Convoy with us for the day, taken at 4 times normal speed Iraq

Come out on Convoy with us for the day, taken at 4 times normal speed Iraq.

16 Iraqi captured while trying to sneak into USA

We need more boots on the ground on the border.

Director
of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said.

Later, addressing a question about security along the U.S.-Mexico
border, McConnell said that people linked to terrorist groups had
sought to enter the United States from the south, but "not in great numbers."

Referring to the southwestern border, he said: "Would they use it as
a path, given it was available to them? In time they will."

He said that a "significant number" of Iraqis have been smuggled
across the border in the past year. A spokesman for McConnell
clarified that the Iraqis were asylum-seekers, who have been
apprehended at border crossings in increasing numbers. So far this
year, 178 Iraqis seeking asylum have been detained along the southern
border; 16 were captured while trying to sneak into the United
States, the spokesman said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202598.html?hpid=topnews

HOW MANY GOT THRU?

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Cutting Costs, Bending Rules, And a Trail of Broken Lives

Cutting Costs, Bending Rules, And a Trail of Broken Lives
Ambush in Iraq Last November Left Four Americans Missing And a String of Questions About the Firm They Worked For

By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 29, 2007; Page A01

BAGHDAD -- The convoy was ambushed in broad daylight last Nov. 16, dozens of armed men swarming over 37 tractor-trailers stretching for more than a mile on southern Iraq's main highway. The attackers seized four Americans and an Austrian employed by Crescent Security Group, a small private security firm. Then they fled.

None of the hostages has been found, eight months after one of the largest and most brazen kidnappings of Americans since the March 2003 invasion.

The attack and seizure have spotlighted Crescent's low-budget approach to private security and raised questions about whether the company was vulnerable to such an attack. Another missing guard, Jonathon Cote, now 24, a former Army paratrooper from Buffalo, N.Y., described Crescent as "ghetto" because of its relatively low pay, its minimal hiring standards and what he and other guards described as management's willingness to bend rules and cut corners.

"I've worked for a billion companies, and this is the worst I've ever worked for," said Brad Ford, a former Crescent guard who now works in Afghanistan for another security firm. "I couldn't believe how they were getting away with all the stuff they were getting away with."

On Nov. 16, Crescent's trucks pushed into Iraq without any of the firm's Iraqi guards, leaving the ill-fated convoy severely undermanned. The company also had not filed paperwork with the ground-control center in Baghdad that monitors nonmilitary convoys, according to those authorities, who still do not list the Crescent hostages among their casualty figures for killed, wounded and missing because the convoy was unregistered. That oversight limited Crescent's communication with the command center responsible for coordinating the military's emergency response to attacks on civilian convoys.

Security experts described the lapses as unconscionable. "It's insane. I don't know how you could sleep," said Cameron Simpson, country operations manager for ArmorGroup International, a British firm that protects one-third of all nonmilitary convoys in Iraq. ArmorGroup normally assigns 20 security contractors to protect no more than 10 tractor-trailers.

Picco said the team leader that day, John Young, 44, an Army veteran and carpenter from Lee's Summit, Mo., made the decision to leave a team of Iraqis behind without the company's knowledge and went into Iraq with just seven Western guards to protect the 37 trailers. "I think complacency set in," Picco said. "Why would you leave a complete team behind?"


Two weeks before they were abducted, three American employees of Crescent Security Group spoke to Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru about their work as private security guards in Iraq.

Barred From Bases
Crescent moved its operations to Tallil Air Base after the November kidnapping of five of its security guards. In March, the Army barred Crescent personnel from U.S. military bases after inspections found forbidden alcohol and weapons in the company's quarters.

Last Nov. 16, armed men ambushed a convoy of 37 trucks protected by five private security vehicles near Safwan, in southern Iraq. The gunmen kidnapped four American guards and one Austrian, who worked for Crescent Security Group, a company that is now defunct. The five men are still missing.

But Andy Foord, a Crescent guard from Britain who was left bound inside a truck as the kidnappers fled, said in an interview that none of the Iraqi guards had reported for work that morning. He said Young informed Crescent's operations center in Kuwait City that the undermanned convoy intended to proceed into Iraq. "They knew, because John called them from the Iraq border," Foord said.

Several former Iraqi employees of Crescent were spotted among the kidnappers, according to Foord and a written report by Jaime Salgado, another guard who was left behind and later freed. Foord said he believes the attack was set up by an Iraqi interpreter who had advance knowledge of the mission.

Crescent is "blaming these boys, and they're not here to answer about it themselves," said Sharon DeBrabander, the mother of Young, the missing team leader. "I don't think that's right. They're covering up their butts, that's what they're doing."


Picco should be under indictment.

'HAMAS of Iraq' blast US Humvee in Iraq?

'HAMAS of Iraq' blast US Humvee in Iraq???

al qadia FREE IRAQ, VIDEO

al qadia FREE IRAQ VIDEO
al qaeda

Protected Terrorists, allies, contract intel force???

Protected Terrorists, allies, contract intel force???
Well which is it?
The French still hold passports and computers for the group in France.
More background:
There is a secret force operating in Iran with a very interesting history.
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2007/06/secret-ops-in-iran.html
http://tinyurl.com/yv64dr:

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Intel up date

Doss attack group has a name:
" team Jihad supporters for electronic Jihad-e-terrorist battalion struggling 007 "
They ARE struggling...

They want to b e like 007.

Under arrest and in Prison..
ha a ha lol

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BANGKOK - Myanmar's military leaders have never made a secret of their interest in developing a domestic nuclear-energy industry. Plans to buy a nuclear reactor from Russia have been in the pipeline for years, and this month in Moscow the two sides formally resurrected those controversial plans.

Myanmar's move notably comes at a time when both Iran and North Korea have raised US hackles through their nuclear programs. Washington in recent years has referred to Myanmar

as an "outpost of tyranny" and maintains trade and investment sanctions against the military regime. Some political analysts are already speculating whether Myanmar might try to use the threat of re-gearing its nuclear test reactor to reproduce weapons as a way to counteract US-led pressure for political change.

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TNT Found in the Office of Iraqi MP

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TNT Found in the Office of Iraqi MP
Secret Dossier Lists 15 MPs Allegedly Guilty of "Ties to Terrorists"
Posted 12 hr. 20 min. ago


Ali Abbas/AFP/Getty
Baghdad, IRAQ: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) greets Sunni leader and head of Iraqi National Concord Front Adnan al-Dulaimi after he announced his new national reconciliation plan during the parliament session in Baghdad 25 June, 2006.

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Al-Qaida Leader in Afghanistan Begs for Cash Donations

By Evan Kohlmann

In a new As-Sahab Media Foundation video broadcast yesterday on Al-Jazeera, the declared leader of Al-Qaida's forces in Afghanistan Shaykh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (a.k.a. "Shaykh Saeed") signals that the Taliban are suffering from a serious cash crunch.

( Muslems are not supporting terrorism )

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Ahmadinejad triggers market crash

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Iran interest rate cut sparks panic selling

· President's shock order defies expert advice
· Bank shares plummet amid rampant inflation

Robert Tait in Tehran
Friday May 25, 2007
The Guardian

Iran's financial system suffered a fresh jolt yesterday with panic selling on the stock market after the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, abruptly ordered banks to cut interest rates sharply, despite surging inflation.

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We have not seen yet videos of Jaish Mujahideen, IAI, Anshar as-sunnah this recent week... WHERE ARE THEY...?
there has been a thread a 2-3 days ago where mujahedeen of the islamic army have pledged allegiance to the islamic state of iraq and there are many of them who have joined their ranks.

as for ansar al sunna, yes it right that during the last 2-3 weeks you can see significant downturn of their communiquees as well as the operations they are conducting. if this has to do with the split of two of their members of the sharia council or if it is just a slow merging into the islamic state of iraq or other reasons i don't know.

as for other groups, depending on the sites you are visiting to get their news you won't see statements of jaami, hamas iraq, 1920, iai and so on, at the usual jihadi forum as there statements are boycotted by most of them.

but if you check the statements for example of the islamic army during the last weeks you can alos notice a rapid decline in the amount of operations as well as their quality.

then all these groups involved with the reform umbrella group seem to go the way of recoinciliation, that might also explain why you don't hear a lot of them at the moment.

as i said before, at least from here it seems that while the other resistance groups are getting weaker/involved in political process the stronger the islamic state of iraq gets. not only by the number of operations carried out but also because of their high value operations in recent weeks.

"exactly!! While the leadership of many of these groups may be interested in, or at least exploring the idea of reconciliation, many of the most dedicated fighters are not willing to give up the jihad and therefore are swelling the ranks of the ISI. making there operations all the more lethal!"

That must be it

or

Rendition.

Gerald

All 3, USA POW's dead, breaking:

All 3, USA POW's dead, breaking: by Gerald
News Type: Event — Wed May 23, 2007 2:56 PM EDT

RIP Spc. Alex Jimenez, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., and Pvt. Byron Fouty.

UPDATE: VOI: Bodies of Three Kidnapped Soldiers Found

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2905

Babel, May 23, (VOI) - Iraqi police forces in Babel province found on Wednesday two bodies believed to belong to two of the kidnapped U.S. soldiers near al-Furat river in al-Musayab region, 50 km northwest of Hilla, a police source said.

"Two bodies in U.S. uniform were found by Babel police forces near al-Furat river. They bore signs of torture," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The police handed the bodies to the U.S. army and cordoned off the area," he also said. No comment was available from the U.S. army on the incident. more as story breaks.

This is so wrong, they were worth so much more alive, and AQ has had a year to plan this, someone screwed up big time, it makes no sense.

Just found out: To limit the chance of rumors and information being sent back the United States, AP reports, military bases in the area have been put on an Internet blackout, preventing e-mail messages from being sent from the area.

SHOULD I HAVE REPORTED THIS STORY?

Gerald

Big surprise, KIA vietnam vs Iraq

Irans Qods Ramazan Base

Irans Ramazan Base
Irans Ramazan sector ops are to conduct the affairs in Iraq. The sections commander is Brig. Gen Pasdar Iraj Masjedi, his second is Brig. Gen Pasdar Ahmad Foroozandeh.

Ramazan sector includes six assistants, three sections and four tactical bases and its C&C headquarters is located in Tehran.

In August 2003 a few months after the downfall of Saddam, the Qods Force transfered the Ramazan Base headquarters to the bodrer regions with Iraq to facilitate controlling the ops in Iraq.

In March 2004, it organized the command inside Iraq into three areas; they are the northwestern the middle and the southern areas. and appointed the highest experienced ranking secret service commanders for the three areas.

The southern area is under Brig. Gen. Pasdar Ahmad Foroozandeh, he is responsible for terrorism and intelligence ops in Basra, Nasserieh, Najaf, Karbala, Hilla and other southern regions.

The operational bases for the southern areas are l in the Iranian towns of Shalamjeh, Khorramshahr, Howeizeh and Bostan.

The area C&C headquarters is in the Fajr Base in Ahvaz.
The Iranian regime's intelligence and terrorism ops in the provinces of Meissan and Wasset as well as part of Baghdad are controled by the middle area under the command of Brig. Gen. Pasdar Hamid Taghavi. The middle areas command headquarters is in the Zafar, in Kermanshah and it is supported by the sections in the towns of Mehran and Dehloran.

The northwestern area is run by Brig. Gen. Pasdar Shahla'ee and covers the terrorism and intelligence ops in Diyala Province, and the entire Iraqi Kurdish region, Ta'amim Province and the Neinawa Province.

The operations are supported by bases in the towns of Qasr Shirin and Sar Pol Zehab. The C&C headquarters of the Nassr Base in the Iranian city of Naghadeh and the Ra'ad Base in Marivan also support the area.

Iran has a covert operation running in Iraq running over 70,000 men.
The IRGC Irans Qods Force is the Intelligence service responsible forrunning ops in Iraq and has a multi-billion dollar budget allocated for corrupting Iraq's internal affairs.

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