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Analysis: Al-Qaida's new focus on Israel
By DORE GOLD

Reports that an al-Qaida cell in Lebanon fired Katyusha rockets on northern Israel would not be the first sign that Osama bin Laden's organization is moving into the neighborhood.

For some time, Israeli officials have noted that groups identifying with al-Qaida - or the global jihad - are determined to acquire operational footholds close to Israel's borders. Actually, the most dramatic sign of this development was the November 9 suicide bombing of three Jordanian hotels in Amman by "al-Qaida Mesopotamia" - the organization led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian insurgency leader fighting the US in Iraq.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1135696362358&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Divers find junk, not explosives off coast
By: PTI
December 30, 2005

New Delhi: The security agencies' glee over the 'detection' of the missing explosive containers yesterday was shortlived as they found it to be a 'huge junk'.

Despite the failure, 40 deep sea naval divers operating from three war ships continued to hunt for the 100 metric tonnes of explosives loaded in six containers which went missing from a Honduras-registered merchant ship off the Mumbai coast on December 22, official sources said.
http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/december/127310.htm

Russia's Nuclear Chief to Travel to Iran
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3556070.html

AJC Launches International Campaign to Stop a Nuclear Iran
http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.851561/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7B1CC294C0-8EB1-44D2-AA03-FD613A60AF57%7D&notoc=1

Mossad: Iran Soon To Have Nuclear Weapons
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/30/112612.shtml

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Paintings, not people, to be whisked to safety in nuclear holocaust plan
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2474172005

Britain and Money Laundering
This Day (subscription) - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... Until the tragic events of September 11, 2001 when terrorists massively attacked the United States, the problem of money laundering didn't quite figure in the ...

Money laundering booms as tax cheats target UAE
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Money laundering is flourishing in the United Arab Emirates, where fraudsters can pull off complex tax scams or buy speedboats with paper bags of cash with ...

Bin Laden's silent year sparks speculation
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=131314&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28285

Christians go on patrol to combat crime
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0225croydon/tm_objectid=16530369&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=christians-go-on-patrol-to-combat-crime-name_page.html

Chemicals, gun seized in raid
From: AAP
December 30, 2005

A QUANTITY of chemicals and a handgun have been seized in a police raid on a western Sydney home.

Officers raided the home at Doyle Place, Baulkham Hills, about 5.30pm (AEDT), uncovering a stash of chemicals and the pistol.
Police said the search of the premises was continuing.

A 32-year-old man, arrested at the home, is helping police with their inquiries.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17697283-29277,00.html

A terrorist strike: Dharam Singh - Sophisticated arms were used
by K.V. Subramanya
Friday Dec. 30, 2005, BANGALORE: Karnataka Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh has confirmed that Wednesday's attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here was the handiwork of terrorists.
http://indiamonitor.com/news/readNews.jsp?ni=9898

Terrorist attack was predicted
Architect of Lashkar's Akshardham temple attack had visited Bangalore
* Officials, institutions were slow to address vulnerabilities
* Bangalore has been on the Lashkar's list of targets for a while
http://indiamonitor.com/news/readNews.jsp?ni=9897

Russia Refutes Israeli Reports of Hezbollah Using Russian Missiles
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/30/russiatoisrael.shtml

Putin, Khodorkovsky and the trial that rocked Russia
By Margreet Strijbosch*, 30 December 2005

The trial of Russia’s richest businessman, Mikhail Khordokovsky this year sent renewed fear through Russian society with claims that the case was politically motivated.
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/currentaffairs/region/easterneurope/rus051230?view=Standard

Eight Dead in Latest Indonesia Muslim Terrorist Bombing
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=11151

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Thank you, good work.

Now to see what else the world is blowing up.

You have freep mail.

The article on Iran's nukes and the possibility of an imminent US strike is very interesting. I suspect that we must strike Iran before the Israelis do the very same thing. The Israeli window is around March, so we must move prior to that. I dislike being tied to another countries timetable but I understand that a massive Israeli strike will also likely involve Jewish boots on the ground in a muslim country and that will raise the ugly sprectre of actual global jihad. So we try and forestall that and risk something even bigger. I'm thinking that Iran learned from the mistakes of Iraq in 1980 and in so doing, they will have multiple sites that are underground and hardened. The only way to get to most of them will require our boots on the ground.

The EU won't lift a finger to help. In fact count on the euro-weenies and the world press to howl in outraged protest over our "heavy handed" tactics. If it works, that's okay. But what if it doesn't work? Is the American electorate liable to take it out on conservatives at the polls?