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Posted on 07/01/2006 1:15:53 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Explosion in China 30 Dead Per Fox
Smiling in total agreement.
Kahleeforneeya ~grin~
Yep, busy place. Seems we discussed many of those incidents right here on TM.
Another 'mine' accident?
Bomber's words aired as London recalls horror
July 07 2006 at 04:54AM
Dubai - Al-Jazeera television has aired excerpts of a video featuring al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, and what it said was the last statement of one of the London bombers.
"What you have witnessed is only the beginning of a string of attacks until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq," said the man identified as Shehzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers who attacked London's transport system on July 7 last year.
"And until you stop your financial and military support to America and Israel," he said.
Al-Jazeera said Zawahri praised Tanweer, saying: "He studied physical fitness at university and he had a passion for boxing. Even though he was from a well-off family, his appearance didn't show that."
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=vn20060707015029483C730802
Ping. I see I forgot you again...don't know how that's possible since you are so unforgettable. :)
Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri in this file photo image supplied by the Dawn newspaper on November 10, 2001. Suddenly, the faces and voices of bin Laden and Zawahri are everywhere, in a stream of video and audio messages broadcast to the world. [Reuters]
Suddenly, the faces and voices of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri are everywhere, in a stream of video and audio messages broadcast to the world.
In the past month alone, six new tapes from the two have reached an international audience. Excerpts of Zawahri's latest message were broadcast on Al Jazeera television on Thursday, a day before the first anniversary of the London bombings.
But U.S. officials and terrorism experts are wary of concluding that the spate of messages means another major attack is imminent.
Instead, they believe a complicated mix of factors is behind the outpouring: a desire to show that al Qaeda is still potent; a new sophistication in the use of propaganda, and finally, sheer coincidence as several different messages have all surfaced within a short time span.
US officials and terrorism experts said they take al Qaeda's threats seriously. The two men are believed to be hiding somewhere in the hostile, tribal border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Bin Laden was not heard from for a year prior to January 2006. But he and Zawahri have now issued 11 audio and video tapes this year, the highest frequency recorded since the September 11 attacks, analysts say.
"They are trying to prove that the movement's not dead," said Kenneth Katzman, a terrorism analyst at the Congressional Research Service, the in-house think tank of Congress.
The two leaders may have felt they had to respond quickly to last month's US military success in killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
A failed US attempt to kill Zawahri in January and possible greater ease of movement for al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan's northwest frontier region might have also contributed to the higher volume of tapes, Katzman said.
Ben Venzke, head of intelligence company IntelCenter whose clients include the US government, said the back-to-back timing of the messages did not mean they were actually designed to produce a threatening crescendo.
"Does this correlate to any kind of future attacks? I think it doesn't lend itself to an easy yes or no," he said, although certain elements of past messages such as references to US territory could indicate an increased likelihood of a future attack.
Venzke saw some of the tapes as a quick al Qaeda response to major events, such as the death of Zarqawi. Others were more general commentaries on current events which were issued when they were ready. Still others were anniversary features issued to mark the date of a past attack.
Growing Media Savvy
In part, experts traced the recent wave of messages to al Qaeda's increasing media savvy and better logistics.
"It's a result of their ongoing propaganda efforts which have become even more sophisticated," a US counterterrorism official said. "It demonstrates that they've greased the wheels. They've gotten better at this with time."
Coupled with its growing production expertise, al Qaeda leaders have increasingly felt compelled to reassure followers after setbacks while claiming credit for events that seem favorable to their cause.
"Bin Laden and Zawahri are trying to piggy-back on events they consider favorable, such as the Taliban resurgence, the upsurge of Islamic militants in Pakistan, the takeover by the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia. By coming out with this many videos, they are trying to give the impression that 'this is because of us,"' Katzman said.
Gen. Russ Howard, an Army terrorism expert who retired last year, said al Qaeda might be trying to debunk US assertions that the organization was losing central control of its supporters to local or "homegrown" Islamic militants who operate independently.
"This may be a bit of propaganda asserting that there is some type of central control -- that maybe we have this all wrong," Howard said. "It may be a way of telling those franchise groups or wannabe groups that al Qaeda is still in the game, even despite the killing of Zarqawi."
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Philippine rebels create special assassination unit
THE ABU Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines has created a new unit specialising in close-quarter assassinations, a military officials have warned.
The Philippine Star newspaper reported the Army's Southcom information officer, Capt Jose Pabilonia, as saying that the new unit - believed to be called Abu Sofian - is suspected of being behind the killing of four Philippine soldiers in Sulu in June.
Last month, two army troops were killed in close-quarters shootings in separate incidents in Patikul and Indanan. Two other men were shot dead in what the newspaper said were ASG hits on suspected security force informers.
Capt Pabiliona said the assassination unit was most likely comprised of new recruits, mainly from Basilan island, who were being given experience by the ASG ahead of their use in operations elsewhere in the Sulu archipelago.
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Luciano Daniel, arrested after a gun battle on his ranch, is accused of smuggling 300kg (660lb) of cocaine paste from Bolivia each month.
Eight others were also arrested - four of them at the ranch."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Mr Daniel's arrest comes less than two months after Brazilian police seized Pablo Rayo Montano, a Colombian trafficker wanted as one of the world's most prolific smugglers."
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"KREKAR HONORS AL-ZARQAWI"
June 22, 2006
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"UK jihadist vows to ignore 7/7 silence"
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What does Britain gain by continuing to allow this traitor to live (and recruit) among them? "Muslim Fanatic Vows To Ignore 7/7 Silence," from LifeStyleExtra, with thanks to DFS:
Defiant Muslim fanatic Anjem Choudary today vowed to ignore tomorrow's two minutes silence for the 52 people killed in the July 7 bombings.
Choudary, the former spokesman for extremist group Al-Muhajiroun who now heads Al-Ghurabaa, who has previously refused to condemn the bombings, labelled tomorrow's commemoration a "duplicity"."
PLOT TO BOMB NY TUNNEL: REPORT
July 07, 2006
A PLOT to bomb New York's Holland Tunnel in an effort to flood the Wall Street financial district has been uncovered by the FBI, with a suspect arrested in Lebanon, New York's Daily News reported today.
The newspaper, quoting unidentified counter-terrorism sources, said the investigation involved what officials considered a "serious plot" to detonate enough explosives inside the landmark tunnel to destroy it and send devastating floodwaters through lower Manhattan.
The 79-year-old tunnel runs under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan and carried almost 34 million vehicles in 2005.
The Daily News said authorities in Beirut, at the request of US officials, arrested one of the suspected conspirators, identified as Amir Andalousli, in recent months and that agents were seeking other suspects around the world.
The newspaper said the FBI and New York police officials declined comment on the investigation, which it quoted a source as describing as "ongoing."
The Daily News quoted a counterterrorism source as saying officials were alarmed because the plotters allegedly got a pledge of financial and tactical support from Jordanian associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq before he was killed last month in a US air strike.
The paper said it was not clear if any cash or assistance was delivered.
Lebanon's Government had been asked by the United States to hold off on announcing the arrest while operations to disrupt the plot were continuing, the Daily News quoted sources as saying.
It said New York officials, according to sources, believed the plan could conceivably work with enough explosives placed in the middle of the tunnel.
But it added that some experts did not consider the plan feasible because the tunnel was protected by concrete and cast-iron steel and that even if the tunnel cracked, the Wall Street district would not flood because it was above the level of the river.
Seven men were charged in the United States last month with conspiring to blow up the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI buildings in Miami and four other cities as part of a pledge to al-Qaeda to wage war against America.
US officials said the plot never went beyond the earliest stages.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19716805-1702,00.html
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Bomb tunnel, flood city
One man is busted in Beirut, others hunted across
globe and terrorists are seen linked to Zarqawi
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