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11-30-2006

Dallas Police Probe Rash Of Propane Tank Thefts

Get Ready For A Major Cyber Attack on Financial Institutions:

Jihad
The group specialized in attacking Israeli positions and enemy of Islam

 

The name of God the Merciful

Dates invasions

There will be a specific date invasions and consultations to participate, God every computer electronically Perhaps God whom we jihad in the process Although small, but a large influence, God

Authorizing the Almighty and with the increasing number of participants us a lot, The strong promises, with God's help will close all sites attacking Islam in the coming period

Days invasions :

Saturday-Monday-Thursday

 :Times invasions :

From 18:00 until at 10 Greenwich Mecca

From 17:00 until 9:00 Greenwich Jerusalem
 

The attack, the members of the Task Upcoming in addition to volunteers for the attack on the operation of the site a copy of the program and leave work even on the speed vulnerable.


Objectives : to be updated automatically in our main

The next target : the type of site hostile to Islam

 1.5 The main program used : the Jihad 1.5 (silver version)
.All praise to Allah we were able to better programming copy of the Jihad, she finished most of the problems faced by members of the former, It is much lighter than the previous version and more efficiently attack the bottom loading.
To understand the idea of the program read the explanation here

 1.Another important reminder : Jihad 1. 0 (ÌÏíÏ!)0 (new!)

.This new program Bbermojth we have to be reminded of the date of the attacks on the nation by showing him a letter on the attack and before then, and the moment of the beginning of the attack in addition to the news of the fall of the site with God's help, It is a wonderful and will increase the number of participants attacks, God.
 

Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds

The group, a new industry of a particular

Mudzakir Jihad

It is a common time call several hours before the attack, and when it began and used instead of e-mail correspondence.

That God will increase the number of attackers, The stronger the next Hjmatna


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Bishara of our computer

God largest single-one of the host sites hostile Astedvenaha Thdidatna respond favorably to the closure of the site, responded to the request to close

Valhamd God and then thank God

And authorizing the Almighty Strezkh all the positions hostile to see the bravery after protectors of Islam

The leadership of Jihad

Note : if it is not common in conjunction please list jihad oath Page

The way the attack on the site :

1- .Take the one-charging main program used in the attack. The operation to make sure it works well.

Important Note : If this program that HIV is worry, Qum allow him to see and explain the details of the program

2- .Two-time attack Qom operation of the program main and the emergence of the site to make sure the target in the goal square.

3- .Four-click attack for a moment and the beginning of the attack to leave the program worked for the unity, nor hastened the emergence of success, In case you had a quick Internet store operation several times.

 4- continued operation of the program for at least another two hours. will the time of the attack as the attack specified

 5- Five-and the most important thing, pray to God to grant us success in this attack and supports the Islam and Muslims.For details see explanation of the program.

The attack would require all members of the group, although absent from the date could lead to the complete failure

Please everyone involved.In the event had not been able to stores throughout the attack could self first hour or two of them as Zarvk.

The leadership of Jihad


 

Osama...come out, come out where ever you are...Cat got your tongue?

Jihadi's are asking for you.....From the Arabic Forums:

The enterprise of clouds new word advance of my prince is the Al-Qaeda  Osama Ben Ladin and Ayman Al Douahri by an address { the victory dawn } ..

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Who longs for such address

And Allah the longing squeezes my heart

And my heart is about to that misses

Your absence saves O our sheikh Osama

All of us long for the hearing of your sweet words

The one that reveals to us a coldness and a peace

We ask Allah that it delivers us to you and it delivers you to us

 And I hope from the brothers books what their hearts dictate from the words of the longing to our sheik

And peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you


FBI settles case against lawyer for $2 million

WASHINGTON - Two years ago the FBI branded Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield a terror suspect, secretly searched his house and eavesdropped on his conversations with his family and co-workers. On Wednesday, Justice Department officials agreed to pay Mayfield $2 million to settle one part of his lawsuit for his wrongful arrest in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.


11-29-2006

Radiation found on planes after ex-spy’s death

British Airways contacts people who flew on jetliners where traces found

 

SCIENTISTS at a US weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives

SCIENTISTS at a US weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for US homeland security and the Iraq war.Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said they trained honeybees to stick out their proboscis - the tube they use to feed on nectar - when they smell explosives in anything from cars and roadside bombs to belts similar to those used by suicide bombers.

Researchers in the program, dubbed the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project, published their findings today. By exposing the insects to the odour of explosives followed by a sugar water reward, researchers said they trained bees to recognise substances ranging from dynamite and C-4 plastic explosives to the Howitzer propellant grains used in improvised explosive devices in Iraq.

"When bees detect the presence of explosives, they simply stick their proboscis out," research scientist Tim Haarmann said.

"You don't have to be an expert in animal behaviour to understand it as there is no ambiguity."The findings followed 18 months of research at the US Energy Department's Los Alamos facility, the nation's leading nuclear weapons laboratory.

"We are very excited at the success of our research as it could have far-reaching implications for both defence and homeland security," Mr Haarmann said.While scientists have trained wasps to respond to the trace of explosives, Mr Haarmann said research with bees appeared to show more promise.

Mr Haarmann said the bees could be carried in hand-held detectors the size of a shoe box, and could be used to sniff out explosives in airports, roadside security checks, or even placed in robot bomb disposal equipment.He said the next step would be to manufacture the bee boxes and train security guards in their use."It would be great to start saving some lives with this," he said.


11-27-2006

Iran says will do all it can to help Iraq

Nablus: Explosive teddy bears found in lab 

Joint paratrooper, Shin Bet force uncovers explosives lab in West Bank city, finds toys with wires hanging from them, apparently slated to be used as deadly explosives by Efrat Weiss 

A joint paratrooper and Shin Bet force uncovered an explosive lab in Nablus Friday night. In the lab, the forces found teddy bears with wires hanging from them, apparently slated to be used as explosive devices. The lab was detonated in a controlled manner, and there were no reports of injuries. The forces also found in the explosives lab three belts made from cloth, ready to contain explosives, a hollow coat used for hiding explosives, and 20 light bulbs and light sockets used for activating explosives. Test tubes, a hollow gas tank, hollow pipes, batteries, 40 liters of hydrogen peroxide and ohms were also found in the lab. Since the beginning of the year, Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in Nablus hit 41 gunmen who were planning, according to the defense establishment, to hit IDF troops or Israeli citizens. Some 320 wanted terror suspects were arrested in the West Bank city and its surroundings since the beginning of the year, most of them affiliated with Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah and Hamas. At the beginning of the year, another explosives lab was uncovered in the city's casba. The forces located the lab in an abandoned building after receiving intelligence. Captain Assaf Cabra, a company commander at the Haruv battalion, addressed the operation at the time: "We launched a regimental operation in Nablus, which included searches, seizing weapons and arrests. We uncovered the explosive lab in the casba, which contained between 40 to 50 kilograms (88 to 110 pounds) of explosives for preparing explosive devices." The defense establishment reported that the terror organizations were working with greater vigor to carry out terror attacks from the city, and in the past months many explosive belts were captured in the area and gunmen were arrested on their way to carry out attacks in Israel . LINK


11-23-2006

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Iraqi Freedom 2006 "The Kids"


11-21-2006

U.S. to require passports for nearly all

Nearly all air travelers entering the U.S. will be required to show passports beginning Jan. 23, including returning Americans and people from Canada and other nations in the Western Hemisphere. The date was disclosed Tuesday by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in an interview with The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department plans to announce the change on Wednesday.

Elder Bush takes on son's Arab critics

Former President George H.W. Bush took on Arab critics of his son Tuesday during a testy exchange at a leadership conference in the capital of this U.S. ally. "My son is an honest man," Bush told members of the audience harshly criticized the current U.S. leader's foreign policy. The oil-rich Persian Gulf used to be safe territory for former President Bush, who brought Arab leaders together in a coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait in 1991. But gratitude for the elder Bush, who served as president from 1989-93, was overshadowed at the conference by hostility toward his son, whose invasion of Iraq and support for Israel are deeply unpopular in the region.

"We do not respect your son. We do not respect what he's doing all over the world," a woman in the audience bluntly told Bush after his speech. 

 

The Kuwait News Agency Is Reporting:

Bin Laden likely to be present in our region presently -- Afghan President

NEW DELHI, Nov 18 (KUNA) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday said Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden "is currently likely to be present in the South Asian-Afghan region." "I do not know where he is. If he has not run away, he is in the region," Karzai said on whether he knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.

He was replying to questions after his address at the "Hindustan Times Leadership Summit" at Delhi Saturday. Hindustan Times is the leading English daily of India. On whether he would hold talks with Taliban leader Mullah Omar in the larger interests of peace in Afghanistan, Karzai said he was prepared to have talks with anybody in the interest of peace.

"For the sake of peace, how can I tell you that I cannot talk to somebody," he said. However, those who had committed and were committing crimes against Afghan people, should face the law. But those who had settled down to peaceful lives, were welcome, he pointed out.

Germany: 6 arrested in El Al terror plot  

Six people are under investigation in Germany over an alleged terrorist plot to blow up an aircraft, German prosecutors said as Israeli government sources confirmed that an El Al plane had been the target. "We received information on the investigation and turned to the German authorities to receive continuous updates," Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz's spokesperson Timor Dill told The Jerusalem Post. "Our security forces are investigating." Sources in the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) also said they were being updated by the German authorities. The six, as well as other people who have not yet been identified, are believed to have begun preparations for an attack on behalf of "so far unknown" terrorist backers, German federal prosecutors said in a statement. Several of the accused approached a person with security clearance at an unidentified airport last summer, the statement said. That person agreed to smuggle a case or bag containing explosives onto a plane in exchange for an unspecified payment, it added.

Prosecutors said some of the accused then contacted the plot's alleged backers, but were unable to agree on the value of the promised reward. A security official said the plot was centered on the Frankfurt airport and the intention was to attack a plane belonging to El Al. Three of the suspects were apprehended in Hesse state, where the airport is located, the official said. Dani Shenar, head of the security department at the Transportation Ministry, said a security alert was in effect for Frankfurt but did not extend to El Al operations around the world. He said security at Frankfurt airport was very good, adding that his office was awaiting clarification about the investigation before deciding if it was necessary to send additional personnel to beef up operations there. Shenar said he was unaware of reports that the arrests were the result of an Israeli tip-off to German security authorities over a month ago. El Al spokeswoman Amalia Glaser declined to comment.

The six suspects, who could face charges of belonging to or supporting a terrorist organization, were temporarily detained on Friday, but five of them were released Saturday after questioning. The remaining suspect was kept in custody over an unrelated matter. Under German law, authorities must release suspects after a maximum of 48 hours unless they have enough evidence to convince a judge that they can be held in long-term investigative custody. Prosecutors would not elaborate on the circumstances of the ongoing case, nor give any more details about the suspects. They said nine apartments were searched in Hesse and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Germany's biggest airline, Lufthansa, said it had not been the target. "We are definitely not connected with this investigation," spokesman Thomas Jachnow said. Police agencies from both states, as well as German federal police, Frankfurt airport police and Frankfurt's city police all refused comment, referring questions to the federal prosecutors. A spokesman for Germany's Interior Ministry, Stefan Kaller, declined to comment on details of the alleged plot, its timing, what specific airport was involved or why the suspects were released, citing the ongoing investigation.

"This case is encouraging in that our security authorities are clearly very observant, get very close to possible [terrorist] structures and, at least so far, have succeeded in intervening early enough," Kaller told reporters. Germany stiffened counterterrorism laws after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, when it emerged that three of the suicide pilots had lived and studied undetected in Hamburg. The country was shaken this summer by a failed attempt to blow up two trains - a case that brought home to many the fact that Germany itself is now also a terrorist target.Two Lebanese men have been arrested for allegedly planting bombs on the trains at Cologne station on July 31. The bombs were found later in the day, and authorities said the detonators went off but failed to ignite the crude devices.

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...the vision in the sheikh Osama and the destruction of New York 

From Muslims in America, (Fatwa Saying Islam Condemns Terrorism)


11-18-2006

A message from the fighting sheikh Hekmatyar to the American people

 

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The Jihad Effect Magazine (complete translation)

11-17-2006

Iran training Osama Bin laden's successor

Iran is seeking to take control of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network by encouraging it to promote officials known to be friendly to Teheran, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. According to recent reports received by Western intelligence agencies, the Iranians are training senior al-Qaeda operatives in Teheran to take over the organization when bin Laden is no longer leader. MORE


Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix looks on before his speech at a luncheon meeting at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Japan in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Blix said Friday that North Korea's nuclear test was probably unsuccessful but that the communist nation would eventually perfect the technology.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)


An American nuclear scientist who toured North Korea this month said Wednesday he believes the North has enough fuel for as many as nine nuclear weapons and the capacity to make about one bomb's worth of fuel a year.


Jailing of clerics angers Muslims


US must attack Al Qaeda ideology, Rand says

Shaun Waterman
United Press International

November 17, 2006

WASHINGTON --  A new study from the Rand Corp. said the United States must drive a wedge between Al Qaeda and local jihadis as part of the war for Muslim hearts and minds.

The study said there are weaknesses in Al Qaeda's ideology "that are susceptible to exploitation," according to a statement from Rand - a think tank founded by the US Air Force that continues to consult extensively for the military.

"Not all [Islamic] terrorist or insurgent groups share Al Qaeda's worldview," said the study's authors, led by analyst Angel Rabasa. "For this reason, the report calls on the United States to try to sever the links between the local and global jihadist groups, in part by emphasizing the differences between the groups," the statement said.

Recognizing that there were greater barriers to attacks against ideologies from the outside, the report urged the US allies in the Muslim world "to highlight that the Islamic state envisioned by Al Qaeda would exclude the diverse streams of Islam."

"In the world of [Osama] Bin Laden and [Bin Laden's second-in-command Ayman] Al Zawahiri, there is no room for Shiites, and within Sunni Islam there is no place for mainstream interpretation of the religion."

"Success in the war on terror requires understanding that it is a political and ideological struggle," said Rabasa. "What inspires and sustains the global jihadist movement is an ideology that is radical and Islamist at its core, but also borrows from twentieth-century Western totalitarian traditions."

"The war on terror at its most fundamental level goes to the war of ideas," Rabasa added. "The goal here is to deny extremists the high ground of Islamic politico-religious discourse, which has been adroitly exploited by Al Qaeda to further the appeal of its own radical rhetoric

Dallas Police Probe Rash Of Propane Tank Thefts

Dallas police are investigating reports of more than 190 propane tanks stolen in the last few weeks. The thieves typically cut the locks off storage cages and then steal the tanks, and no one knows why. Store surveillance cameras were rolling when a man stole a truckload of propane tanks from a gas station in south Dallas. Since that robbery over the summer, the city has seen a rash of propane thefts in the area east of White Rock Lake -- nearly 200 canisters taken from gas stations and Walgreens stores. The Walgreens at Lakeland Drive and Ferguson Road has been hit three times. "That's kind of scary because are they using it for making drugs or making a bomb? Because propane you can pretty much do anything with it," neighbor Colleen McCoy said. Since Sept 11, 2001, the FBI has investigated propane tank thefts in a number of large U.S. cities, citing potential terrorism concerns. Dallas police said they do not think the recent thefts are a threat to homeland security. “I think there's a possibility of that, but I don't think there's been any hard and firm evidence that's the case,” Dallas police Det. Eric Keller said.

Instead, police said they believe it's more likely the tanks are being stolen and sold as scrap metal. "Aluminum is running 70 to 75 cents a pound right now, so it has a value to it and i think that's why they're doing it," Keller said. Meanwhile, some stores have simply given up. Several Walgreens in East Dallas have stopped selling propane because they just couldn't keep it from disappearing. A spokeswoman for the FBI office in Dallas said the thefts haven't risen to the level yet where they have become a priority for the agency to investigate, but they are keeping an eye on it. Dallas police have asked local scrap yards to stop accepting the tanks, hoping that will cut the number of thefts.


NYPD says al-Qaida operative favored limo bomb for U.S. targets

An al-Qaida operative conducting surveillance on U.S. soil in 2000 favored using a limousine packed with explosives or a hijacked oil tanker truck to attack financial institutions in Manhattan and New Jersey, police officials said Thursday. "The most obvious technique to utilize, that comes to mind ... would be a limousine in the VIP underground car park," the operative, Dhiren Barot, wrote in a memo about the Prudential Building in Newark, N.J. Barot also suggested that "arson may be the best choice" and advised "ramming trucks (oil tankers, etc.) straight through the glass front entrance into the lobby area." MORE


Ahmadinejad – Another Hitler

(From Iran-Watch.com) Iran, with a crucially important Bush Administration assist, and its acquisition of Lebanon, as well as its new partnership with Al Qaeda, is now in preparing to threaten the entire Middle East, and from there Central Asia and even Western Europe via the Mediterranean and North Africa.

If you want to know what the future of the Middle East will look like, look at Lebanon today, now under effective Iranian control. This week Iran cracked the whip in Lebanon. Hezbollah, now responsible to Iran and no longer to Syria, issued an Iranian-approved ultimatum that it should be granted a veto right over policy, including national security and foreign policy, or there would be no more Lebanon.

To draw an analogy from history, Czechoslovakia’s Germans, prompted by Hitler and his Nazis, issued an identical ultimatum to the Czech government in 1938. Within months the state of Czechoslovakia, a key pillar of the contain Germany policy, a robust and successful democracy, and a major achievement of the Versailles Treaty, disintegrated under relentless Nazi pressure. From that point on, Hitler’s way was open to make his move in Europe. Many Iranians protest that the Hitler-Ahmadinejad analogy is overdone. Good. At this moment, it is worthwhile to step back and assess the extent to which the Hitler-Ahmadinejad analogy still applies. MORE



11-14-2006

Iran president to send U.S. nation a message soon


From My Archives:

The third last door

The zero hour

Before the beginning of the operation by half hour he happens what follows :

One of the brotherhood he passes about the ninth hour a morning around Almsououl home by an ordinary stretcher for the exploration of the reins of power and the walk of the situations before the hit Then he gives an indication of the prince Bbdaa the operation the ambush after his passage by the target for a donation the last and final signal The ambush prince cherishes behind one of the brotherhood that rushes from the northern entry to the target .
The degrees head for the target before the departure of Allah enemy by minutes and stops at a distance of 100 metre . The stretcher heads for the lovers meeting place after the operation . The brotherhood dress cherishes a baggy shirt by a colour became green and under him a shirt by a colour became white .  

And he cherishes on the Rououshm of the black helmets a worn in a perfect way and she is the helmets of the essential motorcycle . He extracts Allah enemy from the biggest gate from his home that observes him immediately the brotherhood they approach quickly the goal as far as 20 metre .  
He gets out who on the two degrees the brotherhood two back between them a magnificent Alamirbsraa gets out from their bags the machine guns and shoot the fire in abundance at the car starting from the driver to the back and a reverse . The battlefield cherishes a Clati that stands the brotherhood on towards rightist and northern to the car is in the shape of a figure of eight and the distance cherishes 15 to 10 metres .
The firing cherishes definite and subject to oh enters the bullets are doer in the front front to the sides that is from a side the northern and Yemeni brother by his floor an as . The brotherhood the leaders of the stairs they observe the way by guns and the bombs . He retreats the brotherhood is to the first protection curtain . All bicycle leader throws a bomb downwards and inside the car with a simple retreat and a sheltering in lesson site from before .  


He resumes the brotherhood with the release of a new store for a final settlement of the target and the certainty of killing all . The injuries cherish at the second store by a distance of 3 magnifier clashing metres .


He controls the brotherhood is totally on the target then eat him an eating from their right and their left as mentioned we by figure form eight and the corner cherishes the car and the tips the brotherhood the divorcees and so he cherishes that diversified the ambush . This kind of the forms useful to the extreme where the departure is difficult from the car then see him the brotherhood and the return is difficult then he is aimed . This kind is protective to the brothers from the each other bullets a beautiful to are they a Mtoasin and the bullets heads to fronts of and their sides .


As for for to the bombs then she meets by a craft downwards the car and cherishes the brotherhood training on her who accepted similar shapes .
The bombs throwing cause is first for a destruction comprehensive to the car and the sufficient murder who in her and cultivated the terror in the passers-by and the observers to the accident then the bombs sound cultivates the terror and from during him hiding the passer-by العيون completes a Wfraraha which opens the way for the departure for the brothers peacefully a complete .The two bicycles approach that decrease the brotherhood after they approach to the final stage where they approach to the purpose from the stretcher for the certainty of an extermination all then gains the weapon .He escalates the brotherhood that left the two degrees and move quickly as the twinkle of an eye from the studied departure gate to the places of the meeting of the expected stretcher .


A bicycle heads with the other reverse in specific ways the weapons are put once more in the bags and the driver stops and leave the bicycle after the removal of the first shirt and his placement in the bag . She leaves the grade distant about the stretcher and behaves mannishly from her her command and head for a converse street to the stretcher a hiding about the first street to the people eyes .


The operation cherishes a fast that do not exceed two minutes .Dates the stretcher for bringing the brotherhood the group first then to the second group for the surrender of the weapon and her concealment in the stretcher fund under an old belongings or a domestic funds fruit .She cherishes the matters quietly and an ordinary without the confusion .Each brother takes after the separation any stretcher and heads for his place while the stretcher moves by the weapons to and a hatred then the weapons get out and hides her place . The security prince comes for bringing the weapons once more .And the matters return to her nature .


11-14-2006

Al-Qaida made attempts to acquire chemical weapons

London, Nov. 14 (AP): Islamic extremists -- including al-Qaida -- determined to attack Britain with chemical or radiological weapons have made attempts to acquire such dangerous materials, a senior British diplomat has said. Britain's Foreign Office has evidence of efforts by terror groups to purchase chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials for use in attacks, the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his work. The warning followed an acknowledgment by Britain's domestic spy chief last week that authorities are tracking almost 30 terrorist plots involving 1,600 people.

British Muslim convert Dhiren Barot, who was sentenced to life in prison last week for plotting to attack US financial landmarks and London hotels, had drawn up plans to build and detonate a so-called dirty bomb, which combines radioactive materials with conventional explosives, prosecutors said. The senior diplomat said there was no doubt al-Qaida terrorists hoped to use chemical and radioactive material against Britain and other Western targets.

"We know the aspiration is there, we know the efforts to get the materials are there, we know the efforts to get the technology are there," he said. The diplomat acknowledged that an attack with chemical or radiological weapons would most likely be mounted with crude technology and cause mass panic rather than mass casualties.

Britain's Foreign Office is concerned over the potential access extremist terrorists could have to substances with legitimate uses that could also be used to create weapons and biological agents such as smallpox or anthrax, the official said.


Woman charged under anti-terror laws

11-11-2006

Police on Thursday charged a woman on terrorism-related offences for possession of a computer hard drive loaded with operating manuals for guns, poisons, mines and munitions.

Police said among the items on the hard drive found in her possession were the Al Qaeda Manual, The Terrorists Handbook, The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook, a manual for a Dragunov sniper rifle, The Firearms and RPG Handbook, a manual for a 9mm pistol and a manual on how to win hand to hand fighting.


11-6-2006

Power Shortage Leaves Europe in the Dark

11-2-2006

Latest As Sahab Video Download

11-3-2006

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To Reservists soldiers in the USA army



Speculations on Bin Laden’s Fate

By Fahd El-Fanek


Sheik Osama Bin Laden has for a relatively long time ceased to appear on al-Jazeera either in audio and video, whilst Dr Aymen al-Zawahiri has undertaken the mission of announcing al-Qaeda’s statements in short intervals. This situation makes one wonders about Bin Laden’s fate, and whether he is ill or dead.

The rumour published by a French paper on behalf of the French Intelligence, stated that a Saudi official received information that Osama Bin Laden died a month ago from typhoid flu. However this rumour, though lacking evidence, is not absurd or meaningless.

If Osama Bin Laden has really died, al-Qaeda has no good reason for concealing this fact, because it will certainly be disclosed. Besides, his death does not mean the end of al-Qaeda, because he represents a school of thought that will not cease to exist with his disappearance. It is more likely that those who adhered to this terrorist organisation were not attracted by Bin Laden’s personal charisma, but out of conviction of his philosophy.

On the other hand, if Bin Laden has not actually died – which is a more likely possibility – the aim of the rumour can be clarified by the timing. It was announced a few weeks before the American mid term elections, which will be decisive in transferring control of the Congress from a Republican majority to a Democratic majority. Along with this change, the master of the White House would turn into a political corpse. The aim in this case is to push Osama Bin Laden to show up and deliver an enflamed speech threatening America; then, the President’s party would win since he will raise the banner of combating terrorism and protecting America from Bin Laden’s evils.

On the whole, the al-Qaeda organisation is in a waning stage and it is considered defeated. Since the 9/11 attack, al-Qaeda has not carried out a single successful operation against a US target, and most of its leaders are detained in Guantanamo or in the CIA’s secret prisons in various countries. As for Osama himself and al-Zawahiri, they are hidden underground; the former has resorted to silence, while the latter has turned into a lecturer, giving advice to everybody in the Islamic movement about what they should do, instead of doing it himself. This means that al-Qaeda is moving from an executive body to a platform of political preaching.

Claim: Drugs leak exposed Brit secrets

LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A New Mexico drug bust revealed a crucial leak of British nuclear secrets, a British newspaper has claimed.The London Daily Express newspaper reported Sunday that details of Britain's super-secret Trident submarine-launched nuclear missile program were discovered on computer drives hidden in a mattress that were found in an Oct. 17 drug among other classified materials from the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory. They were in the possession of a female technician who worked at LANL.

The British Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI-6 and the CIA "want to know if the woman stole the material to feed a drug habit, or if she was working for a terror group or a foreign intelligence service," the newspaper said."To fix this problem isn't rocket science -- or even nuclear science," Danielle Brian, executive director of the Washington-based Project on Government Oversight, said in a statement this week. "As POGO recommended in 2001, the entire weapons complex should have gone media-less immediately by removing the capacity of classified computers to copy data onto disks of any kind. There is simply no excuse for Los Alamos to continue to have this vulnerability."

POGO said it had received internal emails circulated among U.S. Department of Energy officials that revealed British diplomats in Washington had contacted the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration of the Department of Energy to ask for a clarification of the Daily Express report.

U.S.-Canada early warning system online

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A large-scale command-and-control system covering the United States and Canada has been declared fully operational in the Pacific region.

The U.S. Air Force Battle Control System (BCS) was up and running in Canada, Alaska and Hawaii and was partially operational in Washington state and New York.The BCS is designed as a homeland security early-warning system for North America and is operated by the Air Force Northern and Pacific Commands as well as NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command).

It takes data from multiple inputs, including naval and civilian air-traffic control sources, to give controllers a more complete picture of the airspace in coastal waters and over the North America mainland."The Battle Control System plays a vital role in the defense of the United States and Canada," Kim Kerry, head of ThalesRaytheonSystems' U.S. operations, said Wednesday. "ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) is committed to working closely with our U.S. and Canadian Air Force customers to keep BCS on the leading edge of technology."

TRS is the prime contractor for the project that beefed up the overall early-warning sensor capability and improved the interoperability of hundreds of existing sensors. The BCS will also be continuously improved through a spiral development strategy that eases the use of new technology, including commercial off-the-shelf components.

 

 


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