Ops round up

al qaeda;s YELLOW flag

al-Qaeda commander told to SHUT UP..

An al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan has been ordered to break off contacts with colleagues after being linked to a string of arrests in Saudi Arabia.

Militant Islamic forums have been carrying a message appealing to Abu Nasser al-Qahtani to cease making direct contact with people in Saudi Arabia and blaming him for the arrest of 23 people there.

The message says: "The brothers are asking you not to contact anyone in person, but do it through others instead, the leader does not make calls in person. With every call a brother is detained and God help us."

Al-Qahtani was one of 16 al-Qaeda suspects who escaped from US detention at Bagram Airbase in July last year.

He is now leading attacks against US troops in the Khost area and has featured in two recent official al-Qaeda videos.

Neil Doyle

http://www.neildoyle.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=451


http://tinyurl.com/2scem4

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Letter form Osamma???
Doubt it, how would he know?

The brother and successor of slain Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah said in a television interview that he received a letter from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden expressing condolences for his brother's death.

Dadullah Mansoor told Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera that bin Laden sent him a letter after his brother, Mullah
Dadullah, the former top Taliban field commander, was killed in southern Afghanistan last month.

«He is alive, active and well,» Mansoor said of bin Laden. «He preferred to stay away, and we preferred that, because he should stay in hiding and give instructions.

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Syria backing Fath Al-Islam militants: to avoid investigation.

The Lebanese government and the March 14 forces are accusing Syria of training and arming the Fath Al-Islam militants, and of bringing them into Lebanon. They are claiming that Syria ordered the organization to launch a large-scale attack on the Lebanese army at this point in time so as to prevent the U.N. Security Council from approving the establishment of an international tribunal for the Al-Hariri assassination.

Furthermore, the March 14 Forces link Fath Al-Islam's attack on the Lebanese army to the threats made recently by Syrian President Bashar Assad, which were reported by numerous media outlets. According to the reports, Assad threatened, in a conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, to set fire to the region "from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean"; another time, he threatened that civil war would break out in Lebanon if the tribunal was approved.

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA36207



http://tinyurl.com/2urc56

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$10,000,000 reward paid, for info on al qaeda group,


JOLO, Philippines (AFP) - The US government Thursday handed over part of a reward of 10 million dollars to four men whose information led to the deaths of the two top leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070607/pl_afp/philippinesusattacks;_ylt=A0SOwmLACmhGAUgAQQRvaA8F


http://tinyurl.com/2eqgvp

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Iran shipping C4 to Taliban:

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/document_iran_c.html



http://tinyurl.com/ywfg8a

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Woman reporter shot 7 times/killed, 10 mo. baby next to her.

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 6 — An Afghan journalist was shot dead by unknown gunmen in her home north of Kabul on Tuesday night as she slept beside her 10-month-old baby, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

The journalist, Zakia Zaki, 38, was the director of a private local radio station in Jabal-us-Siraj, an hour’s drive north of the capital, Kabul. She was shot seven times, said Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the governor of Parwan Province. The baby survived.

Ms. Zaki, the mother of six children, had been receiving threats for the last few months demanding that she take the station off the air, Mr. Taqwa said. The nature of the threats was unclear, but she had been involved in women’s rights advocacy and political activity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/asia/07afghan.html?ref=world

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Israel wants nuclear deadline for Iran


Israel will propose to the United States an end-of-year deadline for Iran to show it is backing down from its nuclear ambitions.

Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, who heads the Israeli team in the U.S.-Israel strategic dialogue, said he would propose the deadline Thursday, when the dialogue participants meet for the second time this year.

"Sanctions must be strong enough to bring about change in the Iranians by the end of 2007," Mofaz told a group of Hebrew-speaking reporters after meeting Wednesday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Mofaz also said that it was his understanding that the United States was prepared to lead a separate bid to increase sanctions against Iran if the U.N. Security Council does not authorize new sanctions.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102287.html


http://tinyurl.com/2ce37c

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Al-Qaeda spark for an Iran-US fire
By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - After revelations of a US administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the United States that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might use such an incident as a pretext to bomb Iran.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF07Ak04.html

http://tinyurl.com/2yms8l