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Posted on 12/01/2007 8:47:13 PM PST by nwctwx
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15791&Itemid=21
Press Release A071211b
December 11, 2007
Coalition forces capture Special Groups leader, 11 detained
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups criminal element leader and detained ten other suspects during operations early Tuesday in the Baghdad area.
The targeted individual reportedly supervised criminal splinter group trainers throughout Iraq. He allegedly coordinated the explosively formed penetrator, improvised explosive device, operational security and computer security training of numerous criminals, and was personally responsible for paying each trainer every month. He also reportedly directed his cell to attack Coalition forces and assassinate Iraqis who worked with Coalition forces.
Intelligence led ground forces to the target area, where the wanted individual was captured and the ten other suspects were detained without incident. Additionally, ground forces discovered body armor, two assault rifles, a bayonet, two pistols, multiple ammunition magazines and a large amount of Iraqi currency.
“Al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s cease-fire pledge has helped stem the violence, but criminal splinter groups remain intent on disrupting the growth and development of the government of Iraq,” said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. “We remain committed to dismantling these criminal networks.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15740&Itemid=21
Press Release A071211a
December 11, 2007
Coalition forces disrupt al-Qaeda operations; one terrorist killed, 19 detained
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 19 suspects during operations Tuesday targeting al-Qaeda networks in central and northern Iraq.
During two coordinated operations west of al Khalis, Coalition forces killed a wanted individual believed to be a key associate of an al-Qaeda leader involved in the network in northern Baghdad. The network is responsible for the majority of car-bombing and improvised explosive device attacks in the area, and is involved in extortion, intimidation, weapons trafficking and the facilitation of foreign terrorists. In addition, nine suspected terrorists were detained during the operations.
During an operation south of Bayji, Coalition forces captured an alleged member of a foreign terrorist facilitation network operating in the region. Reports indicate the wanted individual is tied to al-Qaeda members operating near the border, who assist in the movement of weapons and funds for senior facilitators and al-Qaeda members operating in and outside of Iraq. In addition to the wanted individual, three other suspects were detained.
West of Mosul and west of Maymudiyah, Coalition forces detained six suspected terrorists during operations targeting an al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader and terrorists reportedly involved in attacks against Coalition forces.
“Iraqi and Coalition forces are continuing to pressure al-Qaeda’s networks and drive them from their hiding places,” said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. “This disruption of their operations reduces their ability to attack innocent Iraqis, but al-Qaeda remains a threat and we must remain vigilant.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15803&Itemid=21
Press Release A071212a
December 12, 2007
Coalition forces disrupt al-Qaeda operations; 14 terrorists killed, 12 detained
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces killed 14 terrorists and detained 12 suspects during operations Tuesday and Wednesday targeting al-Qaeda networks in central Iraq.
During an operation northwest of Muqdadiyah, Coalition forces targeted associates of an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader allegedly responsible for a large terrorist group operating in the northeast Diyala River Valley region. Intelligence reports indicate the individuals executed a man earlier in the day and were later observed in the target area.
Upon arrival, Coalition forces received enemy fire from the target building. Responding in self-defense, the ground force returned fire, killing two terrorists. Coalition forces then observed several men maneuver away from the target area into nearby palm groves and underneath a foot bridge. The ground force called supporting aircraft to engage the enemy threat, killing another 12 terrorists. The ground force also encountered multiple explosions as they attempted to clear the target buildings. The buildings were assessed to be rigged with explosives and a supporting aircraft was called to destroy them.
Coalition forces captured a wanted individual in Baghdad believed to be involved in the al-Qaeda in Iraq network in the city. The wanted individual is allegedly involved in al-Qaeda in Iraq media and propaganda operations, and is a close associate of suspects recently detained by Coalition forces Dec. 9 and 10.
During the operation, another individual was wounded as the ground force entered a building. The man was subsequently detained, treated on site and transported to a military medical facility. Two additional suspects were detained and the ground force discovered various media equipment and a small weapons cache during the course of operations.
In Tikrit, Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists to include a wanted individual believed to be involved in facilitating funds for al-Qaeda operations. Reports indicate the wanted individual not only operates in Tikrit, but also in western Baghdad, and in and around Fallujah. The suspect is also allegedly associated with foreign terrorist facilitation networks and al-Qaeda leaders operating in the Tigris River Valley.
Coalition forces captured a wanted individual and three additional suspected terrorists during two operations south of Yusufiyah Tuesday and Wednesday targeting associates of the terrorist network operating in southern Baghdad. The wanted individual is reportedly a leader involved in the Karkh terrorist network, which is operating in a degraded state. Over the last month, Coalition forces have captured five other wanted individuals tied to the network, who were reportedly involved in attacks against Coalition forces and trying to re-establish the car-bombing operations in the city. During the operation, the ground force also discovered a cache of weapons, which was safely destroyed on site.
“We will continue to aggressively locate and dismantle the al-Qaeda networks that threaten the security of Iraq,” said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. “The Iraqi people have chosen a future that does not include al-Qaeda’s brutal ideology.”
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God bless the troops.
Yes, our troops are the best troops in the world.
May God continue to bless them.
In Jesus’ Holy name.
Amen.
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Good morning, SlowBoat407.
First off - the day of the month was the 11th, sound familiar? Second, the folks at the counterterrorism blog remind us that on November 3, Al Qaeda's number 2 Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri called for attacks on Western interests throughout North Africa, and called for the overthrow of leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. The potential targeting of Algeria linked to France's swing to the right and calling terror - terror. Perhaps we've been too focused on the US to recognize that AQ is seeking to strike what they believe is a more defeatable opponent at this time to regain momentum.
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/al_qaeda_and_north_africa.php
Yep, and they’ll strike whenever they have an opportunity to do so and the means to do so.
Thanks Godzilla.
Jihad — another day.
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15818&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071212-03
December 12, 2007
Coalition Forces kill AQI operative
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – A member of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed by Coalition Forces Dec. 10 during a firefight near Adwaniyah, Iraq.
Soldiers from 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, currently attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Inf. Div. from Fort Stewart, Ga., were conducting a foot patrol when an attack occurred. A Soldier was wounded when he stepped on a command wire improvised explosive device consisting of two 60 mm mortars. The Soldiers were then engaged with small arms fire.
While engaged in the firefight a Soldier spotted the IED emplacer leaving the scene in a white pickup truck.
Kiowa helicopters from the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Inf. Div. were called in and engaged the truck with one Hellfire missile.
After engaging the enemy truck, the Kiowa helicopter team confirmed the truck was destroyed and the driver was killed.
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15820&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071212-06
December 12, 2007
Operation detains 2, sets up Concerned Local Citizen headquarters (Aby Salman)
By Sgt. Jason Stadel
2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – A Coalition Force air assault mission led to the detainment of two suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq members and the establishment of a Concerned Local Citizen command post in the village of Aby Salman, Iraq, Dec. 9.
Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, began Operation Gladiator before daylight; a mission to search and clear homes and look for suspected al-Qaeda members.
While setting up an observation post on the roof of a house, Soldiers observed a local Iraqi ride by on a bicycle. He was stopped, searched and discovered to be a suspected al-Qaeda sniper.
The Soldiers were excited about the mission.
“It’s a rush,” said Spc. Gabriel Maldonado, from New York City, a team leader in Company B, of kicking in doors and clearing houses. “This is what you train for and this gives us an opportunity to do it.”
The company hadn’t been in the area during the last month and the threat of house-borne improvised explosive devices was high.
Most of the homes searched were empty.
“The bad guys scared all the people away. We haven’t been here in a while so hopefully the people will come back,” said 1st Lt. Derrick Anderson, from Fredericksburg, Va.
One of the houses that was cleared is now being set up as a CLC command post.
The CLC members who will work from the command post will be residents from the area, said Capt. John Newman, Company B commander. “Their knowledge will help us in the area,” Newman said.
During the mission, another suspected al-Qaeda member was detained and a 57 mm IED was destroyed in a controlled detonation by an explosive ordnance disposal team.
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15821&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071212-07
December 12, 2007
Suspected sniper seized (Baghdad)
4th IBCT, 1st Inf. Div. PAO
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad forces arrested a suspected sniper during ongoing stability operations in the Rashid district of the Iraqi capital Dec. 10.
“Warriors” of Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, attached to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Inf. Div., were investigating shops in the Doura neighborhood of Baghdad when they noticed an individual who resembled a wanted suspect linked to anti-Coalition activities and other crimes.
When asked his name, the man gave the name of a suspected sniper the unit had been seeking for nearly a year. The suspect was arrested and taken to a Coalition Forces base for further questioning.
Also that day, a joint patrol of Iraqi Army and Iraqi Security Volunteers found five 57mm mortars and two rocket-propelled grenade boosters and turned them over to Co. B, 2nd Bn., 12th Inf. for disposal.
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Note: Audio and transcript (in English) included.
stepping back to May 24, 1998...
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/567
“Ghoneim: No to the Jews”
May 24, 1998
SNIPPET: “At an Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) conference at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, Ghoneim told the audience in Arabic...”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019124.php
(WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE)
“Boston: Islamic charity officials linked to Padilla, killer of Kahane, other jihadists”
BOSTON
December 12, 2007
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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/December/07_nsd_992.html
Four Foreign Nationals Arrested and Charged with Being Illegal Agents of a Foreign Government
WASHINGTON — Three Venezuelans and an Uruguayan national were arrested last night and appeared in federal court in Miami today on charges of acting and conspiring to act as agents of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela within the United States, without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, as required by law, announced Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s National Security Division, R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office.
Charged in the complaint were defendants Moises Maionica, 36, Antonio Jose Canchica Gomez, 37, Rodolfo Edgardo Wanseele Paciello, 40, Franklin Duran, 40, and Carlos Kauffmann, 35. All have been arrested, except for defendant Antonio Jose Canchica Gomez, who remains at large. If convicted, the defendants face a statutory maximum penalty of ten (10) years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
According to the complaint filed in federal court, the defendants coordinated and participated in a series of meetings, beginning in August 2007, in South Florida with Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson to procure Antonini’s help in concealing the source of an intended $800,000 cash contribution to the political campaign of a candidate in the recent Argentine presidential election of Oct. 28, 2007. The last meeting took place on Dec. 11, 2007, when defendants Maionica, Duran, and another individual met with Antonini to discuss the creation of false documents in furtherance of the cover-up.
The events culminating in today’s criminal charges began on Aug. 4, 2007, when Antonini flew by Cessna Citation, bearing registration number N5113S, from Venezuela to Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The privately chartered aircraft had previously departed from Caracas Maiquetía International Airport in Venezuela, carrying eight passengers on board, including, among others, Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson. Upon arrival at Buenos Aires, Argentine Customs Service inspected the luggage offloaded from the Cessna Citation, and found approximately $800,000 in United States currency in luggage being carried by Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson. The Argentine authorities seized the money and Antonini returned to his South Florida home.
The complaint alleges that beginning in mid-August, 2007 and continuing through Dec. 11, 2007, the defendants and other participants in the conspiracy, acting as agents of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, sought to obtain the assistance of Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a U.S. citizen who travels under both United States and Venezuelan passports, in concealing from the people of Argentina and others, the source and destination and the role of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the attempted delivery of the approximately $800,000.
During these meetings, the defendants told Antonini that various high-ranking Venezuelan government officials, including the Office of the Vice President of the Republic, members of the DISIP (Intelligence and Preventive Services Directorate), and a high-ranking official from the Justice Ministry of Venezuela, were aware of this matter. The defendants told Antonini that these funds had been destined for the campaign of a candidate in the Argentine presidential election of Oct. 28, 2007.
“The complaint filed today outlines an alleged plot by agents of the Venezuelan government to manipulate an American citizen in Miami in an effort to keep the lid on a burgeoning international scandal. These arrests should serve as a warning to other agents who operate illegally in America on behalf of foreign powers,” said Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta stated, “Today’s complaint alleges an effort by the agents of Venezuela to travel to the United States for the purpose coercing our citizens to help conceal the true nature of a growing international scandal. This is not the first time in recent years that we have charged individuals with operating illegally in South Florida as agents of foreign powers, and likely will not be the last. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to make prosecution of these cases one of our highest priorities.”
“The FBI is committed to working with our law enforcement and intelligence community partners to pursue those who act illegally as agents of foreign governments while in our country,” said Acting Assistant Director Daniel L. Cloyd, FBI Counterintelligence Division.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Solomon stated, “South Florida takes pride in the diversity of the people that have chosen to live here and we will always embrace those that come here to enjoy the freedom and opportunities that are available to us all. When unregistered foreign agents believe that they can operate on our soil with impunity and disregard for U.S. laws, it undermines the national security of our country and the safety of our citizens. This case demonstrates our resolve in ensuring that activities conducted in the United States are free from nefarious foreign influence.”
Mr. Acosta commended the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its work in this investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas J. Mulvihill and Senior Trial Attorney Clifford I. Rones, of the Counterespionage Section at the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
A copy of this press release may be found on the Justice Department’s website at www.usdoj.gov, or on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida at www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/ or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov .
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamas
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP178307
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1783
December 13, 2007 No.1783
“Children on Hamas TV Children’s Show: ‘Liberate’ Al-Aqsa by Force, ‘Wipe Out’ Zionists to the Last One”
SNIPPET: “The following are excerpts from a children’s show which aired on Hamas Al-Aqsa TV on December 3, 2007.
To view the clip, visit: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1625.htm . To view the MEMRI TV page devoted to Al-Aqsa TV clips, visit: http://memritv.org/content/en/tv_channel_indiv.htm?id=175 “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938576/posts
“Connecticut Grapples With Iraq Soldier Death Hoax Mystery”
Fox News.com ^ | December 12, 2007
Posted on 12/12/2007 2:12:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Regarding IRAN:
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=672.0
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=1296.0
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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blog:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28245_Our_Friends_the_Saudis&only
“Our Friends the Saudis”
Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 9:09:25 am PST
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“Saudi king invites Ahmadinejad for haj-media”
Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:55am ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TEHRAN (Reuters) - The king of U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia has invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend this year’s haj in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
It would be the first time an Iranian president was officially invited to take part in the annual pilgrimage, starting later this month, the official IRNA news agency said.
Like other Gulf Arab states, Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia has long been wary of its large Shi’ite Muslim neighbor and shares Western concerns about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“Saudi King Abdullah has formally invited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to take part in this year’s haj ceremony,” Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Hosseini, was quoted as saying by state television.
The five-day rites are expected to begin on December 18.
On Tuesday Ahmadinejad said he would take part in the haj if formally invited. Last week he became the first Iranian president to attend a summit of Saudi Arabia and five other Gulf Arab states.”
Thanks to ikez78 for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938591/posts
“Baath - al Qaeda cooperation recently included suicide attacks using aircraft”
Regime of Terror ^ | 12-12-07 | Mark
Posted on 12/12/2007 2:44:55 PM PST by ikez78
POST - SNIPPET: “...”where they discussed financing, unifying AQI forces, (and) conducting airborne improvised explosive device attacks.”...”
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