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BATRIK — bordering Afghanistan's Nuristan province, inaccessible Chitral district has long been thought to be a refuge for Osama bin Laden. With the high peaks of the Hindu Kush range and narrow valleys, ... easy to dodge through secret mountain routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. home of the Kalasha, a unique pagan civilization that's lived in the area for 2,000 years or more, boxed in by an increasingly militant Islam. According to locals, bin Laden lived with a Kalasha family in Chitral for some time during his first Afghan jihad, . With his now much more severe ideology, the al...

A banner once displayed in front of an abandoned Al-Qaeda safehouse in Iraq has found a new home at a US military museum.The three-meter-long (10-foot-long) black flag, recovered by a battalion of Marines in Fallujah in November 2004, is now on display at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia.The flag "is believed to be the same banner seen in the atrocious videos broadcast all over the world displaying the torture and executions of many innocent civilians by insurgents and terrorists," according to the text accompanying the exhibit.The flag was found, the narrative went on to say,...

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson said Monday that while Osama bin Laden needs to be caught and killed, the terrorist mastermind would get the due process of law.

Is there any method to bin Laden’s madness? After years of not being seen in public, he is apparently surfacing on the eve of the 6th anniversary of his Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Intelligence agencies have stated that Islamic terrorists like to mark anniversaries with attacks. As religious fundamentalists, they may even be motivated by Islam’s interest in numbers or numerology. While the number 6 has little religious significance for Islamics, this Sept. 11 will mark an important number: 72. That’s 72 months since the 9/11 strikes of 2001. Could there be significance in that number? We did some research...

The War on Terror is not a hot agenda item for the Democratic presidential candidates; in fact, one would be hard pressed to conclude that there even is such a thing. The only time we hear about terrorists from the Democratic candidates is when they open their traitorous mouths, proudly voicing their cut-and-run strategy. In their view, Iraq will magically become an earthly Shangri-La as soon as the last of our troops fly out. My, my, my – it is exactly what clear-thinking conservatives have been writing about – the perception that everything is going to be just wonderful as...

The bottomline verdict on yesterday's election is that the majority of American's no longer believe that our democratic republic and western culture (whats left of it) are worth actually fighting to save. It is a terrible shame that we have managed to squander our entire political and cultural inheritance in less than 20 years. But it is the simple fact of the matter.Whether the whore's names are Bush or Clinton really doesn't matter. Our children's birthright has been sold out, lock, stock and barrel for Saudi/Wahabist treasure. Money talks, BS walks.Usama's Wahabist vision of the future of the USA/West is...

Bill Clinton's Rage As He Angrily Defends His Handling Of Bin Laden: Did He Do Enough To Get Al-Qaeda? http://www.vote.com/vote/60412193/ Yes: Bill Clinton said in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, "I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I responsibly could." Blaming Clinton for failing to get Osama is a right-wing conspiracy! NO: Fox News' Chris Wallace asked former President Bill Clinton a legitimate news question about bin Laden and Clinton freaked out. It’s obvious from the attacks on the U.S. on September 11,...

Lib/Dem/Soc/Commies -- You've Forgotten The Lessons Of 9/11 Written by Doc Farmer Monday, September 11, 2006 Author's Note: This is a request to most of my conservative, patriotic readers. Please don't read it with yourself in mind. Instead, send it along to every lib/dem/soc/commie discussion board, mailing list or group you can find. Send it to every lib/dem/soc/commie media outlet. Call every lib/dem/soc/commie talk show with it. This message is for them, and it's high time they heard it. Five years. It's not that long a time, when you consider the history of our nation. It's a mere blink of...

Pakistan not doing enough on terrorism, U.S. saysSat May 6, 2006 7:08 PM ISTBy Yousuf AzimyKABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan is not doing enough to help root out Taliban and al Qaeda leaders who have found safe haven in its lawless tribal lands along the Afghan border, a senior U.S. security official said on Saturday.Most al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are in Pakistan, and while the United States did not know where Osama bin Laden was hiding, he was probably on the Pakistan side of the border, said Henry Crumpton, State Department coordinator for counterterrorism.Pakistan, a vital U.S. security ally, has...

I have said it before, and I will say it again. We are currently engaged in WWIII. The war was started in the early 90’s as Al Qaeda attacked American interests around the world and gain full blown WAR status with September 11. The Left lives in denial by thinking the Iraq war is an isolated conflict started for the wrong reasons. Iraq is the chosen battlefield for the global war on terror, aka WWIII, and the foreign fighters fueling the insurgency there are the evidence. In addition to this we have Hamas assuming power in Palestine. The Israelis have...

The 9/11 Commission tells us in detail that the terrorist attacks on America on 9/11 were set in motion in December 1998. They report that interrogations of the plot's mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, demonstrate that the plot was set in motion in "late 98 early 99" at a meeting in Khandahar, Afghanistan. This also happens to be the time period that Iraq came under bombardment by the United States. The timing is no accident. They reported that the only time Osama bin Laden was in Khandahar during the time period of "late 98 early 99" was between December 18 and...

I've set out to create a sort of information clearinghouse of post-war information on Iraq's WMDs, ties to terror groups, ties to Al Qaeda in particular, Russia providing aide to Saddam, etc. I wanted to have post with a lot of background so as newly released documents continue to roll in and get translated and liberals whine "so what, this is just one document", we can always link back to this post or find older links in it. It started out mainly just for my personal use, for when I post on developments as they come, I will always link...

EXCLUSIVE Sue Osama Bin Laden Terror chief ... Bin Laden     By DAVID WOODING Whitehall Editor BRITISH tourists maimed in terrorist attacks abroad have been refused Government compensation — and advised to sue OSAMA BIN LADEN.  Scores of victims left penniless and unable to work have had their claims turned down by ministers because they were injured overseas.Trevor Lakin, 56, whose son died in an Egyptian suicide blast, was officially told to seek damages from “the perpetrator”. He said last night: “It beggars belief. How do you sue a suicide bomber?”The grieving dad was appalled by ministers’ response when he begged...

Prevarication by the Pakistani government cost America the chance to kill Osama bin Laden in an airstrike near the Afghan border two years ago, the Sunday Telegraph has been told. A CIA lead that the al-Qaeda leader was hiding in a remote province was squandered because the Pakistani government delayed giving permission for the attack on its soil, according to a senior Western diplomat.By the time US officials got the go-ahead, bin Laden had left the suspected hideout in Zhob, in the Baluchistan province of south-west Pakistan.The near-miss was cited by the diplomat as the reason why America chose not...

...Michael Scheuer, a former CIA officer who tracked bin Laden for 10 years as part of a unit he created, told CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer that this latest threat should be taken "very seriously." (video) The important thing about bin Laden, Scheur says, "is that the coordination between what he says he's going to do and what he does is very nearly 100 percent over the past decade. He's a very deadly serious man." Scheuer said the offer of a truce is "very similar to one he made to the Europeans about two years ago. They paid no attention...

<p>In Massachusetts, an organization known as the Citizens Energy Corporation (CEC) provides low cost heating oil for the state’s disadvantaged each year. On the surface their mission seems laudable; however, the reality is far from valiant. This organization has been used for years by its Chairman, former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II (son of the late US Senator and Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy,) as both a tool for the implementation of his personal political aims and for Kennedy’s own personal financial enrichment. The CEC operates as a non-profit corporation but despite Kennedy’s personal wealth, which is reported to be in the millions of dollars, he receives compensation from his charitable endeavor of $400,000 a year based on CEC financial reports from 2003 (the last year upon which such reports were available).</p>

Four years after President Bush launched a war to oust Osama bin Laden from his hideout in Afghanistan, many are mystified how a polite son of a millionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia could turn into the world’s most wanted terrorist. According to many experts, a clue may lie in the life and works of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic ideologue who was radicalized after an overwhelmingly negative experience in the United States and later imprisoned and executed by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s regime in Egypt in 1966...Qutb’s journey to radicalism started in 1948 when the Egyptian government sent the young school...

Both episodes of Inside 9-11 on tonight

Clinton State Department Documents Outlined bin Laden Threat to the United States in Summer 1996 - Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released two declassified “Top Secret” State Department documents that warned Clinton administration officials of the activities and influence of Osama bin Laden following his alleged “expulsion” from Sudan in May 1996. The documents, authored by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, discuss bin Laden’s travels, his prolonged stay in Afghanistan, financial networks, anti-Western threats in press interviews, ties to the Khobar Towers bombing and bin Laden’s “emboldened” threats against...

Imagine that, the State Department warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him more fertile ground to spread radical Islam. Newly declassified documents now tell the tale of how the Clinton administration failed to connect the dots that could have prevented 9/11. While the Left and their darlings Kristin and the Jersey girls are continuing to point at the Bush administration on shows like Hardball and saying that they failed to connect the dots during their first 9 months in office, the truth is now being revealed. So much for the...

It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 It is up to an underground group of bio-mechanically enhanced conservatives led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden's plans to nuke New York City ...And wake the world from an Orwellian nightmare of United Nations- dominated ultra-liberalism.

9/11 Theory a House of Cards By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal 06/22/2004 I took the attacks of September 11th on the World Trade Center personally. Thousands of our fellow citizens were murdered that day by Islamic Terrorists and, these cowards endangered some of my dearest friends when my beloved Manhattan was attacked. I was also commended by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation for my proposed memorial design during the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. So when someone denies the facts about that horrible day I don’t get mad, I get furious. Within days of Usama Bin Laden...

9/11 Theory a House of Cards By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal 06/22/2004 I took the attacks of September 11th on the World Trade Center personally. Thousands of our fellow citizens were murdered that day by Islamic Terrorists and, these cowards endangered some of my dearest friends when my beloved Manhattan was attacked. I was also commended by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation for my proposed memorial design during the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. So when someone denies the facts about that horrible day I don’t get mad, I get furious. Within days of Usama Bin Laden...

Bin Laden may prove his presence soon, says senior Pak journalist (IANS) 17 May 2005 LONDON — Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his Taleban associate Mulla Omar are alive, and a new cassette from the Al Qaeda leader is expected soon to prove his presence, according to a distinguished Pakistani journalist. “Both Osama and Mulla Omar are alive. There is no evidence to suggest that Osama bin Laden is dead, and there is no doubt about the presence of Mullah Omar as he regularly sends audio cassettes and letters," journalist Rahimullah Yuzufsai was quoted as saying yesterday. Yusufzai,...

What steps should Western border agencies take to defend their homelands from harm by Islamists? In the case of non-citizens, the answer is simple: Don't let Islamists in. Exclude not just potential terrorists but also anyone who supports the totalitarian goals of radical Islam. Just as civilized countries did not welcome fascists in the early 1940s (or communists a decade later), they need not welcome Islamists today. But what about one's own citizens who cross the border? They could be leaving to fight for the Taliban or returning from a course on terrorism techniques. Or perhaps they studied with enemies...

She walks down the street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, thin and stylish, just another well-heeled beauty chatting away on her cell phone. Except that she isn't — she's Usama bin Laden's (search) niece. Wafah Binladin (search) left the city in the months before her uncle's ghastly attack, but she's back now, living at a friend's posh pad off Park Avenue, pursuing her career as a pop star and living it up on the social scene at swanky Soho House. Although the Saudi Binladen Group (search) changed its name, at least when dealing with one U.S. firm after...

Monday, March 14, 2005 7:03 a.m. EST Clinton Sought Bin Laden 'Beheading' Ex-president Bill Clinton tried to persuade Saudi Arabia to behead Osama bin Laden while trying to arrange a deal in 1996 to have the terrorist kingpin extradited from the Sudan. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday: "In the spring of 1996, the government of Sudan offered to deliver Osama bin Laden [then living in Khartoum] into U.S. custody. The Clinton Administration was aware of the threat bin Laden posed, but it worried it didn't yet have sufficient information to indict him on terrorism charges in court. Instead,...

In Islam, lying or omissions for the 'greater good,' according to a strict or radical Islam/Islamist philosophy is not only acceptable, it is holy and blessed work. It is called al-Takeyya (or al-Taqiyya) and is a strategy outlined in the Hadiths and supported by various interpretations of some of the Suras in the Koran. We have just seen it in action and most people never even caught the whiff of mental ether the Islamists were pouring into the airways of the already comatose and choking non-Islamist world. Al-Takeyya is a policy whereby a Muslim may lie, deceive or omit critical...

MADRID, Spain — Muslim clerics in Spain issued what they called the world's first fatwa, or Islamic edict, against Usama bin Laden on Thursday, the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, calling him an apostate and urging others of their faith to denounce the Al Qaeda (search) leader. The ruling was issued by the Islamic Commission of Spain, the main body representing the country's 1 million-member Muslim community. The commission represents 200 or so mostly Sunni mosques, or about 70 percent of all mosques in Spain. -snip- The fatwa said that according to the Quran "the terrorist acts of...

Christians are the largest special interest group in America. Usama Bin Laden is not the world's last Muslim Terrorist. We're forcing our way of life on them? What makes you think she didn't want to be free like you? Supporting the troops MEANS supporting the war. Axis of evil: One down, two to go.

Special Dispatch Series - No. 830 December 17, 2004 No.830 Saudi Journalist and Childhood Friend of Osama bin Laden Criticizes Muslims for Misreading Koranic Verses to Justify Hatred of Christians and Jews   Dr. Khaled Batarfi, managing editor of the Saudi Arabian daily Al-Madina and a childhood friend of Osama bin Laden, [1] recently wrote an article in Al-Madina critical of Muslims for using Koranic verses to justify hating Jews and Christians. The following is the article, translated and published in the Saudi daily Arab News: [2] 'The Problem Lies with Those Who Misinterpret History in Order to Serve...

KARACHI: Pakistani authorities have told a newspaper to stop publishing photos and sermons of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and elusive Taliban chief Mulla Omar, an official said on Wednesday. Urdu-language daily Ummat has been printing the wanted pair’s images and speeches since late 2001, when a US-led military campaign ousted Afghanistan’s hardline Islamic Taliban militia from power. “We have issued a notice, asking them to explain from where they were getting these statements by Osama Bin Laden and Mulla Omar every day,” Sindh government spokesman Salahuddin Haider said. Haider said the two had been declared international terrorists so...

<p>BERLIN - Gone were the guerrilla fatigues, the rambling religious rhetoric and scenes from his remote mountain hideout. Instead, Osama bin Laden wore a white turban and gold-colored robe as he stood behind a lectern and spoke softly to the camera, looking more like an elected official than the most wanted terrorist in the world. The imagery and style were different, but bin Laden's message to ''the people of America'' was the same: You still don't understand why we are at war with each other. ''This is the message which I sought to communicate to you in word and deed, repeatedly, for years before September 11th,'' the fugitive al-Qaida leader said in a videotape aired around the world Oct. 29. ''But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th . . . the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred.'' Eight years after issuing a written declaration of war against the United States, the theme of bin Laden's speech was disbelief that he had failed to make his point with the American people, even after the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on U.S. soil and a succession of bombings, beheadings and other forms of bloodshed worldwide. ''This talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results,'' he said, in what are believed to be his first videotaped comments in three years. An examination of bin Laden's speeches over the years shows that the underlying message has remained consistent: Americans have repeatedly humiliated Muslims with a foreign policy that has propped up corrupt governments in the Middle East and perpetuated conflict in the region. Until you prevail on your government to stop, we will strike back. He did not quote the Quran during his latest, 13-minute speech, and he also avoided the obscure historical references that peppered his previous statements.</p>

MILNET: Those In The Know Interview with Ryan Mauro This briefing asks questions of the first analyst we have interviewed, Ryan Mauro, Ryan is a knowledgeable geo-political analyst in the commercial field (www.WorldThreats.com) whose expertise was recognized quite early in life... How would you interpret apparent U.S. Intelligence Community failures in light of information on WMD in Iraq? Intelligence on Iraq, as well as most foreign countries, was flawed. I do not think anyone can look at the present situation and be completely satisfied. Recognizing that, I have been amazed at some of the analysis regarding the WMD. First off,...

Fox reporting NOW!

Pakistan ‘gives Al-Qaeda refuge’ Nicholas Rufford OSAMA BIN LADEN is being given safe haven with the help of Pakistani officials, British security sources believe. Recent intelligence reports coming from remote tribal areas of Pakistan have indicated the Al-Qaeda leader is being given refuge by senior figures in the regional government. America has given Pakistan tens of millions of dollars since the start of the war on terrorism and the hunt for Bin Laden. There is growing impatience in Washington at the failure of the military to capture him. He is believed to be hiding along the mountainous 1,500mile frontier between...

Al Jazeera today is airing a new video by Al Qaida in which Usama Bin Ladin endorses Kerry for the presidency. Usama is quoted as saying "the infidel Bush's killing and capturing of the majority my operatives has severely hampered my ability to conduct terrorist operations". Usama goes on to say that he feels that Al Qaida would flourish during a Kerry presidency. He even went so far as to predict that within on year of Kerry's election Al Qaida would have full control of Iraq.

Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country’s involvement with U.N. corruption in Iraq. Poor thing. Yesterday, the independent committee investigating corruption in the U.N.’s “oil-for-food” program for Iraq made public the names of 3,545 companies that sold goods to Saddam. Also published were the names of 248 companies which received Iraqi oil under the program. Through oil-for-food, Saddam stole “$10.1 billion through oil smuggling and kickbacks from suppliers.” Leave it to the U.N. to pull off one of the biggest scandals in world history. Evidence is emerging...

Politics: 29 September 2004, Wednesday. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor believed to be the second-in-command of terror network Al Qaeda, has reportedly been captured. Arab media report that Osama bin Laden's top deputy has been arrested by Pakistani soldiers.

Saw this and thought it was kinda funny. Enjoy.

OBL and Al-Qaeda Warnings: An Update Compiled By: Ryan Mauro tdcanalyst@optonline.net As expected, WorldThreats.com come under fire for my warnings of Al-Qaeda plots in February. First, let me clear up, we never said an attack would be successful. That would be extremely irresponsible. We still believe my warnings were accurate. The efforts of WorldThreats.com and the Northeast Intelligence Network (HomelandSecurityUS.com) showed a dramatic, and quite frightening, increase in terrorist “chatter”, along with many signs of terrorist attacks. We saw increased overseas attacks, terrorist propaganda, and suspicious activity in the US by law enforcement signaling to us that terrorists had attempted,...

Washington, Feb 21 (UNI) The US has scotched reports coming out of Pakistan that its forces have captured Osama bin Laden. ''That would be news to everybody in this room. No, I haven't heard anything -- haven't heard anything like that,'' spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters at the White House here yesterday. Asked to clarify what prompted President Pervez Musharraf to say a couple of weeks ago that Pakistani forces would have bin Laden by the year-end, the spokesman said, ''I speak for the President. Obviously, I don't speak for President Musharraf.'' As for whether the capture of bin Landen...

OSAMA bin Laden is reportedly surrounded by United States special forces in a mountain range that straddles north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan. Internationally respected investigative journalist and author Gordon Thomas says the al-Qaida terror group leader has been sighted for the first time since 2001 and is being monitored by satellite. In a report to be published in a British newspaper, Thomas says bin Laden is in a mountainous area to the north of the Pakistani city of Quetta. The region is said to be a stronghold for bin Laden supporters and the terror kingpin is estimated to have 50 of...

US optimistic of capturing Osama by year end Press Trust of India New York, February 9 A recent spike in intelligence has given Americans officials greater reason for hope that they are close to catching Osama bin Laden than anytime since he escaped US clutches in Tora Bora at the end of 2001, a media report said on Monday quoting a "knowledgeable" US intelligence official. "There are some channels that are very active," the official told the Time magazine but declined to give details for fear they might dry up. "There are a lot of people very confident that they...

One of my favorite things to do each year is to collect all I've written and see what stands out in each of them to see what happened in the year. As usual, there have always been great quotes from the year gone by, and I thought about sharing some of the funniest quotes I've made and even other quotes from friends which I thought were enjoyable. I decided one of the best things to do is to share with you some of those great quotes I've made in 2003. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry,...

The CIA Memo (Published by the Weekly Standard - and the article is posted below) says it has (Among MANY Other Things) shown that Bin Laden got fake passports and Weapons training from Iraqi Intelligence, That Iraq offered safe haven in Iraq to Al Qaeda Members including to Bin Laden. The Mainstream Media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS) will NOT report this, so I think all freepers should E-Mail Rush and Hannity the Weekly Standard Article so that they can get the word out to their 10+ Million listeners that the SMOKING GUN HAS BEEN FOUND in terms of the...

PESHAWAR - Al-Qaeda, "the base", is now extinct. Al-Qaeda has a brand new name: Fath-e-Islam (Victory of Islam). And Fath-e-Islam's leader, none other than Osama bin Laden, is very much alive. But not anymore in Pakistan. Osama has returned to Afghanistan. More precisely, the Kunar province. Key players in the ultra-complex Pakistan-Afghanistan game had been saying that since the fall of Kabul in November 2001 that "the last battle" in this ongoing war would be in Kunar. The scenario now seems more than likely. The Taliban and the rebranded al-Qaeda have full tribal support in Kunar - where everybody seems...

"Explosions in Riyadh, So Let's Blame Dubya!" Posted by Doc Farmer Sunday, May 18, 2003 I lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for about four-and-a-half years before I moved to Doha, Qatar, last July. And other than the way they drive in Riyadh, I really liked it there. I've still got friends there. I've even got family there--my cousin and her hubby. So you can imagine my concern when I heard about the terrorist bombings of three residential compounds and a joint Saudi/American business there. I sent an e-mail to my friends and colleagues there, and thank God, they're all fine....

Tony Snow said there is a report that Naomi Campbell has a spy network which has tracked Osama Bin Laden to Saudi Arabia....nothing furtur

I'd like to get some explanations on some things I keep hearing from the lib/dem/soc/commie group, as well as some quiet musings of my own, and I hope you'll be kind enough to oblige this query. ____________________________________________________ See Source URL for the full article - and hopefully a few laughs as well...