hideout in the village of Bulalo in Maguindanao's Sultan Kudarat town and arrested the trio Thursday afternoon. "They are all under interrogation and the capture of the three men was the result of a long intelligence operation. We finally got them," said Col. Frank del Prado, a spokesman for the Army's 6th Infantry Division. He said soldiers seized automatic weapons from the three men who were linked to the kidnapping of Jae Keon Yoon and Filipino hotel owner Carlos Belonio in Palimbang town in Sultan Kudarat province in February 06, 2002.

Belonio was accompanying Yoon, a guest at his Tierra Verde Hotel, to buy nickel bars purportedly recovered from a Japanese wartime hoard when they were kidnapped. Yoon was freed after 22 weeks in captivity, while the Filipino had been released earlier after private negotiators allegedly paid huge ransom. Philippine authorities previously blamed the kidnapping to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Pentagon Gang, blamed for the spate of killings and abductions in the province. Del Prado said troops were tracking down other members of the Abu Sofia group, also tagged as behind the series of killings and bombings in the southern Philippines.

"The Abu Sofia is allied with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group. The Sofia is known to provide sanctuary to members of the Abu Sayyaf and both groups are involved in terrorism. There is an operation against the terrorists," he said. Police in June 2002 had captured Ismael Binago, the deputy leader of the Abu Sofia, involved in Yoon's kidnapping, in the port city of General Santos, about 1,037 kilometers south of Manila. Police agents disguised themselves as beggars and egg peddlers for weeks to be able to penetrate the village where Binago was hiding and gather information about the Abu Sofia that led to his eventual arrest.

1,925 posted on 07/29/2006 8:03:25 PM PDT by Cindy

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CORRECTION - UPDATE:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_re_us/seattle_shooting_26

"Security increased after Seattle shooting"
By TIM BOOTH, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jul 29, 5:07 PM ET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SEATTLE - Officials stepped up security at both synagogues and mosques Saturday as authorities investigated a shooting at a Jewish organization that killed an employee and wounded five others, including a pregnant woman.

Police arrested Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, after the shooting Friday afternoon and he was booked for investigation of homicide and attempted homicide, police said. They were investigating the shooting as a hate crime."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yousef Shehadeb, 46, a member of the Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities, recalled Haq as quiet and something of a loner. Shehadeb said he and Haq's father, Mian Haq, both work at the Hanford nuclear reservation, as do many members of the area's Muslim community."

1,926 posted on 07/29/2006 8:09:31 PM PDT by Cindy

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1,927 posted on 07/29/2006 9:58:24 PM PDT by Cindy

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP121806

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1218
July 28, 2006 No.1218

"Iranian Students Volunteer to Join the Fighting in Lebanon and Palestine"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from a news report on Iranian volunteers for Lebanon, which aired on Al-Alam TV on July 26, 2006.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1207 "

1,928 posted on 07/29/2006 10:01:10 PM PDT by Cindy

1,929 posted on 07/29/2006 10:34:42 PM PDT by Cindy

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1,930 posted on 07/29/2006 10:39:27 PM PDT by Cindy

ON THE NET...

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"Iranian leader calls Chavez a 'trench mate'"
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/29/06 | Nasser Karimi - ap

Posted on 07/29/2006 10:36:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TEHRAN, Iran - The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading U.S. critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington, with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez "a brother and trench mate."

As Chavez arrived for a two-day visit. Iran faced renewed international criticism for its nuclear program and for backing Hezbollah guerrillas in its war with Israel.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on Friday reached a deal on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions. Iranian state radio said Saturday the government would reject the proposed resolution.

Chavez pledged that his country would "stay by Iran at any time and under any condition."

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, said he saw in the Venezuelan president a kindred spirit. "I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after meeting Chavez," the state-run Iranian television quoted Ahmedinejad.

Chavez, who peppers his speeches with mentions of assassination plots and purported U.S. efforts to oust him, said he admired the Iranian president for "his wisdom and strength."

He invited Iranian oil companies to invest in Venezuela. Venezuelan state TV also reported that the countries are considering having Iran participate in a natural gas project off the Venezuelan coast. The two nations are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries — Iran is the world's No. 2 oil exporter and Venezuela No. 5.

"We are with you and with Iran forever. As long as we remain united we will be able to defeat (U.S.) imperialism, but if we are divided they will push us aside," Chavez said.

Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has emerged as one of Latin America's most outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy. He takes his message against what he calls President Bush's "imperialist" government everywhere he goes.

During his trip, Chavez is to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian state television said."

1,931 posted on 07/29/2006 10:46:56 PM PDT by Cindy

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Tetovo Mystery Slasher on Islamist Payroll
Balkanalysis.com ^ | 07/29/2006 | Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief

Posted on 07/30/2006 3:33:05 AM PDT by tgambill

(Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief 9) The knife-wielding attacker who terrorized young Macedonian women in the Albanian-majority city of Tetovo during June is not the deranged lunatic as some of the media has portrayed him to be, says a high security services source in Skopje. According to this source, the attacker (allegedly, a young Albanian male from Tetovo) is a known Wahhabi sympathizer. Islamist groups in Tetovo and Skopje with financial and ideological links to Saudi Arabia reportedly paid the man to prowl the streets by night and terrorize young women wearing Western attire not deemed to be sufficiently modest for their strict interpretation of Islam. Skopje newspaper Vreme, summing up the story on July 3, noted that three attacks had occurred, after which six different men had been arrested – and released – without the real attacker ever having been found. The paper compared the palpable panic being felt in Tetovo with a similar occurrence in Veles in 2003, when a knife-wielding assailant struck fear in the hearts of local residents. However, that individual was finally caught. The infamous concept of a self-appointed “Sharia police” known in places like Iran, Pakistan and now Iraq has never before been seen in Macedonia. While the attacker has been portrayed as mentally unstable and prone to violence, our source says, “that is just the image. He is not crazy. The brothers [i.e., the Islamists] are paying him to do these attacks- and some of the police may be protecting him, too.”

(Excerpt) Read more at balkanalysis.com ...

1,932 posted on 07/30/2006 3:51:05 AM PDT by Cindy

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1,933 posted on 07/30/2006 4:06:20 AM PDT by Cindy

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1,934 posted on 07/30/2006 4:11:58 AM PDT by Cindy

ON THE NET...

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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The quetion is, "Are they for us or against us?"
http://www.truthusa.com/AgainstUSorForUS.html

1,935 posted on 07/30/2006 4:14:46 AM PDT by Cindy

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE - PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: "WORLDWIDE CAUTION"
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

1,936 posted on 07/30/2006 4:16:44 AM PDT by Cindy

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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1218 - Iran, July 28, 2006
Iranian Students Volunteer to Join the Fighting in Lebanon and Palestine

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1216 - Iran, July 28, 2006
Shi'ite-Sunni Rift Widens- Jomhouri-ye Eslami: ‘An Eternal Curse on the Muftis of the Saudi Court and on the Pharaoh of Egypt’

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1215 - Iran, July 27, 2006
Mohsen Rezai, Iranian Expediency Council Secretary and Former Commander of Iran Revolutionary Guards: If Hizbullah's Patience Runs Out There Will Be Chaos in Tel Aviv; Ms. Rice Should Be Tried as First Female War Criminal; The Legal Experts of the Islamic World Should Prepare Some Kind of Legal Action Against Her

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1212 - Iran, July 26, 2006
Iranian President Ahmadinejad on IRINN TV: ‘Lebanon is the Scene of an Historic Test, Which Will Determine the Future of Humanity’

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 289 - Iran, July 24, 2006
The Middle East Crisis – Local, Regional, and Global; Conventional and Nuclear (2): The War in the Perception of Iran, Syria, and Hizbullah

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1210 - Iran, July 21, 2006
Iranian Parliament Speaker: The Blood of Khomeini Rages in Nasrallah's Veins; The Confrontation is Not Only in Lebanon, But Deep Inside Occupied Palestine and Within the Range of the Lion Cubs of Hizbullah… No Place in Israel Will Be Safe

1,937 posted on 07/30/2006 8:42:58 AM PDT by Cindy

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283599,00.html

Ahmadinejad: US, Britain should pay for Zionist crimes

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States and Britain should pay for crimes committed by "the Zionist regime," the Fars news agency reported.

Ahamdinejad said the United Nations' failure to impose an immediate ceasefire is a "mark of disgrace." (Dudi Cohen)

(07.30.06, 15:04)

1,938 posted on 07/30/2006 8:45:48 AM PDT by Cindy

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Source

News

Crossers burying border in garbage

Despite cleanups, trash along smuggling routes piles up faster than ever

By Tony Davis

Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.30.2006

After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in Southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.

Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across Southern Arizona in 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

But that's only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there.

Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus entrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the Southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert.

The trash is piling up faster than it can be cleaned up. Considering that the Border Patrol apprehended more than 577,000 entrants in 2004-05 alone, the BLM figures that those people left almost 4 million pounds of trash in that same year.

That's 16 times what was picked up in three years. And that doesn't include the unknown amounts of garbage left by border-crossers who don't get caught.

Diverse trash found all over

"We're keeping up with the trash only in certain locations, in areas that we've hit as many as three times," said Shela McFarlin, BLM's special assistant for international programs.

The trash includes water bottles, sweaters, jeans, razors, soap, medications, food, ropes, batteries, cell phones, radios, homemade weapons and human waste.

It has been found in large quantities as high as Miller Peak, towering more than 9,400 feet in the Huachuca Mountains, as well as in low desert such as Organ Pipe National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

It's even started turning up in smaller amounts in hiking areas closer to Tucson, such as Josephine Saddle in the Santa Rita Mountains on the route to Mount Wrightson, says the Southern Arizona Hiking Club.

"In the Huachucas, you are almost wading through empty gallon water jugs," said Steve Singkofer, the Hiking Club's president. "There's literally thousands of water jugs, clothes, shoes. You could send 1,000 people out there and they could each pick up a dozen water jugs, and they couldn't get it all."

Cleanup not cheap, easy

While nobody has an exact cost estimate for removing all the garbage, it's clearly not cheap. But McFarlin agrees with several advocacy groups that without a tightening of controls on illegal immigration, a guest-worker program or other reform of federal border policy, the trash will just keep coming regardless of what's spent.

The financial details:

● In 2002, the U.S. estimated that removing all litter from lands just in Southeast Arizona Ã‚Â— east of the Tohono Reservation Ã‚Â— would cost about $4.5 million over five years. This count didn't include such trash hotbeds as Ironwood Forest National Monument, the Altar Valley, Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta.

● Since then, Congress appropriated about $3.4 million for a wide range of environmental remediation measures in all of Southern Arizona. This includes repairing roads, building fences and removing abandoned cars.

● The five-year tab is $62.9 million for all forms of environmental remediation for immigration-related damage across Southeast Arizona, including $23 million for the first year.

Waste unhealthy, unsightly

Most of the garbage is left at areas where entrants wait to be picked up by smugglers. The accumulation of disintegrating toilet paper, human feces and rotting food is a health and safety issue for residents of these areas and visitors to public lands, a new BLM report says.

"It's particularly serious in areas where there are livestock," said Robin Hoover, pastor of the First Christian Church in Tucson and president of Humane Borders, a group that puts water tanks in the desert for the entrants and coordinates monthly cleanups of Ironwood Monument and other sites.

"I've even found injectable drugs in the desert," he said. "It's rare when we find that kind of stuff, but there's tons of over-the-counter medication out there. If some cow comes along and eats a bunch of pills, that would be a real sick cow."

The trash also isn't good for wildlife, said Arizona Game and Fish spokesman Dana Yost. Birds and mammals can get tangled up in it or eat it, causing digestive problems, Yost said. It's not at all uncommon to find the trash in bears' stomachs, he said. Plastic bags, foil wrappers and certain foods are all problems.

Remote areas need more help

But clear inroads are being made into the trash problem, said BLM's McFarlin. Using the U.S. money, various local and federal agencies, the Tohono O'odham Tribe, the conservationist Malpais Borderlands Group and student youth corps remove trash from the most obvious and accessible areas, she said.

What needs tackling now are more remote areas such as wilderness, mountains and deserts far from major roads, she said. A couple of times, authorities have had to use helicopters or mules to haul stuff out of such areas.

This summer, with Border Patrol apprehensions of entrants down, the Tohono O'odham Tribe is seeing less trash on the ground than usual, said Gary Olson, the tribe's solid-waste administrator.

"I don't know whether they're hiding their trash or whether they are just not coming," Olson said.

But only six weeks ago, No More Deaths, an advocacy group that looks for injured, sick and lost entrants, came across a 10,000-square-foot area five miles west of Arivaca littered with hundreds and hundreds of backpacks.

"I've never seen anything that size. It's unbelievable," said Steve Johnston, who coordinates the group's camp near Arivaca.

Other activists from Derechos Humanos, Defenders of Wildlife and No More Deaths say the trash piles show what happens when the feds deliberately drive the entrants into the desert, by sealing the borders in cities.

"If you were going to cities, you wouldn't need to carry three days' worth of food," said Kat Rodriguez, a coordinator-organizer for Derechos.

But a Cochise County activist who has been photographing garbage and other signs of damage from illegal immigration for five years said she is appalled the federal government is spending tax dollars to pick this garbage up.

Illegal entrants should pick up the trash themselves, said Cindy Kolb, who helped found the group Civil Homeland Defense.

"Our mothers did not pay someone to pick up our trash," Kolb said. "We were taught to pick it up ourselves and to practice civic pride as law-abiding citizens."

● Contact reporter Tony Davis at 806-7746 or tdavis@azstarnet.com.

In the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Arivaca, No More Deaths volunteer Mark Kelso picks his way through a trash-laden area that is a pickup site for illegal entrants, an illustration of the nearly 25 million pounds of garbage thought to have been dropped in Southern Arizona.

A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star

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And 99 percent is still out there

● In three years, federal money for environmental cleanup in Southern Arizona has:

- Cleaned up 250,000 pounds of trash.

- Removed more than 600 abandoned cars and 1,725 abandoned bicycles.

- Rehabilitated more than 50 illegally made roads and maintained 50 miles of legal roads.

- Installed 1,750 feet of guardrail along roads.

- Barricaded two riparian areas in Las Cienegas National Conservation Area from smugglers and installed two miles of fence in Ironwood Forest National Monument.

Source: U.S. BLM

Sample trash

● A backpack recovered last winter on the Tohono O'odham Reservation weighed 7.5 pounds.

It contained jeans, black plastic bags, towels, a belt, a full jar of jelly, a half-roll of toilet paper, a bottle of electrolytes from Mexico, an airplane ticket, three pairs of socks, a toothbrush, a dried-up orange, a small container of pecans, cold cream, a small number of pills, a tube of toothpaste, a family portrait, a Mexican voter registration card, roll-on deodorant, razor blades, a hairbrush and underpants.

Source: Tohono O'odham Nation

1,939 posted on 07/30/2006 5:27:33 PM PDT by Smartass ("In God We Trust" - "An informed and knowledgeably citizen is the best defense against tyranny")

"Crossers burying border in garbage"

While our federal government continues doing what it does best...

...nothing.

1,940 posted on 07/30/2006 6:17:09 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)

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