A man who managed to get on board a US aircraft carrier has been arrested again attempting to enter a naval base less than 24 hours after being made subject to an anti-social behaviour order banning him from entering prohibited areas.
Under the terms of the order Abdoul Masmoud Yessoufou was banned yesterday from entering non-public areas of Portsmouth Naval Base after he was caught on board the USS Harry S Truman on Saturday.
But at 8.52am today, the 37-year-old from Newport, Isle of Wight, was arrested as he attempted to enter a gate at Portsmouth Naval Base.
A Royal Navy spokesman said: "MOD police arrested a 37-year-old man at an entrance to Portsmouth Naval Base on suspicion of breaching an Asbo.
"He is currently in custody at Portsmouth Central Police Station."
Yessoufou sparked a security review at the naval base as he managed to get past both Royal and US Navy security to get on board the visiting nuclear-powered warship.
He was able to walk around for two hours unhindered before he was found, arrested and detained initially under the Terrorism Act 2000.
The Asbo issued by Portsmouth magistrates yesterday banned Yessoufou from entering restricted areas of the naval base, Portsmouth Continental Ferryport and Southampton International Airport, punishable by five years imprisonment.
The court heard that Yessoufou had previously been convicted of entering airside areas at Heathrow on three occasions in February this year and on another occasion at Southampton airport.
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Likely would be a security alert. Deadly force is authorized for specific situations and conditions. A lone, unarmed individual who doesn't resist wouldn't qualify. I suspect there's gonna be some 'rug- dancing'in the Truman CO's cabin about this.
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If you read about this dipshitz he has to belong in a home. He has been busted at airports on the flight line repeatedly. He has a thing with big forms of transportation. He might just end up cleaning a out a jet turbine the hard way some day.
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"He has been busted at airports on the flight line repeatedly. He has a thing with big forms of transportation. He might just end up cleaning a out a jet turbine the hard way some day."
There are some real winners out there. I remember an Airshow in Bermuda a few years back (1991?) a couple of locals thought it would be a bloody fine thing to light up in the "shade" under the wing of a FULLY FUELED A-6. Granted that you can put a regular cigarete out in JP-5, but what they were smoking burned somewhat hotter.
They didn't have the brains God gave bastard geese in Ireland. They were just trying to have a mellow time.
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hey Abdoul! The intakes on jet engines whisper sweet tidings from your 72 virgins - especially at full power. Come listen closely
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A Spanish judge has indicted 11 Pakistanis on charges of planning attacks in Barcelona and helping finance Al-Qaeda by sending money to individuals suspected in terror attacks in Kenya, Tanzania and Pakistan. The 11, arrested late last year, were charged by National Court Judge Ismael Moreno with plotting terrorist acts and collaborating with a terrorist group.
In his indictment, released late Tuesday, the judge said the 11 "formed a group in Barcelona whose aim was to provide aid for the worldwide 'jihad' from Spanish soil ... with the objective of contributing financially to concrete terrorist actions or to those who carried them out." The indictment said Mohammad Afzaal, who was detained in September 2004, could be the group's leader. Moreno said Afzaal allegedly traveled to Dubai last year to meet an unidentified Al-Qaeda leader. At the alleged meeting, he was told "to maintain a terrorist cell operative in Spain and in Norway or Denmark with the aim of financing Al-Qaeda and preparing terrorist attacks," Moreno wrote in the indictment.
Moreno said that in one operation on April 9, 2004, Afzaal sent 2,450 euros to Egyptian Rabei Osman Ahmed. Ahmed was extradited to Spain from Italy in December and is considered a key figure in the Madrid commuter train attacks of March 11, 2004 in which 191 people were killed.
Another of the Pakistanis, Shahzad Ali Gujar is accused of sending money between May and August of last year to a suspect in the US Embassy bombings of 1998 in Kenya and Tanzania. He also allegedly sent money to another suspect wanted in connection with an assassination attempt on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and the killing of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, according to the indictment. Gujar is also believed to have transferred money to a computer expert allegedly involved in a planned an attack on London's Heathrow Airport.
The indictment said that Gujar also met with two March 11 suspects, Otman El-Gnaout and Saed El-Harrak, between March 8-12, 2004, according to the indictment. The magistrate said that in the arrest raids, police found computer videos of the March 11 attacks and others from around the world. They also found video footage of prominent buildings in Barcelona such as the 1992 Olympic Village, the city's twin office towers and the Maremagnum commercial complex located near the port. The judge said that Afzaal, although living in Barcelona, had made a reservation to stay at an expensive hotel located in one of the towers in March 2002. He did not stay at the hotel. The indictment, however, says that days after the March 11 attacks last year he booked into another hotel located in Barcelona's World Trade Center complex.
Up to their arrests, the Pakistanis allegedly dealt in drugs and forged documents, the judge said. Indicted along with Afzaal and Ali Gujar were Nasser Ahmad Khan, Masood Akhtar, Shafqat Ali, Mahmood Anwar, Adnan Aslam, Farhat Iqbal, Irfan Khan, Qamar-Uz-Zaman and Mohammad Choudhry Aslam. Dozens of suspect radicals have been arrested in Spain since the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington and more following the March 11 train bombings last year. Judicial authorities believe the militants began using Spain as a recruiting and financial support base in the mid-1990s.
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A Jamaican-born militant Islamic preacher has been giving 'jihad' or holy war a new meaning, by reportedly urging impoverished Muslims to take matters into their own hands and wage war on infidel institutions such as banks - by robbing them. "Are you poor? Don't cry about it, but wage jihad, also by holding up banks," London-based Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, a well-known supporter of al-Qaeda, urged the faithful in a sermon. A report on the sermon was published by website globalterroralert.com
"Let's speak about jihad and how to obtain the spoils. Many Muslims complain about not having the financial means to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca," said al-Faysal. "Many are also sad because the women they want to marry rejects them because they are not wealthy enough," he added. "Do you, like many, cry because you are poor? If so, wage jihad! Look at all the money stashed away in Swiss banks. There's bank in Brunei where King Fahd has deposited 30 million dollars. If you are suffering from poverty, wage jihad and see the money pour into your hands."
Al-Faysal, who studied Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, has preached a number of sermons considered to have incited Muslim hatred towards Jews and Christians.The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has asked Britain to expel him on the grounds that his presence in Britain is a threat to public order.
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Learned Elders of Islam
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A Jamaican-born militant Islamic preacher has been giving âjihadâ or holy war a new meaning, by reportedly urging impoverished Muslims to take matters into their own hands and wage war on infidel institutions such as banks - by robbing them.
So when are the Pommie police going to send constables to pick up this son of a bitch for incitement?
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LOL Xb! Buy the inner jihad prayer kit, contains an AK-47 for fast, fast poverty relief, a BetaMax video machine to make you famous, 10 copies of the Naked Lunch and the address of Barber Box's House of Progressive Love.
ROFLMAO! The visuals! Some painful, some painfully hysterical, none would make it to print in the MSM! The command, "Bark Barbie!" is a dominant and recurring theme, heh.
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throw all the muslim scum out of europe, see how they allways try to sabotage countrys from within and want to make sharia the law of the country they imigrated to they are terrorist every last one of them.
Keep europe Christian and ban islam
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GERMAN police launched raids across the country and arrested seven people, including two Arab men who investigators believe laundered money for Islamic extremist groups. Police in Brussels also searched two premises in related raids but made no arrests, police said.
Police said they searched 30 buildings in Germany and detained seven people, including the two men they believe provided financial support to extremist groups. Four of the five others arrested were being held on suspicion of being in Germany illegally.
State prosecutor Martin Hofmann said Egyptian Adbel-Raouf R, 47 and Tunisian Abdellatif T, 43, were accused of money laundering and tax evasion. Laundering can lead to a jail term of up to 10 years.
Police said the men had links with Islamist militant groups and that the Egyptian knew some of the September 11, 2001 attackers. The two men, both living legally in Germany since the early 1990s, had each transferred up to 500,000 euro ($A832,154) to extremist Islamic organisations abroad, police said. Germany has stepped up surveillance of suspected militants among its 3 million Muslims since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US. Three of the suicide hijack pilots had been studying in Hamburg.
Spanish authorities have charged 11 Pakistanis over suspected links with Al Qaeda sympathisers who carried out the Madrid train bombings a year ago, judicial sources said on Wednesday. One of the 11, Shahzad Ali Gujar, is suspected of having transferred funds to members of Al Qaeda, including Amjad Farooqui, who Pakistani security forces killed last September and who was implicated in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. In all, investigators believe Al Qaeda members in Pakistan received some $1 million in funds from Spain. Muhammad Afzaal, believed to have headed the Pakistani cell in question, is suspected of sending money last September to Rabei Usman Sayed Ahmed, alias "Mohammed the Egyptian", who is currently in custody on suspicion of involvement in the train bombings which killed 191 people. Two of the 11, Shahzad Gujar and Adnan Aslam, are thought to have met "Mohammed the Egyptian" in Brescia, Italy, in May 2003.
Shahzad Gujar is suspected of meeting Othman el Gnaout, another March 11 suspect, three days before Spain's worst ever terrorist attack, while he is additionally suspected of meeting Saed el Harrak, also in Spanish detention, the day after the blasts. The judge overseeing the case said that "a group was constituted in Barcelona with a view to supporting global jihad from Spanish territory (via) the financing of concrete terrorist acts and people recruited to carry them out". The judge considered there is hard evidence to suggest that Muhammad Afzaal travelled to Dubai in early 2004 where Al Qaeda operatives instructed him to create terrorist cells in Spain and Norway or Denmark to finance the terrorist network's activities. The Pakistanis are further charged with preparing an attack in Barcelona, having been found to be in possession of films and detailed maps of several major buildings in the eastern Spanish metropolis. One of the maps depicted a shopping mall in the city's port area. Spanish authorities named the 11-strong group as Muhammad Afzaal, Shahzad Gujar, Nasser Ahmad Khan, Masud Akhtar, Shafqat Ali, Mahmud Anwar, Adnan Aslam, Farhat Iqbat, Irfan Khan, Zaman Qamar and Muhammad Chaudhry Aslam.
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I wonder if they were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba?
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I can understand Spain bringing in North Africans to do work. There is a sentimental attachment and history there. But why on earth would Spain admit Pakistanis?
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That rule is now in effect? A Pakistani is admitted to Great Britain and can now travel and live anywhere in the EU? I thought this was not EU law yet.
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Solution: stop all Pakistanis entering Britain and encourage those here to leave .
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I am trying to figure out how any nation can accept what are unskilled, uneducated 3rd world folk and expect goood things to come of that. My own nation included. Send them back where they came from. That the EU and UN have rules against this just boggle the mind. These people are not political refugees.
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I make my unapologetically rabid statement in light of our government's policy to Nigerians entering Britain. The BBC fail to mention that there are now an estimated 1 million nigerians living in London alone - 1/9th of the capital's population. How can we possibly keep an eye on everyone? It certainly hampers our ability to control AQ.
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Books For Soldiers is a soldier support site that ships books, DVDs and supplies to deployed soldiers and soldiers in VA hospitals, via our large volunteer network.
If you have old, but usuable books or DVDs sitting around, collecting dust, why not send them to a soldier for a big morale boost?
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F*cking hackers took out the board, leaving some boo-hooing garbage about how their people are dying on account of all the sh*t they start worldwide.
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Great organization! My family's sent two packages of books so far (Calvin and Hobbes was especially appreciated). Unfortunately I've gotten stuck in some looong books while my reading time's been reduced, so we haven't sent any since.
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don't forget the magazine, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED etc. Phone card's are always needed
and greatly appreciated. Doctor office's are always glad to donate a few magazine's when you tell them where they are going.
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Three Dallas-area brothers were convicted Wednesday of supporting terrorism by funneling money to a high-ranking official in the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Ghassan and Bayan ElashiGhassan Elashi, head of Texas Chapter of CAIR and their company were found guilty of all 21 federal counts they faced: conspiracy, money laundering and dealing in property of a terrorist. Basman Elashi, who faced the same counts, was convicted of three counts of conspiracy but acquitted of the other charges.
The brothers, all born in the Middle East, were convicted the same day jurors began deliberating, after nearly two weeks of testimony, and are to be sentenced Aug. 1. Prosecutors said each count carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. "We hope it sends a message that we are going to vigorously pursue terrorists' assets," prosecutor Nathan Garrett said.
Ghassan Elashi, free pending sentencing, left without commenting. Mistake. Put him in the hoosgow before he makes a Logan's Ghassan's Run
"It's hard times for people of Middle Eastern descent," said his lawyer, Tim Evans. It's even tougher when they're terrorists who are trying to destroy western civilization
Prosecutors said the men tried to hide a $250,000 investment by Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook biography, now head of Hamas "political bureau", protected in Syria. Thanks, clueless Justice Dept.
in their Richardson computer company by making it look as if it came from his wife. Payments were allegedly funneled to Marzook in return for the investment. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the Elashis' indictments in 2002, calling the defendants "terrorist money men."
Marzook lived in Louisiana and Virginia until 1995, when the federal government labeled him a terrorist, which made it illegal for anyone in the United States to have financial dealings with him. Marzook was deported and is believed living in Syria.
Prosecutors said the Elashis' computer company, InfoCom Corp., continued to make payments to Marzook's wife until 2001. Prosecutors presented evidence from wiretapped conversations, financial documents and InfoCom employees that they said showed the Elashis were dealing with Marzook and not his wife. In closing arguments Tuesday, attorneys for the Elashis said prosecutors had failed to prove that the men broke any laws. Defense lawyer Michael P. Gibson vowed to appeal and said prosecutors had sensationalized the case. "There is no evidence that money ever funded any terrorism," Gibson said. "This is not a terrorism case, it's a financial crimes case."
Defense attorneys said Marzook's wife Nadia Elashi, a cousin of the defendants All in the family. Will surprises never cease?
controlled the $250,000 invested in InfoCom. They said she used the payments she received in return to cover living expenses, not to support terrorism. The Elashis' lawyers also said government officials knew about the arrangement between InfoCom and the Marzooks for several years but took no action to stop it.
Marzook and his wife were named in the same indictment as the Elashis but have not been captured. The three Elashis and two of their brothers were convicted last year on separate charges of making illegal technology shipments to Libya and Syria, countries the U.S. government considers state sponsors of terrorism. All five are awaiting sentencing in that case.
The Elashis also were active in the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Muslim charity that was shut down in 2001 after the government accused it of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas. The charity is expected to go on trial early next year.
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Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
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BASMAN ELASHI
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
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GHASAN ELASHI
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
his lawyer, Tim Evans
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Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
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The Elashisâ lawyers also said government officials knew about the arrangement between InfoCom and the Marzooks for several years but took no action to stop it.
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Allowing someone enough rope to hang themselves with is standard practice, yes? If you know what they are doing, you can always pick them up. Meanwhile you look for the people they are associating with and then follow the trail . . .
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More than 1,000 fugitives, many wanted for violent crimes, were rounded up over the past week in a coordinated nationwide effort led by U.S. marshals, officials said Thursday.
Codenamed "Operation Falcon," the manhunt was the largest ever and involved local, state and federal authorities, U.S. Marshals Service spokesman David Turner said.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was to announce details of the roundup later Thursday.
Congress gave the Marshals Service more money and authority to go after fugitives when it refocused the FBI's mission toward stopping terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Turner said. The Marshals Service now has five permanent regional task forces to search for fugitives, he added.
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Some months ago NPR reported that 150,000 had been deported in the last year. So, 10,000 sounds like a large but believable number. Twentyfour hour rule in effect here, I think. A correction in either direction will have to be made, given the discrepency.
Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium, gave investigators detailed information on more than 100 potential terrorists in interviews that stretched over two years, according to court documents filed in anticipation of his sentencing this month. "Among the individuals he discussed were people whose names meant nothing to us when first heard, but were later identified as significant players in al-Qaida and other terrorist networks," Ressam's lawyers wrote in outlining his cooperation.
Ressam was caught smuggling a trunkload of bomb-making materials into the United States through Port Angeles in December 1999. He was convicted in April 2001 of nine charges, including terrorist conspiracy. Facing as much as 130 years in prison, he cut a deal with the Justice Department and began cooperating with authorities in exchange for a 27-year prison sentence. From May 10, 2001, to April 27, 2003, Ressam spent more than 200 hours speaking with authorities about terrorist networks and people with potential connections to them. He also spent 65 hours testifying during depositions or trials, his lawyers wrote.
Among the topics Ressam covered were training camps in Afghanistan, terrorist recruitment, training, cell locations, general targets, the ideology of the movements, weapons and technology, explosives making, chemicals used in constructing explosives and the use of safe houses. Much of the information Ressam provided remains secret. The documents filed publicly in U.S. District Court in Seattle this week offer merely an outline of his cooperation; a more detailed summary, along with the report of a Boston psychiatrist who specializes in the effects of solitary confinement on prisoners, was filed under seal. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday wrote that they planned to review the detailed summary and decide by April 25 what sections, if any, should be made public. Ressam's sentencing is scheduled for April 27.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who will impose sentence, has described Ressam's assistance as "startlingly helpful." Ressam's testimony helped convict Mokhtar Haouari of supplying fake identification and cash for the millennium bomb plot. Haouari was sentenced in New York to 24 years in prison. He also provided information about Haydar Abu Doha, an Algerian national who is in British custody awaiting extradition to the United States, where he is charged with orchestrating the plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. In December 2002, Ressam met with German justice officials who questioned him about al-Qaida for the trial of a Moroccan charged with supporting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist hijackers. The Moroccan, Mounir el Motassadeq, was convicted in February 2003 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Ressam also spoke with terrorism investigators from Canada, Italy, Spain and Great Britain, his lawyers wrote.
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HAIDAR ABU DOHA
al-Qaeda
MOKHTAR HAUARI
al-Qaeda
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Iran has withdrawn nearly all its estimated 2,000 troops from Lebanon where they deployed in 1982 and helped create the Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, The Washington Post said Wednesday. US and European officials said only 12 to 50 Revolutionary Guards remain in Lebanon, as part of a phased withdrawal that began more than five years ago that has elicited surprise among officials of the administrations of US President George W Bush and his predecessor Bill Clinton.
The daily said senior US officials as recently as Friday had estimated the Iranian troop presence in Lebanon at around 800, and that until last month the White House continued to press for the withdrawal from Lebanon of Iranian, as well as Syrian, forces. Iran has not publicly declared it was pulling its troops out of Lebanon, the daily added. Iran sent its forces to protect Lebanon's Shiite Muslim population after Israel's 1982 military invasion of its neighbor. While the absence of Iranian forces changes the political and security dynamics in Lebanon, US officials said, it does not eliminate Iran's influence over Lebanon's Shiite population or its financial and military support of Hezbollah. "Iran plays a key role in supporting logistically, politically and materially a whole variety of elements in resisting the peace process," said a senior State Department official who asked not to be identified. "It's active in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories," he added.
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By 1986 two Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran) divisions, the Hamza and Ansar, had trained 1,000 Lebanese Hizbollah. In 1986 the State Department labeled Lebanon Hizbollah the world's leading supporter of Terrorism. Now, the Pasdaran-Hizbollah relationship has endured for nearly twenty years.
Maybe the mullahs are afraid they'll need some additional cannon fodder back home? I mean, people might start getting some funny ideas after Afghanistan and Iraq.
Two car bombs exploded near the interior minister's offices Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding three dozen. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the blasts, the latest in several weeks of stepped up attacks that followed a relative lull in violence in mid-March...
Pakistan security forces have arrested two Algerians who admitted during interrogation to receiving money from the Al-Qaeda network, a security official said yesterday. The two, identified as Medjouri Mohammad Said and Mehdi Rabbah, were arrested on Friday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, near the Afghan border. They initially told interrogators they were from Iraq but later confessed to being Algerians, the official said. "Both have admitted they were paid regularly by Al-Qaeda contacts," said the official, who declined to be identified. Investigators were still trying to determine why the two had been getting money from Al-Qaeda, although neither man was regarded as a prominent member of the group, or was on any wanted list, the official said. The two had been living in Pakistan since 1990 and had married Pakistani women, he said.
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al-Qaeda
MEHDI RABAH
al-Qaeda
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I wonder what effect all these arrests are having on the price of AK-47s in Peshawar. Not to mention the value of the local brides. ;-)
The US Department of the Treasury today designated Bilal Mansur al-Hiyari, a Jordanian, for "providing financial support" to the Zarqawi network, an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group active in Iraq. "By designating financiers like al-Hiyari, we're making it harder and riskier for the Zarqawi network to raise and move money in support of its brutal attacks against US troops, coalition partners and the Iraqi people," said Robert Werner, Director of the Treasury's office of Foreign Assets Control. "Today's action is the third in a series of strikes by the US government to undercut the financial foundations of the Zarqawi network," he said.
The US and Iraq are submitting al-Hiyari to the UN 1267 committee, which will consider adding him to the consolidated list of terrorists tied to al Qaeda, UBL and the Taliban. A treasury press release said that al-Hiyari became acquainted with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Zarqawi network's notorious leader, in 1989 when they met in Afghanistan. According to information available to the US government, their relationship continued through the mid-1990s, when al-Hiyari returned to Jordan where al-Zarqawi was serving out a sentence in Jordanian prison.
According to information available to the US government, al-Hiyari traveled to Iraq in 2003 where he sent funds to support al-Zarqawi's operations through several of al-Zarqawi's messengers. In October 2004, the state security court of Jordan convicted al-Hiyari of providing funds to the Zarqawi network. Al-Zarqawi was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) on September 23, 2003.
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The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Al Qaida joined the former Saddam Hussein regime to develop chemical weapons.
The CIA said a network of Sunni insurgents sought to develop chemical weapons against the U.S.-led coalition in 2004. The network, termed Al Abud, was detected and tracked by the Iraq Survey Group.
"ISG created a team of experts -- including operators, analysts, and technical ops officers -- to systematically investigate and disrupt the Al Abud network and diffuse the immediate threat posed by the insurgents," the CIA report, dated Sept. 30, 2004, said. "The team also focused on identifying links between Al Abud players and former regime CBW experts to determine whether WMD intellectual capital was being tapped by insurgent elements throughout Iraq."
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Anyone remember which of the women scientists (if any) we still have in custody - isn't it the chem warfare women? I think the bio warfare one went to Syria or some such ... Wasn't there another recent demand that "all women prisoners" be freed??
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thought we had both: Dr. Anthrax and whatever the hell moniker the chem woman had. Wasn't she Chem Ali's bride?
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We have both of them. They keep demanding their release. Yea right, blinking wankers
Indian troops shot dead four militants, while seven Indian troops and a woman were injured during three separate clashes in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.
Just another night of living next door to the Land of the Pure...
Two militants were killed overnight during a three-hour gunfight in the Poshwani village near Patan town, 27 kilometres north of Srinagar, police said. Separately, Indian troops and police shot dead another militant on Wednesday when fighting broke out in Budgam district as they raided a militant hideout, police said. Police said the fighting also destroyed two houses and troops were searching for the body of a possible second militant under the debris. "Four policemen, three soldiers and a woman were injured during the clash that lasted for several hours," police said. Meanwhile, troops shot dead another militant in Poonch district early Wednesday, police said, adding the killed militant was an "area commander" of Jaish-e-Muhammad.
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KABUL: Afghan forces in the country's restive south have arrested nine members of the ousted Taliban regime armed with assault rifles and explosives, officials said on Wednesday.
"Goin' somewhere with them assault rifles and explosives, boyz?"
The arrests came ahead of a surprise visit to Afghanistan by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday. The militants were detained during search operations by Afghanistan's fledgling US-trained national army on Monday and Tuesday in Kandahar province, the Taliban's former heartland. "Nine Taliban armed with AK-47s and explosives were arrested in a search operation by national army soldiers in Kandahar -- three on Tuesday and six on Monday," Defence Ministry spokesman General Muhammad Zahir Azimi told AFP. The three were seized in Kandahar's Shawali Kot district, some 430 kilometres south of Kabul, and the other six were arrested near Kandahar city, he added. Rumsfeld arrived in Kandahar early on Wednesday to meet US troops, who lead an 18,000-strong international coalition hunting still-active Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants.
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weren't they offered an amnesty? You deliberately blow off the amnesty, the army should take your weapons away and shoot you. Quit f*&king around with these illiterate cretins
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Frank, these people are like DUmmycrats and lefties: Consequences YOU impose that arise from THEIR decisions regarding YOUR amnesties are YOUR fault, not THEIRS.
LAHORE: An anti-terrorist court granted bail on Wednesday to 40 Jamaat-e-Islami workers who were arrested during the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal strike on April 2. The court set bail at Rs 20,000 each. The 40 workers were arrested at the Tameer-e-Sirat College and Mansoora Degree College. Muslim Town, Wahdat Colony and Hanjarwal police registered cases against them under Section 7/A of the Anti-terrorist Act. Defence counsel Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari said the workers had done nothing that could be called "terrorist activities". He said every citizen had a right to protest against inflation and crime, which is all these workers were doing. He said there was no proof that the accused had damaged property.
It was old property, beat-up property. It coulda been damaged when they got there. Or it coulda been transients... Do you get the sneaking idea the judge owns a turban?
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SRINAGAR: Separatist Militants in Jammu and Kashmir renewed their threat on Wednesday against people planning to ride the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus to Azad Jammu and Kashmir. "People planning to ride the second Kashmir bus are warned to not put themselves in danger," said a faxed statement signed by four militant groups.
"Arrrr! Ain't nobody ridin' that damned infidel bus!"
The second trip of the fortnightly bus service is scheduled for April 21. However, militants oppose the move and have warned people against travelling on the bus between Srinagar in India and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. The faxed statement from the militant groups also contained a list of 28 passengers who plan to board the bus on its second trip. "We have attached the list of new applicants so they do not take this warning lightly," said the statement.
"We know where you live!"
The militant signatories to the statement are Al-Nasireen (The Helpers), Save Kashmir Movement, Al-Arifeen (The Pious) and Farzandan-e-Millat (Sons of the Community). The first two groups have launched deadly attacks in the past, but little is known about the other two groups.
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The first two groups have launched deadly attacks in the past, but little is known about the other two groups.
The Iraqi government claimed to have captured yesterday an insurgent and former member of Saddam Hussain's regime. In a statement, the government said it captured Fadhil Ebrahim Mahmoud Al Mashad-ani at a farm northeast of Baghdad. It said he worked as the former leader of the military bureau in Baghdad under Saddam. The statement said Al Mashadani was a high-ranking member of Saddam's Baath Party and was "among the main facilitators of many terrorist attacks in Iraq."
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FADHIL EBRAHIM MAHMUD AL MASHAD ANI
Iraqi Insurgency
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Hussein al-Tikrit family reunion scheduled for August 20 Diego Garcia. Be there or be square.
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A second suicide car bomber struck near a US military convoy in Mosul, wounding at least four Iraqis yesterday, within hours of an attack that killed five Iraqis and hurt three, police said. There was no immediate report by the US military on the attacks, which occurred before US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's visit to the city. The latest attack occurred at about 4pm in the old Al Sinaai neighbourhood on the western side of the city when the suicide bomber detonated his charge near a US military patrol. A local hospital said it received four wounded from the attack and that one was in critical condition. Earlier five Iraqis were killed and three wounded in a similar suicide car bomb attack against a US military convoy.
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Notice that there is no mention that the Iraquis were civilians. Since the MSM usually mentions when injured/killed Iraquis are civilians when it comes to US military action, OR if they are part of the Iraqui security services, it is obvious that these were indeed civilians.
CAN'T MENTION THAT! No Siree! No need to remind anyone that the insurgents are violating the Geneva Conventions! It doesn't apply to them, because they didn't sign it, even though the latest annex DOES apply to nations that didn't sign IT.
Policemen dismantling a decoy bomb were attacked with a live blast today which killed 12 officers and left another three injured. The attack took place 15 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk. Police Brig. Sarhat Qadir said officials believed the first bomb which police set about dismantling was a lure to draw in more police before the second bomb exploded. The series of blasts were launched in the capital to accompany the visit of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top deputy, Robert Zoellick, who arrived in the war-battered capital today on a one-day visit following a trip to Iraq by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday.
In one instance, a car bomb targeting Iraqi military vehicles collided with civilian traffic instead, wounding three pedestrians and destroying five cars, witnesses and Iraqi officials said. Almost concurrently, another car bomb hit a convoy of vehicles which appeared to belong to private contractors as it travelled down the road connecting Baghdad's international airport to the city centre, witnesses said. In the intervening time, twin blasts exploded near a convoy of two US Humvees and a fuel tanker as it made its way through an eastern Baghdad neighborhood, witnesses at the scene said.
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The twelve will get the good virgins that Allah has been holding back. The survivors are climbing a steep learning curve, and should be proud of their progress. Oh, and thank goodness that last blast didn't result in the fuel tanker going up -- what were they thinking to attack such a thing in a residential neighborhood!?! (Yes, I know that the idea of terrorism is to terrorize, but this willingness to so alienate the locals smacks of extreme hubris coupled with serious desperation.)
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Spanish authorities have charged 11 Pakistanis over suspected links with Al Qaeda sympathisers who carried out the Madrid train bombings a year ago, judicial sources said on Wednesday. One of the 11, 
Iran has withdrawn nearly all its estimated 2,000 troops from Lebanon where they deployed in 1982 and helped create the Shiite Muslim movement 
Pakistan security forces have arrested two Algerians who admitted during interrogation to receiving money from the Al-Qaeda network, a security official said yesterday. The two, identified as 
Indian troops shot dead four militants, while seven Indian troops and a woman were injured during three separate clashes in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. 
KABUL: Afghan forces in the country's restive south have arrested nine members of the ousted Taliban regime armed with assault rifles and explosives, officials said on Wednesday.
LAHORE: An anti-terrorist court granted bail on Wednesday to 40 
SRINAGAR: Separatist Militants in Jammu and Kashmir renewed their threat on Wednesday against people planning to ride the 
The Iraqi government claimed to have captured yesterday an insurgent and former member of Saddam Hussain's regime. In a statement, the government said it captured 
A second suicide car bomber struck near a US military convoy in Mosul, wounding at least four Iraqis yesterday, within hours of an attack that killed five Iraqis and hurt three, police said. There was no immediate report by the US military on the attacks, which occurred before US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's visit to the city. The latest attack occurred at about 4pm in the old Al Sinaai neighbourhood on the western side of the city when the suicide bomber detonated his charge near a US military patrol. A local hospital said it received four wounded from the attack and that one was in critical condition. Earlier five Iraqis were killed and three wounded in a similar suicide car bomb attack against a US military convoy.
Policemen dismantling a decoy bomb were attacked with a live blast today which killed 12 officers and left another three injured. The attack took place 15 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk. Police Brig. Sarhat Qadir said officials believed the first bomb which police set about dismantling was a lure to draw in more police before the second bomb exploded. The series of blasts were launched in the capital to accompany the visit of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top deputy, Robert Zoellick, who arrived in the war-battered capital today on a one-day visit following a trip to Iraq by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday.
