Threat Matrix: September 2007

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The Birth of al Qaedastan

In the year 2016, the world may find itself gloomily marking September 6 as the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan. The Emirate received de facto recognition when the Taliban used the name on the ceasefire agreement they signed with Pakistan on that day in 2006. If things go terribly wrong in the coming decade, they could come to rule a mountainous fragment of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Emirate would be a nightmare state: Osama bin Laden as sultan, Ayman al Zawahiri as vizier, and Mullah Omar the spiritual leader. An economy built on smuggling and heroin. Primary export: terrorism. Welcome to ‘Al Qaedastan’.

Analysts say the rise of a terrorist state straddling the rugged area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is now viable. The reason is a number of troubling trends. One, the revival of a Taliban firmly in the control of Al Qaeda. Two, the seeming inability of either Kabul or Islamabad to defeat the new threat militarily. Three, and the most striking, the Taliban’s systematic supplanting of the traditional tribal leadership in the area. Full story...

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[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890027/posts?page=2313#2313

ADDING 2 LINKS to post no. 2313:

http://saag.org/papers24/paper2396.html

Paper no. 2396

01-Oct-2007
“Copy-Cat Bali In Male - International Terrorism Monitor-—Paper No. 285”
By B. Raman

[Cindy]

http://www.saag.org

[milford421]

“Chess anyone?”

Check.

[Cindy]

Syria and Iran; Iran and Syria....like a hand in a glove and the glove fits perfectly.

[Cindy]

Thank you jellyjam.

I’ll be watching for updates on this.

[Cindy]

That’s GOOD NEWS.

Thanks Oorang.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taleban

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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27314_More_Taliban_Barbarism&only

More Taliban Barbarism
Mon, Oct 1, 2007 at 10:11:56 am PST

Afghan Teenager With US Dollars Hanged.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.

The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world’s No. 1 poppy- growing region.

“The Taliban warned villagers that they would face the same punishment if they were caught with dollars,” said Wali Mohammad, the district police chief in Sangin.

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905094/posts

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411524152&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Oct 1, 2007 16:46 | Updated Oct 1, 2007 17:02
“Iran threatens to attack 170 US targets”
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Iran threatened Monday to attack some 170 American targets in the Middle East and around the world if it is attacked by Israel or the US, Israel Radio reported.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran

http://www.memri.org/iran.html

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SP172807

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1728
October 1, 2007 No.1728

“Activists Tell of Iranian Authorities’ Persecution of Arab Population in Iran’s Al-Ahwaz Province”

SNIPPET: “The following are excerpts from a debate on the Arabs of Iran’s Al-Ahwaz province, which aired on ANB TV on September 7, 2007.

To view the clip visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1567.htm “

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http://memritv.org/subject/en/121.htm

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/3070.htm

[Oorang]

You’re welcome Cindy.

[Oorang]

We lack resources to probe terrorist finances: CSIS, RCMP
October 1, 2007

OTTAWA - Canada's under-funded and under-staffed police and intelligence agencies are doing their best to combat terrorist financing, but they desperately need more money and more personnel to get the job done, the Air India inquiry has heard. RCMP Supt. Rick Reynolds testified Monday that only two charges have been laid - and so far no convictions have been obtained - in the six years since federal legislation was enacted to crack down on terrorist fundraising.

Reynolds said he asked for 126 people, including support staff and intelligence analysts as well as front-line criminal investigators, when the RCMP terrorist financing unit was set up in 2001. "That was - from my position when I initially put in - what I felt our needs would be," he told the inquiry headed by former Supreme Court justice John Major. Instead he got a modest $2.8 million in funding that allowed him to take on just 17 people. Reynolds recently received word that he'll be able to add 33 more, although he couldn't give precise budget figures for them or predict exactly when the new staff will be in place.

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/09/19/4508984-cp.html

[appalachian_dweller]

Howdy Folks!

Now online again! Time to talk preparedness. Again. Time is growing short. Six years since the 911 attacks and the days tick by. Folks say we are better at preventing attacks then we were before. Don’t know them, don’t trust them.

We will be hit again. How do I know? Ask yourself, have we killed the enemy? Then ask the same question.

Folks, we will be hit again for the simple reason we have not killed our adversity whole sale as they will to kill us. Unless we take off the gloves (which we will not), we will be hit again.

I’ve always thought about short-term survival. While it’s necessary to overcome short-term perils, I have not been speaking to the long term implications of survival without electricity and other essential utilities. Would be most interested in what you folks have to offer.

VERY glad to be back.

[LucyT]

Hi AD, welcome back; we’ve missed you. Hope you’re well; how’s the dawg (Clyde?).

Thanks for the reminder, I need to go over your list again, and maybe upgrade a few things.

[Oorang]

Norway: The Country of Peace Meets the Religion of Peace
10/3/2007

Norwegian police have discovered that a large number of Pakistani taxi drivers, many of whom have already been charged with tax evasion in one of the worst cases of welfare fraud in the nation's history, have close contact with Pakistani gangs and operate as couriers of arms and drugs.

In the city of Oslo it is documented that criminal Pakistani gangs also have close ties to Jihadist groups at home and abroad. This despite the fact that Norway, a nation of peace and home to the Nobel Peace Prize, should presumably get along just fine with Islam, which is, as we all know, a religion of peace.

Minister Bjarne Håkon Hanssen from the Labour Party has called for increased immigration from Pakistan because this would be good for the economy. The majority of Muslims voted for the Labour Party in the 2005 elections, which the left-wing coalition won by a very slim margin. Eighty-three percent of Muslims voted for Leftist parties, just as all over Western Europe.

Kristin Halvorsen, the leader of the Socialist Left Party, began her election campaign in 2005 in the Pakistani countryside, praising all the "blood, sweat and tears Pakistanis in Norway have spent on building the country." She is now Norway's Minister of Finance.

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http://www.globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3545&cid=3&sid=102

[Oorang]

Adding on to both your posts regarding the attempted attack on the US embassy in Vienna.

Bosnian Muslim arrested over terror attack on US Embassy
October 1, 2007

VIENNA, Austria - A Bosnian who tried to enter the U.S. Embassy in Vienna with a backpack filled with explosives, nails and Islamic literature was arrested Monday after the bag set off a metal detector and the man fled on foot, authorities said.

Police sealed off the neighborhood as a precaution and shut down or rerouted nearby bus and tram lines. Officers patrolled the area with bomb-sniffing dogs. The suspect was described only as a 42-year-old native of Bosnia-Herzegovina who now lives in the province of Lower Austria, which encircles most of the capital. Police said they made the arrest a short distance from the embassy building in a neighborhood where security is tight.

Vienna police spokeswoman Michaela Raz said explosives experts were examining the contents of the backpack. "There were a lot of nails in that bag. Had it exploded, it would have had an enormous shrapnel effect," said Doris Edelbacher, of Austria's federal counterterrorism office. The explosives resembled hand grenades, she told reporters, but that munitions experts were still working to determine whether the device had been properly rigged to explode.

The suspect spoke broken German and appeared to ramble during an initial interrogation, Edelbacher said. It was unclear how far he made it into the embassy. Public broadcaster ORF, citing unidentified officials, reported that a metal detector sounded an alarm as the man was passing through security checks and that he fled immediately.

The nature of the Islamic material he allegedly was carrying also was unclear. Embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Last month, authorities arrested three people — all Austrian citizens of Arab origin in their 20s — in connection with a video posted online in March that had threatened Austria and Germany with attacks if they did not withdraw their military personnel from Afghanistan. One of the suspects was released several days later for lack of evidence.

On Friday, the Interior Ministry said it found a list of politicians circulating online as potential targets for attacks. The individuals were notified, but authorities said there were no indications that any of them were ever in danger.

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/02669.shtml

[Oorang]

Wahhabism tightening grip over Kosovo

[Cindy]

Thank you, Oorang for that link and more details.
I’ll add it to the list tonight.

[Cindy]

log:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27317_Bravely_Fighting_Islamophobia_in_Britain&only
“Bravely Fighting Islamophobia in Britain”
Mon, Oct 1, 2007 at 12:43:53 pm PST

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http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-20/0710011493150652.htm

“UK Muslims launch campaign to counter Islamophobia”
London, Oct 1, IRNA

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “An advertising campaign was launched by British Muslims Monday to counter an new surge in Islamophobic attacks following attempting car bombings in London and at Glasgow airport in July.”

[Cindy]

sp=blog

[Oorang]

Jordanian court convicts alleged al-Qaida poet for slandering king
Oct 1, 2007

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's military court convicted Monday a man posted Web poems sympathetic to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden and sentenced him to 18 months in prison for slandering Jordan's king.

Mohammed al-Zuhairi had become known on Islamic militant Web sites as the "poet of al-Qaida" for his verses praising bin Laden, the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other figures in the terror network, according to the indictment sheet.

Among the messages were lines harming the dignity of Jordan's King Abdullah II, prosecutors said. Al-Zuhairi was arrested and charged last August.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411524352&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Burqa bomber kills 16
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber disguised in a woman’s burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost in Bannu, NWFP on Monday, killing at least 16 people including four policemen, officials said. “A man disguised in a burqa got out of an auto-rickshaw when police stopped the vehicle for a search at a checkpoint. He then blew himself up,” police officer Asar Islam told AFP.

Examination of the remains “confirmed that it was a male suicide bomber” wearing women’s clothing, while initial reports of a possible female attacker had been discounted, Bannu police chief Ameer Hamza Mahsud said. 29 people injured: Interior Ministry spokesman Brig Javed Cheema said 16 people were killed and 29 were wounded and that authorities were investigating the blast.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\02\story_2-10-2007_pg1_6