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Archive for category Threat Watch
CrimeReports.com
Posted by Brian in Threat Watch on 9/Mar/2010 15:13
CrimeReports.com is a useful website for crime statistics. The site is very user friendly;Â starting at the homepage all you have to do is enter your ZIP or city and state and the site displays the most common crimes in your are over the past fourteen days using an embedded Google Map. There is the ability to filter by type of crime, time period and distance. The site also has an Analytics tab for those who are real stats junkies. Along with the website the company has also provided an iPhone APP, for those on move. This is one of the easiest sites to navigate and provides a great public service.
UK Soldier Throws Back A Live Grenade
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 8/Mar/2010 15:44
Rifleman McKie
Rifleman McKie sustained fragmentation injuries to his right arm and face as the grenade exploded mid air, close to where he stood.
Fragmentation also hit his Platoon Commander Captain Graeme Kerr who sustained injuries to his leg and who is recovering at Selly Oak Hospital in the UK.
“We were in a high position on a compound roof. There was no way you could throw yourself off and not get injured, so I made a decision to pick up the grenade and throw it off the roof. And I threw it quite deliberately. I tried to throw it properly, to clear the roof. I didn’t want to do it half arsed and have them throw it back at us or anything like that. I remember thinking that if I didn’t pull this off, it was going to hurt. But at that stage I was pretty much committed.
American-born Al-Qaida spokesman Calls on US Muslims to Attack America
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 7/Mar/2010 13:39
Adam Gadahn, who grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, California, and converted to Islam at a mosque in nearby Orange County, on Sunday encouraged Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. In a 25-minute video Adam Gadahn described Maj. Nidal Hasan as a pioneer who should serve as a role model for other Muslims.
Gadahn said, “Brother Nidal is the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes”. Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, was dressed in white robes and wearing a white turban as he called for attacks on what he described as “high-value targets.”
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/al-qaida-adam-gadahn-calls-us-muslims-attack-america
Reps. Want Charges Against Navy Seals Dropped
Posted by Brian in Threat Watch on 4/Mar/2010 17:24
From FoxNews
Two Republican lawmakers are seeking to have charges dropped against three Navy SEALs facing court-martial for accusations of abusing a terror suspect arrested for an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq.
“They are guests”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 27/Feb/2010 12:47
A clip of Dutch people protesting against the trial of Geert Wilders in front of the court where his political trial is taking place. The people of Holland are supporting Wilders in what is a trial of truly historical consequence.
“For centuries we have had a separation of church and state and now we have a religion which just ignores that.”
Iranian Dissident Arrested
Posted by Gary in Threat Watch on 24/Feb/2010 14:23
From: Stratfor
In Iran, a ‘Most Wanted’ Arrest
Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Balochi dissident group Jundallah. Analyst Kamran Bokhari explores theories about the circumstances of his arrest, which might have occurred in Pakistan.
The Utility Of Assassination
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 24/Feb/2010 14:15
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
By George Friedman
The apparent Israeli assassination of a Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates turned into a bizarre event replete with numerous fraudulent passports, alleged Israeli operatives caught on videotape and international outrage (much of it feigned), more over the use of fraudulent passports than over the operative’s death. If we are to believe the media, it took nearly 20 people and an international incident to kill him.
STRATFOR has written on the details of the killing as we have learned of them, but we see this as an occasion to address a broader question: the role of assassination in international politics.
Defining Assassination
We should begin by defining what we mean by assassination. It is the killing of a particular individual for political purposes. It differs from the killing of a spouse’s lover because it is political. It differs from the killing of a soldier on the battlefield in that the soldier is anonymous and is not killed because of who he is but because of the army he is serving in. Read the rest of this entry »
The Meaning of Marjah
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 22/Feb/2010 18:01
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
By Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes
On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO effort in Afghanistan had been constrained by other considerations, most notably Iraq. Western forces viewed the Afghan conflict as a matter of holding the line or pursuing targets of opportunity. But now, armed with larger forces and a new strategy, the war — the real war — has begun. The most recent offensive — dubbed Operation Moshtarak (“Moshtarak†is Dari for “togetherâ€) — is the largest joint U.S.-NATO-Afghan operation in history. It also is the first major offensive conducted by the first units deployed as part of the surge of 30,000 troops promised by U.S. President Barack Obama.
The United States originally entered Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. In those days of fear and fury, American goals could be simply stated: A non-state actor — al Qaeda — had attacked the American homeland and needed to be destroyed. Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan at the invitation of a near-state actor — the Taliban, which at the time were Afghanistan’s de facto governing force. Since the Taliban were unwilling to hand al Qaeda over, the United States attacked. By the end of the year, al Qaeda had relocated to neighboring Pakistan and the Taliban retreated into the arid, mountainous countryside in their southern heartland and began waging a guerrilla conflict. In time, American attention became split between searching for al Qaeda and clashing with the Taliban over control of Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) betrays America on immigration
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 21/Feb/2010 16:12
“The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, is meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend to hear well-known political leaders like Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich talk about prospects for electoral victories in 2010.
The best example of how CPAC 2010 has failed the conservative movement is CPAC’s attempt to redefine (sabotage would be a more accurate term) the potent issues of illegal immigration and border security.
Whereas grass-roots conservatives and millions of 912 patriots – along with 80 percent of the American people – understand the need for border security as a precondition for immigration reform, CPAC board member Grover Norquist is busy launching a new project in support of the Obama administration’s plan to grant another amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens.
Neither border control nor immigration enforcement was included as a topic for any of the CPAC general sessions.
CAIR: Dominant, not Equal
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 21/Feb/2010 16:05
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become domlninant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth”
– Omar Ahmad, Co-Founder of the Council on Almerican-Islalmic Relations (CAIR)
From the book, “Beware of Imams Bearing Gifts of Peace and Tolerance: From Terror to Dhimmitude”
Warfighting 101
Posted by Gary in News, Opinion, Threat Watch on 18/Feb/2010 13:55
From: Mark Alexander
“A universal peace … is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” –James Madison
I spent much of the last week participating in a national security forum organized by the Air War College and hosted by the Twelfth Air Force and the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis-Monthan AFB.
Discussing the challenges of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the surge for Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan with command personnel makes for lively debate, but the best part of these forums is incidental — the opportunity to meet many enlisted airmen and those flying the planes they make ready.
I have been on military bases across the nation, and without fail I am most impressed by the young uniformed Patriots who are the foundation of our military might. Simply put, their dedication, talent and spirit are second to none.
A Mosque Grows in Tucson
Posted by Gary in Opinion, Threat Watch on 17/Feb/2010 15:53
From Phyrfight
I drove past a mosque in downtown Tucson this week. There is an 18th century Spanish Mission about 9 miles away and the mosque, which appears to have a prefab fiberglass dome, is right next to a big catholic church. I can imagine some factory overseas where they turn out fiberglass mosque domes by the hundreds.
Seeing this unexpected island of Islam surrounded by a sea of Catholicism made me think how angry the hundreds of millions of true believers of Islam must be at Osama. If he had not been so anxious to bring about jihad, the steady and inevitable spread of Islam would have gone on mostly unnoticed by the work-a-day world.
The following conversation took place before the collapse of the Soviet Union and long before the “War on Terrorâ€.
From Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, p 52. John Perkins is speaking with a woman in Indonesia.
“But why should there be such animosity between Muslims and Christians?†I asked. … “Because,†she said …â€the West—especially its leader, the U.S.—is determined to take control of all the world, to become the greatest empire in history. It has already gotten very close to succeeding. The Soviet Union currently stands in its way, but the Soviets will not endure. Toynbee* could see that. They have no religion, no faith, no substance behind their ideology. History demonstrates that faith—soul, a belief in higher powers—is essential. We Muslims have it. We have it more than anyone else in the world, even more than the Christians. So we wait. We grow strong.†*Reference to Arnold Toynbee’s Civilization on Trial and The World and the West.
The Jihadist CBRN Threat
Posted by Brian in Threat Watch on 14/Feb/2010 15:28
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
By Scott Stewart
In an interview aired Feb. 7 on CNN, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she considers weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the hands of an international terrorist group to be the largest threat faced by the United States today, even bigger than the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran. “The biggest nightmare that many of us have is that one of these terrorist member organizations within this syndicate of terror will get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction,†Clinton said. In referring to the al Qaeda network, Clinton noted that it is “unfortunately a very committed, clever, diabolical group of terrorists who are always looking for weaknesses and openings.â€
Clinton’s comments came on the heels of a presentation by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In his Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community on Feb. 2, Blair noted that, although counterterrorism actions have dealt a significant blow to al Qaeda’s near-term efforts to develop a sophisticated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) attack capability, the U.S. intelligence community judges that the group is still intent on acquiring the capability. Blair also stated the obvious when he said that if al Qaeda were able to develop CBRN weapons and had the operatives to use them it would do so.
All this talk about al Qaeda and WMD has caused a number of STRATFOR clients, readers and even friends and family members to ask for our assessment of this very worrisome issue. So, we thought it would be an opportune time to update our readers on the topic. Read the rest of this entry »
What Is Iran Planning for Thursday?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 9/Feb/2010 19:39
Khamenei, whose public statements should be taken seriously, is promising some sort of devastating “punch†against the West on Thursday the 11th, the same day as the Green Movement is calling for a monster protest against his regime.
http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/02/08/what-is-iran-planning-for-thursday/