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Airbornelawyer
10-19-2005, 10:14
From Various Sources:

The Anbar Campaign - A Flash Presentation (http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/10/the_anbar_campa_4.php)

France Says Extremists Are Enlisting Its Citizens (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801632_pf.html?). "French police investigating plans by a group of Islamic extremists to attack targets in Paris discovered last month that the group was recruiting French citizens to train in the Middle East and return home to carry out terrorist attacks, sources familiar with the investigation said. …"

South Asia Terrorism Update (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=10/19/2005)



From Strategie und Technik:
19.10.05: Iraks Armee kann in einigen Monaten Sicherheitsaufgaben übernehmen. Iraks Verteidigungsminister Saadou al-Dulaimi glaubt, der Aufbau der irakischen Streitkräfte sei soweit vorangekommen, dass irakische Sicherheitskräfte in wenigen Monaten für Stabilisierungsaufgaben eingesetzt werden und damit die Koalitionsstreitkräfte langsam ablösen können. Er argumentiert, die jüngsten Offensiven gegen Aufständische in der Stadt Tal Afar, bei denen auch irakische Sicherheitskräfte mitgewirkt haben, hätten die militärischen Fähigkeiten der Irakis bewiesen.

Iraq's Army can take over security missions in a few months. Iraq's defense minister Saadou al-Dulaimi believes that the buildup of the Iraqi armed forces has advanced so far that Iraqi security forces will be in place for stability missions in just a few months, thus allowing Coalition forces to slowly withdraw. He argues that the recent offensive against insurgents in the city of Tal Afar, where Iraqi forces cooperated [with Coalition forces], proved the military capabilities of the Iraqis.

19.10.05: USA über Unruhen in Südthailand besorgt. Die anhaltenden Unruhen in der überwiegend von Muslimen bewohnten südthailändischen Provinzen haben die USA alarmiert. Zunächst hatte die Bush-Administration die Unruhen als ein inner-thailändische Problem eingestuft. Jetzt ist sie aber überzeugt, dass die seit 21 Monaten anhaltenden Unruhen, bei denen bislang über 1 000 Menschen getötet wurden, zunehmend mit dem al-Qaida-Netz in Südostasien zusammenhängen. Die USA befürchten, die Unruhen könnten auf Malaysia übergreifen.

US concerned about unrest in south Thailand. The rising unrest in the heavily Muslim-inhabited provinces of south Thailand has alarmed the US. Originally, the Bush Administration had considered the unrest as an internal Thai problem. Now however it is convinced that the unrest, which has been increasing for the past 21 months, where up to now over 1000 persons have been killed, is increasingly connected to the al-Qaida network. The US fears that the unrest could spread to Malaysia.

Airbornelawyer
10-19-2005, 10:15
From the RFE/RL Newsline (http://www.rferl.org/newsline/):

Russia

MOSCOW SUPPORTS BRAZIL'S BID TO JOIN UN SECURITY COUNCIL. Russia supports Brazil's efforts to become a permanent member of a reformed United Nations Security Council, Interfax reported on 18 October, quoting from a joint declaration signed by Russian and Brazilian presidents in Moscow the same day. "President Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's support for Brazil as one of the strongest candidates for permanent membership of the reformed UN Security Council," the declaration said. The declaration followed talks between Putin and his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva in Moscow.
CHECHEN INTERIOR MINISTER AGAIN WARNS AGAINST WEARING OF MASKS. Ruslan Alkhanov told senior law-enforcement officials in Grozny on 18 October that he has issued orders to his men to open fire on anyone wearing a mask in public, Interfax reported. "We will not allow anyone to commit crimes in Chechnya hiding behind a mask," the news agency quoted him as saying. Alkhanov issued a similar order 14 months ago empowering police to open fire on men wearing masks in urban areas, arguing that "most crimes are committed" by masked men. An unidentified senior Interior Ministry official told Interfax on 18 October, however, that Alkhanov's orders are legally flawed. Interior Troops spokesman Vasilii Panchenkov told Interfax that riot police are required to wear masks, which are also used in mountain areas in winter as protection from frostbite. But a presidential adviser on Cossack affairs, retired Colonel General Gennadii Troshev, who is a former commander of Russian troops in Chechnya, told Interfax for his part that FSB, Interior Ministry, and other troops operating in Chechnya should "act openly and not wear masks."
POLICE IN NALCHIK CONTINUE HUNT FOR MILITANTS. Police launched a search operation on 18 October in three southwestern districts of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR), in an attempt to locate and apprehend fighters who participated in the coordinated attacks on police and security targets in the city on 13 October, Russian agencies reported. ITAR-TASS quoted Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel as telling journalists in Vladikavkaz later on 18 October that an unspecified number of militants were apprehended. KBR police told Interfax on 18 October that one suspected militant was shot dead after he and two companions opened fire on police earlier that day. His two associates reportedly managed to escape. Also on 18 October, ITAR-TASS quoted forensic experts as saying that 56 participants in the raid on Nalchik have been identified; republican police said most of them were residents of the Baksan, Tesk, Chegem, or Zolsk districts. In a statement on 17 October, radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev, who claims to have helped plan the attacks, gave the raiders' total casualties as 42 dead, wounded, or missing.

Southwestern Asia And The Middle East

AFGHAN POLICEMEN REPORTEDLY KILLED BY U.S. TROOPS. Four Afghan officers were reportedly killed and one sustained injuries during a firefight that occurred between Afghan police and U.S. troops in Kandahar Province's Maiwand district on 18 October, the Peshawar-based Afghan Islamic Press reported. Kandahar Governor Asadullah Khaled told reporters on 18 October in Kandahar that the incident resulted from "a misunderstanding" in which U.S. forces "mistook the police forces for Taliban fighters and opened fire on them." Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Yusof Stanizai said in Kabul on 18 October that both the Afghan police and the U.S. troops were responding to an attack on the district governor's office when "firing started between both sides" AFP reported. No immediate comments were available from the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN EQUATES KILLING OF CLERICS WITH TERRORISM. Presidential spokesman Mohammad Karim Rahimi said at a news conference in Kabul on 18 October that the separate killings of three religious scholars recently in Afghanistan are acts of terrorism, official Afghanistan Television reported. Rahimi said insurgents have resorted to terrorism because they have been prevented by security forces from carrying out their guerrilla activities. It is unusual for the Afghan government to identify members of the insurgency, who usually belong to the neo-Taliban, as terrorists. Afghan officials usually refer to them as antigovernment forces or simply "Taliban." An unidentified person took responsibility on behalf of the neo-Taliban for one of the killings, and the movement is suspected of having a role in the other two.
TEHRAN CONTINUES TO IMPLICATE BRITAIN IN BOMBINGS. President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said on 18 October in Tehran that there is no evidence to date to disprove British involvement in the fatal 15 October bombings in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, state television reported. Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials have been fairly consistent in accusing the United Kingdom of involvement in the bombings. Intelligence and Security Minister Qolamhussein Mohseni-Ejei said on 18 October that "some clues have been [tracked] down and we have a suspicion about the U.K.," IRNA reported. He said 20 people have been arrested so far. Moreover, Interior Minister Mustafa Purmohammadi said on 18 October that several arrests have been made, and the arrestees were trained outside Iran, IRNA reported. He said he has asked the legislature for additional funding for enhanced border security. Qolamreza Shariati, deputy governor-general of Khuzestan for political-security affairs, said on 18 October that a heretofore unknown group called Usamah Mahdi took credit for the bombings on its website, state radio reported. "Be that as it may, there are stronger indications pointing to British involvement, which is well-known for creating divisions, suggesting that not much credence can be given to this unknown group's claims," Shariati continued.
IRAQ: DEMONSTRATIONS AND ATTACKS. Insurgents fired at least two mortars into Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on 19 October, where the Hussein trial is being held, international media reported. Meanwhile, Hussein supporters demonstrated on 19 October in Tikrit, a town known as Hussein's base of support, Reuters reported. Dozens of demonstrators chanted "long live Saddam Hussein," while carrying banners with slogans such as "Down with the occupation and the puppet government," the news agency reported. Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops are maintaining tight security around Tikrit, located about 175 kilometers north of Baghdad. Police did not intervene in the demonstration, however.
AL-ZARQAWI SAYS ARAB LEAGUE CANNOT END JIHAD IN IRAQ. An 18 October Internet statement (http://www.world-news-network.net) attributed to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Tanzim Qa'idat Al-Jihad fi Bilad Al-Rafidayn, which is led by Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, claimed the Arab League will not succeed in ending the insurgency in Iraq. League Secretary-General Amr Musa is scheduled to arrive in Iraq this week to help forge reconciliation among Sunni Arabs opposed to the government and Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders. "Our fight [in Iraq] was not and never will be solely to get the occupier out of Iraq or to keep its 'national' identity and territorial integrity...or to preserve the 'national and Pan Arab identity'" of Iraq, the statement said, referring to the Arab League's position on Iraq. "Rather, our fight is a religious duty.... It is a jihad for the sake of God [to] establish the caliphate and the state of Islam," and as such, Islamic insurgents will not adhere to any compromise. The statement blasted the Arab League, saying: "The division of Muslim land was validated" under its watch, "Palestine was cheaply sold, and the rule of tyrants was established to slaughter Muslims whose blood was spilled at the hands of 'national' governments.... This is the league that did not care about the hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed in Iraq under the [UN] embargo."

NousDefionsDoc
10-19-2005, 16:14
I really like these. Please keep posting them.

aricbcool
10-19-2005, 16:17
I really like these. Please keep posting them.

X2 :)

CoLawman
10-20-2005, 07:51
Ditto!!!