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Posted on 02/01/2008 6:55:58 PM PST by nwctwx
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3512022,00.html
Palestinians carrying pipe bombs arrested near Nablus
Published: 02.27.08, 14:35 / Israel News
IDF forces arrested three Palestinians at a checkpoint near Nablus after they were found to be carrying three pipe bombs.
The men were transferred for questioning and army sappers detonated the explosive devices. (Efrat Weiss)
Note: The folllowing text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17319&Itemid=128
Press Release A080227a
February 27, 2008
Coalition forces disrupt Special Groups criminal network, detain one suspect
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces detained a suspected Special Groups member during operations to disrupt criminal element networks early Wednesday in Baghdad.
Coalition forces were targeting Iranian-backed Special Groups criminal networks involved in attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces.
Intelligence led ground forces to the target area where they detained one suspected criminal without incident. The suspect’s identity is still being determined.
“Special Groups that refuse to honor al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s cease-fire pledge are a threat to public safety that cannot be tolerated,” said Cmdr. Scott Rye, MNF-I spokesman. “Iraqi and Coalition forces will continue to target these rogue elements, disrupt their networks and bring them to justice.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17300&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080226-01
February 26, 2008
MND-B Soldiers capture special groups leader
Multi-National Division – Baghdad
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers captured a suspected Special Groups commander during an operation in Baghdad’s Sha’ab neighborhood Feb. 24.
The suspect is accused of being involved in multiple improvised explosive device attacks.
Paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, detained the suspect after receiving actionable intelligence on his activities. Several other suspected criminal members were captured with him.
The detainees were captured with components of explosively formed projectiles. The components were allegedly imported from neighboring countries.
“This suspected criminal is allegedly responsible for multiple IED attacks against Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces,” said Lt. Col. David Oclander, executive officer for 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. “He is suspected to be associated with the foreign-influenced Special Groups networks that continue to blatantly disobey the cease fire directives from al-Sayyid Maqtada Al-Sadr that have been in place since Aug. 29, 2007.
“Recent tips from locals show they want these criminals off their streets, and the support of the people continues to move toward the legitimate government of Iraq” Oclander said.
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placemark
Thanks for the updates.
It sure makes you wonder who is driving the big rig in front of you and the one in back of you!
A new tape from #2.
http://www.lauramansfield.com/pt/blog/
I can’t view the tape because I don’t subscribe to her site.
The jihad is global and it is like cancer, all over the internet.
I’ll check the jihad propaganda later today.
Thank you dryman’s wife.
Thanks to RDTF for the ping (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1977006/posts?page=5#5 ) to this thread:
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1977006/posts
Imam From Va. Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda
The Washington Post ^ | Feb 27, 2008 | Susan Schmidt
Posted on 02/27/2008 5:44:07 AM PST by RDTF
Even before the 2001 terrorist attacks, American-born imam Anwar al-Aulaqi drew the attention of federal authorities because of his possible connections to al-Qaeda. Their interest grew after 9/11, when it turned out that three of the hijackers had spent time at his mosques in California and Falls Church, but he was allowed to leave the country in 2002.
New information later surfaced about his contacts with extremists while in the United States. Now, U.S. officials are saying for the first time that they believe that Aulaqi worked with al-Qaeda networks in the Persian Gulf after leaving Northern Virginia. In mid-2006, Aulaqi was detained in Yemen at the request of the United States. To the dismay of U.S. authorities, Aulaqi was released in December.
“There is good reason to believe Anwar Aulaqi has been involved in very serious terrorist activities since leaving the United States, including plotting attacks against America and our allies,” said a U.S. counterterrorism official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
U.S. authorities were limited in how far they could push Yemen to hold Aulaqi, officials said, because they have no pending legal case against him. The officials said ongoing intelligence-gathering efforts here and abroad prevented them from providing details about Aulaqi’s suspected activities.
Aulaqi, 36, was the spiritual leader in 2001 and 2002 of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, one of the largest in the country. In a taped interview posted this New Year’s Eve on a British Web site, Aulaqi said that while in prison in Yemen, he had undergone multiple interrogations by the FBI that included questions about his dealings with the Sept. 11 hijackers.
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“The ABC’s of Radical Islam”
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
February 27, 2008
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020117.php
February 27, 2008
“Relax! There are only 91 million jihadists!”
blog:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191468.php
(STRATFOR.com)
February 27, 2008
“Grassroots Jihadists and the Thin Blue Line”
SNIPPET: “While reading this article, I couldn’t help but feel some attention should have been given to the “Internets”, and how grassroots jihadists use the web to organize, ‘legitimize’, finance and openly promote their agendas.
Signals intelligence is fine and dandy... provided we have enough trained people to properly interpret the mountains of data coming at them, every moment of every day.”
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“Grassroots Jihadists and the Thin Blue Line”
February 27, 2008
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In the end, most counterterrorism intelligence efforts have been designed to identify and track people with links to known militant groups, and in that regard, they are fairly effective. However, they are largely ineffective in identifying grassroots militants. This is understandable, given that operatives connected to groups such as Hezbollah have access to much better training and far greater resources than their grassroots counterparts. In general, militants linked to organizations pose a more severe threat than do most grassroots militants, and thus federal agencies focus much of their effort on countering the larger threat.
That said, grassroots groups can and do kill people. Although they tend to focus on softer targets than operatives connected to larger groups, some grassroots attacks have been quite successful. The London bombings, for example, killed 52 people and injured hundreds.
Grassroots Defenders
As we have said, grassroots militants pose a threat that is unlikely to be picked up by federal authorities unless the militants self-identify or make glaring operational security blunders. All things considered, however, most operational security blunders are far more likely to be picked up by an alert local cop than by an FBI agent. The primary reason for this is statistics. There are fewer than 13,000 FBI agents in the entire United States, and less than a quarter of them are dedicated to counterterrorism investigations. “
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“Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Gives Elegy for Abu Laith al-Libi in Video from As-Sahab Media; Advertises Book Refuting Document of Sayed Imam”
By SITE Intelligence Group
February 27, 2008
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http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/5789.htm
“Website Targets Minorities In Turkey”
BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: “A written inquiry has been submitted to Parliament concerning a website that targets non-Muslim minority groups in Turkey by publishing telephone numbers and full addresses of many Armenian, Jewish and Greek schools, places of worship and publishing houses.
CHP MP Yilmaz Ates brought the issue to the attention of Parliament and emphasized that the accessible-to-all website should be taken down immediately. The website www.tennet.8m.com provides information on how to...”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Following media reports, the website has become unaccessable.”
Posted at: 2008-02-27
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(”Source: www.velfecr.com, February 25, 2008”)
“Pro-Hamas, Pro-Hizbullah Rally In Istanbul”
Blog Entry Snippet: “Nureddin Sirin, a popular radical Islamist affiliated with most Islamist organizations and publications, delivered a speech in which he praised the heroic resistance of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah who fight in the name of the entire Islamic umma. He called on the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world to abide by their obligation and responsibility, to dedicate their existence and take every step without fear or hesitation, and asked every Muslim to fight the Zionists, the Jews, the West and the imperialists, just like their brothers do in Gaza and Lebanon.”
Posted February 27, 2008
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49090
“Gates’ India Visit Aimed at Long-Term Relationship”
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb. 27, 2008
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49102
“Coalition Forces in Eastern Afghanistan Increase Operations”
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49100
“Quicker is Better for Turkish Military Operations in Iraq, Gates Says”
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2008
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49095
Iraqi, Coalition Forces Capture Suspected Terrorists
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008 – Iraqi and coalition forces throughout Iraq have killed and captured several terrorists over the past several days.
In operations around Iraq today:
— North of Tarmiyah, coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists, including an alleged al Qaeda leader. That suspect is reportedly directly associated with al Qaeda’s northern belt senior leader, and he obtains funds by selling vehicles. The network is responsible for the majority of bombings in the area and is involved in extortion, intimidation, weapons trafficking and facilitating foreign terrorists.
— One suspected terrorist was killed and two detained during an operation southwest of Mahmudiyah when coalition forces targeted an alleged associate of the southern belt al Qaeda network believed to be involved in rigging bombs in homes.
— Coalition forces captured two individuals in northeastern Mosul believed to be relatives of a senior al Qaeda leader and involved in terrorist activity in the region. Three other suspected terrorists were detained during the operation.
— Coalition forces targeting Iranian-backed “special-groups” criminal networks involved in attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces detained a suspected special-groups member in Baghdad.
In operations in Iraq on Feb. 25:
— Soldiers of Company E, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, questioned a “person of interest” in the murders of a “Sons of Iraq” security volunteer leader and his son, which had been reported a day earlier. The bodies were found in the Sons of Iraq headquarters building in the Mechanix neighborhood of Rashid district.
— In Balad, Iraqi special operations forces detained a suspected terrorist believed to be responsible for improvised-explosive-device attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces, as well as weapons trafficking in the region.
— In Kubaysah, an Iraqi special weapons and tactics team detained three suspected terrorists in an operation to halt an insurgent cell believed to be responsible for attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces.
Earlier, soldiers from 2nd Iraqi Army Division detained five suspected members of a terrorist cell in Hawad, south of Mosul, Feb. 24. The suspects are believed to be responsible for bomb attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces and, according to intelligence reports, allegedly are involved in a campaign to intimidate Iraqi citizens.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49103
U.S. Faces ‘Unusually Complex’ Security Environment, Intel Official Says
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008 – The Pentagon’s top intelligence official today told a Senate committee the United States is operating in a security environment that is “unusually complex.”
During a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee here, Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, presented an analysis of current and future threats facing the U.S.
“That threat spectrum is bounded on the one side by traditional nation states with significant military inventories, and on the other by non-state terrorists or criminal networks that exploit the gaps and seams between nations, cultures, laws and belief systems,” he said.
Outlining what he called “trends of concern,” Maples said current threats include weapons of mass destruction, increasingly sophisticated and longer-range ballistic missiles, improvised bombs and suicide weapons, outer space and cyberspace vulnerabilities, and underground weapons systems produced by potential adversaries.
On Iraq, Maples said efforts by coalition and Iraqi forces, plus intelligence cooperation from concerned local citizens and a ceasefire by a Shiite militia, have created an improved security situation. Officials also have noted a decline in the number of foreign terrorists entering Iraq.
“The trends are encouraging,” he said. “But they are not yet irreversible.”
Al Qaeda in Iraq has been damaged, but is attempting to reignite sectarian violence in part by conducting “high profile” attacks, Maples said. The terrorist network largely has moved into the more permissive areas of northern Iraq where it remains committed to planning and supporting attacks beyond Iraq’s borders, he added.
Maples said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Quds Force, continues to provide training, weapons and support to groups that attack coalition and Iraqi forces. “The Defense Intelligence Agency has not yet seen evidence that Iran has ended this assistance,” he said.
The intelligence director noted improvements to Iraq’s security forces. “Iraqi security forces, while reliant on coalition combat service support, have improved their overall capabilities and are increasingly leading counterinsurgency operations,” he said.
Turning to Afghanistan, Maples said successful operations by U.S. and NATO forces have inflicted losses on Taliban leadership, and prevented the insurgent groups from conducting conventional operations.
“Despite their losses, the Taliban maintain access to local Pashtun and some foreign fighters and is employing suicide bombings, improvised explosive devices and small arms to increase attack levels,” he said, citing ongoing challenges. “While the insurgency remains concentrated in the Pashtun-dominated south and east, it has expanded to some western areas.”
In addition to the Taliban, the central government is challenged by corruption and a strong narcotics trade, Maples said. Debate among NATO members on counterinsurgency execution has led to “differences on many levels and approaches” to reconciliation, reconstruction and the use of direct combat power, he added.
On Afghanistan’s national security forces, however, Maples said the Afghan army has fielded 11 of 14 infantry brigades, and more than one-third of its combat arms battalions have been assessed as being capable of leading operations with some coalition support.
Al Qaeda remains a threat to the stability of Afghanistan and surrounding nations and has made overtures to extend its reach into other continents, Maples said.
“Al Qaeda presents an increased threat to Pakistan, while it continues to plan, support and direct transnational attacks from its de facto safe haven in Pakistan’s largely ungoverned frontier provinces,” he said. “(And it) has extended its operational reach through partnerships and mergers with compatible regional terrorist groups, including a continued effort to expand into Africa.”
Maples added the Defense Department’s intelligence community is confident in the ability of Pakistan, a nation that possesses nuclear weaponry, to safeguard its arsenal. He also underscored the important role played by countries seeking to modernize their military forces, like China and Russia, and nations like Iran and North Korea which invest heavily in military capabilities.
Maples thanked the senators for supporting efforts by defense intelligence professionals, who he said work shoulder-to-shoulder with their national intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement counterparts.
“With the support of Congress, we continue to strengthen our ability to collect and analyze the military intelligence that policymakers and our commanders need in order to be successful,” he said.
Fyi Only.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080227-6.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 27, 2008
“President Bush Meets with Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference “
Oval Office
2:01 P.M. EST
SNIPPET: “THE PRESIDENT: A while ago I announced that I would be naming a Presidential Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, and I am pleased to announce it’s Sada Cumber. He’s a very successful businessman, a person who knows the Islamic world, and has agreed to serve in that capacity. Sada, I want to thank you very much.
We just had a discussion about his mission, and the core of his mission is to explain to the Islamic world that America is a friend — is a friend of freedom, is a friend of peace, that we value religion — that, matter of fact, we value it to the point where we believe that anybody should be able to worship the way they see fit, and we respect that.
And his is an important job. There’s a lot of misperceptions about America, and Sada is going to be a part of our effort to explain the truth. And when people hear the truth about America, when they know that we’re a land full of compassionate people and that we value other people’s opinions, that they’ll slowly but surely begin to better appreciate.
Now, a lot of people love America, don’t get me wrong. After all, there’s a lot of people trying to come here because of what we stand for. But we’ve got work to do in certain areas. And I can’t thank you enough for going, and really will strongly support you in your work.
SPECIAL ENVOY CUMBER: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, sir.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/02/iran_undermines_iraq.php
“Iran undermines Iraq’s Awakening movement”
By BILL ROGGIO
(February 27, 2008 4:15 PM)
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