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Posted on 08/01/2008 12:17:04 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
“Worldwide Caution”
July 16, 2008
SNIPPET: “This Worldwide Caution updates information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests throughout the world.”
The Islamic centre offering Abdullah Khadr a job, and helping post bail for the eldest son in the infamous Khadr family, was frequented by individuals with ties to terrorism and extremist activities, according to Crown arguments at a bail review hearing yesterday.
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Lead prosecutor Howard Piafsky told the court that the Khadr patriarch Ahmed Said Khadr, who was believed to have close ties to Osama bin Laden and many of those charged in the so-called Toronto 18 terrorist plot, often visited the centre and used its facilities.
Ibrahim said the mosque is open to everyone, and has a congregation of thousands. “Anyone is welcome to pray. We don't say no to any Muslim,” he said. When asked about his own relationship to one of the Toronto 18, Ibrahim denied knowing the man. However, when shown a passport application where he signed as a guarantor for the man, Ibrahim changed his answer, saying that he knew “a lot of people.”
Khadr’s maternal grandparents agreed to post their house as a $250,000 surety for the bail, adding that they will be vigilant in making sure he is “obedient” so they don't lose “all their savings.”
That’s interesting fanfan.
The Khadrs are always interesting, in my opinion.
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‘2 US aircraft carriers headed for Gulf’
Aug. 7, 2008
Adam Gonn, The Media Line News Agency , THE JERUSALEM POST
Two additional United States naval aircraft carriers are heading to the Gulf and the Red Sea, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Kuwait Times.
Kuwait began finalizing its “emergency war plan” on being told the vessels were bound for the region.
The US Navy would neither confirm nor deny that carriers were en route. US Fifth Fleet Combined Maritime Command located in Bahrain said it could not comment due to what a spokesman termed “force-protection policy.”
While the Kuwaiti daily did not name the ships it believed were heading for the Middle East, The Media Line’s defense analyst said they could be the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Ronald Reagan.
Within the last month, the Roosevelt completed an exercise along the US east coast focusing on communication among navies of different countries. It has since been declared ready for operational duties. The Reagan, currently with the Seventh Fleet, had just set sail from Japan.
The Seventh Fleet area of operation stretches from the East Coast of Africa to the International Date Line.
Meanwhile, the Arabic news agency Moheet reported at the end of July that an unnamed American destroyer, accompanied by two Israeli naval vessels traveled through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean. A week earlier, a US nuclear submarine accompanied by a destroyer and a supply ship moved into the Mediterranean, according to Moheet.
Currently there are two US naval battle groups operating in the Gulf: one is an aircraft carrier group, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln, which carries some 65 fighter aircraft. The other group is headed by the USS Peleliu which maintains a variety of planes and strike helicopters.
The ship movements coincide with the latest downturn in relations between Washington and Teheran. The US and Iran are at odds over Iran’s nuclear program, which the Bush administration claims is aimed at producing material for nuclear weapons; however, Teheran argues it is only for power generation.
Kuwait, like other Arab countries in the Gulf, fears it will be caught in the middle should the US decide to launch an air strike against Iran if negotiations fail. The Kuwaitis are finalizing details of their security, humanitarian and vital services, the newspaper reported.
The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman - lie just across the Gulf from Iran. Generals in the Iranian military have repeatedly warned that American interests in the region would be targeted if Iran is subjected to any military strike by the US or its Western allies.
Bahrain hosts the US Fifth Fleet, while there is a sizeable American base in Qatar. It is assumed the US also has military personnel in the other Gulf states, The Media Line’s defense analyst said.
Iran is thought to have intelligence operatives working in the GCC states, according to Dubai-based military analysts.
The standoff between the US and Iran has left the Arab nations’ political leaders in something of a bind, as they were being used as pawns by Washington and Teheran, according to The Media Line analyst.
Iran has offered them economic and industrial sweeteners, while the US is boosting their defense capabilities. US President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have paid visits to the GCC states in a bid to win their support.
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006366.html
07 August 2008
“OF TURKISTANIS AND THEIR VIDEOS”
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Previously...
http://www.sofir.org/reports/2006-06-10-kanzhassan.html
“kanzhassan.com: site of cleric Abdel Hakim Hassan (Abu Amrw)”
By: Society for Internet Research
http://www.sofir.org
contact at sofir dot org
Restrictions: Reposting or republication of this document is subject to the approval of the Society for Internet Research.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12128
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 674-08
August 07, 2008
Hamdan Sentenced To 66 Months
A military panel has sentenced Salim Ahmed Hamdan of Yemen to 66 months of confinement for providing material support to terrorism by a military commission under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The sentence includes a 61 month and eight day credit ordered by the military judge, Navy Capt. Keith Allred. Hamdan will serve his sentence to confinement separate from the other detainees at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Hamdan’s conviction and sentencing at trial is one step in the military commission process. Now that the trial is complete his case will receive an automatic review by the convening authority, who will evaluate the legal sufficiency of the findings and appropriateness of the sentence. Hamdan will still be represented by counsel and have the opportunity to submit matters for consideration on his behalf. Then his case will receive an automatic review by the Court of Military Commission Review. Thereafter, he could appeal to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court.
Trials by military commission demonstrate that the United States is committed to holding dangerous terror suspects accountable for their actions. Military commissions provide a mechanism to serve justice to those accused of law of war violations while keeping the United States, friends and allies safe from those determined on carrying out attacks on civilian populations and coalition forces.
Military commissions are constituted courts, affording all the necessary judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples for purposes of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
A link to Hamdan’s list of charges can be viewed on the Military Commission Web site at
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2007/Hamdan_Charges.pdf .
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50732
Bin Laden Driver Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2008 – The first detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to have his case brought to trial was sentenced today by a military panel there to 66 months in prison for providing material support to terrorism.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who served as Osama bin Laden’s driver, was tried and sentenced under the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Following a two-week trial, a military jury yesterday found Hamdan guilty of providing material support to terrorism, but not of the more serious charge of conspiracy.
Navy Capt. Keith Allred, the military judge, sentenced him to 66 months confinement but offered an eight-day credit. Military prosecutors had urged 30 or more years imprisonment, claiming that a tough sentence would send a message to other al-Qaida supporters.
Hamdan’s case now will undergo an automatic review by the convening authority, which will evaluate findings and appropriateness of the sentence, officials said. He will have legal representation through the process and the opportunity to submit matters for consideration on his behalf. The Court of Military Commissions Review will then review the case.
After that process, Hamdan has the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court, officials said.
Despite his shorter sentence, defense officials said Hamdan is likely to remain in prison longer than 66 months. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said during an Aug. 5 news conference he is still considered an enemy combatant and a danger.
Morrell called Hamdan’s trial “a fair and transparent process” that allowed journalists to observe and report on the proceedings. Hamdan “was offered a vigorous defense by his counsel, in which the prosecutor was able to make his case,” Morrell said.
The United States is “clearly trying to work to reduce the detainee population in Guantanamo” and bring more trials forward, Morrell said. In addition to bringing detainees to justice, the process will “at the same time provide a system that protects the American people from some very, very dangerous characters out there,” he said.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022122.php
August 7, 2008
“Allahu ak— Dang—”
Do you get the virgins of Paradise for work accidents?
“Taliban militants killed while bombing school in Pakistan,” from RTTNews, August 6 (thanks to Kemaste):
(RTTNews) - Two suspected pro-Taliban militants were killed while attempting to detonate explosives in an effort to blow up a school in Pakistan’s northwestern valley of Swat, according to media reports quoting the police.
The police defused two more bombs planted in other parts of the school in the Kabal area, after the explosion.
As part of intensifying a campaign by militant groups to enforce strict Islamic law in their strongholds in Pakistan, scores of schools have been destroyed in the northwestern valley of Swat in recent months.
Militants set on fire the girls’ high schools in Matta, Mingora, and Kanju after Monday night....
Posted by Robert at August 7, 2008 10:42 AM
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizballah
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizbullah
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T104&pid=167&sid=13&preview=
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058256/posts
(Accounting for Hezbollah crimes) Terrorism victims file $650 million NY lawsuit against 2 banks
iht ^ | July 14, 2008
Posted on August 7, 2008 2:53:16 PM PDT by PRePublic
(Accounting for Iran’s Hezbollah crimes) Terrorism victims file $650 million NY lawsuit against 2 banks
The Associated PressPublished: July 14, 2008
NEW YORK: A group of Americans, Canadians and Israelis who claim Hezbollah rocket attacks injured them and killed relatives have accused two banks of helping finance the terrorist attacks and have sued them for $650 million.
The 85 plaintiffs say in court papers the American Express Bank Ltd. of New York and the Lebanese-Canadian Bank SAL of Beirut unlawfully transferred millions of dollars for Hezbollah between 2004 and 2006.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/14/business/NA-US-Hezbollah-Lawsuit.php
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Israeli-Arab Med. Student Indicted for Hizbullah Contact
Arutz Sheva ^ | 08/06/08 | Hillel Fendel
Posted on August 6, 2008 2:29:30 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Khaled Kashkush, 29, of the Israeli-Arab town of Kalansuwa, was indicted in the Petach Tikva District Court on Wednesday for contact with a foreign element connected with the Hizbullah enemy - and with Hizbullah itself.
Kashkush allegedly made contact with a Lebanese Hizbullah-affiliated organization that attempts, among other goals, to transfer money to the families of dead Hizbullah terrorists. In 2002, the charge sheet states, he worked in the German headquarters of the organization, and had constant contact with the chairman, Dr. Hasham Hassan.
Kashkush was arrested three weeks ago when he returned from Germany. It is not felt that he succeeded in causing damage to Israeli security.
Another indictment states that Kashkush also had contact in Germany with a Hizbullah terrorist, Muhammed Hashem, known as Mazen. In late 2005, Mazen provided Kashkush with his email address and password for future use, and paid him 2000 euros for his trouble.
The two met again a year later, and discussed the war that had just ended between Hizbullah and Israel. They agreed on the importance of helping Hizbullah in its war against Israel, and Mazen told Kashkush that his help was especially valuable because he lived in Israel.
Mazen advised Kashkush to work in the Rambam Hospital in Haifa and gather information on soldiers hospitalized there. Similarly, Kashkush provided Mazen with information on Arabs from Kalansuwa studying or living in Germany, for the purpose of future recruitment. Hizbullah has shown great interest in enlisting Israeli-Arabs, who are free to travel around the country without being suspected.
Kalansuwa is located in the southern-Galilee area known as the Triangle, roughly between Hadera and Afula.
More Israeli-Arab Terror Involvement Just three weeks ago, six Israeli-Arabs, including two Hebrew University students, were arrested for operating an Al-Qaeda terror cell in Jerusalem and planning to shoot down a helicopter carrying a senior US official.
Four of the suspects are from eastern Jerusalem, and the other two study physics/computer sciences and chemistry, respectively, at Hebrew University.
These two incidents put the lie to President Shimon Peres’s claim that “education” can solve the terrorist problem. He said last week that Israelis are justifiably not afraid of “educated Arabs,” and he noted doctors as an example.
The Arab medical student from Kalansua and the two university-student Al-Qaeda members appear to prove Peres wrong. In addition, 41 Jews slaughtered in two attacks in the space of two months in 2003 were murdered by two suicide terrorists: one was a Moslem teacher and religious leader from Hevron, and the other was a woman lawyer.
bttt
Thank you Unrepentant VN Vet.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50726
Troops Capture Suspects, Seize Weapons in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces caught dozens of suspects and seized weapons caches in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said.
During operations in Iraq today:
— Coalition troops detained 11 suspects in Mosul, including an alleged leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. Intelligence reports indicate the suspected leader uses a local mosque to recruit extremists, collect money to finance terrorism, and store weapons for attacks against coalition forces, military officials said.
— Troops caught four suspects while targeting foreign terrorist associates in Biaj, about 80 miles southwest of Mosul. Also south of Mosul, coalition forces in Beiji detained three suspected terrorists who military officials suspect of hiding foreign terrorists and weapons in the area.
— Coalition troops in Baghdad captured five suspects, one of whom is the suspected leader of an al-Qaida in Iraq network that operates within the Iraqi capital. In a separate operation in the West Rashid area of Baghdad, troops captured two suspects believed to be associated with Iranian-backed “Special Groups.”
— Coalition forces in Salman Pak caught two people who are suspected members of the Rusafa car-bombing network, which is known to attack Iraqi civilians and security forces, military officials said.
In the Diyala River Valley area yesterday, Iraqi special operations forces captured two suspected al-Qaida in Iraq network members. The suspects are believed to have recruited and trained female suicide bombers in the city’s Old Baqouba neighborhood.
Elsewhere in Iraq yesterday, combined forces seized three weapons caches in Baghdad. The stockpiles included mortar rounds of various sizes, grenades, rockets and other weaponry.
A day earlier near Muqdadiya, Iraqi special operations forces arrested four other suspected al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists on a Ministry of Justice warrant.
Meanwhile in the Diyala River Valley area Aug. 5, the Baghdad National Emergency Response Brigade captured two cell members from the Islamic State of Iraq, a front organization for the foreign-led al-Qaida in Iraq, military officials said.
In the Iraqi capital Aug. 5, soldiers from the Iraqi army and Multinational Division Baghdad seized weapons caches that included various grenades and sniper rifles.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50730
Troops in Afghanistan Kill Enemy Fighters, Destroy Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed several armed militants and destroyed a weapons cache in operations this week in Afghanistan, military officials said.
Troops killed several militants and detained two others during an operation Aug. 5 to disrupt militant activities in Kapisa province.
Coalition forces came under enemy fire as they searched a compound in the Nijrab district for a Taliban commander responsible for attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, military officials said.
The troops retaliated with small-arms fire, killing several militants. Inside the compound, coalition forces found and destroyed bomb-making materials and barricaded fighting positions.
During an Aug. 4 operation, Afghan commandos and coalition forces discovered and destroyed multiple weapons caches in the Maywand district of Kandahar province.
The combined forces were on a patrol when they uncovered the caches, which contained 60 5-gallon plastic containers of ammonium nitrate primed with detonation cords, among other materials. They also discovered a stolen tour bus onsite.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 101 news releases.)
Thank you for the link.
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Hamas’ Christian convert: I’ve left a society that sanctifies terror
haaretz.com ^ | August 7, 2008 | Avi Issacharoff
Posted on August 7, 2008 5:36:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.
It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. “I’m now called Joseph,” he says at the outset.
Masab knows that he has little hope of returning to visit the Holy Land in this lifetime.
“I know that I’m endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he’ll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I’ll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God.”
Nor does he attempt to hide his affection for Israel, or his abhorrence of everything representing the surroundings in which he grew up: the nation, the religion, the organization.
“Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country,” he says.
“You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death.”
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“Pakistani forces clash with Taliban in Bajaur”
By BILL ROGGIO
August 7, 2008 4:01 PM
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Previously...
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/a_dangerous_neighbor.php
“Pakistan: A Dangerous Neighbor”
By BILL ROGGIO
August 6, 2008 6:31 PM
BLOG:
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http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/9033.htm
In Morocco, Terror Suspect Beliraj Acknowledges Charges
Official Moroccan elements said that Abd Al-Qadr Beliraj, who is suspected of terrorist activity, has confessed to the murder of five people in Belgium.
He has also confessed to planning terror operations in Morocco in collaboration with the Palestinian organization Abu Nidal, along with five other activists also arrested on the same charges, among them political figures.
Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, August 7, 2008
Posted at: 2008-08-07
UPDATE:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/080708dnmetholyland.1fa0da8d.html
“Judge denies request for delayed re-trial in Holy Land case”
07:04 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A federal judge has denied a request by defense attorneys in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case who asked that next month’s re-trial be delayed.
In an opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis called their claim that they cannot be ready for trial because of delays in payments of their court-appointed attorneys’ fees “hyperbolic and inaccurate.””
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UPDATE:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17125236/detail.html
“New Trial Date Set For Naveed Haq”
POSTED: 3:26 pm PDT August 7, 2008
SEATTLE —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The new trial date was set for March 9, 2009.”
1,178 posted on August 7, 2008 6:41:40 PM PDT by Cindy
Interesting, but not enough to raise the flag yet - but must continue to monitor.
Bullets left on cars near DePaul campus
THE BLOTTER
10:08 PM CDT, August 7, 2008
Chicago police were reviewing surveillance video Thursday to determine who placed live bullets on numerous cars near the DePaul University campus in Lincoln Park.
DePaul officials said police have told them that there did not appear to be any threat to students, but the school’s public-safety unit and Chicago police were increasing patrols in the area......
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-depaul-bullets-web-aug08,0,3969328.story
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