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2005-01-14 Terror Networks & Islam

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-14 10:15:18 PM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I recommend Sidney Jones reports for anyone who want to know the history, leadership, and activities of Jamaah Islamiah. They are almost certainly the best source of infomation available to the public.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-01-14 12:13:23 AM|| 2005-01-14 12:13:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Rohan has edited my work (I think Fred's seen at least some of the final copies) and he is definitely the go-to man on everything concerning al-Qaeda. The man is nothing short of a walking encyclopedia on the subject.

Posted by Dan Darling 2005-01-14 2:48:47 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-01-14 2:48:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ICG products on Indonesia are outstanding, same for Yemen and "Stan-land", but products on other theaters are sometimes very weak. Still, ICG is an extremely good source of information. Given the cell structures and layered operations structure for JI that previous ICG products have laid out, this doesn't ring as a surprise. All it takes is for a non-JI leader to insert himself with his own flow of weapons/exposives/money, and he's got cells waiting to execute.

Posted by longtime lurker 2005-01-14 5:09:10 AM|| 2005-01-14 5:09:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 But the entire ICG has to be taken with a grain of salt. Here's a list of their US board members:
Morton Abramowitz, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Kenneth Adelman, Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
Wesley Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
Stanley Fischer,Vice-Chairman, Citigroup Inc. and former First Deputy Managing Director of International Monetary Fund
Carla Hills, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing; former U.S. Trade Representative
Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chair of Women Waging Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Elliott F. Kulick, Chairman, Pegasus International
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Novelist and journalist
Douglas Schoen, Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates
George Soros, Chairman, Open Society Institute
William O. Taylor, Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe

Posted by mary 2005-01-14 6:08:57 PM|| 2005-01-14 6:08:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 mary...thanks..that kind of puts it into perspective doesn't it?

Posted by 2b 2005-01-14 6:17:19 PM|| 2005-01-14 6:17:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Mary....
And don't forget their President, that Soros wannabe Gareth Evans

Posted by tipper 2005-01-14 6:46:24 PM|| 2005-01-14 6:46:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 On a wider front, the hope is that the tsunami disaster will give new impetus to a generally more co-operative and less unilateralist approach to solving the world's security problems, both man-made and natural, and greater recognition of the benefits of deploying more assistance, persuasion and empathy, and less military force: more soft power, less hard; more Ukraines and fewer Iraqs.

You gotta love this line from Mary's link above. Ah..yes, we just should have had an election in Iraq. The people should have worn orange and Sadaam would have stepped aside.

It must be frustrating for these clowns. They keep telling us how dumb we are, yet we keep having success where they have only inaction and failure. They keep telling us that we aren't really successful and we just shrug and do good work anyway.

In the good old days, they pronounced what we were to believe, the NYT, Time, Newsweak, NPR/BBC/CBS/NBC/CNN all repeated it. The editorial cartoonists all drew it, Hollywood celebrities applauded, and the lemmings all nodded in agreement. They never understood that we read and rejected their self-proclaimed authority. But, living in their own self-cycling echo chamber, how would they know?

Posted by 2b 2005-01-14 7:03:24 PM|| 2005-01-14 7:03:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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