War against terror

[Badgerboy 0]

Interesting read on US operations in a really little part of Afghanistan:

Don´t scream about the source, the article is not bad

An interesting read.

[theavonlady 2]

Interesting read on US operations in a really little part of Afghanistan:

Don´t scream about the source, the article is not bad

I got this response from Howard.

It is indeed a very good read. It's also the stuff that a great OFP mission/campaign can be made of, if someone would put their mind to it.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

The CSM's a good resource, by and large. Good article, too.

[ralphwiggum 6]

Soldier held on suspicion of espionage

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(CNN) -- A National Guard soldier was arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to pass information about military capabilities to the al Qaeda terrorist organization, military officials said Thursday.

Spc. Ryan G. Anderson, 26, was taken into custody at Fort Lewis, Washington, after an internal sting operation, said Lt. Col. Stephen Barger, post spokesman.

He will be charged with "aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence to the al Qaeda terrorist network," Barger said.

Barger said the investigation involved the Army, the FBI and the Justice Department.

"This is part of a joint, ongoing investigation," he said. "I can't get into specifics of how the investigation started or proceeded."

Barger said it could be four or five days before charges are formally filed.

Anderson allegedly offered to pass the information to al Qaeda agents through an Internet chat room, Pentagon officials said. But it is not believed he actually made contact with al Qaeda members, the sources said.

Law enforcement personnel were monitoring the chat room looking for people who might try to give up information, and Anderson allegedly tried to offer information to al Qaeda, according to sources.

Officials said Anderson, a tank crewman with the 303rd Armor Battalion of the 81st Armor Brigade at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, was the only target of the sting.

The sting operation involved passing sensitive information about capabilities and vulnerabilities of armored Humvees and tanks, both of which are used in the brigade, officials said.

The brigade is preparing to deploy for final training in California before it departs for a tour of duty in Iraq.

When asked if Anderson is a Muslim, Barger said, "Religious preferences are an individual right and responsibility, and I really can't get into it."

Sources said Anderson converted to Islam several years ago.

Local media outlets in Washington reported that Anderson was a 2002 Washington State University graduate and studied military history with an emphasis on the Middle East.

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Quote[/b] ]Law enforcement personnel were monitoring the chat room looking for people who might try to give up information, and Anderson allegedly tried to offer information to al Qaeda, according to sources.

Do you think we are monitored also ?

[Badgerboy 0]

Joining 'Secret Terror Fun Room'......

Private Billy Joe :iS bIN lADEN ON? gOT SOME SHIT HE MIGHT WANT, BUT i WANT 5 WIVES AND A CAMAL AS PAYMENT.

al Qaeda studmuffin : Greetings Billy, I would like to get to know you and your 'secrets'. Do you have a webcam?

Private Billy Joe : yEAH SURE, 26 M US!!!!!

al Qaeda studmuffin : My thanks Billy, my agents will be with you shortly...

Private Billy Joe : eH? wTF?!!!

Private Billy Joe has been kicked/Perm Banned

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Some people really do come from the bottom of the barrel... What a prick!

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@balschoiw

Does denoirs little perl script count, which updates a database with all our accounts and posts on a bi-daily base?

Together with some smart filtering algorithms to collect all personell information posted it is used by a certain sewdish company to achieve world domination.      

[theavonlady 2]

Quote[/b] ]Law enforcement personnel were monitoring the chat room looking for people who might try to give up information, and Anderson allegedly tried to offer information to al Qaeda, according to sources.

Do you think we are monitored also ?

Ralph is watching.

[Balschoiw 0]

Seriously. A lot of telecommunication worldwide is screened.

Why would this forum be an exception ?

[denoir 0]

Seriously. A lot of telecommunication worldwide is screened.

Why would this forum be an exception ?

Of course it passes through a number of filters. Probably at least for each country it passes through. On the other hand with so many people using 'suspicious' keywords in their communication, makes automatic filtering quite difficult. So to get any useful information the filters must be cross-related to people already under suspicion (and servers under suspicion).

But, to be on the safe side my mother always told me to encrypt my communication when I sell state secrets

[theavonlady 2]

Howstuffworks: Carnivore

[Balschoiw 0]

Quote[/b] ]But, to be on the safe side my mother always told me to encrypt my communication when I sell state secrets

That´s pretty funny. I had a time some years ago where I knew things that happened from 1992 - 1993 that really could have had heavy influence on german policy. At that time I was thinking about going to SPIEGEL with it, but I never was really sure if that would take me to jail because of the code we´ve had at that time.

Over the years I experienced that a lot of that stuff happens on a daily rate and most of it goes unnoticed.

I´m even pretty sure today that noone would have been really interested in the things at that time. So basically it has been the right decision not to make it public. The world didn´t explode and noone was hurt

I´m still waiting to be contacted by some foreign intelligance though as we have been warned about it from day one of my career but it actually never happened. Or did I just didn´t notice it ?

[denoir 0]

I´m still waiting to be contacted by some foreign intelligance though as we have been warned about it from day one of my career but it actually never happened. Or did I just didn´t notice it ?  

Yeah, I know. I'm quite disappointed too. The closest thing I've come to that was a black-marketeer in Kosovo who tried to bribe me and another guy to provide him information on where KFOR would be doing searches for illegal weapons. He offered a nice BMW in exchange, but as it was a little to big to carry, we politely declined

[theavonlady 2]

Meanwhile.....................

Quote[/b] ]Report: Al Qaida boats to attack British targets

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Al Qaida has allegedly acquired 15 vessels it plans to send into British ports laden with lethal chemical and 'dirty bomb' containing depleted uranium, reports the London-based newspaper The Mirror.

Targets may include the British Parliament, cruise liners, oil rigs, the UK's Met's marine unit and other sensitive targets, media report said.

A memo opublished by the paper states that financial services major Lloyd's have been mobilized to assist MI6 and the CIA trace vessels bought by Al-Qaida from a Greek shipping magnate having links to Osama bin Laden.

"Al-Qaida has reportedly taken possession of 15 ships, forming what could be described as the first terrorist navy. The ships fly the flags of Yemen and Somalia where they are registered – and are capable of carrying lethal cargoes of chemicals or a dirty bomb," the memo said.

Alarmed by the report British government is reportedly checking vessels with flags of Senegal, Liberia and the Caribbean island of St Vincent in the Indian or Pacific oceans and routinely patrolling the Thames to protect Parliament, MI6, and other possible targets.

The Royal Navy, Special Forces and the Yard's anti-terrorism squad are looking for "unusual" shipping movements near Britain's oilfields and oil refineries, the newspaper said.

US intelligence experts believe an al-Qaida ship carried explosives used to bomb two US embassies in Africa in 1998, as was the case in the Bali bombing.

[toadeater 0]

An interesting development in the other war on terror. Either the "KGB" has struck again, or this is a sign that OPEC is abandoning the Chechens in exchange for Russian support. I suppose it's also possible that Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD, could have something to do with this since they have an even longer record of assassinations in the middle-east than the CIA or "KGB":

Ex-Chechen President Yandarbiyev Killed

Ex-Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev Dies in Qatar Car Explosion, Interior Ministry Says

The Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar Feb. 13 — Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, wanted in Russia for terrorist ties and linked to al-Qaida, died Friday after an explosion ripped apart his car in the Qatari capital, the Interior Ministry said.

Yandarbiyev, also a poet and children's author, was killed in the 12:45 p.m. blast, which also injured his 13-year-old son, an official at the ministry told the Qatar News Agency.

A doctor at Hamad General Hospital said Yandarbiyev died en route, and his son was in critical condition.

They were the only two people brought to the hospital, the doctor said. Earlier, another official at the hospital had said earlier that two bodyguards were dead on arrival.

The Interior Ministry was investigating the incident, the news agency said. The Russian Embassy had no immediate comment.

Russia has been seeking the extradition of Yandarbiyev, who has been living in Qatar for more than three years. He was considered a key link in the Chechen rebels' finance network, channeling funds from abroad.

His death came one week after a bomb exploded in Moscow's subway, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 100 others in a suicide attack that President Vladimir Putin blamed on Chechen separatist rebels.

Boris Labusov, a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, a top KGB successor, said his agency had no involvement in Yandarbiyev's death, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

The Interfax news agency quoted Chechnya's Kremlin-backed President Akhmad Kadyrov as saying, "Yandarbiyev was the main ideologue of the separatists, and therefore of the terrorist organizations bringing Chechnya to such severe consequences. He is guilty of everything that has happened."

Arab satellite channels Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya reported that two people were killed in the explosion.

Al-Jazeera said the explosion occurred after Yandarbiyev had prayed at a mosque in the upscale residential area of al-Dafnah, a northern suburb of Doha. He got into his private car, and the explosion went off at a road intersection 300 yards away.

The station showed a badly mangled and burned SUV, with only its white fender still recognizable. Security forces and a sniffer dog worked the area as a body, wrapped in white sheet, was loaded into a waiting ambulance.

Born in 1952, Yandarbiyev became vice president of the Russian republic of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev, and served as acting president of de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-97. He headed the rebel delegation to talks with then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin and then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in 1996.

Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen embassy in Kabul and a consulate in Kandahar during the reign of the hard-line Taliban militia.

The United Nations last year put Yandarbiyev on a list of people with alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The U.S. government also put Yandarbiyev on a list of international terrorists subject to U.S. financial sanctions.

Yandarbiyev denied links between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and Chechen rebels.

Russian forces withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after a disastrous 20-month war with rebels, leaving the republic largely lawless and running its own affairs. Troops swept in again in 1999 after Chechnya-based militants launched raids into a neighboring region and after some 300 people were killed in apartment building explosions that Russian officials blamed on Chechen separatists.

Yandarbiyev was a nationalist poet and children's book author, and he became one of the most prominent proponents of radical Islam among the rebels. He came in third in de facto independent Chechnya's 1997 presidential elections, behind moderate Aslan Maskhadov and fiery rebel Shamil Basayev.

Yandarbiyev is the most prominent Chechen separatist to have been killed since the 2002 death of warlord Omar Ibn al Khattab, who reportedly was poisoned.

[Pipski 0]

the UK's Met's marine unit

What the Hell is a UK Met's marine unit?

Of course we could stop all these terrorist boats easily, if only we hadn't scrapped the RN. D'oh!

[ralphwiggum 6]

@balschoiw

Does denoirs little perl script count, which updates a database with all our accounts and posts on a bi-daily base?

Together with some smart filtering algorithms to collect all personell information posted it is used by a certain sewdish company to achieve world domination.      

yup. i've been watching him and it is still going on...

watch out for jokes that he puts up to decieve us.

Quote[/b] ]But, to be on the safe side my mother always told me to encrypt my communication when I sell state secrets

[Balschoiw 0]

Cynical isn´t it :

Guantanamo inmates get new rights

Quote[/b] ]Prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will have their detentions reviewed by a new panel once a year.

Announcing the move, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said a three-member board would determine whether detainees were an ongoing threat to the US.

A breakthough !

A breakthrough ?

Not.

Panel members ?

1. Donaldino Rumsfeldio

2. Bushy Georgina

3. Brick Dechaney

I am pretty sure in the heat of election campaign Georgina will set some free (big TV and Tam-Tam) and present them to public after they got brainwashed and wear funny american hats, waving tiny flags with Georginas face on it.

[Badgerboy 0]

the UK's Met's marine unit

What the Hell is a UK Met's marine unit?  

Of course we could stop all these terrorist boats easily, if only we hadn't scrapped the RN.  D'oh!

1. The Metropolitan Police naval units (London)

2. Eh? I think you might still find a few ships in the RN

[Balschoiw 0]

The AQ ships are no new news. Even before Iraq war US intel said to have lost contact to vessels and they were afraid of WMD´s shipped out of Iraq. Utter nonsense. As it is now...

Some slow moving mumbo jumbo freighter with Somali flag or one from Jemen with all the rust they tend to carry will barely go unnoticed.

We´re not talking about high speed low ducking torpedo boats but tuck tuck´s that tend to fall apart. Do you really think they would go up to London unnoticed ? It´s not like the coast and channel guys didn´t have some air - like security system.

[bn880 5]

Cynical isn´t it :

Guantanamo inmates get new rights

Quote[/b] ]Prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will have their detentions reviewed by a new panel once a year.

Announcing the move, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said a three-member board would determine whether detainees were an ongoing threat to the US.

A breakthough !

A breakthrough ?

Not.

Panel members ?

1. Donaldino Rumsfeldio

2. Bushy Georgina

3. Brick Dechaney

I am pretty sure in the heat of election campaign Georgina will set some free (big TV and Tam-Tam) and present them to public after they got brainwashed and wear funny american hats, waving tiny flags with Georginas face on it.

LMAO

Bushy Georgina...

if anyone does not know who that is, check the Iraq Thread 3 link by me where jp223 starts to get himself banned.

[Balschoiw 0]

US 'may hold cleared detainees'

Quote[/b] ]Pentagon officials have confirmed that Guantanamo detainees may still be kept in detention, even if they are found not guilty by a military tribunal.

They say detainees could be kept prisoner if they are considered a security risk.

If found guilty, they could also be held beyond any sentence laid down by the tribunal.

Quote[/b] ]But the officials say it would not be common sense to release detainees after trials if it was thought they might launch new attacks on US interests.

So prisoners found "not - guilty" will be held in prison ?!?

WTF is going on in the USA !?!

[bn880 5]

Business as usual my friend, business as usual.

[Balschoiw 0]

up up

US forces accused of looting, torture and death in Afghanistan

Quote[/b] ]Soldiers are accused of using unprovoked deadly force in capturing civilians, some of whom were then allegedly subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment leading to deaths in custody. It is also alleged that looting has taken place during searches of homes.

Quote[/b] ]The report, by Human Rights Watch, says the situation at Guantanamo Bay is being replicated many times in Afghanistan, with detainees being held in even worse conditions at the military bases of Bagram, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Asadabad.

At least three prisoners are known to have died during interrogation, with two of the deaths being ruled homicide by American military pathologists after post-mortem examinations. US officials have refused to explain what happened in any of the cases.

Quote[/b] ]HRW's report, Enduring Freedom: Abuses by US Forces in Afghanistan, is based on research in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past 15 months. The report states that while President George Bush insists that the US does not mistreat detainees, independent observers are prevented from seeing them.

and something about Guantanamo Bay

Quote[/b] ]US Using "Terrorist" Methods in Guantanamo, Says Terry Waite

Agence France Presse

LONDON, 6 March 2004 "Agence France Presse" - Former British hostage Terry Waite, who was held in captivity by Islamic extremists for almost five years in Lebanon, said yesterday that the United States was using terrorist methods in its treatment of detainees at a prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

“You do not defeat terrorism by adopting methods of terrorists,†said Waite speaking alongside the families of British and French prisoners at the launch of a campaign for Guantanamo prisoners to be treated in accordance with international law.

“I know what it’s like to have no rights,†Waite told a London press conference the day before he and other representatives of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission take their campaign to New York and then Washington.

“My family know what it is like to have no information about me, even whether I am alive or dead,†Waite said.

“There are many families around the world who are in this same position now because of Guantanamo Bay,†he said.

Five British detainees who are set to be freed by US authorities from Guantanamo Bay will be back in Britain next week, Maxine Fiddler, the sister of one of those to be released and also a member of the commission, said earlier yesterday.

“All that we know is that the Britons are being brought home sometime next week,†she told BBC radio, adding she had not been given a specific date for her brother’s return.

The five are among nine Britons, and a total of more than 650 prisoners, at the isolated US naval base where US President George Bush’s administration has been holding non-American suspects in its “war on terrorâ€.

Guantanamo “detainees have been hooded, shackled and, I understand, kept in cages which in itself amounts to mental torture,†Waite said.

“There are reports that they have been subjected to very severe hardship in order to extract information. I was blindfolded, shackled, kept in solitary confinement and interrogated,†he said.

This “should not be happening in a civilized nationâ€, Waite said. “I have no truck with terrorism and what happened in the United States on Sept. 11 was a terrible tragedy. But I firmly believe that if you are going to deal with this problem you should follow due process,†he said.

“Some of these people may be guilty and some of them may be innocent,†he added. “None of us will know unless they follow due process.â€

The delegation, which includes actors and leading human rights activists Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, novelist Margaret Drabble and family members of European detainees, will submit letters to Bush at the White House on Monday. It will also lobby US legislators and appeal to the public about the prisoners’ plight, dividing their time between New York and Washington before flying home on Thursday next week.

The team is also planning to meet Democratic Party presidential hopeful John Kerry, who has criticized the US-led invasion of Iraq. “Our message is very simple,†Corin Redgrave told journalists: “America has given the world a model of democracy which is founded on the rule of law, on fundamental human rights, including the right to fair trial, the right to silence.â€

“Guantanamo offers an alternative model to the world, a model where no rights are sustained.â€

Waite, 64, was held from January 1987 until November 1991 — much of the time in solitary confinement — by a shadowy group. He was kidnapped while trying to negotiate the release of Western hostages in his capacity as a special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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and something about Guantanamo Bay

Quote[/b] ]US Using "Terrorist" Methods in Guantanamo, Says Terry Waite

Boys say Guantanamo was more fun than a wet tshirt contest at a Club Med during Spring Break