Threat Matrix: June 2008

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The Hunt for American al Qaeda

The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty.

The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture.

Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have already begun airing. Additionally, printed materials including matchbooks, handbills and posters will be distributed throughout the region in the coming weeks in attempts to elicit cooperation from members of the Afghan community. Read More

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[Cindy]

EVENT:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033959/posts

[Cindy]

Note: Video and Transcript included.

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1795.htm

“Title of Video: A Lebanese Restaurant Serves Sandwiches “That Can Kill You””

“Clip #1795 Broadcast: June 12, 2008”

[Cindy]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/previousdetail.php?id=128349

“Insurgents kill 3-year-old boy, dad in South”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(BangkokPost.com) - Insurgents shot dead a three-year old boy and his father in the southern district of Yala on Thursday morning.

The boy, identified as Anas Doloh, was shot with his 45-year-old father Korbay when they were riding a motorcycle to rubber plantation in Bannang Sata district.”

Jun 19, 2008

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T104&pid=167&sid=13&preview=
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizballah
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizbullah

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http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8073.htm

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=IA44808

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 448
June 17, 2008 No. 448

“The Iranian Roots of Hizbullah”
By: Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli

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http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8053.htm
(”Source: IRNA, Iran, June 19, 2008, Press TV, June 18, 2008”)

“Larijani: If U.S. Miscalculates Again, Iran Will Change Conditions Of U.S. In Region; Hizbullah, Hamas Pioneers Of Change In Today’s World”

Posted June 19, 2008

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iran
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BLOG:

Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8073.htm

Iranian Ambassador To Syria: Iran Willing To Share Nuclear Experience With Syria

Ahmad Mossavi, Iranian Ambassador to Syria and advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said that Iran would be willing to share its nuclear experience with Syria if it asked, and that this would be done under IAEA oversight.

Source: Al-Sharq, Qatar, June 18, 2008

Posted at: 2008-06-20

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ahmadinejad
www.ahmadinejad.ir/

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BLOG:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8052.htm
(”Source: Ahmadinejad’s blog, June 11, 2008”

“Ahmadinejad In Blog: How Can We Not See The Divine Halos And Waves Of Light Guiding Us And The Revolution?”

BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: “”The seeing of the divine light in politics, and in the serial victories taking place, from Lebanon and Palestine to Iraq, Iran, and New York, is in favor of the values of the [Islamic] revolution and Islam, and in favor those who were raised on Khomeini’s monotheistic culture. For the generation of the revolution, this matter is not foreign; rather, not seeing the halo of light is what is strange and misses the truth.””

Posted at: 2008-06-19

[Cindy]

Note: In post no. 724, this url (http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8073.htm ) DOES NOT BELONG in the section “The Iranian Roots of Hizbullah.”

[Cindy]

Let’s see how the “peace” process is coming along...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794289281&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

JPost.com » Israel » Article

Jun 20, 2008 14:20 | Updated Jun 20, 2008 21:36
“3 hikers wounded in West Bank attack”
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Three Israelis were wounded Friday in a shooting attack against a group of hikers near Neveh Tzuf, northwest of Ramallah.

The five hikers were attacked by two masked terrorists who opened fire at them - seriously wounding one of the men. Two others suffered moderate and light wounds. The gunmen then fled the scene.”

[Cindy]

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

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Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3558205,00.html

Hamas says smuggling to go on despite Gaza truce
Published: 06.20.08, 17:25 / Israel News

Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday the group would not stop smuggling activities in the territory.Stopping smuggling is a central Israeli demand in an Egyptian-brokered Gaza ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas that came into force on Thursday.

“We cannot talk about stopping smuggling because it is something beyond our ability as a government and we did not give a commitment in this regard,” Haniyeh told worshippers before Friday prayers in Gaza City. (Reuters)

[Cindy]

BLOG:

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/004050.html

June 19, 2008

“UK: Honor Violence - Burned For Dating Muslim Girl”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A story that appears to have escaped most newspapers, though it highlights a facet of multiculturalism that multiculturalists would rather not acknowledge. A man has been burned in a car in Forest Gate and suffered serious injuries. He is now fighting for his life. What makes this story more horrific is that the man is Hindu and apparently he was set on fire because he had dated a Muslim girl.

The news appears in a report by the Press Association via the Worthing Herald and in a separate report from the London Paper.”

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50271

Coalition Forces Kill Four, Detain Dozens in Iraq

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2008 – Coalition and Iraq security forces killed four enemy fighters and detained dozens more during several operations over the past few days, military officials said.

Coalition forces killed four terrorists and detained 18 suspected terrorists yesterday and today during operations around Baghdad targeting al-Qaida in Iraq bombing networks.

Coalition forces conducted a series of operations near Balad, targeting the financier behind a bombing network in the Tigris River Valley. At one location today, coalition forces came under attack by small-arms fire from a nearby rooftop. They returned fire and killed four armed men. At other locations yesterday and today, coalition forces detained 16 additional suspected terrorists.

Coalition forces captured a suspected key leader in the al-Qaida in Iraq media network. Another operation netted a man believed to conspire directly with an al-Qaida in Iraq leader in Baghdad who oversees the terrorist network in the city.

In Mosul, coalition forces detained 12 people today, including two wanted men believed to oversee criminal attacks for the al-Qaida in Iraq network, officials said. About 130 kilometers southwest of Mosul, coalition forces found and destroyed three terrorist hideouts and a cache of weapons used by foreign terrorist facilitators near Biaj.

In operations yesterday:

— Iraqi special operations forces captured four suspected cell members for the Islamic State of Iraq, a front organization for al-Qaida in Iraq, in eastern Mosul. Officials say the cell reportedly is responsible for homemade-bomb and mortar attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces.

— Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers operating in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad detained a man suspected of attacks against coalition soldiers and Iraqi security forces. They also located a cache containing bomb-making materials. They also seized grenades, various sized rounds, and artillery fuses in and around Baghdad.

— Iraqi security forces, with advice from coalition forces, started clearing operations in Amarah following a four-day amnesty period for weapons turn-in. During the amnesty period, artillery rounds and a machine gun were turned in to Iraqi security forces, and a militia headquarters was seized after the discovery of a large weapons cache containing hundreds of mines, mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades, and four homemade rocket launchers.

–- Eight weapons caches were found in Baghdad’s Sadr City district.

In operations June 18:

— Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained two men possessing a roadside bomb designed to pierce armor-hulled vehicles, fuses, anti-tank mines, rocket-propelled grenades, a 60 mm mortar, and a pair of two-way radios in the Aamel neighborhood.

— After responding to a tip, soldiers arrested two triggermen waiting to detonate a roadside bomb in the Zubaida area.

— In the Hadar community, soldiers detained a man suspected of numerous roadside-bomb attacks, weapons trafficking, and the murder of innocent Iraqis. They also uncovered a rocket-propelled grenade round with launcher, hand grenades, and about 650 7.62 mm rounds while conducting a combined patrol in the Bayaa neighborhood.

— Iraqi national police saved a kidnapped child while patrolling the New Baghdad security district of eastern Baghdad. The soldiers investigated the source of the child’s screams and found the boy, who claimed he had been kidnapped. Two men were detained for the kidnapping. In the first suspected kidnapper’s house, police found and seized a weapons cache consisting of armor-piercing roadside bombs, RPG launchers, an anti-tank mine, various rifles, a pistol, rounds of various sizes, C-4 explosives, and TNT with blasting caps.

— Iraqi security forces and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers seized various munitions throughout Baghdad.

— Iraqi national police found various ammunition rounds, blasting caps and several belts of RPK ammo in Baghdad’s West Rashid district. In another operation, soldiers found rockets, mortars, armor-piercing roadside bombs, an AK-47, anti-personnel RPGs, three rockets, an RPG propellant, bomb-making materials, anti-tank mines and radios.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cyberwarfare
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50273

“Vice Chairman Cites Need for Cyber Warfare Experimentation”

By Air Force Master Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Special to American Forces Press Service

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 20, 2008

[Cindy]

White jihadis — where are you now? Inquiring minds want to know.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021471.php
(ABC NEWS, June 20, 2008)

June 20, 2008

“Europol: Increasing number of European nationals training for jihad in Pakistan”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Dozens of white Europeans have trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan’s tribal regions in recent months, U.S. intelligence sources tell ABC News, in what officials fear may be the beginnings of a new breed of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorism.

Government officials suspect the terrorists, recruited in Europe, have been dispatched to plan attacks against Europe and possibly the United States. The alleged terrorists hail from Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Estonia, sources said.

There is growing evidence that some European recruits may have already gone operational.”

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Previously...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014473.php
(NEWSWEEK, Dec. 25, 2006 - Jan. 1, 2007 issue)

December 18, 2006

“Newsweek: 12-man team of Westerners being trained by al Qaeda in Pakistan”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taleban

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BLOG:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193059.php

June 20, 2008

“Note on Uptick in Taliban Propaganda”

BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: “We know who the old crew of propagandists were [Qari Youssef Mohammed & Zabidullah Mujahid, assisted by Adil Watanmal]. Frankly, none of them were very good.

But either Adil has learned some new tricks, or he’s recruited new talent. I’m guessing the latter.”

[Cindy]

SPECIAL EVENT:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034243/posts

[Cindy]

Propaganda ON THE INTERNET:

www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sheikh702&search_sort=video_date_uploaded

alekhlaas.info/forum/

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/egypt
http://www.memri.org/egypt.html

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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=egypt&ID=SP196508

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1965
June 18, 2008 No. 1965

“Jordanian Columnist and Former Minister Laments the Emigration of Christians from the Middle East Caused by Their Persecution”

SNIPPET:

“In the wake of the growing tensions between Copts and Muslims in Egypt, which were precipitated by the murder of four Copts in Alexandria and by violent attacks on Copts by Muslims in Upper Egypt, [1] former Jordanian information minister Salah Al-Qallab published an article in which he called for peaceful coexistence between the majority Muslim population and Christian communities in the Middle East.

The following are excerpts from the article”

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Previously...

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=egypt&ID=SP195508

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1955
June 11, 2008 No. 1955

“Egyptian Writer Ahmad Al-Aswani: It’s “Open Season” On Egypt’s Copts”

SNIPPET: “Ahmad Al-Aswani, an Egyptian writer, writes extensively on political topics from a critical and reformist perspective. In the following essay, posted June 7, 2008 on the liberal website Aafaq.org, [1] he focuses on the escalating series of physical attacks on members of the Coptic minority in Egypt.

The following are excerpts from the article”

[Cindy]

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

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ezralevant
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/levant

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http://www.ezralevant.com

BLOG:

http://ezralevant.com/2008/06/about-last-night.html

“About last night”
By Ezra Levant on June 20, 2008 9:24 AM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “I was deeply impressed with the presentation of Sheng Xue, a Chinese freedom activist, who read a touching poem about Tiananmen Square. But she didn’t just talk about that butchery; she gave many examples of current persecution of political dissidents, listing writers serving prison terms of up to 25 years for the crime of speaking out. Too many commentators have turned a blind eye to that tyranny, preferring to be dazzled by China’s economic growth, or the looming Olympics.

Xue didn’t just talk about persecution back home; she detailed the troubling phenomenon of Chinese agents in Canada issuing threats of violence against activists right here in Canada, like herself, who speak out against China’s bullying. That’s not just China’s shame — it’s to Canada’s discredit that we allow foreign agents to bring their own censorship into our country.”

[Cindy]

https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=86459

YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report
Warden Message: Northern Niger, Restricted Travel Reminder
CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS
Sub-Saharan Africa - Niger
20 Jun 2008

[Cindy]

https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=86447

YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report
Warden Message: Zimbabwe, Growing Political Violence
CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS
Sub-Saharan Africa - Zimbabwe
20 Jun 2008

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034254/posts

“LOST at Sea”
American Spectator ^ | 20 june 08 | Doug Bandow
Posted on June 21, 2008 2:35:05 AM PDT by rellimpank

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Like a monster in a horror flick franchise, the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), an omnibus treaty originally blocked by President Ronald Reagan, is back! And despite what the doomsday document’s delirious spokesmen say, it’s about as scary as ever.”

[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.”