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    Friday, October 27, 2006

    New weapon of WAR

    al Qaeda's media war against the United States. Documewnt posted on Internet:

    The document, which began circulating on the Internet this month, illustrates the techniques terrorist's are using in what President George W. Bush has called the "war of ideas."

    "The people of jihad need to carry out a media war parallel to the military war ... because we can observe the effect that the media have on nations," said the document, signed by Najd al-Rawi of the Global Islamic Media Front, a group associated with al Qaeda.

    It lists targets for a public relations campaign ranging from the obvious -- Internet chat rooms -- to the surprising -- "famous U.S. authors with e-mail addresses" and mentions New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and the academics Noam Chomsky, Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington. The author suggests that video of attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq could be a weapon in the media war and sway U.S. public opinion.( even world opinion )

    The Lenonan Israeil war is a good example. Lebonan suffered $3,000,000,000 ( billion ) in damages and Israel had $10,000 worth of pot holes to fill in. Israel had 400 dead, Lebonan had 4,000 dead and the world seemed to view Israel as the looser. All based on Internet postings and media coverage of same.

    In the past, similar strategy messages from al Qaeda and other groups have often remained in the relative obscurity of password-protected Arabic-language Web sites and message boards.

    By contrast, the call in the document for a parallel media war traveled from the Internet to a mention in a New York Times column, the White House briefing room and eventually Bush himself. In his weekly radio address on Oct. 21, Bush specifically referred to the Global Islamic Media Front and said "the terrorists are trying to influence public opinion here in the United States.

    They have a sophisticated propaganda strategy ... to divide America and break our will." Experts agree on the sophistication. "They (the jihadists) are more effective than us" on the propaganda front, said Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank.

    Our TERRORISM INITIATIVE:
    http://cigars.bravepages.com/head/wedo.htm

    WAR OF IDEAS To what extent gruesome images from the military fronts can affect U.S. attitudes toward an increasingly unpopular Iraq war is open to debate. But if global public opinion polls are a gauge, the United States is losing the overall war of ideas Bush declared part of U.S. national security strategy four years ago.
    Today gruesome videos will serve in place of actual deaths in their propaganda operations.

    "In most of today's Middle East, the U.S. is seen as hostile to Islam and hostile to Arabs." But while videos showing Americans inspire the radicalized and serve as recruitment tools.

    An "armchair mujahid" becomes converted via the internet propaganda, from a sympathizer with the general aims of the jihad to a motivated foot-soldier, jihadist. A little spin and Americans start believing maybe WE are evil.

    This is a new weapon of war in converting the minds and hearts of people, this could win or loose wars.

    Our toolbar helps get the TRUTH OUT THERE, you can help, POST.

    Gerald



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    Combat Terrorism Toolbar:
    http://cigars.bravepages.com/head/iaterror.htm

    INDEPENDENT REVIEW.
    http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/terrorism-toolbar.html

    ACTUAL TERRORISM TOOLBAR USE:
    http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185045.php

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    Thursday, October 26, 2006

    USA DEFENDS MUSLIMS

    Allah is great,

    '' Honor, power and glory belong to Allah, to his

    messenger, and to the believers, but the extremist

    hypocrites know not. ''

    Genocide against Muslims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War

    Yugoslavia, (literally translated 'South-Slavs') is located in southeastern Europe in the Balkan peninsula. Its population according to a 1989 estimate is 25 million of which 5-6 million (20%) are Muslims). Yugoslavia is composed of six republics: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia, Monte-Negro and two autonomous regions: Vojvodina and Kosovo. Muslims are located in the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Albanian autonomous region of Kosovo.

    The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict, Aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnian Civil War) was an armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina, each of which claimed to represent one of the country's constitutive peoples: Republika Srpska (Serbs), Herzeg-Bosnia (Croats), the remnants of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (predominantly Bosniaks) and the lesser faction in Western Bosnia (Muslims by nationality).

    SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The United States said it was sending the Bosnian [Muslim] Federation 116 large artillery pieces in an effort to bolster one of main weaknesses of the Muslim-Croat Federation and set the stage for the withdrawal of American peacekeeping forces from Bosnia by July 1998.

    The United States will also pay for 51 other slightly smaller artillery pieces to be manufactured in Bosnia for the federation. The new artillery is to arrive by October, but like the other equipment already delivered, including tanks and smaller artillery, it is not supposed to be under the control of Bosnian officers until American officials are satisfied that the federation army is sufficiently cohesive.

    history of a crucial conflict in Bosnia between two former allies. When the Bosnian Serbs and their Serbian allies attacked Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the Bosnian Croats and Muslims collaborated to defend themselves. As Serbian pressure
    increased when they thought that the West would not intervene, the two allies began to stake out their own claims.

    The war was brought to an end by USA thru NATO after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Paris on 14 December 1995 [1]. The peace negotiations were held in Dayton, Ohio, and were finalized on 21 December 1995. The accords are known as the Dayton Agreement.

    The most recent research places the number of victims at around 100,000–110,000 killed (civilians and military)[2] [3] [4], and 1.8 million displaced. (see Casualties)

    Far from being the attackers, Shrader concludes, the Bosnian Croats and Muslims in Central Bosnia were clearly outnumbered, outgunned, and on the defensive.

    USA intervened to prevent this Muslim genocide, not al-Qaeda .
    And USA got no oil. Where was Bin Laden?

    USA prevented this genocide. As thanks Muslims answer with USA al-Qaeda .

    FEAR ALLAH, And fear the Fitnah (affliction and
    trial, etc.) which affects not in particular (only)
    those of you who do wrong (but it may afflict all
    the good and the bad people), and know that Allah
    is severe in punishment."
    (The Noble Qur'an 8:24-25)


    Allah said : (Allah has promised, to those among
    you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He
    will, of a surety, grant them in the land,
    inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those
    before them; that He will establish in authority
    their religion -the one which He has chosen for
    them; and that He will change (their state), after
    the fear in which they (lived), to one of security
    and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not
    associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject Faith
    after this, they are rebellious and wicked.)
    55,AlNOOR.

    Allah is great,

    '' Honor, power and glory belong to Allah, to his
    messenger, and to the believers, but the extremist
    hypocrites know not. '' For, can a wolf ever guard
    a flock of sheep? Call the people towards Allah.
    Jihad against the munaafiqeen (hypocrites)

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    Monday, October 23, 2006

    ‘Al Qaeda winning war of ideas’, no LIES.

    LONDON, Oct 22: Britain’s interior minister has warned that the government risks losing the “battle of ideas” with Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper said.

    Home Secretary John Reid spoke at an emergency meeting of ministers and security officials and pressed for an urgent escalation in the propaganda war against such groups, the weekly said.

    THEY ARE MISSING THE POINT. AL QAEDA ISN'T WINNING THE WAR OF IDEAS, THEY ARE WINNING THE WAR WITH PROPAGANDA, LIES. YOU DEFEAT PROPAGANDA NOT WITH MORE PROPAGANDA BUT WITH THE TRUTH.

    The government has decided to fund an Islamic website calling for moderation, The Sunday Telegraph said.

    http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/

    NICE START BUT THE SITE IS NOT TAKING ON THE LIES OF AQ.
    THE SITE POSTS MESSAGES ON THE SAME PAGE FIRST IN ENGLISH THEN IN ARABIC. BOTH LANGUAGES SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN WEB PAGE.
    THE EFFORT MUST GO TO THEM, NOT EXPECT "THEM" TO COME TO YOU.
    THEY ARE PREACHING TO THE QUIRE.

    ONCE AGAIN THEY ARE BEHIND THE TECH. CURVE, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, THE RADICALS ARE PASSING DVD's, GOV. IS PASSING OUT CD's, THAT SAYS SOMETHING.

    THEY HAVE TO GET INSIDE THE JIHADIST DECISION CURVE, GET TO THEM BEFORE THEY BECOME JIHADISTS, AND ALSO CONFRONT THE JAHIDISTS LIES.

    http://clearinghouse.infovlad.net/showpost.php?p=19098&postcount=1



    The ringleaders of the July 7 bombers, Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer, both former students at Leeds Metropolitan University, showed up on MI5's radar on as many as nine occasions before the attacks. According to Whitehall sources, credible intelligence indicated that Mr. Khan had visited Pakistan between November 2003 and February 2004 and sought to contact al Qaeda

    WHEN WE HAVE ENGAGED SOME OF THESE JIHADISTS ON THE INTERNET THEY MOUTH THE SAME 'SOUND BITES'. BUT WHEN CONFRONTED WITH QUOTES FROM THE KORAN EXPOSING AQ's LIES AND PROPAGANDA, THEY RESORT TO NAME CALLING, A TACIT ADMISSION OF THEIR ERROR, AND AT THAT PIONT WE KNOW THEY HAVE HEARD "M's" WORD AND HAVE SOME DOUBTS. THE BEGINING OF DE-RADICALIZATION.

    http://clearinghouse.infovlad.net/showpost.php?p=20020&postcount=1



    Senior military intelligence officers now dismiss this line as well, believing the bombers received crucial weapons training in Pakistan. They argue that if Britain is now al Qaeda's primary target, it makes sense to look much more carefully at the Pakistan dimension and also at the links between virulent Islamic groups in Pakistan and the U.K. Many British Islamic colleges have ties to fundamentalist Pakistanis. Other links exist to extremist Kashmiri groups, in turn allegedly connected to al Qaeda or the Pakistani secret service.

    AQ ARE HIDDING A POLITICAL AGENDA BEHIND A RADICALIZATION/BASTARDZATION OF ISLAM.

    http://clearinghouse.infovlad.net/showpost.php?p=18992&postcount=1



    EXPOSE THE LIES, DIVEST THEM OF ISLAM AND YOU HAVE A POLITICAL GROUP, WITHOUT MARTYRS, OR RELIGIOUS TRAPINGS,

    Muslim students concerned about these developments tell me that at many of these Islamic societies terrorism is portrayed as justified acts of "resistance."

    IF THE ABOVE STATEMENT IS SEEN AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT AND NOT A RELIGIOUS STATEMENT, THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF DE-RADICALIZATION

    THAT STATEMENT CAN BE RELIGIOUSLY REFUTED WITH THE KORAN.

    A leading imam in Birmingham often preaches on British campuses that the London bombers have to be seen as "martyrs."
    EXPOSE HIS LIES WITH KORAN QUOTES, MODERATE/TRADITIONAL IMANS KNOW IT IS A LIE.

    It is only thanks to a courageous campus imam that their infiltration attempts have been thwarted so far. INFILTRATION IS NOT THE KEY, CONVERSIONS USING THE KORAN TO TRIDATIONAL TRUE ISLAMIC VALUES IS THE KEY.

    http://clearinghouse.infovlad.net/showpost.php?p=19287&postcount=1



    Yet university authorities usually consider these societies as "religious gatherings," and thus off limits. WOULD THE UNIVERSITY VIEW MEETINGS OF THE CATHLOTIC INQUSITION AS just A "religious gathering"? AT ANY RATE A 'THINKER' IS NEEDED TO ATTEND THESE MEETINGS AND ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, AND USE THE CORRECT QUOTES. NOT AS A SPY, BUT AS THE VOICE OF TRUTH.

    WE CANNOT OUT LIE AQ.

    AQ IS NOT ABOUT ISLAM IT IS ABOUT LIES.
    Zawahiri HAS SAID AQ CANNOT FUNCTION WOTHOUT THE UMMAH.

    GERALD

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    Sunday, October 22, 2006

    Inside the torture chambers

    Grozny vs Abu Ghraib:


    Inside the torture chambers of Grozny

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/21/wchech21.xml

    By Adrian Blomfield
    Last Updated: 1:45am BST 21/10/2006

    For six years, the torture chamber lay hidden in the cellars of what had once been an orphanage for deaf children. The residents of Grozny's October district knew about it. They could hear the screams emanating from its sinister bowels.

    The Russian authorities who first controlled it, though, insisted that it was just an ordinary prison.


    Alavdi Sadykov
    Alavdi Sadykov says he was tortured for 83 days

    The Chechen government the Kremlin appointed to succeed them denied it existed at all. But when representatives from the Russian human rights group Memorial managed to sneak in this summer just before the building's demolition, the truth was finally laid bare.

    The chilling graffiti on the prison's walls, some of it written in blood, gave some of the most compelling evidence yet of what activists had claimed for years: state-sanctioned torture had been carried out in Chechnya, perhaps systematically, ever since Russian forces took Grozny in early 2000.

    Inmates had scrawled their names and even the dates of their incarceration across the chamber's fetid walls alongside desperate messages of the ordeals they had suffered.

    "What day is it?" read one. "What year is it? Am I still alive?"

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    Those inmates who survived at the October prison had frequently tried to complain about their experiences, but they had been ignored. With the new evidence, however, the Kremlin may now have to listen to their stories.

    One of the most harrowing is told by Alavdi Sadykov, a 56-year-old former PE teacher, who spent three months in the prison in 2000. Mr Sadykov does not know for sure why he was arrested, or why he was tortured for 83 days or even why he was released when so many of his fellow inmates were killed.

    Six years later, still looking for answers and justice, Mr Sadykov told his story from his grimy one-room home on the outskirts of Grozny.

    Moments after he was dragged into the October prison in March 2000, a sack over his head, he felt the blows of rifle butts smashing down on to his body that would become part of a grim daily routine for the next three months.

    He vividly recalled a mock execution ordered by one of his chief tormentors, a man he identified as Igor who would frequently make him eat his own excrement.

    "There was blood everywhere," he recalled. "On the floor, on the walls. I could see brain tissue on the ceiling. Under my foot I saw a severed finger.

    "They made me face the wall and then fired a few rounds above my head. After that they said they were going to play football and I was the football. I prayed for my own death."

    Soon after, Igor entered the cell with a colleague called Alexander. "Alexander knocked me off my feet and then stepped on my leg. He took a large souvenir dagger from his vest, pinched my left ear and cut it off."

    Barely conscious, he watched as Alexander cut off the ears of other inmates and killed at least one of them. The next day Alexander returned wearing a necklace of severed human ears.

    When a new unit took over the prison, Mr Sadykov was eventually released without explanation.

    Despite his harrowing ordeal, he remembered and then recorded the names of his tormentors – officers from the Khanty-Mansyisk division of the Russian army.

    With the help of sympathetic officials in the Chechen administration, he even tracked down their addresses in Russia, evidence that could become crucial in the quest of so many held at the October prison for justice.

    According to Natalya Estemirova, the head of the Memorial office in Grozny, there may be 15 secret torture chambers still operating in Chechnya.

    It is not something the Kremlin, which is intent on showing that things have improved in Chechnya, wants to hear.

    There is no doubt that some things have changed. Beneath the freshly painted facades of newly built internet cafes and coffee houses, drivers in recently purchased Ladas do battle on the Grozny's Victory Boulevard.

    Even if most of the city is still a ruin, Grozny is finally being rebuilt, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is able to show some tangible evidence to support his claims that the brutal second Chechen war is over.

    Yet people still live in fear, not of the handful of militants still lurking in the mountains or even of Russian forces who brought misery to the province for so long, but of the fellow Chechens the Kremlin has chosen to lead them.

    Around the city are placed militiamen in army fatigues - members of a 10,000-strong private army that pledges fealty to Ramzan Kadyrov, the lion-owning, 30-year-old prime minister anointed by the Kremlin.

    Former rebels turned loyalists, many are radical Muslims bent on imposing the strict Islamic strictures Russia once fought to eradicate from the province. In recent months, they have shaved the heads of women accused of adultery, before stripping their victims and beating them.

    Video footage of their ordeals are circulated by mobile phones as a warning to others.

    It is not just women who have suffered at their hands, as anyone present in the village of Kurchaloi on Aug 5 would testify.

    From a gas pipe suspended in the village square, hung the severed head of a rebel leader the Kadyrovtsy, as they are known, had captured two days earlier.

    Russia's top investigative journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was among those watching the gruesome scene that late summer's day. She was shot dead by an assassin a fortnight ago.

    In an article published posthumously, Mrs Politkovskaya alleged that the man responsible for the atrocity in Kurchaloi was Mr Kadyrov's former deputy, Idris Gaibov. Among other cases she highlighted was the ordeal of Mr Sadykov.

    Mrs Politkovskaya had dedicated her professional life to chronicling human rights abuses in Chechnya, and her murder caused outrage around the world.

    She had worked courageously and methodically to expose the lie that torture in Chechnya had died.

    It is a lie that others are still determined to expose.

    THEY CAN COUNT THEMSELVES LUCKY THEY WERE NOT IN Abu Ghraib, they might have panties placed on their heads or been water boarded.

    There is no balance in news reporting any more.

    Gerald