Threat Matrix: October 2008

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FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives.

Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and operators to be aware of potential attack tactics."

According to the note obtained by NBC News, a "recently discovered audio recording of al-Qa‘ida training sessions conducted several years ago provides instruction to potential suicide terrorists on seizing a publicly accessible building and damaging or destroying it with explosive charges." Read More

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[Cindy]

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http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hEAFiE27sNcxAo603JyGi-oDcdQA
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“US man arrested in battle area”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A 20-year-old American man was arrested in a militant-infested region of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, police said”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He said the man, identified on his passport as Juddi Kenan, was arrested at a checkpoint while trying to enter Mohmand tribal province without the special permission to be in the region required by Pakistani law.”

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6022337
(AP)

“American Man Arrested in Pakistani Border Region”
“American man arrested in Pakistani border region where troops are fighting militants”
PESHAWAR, Pakistan October 13, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”He is holding an American passport, which shows him as a resident of Florida,” Shahab said.

Another police official, Marjan Khan at the station in Sarrokali, said the man was wearing traditional Pakistani clothes and appeared to be a civilian. “He has told us that he was a student at a community college in Florida, and wanted to enter the tribal region to see a friend.” Khan said the man carried a laptop and a travelling bag, adding that he had been shifted to an unknown place for more questioning, also by intelligence agencies.”

[Cindy]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7667031.stm

Page last updated at 13:05 GMT, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:05 UK

“Just married and determined to die”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “When she spoke of becoming a suicide bomber, Umm Anas’s voice was strong and steady: “This is a gift from God.

“We were created to become martyrs for God,” she continued, her eyes burning behind the full face veil.”

[Cindy]

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023078.php

October 13, 2008
“Caliphate dreams in New York’s Muslim Day Parade”

SNIPPET: “Both pictures show signs from The Islamic Thinkers Society, the New York jihadists who have threatened my life and called for Sharia in the U.S. This is a small and marginal group, but I wonder why the Parade organizers didn’t disavow them or tell them they couldn’t march.”

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http://urbaninfidel.blogspot.com/2008/10/muslim-day-parade-2008.html

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2008
“Muslim Day Parade 2008”

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http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/islamists-day-p.html

Sunday, October 12, 2008
“ISLAMISTS DAY PARADE GETS UGLY”

[Cindy]

http://www.danielpipes.org

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Forthcoming Appearances

Oct 16 - 7:00 p.m., Univ. of California - Berkeley, Boalt Hall, Rm. 105
“The Threat to Israel’s Existence – Why It’s Back, How to Deal with It”

Oct 21, Washington University, St. Louis
“Vanquishing the Islamist Enemy and Helping the Moderate Muslim Ally “

Oct 23 - 6pm, American University, Washington, D.C.;
Ward 1, Auditorium 1
“Totalitarian Islam and the Threat to Free Speech”

[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51486

Forces Kill Taliban Militants, Capture Weapons

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed 14 militants and captured weapons caches during operations in Afghanistan over the past several days, military officials reported.

Coalition forces killed five armed Taliban militants during an operation in Ghazni province’s Andar district yesterday. The operation targeted a Taliban militant involved in terrorist activities intended to destabilize the region. The armed militants failed to follow coalition forces’ commands to cease their hostile actions. Coalition forces engaged the militants, killing them.

The Taliban militant was among those killed. A search of the area found five AK-47 rifles, multiple hand grenades and military-style clothing.

During Oct. 11 operations, coalition forces killed four militants, including an al-Qaida commander and a Taliban commander, during an operation in Ghanzi province.

The enemy commanders were known weapons and foreign fighter facilitators and were involved in coordinating a series of anti-government attacks in the Andar district. Two other militants were detained. A search of the area produced an AK-47 rifle, 600 blasting caps; 6,000 rounds of ammunition; rocket-propelled grenades; rolls of detonation cord and a mine.

Also on Oct. 11, Afghan and coalition security forces killed five militants during a sweep-and-clear operation in the Khakriz district of Kandahar province. A weapons cache was discovered and confiscated. It included four rocket-propelled grenades, one AK-47 rifle and improvised explosive device-making materials.

In other news, Afghan and coalition forces confiscated a weapons cache during a patrol in Oruzgan province’s Deh Rawood district Oct. 10. The cache contained 25 rockets, 29 mortar rounds, 22 rocket-propelled grenade boosters and five grenades.

(Compiled from U.S. Forces Afghanistan news releases.)

[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51487

Forces Keep Pressure on Terrorists, Criminals in Iraq

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2008 – Iraqi forces kept the pressure on terrorists over the past several days, capturing terrorists and shutting down their operations, military officials reported.

Iraqi police shut down a terrorist-run improvised explosive device factory in Mosul and arrested three suspects in southern Iraq during separate operations yesterday.

The Mosul bomb-making factory contained two bags of homemade explosives weighing about 150 pounds each, three bags of ammonium nitrate weighing about 10 pounds each and other IED-making materials. Iraqi police also detained one suspect. Iraqi and coalition soldiers were brought to the site to gather the materials for disposal.

“This is just another example of the great work the Iraqi police are doing to make their communities safer,” said Army Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, spokesperson for coalition forces posted north of Baghdad.

In southern Iraq, Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) police, with coalition forces in support, arrested two suspected criminals in Maysan province and detained another criminal in Dhi Qar province. Since mid-June, Iraqi and coalition security forces have arrested more than 50 suspected criminals and seized more than 8,500 rounds of munitions during operations throughout Muthanna, Dhi Qar and Maysan provinces in southern Iraq.

During Oct. 11 operations, U.S. soldiers detained two suspected criminals and discovered a rocket during operations in Baghdad. The detainees are linked to an Oct. 10 vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack in the Abu T’shir community. Another group of U.S. soldiers discovered a 60 mm rocket during a patrol in the area.

In a separate operation, Iraqi security forces found a large munitions cache in Tikrit. The cache contained 700 artillery rounds and more than 300 large-caliber machine gun rounds. The cache was later destroyed by coalition forces.

Meanwhile, elements of the 3rd Iraqi Army Division in Rabiah captured two suspected terrorists believed to be part of a lethal smuggling ring with the ability to move freely across Iraqi’s border to facilitate the movement of vehicles.

In Zaganiyah, Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured five people suspected of being members of an al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist cell. They are believed to be a part of a cell responsible for murder, kidnappings and attacks on Iraqi and coalition forces.

During Oct. 10 operations, Tips led Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers to seize separate weapons caches in Baghdad. Iraqi police seized seven 60 mm mortars, two 30 mm rifle grenades, two 57 mm warheads and a 60 mm warhead. U.S. soldiers confiscated 10 pounds of explosives, a 120 mm mortar tube, a 60 mm mortar tube and several rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition.

In Baghdad’s Rashid district, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces discovered multiple weapon caches during operations. Iraqi soldiers discovered nearly 150 mortar rounds, 10 pounds of plastic explosives, two pounds of TNT, six rocket propelled grenade propellant sticks and various bomb making material while on patrol in the Karb De Gla community. An explosive ordnance disposal unit disposed of the munitions.

Meanwhile, Iraqi police found three rocket propelled grenades and a hand grenade in a house while on patrol in the Aamel community. U.S. soldiers discovered an 82 mm mortar round while on patrol in the Shurta community. An Iraqi munitions disposal team arrived to transport the ordnance.

Separately, Kirkuk Provincial Police captured a suspected Ansar Al-Sunna terrorist member with ties to al Qaeda. Officials believe the man to have organized multiple improvised explosive device attacks in the area since May 2008.

“These operations show the ability of Iraqi Security Forces to repeatedly capture criminals who undermine the security of Iraq,” said Army Lt. Col Neil Harper, Multinational Corps Iraq, spokesman.

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

[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105055/posts

Sharia law ‘not fit for UK’, says new Labour Muslim minister
Daily Mail ^ | 12th October 2008 | Daily Mail
Posted on October 13, 2008 11:29:54 PM PDT by the scotsman

‘A Labour Muslim minister has warned that Islamic law is too unsophisticated for Britain.

Sadiq Khan said women could be ‘ abused’ by sharia courts, which may give unequal bargaining power to the sexes. He said: ‘The burden is on those who want to open up these courts to persuade us why they should.’

Mr Khan, who was made a community cohesion minister in this month’s Government reshuffle, rejected the argument that the courts could operate in the same way as the Jewish Beth Din courts.

He said Muslim life in Britain was not advanced enough to run a similar religious legal system.

The MP for Tooting in South London added: ‘I would be very concerned about sharia courts applying in the UK. ‘I don’t think there is that level of sophistication that there is in Jewish law.’

He also said that sharia courts would discourage Muslims from developing links with other cultural and ethnic groups.’

(Excerpt) Read more at mailonsunday.co.uk ...

[Cindy]

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[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_3028.html

Travel Alert

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
This information is current as of today, Tue Oct 14 2008 00:01:08 GMT-0700 (PDT).

Mexico

April 14, 2008

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U.S. Consulate General Monterrey released this Warden Message on October 13:

The U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey would like to alert American citizens living within the consular district of a recent security incident that took place at the consulate building. During the early morning hours of Sunday, October 12, two unidentified men approached the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey. One of them fired a handgun several times with shots hitting the front gate and windows of the facility. The second man threw a hand grenade that did not explode. Authorities found six spent .45 caliber shell casings at the scene. There were no injuries or significant damage as a result of the incident. An investigation in coordination with local authorities is ongoing and the Consulate’s security video of the incident is being analyzed. The motive of the two assailants is unknown. The United States Consulate General is profoundly concerned about this incident and has enhanced security at the Consulate. We thank the community for its concern as well as the Mexican authorities for their rapid response. The U.S. Consulate General was closed on October 13, 2008, for the Columbus Day holiday. It will resume regular public hours on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. American citizens are advised to refer to guidance in the Department of State’s most recent Travel Warning located on the internet at http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_3028.html and Country Specific Information for Mexico, which can be found at http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html for additional information regarding the current security situation in the country.

For any emergencies involving American citizens, please contact the American Citizens Services (ACS) Unit U.S. Consulate, located at 411 Avenida Constitucion Poniente in Monterrey; telephone (81) 8345-2120; after hours emergency telephone 044 (81) 8362-9126 (from Mexico); ACS unit fax (81) 8342-5433; e-mail MonterreyACS@state.gov; web page http://monterrey.usconsulate.gov
http://monterrey.usconsulate.gov .

[Cindy]

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/14/mexican-soldiers-crossed-clear-line/

“Mexican soldiers crossed clear line
Pointed rifles at border agent”

Jerry Seper (Contact)
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The nation’s border czar has concluded that Mexican soldiers who held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint in August did so after bypassing a barbed-wire fence and other clearly visible barriers to cross into the United States, contradicting claims by the State Department and the Mexican government that the soldiers were simply lost.”

[Cindy]

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http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0810/081009washington.htm

ICE investigation helps bring Colombian FARC terrorists to U.S. on terrorism and drug charges

WASHINGTON, DC - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation resulted in the extradition of two Colombian citizens from the Republic of Colombia this week. Both made their initial appearances in federal court on terrorism and drug charges related to their alleged involvement with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a designated foreign terrorist organization in Colombia.

Jose Maria Corredor-Ibague, 42, a/k/a “Boyaco,” and Carolina Yanave-Rojas, 34, a/k/a “Edilma Morales Loaiza,” a/k/a “La Negra,” were arraigned late yesterday in federal court and are scheduled to have a detention hearing tomorrow.

“The passage of new narco-terrorism legislation has armed the federal government with additional tools to protect our homeland,” said Julie L. Myers, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE. “The charges brought against Corredor-Ibague should serve as a warning to those engaged in terrorism and narco-trafficking - the U.S. will find you, seek your extradition, and bring you to justice.”

Corredor-Ibague is charged with one count of engaging in drug trafficking with the intent to provide something of pecuniary value to a terrorist organization, or narco-terrorism. Corredor-Ibague was the first person in the nation to be indicted under this narco-terrorism statute, which became law in March 2006.

He is also charged in the indictment with one count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, with the intent to import the cocaine into the United States. If convicted of both counts, Corredor-Ibague faces a sentence ranging from a mandatory minimum of 20 years to a maximum of life imprisonment.

Among other things, Corredor-Ibague is alleged to have controlled clandestine airstrips in the jungles of Southern Colombia. From Corredor-Ibague’s airstrips, small aircraft flew out multi-hundred kilogram quantities of cocaine which were destined for the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe. Corredor-Ibague allegedly organized these shipments, manufactured and sold the cocaine, and charged a tax on the cocaine shipments that was paid to the FARC. In addition, incoming flights brought small arms weaponry which was used by the FARC to supply its armed forces.

Yanave-Rojas is also charged in the same indictment with one-count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, with the intent to import the cocaine into the United States. If convicted, she faces a sentence ranging from a mandatory minimum of 10 years to a maximum of life imprisonment.

A second indictment charges both Corredor-Ibague and Yanave-Rojas with three counts: conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization; providing material support or resources to a terrorist organization; and aiding and abetting and causing an act to be done.

Specifically, this indictment alleges that between 2002 and 2006, Corredor-Ibague and Yanave-Rojas were involved in a conspiracy to deliver from Colombia cocaine that was produced and controlled by the FARC to neighboring countries, for delivery to the United States. In exchange, the defendants allegedly provided the FARC with AK-47 and AR-15 assault-type weapons, ammunition, foreign currency, and sophisticated communications equipment, including satellite phones and SIM cards, originating from the United States.

If convicted of the three counts in this indictment, Corredor-Ibague and Yanave-Rojas each face a maximum possible sentence of 15 years imprisonment.

Corredor-Ibague and Yanave-Rojas were arrested by Colombian authorities on Oct. 15, 2006. In December 2006, the United States filed a formal request with the Republic of Colombia seeking their extradition on the charges contained in the two indictments. The extradition request was subsequently granted by the Colombian Supreme Court, and then by the Colombian Ministry of Justice and by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

ICE Miami SAC Office partnered with several agencies including the Pentagon’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Southeast Field Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Miami Field Office. This indictment will be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and trial attorneys from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

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“Ayers Has Not Left Radicalism Behind”
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:20 PM PT

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Ayers’ terrorist acts in the 1970s didn’t just blow in out of nowhere. Ayers moved to urban guerrilla violence after finding Tom Hayden’s riot-prone Students for a Democratic Society too tame. He was inspired by the Cuban revolution of Fidel Castro, who toppled a democracy a decade earlier.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At the time Ayers was targeting the Pentagon, Argentina’s communist ERP began terror attacks in 1969, triggering a Dirty War by 1976. Brazil’s MR-8 shot police and kidnapped a U.S. ambassador in 1969. In Colombia, the FARC unleashed terror in 1966, and the M-19 was born in 1970. Uruguay’s Tupamaros began bombing and kidnapping in 1970. Peru’s Shining Path started university agitation in 1973 and full-blown war by 1980. The Weather Underground, founded in 1969, was the same leftist revolution, U.S.-style.

Operating underground, Ayers’ Weathermen aligned closely with Castro’s Cuba, which aided Marxist terror groups. Some Weathermen on the run found asylum in Havana; others, like Mark Rudd, were trained by the KGB there.

Cuba helped Weathermen on the lam by letting them secretly pass messages through Cuba’s embassy in Canada, says FBI informant Larry Grathwohl.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Meanwhile, Ayers’ stepson Chesa Boudin has close Venezuelan ties, too. He identified himself as a foreign-policy adviser intern to Venezuela’s government in 2005. He had an office next to Chavez’s own in the presidential palace. Not surprising, since Boudin’s grandfather is Fidel Castro’s personal attorney, and his mother is jailed Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin. His family ties give him street cred to communists.
This, then, is Bill Ayers.”

[Cindy]

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Eight soldiers wounded in heavy fighting in Philippines
AFP ^ | 12 Oct 08 | Unknown
Posted on October 14, 2008 1:11:31 PM PDT by LSUfan

MANILA, Oct 12, 2008 (AFP) - Eight soldiers, including an officer, were wounded in intense fighting with Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines Sunday, the military said.

Troops backed by two armoured vehicles clashed with about 60 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas near the town of Mamasapano in the southern island of Mindanao, it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at sg.news.yahoo.com ...

[Cindy]

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http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/10469.htm

IRGC Naval Deputy Cmdr: Iran Developing Remote-Control Unmanned Vessels

IRGC Naval Force deputy commander Ali Fadavi has said that the IRGC is developing unmanned remote-control unmanned vessels, and that these will have a great impact on what happens in the Gulf.

Ali Fadavi made the remarks on the sidelines of the national competition for the design and manufacture of unmanned vessels in Tehran on October 8.

Fadavi added that maritime activity in the Persian Gulf is of great significance, and that the role to be played by unmanned vessels will be as important as that of manned vessels.

Sources: Fars, Iran, October 8, 2008; Tehran Times, Iran, October 11, 2008

Posted at: 2008-10-13

[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51493

Coalition Forces Kill Two Enemy Fighters, Detain 13

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2008 – Coalition forces targeting al-Qaida in Iraq operatives in northern and central Iraq yesterday and today killed two enemy fighters and detained 13 terrorism suspects, military officials reported.

In Chaft al Asha, southeast of Kirkuk, two enemy fighters were killed and three suspects were detained today during an operation targeting a wanted man believed to have connections to area al-Qaida leadership and roadside bomb operations. Upon arriving at the target building, ground forces called for the occupants to surrender. Two men with weapons ran out of the building. Coalition forces, perceiving hostile intent, killed them.

Just outside Mosul yesterday, coalition forces captured a wanted man who intelligence reports suggest is an explosives expert possibly involved in the movement of suicide bombers.

During three related operations today in Mosul, forces captured a wanted man believed to have conspired with terrorists killed in an operation earlier this month. Five additional suspects were detained during the operations.

Also near Mosul today, forces captured a wanted man allegedly associated with the city’s al-Qaida foreign terrorist and weapons facilitation networks. Two other suspected terrorists were detained during the operation.

In other operations yesterday:

— During a rescue operation to recover a 15-year-old kidnap victim in Kirkuk province, Iraqi police killed one of her abductors. Three gunmen kidnapped the teenager, whose father is a captain for the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad, in the early morning hours yesterday. An emergency special unit set up a checkpoint to intercept the kidnappers, and a firefight ensued. The unit rescued the victim, although one police officer was injured and the two other kidnappers escaped.

— Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers arrested a suspected criminal in southern Baghdad’s Rashid district. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s Troop A, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, arrested the suspect in his home while conducting a cordon-and-search mission and transported him to a combat outpost for further processing.

— An Iraqi citizen’s tip led Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers to a weapons cache in the Baghdad area. Soldiers serving with the 10th Mountain Division’s Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, found 12 bombs of various sizes designed to pierce armor-hulled vehicles, two machine guns with spare barrels, an AK-47 assault rifle and 200 armor-piercing rounds in an abandoned house in the Iraqi capital’s New Baghdad district.

— Soldiers with Company B, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Cavalry Regiment, seized a gas can with about 10 pounds of homemade explosive material in Baghdad’s Mansour area.

In operations Oct. 12:

— While on a cordon-and-search mission, soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, seized two rocket-propelled grenades, two OG-7 fragmentation warheads, four fragmentation grenades, five RPG launchers and a 40 mm launcher in Baghdad’s West Rashid area.

— Soldiers from the same unit arrested five suspects during targeted raids in southern Baghdad’s Rashid district. While searching the residences, the soldiers seized four RPGs, five RPG launchers, fragmentation propelled grenades and a 40 mm grenade launcher.

— Iraqi National Police officers discovered a bottle filled with homemade explosives inside a cardboard box while on patrol in the Masafee community. An Iraqi army explosives ordnance disposal team retrieved the homemade bomb.

— An Iraqi citizen’s tip led Iraqi National Police to the seizure of an RPK light machine gun, two AK-47s, three grenade fuses and bodies, 2,000 rounds of 7.62 mm linked ammunition and two machine guns.

— Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team seized five anti-personnel mines and two grenade fuses while on patrol in Adhamiyah.

— Iraqi National Police confiscated 52 AK-47s, a sniper rifle, a 9 mm pistol, a revolver, a bolt-action rifle and a videotape with extremist propaganda during an operation in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad.

— Based on a tip from a “Sons of Iraq” citizen security group member, 25th Infantry Division soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, working with Iraqi soldiers, seized a weapons cache west of Baghdad. The cache consisted of 25 pounds of propellant, two 125 mm rounds, five 82 mm mortar shells, two cans of 23 mm projectiles, 16 rocket fuses, about 1,000 rounds of 14.5 mm small-arms ammunition and four motorcycle batteries.

— Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division’s Troop A, 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, confiscated two AK-47s while conducting Operation Patriot Enforcement II in Rusafa.

— An Iraqi citizen’s tip led Iraqi soldiers to the seizure of two 120 mm rounds, two 105 mm rounds, a fragmentation grenade, 12 fuses, washing-machine timers and initiation devices in western Baghdad.

— A citizen’s call to the Iraqi army’s tip line led Iraqi soldiers to an RPG launcher on a roof in Kadhamiyah.

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

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51494

“Bush Signs Fiscal 2009 Defense Budget Into Law”

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2008

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

bttt

[Cindy]

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“Covert Radio Show: The Latest from Al Qaeda Pakistan and Africa”

DESCRIPTION: “Today’s show covers all the bases from praise to the first responders, to Americans turning Jihadi and a big announcement about this show going to radio- Runs 60 Minutes.”
(October 14, 2008)

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“Covert Radio Show: Live from Afghanistan with Tim Lynch”

DESCRIPTION: “We are back large and in charge here at the Covert Radio Show and what a great 1 Hour Show we have for you. Tim Lynch from VSSA checks in live from Afghanistan to talk about the latest on the Taliban Tet Offensive Style Assault that was repelled over the weekend in the Helmand. Then Bill Roggio joins the discussion to talk about the latest on the Taliban Truce Talks— are we talking to real taliban or wannabes. Finally, Brett talks about the X’s and O’s on a Narco Terror Attack in Mexico against the US Consulate. A GREAT 60 Minutes to kick off the week.”
(October 13, 2008)

[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105591/posts

5 students from Afghanistan missing from UW
Seattle Times ^ | October 14, 2008 | Donna Gordon Blankinship
Posted on October 14, 2008 2:34:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Five Afghanistan scholars visiting the University of Washington to work on their master’s theses were reported missing after failing to show up for a week of training sessions, university officials said today.

The five were among 38 mid-career government and nonprofit officials in Seattle for a three-month research and training program. They are working toward a master’s degree in public policy and administration at Kabul University.

The program is in its second year through the Evans School of Public Affairs. It’s also the second time Afghani scholars have gone missing.

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The five men, who are all 30 or younger, attended the first week of training workshops after arriving in late September but failed to show up for the second week of the program and have been missing since Oct. 6, Arkans said.

“They’re not violating any laws; they’re violating a condition of their visa,” Arkans said. The scholars are in the United States on a J-1 visa, which allows extended stays for education or cultural exchange, according to the U.S. State Department.

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Two other scholars who participated in the program in 2007 did not return to Kabul, he said.

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5 Afghani’s Visiting U of Washington Go Missing
KIRO-FM (MyNorthwest.com) ^ | 10/14/08 | Associated Press
Posted on October 14, 2008 12:41:20 PM PDT by hoagy62

Five Afghanistan scholars visiting the University of Washington have been reported missing. UW officials say the five scholars are in Seattle for a three-month research and training program.

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