(UK) Terrorism adviser to Scotland Yard is on wanted list
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece
-— Interpol notice urges arrest of Islam TV chief
-— Tunisian Islamic Front (FIT)’s “Mohamed Ali Harrath has been the subject of the Interpol red notice since 1992”
-— “Tunisia has accused Mr Harrath, the chief executive officer of the Islam Channel in Britain and an adviser to the Scotland Yard Muslim Contact Unit, of seeking help from Osama bin Laden. It says that the FIT wants to establish ‘an Islamic state by means of armed revolutionary violence.’”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece
(UK) Unanswered questions about a ‘man of peace’ on Interpol list
-— “The Islam Channel founded and run by Mohamed Ali Harrath, who is wanted by Interpol, is watched by 59 per cent of Britain’s 1.6 million Muslims”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342734.ece
(UK) Mohamed Ali Harrath: “Nothing criminal about trying to establish an Islamic state”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342766.ece
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France/Italy: Al-Qaeda cell investigation
Two days after Knack magazine published a report on Jihadi networks in Antwerp,
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/antwerp-jihadis-of-antwerp-north-1.html
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mentioning similar networks in Brussels and Liege, the Belgian and French security forces moved to act against a suspected al-Qaeda cell. Some of the people named in the article are now charged with terrorism. Any connection?
A year and a half ago Moez Garsalloui and Malika El Aroud were found guilty of incitement in Switzerland. Both were let off with a slap on the wrist. They are now charged in Belgium with having organized an al-Qaeda cell which had a suicide bomber ready to go.
A French-Tunisian man appeared in court today on suspicions related to the French-Belgian investigation into the “Afghan networks connected to al-Qaeda”. The man was arrested Thursday in France.
The 28 year old is prosecuted for ‘criminal association in relation with a terrorist network’. He will appear before the judge who would decide whether he should stay in detention, as demanded by the prosecution.
The man is suspected of having assisted in the propaganda website Minbar, based in Belgium. the site was shut down by the authorities.
The site extolled al-Qaeda, delivered practical information for young candidates about taking part in Jihad, or to possible sponsors to support the goal, according to a judicial source.
The man admitted that he worked as a moderator for the site, but denies that he had an active role in the departure of jihadists to Afghanistan.
At least 8 people, six of whom are Belgians and two French, had used the site to prepare for their departure to Afghanistan.
The man, who is married and lives in Grenoble, was arrested Thursday in this city. Another man was arrested in Amiens and was placed in temporary detention in this case. He was freed in the meantime.
Fourteen people, suspected of belonging to an al-Qaeda network, were arrested Thursday in the scope of the same investigation in Brussels and Liege. Among them one man who appeared to be on the point of committing a suicide attack.
Six of them, five men and one woman, were accused Friday of membership in a terrorist group and placed in detention.
Among them was also Malika El Aroud, the widow of the man who murdered commander Massoud on September 9th, 2001, and her second husband, Moez Garsalloui (Garsallaoui), the central figure of the group which was dismantled and the owner of the Minbar website.
The Italian anti-terrorism unit of the police is investigating a possible link between two Belgian, among them an imam, who was arrested in Italy a month ago on charges of illegal immigration and the suspects who were arrested for possible membership in al-Qaeda, reports Italian news agency Ansa.
Imam Bassam Ayachi and a Belgian citizen were arrested on November 11th in the port city of Bari on charges of illegal immigration. Three Palestinians and two Syrians were found in their vehicle, which came from Greece. In his interrogation the imam made no secret of his admiration for Mohammed Atta, leader of the 9/11 attacks. He had named his six year old son after him. His son was with him at the time of his arrest and was placed in an institution, according to Ansa.
The magistrate tasked with the investigation, Roberto Rossi, and the Belgian embassy refused to comment further about the case. During his visit to New, minister of Internal Affairs Roberto Maroni said that the two arrests were related to the operations against the suspected terrorists in Belgium. He also refused to give more details.
Source: HLN 1, 2 (Dutch)
See also: Belgium: “Mother of al-Qaeda in Europe” saved by Belgian secret service, Antwerp: The Jihadis of Antwerp North (1), Antwerp: The Jihadis of Antwerp North (2), Belgium: Al-Qaeda cell apprehended, Switzerland: Islamist website owners found guilty
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Siemens AG and Three Subsidiaries Plead Guilty to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations and Agree to Pay $450 Million in Combined Criminal Fines
Coordinated Enforcement Actions by DOJ, SEC and German Authorities Result in Penalties of $1.6 Billion
WASHINGTON—Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Siemens AG), a German corporation, and three of its subsidiaries today pleaded guilty to violations of and charges related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced.
At a hearing before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon in the District of Columbia, Siemens AG pleaded guilty to a two-count information charging criminal violations of the FCPA’s internal controls and books and records provisions. Siemens S.A.- Argentina (Siemens Argentina) pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging conspiracy to violate the books and records provisions of the FCPA. Siemens Bangladesh Limited (Siemens Bangladesh) and Siemens S.A. - Venezuela (Siemens Venezuela), each pleaded guilty to separate one-count informations charging conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery and books and records provisions of the FCPA. As part of the plea agreements, Siemens AG agreed to pay a $448.5 million fine; and Siemens Argentina, Bangladesh , and Venezuela each agreed to pay a $500,000 fine, for a combined total criminal fine of $450 million.
According to court documents, beginning in the mid-1990s, Siemens AG engaged in systematic efforts to falsify its corporate books and records and knowingly failed to implement and circumvent existing internal controls. As a result of Siemens AG’s knowing failures in and circumvention of internal controls, from the time of its listing on the New York Stock Exchange on March 12, 2001, through approximately 2007, Siemens AG made payments totaling approximately $1.36 billion through various mechanisms. Of this amount, approximately $554.5 million was paid for unknown purposes, including approximately $341 million in direct payments to business consultants for unknown purposes. The remaining $805.5 million of this amount was intended in whole or in part as corrupt payments to foreign officials through the payment mechanisms, which included cash desks and slush funds.
From 2000 to 2002, four Siemens AG subsidiaries—Siemens S.A.S. of France (Siemens France), Siemens Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. of Turkey (Siemens Turkey), Osram Middle East FZE (Osram Middle East) and Gas Turbine Technologies S.p.A. (GTT)—each wholly owned by Siemens AG or one of its subsidiaries, were awarded 42 contracts with a combined value of more than $80 million with the Ministries of Electricity and Oil of the government of the Republic of Iraq under the United Nations Oil for Food Program. To obtain these contracts, Siemens France, Siemens Turkey, Osram Middle East and GTT paid a total of at least $1,736,076 in kickbacks to the Iraqi government, and they collectively earned more $38 million in profits on those 42 contracts. Siemens France, Siemens Turkey, Osram Middle East and GTT inflated the price of the contracts by approximately 10 percent before submitting them to the United Nations for approval and improperly characterized payments to purported business consultants, part of which were paid as kickbacks to the Iraqi government as “commissions” to the business consultants. For the relevant years, the books and records of Siemens France, Siemens Turkey, Osram Middle East and GTT, including those containing false characterizations of the kickbacks paid to the Iraqi government, were part of the books and records of Siemens AG.
As the charging and plea documents reflect, beginning around September 1998 and continuing until 2007, Siemens Argentina made and caused to be made significant payments to various Argentine officials, both directly and indirectly, in exchange for favorable business treatment in connection with a $1 billion national identity card project. From the date that Siemens AG became listed on the New York Stock Exchange on March 12, 2001, through approximately January 2007, Siemens Argentina made approximately $31,263,000 in corrupt payments to various Argentine officials through purported consultants and other conduit entities, and improperly characterized those corrupt payments in its books and records as legitimate payments for “consulting fees” or “legal fees.” Siemens Argentina’s books and records, including those containing the false characterizations of the corrupt payments, were part of the books and records of Siemens AG.
According to court documents, beginning around November 2001 and continuing until approximately May 2007, Siemens Venezuela admitted it made and caused to be made corrupt payments of at least $18,782,965 to various Venezuelan officials, indirectly through purported business consultants, in exchange for favorable business treatment in connection with two major metropolitan mass transit projects called Metro Valencia and Metro Maracaibo. Some of those payments were made using U.S. bank accounts controlled by the purported business consultants.
In the charging and plea documents, Siemens Bangladesh admitted that from May 2001 to August 2006, it caused corrupt payments of at least $5,319,839 to be made through purported business consultants to various Bangladeshi officials in exchange for favorable treatment during the bidding process on a mobile telephone project. At least one payment to each of these purported consultants was paid from a U.S. bank account.
“Today’s filings make clear that for much of its operations across the globe, bribery was nothing less than standard operating procedure for Siemens. It should be equally clear that Siemens has undertaken significant remedial measures, instituted real reforms and cooperated from the inception of this investigation,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich. “The Department and our international colleagues will continue our efforts to level the business playing field, making it free from corruption and fair to those who seek to participate in it.”
“The coordinated efforts of U.S. and German law enforcement authorities in this case set the standard for multi-national cooperation in the fight against corrupt business practices,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeffrey A. Taylor. “To its credit, Siemens has taken extraordinary steps to reveal its long-standing, systemic criminal conduct and it has fundamentally restructured its operations to make them transparent and honest going forward.”
“This pattern of bribery by Siemens was unprecedented in scale and geographic reach. The corruption involved more than $1.4 billion in bribes to government officials in Asia , Africa , Europe , the Middle East and the Americas ,” said Linda Chatman Thomsen, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “Our success in bringing the company to justice is a testament to the close, coordinated working relationship among the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other U.S. and international law enforcement, particularly the Office of the Prosecutor General in Munich .”
“Today’s announcement of the guilty pleas entered by Siemens AG and several of its regional companies reflects the FBI’s dedication to enforce the provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” said Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. “Simply stated, it is a federal crime for U.S. citizens and companies traded on U.S. markets to pay bribes in return for business. The FBI will continue to assist its law enforcement partners to ensure that the corporate and business communities are not tarnished with violations of the kind we are presenting here today.”
“Complicated schemes involving high finance, bribery and corruption, particularly in the international arena, are often solved most efficiently through a multiple-agency approach to crime fighting,” said Eileen Mayer, Chief of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division. “As the IRS expands its international presence and impact, we are proud to lend our financial investigative expertise to this formidable multi-agency approach that has culminated with today’s guilty pleas.”
The resolution of the U.S. criminal investigation of Siemens AG and its subsidiaries reflects, in large part, the actions of Siemens AG and its audit committee in disclosing potential FCPA violations to the Department after the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated searches of multiple Siemens AG offices and homes of Siemens AG employees. Siemens AG and its subsidiaries disclosed these violations after initiating an internal FCPA investigation of unprecedented scope; shared the results of that investigation with the Department efficiently and continuously; cooperated extensively and authentically with the Department in its ongoing investigation; took appropriate disciplinary action against individual wrongdoers, including senior management with involvement in or knowledge of the violations; and took remedial action, including the complete restructuring of Siemens AG and the implementation of a sophisticated compliance program and organization.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Siemens AG agreed to retain an independent compliance monitor for a four-year period to oversee the continued implementation and maintenance of a robust compliance program and to make reports to the company and the Department of Justice. Siemens AG also agreed to continue fully cooperating with the Department in ongoing investigations of corrupt payments by company employees and agents.
Today, Siemens AG also reached a settlement of a related civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charging Siemens AG with violating the FCPA’s anti-bribery, books and records, and internal controls provisions in connection with many of its international operations including those discussed in the criminal charges. Siemens AG agreed to pay $350 million in disgorgement of profits relating to those violations.
Also today, Siemens AG agreed to a disposition resolving an ongoing investigation by the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office of Siemens AG’s operating groups other than the Telecommunications group. The charges were based on corporate failure to supervise its officers and employees, and in connection with those charges Siemens AG agreed to pay €395 million or approximately $569 million, including a €250,000 corporate fine and €394.75 million in disgorgement of profits. In October 2007, in connection with charges related to corrupt payments to foreign officials by Siemens AG’s Telecommunications operating group, the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office announced a settlement with Siemens AG under which Siemens AG agreed to pay €201 million, or approximately $287 million, including a €1 million fine and €200 million in disgorgement of profits.
In connection with the cases brought by the Department, the SEC and the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office, Siemens AG will pay a combined total of more than $1.6 billion in fines, penalties and disgorgement of profits, including $800 million to U.S. authorities, making the combined U.S. penalties the largest monetary sanction ever imposed in an FCPA case since the act was passed by Congress in 1977.
The Department and the SEC closely collaborated with the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office in bringing these cases. The high level of cooperation, including sharing information and evidence, was made possible by the use of mutual legal assistance provisions of the 1997 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, which entered into force on Feb. 15, 1999 .
The criminal case is being prosecuted by Deputy Chief Mark F. Mendelsohn and Trial Attorney Lori A. Weinstein of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, and by Assistant U.S. Attorney John D. Griffith from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia . The criminal case was investigated by FBI agents who are part of the Washington Field Office’s dedicated FCPA squad. Investigative assistance also was provided by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation.
The Department acknowledges and expresses its appreciation of the significant assistance provided by the staff of the SEC during the course of this investigation. The Department also acknowledges the exceptional help provided, in the form of mutual legal assistance, by the authorities of Germany , including in particular by the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1714
Iranian agents infiltrated Bosnian intelligence service, Wahhabis could hit US, NATO in Bosnia - report
A Western intelligence report says there are 40,000 Wahhabis in Bosnia, many Al-Qaeda sympathizers and a significant number of Iranian agents that are part of Teheran’s intelligence service VEVAK, online site Serbianna reports, referring to the Bosnian Serb newspaper Press.
“VEVAK has completely infiltrated Bosnian intelligence service, and for their moles they recruit Bosnians that do not hide their sympathies for the Iranian nuclear program and show
Bosnian Wahabis. Photo Serbianna.com
Wahhabis in Bosnia
open hatred for America and its administrations,” the report is quoted by the paper.
Wahhabis and Bosnian Muslim sympathizers of Al-Qaeda are ready to attack US and NATO troops stationed in Bosnia, according to the Western intelligence document. “In case that the leaders of Al-Qaeda and Wahhabis in Bosnia decide to attack, that attack will, most likely, be suicidal and aimed at first at massive gatherings of civilians, and in the second wave would attack EUFOR,” says the intelligence report as quoted by the Press.
The newspaper says that the report cites a Bosnian Muslim official with a code name of Jusuf who is a long time Iranian double agent and works in Bosnian intelligence agency. Jusuf used to be a member of the secret Muslim agency AID. The report also says that here are numerous Jihadist groups stationed in Bosnia that use various methods of operation but with the same aim against the allied force.
“Because of the white features, Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims are the most dangerous threat in the warfare. The case of Sulejman Talovic, the young Bosnian Muslim radical, who massacred in Salt Lake City in US is well known example. At this moment, EU and US are full with these ’sleepers’ who are awaiting a signal to sacrifice their lives for Jihad,” the report is quoted. The report also notes that in all attacks across Europe there always has been at least one terrorist who is from Bosnia, Serbianna marks.
Related links in article, hidden urls:
[Someday they will outlaw hidden links...granny]
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1665
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1650
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1041
http://www.interfax.com/5/454845/news.aspx
09:37 GMT, Dec 15, 2008 Latest Headlines...
PRESS: CIA files on Polish marital law confirm Soviet readiness to usenuclear weapons - historian
WARSAW. DECEMBER 15. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Files released by the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Friday on Polish martial law
imposed at the end of 1981 confirm that the Soviet Union was ready to
use nuclear weapons against the West at the time, Richard Pipes,
historian and former White House advisor, told Polish daily
Rzeczpospolita Monday.
“Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski’s reports to the CIA confirm that in the war
with the West the USSR was indeed ready to use nuclear weapons,”
continued.
Today in History:
There were no significant events noted for today’s date.
Upcoming Significant Events:
December 16, 1961 - South Africa
ANC’s Military Branch Founded
Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military branch of the African National Congress (ANC) was founded.
December 16, 1971 - Bahrain
Rulers Accession Day
No information provided.
December 16, 1971 - Bangladesh
Independence Day
Also known as Victory Day. Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan.
December 16, 1983 - United Kingdom
PIRA Bombing of Harrod’s
Harrod’s department store in London was bombed on December 16, 1983 by the northern Ireland terrorist organization Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). The bombing killed five, including one U.S. citizen, and injured ninety-one others.
December 16, 1990 - Haiti
Election of President Aristide
Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overwhelmingly chosen as Haiti’s first popularly-elected president on this date.
December 16, 1991 - Israel, Middle East
UN Zionism Resolution Repealed
The United Nations General Assembly repealed the 1975 resolution which said Zionism is a form of racism.
December 17, 1907 - Bhutan
Monarchy Established
Ugyen Wangchuck became Bhutan’s first hereditary king.
December 17, 1920 - Namibia
South African Administration
South Africa began administration of South-West Africa under the terms of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
December 17, 1981 - Italy
Kidnapping of U.S. General
U.S. Army general James Dozier was kidnapped in Milan by Red Brigade terrorists. The general subsequently was rescued by Italian counterterrorist squads on January 28, 1982 in Padua. Five Red Brigade members were captured.
December 17, 1992 - Israel, Lebanon
Hamas Members Deported
More than 400 suspected members of Hamas were forcibly expelled from Israel into Lebanon following the kidnap-murder of an Israeli border policeman. The expellees were refused entry into Lebanon and were forced to camp in the Israeli-controlled security zone in south Lebanon.
December 18, 1914 - Egypt
British Protectorate Declared
Britain declared a formal protectorate over Egypt that lasted until February 28, 1922, when Britain unilaterally declared Egypt independent in deference to growing nationalist sentiment.
December 18, 1958 - Niger
Republic Day
No information provided.
December 19, (year unknown) - Philippines
Armed Forces Day
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December 19, 1944 - Vietnam
Army Day
Celebrates the founding of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).
Canada’s airports infiltrated by criminals: RCMP report
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 2:38pm
A national RCMP inquiry has concluded that all of Canada’s major airports have been infiltrated by organized crime. The investigation, dubbed Project Spawn, examined hundreds of police files at Canada’s eight largest airports between 2005 and 2007 and concluded hundreds of people were involved in criminal activity at airports, including almost 300 current or former airport employees.
Full Story
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1064471
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1078435
2 Canadian diplomats missing in Niger
Career diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay feared kidnapped
Juliet O’Neill and Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
Published: Monday, December 15, 2008
OTTAWA - Veteran Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay and their local driver were reported missing Monday in the West African country of Niger after their empty vehicle was found with the engine running, lights on and telephones left behind.
Officials at the United Nations, for whom Fowler is serving as special envoy to Niger, and the Canadian Foreign Affairs Department said Monday that the men went missing on the weekend. Their car was found about 45 kilometres northeast of Niamey, the capital of one of the world’s poorest countries.
continued.
(France) Explosives Found, Defused in Paris Department Store
— Reportedly dynamite found in Printemps Department Store restrooms
— “Afghan Revolutionary Front” sends letter calling for all troops to be removed from Afghanistan by February 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467530,00.html
— Paris police find suspected explosives at store
-— AP report says dynamite “relatively old”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/16/europe/EU-France-Explosives-Defused.php
-— Sky News report:
-— Reported Letter: “If you do not send someone to intervene before Wednesday December 17, they will explode. Send the message to your president that he must withdraw his troops from our country before the end of February 2009 or else we will take action in your capitalist department stores and this time, without warning.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Paris-Explosives-Defused-In-Department-Store-In-French-Capital/Article/200812315182164?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_ID15182164_Paris%3A_Explosives_Defused_In_Department_Store_In_French_Capital
— CNN report: French police probe suspicious package at Paris department store
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/16/paris.department.store.explosives/index.html
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Riots in Greece: The undercover news
http://www.analyst-network.com/profile.php?user_id=110
15 Dec 2008
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2652
The present Analyst-Network website has as a main aim to inform a
specialized and enlightened audience of the “undercover” nature of events
within the global security & intelligence sector.
You should read this one,it explains a lot...granny
(U.S.) Uncle Shariah — by Frank Gaffney — on AIG’s Sharia Businesses
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/16/uncle-shariah/
(U.S.) Lawsuit Filed to Stop AIG’s Sharia Businesses
-— Lawsuit Filed Against Treasury Dept: Stop AIG Bailout Financing Terrorism
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=19
-— SANE’s David Yerushalmi joins Thomas More Law Center to sue USG for its support of Shariah
http://www.saneworks.us/SANEs-David-Yerushalmi-joins-Thomas-More-Law-Center-to-sue-USG-for-its-support-of-Shariah-newsblog-2346.htm
-— PDF of Legal Complain to Department of Treasury: Murray v Paulson et al
http://www.thomasmore.org/downloads/sb_thomasmore/DepartmentoftheTreasury-Complaint.pdf
http://www.saneworks.us/uploads/news/applications/35.pdf
Related Reports:
Jeffrey Imm articles on Sharia Finance:
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/immscf.html
-— End U.S. Ownership of Sharia Business Now Petition - nearly 5,600 Signatures as of today!
http://www.petitiononline.com/stopaig/petition.html
December 4, 2008 - AIG Defies U.S. Taxpayers by Promoting Sharia in America
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-defies-us-taxpayers/
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/118.html
— Source Documents
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_aig_dec.html
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December 16, 2008 Anti-Terrorism News - UnitedStatesAction.com
(Iraq) US: thwarted Iraqi bomber blows himself up
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728222672&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Iraqi police: Bomb in downtown Baghdad wounds 6
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_violence_1
(Iraq) Four Iraqi Soldiers Killed In Car Bomb North Of Baghdad
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20081216\ACQDJON200812160456DOWJONESDJONLINE000172.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=Four%20Iraqi%20Soldiers%20Killed%20In%20Car%20Bomb%20North%20Of%20Baghdad
(Afghanistan) Taliban Courts Filling Justice Vacuum In Afghanistan
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98261034&ft=1&f=1004
Afghanistan: Top UN officials urge greater protection for children
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2819152851
(Pakistan) FATA: Two killed in suspected US missile strike in Miranshah
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\16\story_16-12-2008_pg7_4
(Pakistan) FATA: 2 Taliban killed as troops continue Bajaur advance
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\16\story_16-12-2008_pg7_2
(Pakistan) Kerry says Pakistan ‘sincere’ in Mumbai crackdown
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_123;_ylt=AhB8d1Do8HYC470ob_PGKYUBS5Z4
— Kerry urges Pakistan to control spy agency
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\16\story_16-12-2008_pg1_5
(Pakistan) Truckers refuse to haul NATO, US supplies
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\16\story_16-12-2008_pg1_10
Pakistan refuses UK Mumbai appeal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7784559.stm
-— We won’t let foreigners investigate suspects: PM
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\16\story_16-12-2008_pg1_1
Indian official: No plans for military action against Pakistan
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-12-16-india-pakistan_N.htm?csp=34
— India had prepared for strike on Pak: CNN
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\16\story_16-12-2008_pg1_11
India to Pak: We want results, not assurances
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/No_plans_of_military_action_against_Pak_Antony/articleshow/3844285.cms
(India) No bail under proposed anti-terror law
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/No_bail_under_proposed_anti-terror_law/articleshow/3846827.cms
(U.S.) Fort Dix Trial: Closing arguments to resume Tues. in N.J. Fort Dix trial
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-12-15-fort-dix-trial_N.htm?csp=34
— Closing arguments continue in Fort Dix terrorism trial
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-12162008-1638876.html
— Prosecution rests its case in Ft. Dix trial
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20081210/NEWS01/812100353/-1/special27
— Prosecutor: Fort Dix defendants meant what they said about waging interior spiritual struggle
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023939.php
— Defense rests its case in Fort Dix trial
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20081211/NEWS01/812110361/-1/special27
— Defense says Fort Dix defendants were wrongly portrayed
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/defense_says_fort_dix_defendan.html
— Defense: Fort Dix defendant was goaded by FBI informant
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20081215_Prosecutor__Fort_Dix_defendants_meant_what_they_said.html
(UK) Scotland Glasgow Airport Car Bomb: Doctor guilty of car bomb attacks
-— Bilal Abdulla found guilty
-— “Another NHS doctor, Mohammed Asha, was cleared of helping Abdulla and a second attacker, Kafeel Ahmed”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7773410.stm
-— Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of airport terrorist Bilal Abdulla
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689244/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-airport-terrorist-Bilal-Abdulla.html
-— Doctor accused of car bomb plot funding was ‘urged to concentrate on afterlife’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3514339/Doctor-accused-of-car-bomb-plot-funding-was-urged-to-concentrate-on-afterlife.html
-— Iraqi NHS doctor guilty of plot to murder hundreds in terror attacks on London and Glasgow - but fellow medic is cleared
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095591/Iraqi-NHS-doctor-guilty-plot-murder-hundreds-terror-attacks-London-Glasgow—fellow-medic-cleared.html
-— Glasgow bomb plot: NHS doctor found guilty of terror attack on airport
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3688837/Glasgow-bomb-plot-NHS-doctor-found-guilty-of-terror-attack-on-airport.html
-— Glasgow bomb plot: Wills to families left by airport terrorists
-—— “The London and Glasgow car bombers, Bilal Abdulla and
Kafeel Ahmed, both wrote wills to their families asking them to celebrate their deaths.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689301/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Wills-to-families-left-by-airport-terrorists.html
-— Glasgow bomb plot: The bombs constructed by airport terrorists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689253/Glasgow-bomb-plot-The-bombs-constructed-by-airport-terrorists.html
Also related reports:
-— Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of Mohammed Asha
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689905/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-Mohammed-Asha.html
-— Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of airport terrorist Kafeel Ahmed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689248/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-airport-terrorist-Kafeel-Ahmed.html
(UK) The Britons with us in their sights
— “British-born terrorists are returning to the UK after learning deadly skills in the world’s most dangerous country”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3778462/The-Britons-with-us-in-their-sights.html
(West Bank) Palestinian Islamic Jihad “militant shot dead by Israeli forces”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/16/israel.palestinian.militant/index.html
(Gaza) Rockets strike Israel from Gaza after West Bank killing
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2819461269
(Israel) Boy in shock as 3 Kassams hit Negev
— “Rockets land in Eshkol region, mortar shell hits Sdot Negev; none hurt; Barak orders Gaza crossings shut”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728212690&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Israel) ‘Most Israelis oppose Arab peace plan’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728221188&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Yemen: Police surround German hostages’ prison
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2819245435
Somali pirates seize 2 vessels in Gulf of Aden
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/16/somali-pirates-seize-2-vessels-in-gulf-of-aden/
Turkish jets attack Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq
http://www.wbay.com/global/story.asp?s=9531789
France arrests 7 suspected Islamists
-— “official said the seven were arrested Tuesday morning but that
they are not linked to the discovery of explosives in a Paris department store on the same day”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728222636&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(France) Explosives Found, Defused in Paris Department Store
— Reportedly dynamite found in Printemps Department Store restrooms
— “Afghan Revolutionary Front” sends letter calling for all troops to be removed from Afghanistan by February 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467530,00.html
— Paris police find suspected explosives at store
-— AP report says dynamite “relatively old”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/16/europe/EU-France-Explosives-Defused.php
-— Sky News report:
-— Reported Letter: “If you do not send someone to intervene before
Wednesday December 17, they will explode. Send the message to
your president that he must withdraw his troops from our country before
the end of February 2009 or else we will take action in your capitalist department stores and this time, without warning.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Paris-Explosives-Defused-In-Department-Store-In-French-Capital/Article/200812315182164?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_ID15182164_Paris%3A_Explosives_Defused_In_Department_Store_In_French_Capital
— CNN report: French police probe suspicious package at Paris department store
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/16/paris.department.store.explosives/index.html
— BBC report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7785440.stm
— IHT report
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/16/europe/16paris2.php
— Daily Mail: “Islamic extremist plot to blow up landmark Parisian store Printemps foiled after police find explosives in restrooms”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1095341/Islamic-extremist-plot-blow-landmark-Parisian-store-Printemps-foiled-police-explosives-restrooms.html
Germany charges 4th man in terrorist plot — Attila Selek
— “in connection with a foiled plot to bomb US targets in Germany. “
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728222244&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Greece) Report: Rioters Using Lasers on Greek Police
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467567,00.html
-— Greek protesters invade TV studio and demand to be put on air
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/3795821/Greek-protesters-invade-TV-studio-and-demand-to-be-put-on-air.html
(Philippines) Sayyaf releases school principal, holds trader
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/dec/17/yehey/prov/20081217pro3.html
(Philippines) MILF hails EU for its humanitarian concern
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/dec/17/yehey/prov/20081217pro1.html
Sri Lanka says 145 killed in northern fighting
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728219161&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
AIG Sharia Business News Updates:
(U.S.) Uncle Shariah — by Frank Gaffney — on AIG’s Sharia Businesses
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/16/uncle-shariah/
(U.S.) Lawsuit Filed to Stop AIG’s Sharia Businesses
-— Lawsuit Filed Against Treasury Dept: Stop AIG Bailout Financing Terrorism
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=19
-— SANE’s David Yerushalmi joins Thomas More Law Center to sue USG for its support of Shariah
http://www.saneworks.us/SANEs-David-Yerushalmi-joins-Thomas-More-Law-Center-to-sue-USG-for-its-support-of-Shariah-newsblog-2346.htm
-— PDF of Legal Complain to Department of Treasury: Murray v Paulson et al
http://www.thomasmore.org/downloads/sb_thomasmore/DepartmentoftheTreasury-Complaint.pdf
http://www.saneworks.us/uploads/news/applications/35.pdf
Related Reports:
Jeffrey Imm articles on Sharia Finance:
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/immscf.html
-— End U.S. Ownership of Sharia Business Now Petition - nearly 5,600 Signatures as of today!
http://www.petitiononline.com/stopaig/petition.html
December 4, 2008 - AIG Defies U.S. Taxpayers by Promoting Sharia in America
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-defies-us-taxpayers/
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/118.html
— Source Documents
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_aig_dec.html
Other News:
Indonesia: Destroyed churches to be fixed in time for Christmas
— “Riots broke out on 9 December after a teacher at an elementary school
in Masohi allegedly insulted Islam during an extracurricular tutorial for sixth-graders.”
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.2819020051
Turkey - Regulations Hobble Protestant Churches
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=5726&backpage=summaries
(UK) British Prison Bans Crucifix From New Chapel to Avoid Offending Muslim Inmates
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467306,00.html
(UK) Blind man turned away from Indian restaurant after owner says guide dog is against his Muslim beliefs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095583/Blind-man-turned-away-Indian-restaurant-owner-says-guide-dog-Muslim-beliefs.html
Iraqis take to streets to back shoe-thrower
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/16/shoe.reporter.profile/index.html
— Shoe-Thrower in Iraqi Custody
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467504,00.html
Saudi offers $10 million for shoe thrown at Bush
-— Saudi Hasan Muhammad Makhafa
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.2819245224
Millions warned not to use Internet Explorer after Chinese fraudsters use security flaw to hijack computers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095266/Millions-warned-use-Internet-Explorer-Chinese-fraudsters-use-security-flaw-hijack-computers.html
Against Nazi News:
US to unveil court rulings against Nazis
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728215488&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-— Nazi hunters give trial papers to Holocaust Museum
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728222796&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Nazi-era cabaret star loses bid to clear his name
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3795874/Nazi-era-cabaret-star-loses-bid-to-clear-his-name.html
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National Lampoon CEO, Six Others Charged with Securities Fraud
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:59:59 -0600
Seven individuals were charged in Philadelphia with conspiracy and securities fraud pertaining to four separate schemes designed to artificially inflate the prices of publicly traded stocks. Among those charged is Daniel Laikin, CEO of National Lampoon, Inc. which owns interests in the film Animal House and the Vacation series.
http://philadelphia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ph121508.htm
December 16, 2008 PM Anti-Terrorism News - UnitedStatesAction.com
(Pakistan) Taliban issue video of beheaded ‘spies’
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg1_9
-— December 1, 2008: Pakistan’s The News - Army official calls Baitullah Mehsud, Fazlullah ‘patriots’
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18709
—— Pakistan Public Polls on Support for Sharia
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_reconciliation.html#Pakistan_Sharia
(Pakistan) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) vows to continue fight against India in Kashmir
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Lashkar_vows_to_continue_fight_against_India_in_Kashmir/articleshow/3847054.cms
-— ‘LT will continue armed struggle against India’
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg1_4
(Pakistan) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to ask UN to delink it from Al Qaeda, Taliban
http://www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/43895.htm
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/LeT_to_ask_UN_to_delink_it_from_Al_Qaeda_Taliban/articleshow/3846335.cms
(Pakistan) Is Pakistan crackdown on Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) an eyewash?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Is_Pak_crackdown_on_Jamaat_an_eyewash/articleshow/3843054.cms
Pakistan authorities in efforts to cover up Ajmal links
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pak_authorities_in_efforts_to_cover_up_Ajmal_links/articleshow/3840038.cms
Pakistan’s handling of intrusion sends right signal: Kerry
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg7_16
-— Kerry says Pakistan ‘sincere’ in Mumbai crackdown
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_124
-— Kerry admits drone strikes are counter-productive
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg1_6
(Pakistan) NWFP: Two injured in Peshawar rocket attack - suspected Taliban attack
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg7_6
(Pakistan) FATA: Frontier Corps (FC) kills seven Taliban in Mohmand
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg7_5
(India) ‘Al Qaeda is a corporate entity’
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/15slid1-society-will-make-a-hero-of-a-dead-officer-not-when-he-is-alive-but-dead.htm
(India) Al-Qaeda link to Mumbai attacks, former spy say — Shimson Issaki
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1076908
(Afghanistan) Bid to split Taliban, Al Qaeda
-— Christian Science Monitor: “In Afghanistan, US and NATO reassess their strategy amid concerns that their efforts are failing”
—— Comment: would that be the “strategy” against an Islamic supremacist enemy that they refuse to define?
-— “’Some ministries have started a program to try to separate Al Qaeda
and the Taliban,’ says Ursala Rahmani, a former Taliban official who has been involved in talks with the government.”
-— Pentagon’s senior policy official Eric Edelman describes a “big T Taliban”
versus a “small T Taliban,” but can’t describe Islamic supremacism enemy
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1216/p01s01-wosc.html
-—— See previous article: October 17, 2008 - Jihad and the “Reconciliation” with Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/109.html
Afghanistan: Elections the ‘key’ in Taliban fight, says NATO official
-— Giampaolo Di Paola denies increase in Taliban support: “In actual fact
there are only three critical provinces [under Taliban control] - Helmand, Uruzgan and Kandahar.”
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2820117869
(U.S.) Guantanamo General Tells Story of the Hidden Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468125,00.html
(U.S.) Fort Dix Trial: Deliberations to begin in Fort Dix trial
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/16/Deliberations_to_begin_in_Fort_Dix_trial/UPI-95971229474818/
(U.S.) Muslim Cleric’s Lawyers Challenge Surveillance Program, Conviction — more on Ali al-Timimi
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/16/AR2008121602602.html
(UK) Glasgow bomber Bilal Abdulla was in Iraq terrorist cell
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5355522.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095591/The-terrorist-doctors-coat-Iraqi-infiltrated-NHS-guilty-bungled-bomb-plot.html
(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb: The ‘unlikely’ jihadi bomber — Bilal Abdulla
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7786906.stm
(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb: Phone clues to terror conviction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7783737.stm
(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb: Surgeon cleared of bomb plots to fight deportation
— Jordanian Mohammed Asha
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/16/glasgowairporttrial
-— Daily Express: Muslim doctor who plotted mass murder on streets of Britain
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/76051/Muslim-doctor-who-plotted-mass-murder-on-streets-of-Britain
-— Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of Mohammed Asha
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689905/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-Mohammed-Asha.html
-— BBC: Cleared terror suspect ‘bullied’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7773727.stm
Iranian official gives nuke plant schedule
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/16/Iranian_official_gives_nuke_plant_schedule/UPI-11551229480023/
Lebanese Sunni Cleric Bilal Daqmaq Attacks Iran and Hizbullah, States: We Are Terrorists in the Service of What Is Right
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD215308
(Lebanon) Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel: It’s Time For
Hizbullah’s Weapons to Return to the Control of the Lebanese State
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD215408
(Israel) Security upped at anti-Jihad conference following alert
— “Islamist groups with suspected terror links ‘displayed an interest’ in
an anti-jihad conference held in Jerusalem on Sunday, Dutch legislator Geert Wilders told Haaretz yesterday”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046918.html
(Saudi Arabia) Report: “Major Saudi operation foiled Al Qaeda plot against haj”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg1_10
Somalia: Islamist factions in Somalia merge
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=9494&tirsan=3
Yemen: Police arrest over 100 in German hostage standoff
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2821366830
(Somalia) UN empowers land operations against Somali pirates
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5219748/un-empowers-land-operations-against-somali-pirates/
(Niger) Canadian diplomats abducted: Insurgents
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canadian+diplomats+abducted+insurgents/1078435/story.html
(Indonesia) Radicalizing Indonesia
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122937199710107957.html
-— WSJ writes about “imposition of Sharia law” but then says “Indonesia
has made great strides fighting the most visible manifestation of radical Islam — terrorism”
-— Comment: WSJ clearly does not grasp that Sharia is “the most visible manifestation” of Islamic supremacism
(Bosnia) Three Algerians at Guantanamo transferred to Bosnia
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/246571,three-algerians-at-guantanamo-transferred-to-bosnia.html
France detains man linked to Afghan jihadist cell
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/15/europe/EU-France-Terror-Suspect.php
(France) Paris bomb scare raises question: jihadis, or not?
— “The note announcing the explosives lacked references to Islam, jihad, or the Taliban”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1217/p10s01-woeu.html
France beefs up security after dynamite found in Paris store
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg7_7
(Netherlands) No al-Qaeda branch active in the Netherlands
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/081215-qaeda-dutch
(Canada) Shocka! Moderate Canadian Muslim Leader Shows Up In AlQaeda Propaganda Video
— Mohammed Musab aka “Mohammed” Robert Heft
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/195435.php
(Canada) Special advocate rules not working: Mohamed Harkat’s lawyer
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Special+advocate+rules+working+Harkat+lawyer/1082719/story.html
(China) US, China discuss NKorea, Iran, terrorism: US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081216/pl_afp/uschinatalks
Other News:
(U.S.) AIG - WND Report: Federal Reserve sued for funding Shariah products
— ‘There is an internal cultural jihad under way against our great nation’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83704
-— See also:
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-update-1216/
(U.S.) GE unit gets $4.2M Homeland Security contract
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081216/general_electric_contract.html?.v=1
(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain launches dedicated website for advisers
http://ftadviser.com/FTAdviser/Mortgages/Products/Specialist/News/article/20081216/b685b872-cb84-11dd-a7ab-00144f2af8e8/FTA-IslamBank-200-DW.jsp
— UK Government launches consultation on Islamic finance in the UK
http://europenews.dk/en/node/17396
(UK) Some Imams ‘biased against women’
-— “A Muslim think tank has found some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7783627.stm
—— Comment: Never dawns on BBC that Sharia is inherently discriminatory
(Iraq) Islamists drive Christians out of Nineveh
— “Iraqi city declared ‘most dangerous place on Earth’ for non-Muslims”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83780
(Finland/Saudi Arabia) Finnish Convert on the Path of Allah: Jihad and Sharia are Cool.......
http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/2008/12/finnish-convert-on-path-of-allah-jihad_16.html
Pakistan - Dowry Demanded from Captor of Christian Girl
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=5727&backpage=summaries
(Sudan) Darfur civilians ‘seized as slaves by Sudan military’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/3795607/Darfur-civilians-seized-as-slaves-by-Sudan-military.html
—— Sudan under Islamic Sharia Law
http://www.exorthodoxforchrist.com/sudan_under_islamic_sharia_law.htm
—— Sharia in Sudan
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000050.php
Wafa Sultan: “Is it not a duty for each one of us to view Islam not frivolously but in a most serious manner?”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023953.php
Recent Rise in Sunni–Shi’ite Tension
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA48008
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA48108
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA48208
Commentaries:
Lashkar-e-Taiba in America - by Stephen Schwartz
-— “A convicted terror recruiter plays victim of the NSA”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/927uxqry.asp
The Campaign Against Sharia — by Deborah Weiss
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=0ED97C88-3537-49F8-B858-3A8936708BAB
Why Britons get caught in the Pakistan web — Anatol Lieven
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5354981.ece
Propaganda:
(Saudia Arabia) Saudi “Human Rights Commission” [sic] moots plan to promote ‘rights culture’
-— “especially in the context of Shariah”
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=117196&d=15&m=12&y=2008&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
(Pakistan) Jamaat-i-Islami (JI): Anti-Islamic forces want 1971-like situation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\17\story_17-12-2008_pg7_37
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December 17, 2008 Anti-Terrorism News - UnitedStatesAction.com
(Iraq) Casualty toll in Baghdad car blast reaches 18 dead, 52 wounded
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1960719&Language=en
-— Double-bombing in Baghdad targets traffic police
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/17/news/ML-Iraq.php
(Iraq) Britain to pull troops from Iraq by May 31
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq;_ylt=AqA1YkQo.plGs1c_eM7kiOpbbBAF
(Afghanistan) US: 3 militants killed in raid in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_1
(Afghanistan) UK Foreign Minister David Miliband: Afghanistan Needs A Political Solution
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98369744&ft=1&f=1004
-— October 5, 2008: War on Taliban cannot be won, says army chief -— Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith
-— says British public should be “prepared for a possible deal with the Taliban”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4882597.ece
(Pakistan) “I believe the children are the future...”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023966.php
-— “Students from schools run by Islamic charity organization
Jamaat-ud-Dawa chant slogans during a protest in Karachi, December 17, 2008”
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0emYcpQ4tv28s
(Pakistan) Action against LeT’s Jamaat-ul-Dawa in national interest: Zardari
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/articlelist/30359534.cms
-— December 16, 2008: Is Pak crackdown on LeT’s Jamaat-ul-Dawa an eyewash?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Is_Pak_crackdown_on_Jamaat_an_eyewash/articleshow/3843054.cms
(Pakistan) Jaish-e-Mohmmad chief Maulana Masood Azhar not under house arrest: Pakistan envoy
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Masood_Azhar_not_under_house_arrest_Pakistan_envoy/articleshow/3852880.cms
(Pakistan) Move in US to get Pakistan aid stopped
http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/17/top4.htm
-— Dawn report: “US investigators have concluded after
interrogating the lone captured suspect, Ajmal Amir Kasab, that the Inter-Services Intelligence is not involved in the Mumbai attacks”
http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/17/top2.htm
(India J&K) Two top Hizbul Mujahideen militants killed in Jammu, Kashmir
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1960705&Language=en
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Two_top_Hizbul_terrorists_killed_in_JK_/articleshow/3851119.cms
Indian Parliament’s Lower House Approves Bills on Security
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ahJhPbxH8M5o&refer=india
(India) Maharashtra to probe top cops’ lapses during Mumbai attack
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Maharashtra_to_probe_top_cops_lapses_during_Mumbai_attack/articleshow/3852753.cms?TOI_latestnews
(India) Antulay raises doubts over Anti-Terror Service chief Karkare’s killing
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Antulay_raises_doubts_over_Karkares_killing/articleshow/3852273.cms
(U.S.) Fort Dix case goes to jury
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-12172008-1639461.html
-— Deliberations begin in Fort Dix plot trial
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-12172008-1639501.html
(U.S.) Iranian woman says ex-husband dragged her into plot
-— Sharhazad Mir Gholikhan “defense to charges she tried to export
American-made night vision goggles to Iran: that she had no choice
but to obey the orders of her former husband, who dragged her into the illegal plot”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbgoggles1217pndec17,0,4930438.story
(U.S.) Washington Post: “A Pragmatic Pair Chosen to Confront Terrorism Threat”
-— Eric H. Holder Jr. for DOJ and Janet Napolitano for DHS
-— “neither nominee boasts much direct experience with the most
significant and pressing counterterrorism matters that will cross their desks”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102892.html?wprss=rss_politics/administration
(UK) Glasgow car bomb plot - the al-Qaeda connection
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3797973/Glasgow-car-bomb-plot-—the-al-Qaeda-connection.html
(UK) Glasgow car bomb trial: British-Iraqi doctor gets life sentence for terror — Bilal Abdulla
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_terrorism_trial
-— Glasgow bomber Bilal Abdulla jailed for 32 years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5357521.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3812810/Glasgow-car-bomber-Doctor-who-tried-to-blow-up-nightclub-and-airport-given-32-years.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/December/international_December1093.xml§ion=international
(UK) Daily Express pays £45k for slur against leading Muslim
-— Inayat Bunglawala, an assistant secretary of the Muslim Council of Great Britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/17/express-libel-inayat
—— Daily Telegraph: March 9, 2002: Blair-link Muslims backed bin Laden
-—— “Inayat Bunglawala, a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain,
circulated material written by bin Laden, whom he regarded as a ‘freedom fighter’, to hundreds of Muslims in Britain last year.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1387288/Blair-link-Muslims-backed-bin-Laden.html
-—— December 2007: The Spectator: The real Inayat Bunglawala
http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/406871/the-real-inayat-bunglawala.thtml
—— “In January 1993 Bunglawala wrote a letter to Private Eye, a
satirical magazine, in which he called the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ‘courageous.’”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayat_Bunglawala#Controversies
Iran leader: Arab states won’t support US on Iran
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728234705&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Israel) IDF official: Sderot is like Iraq and Afghanistan for the US
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728212690&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-— Palestinians launch six missiles at Israel
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1960605&Language=en
-— Rocket fire raises concern over Gaza truce
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2008/December/middleeast_December246.xml§ion=middleeast
(Gaza) ‘US officials visiting Gaza belt must use armored vehicles’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728234910&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Somali pirates board Chinese ship, fail to hijack
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/17/news/Piracy.php
Somali Pirates Seize Four Ships on Day UN Passes Plan
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=alJSj7gtuWHw&refer=africa
Algerian jailed for 3 years for fighting in Iraq
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/17/africa/AF-Algeria-Iraq-Insurgent.php
(Algeria) Security services dismantle Al-Qaeda support group in El-Oued
http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/?ida=135475&idc=114
Algerian Air Forces to back up Malian Army against Al-Qaeda
http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/lire.php?idc=158&ida=135473
Egypt remands Brotherhood leader on “jihad” charge
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLH579960.html
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/238672
Turkey charges two over US consulate attack
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3640200,00.html
-— Prosecutor: Al Qaeda behind July attack on US consulate
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/246675,prosecutor-al-qaeda-behind-july-attack-on-us-consulate.html
France on terror alert -— shoppers being searched
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24817250-23109,00.html
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/local_news/France-on-terror-alert.html
-— Comment: Such Paris stores have previously had history of shoppers being searched
French Defense Minister rules out involvement of Islamists in bomb scare
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1960730&Language=en
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/17/europe/EU-France-TNT-Found.php
Belgium to hold al Qaeda suspects until Jan 7.
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=15073
(Philippines) 5 killed in clashes between rebels and troops in Lanao
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/139944/5-killed-in-clashes-between-rebels-and-troops-in-Lanao
(Philippines) Philippine court convicts 4 Muslim militants
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081217/tap-as-philippines-resort-attack-fe2a5de.html
— Court convicts 4 Abu Sayyaf militants blamed for resort attack
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/139915/Court-convicts-4-Sayyaf-militants-blamed-for-resort-attack
(Philippines) Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF): No back-channeling talks with gov’t panel
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/139813/MILF-No-back-channeling-talks-with-govt-panel
China hands death penalty to 2 ‘bent on jihad’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28275240/
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/246656,china-sentences-two-to-death-for-terrorism-in-far-western-region.html
(Sri Lanka) Battle for Sri Lankan rebel headquarters rages
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/December/international_December1096.xml§ion=international
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/17/asia/AS-Sri-Lanka-Civil-War.php
Other News:
(United Nations) Rights experts attack Islam defamation drive at UN
http://africa.reuters.com/country/DZ/news/usnLH387871.html
-— “The United Nations should stop passing resolutions, largely
promoted by Islamic countries, calling for laws against
‘defamation of religion’, according to international experts on freedom of expression”
-— “The experts were Frank La Rue, a Guatemalan who is the
Human Rights Council’s investigator for freedom of expression,
Hungarian writer Miklos Haraszti of the OSCE, South African jurist
Faith Pansy Tlakula of the African Union, and Catalina Botero of the Organisation of American States.”
-— Experts state: “The concept of ‘defamation of religions’ does not
accord with international standards regarding defamation, which refer
to the protection of reputation of individuals.... Religions, like all beliefs, cannot be said to have a reputation of their own”
-— “Countries which had such limits to protect religion, they said,
had often used them ‘to prevent legitimate criticism of powerful
religious leaders and to suppress the views of religious minorities, dissenting believers and non-believers.’”
http://africa.reuters.com/country/DZ/news/usnLH387871.html
— See Also:
December 10, 2008: Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and our Responsibilities
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/119.html
(India) Shari’ah Finance advisory reaches India
http://www.cpifinancial.net/v2/blog.aspx?b=1&v=1&aid=20&sec=Islamic%20Finance
France: Muslims opt out of state system
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/france-muslims-opt-out-of-state-system.html
(Malaysia) Catholic newspaper faces ban for writing “Allah”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/3811703/Catholic-newspaper-faces-ban-for-writing-Allah.html
Andrew Bostom: Audio: ‘Koran Spawns Anti-Semitism among Mainstream Muslims’
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/400
(U.S.) Georgia judge orders Muslim woman arrested for refusing to remove her headscarf to enter court - at security checkpoint
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-muslim-headscarf-arrest,0,5638945.story
Commentaries:
The Last Days of CAIR — by Jamie Glazov
-— Interview with David Yerushalmi
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1E2CA713-7658-4384-B61E-9E017121523C
Against Nazi News:
(Netherlands) Nazi entertainer loses German case
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/european_news/Nazi-Entertainer-loses-German-case-.html
(U.S.) New Jersey: Little ‘Adolf Hitler’ Denied Birthday Cake at New Jersey Grocery Store
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468250,00.html
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http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1330.htm
December 17, 2008
HP-1330
Treasury Designates Bank Melli Front Company in New York City
Washington, DC—The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated ASSA CORP., a front company created and controlled by Iran’s Bank Melli and domiciled in New York, and its parent organization, ASSA CO. LTD, located in the Channel Islands.
“This scheme to use a front company set up by Bank Melli — a known proliferator — to funnel money from the United States to Iran is yet another example of Iran’s duplicity,” said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey. “The dangerous mix of proliferation and deception has led the United States, the European Union and Australia to designate Bank Melli, and the United Nations to issue a call for vigilance with respect to all Iranian banks.”
These entities were designated under Executive Order 13382 for being controlled by, and for acting for or on behalf of, Iran’s Bank Melli, and for having provided financial support for, or services in support of, Bank Melli. Bank Melli was previously designated under E.O. 13382 on October 25, 2007. E.O. 13382 is aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their supporters.
Bank Melli provides financial services, including opening letters of credit and maintaining accounts, for Iranian front companies and entities engaged in proliferation activities. Further, Bank Melli has facilitated the purchase of sensitive materials utilized by Iran’s nuclear and missile industries, and has handled transactions for other designated Iranian entities, including Bank Sepah, Defense Industries Organization, and the Shahid Hammat Industrial Group.
Bank Melli has been designated as a proliferator by the United States and the European Union for its role in Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1803 calls on all member states to exercise vigilance with regard to activities between financial institutions in their countries and all Iranian banks, particularly Bank Melli.
Further, Bank Melli provides banking services to Iran’s military vanguard, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Qods Force, which is a branch of the IRGC that has been designated under Executive Order 13224 for providing support to terrorist groups, including the Taliban, Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.
Bank Melli created ASSA CORP. as a vehicle to hold Bank Melli’s interest in a building located at 650 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, whose construction had been financed, in part, by a Bank Melli loan. ASSA CORP. co-owns the building through a partnership formed with the Alavi Foundation of New York, called 650 Fifth Avenue Company.
ASSA CORP. has repeatedly transferred rental income generated from the 650 Fifth Avenue partnership back to Bank Melli through ASSA CO. LTD. ASSA CORP. also has regularly followed Bank Melli’s instructions with regard to ASSA CORP.’s affairs and its management of the investment, and has regularly reported back to Bank Melli on its financial situation, including frequently responding to Bank Melli requests for audits and information regarding company expenses.
This designation does not interfere with the business and other activities of the tenants of 650 Fifth Avenue, and U.S. persons are not prohibited from dealing with business establishments or other tenants of the building.
The preparation and execution of this designation required careful coordination with various components of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the New York Police Department, and the New York County District Attorney’s Office.
Today in History:
December 17, 1992 - Israel, Lebanon
Hamas Members Deported
More than 400 suspected members of Hamas were forcibly expelled from Israel into Lebanon following the kidnap-murder of an Israeli border policeman. The expellees were refused entry into Lebanon and were forced to camp in the Israeli-controlled security zone in south Lebanon.
December 17, 1981 - Italy
Kidnapping of U.S. General
U.S. Army general James Dozier was kidnapped in Milan by Red Brigade terrorists. The general subsequently was rescued by Italian counterterrorist squads on January 28, 1982 in Padua. Five Red Brigade members were captured.
December 17, 1920 - Namibia
South African Administration
South Africa began administration of South-West Africa under the terms of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
December 17, 1907 - Bhutan
Monarchy Established
Ugyen Wangchuck became Bhutan’s first hereditary king.
Upcoming Significant Events:
December 18, 1914 - Egypt
British Protectorate Declared
Britain declared a formal protectorate over Egypt that lasted until February 28, 1922, when Britain unilaterally declared Egypt independent in deference to growing nationalist sentiment.
December 18, 1958 - Niger
Republic Day
No information provided.
December 19, (year unknown) - Philippines
Armed Forces Day
No information provided.
December 19, 1944 - Vietnam
Army Day
Celebrates the founding of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).
December 20, 1989 - Panama
U.S. Intervenes in Panama
U.S. military forces intervened in Panama to protect the 35,000 Americans residing there and to install a democratically-elected government. Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces on January 3, 1990 after having taken refuge in the papal nunciature.
December 20, 2003 - Nepal
Maoist attack kills three soldiers
Maoists using automatic machine guns and motorcycles attack an army vehicle that was transporting cash of the state-owned Rastryiya Banijya Bank. Three soldiers were killed and one wounded in the attack.
December 21, 1640 - Portugal
Independence Day
No information provided.
December 21, 1948 - Ireland
Proclamation of the Republic
No information provided.
December 21, 1948 - Nepal
Independence Day
No information provided.
December 21, 1973 - Israel
Geneva Peace Conference Opens
No information provided.
December 21, 1975 - Austria
Attack on OPEC Conference
Pro-Palestinian guerrillas attacked an OPEC conference in Vienna, killing three people, wounding seven, and taking eighty-one hostage. Forty-one Austrian hostages were released in Vienna, while the rest were taken to Algeria and released on December 23, 1975.
December 21, 1988 - United Kingdom, United States
Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103, outbound from London for New York with 259 people aboard, was destroyed by a bomb on December 21, 1988 while over Lockerbie, Scotland. All aboard the aircraft were killed as were eleven persons on the ground at Lockerbie.
December 21, 1991 - Commonwealth of Independent States
Founding of CIS
Eleven of the twelve former republics of the Soviet Union met in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan on December 21, 1991 and founded the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), thereby abolishing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Founding members were Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
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(Philippines) Twin bombings hit Philippines’ Christmas shoppers
-— 3 dead as blasts rock Iligan City a day before Arroyo visit - 38 injured
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/140135/3-dead-as-blasts-rock-Iligan-City-a-day-before-Arroyo-visit
-— AFP: “attack blamed by the authorities on Muslim separatists” — bombs hidden in packages
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/397212/1/.html
-— AP: “Two crude bombs packed with nails exploded minutes apart
Thursday at a department store and a nearby clothing shop packed with Christmas shoppers”
—— “blasts in Iligan, a predominantly Christian city”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_explosions
(Philippines) Five killed in clash in southern Philippines
— troops and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Jihadists clash
— in Piagapo town in Lanao del Sur province
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/246799,five-killed-in-clash-in-southern-philippines.html
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Press Releases: White Powder Found at U.S. Embassies (Taken Question)
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0600
Taken Question
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
December 18, 2008
White Powder Found at U.S. Embassies (Taken Question)
Question: When did the envelopes containing white powder start arriving at US embassies?
Answer: The envelopes containing white powder started arriving at U.S. embassies on December 15, 2008.
2008/1074
Released on December 18, 2008
From: State.gov, this is the full report.
