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Posted on 10/01/2006 5:29:13 PM PDT by nwctwx
Assistance Requested:
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REPORT - SNIPPET - QUOTE:
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
Weekly Piracy Report
24-31 October 2006
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 24 to 31 October 2006.
ALERT
Chittagong anchorage, Bangladesh
Forty incidents have been reported since 28.01.2006. Pirates are targeting ships preparing to anchor. Ships are advised to take extra precautions.
The IMB Report on Piracy and Armed Attacks on Ships from January to June 2006 is now published. Please see the end of this page to order.
Suspicious crafts
None reported during the week.
Recently reported incidents
25.10.2006 at 0515 LT at Dar es Salaam anchorage, Tanzania.
Robbers boarded a chemical tanker via anchor chain. They stole ship's stores and escaped. Master’s attempt to contact port control was futile.
18.10.2006 at 1400 LT off Ticala, San Pablo, Samboanga del Sur, southern Mindanoa, Philippines.
Armed pirates attacked a group of fishing vessels engaged in fishing. Four fishermen were killed in the shootout.
13.10.2006 at 0400 LT in posn: 10:28.7N - 064:08.5W, Navimca, Cumana, Venezuela.
Robbers boarded a yacht at anchor and stole two outboard engines
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=8706
"Study Seeks Way to Remove Poisons from Airplanes"
Kevin Murphy
McClatchy Newspapers
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4097
"Decision Time on Iran
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
October 31, 2006
[NY Sun headline: "U.N. Indecision on Iran Leaves Bush With Tough Choices"]"
FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and San Jose police investigators appeared to be digging with shovels at the site this morning...
Authorities still have not said what exploded, but Durzy said he'd been told it was a device of some kind.
``Whatever caused it was pretty strong,'' San Jose Fire Capt. Jose Guerrero said.
Authorities received multiple reports of a smoke detector alarm sounding at 7:34 p.m., Guerrero said, followed a few minutes later by multiple calls of an explosion.
When crews arrived, they found a 6-by-7-foot window had been shattered near a first-floor exit between the network operations center and a nearby building at 2161 N. First St. The window's frame was bent and a light haze covered the area, Guerrero said. No flames, however, were visible, nor was there any other damage. Other debris was in the area, said Guerrero, who couldn't say Tuesday night exactly what the debris was...
3 workers killed in explosion at Romanian oil refinery
Explosion rocks police barracks in Beirut
Hot Springs Plant Explosion Kills Two Workers
One killed in explosion in Lebanese school
Two injured in explosion that damaged roof of Suffolk hotel (Virginia)
City Hall Incident Turns Out To Be Car Explosion (Texas)
U.S. investigates explosives theft in west Michigan Tampa airport partly evacuated over suspicious item
THANK YOU all4one.
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/01/democrats-and-the-military/
HOTAIR.com - Blog - Video: "DEMOCRATS AND THE MILITARY"
(November 1, 2006)
UPDATE...
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"No Internet at United Nations 'Internet' summit"
October 31, 2006 6:02 AM PST
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Britain Sells Arms to Iran
MENL ^ | 11/1/06 | MENL
Posted on 11/01/2006 2:28:08 PM PST by freedom44
LONDON [MENL] -- The British government has acknowledged arms sales to Iran and Syria.
A British Foreign Office report said the government has granted licenses for dual-use equipment to Iran and Syria. The report said the exports include components and technology that could be used by the militaries of the two Middle East states.
The human rights report asserted that Iran spent about $350 million, or 180.5 million British pounds, on a range of British dual-use systems. The Foreign Office cited aircraft engines, machine tools and chemicals.
The Foreign Office said Syria has ordered nearly $200,000 worth of dual-use items from Britain, including chemicals as well as technology to produce toxins. The purchases were said to have taken place between October and December 2005.
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"coming soon from As-Sahab Media Productions... Sheikh Abu Yahya Al-Libi on the martyrdom of the Mujahid Faruq Al 'Iraqi"
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Previously...
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/060917.php
"As-Sahab Releases 'Jihad Poems of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi'"
By Nick Grace
September 17, 2006
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060917_assahab.rm
Perhaps they are lame-brained idiots who don't want to hurt the feelings of the jihadis working at the airport...(ignorance is not bliss!!!)
Snip: In order to speed up the processing procedure American embassies will no longer be accepting manual visa applications, only electronic forms can be used.
From Nov. 1 applicants must visit the US State Department's web site to fill out the relevant Electronic Visa Application Form (EVAF or DS-156), print it out and take all three pages, including the page with bar codes to their visa interview at the embassy.
Homeland Security contracts for vast new Detention Camps
Snip: Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."
The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when.
Snip: "The victim may be an active participant in the conversation site or may be quite unaware that he or she is being victimized. Cyberbullying can be done by friends, acquaintances or total strangers, although it is typically someone who at least knows the victim."
Canadian tourists must have Passports this Christmas
Snip: The Bush administration is telling vacationers to bring their passports with them or they might get stuck at the border after the holidays. Anyone travelling by air between Canada and the United States as of Jan. 8 will need a passport, said U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins.
OPINION: I don't like the idea of visas being applied for via the internet.
I want the person to come in person and look the clerk in the eyeballs as
he/she applies.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=1993
Rumsfeld: Terrorists Plan Attacks to Manipulate U.S. Media
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2006 – Terrorists operating in Iraq are staging attacks that garner negative press coverage so that the American people become soured on the war, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told two radio talk show hosts yesterday.
“You know, they're very good at manipulating the American press and managing the news in a way that advantages them and tries to break the will of the American people,” Rumsfeld told Bill LuMaye during a telephone interview on WPTF in Raleigh, N.C. “And they're good at it. They know what they're doing. They consciously plan their attacks to achieve that end.”
Rumsfeld said the terrorists’ efforts to affect American will have shifted what he called the war on terror’s “center of gravity” away from the battlefield.
“The military always talks about the center of gravity of a conflict, and logically one would think it would be in Afghanistan or Iraq or in the struggle against the violent extremists,” he said. “But in fact, because they are so calculating in attempting to break the will and to terrorize people and to alter our behavior, the center of gravity of this conflict very much is back in the United States. And they're very good at attempting to alter our behavior.”
The struggle in Iraq won’t be solved solely on the battlefield, the secretary said, but will require progress on the political, economic and governance fronts as well.
Citing “good progress” in Iraq, Rumsfeld noted that Iraq’s political leaders are shouldering difficult challenges. “You've got to give them a lot of respect for having the courage to take those positions and to put their lives at risk, these Iraqi political leaders,” he said. “And we wish them well.”
Rumsfeld told Cincinnati-based radio host Bill Cunningham during an interview on WLW that the troops he’s spoken to in Iraq display high morale, but are aware of the debate taking place at home.
“They know that the enemy is trying to influence the American people and to try to weaken their will to prevail and to persist and to show perseverance in this conflict,” he said. “So I suppose the only thing I'd say is God bless them for their courage and their intelligence and their contribution that they’re making to our country.”
Rumsfeld said it would be a tragedy if violent extremists were to take over Iraq. The terrorists would turn Iraq into a haven and base of operations, the secretary told Cunningham, from which to destabilize the Middle East and launch new attacks against America and its allies.
“So I think that most people who look at the situation understand how important prevailing in that conflict is,” he said, “and how tragic it would be were people to decide that it wasn't worth the cost or it wasn't worth the time.”
The terrorsists, he told Cunninghamn, won’t give up. “These people are determined, and they're going to keep after us,” he said. “And our only task is to see that they don't prevail.”
UPDATE...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Salmonella-Outbreak-Appears-Over/story.xhtml?story_id=0010000REYHH
"Salmonella Outbreak Appears Over"
By Andrew Bridges
November 1, 2006 7:48AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to interview people sickened in the outbreak, but the information gathered is too vague or broad for the FDA to trace the contamination to its source, Acheson said.
A salmonella outbreak that sickened dozens of people in 19 states appears to be over, while investigators remain unsure how it began, a federal official said Tuesday.
Health officials believe the outbreak may be linked to tomatoes or other fresh produce contaminated with the bacteria, but have been unable to pinpoint a specific product or source. There have been no deaths, but 171 people have fallen sick. Officials revised downward the tally by one case Tuesday, following further investigation.
Reports of illness peaked in late September, suggesting the outbreak is now over, said Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer in the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. There is little evidence of any ongoing risk, he added.
"Whatever was contaminated that caused the illness, it has either been consumed, destroyed or thrown out. So the suggestion there is a need to put out a consumer warning about produce on the shelf is unwarranted. It seems to be past," Acheson said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to interview people sickened in the outbreak, but the information gathered is too vague or broad for the FDA to trace the contamination to its source, Acheson said."
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"Scenes from the jihad"
Boston Globe ^ | November 1, 2006 | Jeff Jacoby
Posted on 11/01/2006 2:52:58 PM PST by neverdem
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP134406
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1344
November 2, 2006
No.1344
"Islamist Websites Monitor No. 17"
A number of topics covered including "The Islamic Army in Iraq Presents a New Missile"
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=114650
"UN Admits Syria Arming Hizbullah, UNIFIL Takes Nights Off"
16:40 Nov 01, '06 / 10 Cheshvan 5767
by Ezra HaLevi
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hizbullah terrorists are free to roam at night without fear of being identified by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to a report by the German paper Der Spiegel.
UNIFIL commanders were interviewed by the paper, saying their function is to "observe changes in the behavior of the local population," with Spanish UNIFIL official Richard Ortax admitting that no patrols are carried out at night “because of the danger involved.”
One junior officer told Der Spiegel he was glad that his battalion only left their camp once. "It's absurd," he said. "We landed here and set up our tent city, but since then we've only left the camp to drive around and to make sure that we're seen."
The report cites a long tradition of UNIFIL inaction, which it says allowed time for a Finnish contingent to construct a giant sauna and an Indian contingent to decorate its base with tradition Indian artwork.
The UNIFIL troops and the 14,000 Lebanese soldiers stationed in the region add up to a total of around 20,000 troops in the 18 by 31-mile region of southern Lebanon. 6,000 more troops are still expected to arrive.
The United Nations itself has admitted that Syria was still successfully smuggling arms to the Hizbullah, which neither UNIFIL nor the Lebanese army plan to stop."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The UN Security Council “noted with regret” Tuesday that “non-Lebanese militias” in the country had not been disbanded or disarmed, an allusion to the Iranian and Syrian backed Hizbullah. The statement was termed a “presidential statement,” which is the weakest of all available Security Council actions.
Following the meeting, UN envoy to the region Terje Roed-Larsen explicitly admitted that Syria was actively smuggling weapons into Lebanon. He said that Lebanese government officials "have stated publicly and also in conversations with us that there have been arms coming across the border into Lebanon."
Roed-Larsen added that Syria does not deny the flow of weapons either, claiming only that they are not being dispatched by the Syrian government. "The consistent position of the government of Syria has been that, 'Yes, there might be arms smuggling over the border, but this is arms smuggling and the border is porous and very difficult to control,'" Roed-Larsen told reporters."
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Iran to hold military exercises next to US manoeuvres
Nov 1, 2006
Tehran - Iran is to hold renewed military exercises throughout the country, including in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman where naval manoeuvres led by the United States currently take place, the Fars news agency reported Wednesday.
The commander of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said that the exercises would begin Thursday November 2. Code-named 'Grand Prophet (Mohammed) 2,' the operations are to run for nine consecutive days in 10 provinces, mainly focused on the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, the general told reporters.
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I know, I know; the following is from DEBKA
November 1, 2006, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower, and its accompanying carrier strike group, passed through the Suez Canal on Monday, Oct. 30, and arrived in the Red Sea on Tuesday, Oct. 31.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the USS Eisenhower is at sea off the Saudi Arabian coast, together with another aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise. The presence of the two US aircraft carriers, and their accompanying strike groups, in a body of water as small as the Red Sea is an extraordinary development.
So far there have been no indications that the USS Eisenhower arrived to replace the USS Enterprise.
US Intelligence director John Negroponte also is in the region. He was in Saudi Arabia over the weekend and in Cairo on Tuesday, and is due to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, Nov. 1.
With the arrival of the USS Eisenhower in the region, there are now three US aircraft carriers in the Persion Gulf and surrounding waters, including the USS Iwo Jima. Accompanying the USS Eisenhower are the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, the guided-missile destroyers USS Ramage and USS Mason and the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Newport.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that a fourth US aircraft carrier, the USS Boxer, will arrive on the scene by the beginning of next week, together with its carrier strike group. The USS Boxer is currently taking part in joint US-Indian naval maneuvers, dubbed Malabar ’06, which include the landing of marines on beaches.
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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200611/02/eng20061102_317524.html
Somali Islamists warn Kenya against supporting Ethiopia
Thursday 2 November 2006 03:00.
Nov 1, 2006 (MOGADISHU) — The Islamic Courts Council (ICC) today claimed that Ethiopian troops dressed in Kenyan army uniform had been deployed in large numbers along the Somali-Kenya border. They warned the Kenyan government that this move could lead to devastating results.
Sheikh Yusuf Siyad Indha Adhe, the security chief of the Islamic Courts, said at a news conference at Mogadishu’s former Banaadir Regional security HQ, that a large number of Ethiopian troops were now stationed along the border. "Those are Ethiopian troops dressed in the Kenyan army uniform," said Sheikh Indha Adhe, adding that the courts were not at war with Kenya and urged it to keep off the Somali affairs.
He accused the Ethiopian government of fuelling war in the Horn of Africa region, and whose Ethiopia troops were now deployed against Islamic forces outside Baidoa, HQ of Somalia’s interim government. "Today, Ethiopia is not at peace. Kenya is. If Kenya supports Ethiopia in the war against Somalia, it will not continue to enjoy its current peace," warned Indha Adhe.
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