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Posted on 12/01/2008 6:12:32 PM PST by nwctwx
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Terrorists in Pakistan planning over 20 attacks on Britain, says Gordon Brown
The Prime Minister named Pakistan as a haven for terrorists planning attacks in Britain, revealing that around three quarters of the most advanced plots monitored by MI5 are have Pakistani links. Officials say that the Security Service is aware of around 30 serious plots at any given moment, suggesting that at least 21 of them are tied to Pakistani groups. On a visit to Islamabad, the Prime Minister delived a blunt demand to President Ali Asif Zardari to improve his goverment’s work to prevent al-Qaeda and other groups operating in the lawless area that borders Afghanistan. “The time has come for action not words,” Mr Brown told Mr Zardari. At a press conference, Mr Brown revealed that he had told Mr Zardari that “three quarters of the most serious plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaeda in Pakistan”.
US forecasts: Iran will have makings of 3 A-bombs by end of 2009
The most up-to-date intelligence predictions of US nuclear experts is that by the end of 2009, Iran will have stocked enough weapons-grade fuel to build three nuclear bombs.
The first will be ready for assembly by the time Barack Obama is sworn in as US president on January 20, 2009; the second shortly after Israel’s February 10, 2009 general election produces a new prime minister, and the third by the end of the year.
Iran may deny the latest IAEA conclusion that it has stockpiled 630 kg of low-enriched uranium, enough to upgrade a nuclear weapon. But Tehran’s limited on-and-off cooperation with the nuclear watchdog leaves it wide open to the suspicion of a secret location churning out enriched uranium far from the declared Natanz facility.
So what happened to the pledges made by the world powers over the years to keep nuclear weapons out of the Islamic Republic’s hands, including declarations by US and Israeli leaders that their military options remained “on the table?”
Those pledges came from Israeli leaders on both sides of the aisle – prime minister Ehud Olmert, foreign minister Tzipi Livni (who has replaced him as Kadima chairman), defense minister Ehud Barak and opposition Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu.
Political analysts comment: Their pledges have turned out to be as credible as the subsequence assurances of Olmert and his finance minister Ronnie Bar-On that the global economic crisis had skipped Israel and the public’s savings and investments were safe.
This week, Israelis woke up to find one-third of their pension funds wiped out - and a nuclear-armed Iran on their horizon.
Next year, Tehran may stage an underground atomic test to show Muslims everywhere what the Shiites can do and confront the new US and Israeli governments with its unstoppable nuclear capability. That is unless Olmert, Livni, and Barak are moved to fight the strong trend toward a Likud election victory by going belatedly after Iran’s nuclear facilities in the short weeks remaining for the ballot.
However, although the Olmert government had the Syrian reactor bombed in September 2007 while it was still under construction, political sources doubt whether they are politically and personally capable today of repeating that success against Iran.
Barak is consistent in ducking military action: He lost power in 2000 after refusing to pre-empt Yasser Arafat’s planned Palestinian terror war against Israel. As defense minister, he has declined to halt Hizballah’s rocket build-up in Lebanon or put the lid on the Palestinian missile offensive from Gaza. He preferred a shaky truce, which left Hamas and fellow-fundamentalist Palestinian terrorists backed by Iran and Syria to violate at will. This policy is backed by Olmert and Livni.
Saturday, Nov. 22, Hizballah launched a large-scale military exercise in South Lebanon, including in areas policed by UN peacemakers which are barred to Hizballah militiamen under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which Livni helped draft in 2006.
According to military sources, the years from 2002 to 2006, when Ariel Sharon and his faithful disciples Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, were then in power were the best time for halting Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb by military action. Now it will be harder. Their favorite mantra was that George W. Bush was “the friendliest US president Israel had ever had.” He could be counted on to halt Iran’s nuclearization if Israel made the running with territorial concessions that opened the door to a Washington-sponsored peace with the Palestinians.
This claim validated Israel’s unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip in 2005 at a time when it would have been easier – and smarter - to focus on destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities than today. Likud leader, Netanyahu was minister of finance in the Sharon government, until he quit later over the controversial Gaza disengagement.
Livn, closely aligned with Condoleezza Rice and Washington’s ineffectual drive for painful sanctions, played her part in this strategy with her favorite formula: A nuclear Iran is a world problem which should be left to the international community to solve.
Today, the Israeli public, on the evidence of the UN nuclear watchdog, can justly claim it was conned by its leaders. The Jewish state’s most active enemy, the terrorist sponsor in Tehran, was allowed to go all the way towards acquiring the ultimate weapon of destruction.
Instead of admitting they missed the train, those leaders and “the international community,” continue to try and lull troubled spirits with more deception, pretending that the peril of a nuclear-armed Iran can still be averted by more of their failed diplomacy.
And certain “experts” were enlisted to play down Iran’s delivery capability by dismissing its new Sejil ballistic missile, test-fired on Nov. 12, as no better than the Shehab-3 as a vehicle for delivering a nuclear warhead.
Israeli and Western missile experts familiar with Iran’s arsenal define the Sejil test a breakthrough in its missile technology.
Israeli government publicists are now leaking a new thesis to tame reporters: A nuclear-armed Iran should not cause alarm. A quote from a closed symposium by an unidentified official set the tone: “We mustn’t be scared by a little Persian with a big bomb.”
Having failed to aver this existential danger to Israel, they were now trying to convince people that the holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his nuclear bomb can be safely ignored. It will be left to the Israeli voter to decide how far he and she are ready to be gulled again when they go to the polls in February.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1366
Snippets: A bitter, year-long feud that has shaken Al Qaeda's ideological pillars grew even sharper last month. A former associate of Ayman al-Zawahiri accused him of working for Sudanese intelligence, wearing "women's garments" to flee Afghanistan, and spreading an incorrect Islamic theory of jihad.
Apparently aiming to play down Zawahiri's importance inside Al Qaeda, Imam asserts that "only three people knew of the 9/11 operation before it happened: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Hafs al-Masri, and a third person – not Zawahiri." The third person was only told 24 hours before the attack.
Have you heard anything about suspicious packages left, this past weekend, at various military bases across the country?
About the most the Iranians could accomplish with an EMP detonation would be to set off every car and burglar alarm in Europe simultaneously.
To start with, EMP has to be high altitude, because its effects are in a downward cone, like an upside down funnel. It is also dependent on the size of the detonation.
The classical example is of an EMP burst over Kansas, having to be between 1-3 Megatons, at near orbit altitude, to affect most of the continental US. The Iranians nuclear weapons capability is about 25 Kilotons, which would have to be detonated at a much lower altitude, and would create an electrical overcharge in about half the state.
In other words, why waste it on EMP, when if they allowed it to hit the ground, it would be far more destructive?
Their other problem are targets. To start with there, Iran is ringed on three sides with 300 or so PAC-3 anti-missile missiles. They have a very high “overkill” (missile and warhead failure rate), and then their missiles would have to contend with this layered anti-missile defenses.
The US aircraft carrier fleets are designed to be very resistant to nuclear attack, both in taking out enemy missiles, and having hardened electronics. Plus our ship Captains are a testy bunch when irritated, and will retaliate with enough destructive force to wipe out a continent.
The US has also calculated that somebody might put a few missiles on a cargo ship an try and sneak them up to one of our coasts, so we not only have anti-missile defenses, but our Coast Guard regularly stops ships hundreds of miles at sea to make sure they have no nuclear cargoes.
In the last few years, it was alleged that the North Koreans were trying to smuggle nuclear materials to Iran, and two of their ships were “lost at sea” in the process. We have no sense of humor about these things.
EMP would require either a large number of smaller nukes (as someone said, going off at some altitude) in proximity to various sites, or a couple really enormous bombs — and why oh why was it so simple to get everyone (except China and France) to stop atmospheric testing? ;’) And France did it in a remote spot in the Pacific. Thanks LucyT.
So many ways to plot against us.
Thanks MamaD - I wish we could get a couple of the big guys before 0 takes over.
Suspicious package at military building
12/16/2008 07:29 AM
By: News 14 Carolina Web Staff
CHARLOTTE — Part of the Air National Guard building near Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was evacuated Monday afternoon after someone in the mailroom noticed suspicious labeling on a package.
“It wasn’t properly addressed. It had excessive postage on it. There are several signs that our mail personnel are trained to look at to make sure,” said Lt. Col. Rose Dunlap.
The package matched the description of 11 other suspicious packages found at military bases around the country since Friday.
Charlotte firefighters and HAZMAT crews secured the site. Authorities didn’t say if anything was found inside.
Good news MamaD. If they are divided, however little, and their jihad sites keep going down then it’s all a good thing. Excellent article.
WASHINGTON — More than 11,000 U.S. troops will provide air defenses and medical and other support in case of a terrorist attack during the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, the U.S. commander in charge of domestic defense said Wednesday.
That’s “not because we see a specific threat, but because (for) an event this visible and this important and this historic, we ought to be prepared to respond if something does happen,” said Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the U.S. Northern Command.
In a session with defense writers, Renuart said about 7,500 active duty military and roughly 4,000 National Guard troops will participate in the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama.
They will include a contingent on alert to respond to a chemical attack. Others will perform ceremonial roles in parades, reviews, honor guards and so on, Renuart said.
He did not give figures but said a “big chunk” of both active and guard units will do ceremonial work.
The Secret Service is in charge of inauguration security. There also will be some 4,000 local police, 4,000 police from around the country and security agents from other government agencies.
Renuart said planners are working under the assumption that a terrorist or rogue element might try to interrupt the inauguration.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/17/troops-work-inauguration-day-case-terror-attack/
I really hope that the only thing that interrupts his inauguration is a COLB.
...an event this visible and this important and this historic...
If this inauguration is considered more important or historic than any other inauguration, well, gag me with the proverbial spoon. *sigh*
Motorist credited for helping police arrest ‘fake cop’ suspect in Grapevine [ILLEGAL]
Grapevine police are crediting a motorist for alerting them to a man who now faces a charge of trying to impersonate a cop.
The arrest was made around 9:30 p.m. Sunday after a 22-year-old man in a white pickup with flashing lights allegedly followed a car on Texas 360, police said.
The suspect, Adan Ramirez of Grapevine, was being held Wednesday in the Grapevine jail, charged with impersonating a public servant.
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Impersonating a public servant, which is a third-degree felony, is punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Smith noted, however, that a “hold” was placed on Ramirez by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or “ICE.” The hold indicates he is suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, which makes him ineligible for bond.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1099356.html
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