How terrorist share their ideology

Another posting from earlier this week. One of the folks posting on the forums has decided to give people tips in how to search for videos on YouTube and other video sites:

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate...May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon my dear brothers in all the forums, the Salafist forums.

How to quickly find videos of operations taken by the infidels on YouTube or other sites, such as Google or LiveLeak.com...

IED. Use this term to search for operations using explosive devices. It is the acronym for Improvised Explosive Device.

IED Detection. This is for the explosive devices that have been detected by mine sweepers and were detonated.

VBIED. Martyrdom operations. This is the acronym for Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device.

You can also search by using suicide bombing or car bomb.

Aftermath. Add this term after IED or VBIED, and you will see the area of the incident after the explosion.

Terrorist or Insurgent. Both will find similar results and will show you the mujahidin.

Ambush. An ambush of the infidels.

Firefight. An exchange of fire.

UAV. This will display unmanned aerial vehicles and their manufacturing, so that the mujahidin mat learn about their movements.

As you can imagine, there are many others.

Don't forget to add sort by after the search term in the search engine, and choose Date Added. This will sort the results by the date in which the videos were uploaded to the site you are searching.

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Hezbollah uses Mexican drug routes into U.S. - Washington Times
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:32 AM

Works beside smuggler cartels to fund operations



by Sara A. Carter

EXCLUSIVE:



Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.



The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.

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Americans only learn by disaster. —Theodore Roosevelt

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Planning and Prepardness

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today the release of the final Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: “Developing and Maintaining State, Territorial, Tribal, and Local Government Emergency Plans.”

CPG 101 completes the requirements of HSPD-8, Annex I to develop a “national integrated planning system.” Combined with the Integrated Planning System (IPS) guidance provided by the Department, the vision of a vertically integrated planning system providing for a consistent planning process across all levels of government is realized.

While IPS focuses on Federal planning, CPG 101 was developed by a team of state, tribal and local officials from across the United States working together to develop guidance that can aid State, tribal, local, and territorial officials in protecting their citizens.

CPG 101 is the first in a series of publications developed through the FEMA National Preparedness Directorate’s CPG Initiative. Future CPGs will discuss planning considerations for a variety of emergency functions, hazards and special preparedness programs including; special needs planning, household pets and service animals, fusion center / emergency operations center interface, and hazard-specific guidance.

CPG 101 serves as the emergency plan foundation for both public and private sector planning in the United States. Planners in all disciplines and organizations may find portions of the guide useful in the development of their emergency response plans.

The CPG 101 document can be found online at www.fema.gov/about/divisions/cpg.shtm. For more information on other FEMA initiatives, visit www.fema.gov.

FEMA leads and supports the nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery and mitigation, to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the nation from all hazards including natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters.

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Goals of the Muslim Brotherhood's "The Project"
1 December 1982 document found during a raid in Switzerland by Swiss authorities on 7 November 2001. The target of the raid was Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano, who has had active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50 years and who admitted to being one of the organization’s international leaders. The 14-page document outlines a 12-point strategy to "Establish an Islamic government on earth." (more)

● Networking and coordinating actions between like-minded Islamist organizations;
● Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
● Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
● Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
● Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
● Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
● Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;
● Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
● Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
● Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
● Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
● Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
● Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
● Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
● Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;
● Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;
● Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;
● Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
● Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;
● Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
● Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;
● Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
● Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
● Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
● Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;
● Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world

How to tell a moderate Muslim from a radical Muslim
From Dr. Tawfik Hamid:
ABC’s Test of Radical Islam
Please ask your local mosque, Islamic school, and Islamic organization to clearly, unambiguously and publically denounce the following concepts:
Apostates: killing apostates
Beating women and stoning women to death for adultery
Calling Jews pigs and monkeys
Declaring wars on Non-Muslims to spread Islam after offering Non-Muslims 3 options: Islam or pay Jizia (humiliating tax) or to be killed
Enslavement of female war prisoners (Ma Malakat Aimanikum) and raping them
Fighting and killing Jews before end days
Gay killing
The aim of this test is to distinguish between Moderate and Radical Islam. A true moderate person or organization should be able to immediately denounce the above concepts and stand publically and unambiguously against them.

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First American Suicide Bomber

First American suicide bomber killed 30 after being 'radicalized in his hometown'

The United States has reported its first suicide bomber, a naturalized citizen who returned to his native Somalia and blew himself up for an Al Qaida-aligned group.

"A man from Minneapolis became what we believe to be the first U.S. citizen to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing," FBI director Robert Mueller said.

"The attack occurred last October in northern Somalia, but it appears that this individual was radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota."

Officials said Shirwa Ahmed became the first U.S. citizen to blow himself up in a suicide strike. They said Ahmed killed as many as 30 people in a suicide car bombing in northern Somalia in October 2008. He was returned for burial in the U.S. city of Minneapolis.

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Report - Al Qaeda Unconventional Weapons Experiment Kills 40 Operatives

An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.

The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the mishap led the militant group to shut down a base in the mountains of Tizi Ouzou province in eastern Algeria.

He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda’s leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official.

“We don’t know if this is biological or chemical,” the official said.

The story was first reported by the British tabloid the Sun, which said the al Qaeda operatives died after being infected with a strain of bubonic plague, the disease that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. But the intelligence official dismissed that claim.

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The Sun - Terrorists Killed By Own Black Death Experiment

The terrorists planned to wreak havoc on Western targets but fell victims to their own weapon, a leading expert on chemical warfare believes.

The Sun revealed yesterday that Black Death, also called the Plague, killed at least 40 fanatics at a terror training camp in Algeria earlier this month.

It was thought they caught the disease through poor living conditions in their forest hideouts.

But Dr Igor Khrupinov, of Georgia University, said: “Al-Qaeda is known to experiment with biological weapons. And this group has direct communication with other cells around the world.

“Contagious diseases, like ebola and anthrax, occur in northern Africa. It makes sense that people are trying to use them against Western governments.”

Dr Khrupinov, once arms adviser to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, added: “Instead of using bombs, people with infectious diseases could be walking through cities.”

Black Death has been researched as a biological weapon before.

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Leadership dwindling fast

Unleashed CIA Zapped 8 Qaeda Lieutenants Since July
By James Gordon Meek

In one of his final acts in office, President Bush has been trying to settle unfinished business in his internationally-unpopular “global war on terror.” No, he hasn’t killed Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri or Abu Ayyub al-Masri. No, he hasn’t pulled all U.S. troops out of Iraq. No, he hasn’t closed Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib or Bagram’s prisons.

However, Bush has met privately with groups of Gold Star families, whose relatives made the ultimate sacrifice in wars since 9/11. He has been tender, caring and compassionate with those in grief.

The President also bestowed the nation’s highest award for spywork on his security team, awarding the National Security Medal last week to Director of National intelligence Mike McConnell, CIA Director Michael Hayden and CIA Deputy Director Stephen Kappes. Hayden and Kappes, no doubt, were given the top honor for eliminating eight senior Al Qaeda leaders in missile strikes inside Pakistan in the last six months. Among the dead were operatives planning attacks against the West, sources have informed me.

Here is the CIA’s hit parade, according to a source who provided it to us at the New York Daily News:


* Khalid Habib, a veteran combat leader and operations chief involved with plots to attack the West, who served as deputy to Al Qaeda No. 3 Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri

* Rashid Rauf, the mastermind of the 2006 British airliner plot

* Abu Khabab al-Masri, Al Qaeda’s most seasoned explosives expert and trainer, and the man responsible for its chemical and biological weapons efforts

* Abdallah Azzam, also a top aide to Sheikh Sa’id al-Masri

* Abu al-Hassan al-Rimi, a leader who led cross-border operations against coalition forces in Afghanistan

* Abu Sulaiman al-Jaziri, a senior external operations planner and facilitator

* Abu Jihad al-Masri, a senior operational planner and propagandist

* Usama al-Kini, an East African who was chief of Pakistan operations and the planner of last year’s Marriott attack in Pakistan and the bombing of Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade upon her return from exile.

In a farewell message to CIA employees, Hayden alluded to the not-so-covert campaign in Pakistan’s tribal areas, where CIA has maintained constant overflights by unmanned Predator drones. Morale at the agency has soared since Bush unleashed the spooks to blow up any target they can acquire to crush Al Qaeda as a parting gift.

“In the past year alone, a powerful blow has been struck against Al Qaeda. Its operational capability has been damaged and its ideological strength eroded,” Hayden told his spies. “Our ops tempo has been unrelenting.”

As for the elusive High-Value Targets 1 and 2, Bin Laden and Zawahiri, Hayden said Al Qaeda’s Egyptian deputy has put himself more squarely in the crosshairs. “It’s always been my belief that you’ll get Two before you get One. (Zawahiri) is a more visible figure. He’s more operationally involved,” the CIA chief told reporters on Thursday.

Asked by The News at a Friday meeting with reporters why the two goons are still breathing, DNI McConnell replied bluntly: “We can’t find them.”
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Security chiefs in London are extremely concerned that Israel’s actions in Palestine will provoke a furious response by Islamic extremists based in the UK, with 4,000 active terrorists identified by a former head of the Met.

With the death toll in Gaza reaching 340 London has been put on a “high state of alert” following the violent clashes outside of the Israeli Embassy in Kensington and the worrying statistic that 4,000 terrorism suspects are active in the UK.

Lord Stevens the head of the Met disclosed the figure that up to 4,000 terrorism suspects are active in the UK, and stated that police and MI5 were “still too under funded and undermanned to cope with the task they face in the decades to come. And that’s how long this will last.”

Security chiefs in London are concerned that the escalation of violence in Gaza with the prospects of a ground offensive by the IDF could provoke a violent response by Arab and Muslim Londoners with minority elements influenced by Al-Qaeda plotting reprisal attacks in London.

MI5 have outlined the possible security threats posed by Al Qaeda:

Explosive devices

These can be delivered to their targets in vehicles, by post or by a person. Currently an explosive device within a vehicle is the most prevalent means of attack. Unlike the Provisional IRA, who also used this method, Al Qaida networks often seek to ensure that their target is hit by employing a suicide operative within the vehicle to detonate the device at the required moment.

Suicide bombers are also deployed to carry an explosive device into the vicinity of a target individual or location. On some occasions the terrorists decide, as they did in the Madrid commuter train attacks in March 2004, to detonate their devices remotely, so that they can go on to perpetrate further attacks.”

Shootings

Al Qaida have orchestrated a campaign of shootings and close quarter attacks targeted against Westerners in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Most recently, on 6 December 2004, gunmen mounted an assault on the US consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah, in which five of the consulate staff and four of the attackers were killed. Al Qaida claimed responsibility for this attack. In Europe, an extremist shot dead the Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam in November 2004.

Kidnappings

There has been an increase in the number of kidnappings taking place, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. The kidnapping of UK citizen Kenneth Bigley in Iraq in September 2004 resulted in his murder.

Surface to air missiles

An unsuccessful missile attack was attempted on an Israeli charter plane departing from Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2002. Similar attacks have been carried out in recent months against coalition aircraft in Iraq.

Chemical, biological and radiological CBR devices

To date, no such attacks have taken place in the UK. Alternative methods of attack, such as explosive devices, are more reliable, safer and easier for terrorists to acquire or use. Nevertheless, it is possible that Al Qaida and some other associated networks may seek to use chemical, biological or radiological material against the West. Usama bin Laden has referred to such devices on several occasions. In November 2001, he said that “if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. We have the weapons as a deterrent”.

In a June 2002 article, Al Qaida spokesman Sulaiman Abu Gaith also said “it is our right to fight [the Americans] with chemical and biological weapons”.

In April 2005, Kamel Bourgass, an Algerian with known links to Al Qaida, was convicted of plotting to manufacture and spread poisons, including ricin, in the UK.

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