Terrorism

Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists' Fire

Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are stepping up anti-U.S. chatter and threats on their websites.

One jihadist site vowed to conduct suicide bombings in Florida to avenge a threatened Koran burning, while others predicted an increase in terrorist recruits as a result of such actions.

"By Allah, the wars are heated and you Americans are the ones who…enflamed it," says one such posting. "By Allah you will be the first to taste its flames."

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We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup," with the Islamic-center controversy, said Evan Kohlmann, an independent terrorism consultant at Flashpoint Partners who monitors jihadist websites.

Critics of the proposed Islamic center said their right to speak out shouldn't be influenced by the possibility of jihadist threats. "We will never win a war when we are afraid to even name our enemies," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an e-mail Sunday.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703589804575445841837725272.html?mod=WSJ_article_related

Drama!

Mosque Planner Says Opposition Goes 'Beyond Islamophobia'

A leader of a planned Muslim community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero compared opposition to the project to the persecution of Jews, in comments that could add to the controversy over the center's proposed site.

We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism," said Daisy Khan, who is spearheading the project with her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. "It's beyond Islamophobia. It's hate of Muslims."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703589804575445671238186074.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

divide and conquer..apparently there is already a mosque in the vicinity..is that true?

this is a distraction ..nothing more..and also to cement in the imagery that muslims did 911

‘Anti-terror’ data found in street
(UKPA) – 3 hours ago

Police were investigating the contents of a computer memory stick said to contain sensitive anti-terror material which was reportedly found in the street outside a police station.

The four-inch USB storage device was alleged to have contained more than 2,000 pages of confidential information, including strategies on combating terror attacks.

The memory stick was found by a 36-year-old businessman on a pavement outside the station in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, said the Daily Star on Sunday.

It reported the device was emblazoned with the initials GMP POTU, standing for Greater Manchester Police Public Order Training Unit, and the files enclosed were produced by the National Police Improvement Agency on the subject of counter-terrorism and tactical deployment.

Names of officers, their ranks and divisions were also uncovered by the businessman when he fitted the stick into his laptop, the newspaper added.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iTeMkbzA_EXFGgOACfLv_Oees2RQ

hmmm…”anti”-terror data?

Officers Told How to React to Terrorists
Four Codes for Dealing With Suspects

New guidelines have been issued instructing New York City police officers when to arrest suspected terrorists or when to release them without alerting the suspects they’re being watched, according to a police memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The New York Police Department has been informed that officers will receive one of four “handling codes” if they encounter someone listed in the National Crime Information Center’s terrorist database. The guidelines were issued Aug. 20.

“Counterterrorism is now part and parcel of the NYPD crime-fighting mission,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704855104575469603651029326.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

hmmmm

The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis”

As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and the nature of the stated culprit, Al-Qaeda.


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The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ’devil’ only in order to drive the ’TV watcher’ to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money.[81]

The creation of Al-Qaeda was thus facilitated by the CIA and allied intelligence networks, the purpose of which was to maintain this “database” of Mujahideen to be used as intelligence assets to achieve US foreign policy objectives, throughout both the Cold War, and into the post-Cold War era of the ‘new world order’.

http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article20183

long article ...worth the read.

http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/usa-dept-of-justice-investigating-terrorism-and-criminal-extremism/

Anwar al Awlaki: the new Osama bin Laden?

You may not have heard of him before – but this is the new face of international terrorism. His name is Anwar al Awlaki – and unlike Osama bin Laden, who has not been seen in public for many years, he is loud, obvious and very dangerous. If there is an attack any time soon in London or in another Western capital, the chances are that Awlaki will be behind it. The CIA has put him on their hit-list of assassination targets, and in a rare speech on Thursday, Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, name-checked Awlaki as the West’s Public Enemy No 1.

“The operational involvement of Yemen-based preacher Anwar al-Awlaki with al-Qaeda is of particular concern given his wide circle of adherents in the West, including in the UK,” said Evans.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8009819/Anwar-al-Awlaki-the-new-Osama-bin-Laden.html

hmmm….I remember on 9/11 I had never heard of Bin Laden (I was pretty clueless back then). Seems someone wants us to know who “Anwar al Awlaki” is….
Doesnt sound good.

The Terrorist Immigration Nightmare: Algerians in Westminster Arrested for Pope Plot as Spy Chief Warns of Somalia and Yemen Threat
The full madness of the Third World immigration invasion nightmare was demonstrated again today with the arrest of five Algerians living in Westminster on suspicion of planning to attack the Pope on the same day that the U.K.’s intelligence chief warned of “inevitable” British-born Islamist attacks based in Somalia and the Yemen.
http://bnp.org.uk/news/terrorist-immigration-nightmare-algerians-westminster-arrested-pope-plot-spy-chief-warns-somali

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Holy terror pope plot
6 Muslims busted in ‘assassination plan’
British anti-terror police arrested six Muslim men yesterday in a suspected plot to assassinate Pope Benedict during his historic London visit.
Five of the men, described as Algerians ages 26 to 50, were seized at gunpoint in a predawn raid at a garbage depot, authorities said.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/holy_terror_pope_plot_2bx1MRuEVsiu6DRjTAQkPN#ixzz0zt160GgE

A lot of terrorism talk...

lots of terror talk!

Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant?
The Stuxnet malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it's a search-and-destroy weapon meant to hit a single target. One expert suggests it may be after Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.


The appearance of Stuxnet created a ripple of amazement among computer security experts. Too large, too encrypted, too complex to be immediately understood, it employed amazing new tricks, like taking control of a computer system without the user taking any action or clicking any button other than inserting an infected memory stick. Experts say it took a massive expenditure of time, money, and software engineering talent to identify and exploit such vulnerabilities in industrial control software systems.

Unlike most malware, Stuxnet is not intended to help someone make money or steal proprietary data. Industrial control systems experts now have concluded, after nearly four months spent reverse engineering Stuxnet, that the world faces a new breed of malware that could become a template for attackers wishing to launch digital strikes at physical targets worldwide. Internet link not required.

"Until a few days ago, people did not believe a directed attack like this was possible," Ralph Langner, a German cyber-security researcher, told the Monitor in an interview. He was slated to present his findings at a conference of industrial control system security experts Tuesday in Rockville, Md. "What Stuxnet represents is a future in which people with the funds will be able to buy an attack like this on the black market. This is now a valid concern."
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0921/Stuxnet-malware-is-weapon-out-to-destroy-Iran-s-Bushehr-nuclear-plant

All I can say is WOW!

Turn out the lights and throw the cat out.

Great work!

posting that stuxnet story tomorrow..its a spin out..wtf!!

Iranian president asserts U.S. orchestrated 9/11 attacks

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a series of incendiary remarks in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, notably the assertion that the United States orchestrated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to rescue its declining economy, to reassert its weakening grip on the Middle East and to save Israel.

Those comments prompted at least 33 delegations to walk out, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, all 27 members of the European Union and the union’s representative, diplomats said.

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He said there were three theories about the origins of the Sept. 11 attacks, including “that some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.”

The U.S. Mission to the United Nations swiftly issued a terse response.

“Rather than representing the aspirations and goodwill of the Iranian people, Ahmadinejad has yet again chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs that are as abhorrent and delusional as they are predictable,” it said in a statement.

It was not the first time Ahmadinejad espoused the theory but never before so publicly.

“The majority of the American people, as well as other nations and politicians, agree with this view,” he said.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/article_28286cd0-6e3c-5dfc-9b6c-0f212ae2009e.html