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09/11/2011 12:36 ||
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Fred, you and the Mods do yeoman work, RB has helped keep me relatively sane since 9/11/01
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/11/2011 13:31 Comments ||
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Echo Frank G's sentiments. Thank you Fred and the Mods for this site. It has been a great help to me and all of us in dealing with this attack and war.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/11/2011 13:47 Comments ||
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Same here. It's an honor to know you.
Posted by: Barbara ||
09/11/2011 13:51 Comments ||
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Ditto. Found you through Insty and you are the first one I look to in my much reduced list of Blogs.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
09/11/2011 16:31 Comments ||
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This is a Day to reflect on what gives us our Freedoms. Seems we are losing them at a right fast pace. That said, I don't suffer from Insanity, I love every second of it.
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Morning commute to work; had just finished reading a book 'The Sky is Falling,' about a B-25 that hit the Empire State Building, so my first thought was; it happened again.
Still have the front page of the paper with the picture of the Twin Towers burning.
Please God, continue to show your love and mercy on all the victims, families, and responders of all sorts.
Never Forget.
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10 years ago I was red hot with fury, and some of that still bubbles up. But now, I have wear and tear, and its time for the next bunch to pick up the fire.
Id say more but tears come to my eyes. Lost so many friends and friend's children - but accomplished so many things, these past 10 years.
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I was in Arlington,VA, attending a class. We could see the Pentagon from the other side of the building. The center manager came into the classroom and told us that two planes had hit the World Trade Center, and one had hit the Pentagon. At first, I thought she meant two light planes. When it became clear that they were airliners, it was obvious that it was a deliberate attack.
The instructor told everyone to take a long lunch and to come back at 2 PM. I went back to my hotel and called my wife to tell her I was ok. Then I went out for a walk, and ended up at the Marine Corps Memorial. I stopped and prayed. I could see the smoke from the Pentagon. By the time I went back to class, the building had been closed for the day. When I drove home on Friday, I went past the Pentagon, and could see the hole in the wall.
It gave me a funny feeling - in 1970 and 71, I was stationed at the Pentagon as my first duty station out of OCS.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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I was working from home that A.M. The wife hadn't headed to work yet and had CNN on. She yelled at me to come watch what just happened. Saw the first announcement of the impact. Immediately said "Damn that's what the Muslims were up too". She accused me of being biased and it was likely just an accident. In a short while the second plane hit and I told her I rested my case. Called up my boss and told him about the attach and suggested that explained some anomalous cellphone behavior we had observed in our customers systems. He accused me of just hating Muslims and being quick to jump to conclusions. Later in the week work got strange with the Muslim workers freaking as co-workers got called up to service. I had to deal with the jerks whining that soldiers should not be working with citizens. The freaked even more when members of the test group headed out to ground zero with special equipment to find cellphones in the hopes of finding victims with them. (That equipment found a lot of phones but sadly no people).
Tried to explain to the muzzies that this was a nation of citizens and of course citizen soldiers worked in normal jobs because even the army were citizens first. The Indian workers didn't even understand. It brought home to me how different the rest of the world really is.
The sad thing is the last 10 years have shown us that they don't appear able to understand even something that simple.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
09/11/2011 1:13 Comments ||
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Got up late that morning, around ten. Moseyed in to work in El Segundo...I lived in Playa del Rey, in Los Angeles, very close to LAX. As I got onto Sepulveda, I noticed a convoy of black federal SUVs roaring by. What the hell was that, I thought, and continued to work. The streets were strangely empty.
A few days later, they closed the overpass to LAX that went over Sepulveda, and posted a cop on top at all times. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has left.
Ten years later, and I still can't watch the footage of the planes hitting their targets. Too painful. I hate websites that use the still photos as some sort of icon.
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Ten years later, and I still can't watch the footage of the planes hitting their targets. Too painful. I hate websites that use the still photos as some sort of icon.
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Ditto grom. The heads of all of the intelligence agencies, their deputies, and directors of operations, to include the FBI and US State Dept. should have immediatly been fired or retired. It was the greatest intelligence failure in our nation's history.
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Imagine inside of a SCIF, where everyone was silently asking themselves what was there they might have missed that could have stopped this -- even if it wasn't in the mission, region, or area of expertise... how the hell this got past "us", the Intelligence Community that took much credit for winning the cold war? What was the next attack and where was it coming from? What could we have overlooked that we can still do something about? Why were we not treating things as importantly in the 90's as we should have in hindsight?
Personally, now? I realize (thanks to PTSD counseling) I still have some shame, and guilt, (supposedly) misplaced since I was not in that part of the IC that could have detected or stopped 9/11. But it is still agonizing, to the point of involuntary tears in my eyes, to see those videos, the planes and flames, the towers and pentagon collapses, and especially the jumpers from the towers. The past few days have been hard.
Maybe that's why I get so angry and react harshly at times.
That's the most I care to talk about all of it in public.
God rest those who died on 9/11 and in since then too, may they never be forgotten - and God help the rest of us, we need it.
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Furious red hot rage. Finding Rantburg helped express that without getting arrested for assault in our local houses of hate Mosques
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/11/2011 8:45 Comments ||
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I second Frank G. I was teaching an MBA class and the students were in shock, afraid, and in tears, inconsolable. I assured them that we would find the people that did the deed and make them pay. I was half right.
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'Spook, I think it is a leading indicator of your decency and devotion to duty that you have the emotions you have. IMNTBHO, you and your colleagues have nothing to be ashamed of, and much to be proud of. Thank you for your service, and please relay that sentiment to everyone else in the "business" for me.
Posted by: Mike ||
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Went into work, at the Mercantile Bldg. in San Antonio - on the top floor, and from the office windows we always had a beautiful view of the aircraft coming in on final approach to the airport - sliding across the sky like beads on an invisible thread. I didn't know anything had happened at all, until I began calling to confirm my bosses' appointments for the day, and the first client I called was almost in hysterics, telling me that airplanes had crashed into the WTC, and it was on fire, and people were jumping from the top floors.
A little later, the Pentagon - and about that time, all flights were grounded. The sky looked so empty.
(My posts here - I'm also posting at Chicago Boyz now.
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Driving home from work that day, in the SF bay area, I remember seeing an American flag hung from one of the overpasses. Tears rolled, I couldn't stop them. Something about that simple sign of patriotism, that we were all in this together, really hit my heart.
During the actual attack I wasn't sure I believed it. IT was on the news yet Howard Stern wasn't talking about it at all. I don't know if he was on vacation or they shifted over to recorded or if he simply hadn't gotten the news yet but it was bizarre to me and it wasn't until I got into work and watched streaming video of the news that I truly believed it was happening.
safe link to JammieWearingFool. I won't link to the NYT or their resident asshat
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Krugman says: Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
And sure enough, I've got the TV on showing the commemoration, and the crowd is really subdued as children read the names of their dead fathers and mothers.
Posted by: Matt ||
09/11/2011 11:15 Comments ||
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Inviting the left to help commemorate a patriotic day like 9-11 is like asking someone with a known bladder control problem to a pool party.
They're just going try to f*ck it up for everyone else.
9-11 didn't help me find my patriotism. It intensified it.
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Please remember Barbara Olson commentator on fox news. Aboard flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon. Was on the phone to her husband when she died.
Al
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"Let's roll."
I have wept, feared, prayed, been angry. My duty to those who were murdered and to those who stepped forward -- police, firefighters, troops and civilians -- is to calmly do my bit to make sure we win the war the jihadis started. Not just the war of the sword, but also the war of the law they wage to steal our homeland behind the backs of our troops.
So I am sad, on this day of memory. Tomorrow the war continues until we have won because they surrendered. Not a hudna, but the real thing. As OldSpook said, we won the Cold War. No reason we can't win the Jihad as well.
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M'Lady had the radio going all night. I woke up around 5 AM Alaska Time and heard the news of the first plane hitting the WTC. I awoke and told her the news. Then the second plane hit, and I told her that we were under attack.
I started thinking about the African embassy bombings and the USS Cole and thought that we were really at war with the ME terrorists now. This will change everything, I thought. The bombing of the towers and the loss of life made me physically sick.
I went to work and it was extremely quiet in the air around Anchorage. Not the familiar sound of a plane or airliner flying, where earlier we always heard one. Then a flight of two jets flew overhead and out to the west. Later heard that a plane was acting suspiciously with no comm on the North Pac route into Anchorage. We had crews all over that couldn't get back from places like Nome because of the airspace shutdown.
Then when the President had to fly all over the place, the Dems were talking up a storm lambasting him when nobody knew what happened. I thought to myself, "This will be different than Pearl Harbor, and not in a good way." I feared for my country. And I still do.
We are fighting two enemies: the one external, and the other the traitors within.
Yes, 9-11 changed everything for the USA, and the world.
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AP pretty much sums up my thoughts that day, and my feelings since.
We are tottering on the edge of a precipice. Other civilizations have fallen into dark ages. I wonder if they did so by choice, too?
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Back in 2001 I really didn't understand much about Jihad or Sharia or Islamic terrorism. I'm still not an expert but my knowledge base is growing.
Rantburg, jihadwatch, islamwatch, faithfreedom, fasterplease, etc. are all helping to move the needle on public awareness and the "religion of peace" nonsense that was emitted soon after 9-11 is considered too crude to use by the political class. Now we have still have some skillful islamic apologists and many hard leftists trying to shift blame but their job becomes harder every day.
On the other hand, the Jihadist get closer to having effective weapons every day also.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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Sitting on the couch, reading the paper and drinking coffee before work. The Tutsis and the Hutus were going at it again. I was thinking it would serve them right if Jesus and Mohammed both came back and kicked their sorry asses from one end of Africa to the other. Just then, a news flash on the TV about a plane crash in New York...
My cousin was working in the Pentagon. Had an office in the part that was hit. That morning, he was still at home packing for a trip.
I still cannot look at pictures of the burning towers without involuntarily spewing out bad words.
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I don't believe that any of the speeches by any of the so called dignitaries that I could have listened to today would have provided as realistic an assessment of what happened that day and in the days since then as the comments I've just read above. I've learned a lot since 9/11 and a lot of it I learned from this website. Thanks, people.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Church this morning was all about forgiveness. Scripture readings were all about forgiveness. We need to forgive our enemy's sin against us because God forgives our sins against Him. I almost got up and walked out. One problem - we have to admit our sin and ask forgiveness of God, but apparantly we are to be held to a higher standard, and forgive our ACTIVE enemies.
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HERSELF and I were vacationing in Malta, some seven hours ahead of NY time. Ironically enough, I spent the morning and forenoon visiting the WWII operations rooms and museum in the battlements. Got back to the resort just in time to see the second airplane hit the Trade Centre. That was a shock!
Strange and rather scary story: The previous evening HERSELF asked me why Sept 11 is famous in history. Being a would-be sometime historian and know-it-all I searched my memory then answered "Nothing in particular". She was adamant that it was a famous day for something, something big! Next day we found out and will never, ever forget nor forgive.
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Glenmore, our minister, not exactly a conservative, went on to point out that Jesus' call to forgive seven times seventy times was meant for members of the church community as they dealt with each other. You know, like that troublesome brother or sister, that problem child, who is all the time screwing up. It was not meant to provide guidance for foreign policy or for when we are confronted with genuine evil. That's what he said anyway and I was glad he did.
If terrorists would truly repent and ask our forgiveness that would be one thing. But if they keep trying to kill us we need to defend ourselves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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I was sitting in a café in Morocco when news broke and everybody stared at the tv screen.
I saw local people weeping. One reason why I make a distinction between people who happen to be Muslims and Islamists.
No quarter for the latter.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
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I'd taken some time off work to hang out at home and chip away at the honey-do list. That morning I'd gotten up to do a workout on my treadmill - went downstairs, put on my gym gear and turned on Fox News. This was around 7 in the morning or so West Coast time...so the treadmill workout never happened that morning. Once the wife got up, we spent the balance of the day glued to the TV. Next morning, we could see F-15's flying CAP over downtown Seattle, and an FFG from NAVSTA Everett on station (presumably at Condition 3 readiness) in Elliott Bay. Felt (and still feel) a great sense of guilt at being a 45 y/o guy with seriously bad back and knees who wouldn't be allowed within 10,000 miles of a battlefield.
AP: Re your thoughts on "We are fighting two enemies: the one external, and the other the traitors within" - Couldn't agree more. In the days immediately following 9/11, both my better half and I were amazed to see the media appearing to be wholeheartedly on our side. Even the New York Times - a few days later, there was a pic on their website from a "peace rally" which prominently featured a LARGE group of counterprotestors, one of whom held a sign inscribed "BIN LADEN THANKS YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT." I remember telling my wife "this won't last - in six months, the media will be in full Fifth Column mode and actively working to undermine the war effort."
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I had been up all night working on legal BS. It all seemed pretty stupid after the planes hit. Still had to move forward on the legal issues (judge still went forward with the hearing), but the events of 9/11 pretty much forever put the rest in perspective.
I will never forget how angry and sad I felt.
I think it was Frankl who said there are only two races, the decent and the indecent. May we always be counted among the decent and may the indecent be damned.
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pull them off and let the passengers have at 'em for the delays
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Flight attendants had become spooked after a man went to the bathroom twice, once while the plane was on the ground and once while in flight, Southwest officials said.
As a guy with ulcerative colitis, I find this disheartening.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
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Frontier Airline flight 623 was escorted by 2 F-16 jets this afternoon on a flight landing at Detro Metro airport.According to a statement released by Frontier, flight 623, which originated in San Diego, was diverted from the gate in Detroit after landing at 3:30 p.m., and passengers were taken to a remote area of the airport for questioning.
When police boarded the plane guns drawn they told passengers to put their heads down and their hands on the seat in front of them. Two men and one woman all seated in the same row were removed first by authorities. All of the detained passengers, including the three who were first taken off the plane, have been released.
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I'd hope for some Tarmac Justice. Let every delayed and inconvenienced passenger take a free shot on the dipshits causing these in lieu of economic damage suits. Sounds fair to me - I'd go for the trachea
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Rolled over from yesterday because it was posted late.
Ay-Peeee. Gist:
A large Taliban truck bomb struck the gate of a NATO combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing two civilians and injuring others didn't make it past the defense obstructions
No coalition forces were killed in the attack on Combat Outpost Sayed Abad in Wardak province, a statement said. An Afghan official earlier said there was at least one civilian killed. two reported later, not clear if it included the sub-human doing the bombing, but I wouldn't consider them "civilians". AP might, though
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09/11/2011 20:46 ||
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77 injured, "none life threatening."
Apparently a truck bomb, that blew up *outside* of the blast wall. The bomb was hidden under firewood.
Technical note: my guess is that most injuries are "splinter" injuries, from falling wood. These were common in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, when German artillery detonated in dense forest treetops above US soldiers.
Second most likely injuries are concussion and hearing loss.
AFP - Troops from a Spanish warship boarded a pirate skiff in the Gulf of Aden Saturday and rescued a French hostage missing from her yacht for two days, the EU anti-piracy patrol said.
A second French hostage was not aboard and is still missing.
[An Nahar] Israel's ambassador to Egypt left the country on board an airplane bound to Israel on Saturday after protesters raided a building housing the embassy in Cairo and dumped its documents from a balcony, airport sources said.
Ambassador Yitzhak Levanon boarded the plane with his security detail and five bags of luggage, the sources said.
Egypt declared a state of high alert Saturday as police clashed with protesters who raided a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, prompting Washington to call for protection of the mission.
Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers backed by armored cars were rushed to the embassy district after U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama called on Egypt to protect the Israeli embassy.
Egyptian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported that Levanon met with a general of the ruling military's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces before his departure, and that the ambassador appeared "anxious and even scared."
Levanon had only recently come back to Cairo from vacation in Israel as protests raged outside the embassy since last month.
Obama on Friday made his call as he spoke by telephone to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said in a statement.
"The president expressed his great concern about the situation at the embassy, and the security of the Israelis serving there," it said.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... early Saturday to request help protecting their embassy in Cairo, a statement from his office said.
During the violence, in which one person died of a heart attack and 448 people were maimed according to state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, protesters torched police trucks and attacked regional police headquarters nearby.
Earlier protesters dumped thousands of Israeli embassy documents from the building housing the mission after they took down its flag and threw it to the crowd.
Egypt's Interior Minister Mansour al-Eissawy declared a state of high alert and the government announced it was convening an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis.
Hours after the violence broke out, Egyptian soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers massed near the embassy as power was cut to street lights in several blocks around the mission.
Protesters were still playing cat-and-mouse with police throughout the night, amid clouds of tear gas and smoke from burning tyres.
Thousands outside the embassy had jostled to grab the documents fluttering down from one of the top floors of the high-rise where the embassy is located.
The documents, in Arabic, English and Hebrew, bore the watermarks of the embassy. They ranged from requests to Egyptian authorities for weapons permits for embassy security to internal correspondence on vacations.
State television quoted an interior ministry official as saying that "foreign hands" were behind the violence. Egypt's rulers often blame foreigners for unrest in the country.
Earlier Friday, thousands of protesters had massed in Tahrir Square to demand reforms and an end to military trials of civilians. About 1,000 people left the square and marched to the Israeli embassy several kilometers (miles) away.
Chanting "Lift your head high, you are an Egyptian," they demolished the security wall outside the mission with sledge-hammers and a hefty metal bar, as military police looked on.
One protester clambered up the embassy building and removed the flag, throwing it down to the rapturous crowd below.
Protesters set fire to two police trucks around the embassy building, and pelted anti-riot police with stones, an AFP journalist witnessed.
They grabbed several helmets and shields from police and at least one teargas gun, while others invaded and damaged a small cop shoppe in the neighborhood.
Relations between Egypt -- the first Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in 1979 -- and Israel have been particularly tense since August 18, when Israeli troops killed five Egyptian coppers as they chased faceless myrmidons along the border.
That incident followed a series of Negev desert ambushes that killed eight Israelis.
At the time, outraged Egyptians staged huge protests outside the embassy and called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. Egypt has asked Israel for an official apology and demanded a probe into the deaths.
Since President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's ouster in February after a popular revolt, activists have called for a revision of the peace treaty. Mubarak was seen as one of Israel's closest regional allies.
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[Tripoli Post] Fighters from the National Transitional Council, NTC, Friday night launched a two-pronged assault on one of only four towns still under the control of former Libyan dictator, Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... loyalist fighters clashing with the runaway Al Qadaffy's supporters inside Bani Walid, with revolutionary forces leaders saying that a weeklong standoff dissolved into street-to-street battles.
The NTC forces launched the attack a few hours before the deadline set by the NTC for surrender. With fierce fighting on going, sources close to the revolutionaries said they were close to capturing Bani Walid, the town 140 kilometres from Tripoli. They said they should soon come within the centre of the town.
Fighting had begun after forces loyal to Al Qadaffy fired rockets at positions occupied by the NTC fighters. NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... then began Arclight airstrikes on the town - something the anti-Al Qadaffy forces said they had expected.
Bani Walid and the other three towns of Sirte, Sabha and Jufra to resist the country's new leadership, had been given until Saturday to surrender to surrender or face an offensive but decided to attack Friday evening after Al Qadaffy forces fired volleys of rockets at the fighters' positions around the town.
After weeks of preparing for an attack on the Al Qadaffy hometown and still loyalists-held city of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast fierce fighting was also reported to the east of the city, but according to an NTC fighters' front man they were forced to pull back after taking heavy casualties in close-quarters fighting,
In the attack on Bani Walid, the anti-Al Qadaffy forces moved in from the east and south. Once inside the town they engaged in clashed with Al Qadaffy's men close to the centre of the town.
Abdullah Kanshil, the former rebels' chief negotiator, said the NTC forces were fighting gunnies positioned in houses in the town and the hills that overlooked it. Other reports indicate that there has also been hand-to-hand combat with what have been described as Al Qadaffy's professional fighters, although some had been throwing away their weapons as the rebel fighters approached.
Although before the evening assault on Bani Walid, Friday, Al Qadaffy holdouts fired a barrage of Grad missiles, mortars and rockets toward the fighters' position killing one and injuring others.
Kanshil said the anti-Al Qadaffy fighters are inside the city. "They are fighting with snipers. They forced this on us and it was in self-defence," he said. He added that Al Qadaffy loyalists had been maimed and three killed, while the former rebels had one dead and four maimed. He said the former rebels had taken seven prisoners.
Daw Salaheen, the chief commander for the anti-Al Qadaffy forces' operation at Bani Walid, confirmed that his fighters responded with their own rocket fire, and advanced on the town.
With NATO planes circling above, loud kabooms had also been heard about 10 kilometres from the frontline, followed by plumes of black smoke in the already hazy air.
Kanshil said the NTC fighters believed that there were about 600 Al Qadaffy supporters in and around Bani Walid. "Snipers are scattered over the hills and the rebels want to chase them," he said. "There is hand-to-hand combat. The population is afraid so we have to go and protect civilians."
On the Sirte front, there was a heavy exchange of fire about 60km east of the city, in the Red Valley region which the NTC announced it had captured on Thursday.
The NTC fighters witnessed incoming rocket and mortar fire from Al Qadaffy loyalist forces, with the rebels firing back with anti-aircraft guns. But according to reports, they are still a long way from the city.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the anti-Al Qadaffy fighters are determined to keep pushing forward and although Sirte may not fall according to their leaders' timetable, they are sure that it will fall.
Meanwhile in Tripoli, tens of thousands of people on Friday took part in a march to remember those who were killed by the Al Qadaffy forces near the eastern district of Tajoura on February 25 during the early phase of the Libyan uprising.
The capital was turned into a huge victory parade, with residents all waving the red, black and green flag of the new Libya and clogging both sides of the main road with their vehicles. At the same time they wanted to pass on a message to the Al Qadaffy loyalists to lay down arms, thus avoiding unnecessary bloodshed as they have nothing to gain by fighting or protecting the former dictator.
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Debka. This one seems a bit excitable, so I would suggest a hefty pinch of salt and confirmation from other sources.
In first new disclosures on the storming of Israel's Cairo embassy which started Friday night, Sept. 9, DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources reveal that the mob was led by the terrorist Jama'a al-Islamiya, the Egyptian founding branch of Al Qaeda, and two other radical Egyptian Islamist groups.
The February 1993 car booming of the World Trade Center of New York, which was the forerunner of the Sept. 11, 2001 atrocities, was an early Jama'a operation under the al Qaeda label.
Closely linked to the late Osama bin Laden ... who had a brief but splitting headache... 's successor, Ayman al Zawahri, Jama'a al-Islamiya is now running for election in post-Mubarak Egypt. Its mentor is the "blind sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for criminal masterminding the first World Trade Center bombing. Jama'a adherents stormed the Israeli embassy Friday night along with activists of the Moslem Brüderbund and the Egyptian Students April 6 Movement.
DEBKAfile's intelligence sources also reveal that Egyptian security forces delayed for eight hours before tackling the mob smashing into the embassy building and rampaging inside -- even after US Ambassador Anne Patterson interceded on behalf of the six Israel security officers barricaded in the embassy's security room as the rabble battered on its steel door.
She acted to save their lives on direct orders from President Barack B.O. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... after Ambassador Yitzhak Levanon and 80 members of staff and families had been collected from their homes and lifted out of Egypt by two Israeli military planes.
The Egyptian authorities only tackled the mob when violent groups broke into police headquarters in the upscale Giza district, stripped the gunroom and shared the weapons among themselves before returning to the street. Before that, the local police stood by and watched them sacking and burning the embassy without moving.
Scared of the rioters, the Egyptian commandos ordered to rescue the six Israelis under threat of lynch, discarded their uniforms and mingled with the crowd. When they reached the locked room, they were unable to open the steel door. The head of Egyptian unit had to find the Israeli Shin Bet director Yoram Cohen, who was in urgent conference with Israel's national leaders in the situation room, to obtain the code.
They then dressed the six Israelis like typical Egyptians and hustled them to safety past a throng of 40,000 howling for Israeli blood.
That number seems a bit larger than other reports of the incident...
During the embassy attack until early Saturday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried unsuccessfully to raise Field Marshall Mohammed Tantawi, head of the Supreme Military Council ruling Egypt, on the phone. Tantawi refused to take his calls.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak kept open lines to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... in Washington and Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Murad Muwafi in Cairo. At some point, Panetta was patched through to Muwafi through Jerusalem.
Egyptian commandos stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo to rescue six staffers trapped by a violent mob that had launched a spectacular assault on the building under the noses of Egypt's security forces.
The dramatic operation in the early hours of Saturday morning came after Israeli officials appealed for US intervention in a series of frantic telephone calls made as thousands of angry protesters laid siege to the mission.
Baying their hatred of Israel, the mob broke through the building's defences, smashing down a perimeter wall with sledgehammers before marauding through the consular section of the embassy, destroying papers and smashing windows.
The unprecedented attack, which follows days of protests, prompted the swift evacuation of all but one of the embassy's staff. The deputy ambassador volunteered to remain behind as Israel's sole diplomat in Egypt.
There was measured relief, however, that the crisis did not unfold in the manner that some in the Israeli government feared. One Israeli official admitted that there had been grave concerns of a reprise of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, when a mob burst into the US embassy in Tehran in the aftermath of the country's revolution against the Shah and held 52 American diplomats captive for 444 days.
As the crisis unfolded on Friday evening, most of the embassy's staff were at home, partly because they had been ordered to keep a low profile after previous protests outside the mission and also because of unrest in the city that day.
The six security guards were responsible for protecting the building. As the mob advanced, they were forced to abandon the consular wing of the embassy and retreat to its secure section. Mr Netanyahu rang the men three times as the assault continued, urging them to stand firm and promising that help was on its way.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... as the rest of Israel sat down to Sabbath dinners, his government went into emergency mode. Ehud Barak, the defence minister, placed urgent calls to Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... , his US counterpart, and to Dennis Ross, President Barack B.O. Obama's closest Middle East adviser.
Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Gray Eminence ... , the US secretary of state, then rang Mohammed Kamel Amr, the Egyptian foreign minister, to demand that his military superiors met their obligations under the Vienna Convention to protect diplomatic property and personnel.
The resulting rescue mission came just in time. One security guard had reportedly been beaten up, while the others were taking shelter behind the last locked door that stood between them and the mob.
Mr Netanyahu praised Egypt for rescuing the men. "The mob attack on the Israeli embassy is a serious incident, but could have been worse had the rioters managed to get through the last door and hurt our people," he said. "The fact that the Egyptian authorities acted with determination and rescued our people should be noted."
But for Mr Netanyahu and his government, many questions remain unanswered, ones that could exacerbate an already grave crisis. Most pertinent is how the mob was able to break into the embassy unchallenged in the first place.
For much of the day, Cairo had been stirred by unrest after protests in Tahrir Square, called to demand an end to military trials of civilians, who have been tossed in the calaboose in their hundreds for taking part in demonstrations or criticising army chiefs.
Similar protests in recent months have usually been peaceful, but Friday's demonstrations involved a large group of hardcore football fans known as ultras, who had taken to the streets in anger over a brawl with the police after a match earlier in the week.
These fans, rather than Islamists, are thought to have been behind the violence, leading the initial charge to demolish the wall the authorities had built around the embassy after protests against Israel erupted last month.
But as they attached ropes to cars to pull away sections of the wall, the security forces merely stood by. "I got to the embassy at about 8 o'clock yesterday evening by which time the protesters had already broken down the wall outside," said Nora Chalaby, an Egyptian activist. "It was completely destroyed. I saw people climbing on the remains of it and smashing it with hammers. Only the army were there at that time -- no police -- and they just sat outside without getting involved."
Riot police later arrived and engaged protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets. At least three people were reportedly killed.
Egypt's interim government raised tensions in Cairo by announcing that it would use the emergency laws against which many of the demonstrators have been protesting to deal with those involved in the embassy incident.
"Egypt witnessed a harsh day that inflicted pain and worry on all Egyptians," said the country's information minister, Osama Hassan Heikal. "It is clear that the behaviour of some threatens the Egyptian revolution."
Egypt would transfer those in jug or "involved in inciting or participating in (Friday's) events to the emergency state security court," she added.
The army's initial inaction could have been the result of the security forces being overwhelmed or because of a reluctance to use live ammunition against protesters. Soldiers similarly stood by during the protests that unseated Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , the ousted president, in February.
But there was also speculation in both Israel and Egypt that the military authorities had allowed the violence to go ahead unchecked, initially at least, in order to justify a powerful political role for the army when the transition to civilian role is completed at the end of the year.
The future of the army, which has dominated Egypt since Gamel Abdel Nasser came to power in a coup in 1956 and enjoys many financial privileges, is in doubt as a result of a liberal campaign to minimise military influence in politics.
Perhaps seeking to assuage Israeli anger, Essam Sharaf, Egypt's interim civilian prime minister, offered the ruling military council his resignation, but was refused. He also declared a state of alert.
For all the acrimony likely to ensue, neither Israel nor Egypt's military leaders want a total collapse in relations. The Camp David accords of 1978, which resulted in Israel's first ever peace treaty with an Arab state, has served both countries well.
Egypt regained the Sinai peninsula, which it lost in the Six Day War of 1967, as well as nearly £1 billion a year in military aid from the US, while Israel achieved peace with the Arab world's most populous state and a more secure southern frontier.
But the peace deal has always unpopular with a significant section of Egyptian society, angered by the perceived injustice of Israel's occupation of Paleostinian land and the view that Israel remains an interloper on Arab soil.
Late on Saturday large crowds were once again gathering outside the Israeli embassy building in Cairo, and also outside the general prosecutor's office where the detainees were believed to be held.
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[An Nahar] Fresh overnight attacks killed at least 15 people in Nigeria, the latest in a wave of recent killings in an area beset by sectarian violence, a local government official said Saturday.
"Fifteen people were killed ... in Vwang district of Jos south local government area of Plateau state in a midnight attack," a government front man Pam Ayuba said.
The attack in a central district on the outskirts of the city of Jos, targeted predominantly Christian ethnic farming villagers known as Beroms.
More villagers were missing in what appeared to be a wave of spiraling attacks suspected to be staged by Fulani herdsmen from adjoining villages. Some of the attacks in recent days have nearly wiped out entire families.
"This is the third time such attacks are taking place (in recent days) suggesting a premeditated murder," he said.
Dozens of suspects have been placed in durance vile in connection with some of the recent attacks.
Ayuba said "54 persons have been placed in durance vile so far ... the last few days."
Jos has been hit by waves of violence between Christian and Mohammedan groups that have left hundreds dead in recent years.
The area lies between the predominantly Christian south and mainly Mohammedan north of Africa's most populous nation.
The Geneva-based office of the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... at the resurgence of violence in central Nigeria.
The renewed violence is the latest of woes for the government of President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... which is already under pressure to put an end to Islamist kabooms mainly in the north of the country and the capital Abuja.
A Nigerian Islamist sect known as Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... has grabbed credit for an August 26 suicide kaboom that killed at least 23 people at the U.N. headquarters in Abuja.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation with 158 million people, divided roughly in half between a mainly Mohammedan north and predominantly Christian south.
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Later this month, the District Court in Riyadh is expected to begin hearing the testimony of the first woman in Saudi Arabia ever to be tried under charges of involvement in terrorist activities.
The woman, Haila Al-Qassir, allegedly became a member of Al-Qaeda and played a conspicuous role in recruiting terrorists and promoting deviant thought, possessed weapons, sheltered people sought by authorities and gave money to terrorists.
The 45-year-old woman authorized two of her relatives to defend her case after she and several of her relatives were given a briefing in July on the charges. Charges against her include attempting to travel to areas of turmoil without permission from the ruler, supporting terrorist cells, and helping forge identity cards.
The judge approved the request of one of the relatives defending her to bar journalists from attending the trial to protect her privacy.
Al-Qassir was married to a man, Abdul Kareem Al-Humaid, who is under detention by security authorities. She separated from Al-Humaid and married Muhammad Al-Wakeel, who was killed in a showdown with security men after terrorists targeted the Ministry of Interior on Dec. 29, 2004.
Disclosures about Al-Qassir come from the Ministry of Interiors statement in March 2010. It said she was on a list of 113 arrested Saudis and people of other nationalities who had formed three terrorist cells. The first cell had 101 members and the remaining two had six people each, the statement said.
Among those arrested were men who planned to carry out suicide attacks within the country and target national installations and security forces.
[Bangla Daily Star] Paresh Barua, commander-in-chief of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), has been shot at in the jungles of northwest Myanmar, reports Indian television channel NDTV yesterday.
The runaway Ulfa leader is wanted by a Bangladesh court for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of 10 truckloads of arms in 2004.
Sources said Barua has been injured but has survived the attack by the Myanmarese soldiers.
He was with some rebels when he was detected and fired upon, they added.
The Assamese separatist group Ulfa recently began face-to-face unconditional talks with the Indian government in an attempt to usher in peace in insurgency-hit Assam. Its delegation met the home minister in New Delhi in February. The meeting was significant as it took place for the first time in Ulfa's 31-year history.
Its commander-in-chief and lone ranger Paresh Barua, however, was not present in the meeting. He is still on the lam issuing threats and carrying out attacks. He wants illusory sovereignty as a pre-condition for talks.
The three decades of armed movement has witnessed the killing of several thousand civilians. The Ulfa, in a significant development earlier this year, admitted that all killings were wrong and declared that they were ready for formal unconditional talks with the government.
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In Chittagong, a court on September 7 ordered the authorities concerned to publish an advertisement in two national dailies, asking Paresh Barua and another runaway, Nurul Amin, to appear before it by October 3.
The court on June 29 issued an arrest warrant for Paresh Barua.
Barua is among the 11 newly charge-sheeted accused in two cases filed in connection with the 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong in 2004.
The 11 included former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
The arms produced in Chinese factory Norinco were to be transported to India for the Ulfa, Muniruzzaman Chowdhury, investigation officer of the two cases, told news hounds after submitting two supplementary charge sheets before the court on June 26.
Two cases were filed--one for smuggling firearms and the other under the arms act--a day after 10 truckloads of arms and ammunition were seized at a jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Ltd (CUFL) in the port city on April 2, 2004.resignation.
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Springfield, Mo-- Springfield police are asking the FBI to join their investigation into a shooting at a Greyhound bus station. Officers say around 6:00 Thursday night [Sept. 9, 2011] Mohamed H. Dawod, 25, of Glendale Arizona shot another passenger in the back. The victim, Justin M. Hall, 32, from Ohio died at the hospital from the injuries.
Our condolences to the family and friends of this innocent bystander.
Dawod faces a charge of first degree murder and armed criminal action.
Police say because of a language barrier they only learned Dawod's name. Several bystanders held him to the ground until police arrived. According to court documents, he asked officers to take him to the hospital for injuries he received from the struggle. After he was treated, officers say they tried to interview him at the Springfield Police Department Headquarters. "The suspect claimed he had a limited understanding of the English language and didn't fully understand his rights," the officer wrote in the probable cause statement. "Dawod was unwilling to talk with me until after he spoke with an attorney."
A spokesperson for the FBI in Kansas City says the FBI is providing assistance.
"We're trying to determine that suspect's motive, we'll look at any and all possibilities as to why he committed this act," Kansas City FBI Spokesperson Bridget Patton said. "We want to caution people to not make any snap type of judgment."
Ten separate witnesses say they did not notice the men fighting or arguing before the shooting. One passenger said she watched the suspect wander around the terminal until the call to line up to re-board the bus. "She then observed the suspect remove a silver and black handgun from a back pack he was carrying," the officer wrote. "The suspect then pointed the handgun upward while saying something. The witness could not understand what the suspect said and didn't know if he was speaking English." No matter what was said the witness said Hall didn't react or turn around. Shortly after the witness says Dawod shot him from a few feet away.
Police believe Dawod got on the Greyhound bus in Amarillo, Texas. After about 13 hours on the road, the bus stopped in Springfield for a 15 minute break. Witness Brandon Coalston says he is thankful bystanders wrestled the gun away from Dawod. "They are a good person for that it was very heroic," Coalston said. "If I was in there I would have tackled the guy too. There were babies in there."
Officer David Snider says police do not know what language Dawod was speaking. "We have no concern. This is going to be an isolated incident," Snider said. "The reason we referred to the bureau is because they have expertise. We do have a language barrier with the person we tossed in the calaboose. We asked them for some help on this."
A Greyhound front man says firearms are strictly prohibited. "At various locations we do random wanding and bag checks but I would say the most important measure we've taken is to aggressively enforce our zero tolerance policy with respect to unruly or aggressive passengers," front man Tim Stokes said. "Aggressive or threatening behavior even displayed as humor will be taken as a serious offense." Stokes says Greyhound also follows TSA's alert level color indicator. "We do have procecures in place for each level the TSA has," Stokes said.
The bus Dawod and Hall were riding was scheduled to leave Springfield and head to St. Louis. Police say its final stop was in Boston, Massachusetts.
Police are still investigating if there was any connection between Dawod and Hall. Dawod is held without bond in the Greene County Jail.
Witnesses told police that Dawod was trying to fire more shots but that his pistol, a .22-cal. semi-automatic, jammed. Other passengers subdued Dawod and held him until police arrived
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"We're trying to determine that suspect's motive"
I believe anybody here at the 'Burg could give you a clue....
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"The suspect claimed he had a limited understanding of the English language and didn't fully understand his rights," the officer wrote in the probable cause statement. "Dawod was unwilling to talk with me until after he spoke with an attorney."
Limited understand of English and his rights but he wanted to speak to an attorney. Sounds like he was well-coached. We don't make use of firing squads for these jihadis. Quick, done with, and a lesson for other wannabees. During WWII, Germans landed on our shores via sub to take part in Operation Pastorius. "Herbert Haupt [German-American citizen] and the other seven "U-Boat Raiders" were sent to Washington, D.C., where they faced a military tribunal. All were found guilty of being enemy agents, and even though they had not carried out any sabotage, six - including Haupt - were sentenced to death. Dasch and Burger received long prison sentences, which were commuted after the war." Wring em for intelligence first.
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"We're trying to determine that suspect's motive, we'll look at any and all possibilities as to why he committed this act," Kansas City FBI Spokesperson Bridget Patton said. "We want to caution people to not make any snap type of judgment."
"wait until we have time to massage the evidence and soothe Muslim sensitivities"
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No, I'm afraid that it's just that I took a while to get around to posting it, Anguper Hupomosing 9418. It only happens on Thursday night, and was reported in the local news.
[WSJ Online] Mayor Michael Nanny Bloomberg says New Yorkers should observe the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by looking to the future.
Bloomberg said in an interview with the CBS News program "Face the Nation" that the anniversary is "a time to rededicate ourselves to look forward."
He said the people who died at the World Trade Center were working for a living to take care of their families.
Bloomberg said the living should work to make sure that the families of those who died have good schools and good jobs.
In the interview broadcast Sunday morning, Bloomberg also said New York "is probably the safest city in the world." He said the city has 1,000 coppers dedicated to intelligence and counterterrorism.
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a time to rededicate ourselves to look forward."
Is he implying that we should forget the past? Meaningless blather. Everytime, I see the towers going down, I get that same feeling I had on 911. 911 and the victory mosque pisses me off just as much today as yesterday. Bloomberg is still an idiot and looking forward is not going to help him be any less an idiot.
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But don't ever worship that cross thingy; and NO ten commandments. We don't want to upset our Muslim betters.(/sarc)
Hey mayor: go bleep yourself and take your politically correct cronies with you.
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The Mayor is a symptom of the moral relativism of NYC liberals. The mayor's words are pablum with no purpose but space and time filler.
Lead the city like you have, Mr. Bloomberg and your city will continue its slow descent into oblivion. Your record of your actions makes it clear who you are and what you stand for.
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John O'Neill murdered by islamic terrorists on 911. He was marginalized by the pogues at the FBI who viewed him as a threat to their positions--namely Picard. The Ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine comes across as a State Department version of Nancy Pelosi--egotistical, imperious, and stupid. She denied him a visa for a return to Yemen to continue his investigation into the Cole bombing. O'Neill probably knew as much about bin Laden and AQ as anyone at the time. It looked like he had connected many of the dots. He might just have prevented 911 from happening had the right people listened to him were not engaged in back-biting and bureaucratic games.
Adnan El Shukrijumah left his family's home in 2001 and went to Trinidad on business supposedly to buy sunglasses and children's clothes for resale in South Florida flea markets.
Ten years later, Shukrijumah is a fugitive -- sought by the FBI as a leading operative for al-Qaida amid lingering questions about his possible association with key 9/11 hijackers before the terrorist attacks. He's also under indictment charged with directing a suicide-bomb plot in 2009 against the New York City subway system. The reward for his capture: $5 million.
Shukrijumah is especially dangerous because of the time he spent in America. His whereabouts -- and whether he played a direct role in 9/11 -- remains among the key unanswered questions a decade after the attacks.
Shukrijumah is now a top member and perhaps the head of al-Qaida's foreign operations subcommittee, according to terror expert Rohan Gunaratna. Gunaratna said, "He has moved up in the ranks because he's very clever and because he knows the main target, the United States."
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Scheuer, the former CIA analyst, said he had seen nothing to make me doubt reports that Shukrijumah had used Mexican migrant smugglers and perhaps drug traffickers to sneak into the United States more than once since 9/11.
Why is our government dragging its collective feet? Close the border, the Hispanic vote can't be more important than national security.
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"the Hispanic vote can't be more important than national security"
It is to Bambi and the DemoncRats, John. >:-(
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So where is Adnan El Shukrijumah?
And where are Esam Ghazzawi and Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii? The house in Sarasota seemed to be a way station or safe house for the 911 hijackers while going to flight schools. If bin Laden can be found, these people can be found too--unless there is some block to finding them.
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Esam Ghazzawi went to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 11 days prior to 911. Essentially left the dinner on the table when he left. He's got a wife Deborah and daughter Anoud. Linkin lists an Esam Ghazzawi living in Saudi. The guy is listed as a banker. There is also a Esam with daughter Adel and wife Deborah living in the Gulf (mideast). I wonder if there is more than one of these guys with the same name and same wife's name. The Sauds get a pass? Appears that some members of the House of Saud financed 911. Seems like there are Iran and Pak links too. Why do we seem to be so mum.
[Dawn] An inspector of Intelligence Bureau, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances from the posh KDA town here on Friday afternoon, is being presumed kidnapped by unknown people.
Officials told this correspondent that inspector Wali Khan, who is posted in Hangu, did not reach home in the KDA town, Kohat, till late Friday night. They said that the family thought he might be engaged in some official work and would return soon. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... till filing of this report on Saturday evening, the whereabouts of Mr Khan were not known. The inspector belongs to Karak district.
The sources said that the family told the police on Saturday that Mr Khan went out of home for some personal work at 4pm, but did not return.
The high officers had advised the police not to disclose the names of the family members of the victim to anyone due to sensitivity of the case. The KDA town police said that the inspector`s father-in-law had registered the case about his disappearance. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... they refused to disclose the complainant`s name.
Sources told Dawn on Saturday that sometime back the inspector had given names of four people to his family and advised them that in case something happened to him the police should arrest them. The names were also being kept secret by the family and the police investigation team, a source said.
Acting on this information, the police raided a house in Jarma area on university road and after a brief exchange of fire placed in durance vile one of the accused belonging to Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... while two of his accomplices beat feet. The placed in durance vile accused was being interrogated at a secret place, said the sources.
They said that the police were planning to carry out search operations for the arrest of other accused and believed that Mr Khan had been kidnapped.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... one Nazir Khan, 27, did away with himself in Takht area of Lachi tehsil of Kohat on Saturday. The police claimed that Khan shot himself dead with his a rifle. His body was handed over to relatives after the postmortem at Lachi hospital.
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[Dawn] Three soldiers were maimed in a roadside kaboom blast in Chegmalai area of South Wazoo Agency on Saturday while four snuffies were tossed in the clink in Buner district, officials said.
They said that snuffies had planted on the road an improvised bomb, which hit a military vehicle passing through the area.
Three soldiers were maimed critically in the blast, they added. The injured soldiers were shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... for treatment. In Buner district, police claimed to have tossed in the clink four snuffies on the night between Friday and Saturday. They said that another accomplice of the snuffies managed to escape.
One of the tossed in the clink jihad boy was identified as Yaqoob, a resident of village Elai in Buner. Police said that Yaqoob and his two accomplices were trying to enter Buner district from Malakand when police at Kingar Galai post challenged them. Police tossed in the clink two of them while their third accomplice beat feet. Police also recovered three hand grenades, magazines of Kalashnikovs and detonators from their possession.
In another incident, security forces also tossed in the clink two suspected snuffies from the premises of high school Gerarai. They were taken to unspecified location for interrogation, sources said. Following developments in the Salarzai area, security forces and police launched door-to-door search operation in village Gerarai early on Saturday. During the operation, more than five suspects were taken into custody for interrogation, police said.
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[Dawn] The Rangers held six suspects during a search operation in Bloody Karachi on Saturday and recovered one Kalashnikov, three TT pistols and a shot gun from their possession.
According to a private TV channel, Sindh Rangers picked six suspects from Bloody Karachi's Alfalah Society during a search operation in the area.
The Sindh Rangers conducted a search operation in Shah Fiasal Colony's Salman Farsi Society, Albadar Society, Alfalah Society and Kehkashan Society on Saturday morning.
The operation continued for more than five hours.
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[An Nahar] Syrian forces killed 16 people Saturday, activists said, as they tried to crush anti-regime dissent as Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... chief Nabil al-Arabi met President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... to broker an end to the bloodshed.
Arabi carried a 13-point document outlining Arab proposals to halt the deadly crackdown, hold elections and push for reforms in the League member state.
The attempt by the 22-member pan-Arab body to resolve the festering Syria crisis takes place with the United States set to ramp up work on a UN Security Council resolution targeting Syria.
"We're looking at accelerating that work next week," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in reference to a draft resolution likely to include sanctions.
Arabi's mission came three days later than originally planned, as activists reported seven new deaths a day after five other Syrians were killed when security forces dispersed protests after weekly Friday prayers.
Activists said security forces killed seven people in northwestern and central Syria on Saturday, five in the rebellious city of Homs, and nine others were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in a village bordering Leb.
"Five non-combatants were killed during a military and security operation to track down wanted people in the Al-Basateen neighborhood of Homs," in central Syria, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
In the northwestern province of Idlib a 45-year-old man was killed when security forces manning a checkpoint opened fire, said the Observatory, while the Local Coordination Committees said a woman was killed at dawn in Saraqeb.
Meanwhile the Observatory reported that troops and security forces raided the village of Hit bordering Leb, arresting nine and damaging houses.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says that more than 2,200 people -- mostly civilians -- have been killed in a crackdown on almost daily protests by pro-democracy and anti-regime demonstrators in Syria since mid-March.
Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... insists that it is battling "armed terrorist gangs."
Arabi's trip comes after protesters across Syria on Friday demanded international protection.
According to a copy of an Arab League document seen by AFP earlier this week, Arabi was due to propose that Assad hold elections in three years, move towards a pluralistic government and immediately halt the crackdown.
Assad should declare his "commitment to making the transition towards a pluralistic government and use his powers to speed up reforms and announce multi-candidate elections... for 2014, when his current mandate ends," says the document.
Assad has pledged reforms and issued a decree in August allowing opposition political parties alongside the ruling Baath party, in power since 1963 with the constitutional status of "the leader of state and society."
The Arab initiative, agreed at a foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo last month, also calls on Syria "to immediately end" the crackdown, "separate the military from political and civil life" and begin talks with the opposition.
The initiative had angered Syria, which said it contained "unacceptable and biased language" and Damascus had postponed Arabi's trip which was initially due on Wednesday, citing "circumstances beyond our control."
Syria insists that it is battling "armed terrorist gangs," and received support from Moscow this week when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said some protesters were indeed "terrorists."
Russia, which along with China and other countries is opposed to a Security Council resolution targeting Syria, is due to host Assad's adviser Buthaina Shaaban on Monday.
Mikhail Margelov, foreign affairs chief in Russia's upper house of parliament, said he would meet Shaaban to try to get approval to send a delegation of Russian senators to Damascus.
Videos posted on the Internet of Friday's protests showed crowds in the flashpoint Damascus neighborhood of Barza carrying signs saying: "We want Russia and China to change their position towards this regime."
Activists who called Friday's protests said in a message on the "Syrian Revolution 2011" Facebook page that the Syrian people want the United Nations to send a "permanent observer mission" to Syria.
The United States and several European powers are pushing for a UN resolution to condemn Assad's regime which has already been slapped with sanctions, including an oil ban.
But they have met with stiff resistance from Russia, China and a group of emerging nations including Brazil.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Assad in a television interview that "shadows loom over his legitimacy" and that "he who bases his power in bloodshed will end up leaving in a trail of blood."
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NOT-BASEBALL'S-AMERICAN-LEAGUE ...
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REPORT: TURKEY TELLS WEST IT MAY LAUNCH [possible Military] OFFENSIVE AGZ SYRIA, to overthrow Baby Assad + Regime.
ARTIC doesn't appear to be a repeat or reprint???
* WAFF/MIL FORUMS > TURKEY'S ERDOGAN SAYS WAS MISQUOTED ON WARSHIP ESCORT TO GAZA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Goodluck Jonathan
Springfield, Mo-- Springfield police are asking the FBI to join their investigation into a shooting at a Greyhound bus station. Officers say around 6:00 Thursday night [Sept. 9, 2011] Mohamed H. Dawod, 25, of Glendale Arizona shot another passenger in the back. The victim, Justin M. Hall, 32, from Ohio died at the hospital from the injuries. 
Michael 
Orakzai Agency
Wazoo
The Rangers held six suspects during a search operation in 
President-for-Life Bashir 
