| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
|
Locked on 10/02/2007 7:20:00 PM PDT by Lead Moderator, reason:
New Thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905661/posts |
Posted on 09/01/2007 6:24:54 PM PDT by nwctwx
PESHAWAR: Unidentified assailants shot dead Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader and Wafaqul Madaris Vice Chairman Maulana Hassan Jan in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot police station here on Saturday, police said.
SSP Tahir Khan said the assailants took Hassan from his house on some pretext during Iftari and later killed him at a deserted place in the Wazir Bagh area. Peshawar Nazim Haji Ghulam Ali quoted Hassan’s relatives as saying that some people came to his house on Friday and requested him to solemnise a marriage on Saturday. Hassan, a former MNA, also issued a fatwa against suicide attacks.
AP adds: He along with a group of Pakistani clerics traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to convince Mullah Omar that he should expel Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan to avoid American attacks.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\16\story_16-9-2007_pg1_5
What the Muslim Brotherhood Means for America: Memo Reveals Plan to Destroy US From Within
In a Texas courtroom, perhaps the most important case ever to be tried in our country is unfolding. FSM Contributing Editor Rod Dreher reports on what is revealed there: the Jihadis’ shocking 40-year plan to destroy America from within, having succeeded thus far without most of America even aware.
Excerpted
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=1330410
Last February, in the quiet of a secluded northern Italian country house, three Italian far left militants brainstormed, unaware that counter-terrorism officials were listening to their every word.
The men were known members of the so-called "New Red Brigades," discussing new strategies for the group. Alfredo Davanzo, the ideologue of the group who had just returned from France using a forged passport, spoke about the need to overcome the organization's isolation, caused by its secrecy and the waves of arrests it had suffered (ironically, the three would be arrested the following Monday).
The group, said the men, should find new venues for their recruitment efforts and pointed to Italian mosques, described as "propellers of protests and struggles," as one of the most obvious choices (Corriere della Sera, July 30). The conversation is just another indication of what Italian intelligence officials have warned about for the last few years: some of the most militant segments of the Italian extreme left have displayed an increasing interest in and admiration for radical Islam. What has been only purely moral support up to now could possibly develop into a dangerous cooperation.
Excerpted
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373642
Some good news.......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897415/posts
'You Have Liberated a People' Iraqis of all sects report progress, not "civil war" (Must Read).
Thanks to mojito for the post.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411413481&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
French FM Kouchner: ‘We must prepare for war against Iran’
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 16, 2007
The nuclear Iranian crisis forces the world “to prepare for the worst” which “is war,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Sunday evening, while emphasizing that negotiations should still be the preferred course of action.
Kouchner, quoted by French daily Le Figaro, added that “Iran does whatever it pleases in Iraq ... one cannot find in the entire world a crisis greater than this one.”
JFK terror plot probe
Sunday, September 16th 2007
Two leading figures in the small Shiite Muslim community in Guyana are on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) radar and last month four US agents came to Georgetown to question them as investigations into the alleged terrorist plot to blow up fuel tanks at the JFK Airport, New York continue.
Acting Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene confirmed to Stabroek News that the men were invited to Police headquarters Eve Leary where four FBI agents interviewed them. Greene declined to comment further on the matter.
In June this year, the US revealed that former PNCR MP Abdul Kadir, Abdel Nur, Guyanese born US citizen Russell Defreitas and Trinidadian, Kareem Ibrahim had allegedly plotted to blow up fuel tanks at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. All four of the men are in custody. Kadir, Ibrahim and Nur are in Port of Spain Trinidad, where they were arrested and Defreitas is in the US. While Defreitas' matter is being heard in a Brooklyn Court, the other three men are awaiting extradition to the US to face their charges.
One of the two Shiite leaders whom the FBI questioned resides in Linden, while the other lives on the East Coast Demerara. The East Coast Demerara resident, who asked to remain anonymous, told this newspaper that local police invited him to Eve Leary last month, where the FBI agents questioned him for about two hours. The man disclosed that the officers asked him some basic questions with regard to his whereabouts, family and his standing as a Muslim. He was also asked why he became a Muslim, among other things. As far as the man was concerned he was not being viewed as a suspect.
He said he believed the US's interest in him was because of his past connections with a local Muslim college with which Kadir also had connections. Asked whether the FBI had finished with him, the man said he would think so, since there was nothing else that the officials seemed to have wanted to question him about. Stabroek News was unable to make contact with the Lindener.
It was not clear whether the two men were among the persons the US had referred to as Individuals A, B, C, E, F and G in the indictments against the four terror suspects, indicating that they wanted to question them. According to US court documents, at least six other Guyanese might have been directly involved in or had knowledge of the plot to blow up pipelines and fuel storage tanks at the airport. Court documents did not name these individuals, but authorities in Georgetown and the US knew who they were.
President Bharrat Jagdeo had told a media conference, weeks after the plot was exposed that other Guyanese were being looked at. This newspaper was told that local police had contacted at least two of the men.
The US government informant who blew the whistle about the alleged plan and Defreitas, said to be the mastermind of the plot, allegedly met those individuals collectively and separately at other times in Guyana around mid-August last year. Defreitas and the informant had stayed in Guyana for an extended period, according to the document.
Stabroek News was told recently that Individual E, who the document suggests was a businessman with an office in Georgetown, was being sought by local police. However, according to reports the man had vacated his office and was thought to have fled into the interior. Individual E, according court documents, had told the informant during a conversation that he helped "brothers" who had a basic knowledge of Islam to perform Jihad (holy war). "He said that he takes care of the individuals' basic needs while they are performing their jihad duties," the document stated.
Meanwhile, the same man who had once held a post at the now defunct International Islamic College of Advanced Studies had told this newspaper earlier this year that the police should re-open the case into the killing of Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim, the Muslim cleric who was kidnapped and later found dead three years ago.
The man said then that several persons who had worked closely with Ibrahim might have information relating to the identity of those who killed him and the police should pursue these people relentlessly. His statements were made following the announcement of the alleged terror plot. Ibrahimi had been a close friend of Kadir. Two gunmen had abducted Ibrahimi in April 2004 and his body was found several weeks later, face down in a shallow grave. He had been shot twice in the head. According to the man, Ibrahimi would likely have known the persons who snatched him from the school and later killed him.
http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=56528931
That is excellent news, thanks much fanfan.
Point taken regarding “noob”.
However, this thread has a few very powerful driving forces, and one of them is Cindy. I would rather see too much from her than not enough. I, for one, am glad that the latest portion of the thread has links so I don’t have to go back to earlier postings to look for them. If that means there are some repeats, I’m okay with it.
It’s not about logic. It’s about people.
Thanks for the update.
Hmmm...”Records on North Korean ship docked in Syria were altered”
If altering ship records is as serious as altering big rig truck records; this ship may not be sailing as many places as before.
Interesting article.
Thanks Oorang.
Thank you fanfan.
That is encouraging.
Thanks Oorang.
I’ll add this post # 1465) to my link set.
###
Memory Joggers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jfkplot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jfkairport
FBI.gov - Seeking Information: "ADNAN G. EL SHUKRIJUMAH" (ALIASES: "Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah; Abu Arif; Ja'far Al-Tayar; Jaffar Al-Tayyar; Jafar Tayar; Jaafar Al-Tayyar") (VIEW POSTER. Click Here.)
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/shared/images/2007/09/16/n11.jpg
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161203447
“Maracas taxi-driver missing”
Sunday, September 16th 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “THE family of a Maracas Bay taxi-driver fears that he may have been abducted and is asking that anyone who has seen either him or his black Nissan Almera to please call the police.
Missing since Monday is Emos Superville, 33.”
Thanks to Tiger Likes Rooster for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897421/posts
“A tale of two dictatorships: The links between North Korea and Syria (two hereditary dictatorship)”
Sunday Times(Times Online) ^ | 09/16/07 | Michael Sheridan
Posted on 09/16/2007 9:33:33 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=converts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=reverts
#
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896951/posts
#
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018155.php
September 16, 2007
“Converts to Islam misunderstand their new religion, play increasingly influential role in Islamic jihad networks”
-Berlin
#
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892932/posts
#
http://www.slate.com/id/2173561/
“The Convert’s Zeal
Radical Islamism has become a magnet for some of the world’s angriest people.”
By Daniel Benjamin
Posted Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, at 5:15 PM ET
You’re welcome Cindy. I would think changing the records of a ship would be a pretty serious crime.
CORPUS CHRISTI — Police and the FBI are investigating after someone shot through the door of a mosque during Ramadan, a monthlong religious celebration involving dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayer and charity.
The bullet pierced the top aluminum frame of a glass entry door at The Islamic Center of South Texas on Friday afternoon. Witnesses said they heard two gunshots, but investigators have found evidence of only one shot hitting the mosque, Corpus Christi police Cmdr. Jesse Garcia said. "We're sure it's a high-caliber weapon, based on the damage," Garcia said.
Pieces of the bullet have been recovered for testing, but police have yet to name any suspects and haven't determined whether the incident is a hate crime.
Osama Bahloul, the spiritual leader of the mosque, is among about 600 members of the center who are celebrating Ramadan. "We hope this is the end of it," he said. "But we are genuinely concerned about our people. We have a large number of children here this month, and if he or she did this again someone could be killed." Bahloul said the center will install video cameras and members have been reminded to be aware of their surroundings.
Police have searched flower beds at an apartment complex across the street from the mosque and FBI agents went door to door to interview possible witnesses. The FBI is adding $5,000 to the Crime Stoppers reward to bring it to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest in the case, FBI spokeswoman Patricia Villafranca said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5139264.html
“Russia suspect running to be MP”
Guess that’s one way to cover a glowing hot trail. His “respect” for the uber soviet *Z guy* (learned long ago into Russian Lit to use initials) is very interesting too.
“I, for one, am glad that the latest portion of the thread has links so I don’t have to go back to earlier postings to look for them. If that means there are some repeats, I’m okay with it.”
Same here. I’ve followed this TM since the first thread and I’m grateful for the links especially since I don’t have time to read everything as much as I would like to do so. Cindy’s links have made it possible for me and many others to grasp what has been going on and she truly is a “Point of Light”.
Thanks, DC. I, too, am part of the Cindy, Oorang, nwctwx, Velveeta, callmejoe, Godzilla, et al. fan club. Don’t know what we would do without their tremendous research and links. If the complainers and naysayers don’t like it, they can, quite simply, go elsewhere.
FR and the TM are electives. Not mandatory.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
