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Posted on 11/01/2007 8:43:53 PM PDT by nwctwx
Fantastic work Cindy on yor recap and updates. Even a cursory glance at the titles for each gives details an eye-opening snippet of the relentless work of patriots who are diligently at work protecting us day and night. It also illuminates the determination of those who work tirelessly to obliterate infidels (anyone who isn’t them) from the face of the earth.
Thank you MamaDearest.
Generally speaking, the lame-stream-media seemed to not pay too much attention to the HLF trial.
LONDON - Police investigating the discovery of "potentially explosive material" at a house in northern England arrested a second suspect under anti-terrorism laws on Saturday. The 31-year-old man was detained in Dundee in the early hours, a Humberside Police spokeswoman said.
Another man, also 31, was arrested on Wednesday after police seized the unidentified material during a house search in the centre of Goole, East Yorkshire. Police sealed off the area around the house during the searches and tests are being carried out on the material. The men, both from Goole, have not been named. They were detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 and are being questioned at a West Yorkshire police station. Police said the house in Goole was searched as part of a separate criminal investigation.
"We would ask people to go about their business as usual," a police spokeswoman said. "However, we would always urge people to remain vigilant." Police stepped up patrols earlier this year after two car bombs were found in central London and a Jeep was rammed into a terminal at Glasgow Airport. The security service MI5 rates the current threat of a terrorist attack as severe, the second-highest level. That means an attack is thought to be "highly likely". p>http://www.christiantoday.com/article/second.man.arrested.in.uk.over.explosives.terrorism.fears/14367.htm
Sweden loses contact with embassy in Pakistan
3rd November 2007
Sweden's foreign office has been unable to contact the its embassy in Pakistan since president Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in the country on Saturday.
The Swedish ambassador in Islamabad, Anna Karin Eneström, was in Dubai as Pakistan is locked in constitutional crisis. "Both she and I have tried to get hold of the deputies at the embassy but we have not succeeded. I don't know if the telephone lines are working properly," said Sofia Karlberg at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign minister Carl Bildt viewed developments in Pakistan as "seriously worrying". "We have not been able to establish contact with the embassy there. It's clearly a serious situation," said Bildt.
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http://www.thelocal.se/8995/20071103/
Islamic militants capture 100 more security personnel in Pakistan
Nov 3, 2007
Islamabad - Islamic militants claimed Saturday that they had captured 100 more security personnel, a day after they released 48 captives in Pakistan's north-western valley of Swat. 'We did not want unnecessary bloodshed, and that is why we assured them that they would be allowed to return to their homes safely if they surrender,' said militant spokesman Maulana Sirajuddin. He said the captives would be released before the media later in the day.
The 100 troops, mainly police officers, were under siege since October 26 at a police station and hospital in the Matta area, after clashes erupted there following deployment of additional troops to curb a rebellion by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.
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Thanks you for those links and snippets, Oorang.
I couldn’t find the names of those suspects (re Goole), either.
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Additional link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7076475.stm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=forthuachuca
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Note: See updates on the thread link listed below.
Thanks to txflake for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920706/posts
“Driveby shooting death (3 Ft. Huachuca soldiers shot at following argument)”
Arizona Daily Star ^ | Kim Matas
Posted on 11/03/2007 10:51:07 PM PDT by SandRat
Off Topic, but interesting.
“Chaplain’s Column: How to Survive Critical Incident Stress
Four key measures”
Updated: October 30th, 2007 06:31 PM EDT
UPDATE:
blog:
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003898.html
November 3, 2007
“Spain: 10 Convicted Islamist Terrorists On Hunger Strike”
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07110017.htm
Saturday, November 3, 2007
“Christian Pastor Flees Palestinian Town After Death Threat”
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
RAMALLAH
UPDATE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920719/posts
“Pakistan - Former ISI chief Hamid Gul arrested”
The News International (Karachi) ^ | November 4, 2007
Posted on 11/04/2007 1:25:06 AM PST by HAL9000
ISLAMABAD
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48039
Coalition, Iraqi Forces Detain 17 Suspects in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 17 suspects during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said.
In a raid yesterday morning, soldiers of the 11th Iraqi Army Division entered the Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighorhood and detained 12 suspects, including two known terrorists who were using the mosque as a base.
The captured individuals are suspected of emplacing improvised explosive devices, kidnapping and murdering Iraqi civilians, and attacking coalition and Iraqi forces across Baghdad. The suspects also are linked to al Qaeda members, military officials said.
Acting on tips provided by local citizens, Iraqi army soldiers requested proper permission to enter the mosque compound. The Iraqi army then came under fire from inside the building. The troops returned fire and wounded one insurgent. Iraqi troops pursued the attackers throughout the mosque compound, eventually detaining the 12 insurgents.
As U.S. soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, secured the perimeter, they also came under small-arms fire and grenade attacks. U.S. troops suffered no injuries during the operation.
Army Lt. Col. Jeff Broadwater, the battalion’s commander, said he and Iraqi Col. Adel, commander of the 11th Iraqi Army Division’s 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, considered all tactical options before requesting permission to conduct the operation due to the mosque’s religious significance.
In other operations, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained five suspected extremists Nov. 2 in the Iraqi capital’s Rashid District.
Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 77th Armored Regiment, raided two homes where tipsters said two terrorists were hiding. Military officials believe the two individuals were involved in weapons trafficking, mounting attacks against coalition forces and murdering translators. Troops captured both suspects.
Later that morning, “Warriors” from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, attached to the 1st Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, captured a man who was identified by two sources as having emplaced improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
During a patrol a few hours later, the “Warriors” detained a man suspected of attacking Multinational Division Baghdad troops with small arms and IEDs. Fifteen minutes later, while raiding a house in the Doura region of Baghdad, Company C troops detained a suspect who allegedly led IED attacks, military officials said.
The five suspects were taken into custody and are being held for further questioning.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
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CIA Director Michael V. Hayden revealed this week, in defending agency interrogations of terrorists, that more than 70 percent of the intelligence used in a recent national estimate came from questioning captured terrorists.
"The last six years have shown us that the best sources of information on terrorists and their plans are the terrorists themselves," Mr. Hayden said in a speech Tuesday in Chicago. Calling the intelligence "simply irreplaceable," he also noted that the elicited information "is the sole reason we have rendition, detention and interrogation programs." Fewer than 100 of the most hardened captured terrorists have been put through interrogation since 2002. "Of those, less than a third have required any special methods of questioning," Mr. Hayden said.
The CIA director said the National Intelligence Estimate confirmed that the danger of another major al Qaeda attack against the U.S. is real. Al Qaeda aims "to execute a spectacular attack that would cause mass casualties, massive destruction and economic harm," he said. Mr. Hayden noted that the estimate was less certain about one key element of al Qaeda plans: the presence of group operatives inside the U.S. The CIA director's comments are a tacit admission that the agency continues to have a difficult time planting spies inside or close to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror
November 4, 2007
It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: “Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn, covered in blood after he was hit by the bullets of the infidels, following in the path of his brother.” The flowery language could not disguise the brutal truth that a Saudi family had lost two sons fighting for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The elder brother, Khaled, had been a deputy commander of a crack jihadist “special forces” unit. After his “glorious” death, Turki took his place. “He was deeply affected by the martyrdom of his brother,” the Knights said. “He became more ambitious and more passionate about defending the land of Islam and dying as a martyr, like his brother.”
Turki’s fervent wish was granted earlier this year, but another Saudi national who travelled to Iraq had second thoughts. He was a graduate from a respectable family of teachers and professors who was recruited in a Saudi Arabian mosque and sent to Iraq with $1,000 in travel expenses and the telephone number of a smuggler who could get him across the Syrian border. In Iraq he was ordered to blow himself up in a tanker on a bridge in Ramadi, but he panicked before he could press the detonator. He was arrested by Iraqi police. In a second lorry, another foreign fighter followed orders and died.
King Abdullah was surprised during his two-day state visit to Britain last week by the barrage of criticism directed at the Saudi kingdom. Officials were in “considerable shock”, one former British diplomat said.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2801017.ece
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48040
“Troops Repel Two Ambushes in Afghanistan”
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2007
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018681.php
(JIHAD UNSPUN.com)
November 4, 2007
“Chechen jihadists proclaim Islamic State, declare U.S., U.K., Israel legitimate jihad targets”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=saudiarabia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=terroristfinancing
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018680.php
(TIMES ONLINEco.uk.)
November 4, 2007
“Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror: The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers”
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/numerous_terrorismrelated_hear.php
“Numerous Terrorism-Related Hearings This Week in U.S. Congress”
By Andrew Cochran
(November 4, 2007)
Cindy
Thank you for the links, I got lost in them and learned a lot. Extreamly disturbing to say the least but important to know.
Thanks for all you contribute to keep this thread going!
Thank you anelsonmyside.
I appreciate you reading the Threat Matrix.
I was off TM for several weeks and a good handful of team
members pitched in.
That’s what the Threat Matrix is — a team effort.
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