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Pakistan: Militants behead two 'prostitutes'
2007-09-09 19:31:00
Islamist militants have beheaded two women in northwestern Pakistan who they accused of being prostitutes. The women, both in their mid-40s, and identified as Maino and Malaki, were reportedly abducted from Bannu on Thursday by masked and armed men who bundled them into a car. A note was found near the bodies accusing the women of "acts of obscenity" and of doing their business in connivance with the police. More...
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Prayers For President Gul: Don't Imitate Stinking, Fossilized, Rotten West
2007-09-02 15:00:00
At the court of the mosque where he went for Friday prayer, former Turkish PM Necmettin Erbakan offered his support and prayers to the new Turkish President Abdullah Gul, who was his protégé, MP, a minister and deputy in his government. He said, “May Allah protect him from sins and evil and may he act according to the wishes of the people and not of the evil. This is how I pray for him.”On AKP’s success in the recent general elections Erbakan said, “Our people have protected our values for centuries. Why should we [Muslims] that have built countless civilizations, leave our essence and identity in order to imitate the stinking, fossilized, rotten West ? Our people are rejecting this and are step by step returning to their real selves.
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Mehdi Army hiatus a relief for U.S. military
2007-09-02 14:48:00
In a statement issued Saturday, the military said al-Sadr's order would enable the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi security forces to "intensify their focus on al Qaeda in Iraq...without distraction from [Mehdi Army ] attacks."Al-Sadr's suspension -- which one of his senior aides said would be a period for restructuring -- comes after nearly 60 people were killed and scores were injured during recent street fighting between armed Shiite factions in Karbala and Baghdad."Muqtada al-Sadr's declaration holds the potential to reduce criminal activity and help reunite Iraqis separated by ethno-sectarian violence and fear," the U.S. military said.The military believes rogue members of al-Sadr's group have smuggled weaponry and received training from Iran. More...
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Iran reportedly bombs villages in northern Iraq
2007-09-01 21:47:00
Iranian troops have been accused of bombing border areas for weeks against suspected positions of the Free Life Party, or PEJAK, a breakaway faction of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party. Iran says PEJAK — which seeks autonomy for Kurds in Iran — launches attacks inside Iran from bases in Iraq . The Iranian shelling has been criticized by Iraqi officials and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned it could have negative effects on the crucial relations between Iran and Iraq’s Shiite-led government.Ari Yashir, a PEJAK member, took a reporter in a tour around several deserted villages and claimed the Iranian attacks only serve to harm civilians. As explosions boomed in the distance, a Kurdish woman stood outside her house and pointed to where shells scorched parts of her father’s grapes and plum orchards. “It was a bad day when some 20 shells hit our village in a single day last week. We were crying as we prayed to God to protect us from the bombs of the Islamic Republi...
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The Role of the Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guard
2007-08-31 09:59:00
While the Guard itself is heavily involved in businesses, internal repression and security, the al Quds (Jeruselem) Force is a much small cadre of senior Guard leaders who can call on special Guard units if it needs boots on the ground activities.According to U.S. and European intelligence friends, the Quds Force is the group that made the decision to allow senior al Qaeda operatives into Iran, as well as Osama bin Laden’s son, Sa’ad. The group also allowed many family member of al Qaeda to exit Afghanistan through Iran in 2001, including at least one of bin Laden’s wives. The Force seems to be the interlocutor between the Iranian military apparatus and al Qaeda, a relationship that has waxed and waned over time.It is also the Quds Force, which controls Iran’s military acquisitions and determines what military hardware goes to both the Shi’ite militias in Iraq as well as what goes to Hezbollah in Lebanon. This role as the gatekeeper makes targeting the multiple front group...
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Cold Encounter Between Turkish President, Commander-In-Chief Abdullah Gul a
2007-08-30 21:57:00
On his first day in office the new Turkish President Abdullah Gul attended the graduation ceremony at the Gulhane Military Academy for Medicine and for the first time as president, met with the military commanders. Before Gul entered accompanied by the Chief of Staff it was announced that everybody should stand for the president. President Gul presented the first diploma to the valedictorian, Speaker Toptan to the second-best student, PM Erdogan to the third and Chief of General Staff General Buyukanit to the fourth student. Mainstream Turkish daily Hurriyet reported that while the applause during President Gul’s presentation was weak, there was a loud and long round of applause for General Buyukanit when he got up to present the fourth diploma.The Chief of Staff did not salute the President in military style when Gul got up to go to the podium, contrary to the custom. The generals looked solemn and thoughtful during the ceremony.
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How to Join Al-Qaeda, Form a Jihad Cell, and Select a Western Target
2007-08-30 21:43:00
On August 26, Islamist websites posted an item titled "How to Join Al-Qaeda." It is not clear when the item was written; it was produced by the website Al-Thabitoun 'Ala Al-'Ahd, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Egypt and is currently inactive.The following are excerpts from the item:"You feel that you want to carry a weapon, fight, and kill the occupiers, and that it is our duty to call for jihad as much as to call for prayer... All that is required is a firm personal decision to fulfill this obligation, and participation in jihad and the resistance..."Do you really have to meet Osama bin Laden in person in order to become a jihad fighter? Do you have to be recognized by Al-Qaeda as one of its members to become a jihad fighter? If Al-Qaeda commanders should be killed, would the jihad be eliminated?"The answers to these questions are the following: I don't have to meet Osama bin Laden to become a jihad fighter. Moreover, there is no need to meet even one jihad fighter to beco...
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Top IDF officers: Terrorist groups have learned our defense systems
2007-08-26 11:55:00
Netiv Ha'asara resident Micha Biton told Army Radio on Sunday morning that contrary to what the defense establishment might say, local residents feel that the security barrier does not actually provide much security. "All of us here have warned and spoken about this, that it's just a matter of time, and something has to be done. The defense establishment, however, like a mantra that repeats itself, has told us not to worry, 'it's all under control.' All kinds of people come to us saying that we're not protected - 'You think this wall protects you, but it doesn't,'" Biton said. More...Israel’s Armed Forces Undermanned, Under-equipped for War
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Al Qaeda Dislocates US Security Plan by Genocidal Massacre
2007-08-24 21:19:00
This time, Al Qaeda in Iraq selected a tiny, isolated, unprotected community of some 150,000 Yazidi Kurds, persecuted by Sunni and Shiite Muslims alike, as the victims of its barbarity. Tuesday, Aug. 14, within minutes, three oil tankers driven by suicide bombers had murdered at least 500 people, injured more than 1,000 and transformed an ancient indigenous Iraqi sect into a humanitarian problem.Al Qaeda timed its brutal attack for maximum disruption of the latest American operations in the framework of the US-Iraqi overall Phantom Strike offensive to secure Iraq against insurgents and terrorists. More...
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Iran on anti-racism committee
2007-08-24 21:13:00
Despite its numerous calls for Israel's destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism .The planning committee, which will meet for the first time in Geneva on August 27, will be made up of an inner circle of 20 UN member-states, to be headed by Libya. More...
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Armed robots to go to war in Iraq
2007-08-07 02:31:00
American forces have deployed robots equipped with automatic weapons in Iraq , the first battlefield use of machines capable of waging war by remote control. A US division of British defence company QinetiQ revealed that the 3rd Infantry Division, which is based south of Baghdad, purchased three Talon Sword robots for operations in Iraq. Sword robots are a modified version of track-wheeled bomb disposal devices in use around the world. Soldiers operate the robots with a specially modified laptop, complete with joystick controls and a ’kill button’ that terminates its functions if it goes awry. According to the industry magazine, Defence News the US military has 80 remote controlled armoured robots on order but funding constraints has delayed delivery. More...
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Elite IDF Soldiers Refuse Hevron Expulsion Orders
2007-08-07 02:25:00
Two officers and 10 soldiers were sentenced to 28 days in an army jail for refusing to participate in the expulsion of Jews from their homes in the former Hevron marketplace.The original group of 30 soldiers, all hesder yeshiva members of the elite Duchifat combat unit, balked when they were given their orders to replace Border Police officers during the expulsion. They told their commander before boarding an army bus bound for duty in Judea and Samaria that they would refuse to carry out the orders.In addition to their 28-day sentence in a military jail, the battalion commander, Col. Itai Virov, also demoted the soldiers from serving in a combat unit. The sentences are lighter than the active jail time called for by many left-wing politicians. More...
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The Martyrs No One Cares About
2007-08-04 11:23:00
By Michelle Malkin - The blood of innocent Christian missionaries spills on Afghan sands. The world watches and yawns. The United Nations offers nothing more than a formal expression of "concern." Where is the global uproar over the human rights abuses unfolding before our eyes?The Christian missionaries are peaceful believers in Christ on short-term medical and humanitarian missions. Seventeen of the 23 hostages are females. Most of them are nurses who provide social services and relief. Two men, 29-year-old Shim Sung-min and 42-year-old Pastor Bae Hyeong-gyu, have already been shot to death and dumped in the name of Allah. These are true practitioners of a religion of peace, not the hate-mongers with bombs and AK-47s strapped to their chests who slay instead of pray their way to martyrdom.An estimated 16,000 Korean mission workers risk their lives across the globe -- from Africa to the Middle East, China and North Korea. More...
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The Enemy Within: Islamist/Jihadist Websites
2007-08-04 11:12:00
One can hardly imagine the growth of radical Islam and its jihadi organizations in recent years without the immense reach, impact and capabilities of the Internet. The threat posed by Islamist websites has recently been demonstrated by three cases: the case of the New Jersey group that planned a terrorist attack on Fort Dix; the planned terrorist attack on JFK; and the attempted car bombings in the UK. According to media reports, the terrorists in all three cases were inspired by jihadist websites. There were also two recent court cases in Britain and Switzerland in which terrorists were convicted of using Internet sites to promote terrorist activities.The jihadist terrorist organizations utilize the Internet for two main purposes: for operational needs, and for indoctrination and da'wa (propagation of Islam). More...
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New Al Qaeda Web Ad Threatens 'Big Surprise'
2007-08-04 11:09:00
The Blotter - A new al Qaeda propaganda ad, headlined "Wait for the Big Sur prise" and featuring a digitally altered photograph of President George Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf standing in front of a burning White House, was posted on the Internet. The brief clip from al Qaeda's "as Sahab" propaganda arm juxtaposes the doctored photo of Bush and Musharraf along with previously seen images of al Qaeda's top leadership -- Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahri and Adam Gadahn -- as well as a photo of an SUV in a motorcade. There is no additional information provided in the ad, and it closes with the words, "Soon -- God willing," written across the screen and repeated several times.
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Why is the American Government Releasing Guantanamo Prisoners?
2007-08-02 13:32:00
By Dick Morris - The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up at his hide-out in the town of Zhob in southwestern Baluchistan Province in Pakistan, rather than surrender to government forces. But what was he doing commanding Taliban troops in the first place? Mehsud had been captured by American forces in northern Afghanistan in December 2001 and sent to the Guantanamo Detention Center.The reason he was able to resume his duties as a Taliban commander is because we released him from Guantanamo in March 2004.Why on earth did we free Mehsud in the first place, permitting him to go back to his day job as a guerilla and terrorist leader? The answer is as obvious as it is depressing: pressure from human rights activists and their journalistic accomplices throughout the world. More...
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Pace University: Man throws Koran into toilet. Police throw man in jail
2007-08-01 21:31:00
It's now officially a mindcrime in the United States to violate Islamic law. At Pace University , a man has been arrested and will face "hate crime" charges for throwing a Koran into a toilet, after the university caved in to demands from Muslim students.Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, both hate crimes, police said. It was unclear if he was a student at the school. A message left at the Shmulevich home was not immediately returned.The Islamic holy book was found in a toilet at Pace's lower Manhattan campus by a teacher on Oct. 13. A student discovered another book in a toilet on Nov. 21, police said.The school was accused by Muslim students of not taking the incident seriously enough at first. Pace classified the first desecration of the holy book as an act of vandalism, but university officials later reversed themselves and referred the incident to the New York Police Department's hate crimes unit. More...
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Iran rebuilds Lebanon to boost Hezbollah
2007-07-30 19:36:00
One year after the war with Israel, triggered by Hezbollah 's cross-border rocket attacks, Lebanon 's roads are still in desperate need of repair. But the task of reconstruction has become doubly important. The rebuilding now taking place across the country is an intensely political race for the support of Lebanon's people. Almost unnoticed by the outside world, Iran has seized the chance to win popular approval."From the people of Iran to the people of Lebanon", reads the slogan carried on countless hoarding, all trumpeting achievements like "200 projects" and "510 km of roads". So far, Iran has rebuilt 200 schools, 150 places of worship, 30 clinics and 25 bridges. The official budget for this year is about £60 million.Hezbollah runs most of the local councils in the areas where the projects operate. Here, construction work is given to local companies - but only those managed by Hezbollah supporters. More...
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U.S. Air Force Prepares for War in Cyberspace
2007-07-27 16:46:00
The United States Air Force is actively seeking "cyberspace attack scenarios," according to documents posted on a government Web site for contractors. The attack strategies should "disrupt, deny, degrade, destroy or deceive an adversary's information system," according to the Air Force Requests for Information (RFIs) obtained by ABC News. Experts say so much of military logistics are dependent on computer systems that any kind of disruption would give the attacker an advantage.Earlier this year Estonia claimed that state-sponsored Russian hackers had attacked official Web sites in retaliation for the removal of a Soviet-era monument in its capital, Tallinn. Government e-mail and private online banking had to be shut down temporarily while telecommunications companies and news organizations were also affected. More...
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U.S. voices frustrations with Saudis over Iraq
2007-07-27 16:36:00
During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq 's prime minister could not be trusted. One purported to be an early alert from the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr warning him to lie low during the coming American troop increase, which was aimed in part at Mr. Sadr's militia. Another document purported to offer proof that Mr. Maliki was an agent of Iran.The American envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, immediately protested to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, contending that the documents were forged. But, said administration officials who provided an account of the exchange, the Saudis remained skeptical, adding to the deep rift between America's most powerful Sunni Arab ally, Saudi Arabia, and its Shiite neighbor, Iraq.Now, Bush administration officials are voicing increasing anger at what they say has been Saudi Arabia's counterproductive role ...
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Hiding Genocide in Kosovo: A Crime against God and Humanity
2007-07-25 21:53:00
Old habits die hard: A yellow cross fixed by German NATO to the door of a Serbian house to show that Christians live there.Hiding Genocide in Kosovo : A Crime against God and Humanity by Iseult Henry. The American Council for Kosovo says this about the book:At a time when the Western powers -- foremost among them the United States -- prepare what they hope will be an endgame for their predetermined solution to the Serbian question, now comes a searing ray of truth that cuts through the fog of lies in which Kosovo has been shrouded.While Western policymakers (the U.S., EU, UN, NATO, OSCE, etc.) delude themselves that they are buying the goodwill of the Muslim world by the sacrifice of a small Christian community in Kosovo, the perpetrators know this is yet another step toward Islamic dominance of all Europe. This is a struggle for the soul and future not just for Kosovo, not just for Serbia, but for an entire continent.
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Taliban moving closer to Kabul
2007-07-25 21:48:00
Recent kidnappings and other attacks indicate the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is moving closer to Kabul. The Christian Science Monitor reported the kidnapping of 23 South Korean aid workers occurred on one of Afghanistan's major highways between Kabul and Kandahar. The insurgency, which resumed in areas bordering Pakistan, is spreading inland. The South Koreans were abducted in Ghazni, which has no border with Pakistan. The Monitor quoted Joanna Nathan, a Kabul-based security analyst for the International Crisis Group, as saying, "Ghazni is important as the gateway to Kabul, and control of that road is very important, both symbolically and practically."Taleban says hostage talks in sensitive phase
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Al Qaeda internal power struggle
2007-07-23 16:51:00
While Osama bin Laden has been keeping a low profile—he may be ill, U.S. intel officials say—Zawahiri has moved aggressively to take operational control of the group. In so doing, Zawahiri has provoked a potentially serious ideological split within Al Qaeda over whether he is growing too powerful, and has become obsessed with toppling Musharraf.Zawahiri's personal jihad has angered Al Qaeda's so-called Libyan faction, which intel officials believe may be led by the charismatic Abu Yahya al-Libi, who made a daring escape from an American high-security lockup at Baghram air base in 2005. The Libyan Islamists, along with bin Laden and other senior Qaeda leaders, would love to see Musharraf gone, too. But they fear that Zawahiri is inviting the Pakistani leader's wrath, prematurely opening up another battlefront.John Arquilla, an intelligence expert at the Naval Postgraduate School who closely follows radical Islamist traffic, calls it "the battle for Al Qaeda's strategic soul. ...
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Iraq: al-Qaeda stages military parade in Diyala village
2007-07-21 21:36:00
Militants linked to al-Qaeda are reported to have staged a military parade in the village of Miqdadiya, in Diyala province north of Baghdad, to demonstrate their viability in the face of a massive US offensive in the area. Despite the presence of 10,000 US and Iraq i troops in the Sunni-dominated province, more than 250 militants took to the streets in a show of force, the news agency, Voices of Iraq, said. The terrorists marched through the al-Muallimin quarter of Miqdadiya, around 50 kilometres from Baaquba, the capital of the province where militants linked to al-Qaeda have been under attack.They reportedly marched in the streets thrusting their weapons in the air and carrying flags with 'Iraqi Islamic State' inscribed on them. More...
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Carlos the Jackal sneers at Al-Qaeda’s ‘amateur’ killers
2007-07-21 20:55:00
For two decades until his capture in 1994, Carlos the Jackal murdered, bombed and kidnapped his way to infamy, retaining the title of world’s most dangerous terrorist before Osama Bin Laden stole his crown.But speaking from the Clairvaux prison in northeast France last week he berated terrorist cells said to have targeted Britain, criticising them for plotting to kill ordinary people. In his first telephone interview with a newspaper, the Venezuelan-born Vladimir Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 57, said he was saddened by any loss of life in London, where he lived as a young man. He also attacked what he called a lack of professionalism in some cells linked to Al-Qaeda . He condemned Al-Qaeda followers without specific targets, saying: “They are not professionals. They’re not organised. They don’t even know how to make proper explosives or proper detonators.” More...
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Iran-made bombs in Afghanistan like those Tehran sends to Iraq and Hezbolla
2007-07-19 16:35:00
US Col. Thomas Kelly reported finding four of the explosively-formed projectiles in Herat near the Iran ian border and one a month ago in the capital Kabul. He said Taliban insurgents may have access to the device but may not yet know how to use them.DEBKAfile reveal that the six Spanish peacekeepers killed in South Lebanon last month were not attacked by a suicide bomber but an early version of the armor-piercing EFP disguised as a rock. This model was developed by Hizballah and widely used with deadly effect against Israeli forces maintaining a security belt in South Lebanon in the 1980s.U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in June that "substantial" quantities of Iranian weapons are flowing into Afghanistan and that it was difficult to believe the Iranian government was not aware of it.
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U.S. military arrived in Algeria to fight al-Qaida
2007-05-05 08:56:00
According to Washington Examiner newspaper, United States of America have sent U.S. Marines and a group of military experts specialised in intelligence to Algeria upon its request in order to help the country fighting terrorism. Adm. Eric T. Olson, SoCom's deputy commander said the U.S. military arrived in Algeria after Algerian authorities had asked for the American help and declared the war against “al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”. This terrorist organisation targeted Algiers in April 11th by suicide bombings attacks. The American special operations troops are on a mission to train Algerian troops in how to track and capture terrorists, said Washington Examiner. The deployment of U.S. special operation forces is not just in Northern Africa, but in several parts of the world, in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, said Eric T. Olson. He added that U.S. Special Command did not have enough for the increasing demands. The Pentagon's decided to devote $2,5 billion for 2008 budget ...
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Sudan: Evangelists killed in Nuba mountains
2007-05-04 13:24:00
(Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian and three Sudan ese Christians were killed last week when their truck came under gunfire after holding an evangelistic meeting in Sudan’s Nuba Mountain s region. Egyptian Daniel Girgis, 37, and local Sudanese Christians Markous Tiya, Rihab Kafi Jadeen and an unidentified young boy were killed when unknown assailants opened fire on their vehicle last Friday night (April 27). At least five others, two foreigners and three Sudanese, were injured in the attack that began when the truck driver refused to stop at a makeshift roadblock of large rocks. “When they finished [showing] the Jesus film [in the village of Gnaya] they were going back to the town they were visiting,” Barnaba Timothous, evangelism coordinator at the Bahry Evangelical Church, told Compass. “On their way there, someone behind the mountain fired at them. It was night, they saw just two men.” Though the motive for the attack remains unclear, Timothous said he suspects it was ...
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Guantanamo prisoners have no place to go
2007-05-03 10:00:00
(ADNKI).- The US military has cleared as many as 85 Guantanamo prisoners for release but they are still at the prison camp because they have no where to go. Only three have gone home. Eighty-two remain at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as US officials try to find a country that would accept them. In many cases, the prisoners' countries do not want them back. Yemen, for instance, has refused to accept some of the 106 Yemeni nationals at Guantanamo. US laws prevent the deportation of people to countries where they could face torture or other human rights abuses. Virtually, all the prisoners at Guantanamo come from countries that the State Department has cited for records of human rights abuses. There are 17 Chinese Muslim separatists who have been cleared for release but fear they could be executed for political reasons if returned to China. Compounding the problem are persistent refusals by the United States, its European allies and other countries to grant asylum to prisoners ...
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Iran’s complicity in al-Qaeda operations
2007-05-02 12:17:00
(DEBKAfile).- The US Pentagon states that the senior al Qaeda operative -Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi- was captured by the CIA at an undisclosed location while attempting to reach his native Iraq after meeting al Qaeda operatives in Iran. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources say this disclosure points to four significant developments:1. Iran is again providing al Qaeda members with a path to Iraq from Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2002, the Islamic Republic afforded defeated al Qaeda groups an escape route from Afghanistan.2. Iran is allowing al Qaeda terrorists operating in Iraq to strike from within its borders. Evidence of this, if confirmed by al Hadi ,would further exacerbate the military tensions between Washington and Tehran.3. DEBKAfile’s sources surmise that he was picked up crossing the Iranian border into Iraq.4. Word is awaited to clarify if the CIA’s capture of al Hadi’s capture was a fluke or the result of a tip-off by an Iraqi informant, whether in Kurdistan or from insi...
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