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12/5/2007 | Iraq, Radical Islam, Terrorism
'Video aired' of Briton kidnapped in Iraq
USA Today
BAGHDAD (AP) — Captors holding five Britons demanded Tuesday that Britain pull all its forces from Iraq, posting a videotape showing a bearded, haggard-looking victim more than six months after the group was kidnapped. The purported hostage, speaking clearly with a British accent, identified himself as "Jason" and gave the date as more than two weeks ago. He sat under a sign in Arabic identifying the captors as "The Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq." "My name is Jason. Today is November 18," he said, alternately glancing at the camera and downward, perhaps at a piece of paper. "I have been here now for 173 days and I feel we have been forgotten." No other hostage was shown. The video was posted as Britain prepares to hand over security control of oil-rich Basra province — the last of four regions of southern Iraq it occupied after the 2003 invasion — to the Iraqis in mid-December. One expert suggested a motivation for the rare broadcast of a video by a purported Shiite group could be to project the handover as a victory for the militia factions battling for control of the area.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade ProductionsDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com12/4/2007 | Terrorism
Experts see rise in Western-looking recruits training in terrorist camps
NY Daily News
WASHINGTON - The latest crop of Al Qaeda recruits is salted with white, Anglo-featured converts from Europe who look more like TV's Jack Bauer than Osama Bin Laden. U.S. officials are worried about fair-skinned Al Qaeda killers with light-colored eyes, who most Americans would never suspect as Muslim jihadis ready to die in martyrdom missions like Sept. 11. "It is a very big concern," a top counterterror official told the Daily News of the possibility that real-life terrorists resemble Kiefer Sutherland's character on "24." The Europeans have been spotted in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, where a resurgent Al Qaeda runs small training camps. "Al Qaeda is attempting to recruit 'Western' individuals to better blend into European and American societies," a senior military officer who monitors secret reports on the region said. "It's a continuing concern for the intelligence community." The danger is that they may blend in back home - or take advantage of the visa-waiver program the U.S. shares with Eurpean allies that eliminates a key layer of scrutiny for travelers. The travel loophole allows 15 million people to enter the U.S. from 18 European countries without visas, including Britain, France, Germany and Norway. Intelligence on white jihadis cropped up long before Bin Laden warned Europe last week to leave Afghanistan in a new tape. Top CIA official John Kringen told lawmakers earlier this year that he was "very concerned" about Al Qaeda using Europe as "a launching point for bringing terrorists into the United States."
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions11/29/2007 | Iran, Terrorism
Iran talks to Taliban, unsure of al Qaeda: Germany
Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran is talking to the Taliban but has a "very ambivalent" attitude towards al Qaeda, a third major foe of the United States, a top European security official said. Tehran's relations with the Taliban and al Qaeda are of key importance because of Washington's concerns they could carry out damaging attacks on the United States and its allies in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The United States would be particularly wary of any growing relationship between the three as Tehran is looking for support in case of a possible U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities, which Washington says are being used to develop a nuclear bomb. "I certainly believe the Iranians are conducting talks with the Taliban," August Hanning, Germany's deputy interior minister and former head of its BND spy agency, told Reuters in an interview. He noted that Iran has also acknowledged holding some senior al Qaeda figures for years, possibly under some form of house arrest, and said Tehran might seek to use them as a "bargaining chip" against the West. Although talks are under way with Iran over a diplomatic solution concerning Tehran's nuclear program, Washington has not ruled out military strikes on its atomic facilities. Iran says it wants nuclear energy to generate electricity.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions11/27/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
al-Qaida Wing: Bin Laden Message Coming
Breitbart.com
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's media wing said Monday it will soon release a new message from Osama bin Laden. It said the message will be addressed to European countries, but did not elaborate. The announcement by al-Qaida's as-Sahab media production wing was posted on an Islamic Web site that commonly airs militant videos. "Soon, if God allows, the lion sheik Osama bin Laden, may God protect him, (will give) a message to the European nations," it said. The militant Web site carrying as-Sahab's announcement urged Islamic militants to advertise bin Laden's new message to Western sites to "give them the unseen truth of their failed war." Bin Laden has issued four public statements so far this year—on Sept. 7, Sept. 11, Sept. 20 and Oct. 22. The Sept. 7 video was bin Laden's first in three years and was issued to mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The latest one was an audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television in which bin Laden called for Iraqi insurgents to unite and avoid divisive "extremism."
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade ProductionsDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com11/20/2007 | Illegal Immigration, Terrorism
Lawmen outgunned on Mexico border
The Washington Times
Alien and drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border have spawned a rise in violence against federal, state and local law-enforcement authorities, who say they are outmanned and outgunned. “They’ve got weapons, high-tech radios, computers, cell phones, Global Positioning Systems, spotters and can react faster than we are able to,” said Shawn P. Moran, a 10-year U.S. Border Patrol veteran who serves as vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613 in San Diego. “And they have no hesitancy to attack the agents on the line, with anything from assault rifles and improvised Molotov cocktails to rocks, concrete slabs and bottles,” he said. “There are so many agent ‘rockings’ that few are even reported anymore. If we wrote them all up, that’s all we would be doing.” Assaults against Border Patrol agents have more than doubled over the past two years, many by Mexico-based alien and drug gangs more inclined than ever to use violence as a means of ensuring success in the smuggling of people and contraband.
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Democrats see victory 'out of reach'
The Washington Times
Top Democrats yesterday rejected reports of U.S. military progress in Iraq, saying victory remains "out of reach" as long as political divisions roil Baghdad. "It's not getting better; it's getting worse," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. "The goal remains out of reach." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said the reduced violence in Iraq wasn't enough to win her support for the mission.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyTom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of RepresentativesWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingCliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions11/9/2007 | Equal Rights, Freedom of Speech, Gender Issues, Terrorism
Thousands of Police Block Pakistan Rally
The New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 9 — In a huge show of force, the Pakistani government stopped a protest rally by the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, before it started today, blanketing the rally site with thousands of police, blocking roads to stop demonstrators, and barricading Ms. Bhutto inside her residence in Islamabad.
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Yemeni court convicts 32 al-Qaeda suspects
USA Today
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni court convicted Wednesday 32 al-Qaeda suspects of planning suicide attacks on oil and gas installations in the country and sentenced them to up to 15 years imprisonment. The group on trial included 36 Yemenis but four were acquitted of the charges. Six of the group remain at large — all top suspects who were tried in absentia. Three of them were sentenced to 15 years in prison each, another one got 12 years and the remaining two 10 years each. The prosecution had charged the group with "forming an armed gang aimed at carrying out sabotage attacks." They were accused of planning to attack oil installations in the Marib and Hadaramout provinces with rocket-propelled grenades in September 2006. The trial opened in March with 30 defendants in custody who all pleaded innocent to the charges. It was not clear when or how they were arrested. Three of them claimed they were tortured and forced to sign confessions, according to Yemeni official news agency SABA.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions11/6/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
MI5: Children Being Groomed for Terror
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain faces an increased threat from al-Qaida inspired terrorism and is now home to at least 2,000 people who pose a direct threat to the country's security, including children who are being groomed by extremists, the director of the domestic spy agency said Monday. In a rare public speech, Jonathan Evans, who became head of the MI5 agency in April, also warned that vital resources needed to tackle terrorism are being diverted to counter the espionage threat from Russia and China. "As I speak, terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country," Evans said in a speech in Manchester, England. "They are radicalizing, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism. This year, we have seen individuals as young as 15 and 16 implicated in terrorist-related activity." Evans' remarks before a newspaper editors' conference were his first public speech since becoming director-general of MI5. His predecessor, Eliza Manningham-Buller, warned in November 2006 that her agents were tracking around 30 terror plots and keeping 1,600 suspects under surveillance. "That figure today would be at least 2,000," Evans said. "And we suspect there are as many again that we don't yet know of."
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Libyan Islamists 'join al-Qaeda'
BBC NEWS
A Libyan Islamist group has joined al-Qaeda, according to an audio message on the internet attributed to the radical network's second-in-command. Ayman al-Zawahri purportedly said the Fighting Islamic Group in Libya was becoming part of al-Qaeda. Earlier this year Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat also claimed to have joined the network. The recorded message called on Islamists to topple North African as well as Palestinian leaders. "O nation of jihad, support your sons so that we defeat our enemies and rid our homeland of their slaves," said the recorded voice attributed to al-Zawahri, referring to the leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. In the same tape, a leader of the Fighting Islamic Group in Libya is introduced as Abu Laith al-Libi. "We proclaim our alliance with the Al-Qaeda network... to become the faithful soldiers of Osama Bin Laden," it says.
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Al Qaeda Rumored to Prep e-Jihad for Nov. 11
EWeek
An unconfirmed report says a DDoS attack against Western sites will have us going up in e-flames, but experts are scoffing. Al Qaeda plans to launch an electronic Jihad on Nov. 11, attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites, according to an unconfirmed report. The report comes from DEBKAfile, an Israeli an online military intelligence magazine, which said on Oct. 30 that their counter-terror sources had picked up a special Internet announcement in Arabic. According to DEBKAfile, Osama bin Laden's followers announced on Oct. 29 that on Day One they would test their skills by launching cyber attacks against 15 targeted sites and would expand the e-Jihad thereafter until "hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites." DEBKAfile's sources told the news outlet that American intelligence agents, in their eagerness to track the sites, wound up crashing al Qaeda's sites shortly after the first announcement. On Oct. 30 the sites were back up, reportedly claiming that their Islamic firewalls had shrugged off "infidel assault." Al Qaeda also reportedly boasted of an "impenetrable" e-mail network for volunteers to sign up and receive instructions that would slip by security agencies in their respective countries.
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Video: Terrorists firing mortars from schoolyard
YNetNews
Footage shows terror cell preparing to launch mortar shells near elementary school in Gaza, fleeing site after launches. IDF says terror organizations 'aware of our sensitivity to these areas and they take advantage of that, this is as cynical as their use of the civilian population gets' A cell of three terrorists launching mortar shells towards Israel from a Gaza schoolyard was captured carrying out the attack by Israeli intelligence on Monday. After the attacks are carried out the cell quickly flees the launch site, a courtyard outside an elementary school in the town of Beit Hanun in northern Gaza. IDF forces, who identified the cell as it was carrying out the attacks, struck the terrorists after they had cleared the public buildings.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/31/2007 | Terrorism
Orlando Getting Surveillance Cameras In Fight Against Terrorism
WFTV.com
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned a terrorist attack thousands of miles away has led to a broad new plan to install surveillance cameras throughout Orlando. The subway and bus bombings in London more than two years ago have led to the idea of adding dozens of cameras in Orlando. They'll be located at various places, including tourist areas like International Drive. Orlando is going to be one of several cities getting cameras. They're already in use in places like Washington DC, Dallas and Chicago. Soon they'll be a fixture on I-Drive. With its tourist attractions and large hotels, Orlando could potentially be a target for terrorists, or at least that's what the Department of Homeland Security fears. The agency is spending almost $2 million to install 34 cameras around the area. Police won't say exactly where they're going. "We're not being vague. There is a proposal, but to protect infrastructure we can't discuss where the plan is for those cameras," said Sgt. Barb Jones, Orlando Police Department. Cameras have already been used at special events with large crowds. Those are temporary, while these would be permanent.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/30/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
U.S. embassy terror plot uncovered
CNN.com
(CNN) -- Authorities in Azerbaijan recently uncovered a radical Islamic terror plot against the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Baku, prompting the facility to close its doors to the public Monday, Azerbaijan and U.S. officials told CNN. As a precaution, Britain also shut its embassy in Baku to the public on Monday "following security concerns nearby," Britain's Foreign Office said. The terror plot was unraveled after a weekend raid outside Baku that netted several suspected members of the radical group, two U.S. officials who asked not to be identified and a spokesman for Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry told CNN. U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack stressed that the details "are still unfolding," and the threat "may or may not be" linked to the Saturday raid. "There were some specific and credible threat information concerning the embassy and plans by militants to in some way do harm to individuals in and around the U.S. Embassy there," McCormack said, noting that no specific individuals were targeted.
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Islamo-fascism Awareness Week a success
The Daily
Islamo-fascism Awareness Week is not about racism, bigotry, Islamo-phobia or a claim that all Muslims are radical and seek to harm those who don’t agree with them. It is to raise awareness about the growing group who are. Islamo-fascists are a group whose deadly fascistic ideology has affected close to every country on the globe, made almost 9,000 attacks since September 11, 2001, and now kills about 1,300 people per year. Many opponents of this event, which took place at nearly 100 university campuses nationwide, believe that it unduly links fascism with an entire religion. If this is the case, Muslims should debunk this “myth” by opposing their radical brethren around the world who suppress women, honor kill, behead the infidel and murder moderate Muslims who oppose their bloodthirsty agenda. The claims that this event is racist in nature is an elementary diversion of the clear argument being made — that there is an extreme brand of Islam posing a threat to anyone who defends freedom and humanity. We are not claiming that all Muslims are fascists. Furthermore, the term Islamo-fascism was initially coined during the ‘90s by moderate Muslims struggling for democracy in Algeria. They were brutally oppressed and 150,000 were killed by militant Islamists.
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Linking Terror on the Trail
Wall Street Journal
A divide is emerging on the presidential campaign trail over battling terrorists: how exactly to label the fight. While Democrats tend to talk about terrorism in general, Republicans increasingly pin the threat directly on Islam. All the major Republican candidates regularly weave some form of the phrase "Islamic extremism" into their stump speeches. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has taken the rhetoric to a new level, running a television advertisement about "this century's nightmare, jihadism." Democratic candidates generally don't emphasize linking Islam and terrorism. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton talks more of "global terrorism," while Sen. Barack Obama refers to "stateless terrorism." "In four Democratic debates, not a single Democratic candidate said the word 'Islamic terrorism,' " former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at a Republican debate. "Now that is taking a political correctness to extremes." Those who like the Republican candidates' choice of language say it reflects the reality of who threatens America the most. "Everybody ought to call an ace an ace," says Jim Gorsh, a 62-year-old retiree who heard Mr. Romney speak in Clinton, Iowa, earlier this month.
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U.S. sanctions 'doomed,' says Iran
CNN.com
(CNN) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry has said that tougher U.S. sanctions are "doomed to fail" and accused Washington of adopting confrontational policies amid simmering tensions over Tehran's refusal to halt its nuclear program. Washington imposed stiff sanctions against elements of Iran's military and a number of Iranian banks and companies on Thursday, accusing them of support for nuclear proliferation and terror-related activities. "The Iranian regime's abilities to pursue nuclear and ballistic missile programs in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions depends on its access to international, commercial, and financial systems," said U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini, quoted by Iran's state news agency IRNA, said the sanctions were "ineffective." Meanwhile, speaking Thursday in Kuwait, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi warned that any military attack on Iran would be met with a "crushing response."
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/25/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
An Iraqi Parade Against al-Qaeda
Time
Osama bin Laden's latest call for Iraqi insurgents to unite against Americans fell on deaf ears this week in Ramadi, the city that al-Qaeda leaders once declared the seat of a new Islamic caliphate and capital of the Iraqi insurgency. Rather than rise up against them, the people of Ramadi Tuesday invited U.S. forces to watch a massive parade — albeit one so tightly secured that no pedestrian traffic got close to it. The almost surreal, two-hour martial procession was led by the city's children to commemorate the martyred leader of a tribal revolt that has virtually silenced al-Qaeda in Anbar Province. It gave the Baghdad government a photo-op to make points about national unity, and so the Shi'a dominated government sent a representative to Sunni Ramadi. "With unity, victory is possible," said Iraqi Defense Adviser Mowaffak al Rubaei, clearly referring to bin Laden's attempt to drum up support for a renewed anti-American uprising.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/25/2007 | Iran, Terrorism
Bush Administration Announces New Sanctions Against Iran
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced Thursday that it is imposing sweeping new sanctions against Iran's defense ministry, its Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of banks. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, joined at a State Department news conference by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said the steps the Bush administratioin is taking are designed to punish the Iranians for their support for terrorist organizations in Iraq and the Middle East, missile sales and nuclear activities. Rice called the moves — the harshest of this kind since the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 — were in response to "a comprehensive policy to confront the threatening behavior of the Iranians." But she also said that Washington remains open to "a diplomatic solution." The announcement culminated a monthslong series of harsh statements from both sides amid public recriminations both within the administration and the Congress over Tehran's strategic intentions.
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FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot
USA Today
PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it. The contents of the June 25 memo from the FBI's Denver office were reported Friday by The Arizona Republic. Davis declined to share a copy of the memo and an FBI spokeswoman in Denver didn't immediately return a telephone call. The Republic reported that the detainee, who was not identified, said the plan involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed devices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in forests and grasslands after the operatives had left the country. The memo noted that investigators couldn't determine whether the detainee was telling the truth. The newspaper said many forest law enforcement officers it contacted had no idea the warning had been issued.
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