Sunday, March 18, 2007
Belated Happy St. Patrick's Day to All
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WINSTON CHURCHILL HAD IT RIGHT?
I posted the religious question on a huge blog and there are some very erudite comments. The most telling one was that Abraham, who appears to be the key player, was approached by Jehovah (as written some 600+ years before Islam or Mohammad even existed), makes any claim that "Allah" spoke to Abraham first seem a bit of a stretch.
Below is a "solid" comment by:
Garduneh Mehr says the following:
Alan,
Neither of the two posts you quote are worth a thought. As you well know Muslims are incurably afflicted with verbal diarrhea.
I'll only make the following observations:
The first verbose comment by "AhmadiNezhad" clearly shows that Muslims lack the moral and mental capacity to realize that an individual or group or an idealogy is judged by its conduct and not by its philosphy.
Muslim savages never learnt the wisdom of the words:
"By their fruits shall ye know them. An evil tree does not bring forth good fruit nor does a good tree bring forth evil fruit."
The fruits of Islam namely contention and aggression death and destruction, violations of women and children are displayed by Muslims before the whole world.
From Mohammad's "marriage", in his fifties, to a six year old child to today's chlorine gas attack in Baghdad any fairminded person can see what islam is all about.
As for hrsa's comment(s), he and his ilk are just angry because they cann't see a future for themselves or for their political and military ambitions. So, pay him no attention and let him stew in his own bile. That's all that the likes of him deserve.
One last thought though, I'd like to share with you, Sir Winston Churchill's observations regarding Islam, which if I may suggest, could make a worthwhile post in your blog:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, (rabies) there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.…
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law (sharia) every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men....
The influence of the religion [Islam] paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
[The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pp. 248-50.]
Alan Note: The West, specially Europe is now in the midst of a reverse Crusade by Islam, which is spreading like a cancer and enslaving credulous, free thinking Westerners, in the name of Allah. As Winston Churchill said, it is a religion of enslavement and the West is being enslaved. Luckily as in the article posted below, " European Declaration of Independence", some are waking up to the threat. Even Ireland, strongly Catholic or Protestant, has begun to feel this incursion and poisoning of their customs and culture.
THREE COMMENTS POSTED TO THIS SITE - one for thought and two for amusement
HERE IS A COPY OF THREE COMMENTS POSTED TO MY LAST TWO ARTICLES.
The first from "Ahmedinajad" asks a serious question. To which I have no answer since I do not have that deep a knowledge of religions.
The other two, from hrsa2 - someone angry at this site not agreeing to propagate their arrogant opinions, ends with vituperative, childish pique and very bad language. Posted to amuse.
I have not tried any of the links shown in the first comment nor "activated" them, so visit at your own discretion.
Dear Sir,
The following issue can destroy ISLAM or ISRAEL; study it thoroughly to see if there is any truth to it.
READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES FROM THE BIBLE AS IT HAS IMPLICATIONS ON THE WAR AGAINST TERROR/ISLAM and the claim of Israel that god gave them the land.
If the child is an infant than the Judeo-Christian version becomes null and void and we are wasting our time and resources i.e. we could save trillions of dollars and create a more peaceful world rather than fighting against Islam the religion of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them all).
The COVENANT with Abraham and his DESCENDANTS is central to JUDAISM/CHRISTIANITY/ISLAM.
Please note this is not a competition between faiths but an attempt to decipher fact from fiction.
Genesis 21:14 Contemporary English version se below link http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=GENESIS%2021;&version=46;
Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar an animal skin full of water and some bread. Then he put the boy on her shoulder and sent them away.
GENESIS 16:16 And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ish’mael. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ish’mael to Abram.
GENESIS 21:5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
At Genesis 22 Abraham had only 2 sons others came later.
The Quran mentions that it was Ishmael that was sacrificed hence the reference in genesis 22:2 your only son can only mean someone has substituted Ishmael names for Isaac!!
BY DOING SOME KINDERGARTEN ARITHMATIC USING ARABIC NUMBERS (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) NOT ROMAN NUMERALS (I, II, III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX,X) NB no concept of zero in roman numerals.
100 years old – 86 years old = 14 ADD 3 YEARS FOR ISSAC’S WEANING THAT WOULD MAKE ISHMAEL 17 YEARS OLD IN GENESIS 21:14-21
BUT IT IS A DESCRIPTION OF AN INFANT.
Carefully read several times the above passage and then tell me the mental picture you get between the mother child interactions what is the age of the child.
If the mental picture is that of a 17 year old child being carried on the shoulder of his mother, being physically placed in the bush, crying like a baby, mother having to give him water to drink, then the Islamic viewpoint is null and void.
Why is there no verbal communications between mother and (17 YEAR OLD) child?
GENESIS: 21:14 - 21 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the (17 YEAR OLD) child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the (17 YEAR OLD) child under one of the bushes.
Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said,
“Let me not look upon the death of the (17 YEAR OLD) child.” And as she sat over against him, the (17 YEAR OLD) child lifted up his voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the (17 YEAR OLD) lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar?
Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the (17 YEAR OLD) lad where he is. Arise, lift up the (17 YEAR OLD) lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will make him a great nation.” Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the (17 YEAR OLD) lad a drink.
And God was with the (17 YEAR OLD) lad, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow. He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
The age of Ishmael at this stage is crucial to the Abrahamic faiths. If he is 17 than the JUDEO/CHRISTIAN point of view about the Abrahamic covenant is correct.
This has devastating theological consequences of unimaginable proportions.
This makes the conflict between Ishmael and Isaac and their descendants a work of fiction.
I would strongly suggest it is clear cut case of racial discrimination and nothing to do with god almighty. The scribes have deliberately tried to make Isaac the only son and legitimate heir to the throne of Abraham??
Please can you rationally explain this anomaly?
I have asked many persons including my nephews and nieces - unbiased minds with no religious backgrounds but with reasonable command of the English language about this passage and they all agree that the child in the passage is an infant.
AS THE DESCRIPTION OF ISHMAEL IN GENESIS 21:14-21 IS THAT OF AN INFANT IT CAN BE ASSUMED SOMEONE HAS MOVED THIS PASSAGE FROM AN EARLIER PART OF SCRIPTURE!!! AND HAVE GOT THERE KNICKERS IN A TWIST.
For background info on the future religion of mankind see the following websites:
http://www.islamicity.com/Mosque/Muhammad_Bible.HTM (MUHAMMAD IN THE BIBLE) http://bible.islamicweb.com/ http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=EvilGoblin George Galloway media appearances http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696 (ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AND WAR CRIMES) http://ifamericansknew.com/ http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/MB_BQS/default.htm (BIBLE, QURAN and SCIENCE) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ ANTI-WAR http://www.harunyahya.com/ (EVOLUTION DECEIPT) http://www.barnabas.net/ http://www.answering-christianity.com/ac.htm http://www.islamicity.com/ http://www.islamonline.net/english/index.shtml http://www.islamalways.com/
HOLY QURAN CHAPTER 37 verses 101 - 122
101. So We gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear.
102. Then, when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him, he said: “O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: Now see what is thy view!” (The son) said: “O my father! Do as thou art commanded: thou will find me, if Allah so wills one practising Patience and Constancy!”
103. So when they had both submitted their wills (to Allah., and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (for sacrifice),
104. We called out to him “O Abraham!
105. “Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!” - thus indeed do We reward those who do right.
106. For this was obviously a trial-
107. And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice:
108. And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times:
109. “Peace and salutation to Abraham!”
110. Thus indeed do We reward those who do right.
111. For he was one of our believing Servants.
112. And We gave him the good news of Isaac - a prophet,- one of the Righteous.
113. We blessed him and Isaac: but of their progeny are (some) that do right, and (some) that obviously do wrong, to their own souls.
114. Again (of old) We bestowed Our favour on Moses and Aaron,
115. And We delivered them and their people from (their) Great Calamity;
116. And We helped them, so they overcame (their troubles);
117. And We gave them the Book which helps to make things clear;
118. And We guided them to the Straight Way.
119. And We left (this blessing) for them among generations (to come) in later times:
120. “Peace and salutation to Moses and Aaron!”
121. Thus indeed do We reward those who do right.
122. For they were two of our believing Servants.
ISHMAEL IS THE FIRST BORN AND GOOD NEWS OF ISSAC DOES NOT APPEAR UNTIL AFTER THE SACRIFICE?????
Therefore the claim that god gave the land to Israel is destroyed without the need of any WMD’s.
HADITH Volume 4, Book 55, Number 583: Narrated Ibn Abbas:
The first lady to use a girdle was the mother of Ishmael. She used a girdle so that she might hide her tracks from Sarah. Abraham brought her and her son Ishmael while she was suckling him, to a place near the Ka’ba under a tree on the spot of Zam-zam, at the highest place in the mosque.
During those days there was nobody in Mecca, nor was there any water So he made them sit over there and placed near them a leather bag containing some dates, and a small water-skin containing some water, and set out homeward.
Ishmael’s mother followed him saying, “O Abraham! Where are you going, leaving us in this valley where there is no person whose company we may enjoy, nor is there anything (to enjoy)?” She repeated that to him many times, but he did not look back at her Then she asked him, “Has Allah ordered you to do so?” He said, “Yes.”
She said, “Then He will not neglect us,” and returned while Abraham proceeded onwards, and on reaching the Thaniya where they could not see him, he faced the Ka’ba, and raising both hands, invoked Allah saying the following prayers:
‘O our Lord! I have made some of my offspring dwell in a valley without cultivation, by Your Sacred House (Kaba at Mecca) in order, O our Lord, that they may offer prayer perfectly. So fill some hearts among men with love towards them, and (O Allah) provide them with fruits, so that they may give thanks.’ (14.37) Ishmael’s mother went on suckling Ishmael and drinking from the water (she had).
When the water in the water-skin had all been used up, she became thirsty and her child also became thirsty. She started looking at him (i.e. Ishmael) tossing in agony; She left him, for she could not endure looking at him, and found that the mountain of Safa was the nearest mountain to her on that land.
She stood on it and started looking at the valley keenly so that she might see somebody, but she could not see anybody. Then she descended from Safa and when she reached the valley, she tucked up her robe and ran in the valley like a person in distress and trouble, till she crossed the valley and reached the Marwa mountain where she stood and started looking, expecting to see somebody, but she could not see anybody.
She repeated that (running between Safa and Marwa) seven times.”
The Prophet said, “This is the source of the tradition of the walking of people between them (i.e. Safa and Marwa). When she reached the Marwa (for the last time) she heard a voice and she asked herself to be quiet and listened attentively. She heard the voice again and said, ‘O, (whoever you may be)! You have made me hear your voice; have you got something to help me?”
And behold! She saw an angel at the place of Zam-zam, digging the earth with his heel (or his wing), till water flowed from that place. She started to make something like a basin around it, using her hand in this way, and started filling her water-skin with water with her hands, and the water was flowing out after she had scooped some of it.”
The Prophet added, “May Allah bestow Mercy on Ishmael’s mother! Had she let the Zam-zam (flow without trying to control it) (or had she not scooped from that water) (to fill her water-skin), Zam-zam would have been a stream flowing on the surface of the earth.”
The Prophet further added, “Then she drank (water) and suckled her child. The angel said to her, ‘Don’t be afraid of being neglected, for this is the House of Allah which will be built by this boy and his father, and Allah never neglects His people.’
The House (i.e. Kaba) at that time was on a high place resembling a hillock, and when torrents came, they flowed to its right and left. She lived in that way till some people from the tribe of Jurhum or a family from Jurhum passed by her and her child, as they (i.e. the Jurhum people) were coming through the way of Kada’. They landed in the lower part of Mecca where they saw a bird that had the habit of flying around water and not leaving it.
They said, ‘This bird must be flying around water, though we know that there is no water in this valley.’
They sent one or two messengers who discovered the source of water, and returned to inform them of the water. So, they all came (towards the water).” The Prophet added, “Ishmael’s mother was sitting near the water.
They asked her, ‘Do you allow us to stay with you?” She replied, ‘Yes, but you will have no right to possess the water.’ They agreed to that.”
The Prophet further said, “Ishmael’s mother was pleased with the whole situation as she used to love to enjoy the company of the people. So, they settled there, and later on they sent for their families who came and settled with them so that some families became permanent residents there.
The child (i.e. Ishmael) grew up and learnt Arabic from them and (his virtues) caused them to love and admire him as he grew up, and when he reached the age of puberty they made him marry a woman from amongst them.
Hello hrsa2,
As you can see your arrogant comments are being given prominence! After this langauge do not expect to not be edited out.
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hrsa2 said:
You erased every comment that I'd left on this site. All my comments were pro Iran and anti Mullah. However, just because I was critical of your narrow minded and racist writings, you erased them. I want to know how could people like you here on this site speak of democracy and freedom of speech, when you can't even stand any valid criticism of your articles? No wonder Mullahs rule Iran. You're nothing but a hypocrite if you won't let people voice their opinion freely. All of have to say to that is: Fuck you and your childish site. Fuck you and your ridiculous articles. Grow some balls and endure constructive criticism. Don't erase whatever you disagree with. If so, go get a job with Kayhan newspaper in Tehran you pathetic weakling...
HEY DICKHEAD, YOU'RE NOT A PERSIAN EITHER. YOU'RE BRITISH. WHICH IS JUST AS BAD AS THE FUCKING TAAZI. YOU'VE DONE MORE HARM TO IRAN IN MODERN TIMES THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. FUCK YOU AND YOUR QUEEN. LEAVE IRAN TO US IRANIANS. YOU'RE A RACIST PIG.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
European Declaration of Independence
THE ANTI-ISLAM - ANTI-MULLAH MOVEMENT AWAKENS
We, the citizens of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Hungary, (fill in the other blanks) demand that the following steps are taken immediately:
We demand that our national governments should immediately and without delay pull their countries out of the European Union, which should be dismantled entirely.
European citizens pay up to half of their salaries in direct or indirect taxes to their nation states. If these nations do not control their own borders nor their policies, and they don't as long as the EU exists, those taxes are a scam.
National taxes require national borders. If our national borders are not enforced, we have no obligation whatsoever to pay national taxes.
We demand that all documents regarding the Euro-Arab Dialogue and the creation of the Eurabian networks for "Euro-Mediterranean cooperation" between European countries and Arab countries since the 1970s, as documented by Bat Ye'or's work on Eurabia, are published and explained in their full significance to the general public.
Those chiefly responsible for this - one of the greatest betrayals in the history of Western civilization - should stand trial, followed by a period of general de-Eurabification of our laws and regulations.
We demand that all financial support to the Palestinian Authority should cease immediately. It is proven beyond any doubt that this has in the past been used to finance campaigns of Jihad terrorism against Jews in Israel and against Christians in territories under PA control.
A public statement in support of Israel against Muslim aggression should be issued, and the money that has previously been awarded to Palestinians should be allocated partly to Israel's defense, partly to establish a Global Infidel Defense Fund with the stated goal of disseminating information about Muslim persecution of non-Muslims worldwide.
We demand that the ideology of Multiculturalism should immediately be removed from all government policies and school curricula, and that the state should adopt a policy of supporting the continuation of the cultural heritage and traditions of the indigenous populations.
Multiculturalism has never been about tolerance. It is an anti-Western hate ideology championed as an instrument for unilaterally dismantling European culture.
As such, it is an evil ideology bent on an entire culture's eradication, and we, the peoples of Europe, have not just a right, but a duty to resist it and an obligation to pass on our heritage to future generations.
We demand that all Muslim immigration in whatever form should be immediately and completely halted, and that our authorities take a long break from mass immigration in general until such a time when law and order has been reestablished in our major cities.
We will not accept any accusations of "racism."
Many European nations have for decades accepted more immigration into our countries in a shorter period of time than any other people has done peacefully in human history.
We are sick and tired of feeling like strangers in our own lands, of being mugged, raped, stabbed, harassed and even killed by violent gangs of Muslim thugs, yet being accused of "racism and xenophobia" by our media and intimidated by our own authorities to accept even more such immigration.
Europe is being targeted for deliberate colonization by Muslim states, and with coordinated efforts aimed at our Islamization and the elimination of our freedoms.
We are being subject to a foreign invasion, and aiding and abetting a foreign invasion in any way constitutes treason.
If non-Europeans have the right to resist colonization and desire self-determination then Europeans have that right, too. And we intend to exercise it.
If these demands are not fully implemented, if the European Union isn't dismantled, Multiculturalism isn't rejected and Muslim immigration isn't stopped, we, the peoples of Europe, are left with no other choice than to conclude that our authorities have abandoned us, and that the taxes they collect are therefore unjust and that the laws that are passed without our consent are illegitimate.
We will stop paying taxes and take the appropriate measures to protect our own security and ensure our national survival.
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For the full background on this, click onlink below:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1980
WATCH OUT MULLAHS!
MANIFESTO
"I am coming to avenge the death and destruction of the Persian Peoples and to take revenge on you Mullahs for what you have done to my Persians in Iran.
I am a revolution against your illegitimate hold and enslavement of my Persian peoples, not a new government, not a regime.
I have no parliament, nor follow democratic regime change.
I am the secular redeemer instead of your superstitious Islamic one.
I am the here and now, not a return of the 12th Imam after 1,300 years down a well.
I am not political but I am vengeful for wrongs you have committed.
I shall have the people judge you and not punish them for their verdicts, even if violent.
I shall separate church and State and Islam shall no longer have a priority status over any other faith or creed.
I shall teach all religions and all will be free to choose to practise whichever faith they so desire. I shall protect those rights.
I shall have the people decide the fate of the paramilitary IRGC 'passdaran', the Bassiji Suppression forces, the Clerics, the Security Organizations. If you are individually spared by the populace I shall pardon you officially with Amnesty.
If they lynch you I shall not intervene. Your past actions are your savior or your final judgment. What went around shall come around. Fear the people.
After my work is done, I shall step aside and acknowledge practises which allow the people to choose their leaders.
I shall neither be a candidate nor accept to be among them.
I am the Revolution and nothing else.
You Mullahs and your minions are not part of any acceptable "norm" so no such norms will be accorded to you. Except by the People.
I am not a person but a new movement being born to avenge those you have harmed and are harming.
I am the wrathful spirit of REPRISAL and INDEPENDENCE returning to free my people from invaders.
You mullah "Taazi" are not Persians, you are foreigners.
Friday, March 16, 2007
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Iran NUCLEAR Threat to New York?
Iran President Ahmadinejad Plans Trip To New York City/UN next week; requests visas for more than 25 "security agents"...
Islamic Iran wants to fly Ahmadi-Nejad to the UN in a private plane and leave a large group of their agents in the plane at JFK airport who will not pass through US customs.
How better to bring in a nuke into the heart of New York? Using a specially adapted/altered jetliner?
At the very least, create a blackmail threat by holding New York hostage?
Or it could carry an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) nuclear device, which could be dropped at 30,000 feet and destroy all electronic circuitry in the New York area. Computers, cars, trains, radios, TV's etc., etc.
Iran reportedly has both enough fissionable material and the technnology for an EMP device.
My guess would be an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) nuke bomb released and detonated from the plane as retaliation when the UN refuses to accept his desires. Which it clearly will.
Ahmadi-Nejad's rationale and justification? If you prevent me having the technology I want or need, then I will damage yours so you can feel what I feel.
All electronic circuitry around New York will stop. Think about that!
Not just computers in the Stock Exchange or Banks but cars, laptops, phones, trains, traffic lights, taxis, cash registers, Internet etc.,etc.
No big loss of human life unless cars crash or a train derails but what a HUGE payback to the UN and the USA for saying "no" to him!
He could still inside the UN building and order the plane to take off and the EMP device to be dropped. No harm to humans, so he would be safe and have an alibi.
Read and sound a warning to everyone! This could be one of the ugliest things that happens to the USA. 9/11 cost lives, this would cost national size fortunes.
The event could happen on a fly over of USA air space by the aircraft on the way back in which ONLY the suicide volunteers on the aircraft remain on board after Ahmadi-Nejad and his personal entourage have disembarked and send the plane back without them. In Cuba or Venezuela, for instance.
Alternatively the special aircraft could be delivering an EMP or nuke missiles to Cuba and or Venezuela for future use. More likely to be a retaliation as outlined above.
What idiot is going to allow this to happen? Even potentially. Or as a dry run/dress rehearsal.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Shades of KGB compliments of Putin
REMINDER- check out the TERROR NEWS BRIEFS Blog/Page
What about Safronov? And, what about ALL THE OTHERS!
The bilingual zaxi blog has the following fascinating commentary on the demise of Kommersant reporter Ivan Safronov:
As The Economist reasonably points out: “Buying a bag of oranges is an odd thing to do before jumping out of the fifth-floor window of an apartment block.”
So is falling out of that particular stairwell window – leaving the oranges scattered on the ground – when your apartment is down on the third floor.
So is the emergency number operator telling the kids who heard (!) the fall to call back later. And so is the police labeling Kommersant reporter Ivanov Safronov’s death a “forcible suicide.”
How odd? That particular phrase appears only eight times on Google – once Safronov is eliminated from the search. Which is of course precisely what the Kommersant staff believes happened. Safronov was reportedly hounded by either the FSB or some other unnamed officials before his last story was due to have gone to press.
Safronov was remarkable among Russian journalists for being a hardnosed and apolitical reporter who covered stories pretty much the way they are in the West. He had a career in the military and retained many of those ties while writing about the armed forces’ debacles. His revelation that the Bulava sea-based ballistic missile – hailed by President Vladimir Putin as Russia’s crafty response to the US missile defense shield – had failed in its third successive test ruffled a few army feathers.
Putin personally witnessed the first launch fizzle while posing with binoculars in hand before state television cameras on an accompanying craft. The second attempt went largely unmentioned. The third one in October was simply hushed up until Kommersant hit the stands. It was particularly awkward because Russia has a pricey new submarine waiting for the missile called the Dmitry Donskoi – it now sits toothless in its dock.
Kommersant says Safronov’s ill-fated report was due to have been about illicit Russian arms sales to Syria and Iran. A story about past and present quasi-secret sales to those two Russian allies is not particularly enlightening.
Shells from heat-seeking Russian missiles have wound up in Israeli tanks taking direct hits from the Hezbollah. The defense ministry is repeatedly forced do deny and then confirm elements of new arms shipments to Iran.
Safronov’s story had two somewhat novel aspects as reported by the Kommersant staff. The first was that Iran would get the mighty S-300V surface-to-air missile and Syria would finally secure the Iskander that it first tried to snatch back in 2002 before Israel made that impending sale public.
The S-300V is a souped up US Patriot that can strike down numerous incoming missiles and planes within a range of just over 100 miles. Its sale to Iran would pretty much make Russia into Tehran’s Lone Ranger in a potential military standoff with Washington.
The Iskander on the other hand would give Syria a free hand to deliver a precise strike on any target in Israel – whereas now its missiles would be lucky to hit anything there at all.
The second slightly more interesting reported aspect to the story was that Russia was supposed to have been planning to cover up its tracks by peddling the weapons through Belarus – which pretty much has nothing to lose as it is. Such a report would have been obviously picked up by the Western media. All the required parties would have refuted it within the week and Belarus would have accused Kommersant of slander (which it did even without the story being published).
So it is not entirely clear why the FSB would threaten Safronov about this publication when he had broken stories like the Bulava that cut much closer to Putin’s heart and which could not simply be dismissed as speculation.
Kommersant has written about just such possible arms sales in the past.
zaxi by pure chance has uncovered a far more interesting and unreported piece of what Safronov was actually after. It is known that he went to an arms fair in the United Arab Emirates – at which obviously the Russians were out in full force – to confirm elements for his story.
What had remained unknown was that Safronov also went there to track down one Viktor Bout. The name Bout is most familiar to the people who compose Interpol lists and run US anti-terror squads. His father was believed to have been a heavy hitter within Yury Andropov’s KGB clan.
Bout launched his own foreign intelligence career in the late 1980s by keeping an eye out for Jews fleeing to the West through Finland. He took the cover of a UN peacekeeper in Angola in the early 1990s and went into African business from there. Bout unfurled his own air cargo companies and was soon shipping Russian arms to fuel massacres across the continent – from Zaire, Angola and Sierra Leone to Rwanda. He is thought to have supplied both Serbia and Iraq before those regimes fell.
Bout was smuggling the Russian arms inside shipments of fish belonging to the companies Air Cess and the Flying Dolphin – which oddly were based not far from NATO headquarters in Belgium. Bout is also believed to have been peddling “blood diamonds.” But his biggest claim to fame came in supplying what is thought to have been several hundred million dollars worth of arms to the Taliban and Al Qaeda between 1995 and 2001. His deliveries were reportedly marked “fish from Tanzania.”
(Interestingly the 1998 US embassy bombing in Kenya was plotted by a man known as “Muhammad the Fisherman.”) Bout was forced by that stage to move at least a part of his operation under the auspices of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. But business soured: US authorities traced him with the help of Pakistan once the Afghan campaign began. The link between Bout and the FSB was beyond anything even the Kremlin could deny to a fairly irate United States following September 11.
Moscow gave up his two Ukrainian partners – Vadim Rabinovich and Leonid Minin – in 2002 while Bout lay low. The fact that both men were Ukrainian Jews was enough to deflect attention away from the FSB in the Russian press. Which countries required Bout’s services over the past five years is murky. His mode of operation however remained unchanged.
The Russian arms mostly went through Belarus. Besides his two Ukrainian merchants Bout also used the muddle of Transdniestr to help his cause. It is unknown whether Safronov actually got a hold of Bout at the UAE arms fair. Yet Safronov clearly believed that Bout was again operating the Russian arms trade and already suspected the link to Belarus before his trip. And somewhere in the UAE – in the mix between the world’s most wanted arms dealer and the other more official Russian peddlers – his story of an imminent sale through Bout’s favorite conduit Belarus was confirmed.
So the potential embarrassment from Safronov’s report was not that Russia was scheming another naughty arms shipment to Syria and Iran. It was that the FSB was still providing cover – that favorite word of the Russian underworld “krysha” – for Bout. And a story like this would indeed upset the FSB and Putin.
A Russian arms shipment has that much more zing to it when conducted through a smuggler more wanted in Washington than few other people on earth. All of which makes it vital to learn who exactly was hounding Safronov before his death – was it the FSB itself or these other unidentified figures who could simply have been Bout’s Moscow henchmen with less formal Kremlin ties.
For if it was the FSB plain and simple then it becomes a case of the Kremlin killing a reporter who was about to expose its continued reliance on Bout to merchandize its wares abroad. zaxi is not sure if the case looks much better for the Kremlin if Bout's long hand pushed Safronov instead.
Here's the Independent's wonderful article detailing the shocking legacy of murders under the Putin regime: Ivan Safronov did not die immediately, despite falling four floors from a window in his Moscow apartment block.
Witnesses say he tried to get to his feet after hitting the ground, but then collapsed for the final time. The police say the death of the well-respected journalist, who worked for the daily Kommersant newspaper, has all the hallmarks of suicide - though they are willing to consider the possibility that he was "driven" to kill himself. But his friends insist he was not the sort to take his own life. Why should he? They say he was happily married with children, loved his work and was awash in job offers.
On his way home he had bought a bag of tangerines, which lay scattered in the stairwell from which he jumped - or was pushed. Far from being an individual tragedy, the death of Ivan Safronov will be seen by many as part of a grim trend. The Kommersant reporter is at least the 20th Russian journalist to die in suspicious circumstances since 2000, when Vladimir Putin assumed the Russian presidency.
Shot, stabbed or poisoned, the journalists have two things in common: no one has been convicted, or in most cases even arrested, after their deaths. And all of them had angered powerful vested interests which appear to suffer little restraint in dealing with their enemies. "In Russia," said Oleg Panfilov, president of the Moscow-based Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES), "whenever you are investigating something that could destroy someone else's business, it always generates a reaction - often it is murder."
A specialist in military matters, Ivan Safronov revealed embarrassing failings in the Russian defence programme. Shortly before his death, he was reported to be working on an exposé of Moscow's secret arms deals with Iran and Syria, something that, if true, would have caused further scandal. "He covered themes that could provoke a reaction," said Mr Panfilov.
Political opponents of the Kremlin can end up in jail, such as the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or in exile, such as the equally rich Boris Berezovsky, or simply vilified and ignored by a media industry whose independence is being squeezed. But if you offend the less scrupulous elements in Russian society, you could be risking your life. You may not be safe even if you flee abroad, as Britain discovered when the renegade security agent Alexander Litvinenko died from Polonium-210 poisoning in a London hospital.
Journalists, however, are particularly at risk.
According to a new report from the International News Safety Institute, only Iraq has claimed more journalists' lives than Russia in the past decade. Though nobody is suggesting that Mr Putin had anything to do with the deaths, media organisations around the world have expressed concern at what they call "a climate of impunity".
At the very least, he is accused of presiding over a country where it appears that the murder of journalists goes unpunished. Few of the killings are as overtly political as the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down last October at the entrance to her apartment block. In that case it seemed clear that her death was sanctioned by someone powerful, who wanted her silenced.
Most cases are much murkier, however; they can be seen as a brutal form of punishment for reporters who delve too deeply into Russia's sinister intersection of business, organised crime and the state's legal and security apparatus. Working for a nationally known outlet such as Kommersant might be seen as some protection, though that did not save Ms Politkovskaya or two other journalists who worked for Novaya Gazeta, a fortnightly newspaper.
She wrote that it received "visitors every day ... who have nowhere else to bring their troubles, because the Kremlin finds their stories off-message, so that the only place they can be aired is in our newspaper".
Pursuing corruption in the provinces, however, can be lonelier and even more dangerous. Two editors of a local newspaper in Togliatti, a city on the Volga east of Moscow, were murdered in succession. So was the director of the local TV station.
Death is not the only occupational hazard for reporters who show too much investigative zeal. Around 50 court cases are pursued against journalists every year in an attempt to muzzle them, while some 150 are seriously assaulted each year. Mr Panfilov makes a direct link between such intimidation and the presidency. "The problem is with Putin himself," he said. "He showed his true colours with Politkovskaya's death."
In the eyes of many, he appeared dismissive and slow to react. "Putin takes pleasure in launching verbal attacks on journalists," Mr Panfilov went on. "It is he who defines the atmosphere in which we work." And after a journalist is killed, the truth is rarely if ever exposed.
The investigation into how and why Ivan Safronov died, like those that have gone before, is likely to be quietly closed and an open verdict declared. Ivan Safronov Military affairs specialist for daily national newspaper 'Kommersant'. Was investigating a Kremlin arms deal with the Middle East. Found dead on 2 March after 'falling' from a window in his Moscow home in suspicious circumstances.
Anna Politkovskaya Crusading investigative reporter specialising in Chechnya, attached to fortnightly national newspaper 'Novaya Gazeta'. Shot dead in a contract killing outside her apartment block in Moscow on 7 October 2006.
Vyacheslav Plotnikov Reporter for a local TV channel in Voronezh. His body was found in a forest on 15 September 2006, dressed in someone else's clothes. No signs of a violent death, but his colleagues are convinced that he was murdered.
Yevgeny Gerasimenko Investigative reporter on regional newspaper 'Saratovsky Rasklad' who had been looking into shady local business dealings.
Found dead on 25 July 2006 in his flat, where he had been tortured and suffocated with a plastic bag. Alexander Pitersky Presenter on the St Petersburg radio station Baltika, who sometimes covered criminal investigations. His body was found in his flat, where he had been stabbed to death, on 30 August 2005.
Magomedzagid Varisov A press commentator in his native Dagestan, where he also ran a think-tank, Varisov had criticised local politicians. Killed in a machine gun attack in Mahachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on 28 June 2005.
Pavel Makeev Cameraman for Puls, a local TV station in southern Russia. Died on 21 May 2005 while covering illegal street racing in the town of Azov. His car was rammed by an unknown vehicle and his camera and tapes taken.
Paul Klebnikov US citizen of Russian extraction. As editor of the Russian edition of 'Forbes' magazine, he put together the country's first rich list and specialised in corruption investigations. Shot dead in a contract killing in Moscow on 9 July 2004.
Aleksei Sidorov The second editor of local newspaper 'The Togliatti Overview' to be murdered in as many years. He was stabbed in the chest with an ice pick or similar sharp object outside his apartment block on 9 October 2003.
Yuri Shchekochikhin Investigative journalist, liberal MP and deputy editor of 'Novaya Gazeta'. Specialised in investigating corruption in the general prosecutor's office. Died on 3 July 2003 after an unexplained allergic reaction. His colleagues believe he was poisoned.
Dmitry Shvets A senior executive at a local Murmansk TV station, TV-21 Northwestern Broadcasting. Had been highly critical of local officialdom. Shot dead outside the station's offices on 18 April 2003.
Valery Ivanov Editor of 'The Togliatti Overview' and managing editor of the independent channel Lada-TV, specialising in crime and corruption in the local car industry. Shot dead in his car on 29 April 2002.
Natalya Skryl Business reporter on 'Our Time', a local newspaper based in Rostov-on-Don, investigating controversial dealings in a local metals plant. Died on her way home after being beaten with a heavy object on 8 March 2002.
Eduard Markevich Editor of 'Novy Reft', a local newspaper in the town of Reftinsky, Sverdlovsk region, who was critical of regional authorities. After a series of threatening phone calls, he was shot dead in the back on 19 September 2001.
Adam Tepsurgayev TV cameraman for Reuters who filmed exclusive footage of the conflict in Chechnya. Shot dead in the village of Alkhan-Kala on 23 November 2000 by masked gunmen who burst into his home.
Sergey Ivanov Director of the Lada-TV station in Togliatti. Showed an interest in the area's notoriously corrupt car manufacturing business. Shot five times outside his apartment building on 3 October 2000.
Iskandar Khatloni Journalist investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya for the Tajik- language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Killed by an axe-wielding attacker in Moscow on 21 September 2000.
Sergey Novikov Senior executive at the Vesna radio station in Smolensk. Claimed to be able to prove corruption among high-ranking local officials. Shot dead on 26 July 2000, in the lobby of his apartment building.
Igor Domnikov Investigative reporter on 'Novaya Gazeta'. Died on 16 July 2000 after being attacked with a hammer in the lobby of his Moscow apartment block. His newspaper believes his murder was a case of mistaken identity. Artyom Borovik Senior executive at investigative magazine 'Completely Secret' that exposed the misdeeds of the rich and powerful. Died on 3 March 2000 in a plane crash that the authorities believe may not have been accidental.
http://russophobe.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-about-safronov-and-what-about-all.html
NEW BLOG PAGE - ANTI-TERROR NEWS
GREETINGS - BECAUSE ANTI-TERROR NEWS LINKS WERE CLOGGIN UP THE HOME PAGE AND PREVENTING POSTING OF OTHER ARTICLES, I HAVE CREATED A SEPARATE PAGE (BLOG) CALLED
ANTI-TERROR NEWS (link)
THE LINK IS IN THE LEFT HAND COLUMN/FRAME. THIS SHOULD MOST LIKELY BE UPDATED ON A DAILY BASIS WITH LATEST NEWS RELATIVE TO TERRORISM OR WAR ON TERROR.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
TERROR NEWS March 13th
(Afghanistan) Wave of suicide attacks kill 4 in Afghanistan http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest_070313102125;_ylt=AshTowUqEiq7LGttMm4FZ4nOVooA
(Afghanistan) Blast targeting NATO forces wounds two Afghans http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnatoblastbritain_070313075326;_ylt=Ajv8rpzAtjFYk5PicSY6qYXOVooA
Iraq Militants killed, weapons found in Iraq http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/March/focusoniraq_March91.xml§ion=focusoniraq
(Iraq) Seven arrested for suicide bomb attacks on Shia pilgrims http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/March/focusoniraq_March90.xml§ion=focusoniraq
Iraq PM visits Sunni insurgent stronghold http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_prime_minister;_ylt=Ahl8tSohikzlJWcUPZyPPEoLewgF
Iraqi Leaders to Brief U.N. on Long-Term Stability http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258414,00.html (Iraq) US
General Petraeus: Iran training, arming militants http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_iran_1;_ylt=AkciLWHIQJX0IR5Z93kyzQtX6GMA
(Iran) Russians: Iran nuke plant to be delayed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_11;_ylt=AkcVA3CGLN2eV3MYJbgGMcJ_5GIA
(Iran) U.N. Security Council Moves Closer to Sanctions Package for Iran
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258406,00.html
Iran shrugs off sanctions threat http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21376117-1702,00.html
Iran ready to offer guarantees on nuclear program: FM -- if issue is withdrawn from UN Security Council http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsundisarmament_070313114243;_ylt=AhXLW8_wkqKopGA1FH7F9DRSw60A
(Iran) Israel, U.S. walk out during Iranian Middle East speech http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/13/news/UN-GEN-UN-Iran.php
(Pakistan) Two killed in sectarian attacks in Pakistan http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/March/subcontinent_March507.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
(Pakistan) Sacking of Pakistani chief justice sparks ire -- His dismissal Friday raises fresh concern that President Musharraf will remove obstacles to his reelection this fall http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0312/p06s01-wosc.html
(India) LeT, other terror outfits threatening Kashmiri youth http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200703131551.htm
Report: Dirty bomb materials still available - NBC News: New report that dangerous materials remain vulnerable to terrorists overseas http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17583305/
USS Cole lawsuit trial to start in Virginia - lawsuit against govt of Sudan http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_us/uss_cole_lawsuit_3;_ylt=Avc.ea.RDQ0Y4cgCc4cSGmETv5UB
(US) Senate to mull homeland security bill http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_co/congress_homeland_security_1;_ylt=Al9CM3NZLgKjMRitJIIzN.4Tv5UB
Key 9/11 suspects face judicial panels at Guantanamo http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/13/content_5837495.htm
(US) Feds drop perjury charge against terror defendant - Jose Padilla associate http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16889304.htm
Update: Morocco - Police Arrest Suspects in Casablanca Attack http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.394561069&par=0
Somalia: Bomb blast kills one and injures three in Mogadishu http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/8419
Egypt detains more Muslim Brotherhood members http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_mideast_afp/egyptpoliticsislamist_070313102301;_ylt=AkCDTi.bY5s1308N4hY0gQ_FCBEB
Israel cautions EU against concessions on Hamas http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/wl_nm/mideast_israel_eu_dc_1;_ylt=AjwKUhfjMPsvC3ZILOhJIQHuyucA
Israeli Arabs more radicalized: Shin Beth security service http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelarabpolitics_070313085350;_ylt=ArX6zPLmjrI0S5MDtx9UzCfuyucA
Al-Qaida leader 'eulogizes' Hamas http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070312-070929-4237r
(UK) Jury sees replica of July 21 'bombs' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/13/nterr13.xml
(UK) Bombs in July 21 plot were lethal, jury told http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1506108.ece
Spain stands firm over fresh threat from Al-Qaeda http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=37544
French police arrest three suspected ETA members http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/French_police_arrest_three_suspecte_03132007.html
(Russia) Hundreds of terrorist acts averted in Russia - Patrushev http://www.itar-tass.com/txt/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11330128&PageNum=0
Nigerian arrested for extradition to US - Suspected of money laundering and involvement in drug smuggling http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=37541
(Ireland) Probe into '74 Ireland bombings complete http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_eu/ireland1974_bombings_1;_ylt=ApPLdm60ulVg_WnMpjMXkwoTv5UB
UN chief nuclear inspector heads to North Korea http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173700688559&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Sri Lanka) 8 Tamil Tigers killed in Sri Lanka http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_as/sri_lanka_1;_ylt=At5J1hAzdttRgL1Ry7kc4x0tM8oA
Analysis: Part II of "MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists" http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/part_ii_of_metaterror_the_pote.php
Analysis: Arrest in Spain Connected to Indictment of NY Businessman http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/arrest_in_spain_connected_to_i.php
Commentary: Invest terror-free http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20070312-090221-6744r.htm
Other News: Norway: If at first you don't succeed.. http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/03/norway-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed.html
Sunday, March 11, 2007
WORLDWIDE TERROR NEWS & COMMENTS March 11th
(Afghanistan) Thirteen killed in Afghan border post clash http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070311/wl_nm/afghan_violence_dc_1;_ylt=AoF6GJKTxltaEfVv6voPuD3OVooA
(Afghanistan) 8 police, 2 Taliban killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/11/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php
(Afghanistan) Taliban say faith will win on the battlefield http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070311/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestoperation_070311061804;_ylt=AiKWBv8dUrH77fSZ4RhPZsjOVooA
(Afghanistan) 4 policemen die in IED blast http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/10/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php
(Afghanistan) Islamist group warns Germany and Austria to quit Afghanistan http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10644060.htm
Pakistan angry at NATO raids to catch militants http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1496779.ece
Iraq: 7 people killed in bombings, shootings http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173980243&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) 3 suspected bomb-makers held in Baghdad http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_raids_1;_ylt=AnS0w.qJS_p1H8cSsdG5KypX6GMA
(India) Bomb blast averted by alert passengers http://www.timesnow.tv/Sections/News/Bomb_blast_averted_by_alert_passengers/articleshow/1746754.cms
(India) Bomb-like object found in Kolkata train http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=359255&sid=REG
(India) Three killed in restive Indian Kashmir http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070311/wl_sthasia_afp/indiakashmirunrest_070311064305;_ylt=AmrQAxs8WeXSOOQ94o2zAaNA7AkB
Kashmir violence isn't terror, keep it off the table: Pakistan tells India http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/25346.html
(Thailand) Five Buddhists killed in Thailand's Muslim south http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070311/wl_asia_afp/thailandsouthunresttoll_070311060911;_ylt=Aikuj9KZCCShK8ZJy2P14wLuNREB
(Thailand) Security heads off suspected bomb attempt http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/11Mar2007_news06.php
(Turkey) 4 killed by PKK gunmen http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09258895.htm
U.S., Iran trade barbed words at int'l conference in Baghdad http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835408.html
Iran tells US to set timetable for Iraq exit http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/wirq11.xml
(Iran) "World must act to stop Ahmadinejad": White House Policy Advisor - Iran could have nukes in 1 to 2 years http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173977498&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Report: Iran says it shares weapons with Syria http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173978679&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iran) Defector spied on Iran for years http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1497034.ece
Update: Bin Laden followers celebrate 'birthday' - Followers of Osama bin Laden flooded Islamist websites today posting messages http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_laden_s_birthday;_ylt=Ahu_UA8MBfvkD8.ytWbtjUYLewgF http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=91068704&p=9yx69xx6&n=91069084
(Spain) Update: Mass demonstration in Spain against ETA 'clemency' http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_afp/spainbasqueeta
(Israel) Eight Terrorists Arrested Over the Weekend http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/122902
Senior Hamas operative killed in Gaza gunfight with Fatah http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173978200&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
(UK) Islamic extremists 'infiltrate Oxbridge' - up to 48 UK universities infiltrated http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/noxford11.xml
(UK) Al-Qaeda plot to bring down UK internet -- causing chaos to business and the London Stock Exchange http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1496831.ece
(UK) July 21 plotters "used teabags to manufacture bombs" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1495037.ece
(UK) Terrorism alert puts more armed police on the streets http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1490023.ece
President Bush expresses support for FBI chief http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/pl_afp/usattackspolicefbi_070310173815;_ylt=Avd8ZVIRdFWuhqy6kgizbJITv5UB
Al Qaeda trying to buy Britons in Ethiopia kidnap http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=ethiopia_al_qaeda_trying_to_buy_britons_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Ethiopia working for release of kidnapped tourists http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173978362&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Nepal) Unheard of party claims responsibility for placing bomb http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2007/mar/mar11/news02.php
(Sri Lanka) Military says roadside bomb kills 2 commandos in eastern Sri Lanka http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/11/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka-Blast.php
(Sri Lanka) Thousands flee Sri Lanka clashes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6438905.stm (Columbia)
Embassy: U.S. troops in Colombia in January http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/10/bush.latin.america.ap/index.html
Other News: (France) Muslims converts to Christianity face ostracism in France http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=352375&sid=ZNS
(Australia Islam) 'Turn the world to Islam' http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21359122-662,00.html
(Australia Islam) Dry blamed on 'faithless Aussies' http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21359123-661,00.html
Neo-Nazi march in Missouri draws hundreds of spectators http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835699.html
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Al-Mahdi Army, Badr Corps Sunni Hit List
Al-Mahdi Army, Badr Corps Sunni Hit List
Islam Memo Claims Al-Mahdi Army, Badr Corps Lists 32 Sunnis for Assassination
Originally published on 2/26/2007 by Jihadist Websites
OSC Summary in Arabic Terrorism:
The 32 are well-known Sunnis, and include merchants, religious scholars, former Iraqi intelligence officers, and pilots. A translation of the statement:
"In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. "
Islam Memo, special: A list of 32 Sunnis was published by gangs of the Safavi Badr Corps, and orders were issued to its elements to eliminate those on the list in the coming period. "The Islam Memo correspondent reported that a member of parliament from a Sunni party told him that the Badr Corps included in the list names of well-known Sunnis such as merchants, religious scholars, former Iraqi intelligence, and pilots.
The names included in the list are:
1. Abd Jabbar Hamid Ali al-Qaysi
2. Dr. Rafat Adil Qasim.
3. Ahmad Mansur al-Abdali
4. Khalid Abd al-Majid al-Dulaymi
5. Ibrahim Hasan Al-Ani
6. Ahmad Karim Daham al-Rawi
7. Muhammad Sab'awi Abdallah
8. Salah Jabir al-Jaburi
9. Muthana Abdallah Muhammad
10. Basil Ghazi al-Hadithi
11. Iman Ahmad al-Hayali
12. As'ad Jabir al-Daraji
13. Bashir Qasim al-Muhammadi
14. Majid Hamid al-Mir'awi
15. Jum'ah Sabti Khlaif
16. Dawod Salman al-Jamili
17. Khalil Shakir al-Musali
18. Dafir Ali al-Isawi
19. Umar Khattab Farhan al-Wab'i
20. Sa'd Abd al-Aziz Naji
21. Qays Ayub al-Mawli
22. Hasan Jarbu Sliman
23. Abd al-Azim Burhan Jasim
24. Kamal Muhammad al-Nijm
25. Sabbar Hamid al-Hiti
26. Abdallah Muhammad al-Kubaysi
27. Ahmad Malik al-Qaysi
28. Munaf Khalis al-As'ab
29. Jamal Nawwaf al-Kubaysi
30. Khamis Farhan al-Janabi
31. Isa Muhammad al-Karkhi
32. Firas Ali al-Mashadani
"May God protect our brothers in the Land of the Two Rivers. Say Amen, may God have mercy on you."
WORLDWIDE TERROR NEWS & COMMENTS March 10th
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(Iraq) 18 killed in Baghdad suicide bombing http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070309202428;_ylt=Ak6tWuVO_oRQOSxFEPLmyFNX6GMA
(Iraq) Deadly blast as peace talks underway - car bomb in Sadr City, mortar rounds inside Green zone nearr where delegates discussing security http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/10/iraq.meeting/index.html
Iraqi police kidnapped in raid http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21356925-1702,00.html
Iraq militants threaten to kill German hostages http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/March/focusoniraq_March71.xml§ion=focusoniraq
(Iraq) Top al-Qaida official taken in Iraq raid - "not Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, but, in fact, another important al-Qaida official" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=ApxJofDYXKMdzg2H_gNLXZZX6GMA
(Iraq) U.S. captures 33 suspects; al-Qaida figure, but not al-Baghdadi, arrested http://www.cp.org/english/online/OnlineFullStory.aspx?filename=7031008au&newsitemid=5650011&languageid=1 (Iraq)
Suspected AQ Media Emir, alleged "Butcher" captured in raids - DOD press release on Al-Qaeda media emir and "Butcher" responsible for kidnappings, beheadings, suicide operations http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10461&Itemid=128
(Iraq) U.S. soldiers accused of killing family http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070310-065600-4535r
Iraqi PM requests international aid http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_conference;_ylt=AgF494qhGiSRG4Njz5yzyxoLewgF
Iraq urges Middle East to unite against terror http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_mideast_afp/iraqsecurityconference_070310120614;_ylt=Ali6mpqOFPXJyUsL3EfPrrZX6GMA
U.S., Syria, Iran officials to meet in Baghdad http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070310/wl_nm/iraq1_dc_4;_ylt=Asw_OfNsanytqZ484Kf1UJ0LtUsB
Iranian cleric criticizes regional talks in Baghdad http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/March/middleeast_March132.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
(Afghanistan) Six die after Afghan attack on influential leader - bomb ripped through the vehicle of Mullah Naqeeb, an influential pro-government tribal elder http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestblast_070310113925;_ylt=Ag6xxW.RhfzzNNN__9_.t1TOVooA
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar wants "joint front" with Taliban - against Afghanistan government -- Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party) - Hekmatyar says misunderstood by media that he wants to break with Taliban http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/March/subcontinent_March398.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
Afghan parliament passes amnesty law - for war crimes http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_as/afghan_war_crimes_1;_ylt=Aq_EjE1OBmpu1mm6P8cUCnnOVooA
Taliban commander threatens to kill Italian journalist http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestitalykidnap_070310114306;_ylt=Aqs1pe2EVLONLT4WmaN.1Y7OVooA
Pakistan-Afghan jirga meeting delayed http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\10\story_10-3-2007_pg7_5
Bin Laden 50 today? Taliban pray for his long life http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/March/subcontinent_March402.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
(Pakistan) Blast injures 8 people - in Lahore http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\10\story_10-3-2007_pg7_31
Pakistani forces killed three militants - in the North Waziristan region http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070310/wl_nm/pakistan_militants_dc_1;_ylt=AnWVRHQYMf579NbPhcMib_PzPukA
(Pakistan) Two Shi'ites killed as sectarian violence flares in Pakistan town http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestsectarian_070310093826;_ylt=AolgYJ3f4_IPUeWnCg_V1DDzPukA
Pakistan lawmakers warn US on bill http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanusattacks_070310054021;_ylt=AplCeVWXdrN3F1O7AtH3Nc3zPukA
(Iran) U.S. officials discreetly meets with Iranian counterparts http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/10/content_5825239.htm
U.S., Europe Nations Agree to Drop Proposed Iran Travel Ban http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030902075.html
Palestinians fire upon Hamas minister http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21360347-38201,00.html
(Israel) Bunker mentality as Israelis prepare for nuclear fallout http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1495080.ece
Kenyan police arrest key Al Qaeda suspect - tied to 2002 hotel attacks in Mombasa and attempt to shoot down Israeli airliner http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/09/news/kenya.php
Somalia: A Bomb Explosion Kills One in Mogadishu Overnight http://allafrica.com/stories/200703100047.html
Somali Islamists say fighters fired at peacekeepers' plane http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070309/wl_afp/somaliaunrest_070309183946;_ylt=AjHp137Yp1iMRf_JhAAk2CaQLIUD
(Houston, TX) Terror suspect wondered, 'Am I Wahhabi?' - accused of training in Somalia to become a bomb maker http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54632 (
Guantanamo Bay) Hearing for Hambali,13 al-Qaeda allies http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=117328
(US) Air Marshals book trans-Atlantic flights - are beefing up protection of specific overseas flights after UK Jihadist transatlantic airline bomb plot http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070309-115306-3524r.htm
FBI admits breaching privacy laws in security cases http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_afp/usattackspolicefbirights_070310022139;_ylt=AlCFnaQaF9LCo8dIs9S4pksTv5UB
(Chicago) Mail-bomber quoted 'Paradise Lost' http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/mailbomber_quoted_paradise_lost/20070310-064006-1908r/
(Chicago) Jan. Pipe Bomb Note: 'Bang You're Dead' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901567.html
(Thailand) Three more New Years Eve bombing suspects identified http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/03/10/national/national_30028964.php
(Thailand) PM says al-Qaeda stay on Thai sidelines http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=117332
(Australia) Muslims urged to combat radicalism http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21359656-1702,00.html
(Australia) Date set for Hicks to appear - March 28 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21357045-1702,00.html
(Philippines) MILF chief sees breakthrough in Philippine talks http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/March/theworld_March308.xml§ion=theworld
(Philippines) Government to make changes to terror law http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news4_mar10_2007
(Nigeria) Kidnappers free Filipino oil worker in Nigeria http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070309/wl_asia_afp/philippinesnigeriaoil_070309165244;_ylt=Ahj8OwDcHRcxQRc3oGqz8K5UKYUA
(Spain) Protests as ETA terrorist row reaches boiling point http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=37470
Sweden ready to join NATO anti-terror force http://www.thelocal.se/6648/20070310/
(Russia) L.A. hospital confirms women poisoned by thallium http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070310/ts_nm/russia_usa_poison_dc_1;_ylt=AlUfq_NnA5372ExWvPaKxuZ_5GIA
(North Korea) Briton wants to ease bank sanctions - against North Korea http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070309-113944-9741r
Colombian rebel group FARC frees 2 hostages http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_hostages_released_1;_ylt=AnQnDlaoqf1AlbW2rxHg6LCwv7kA
(Sri Lanka) Eight killed in Sri Lanka wildlife park as fighting escalates http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070310/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaunrestoffensivetigers_070310113412;_ylt=Aph_5bC6z0LQDrHlyupgySMtM8oA
Sri Lanka fighting kills at least 20 - on Friday http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sri_lanka;_ylt=As0WPXR5DI7JpqSFdvMHS.MtM8oA
Other News: (Egypt) Sharia to remain basis of Egyptian law: Gamal Mubarak http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070309/wl_mideast_afp/egyptislampolitics_070309191855;_ylt=Aj5qQ.dSZeN5xjH4v4AlUEXFCBEB
Students facing charges of 'desecration of Allah' - Hamas, Hezbollah flags used in college Republicans protest http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54634
Commentaries:
Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism - Diana West http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2007/03/10/burnt_offerings_on_the_altar_of_multiculturalism
Treasury's Message About Iran: "Be Afraid" http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/treasurys_message_about_iran_b.php
National Security Letters...An Important Investigative Tool for the FBI http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/national_security_lettersan_im.php
US-Designated Hamas Front Gets Symbolic Win in France http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/usdesignated_hamas_front_gets.php
"Triangle of Terrorism:" The Web Jihadist, the Mall Bomber, and the Sailor http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/former_sailor_arrested_in_inte.php
Accused Terror Financier Boasted Of Access to U.S. Military Briefings in Iraq http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/accused_terror_financier_boast.php Thursday, March 08, 2007
MORE TERRORIST NEWS
(Iran) Missing Iranian Official Not Cooperating With U.S., Official Says denying report http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257799,00.html
(Iran) Official Denies Reports U.S. Is Holding Iranian General http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/us_denies_holdi.html
(Iran) Elite Iranian general defects with Hezbollah's arms secrets http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1490124.ece
Iran worried by Yemen sectarian unrest http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070308/wl_mideast_afp/yemenunrestiran_070308134738 (
U.S.) N.Y. imam sentenced in terror sting - Yassin Aref, Albany imam, sentenced to 15 years - convicted with Mohammed Hossain for money laundering & lying to FBI about Mullah Krekar http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_us/mosque_raid;_ylt=Amx8MERAo7zoKvVOnkJ4k7ys0NUE http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1515254.ece
Norway: Mullah Krekar still in Norway http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1515254.ece
(Pakistan) U.S. Troops Arrest Deputy Head of Taliban in Waziristan (citing Al Jazeera report) http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.393220170&par=0
Afghan official a convicted trafficker - New anti-corruption chief convicted of heroin dealing in US 20 years ago http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_as/afghan_convicted_corruption_chief;_ylt=Akg96BedPHcXoGK01zh8S87MWM0F
(Afghanistan) Warlord splits with Taliban http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_hekmatyar;_ylt=AtPQ5ooKQETB_RF.ZQBOxY7MWM0F
(Afghanistan) Analysis: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Claims Split From Taliban, "Suggests" Peace Talks http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/gulbuddin_hekmatyar_claims_spl.php
(Afghanistan) "Tora Bora Military Front" official seized by Coalition troops; "Operation Achilles" scores first casualties http://www.afgha.com/?q=node/2159
Anti-terrorist officials from 9 countries meet in Paris to coordinate efforts http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/08/europe/EU-GEN-France-Fighting-Terrorism.php
(India) 'Terrorists can infiltrate through sea route' http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/mar/08sea.htm
(Lebanon) Frustrated UNIFIL 'wants more freedom to confront Hizbullah' http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173967633&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) US, Iraqi forces seize suspects north of Baghdad http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173967533&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) Shiites in spat with Arabs over talks http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arabs_iraq_3;_ylt=Am6ToYB7qeOlzFr.DTX3wWtX6GMA
(Ethiopia) Britons 'held in military camp in Eritrea' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/08/nhostage108.xml
N. Korea: If sanctions stop, we'll close reactor http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173173967989&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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