Threat Matrix: April 2008

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Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army

Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years.

This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and Germany is likely to make a bigger commitment.

But American and Afghan government sources with knowledge of the expected Afghan proposal say that an increase from the current authorization of 86,000 Afghan Army soldiers to 120,000 is the only way to create an enduring defense against a resurgent Taliban and elusive Al Qaeda operatives. Read More

	France May Send More Troops to Afghanistan
	Special Operations Increase Possible for Iraq
	Al-Qaeda Grooming Militants Who 'Look Western': CIA Chief

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[Cindy]

Obviously not a Christian school.

Thanks Mama Dearest for the heads up.

[Cindy]

RECAP and UPDATED:

WESTERN RESISTANCE.com - blog: "UK: THREE MUSLIMS ON TRIAL FOR ASSISTING 7/7 PLOTTERS" (April 10, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): London - "FAILED JULY 2005 BOMBERS JAILED FOR LIFE" (July 11, 2007)

BBC NEWS: "FOUR GUILTY OVER 21/7 BOMB PLOT" (Last updated July 9, 2007, 19:53 GMT, 20:53 UK)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog: "VIDEO: THE FAILED LONDON BOMBER CONVICTIONS" (July 9, 2007)

YouTube.com: "21.07.05. FAILED LONDON BOMBERS VERDICT" (July 9, 2007)

More Videos (Re 21.07.05)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ITV NEWS): "PROFILE OF THE JULY 21 PLOTTERS" (July 9, 2007)

More LInks (July 9, 2007)

INTERNET-HAGANAH: "A FATWA FOR THE LEGITIMACY OF THE LONDON BOMBINGS" (July 17, 2005)

E-PRISM.ORG- Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center - THE PROJECT FOR THE RESEARCH OF ISLAMIST MOVEMENTS (PRISM) - OCCASIONAL PAPERS Volume 3 (2005), Number 4 (July 2005) Director and Editor: Reuven Paz: "'Islamic Legitimacy for the London Bombings'" by Reuven Paz (July 17, 2005) (pdf)

E-PRISM.ORG - Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center - THE PROJECT FOR THE RESEARCH OF ISLAMIST MOVEMENTS (PRISM) - OCCASIONAL PAPERS Volume 3 (2005), Number 3 (July 2005) Director and Editor: Reuven Paz: "'FROM MADRID TO LONDON: AL-QAEDA EXPORTS THE WAR IN IRAQ TO EUROPE'" by Reuven Paz (pdf)

INTERNET-HAGANAH (E-PRISM.ORG): "'FROM MADRID TO LONDON: AL-QAEDA EXPORTS THE WAR IN IRAQ TO EUROPE'" by Reuven Paz (July 10, 2005) (HTML)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: Leeds, England - "LONDON TERROR SEARCH GOES GLOBAL" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police in Cairo have detained a biochemist who studied in the United States and taught at a university in Leeds -- the home base for at least three of the London bombers.") (July 16, 2005)

SAAG.org - Paper no.1456: "LONDON BLASTS --- FROM PAKISTAN WITH LOVE" by B. Raman (July 13, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH: "LONDON CALLING, Part 4 (July 13, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH: "LONDON CALLING, Part 3" (July 11, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH: "LONDON CALLING, Part 2" (July 9, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "LONDON CALLING..." (July 7, 2005)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE NEXT LONDON BOMBING" by Daniel Pipes (July 11, 2005)

CNS NEWS.com: "LONDON A LONGTIME HAVEN FOR RADICAL MUSLIM FIGURES" by Patrick Goodenough (July 11, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "ISLAMIC REFORMIST HOSTS WEBSITE USED BY GROUP TO CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY" (July 9, 2005)

SOFIR.org - Society for Internet Research - Report No. 3: "The associations, domains and web sites of the designated Terrorist Sa'ad Rashed Mohammad Al-Fagih." (May 28, 2005)

ISLAM-ONLINE.net: "ANOTHER CLAIM OF LONDON BLASTS BY AL-QAEDA" (July 9, 2005)

DANIELPIPES.org (NEW YORK SUN): "[LONDON TERRORISM:] BRITISH 'COVENANT OF SECURITY' WITH ISLAMISTS ENDS" by Daniel Pipes (July 8, 2005)

FOX NEWS.com: "TERRORISTS BEHIND LONDON ATTACKS SOUGHT" (July 8, 2005)

DHS.gov - Press Release: "TRANSCRIPT FROM SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF PRESS BRIEFING ON THE LONDON BOMBINGS" (July 7, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "HAS ANYONE SPOKEN WITH OMAR BAKRI TODAY?" (July 7, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "MUSLIM CLERIC SAYS ATTACK ON LONDON 'INEVITABLE'" (April 18, 2004)

An Interview with GLEN JENVEY by David Storobin, Esq., published online at GloblalPolitician.com (July 7, 2005)

[Cindy]

ADDING to post no. 535:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1995304/posts?page=535#535

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blog:

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/004024.html

April 11, 2008
“UK: Muslim Doctor Admits Terror Charge”

[Cindy]

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

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blog:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/6770.htm
(”Sources: Iribnews.ir, IRNA, Irib World Service Radio, and ISNA, Iran, April 11, 2008”)

“Friday Sermon: Talks Best Way To Resolve Iran’s Nuclear Dossier, UAE’s Claim To Islands ‘Historic Mistake Insinuated By West’”
(Posted April 11, 2008)

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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/6759.htm

Iranian Official: Achievement Of Nuclear Capability Will Enhance Our Bargaining Power

Hossein Nejabat, member of the Majlis (Parliament) Presidency Committee, has said that Iran’s achieving nuclear capability will enhance its bargaining ability in foreign affairs.

Source: Kayhan, Iran, April 10, 2008

Posted at: 2008-04-11

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000818/posts

“The Oil Connection”
American Thinker ^ | April 13, 2008 | John Robinson
Posted on April 13, 2008 12:55:25 AM PDT by neverdem

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/china/

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08040076.htm

Saturday, April 12, 2008
“China: fears for life of employee of British firm facing trial in Xinjiang”

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
XINGJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08040075.htm

Saturday, April 12, 2008
“Uyghur Christian faces possible execution for Subversion of National Government”

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
XINJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA

[Cindy]

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/04/trying_to_stay_one_step_ahead.php

“Trying to Stay One Step Ahead of the Terrorists”
By Andrew Cochran
(April 11, 2008)

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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/04/the_atomization_of_terrorist_e.php

“The Atomization of Terrorist Efforts”
By Douglas Farah
(April 11, 2008)

[Cindy]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/METRO/397914640/1001

Page 1 of 2
“Surveillance quietly expands in city”
By Gary Emerling
April 13, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Smile, Washington — the cameras are rolling whether you know it or not.

Police and homeland security officials say they will not post signs around the more than 5,200 cameras being consolidated into one network under an initiative announced by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”As it stands now, MPD will only mark crime cameras,” Miss Hughes said. “The others are operated by homeland security.”

Police will, however, still have access to footage from the other cameras under the Video Interoperability for Public Safety program announced last week.”

[Cindy]

Is it global jihad; jihad; cartoon jihad; film jihad; soccer ball jihad; football jihad; flying kites jihad; koran/quran and toilets jihad or a yet to be discovered jihad?

Nope.

Is it jihad?

Nope, unless it’s a struggle to get the lid off, I suppose.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3530799,00.html

“Thousand Island dressing stirs Muslim row”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Website calls on Israeli Arabs to avoid dressing after consumer discovers it contains alcohol”

Roee Nahmias
Published: 04.13.08, 10:28 / Israel Culture

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A website affiliated with the northern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement warned its readers to avoid a brand of Thousand Island dressing produced by a well-known Israeli company. The warning was issued after a local Arab discovered that the dressing contains alcohol.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/freespeech

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blog:

Note: Includes great hypertext links, too.

http://ezralevant.com/2008/04/thoughts-from-new-york.html

“Thoughts from New York”
By Ezra Levant on April 11, 2008 7:38 PM
NYC conference

SNIPPET: “I was travelling all day Wednesday to make it to New York for yesterday’s fascinating conference on free speech in the age of jihad.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000806/posts

“’World peace’ hitcher is murdered”
BBC News ^ | 4/12/08 | BBC News
Posted on April 12, 2008 11:21:16 PM PDT by ME-262

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.

The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday.

She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.”

[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

“Worldwide Caution”
January 17, 2008

SNIPPET: “This Worldwide Caution updates information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests throughout the world. American citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness.”

[Godzilla]

placemark

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

[An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.]

I wonder how long it will take for some Italian court to decide that the US is liable because we didn’t send along a Marine platoon or two to protect the silly twit.

(Hoping that I didn’t just give inspiration to some lawyer...)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/northkorea
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nkorea

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000925/posts

N. Korea: Indication of another missile test (Kyodo News)
Segye Ilbo ^ | 04/13/08 | Chung Seung-wook
Posted on April 13, 2008 8:16:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

/begin my translation

N. Korea: Indication of another missile test (Kyodo News)

U.S. “spotted training activities at a base near Pyongyang”

According to Apr. 13 dispatch of Kyodo News, U.S. military intelligence has picked up lots of movements in a recent few days near a missile launch base at Shinori located to the N. West of Pyongyang.

It reported that U.S. spy satellite has been watching over the N. Korean movements, which also spotted their training activities at the base. U.S. military has not determined what these activities are for, but some suspect that N. Korea is preparing for test-launch of medium or long-range ballistic missiles.

According to photos taken by the spy satellite over the Shinori missile base in a recent few weeks, movements of troops, vehicles, and materials have been picking up, and it is above the (normal) level which has been regularly observed.

The report also added, “N. Korean launch of three ship-to-ship missiles late last month at Yellow Sea appears to be a move to counter the announcement that Conservative president Lee Myung-bak (of S. Korea) would like to modify appeasement policy. “

Tokyo = Chung Seung-wook

/end my translation

[Cindy]

blog:

http://noburqua.blogspot.com/2008/04/two-aid-workers-feared-kidnapped-in.html

(AFP)

SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
“Two Aid Workers Feared Kidnapped in Afghanistan”

[Cindy]

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

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PHOTO CAPTION: “Aircraft will be banned from flying under 3,000 feet
while the Pope is at Ground Zero”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/12/wpope112.xml

“Pope will pray for terrorists at Ground Zero”
By Malcolm Moore in Rome
Last Updated: 1:42am BST 12/04/2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Pope will pray for the redemption of Islamic terrorists when he visits the site of the September 11 attacks in New York next week.

The pontiff will call for terrorists to convert to Christianity, saying: “Turn to Your way of love those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred.

“God of understanding, overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy, we seek your light and guidance”.”

[Cindy]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3531152,00.html

“Materials used in producing explosives siezed in West Bank”
Published: 04.13.08, 15:05 / Israel News

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hamas
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jimmycarter
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/carter

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An early morning STUCK ON STUPID award winner: JIMMY CARTER.

Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3531189,00.html

Carter ‘quite at ease’ about meeting Hamas’ head
Published: 04.13.08, 16:01 / Israel News

Former US President Jimmy Carter, broker of the first Israeli-Arab peace treaty, is getting a cool reception on his latest mission to the region: Israeli leaders are shunning him for accusing the Jewish state of apartheid and planning to meet with the head of the violently anti-Israel Hamas group.

Ahead of his arrival in Israel, Carter said he feels “quite at ease” about meeting Hamas militants. “I think there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process,” he said. (AP)

[Cindy]

I understand.