Friday, April 17, 2009

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Egypt Terror Cell Planned To Strike In Tel Aviv



Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:11 PM PDT



Members of the Hizbullah cell uncovered in Egypt planned to carry out terror

attacks inside Israel, Egyptian daily Almasry Alyoum reported on Thursday.

According to the report, two of the cell’s members are Fatah operatives, who

confessed to having planned to enter Israel and carry out massive suicide

attacks, “maybe even in Tel Aviv”.


Number of security patrols increased along Israel-Egypt border, police

checkpoints reinforced to prevent illegal crossings after Cairo detained

group allegedly linked to Hizbullah, Egyptian defense sources say.


Sources close to the investigation told the newspaper that two Fatah

members, Muhammad Ramadan Barakeh and Nidal Fathi Hassan were

arrested under suspicion of ties with the Hizbullah cell.


Egyptian security forces arrested the two in Sinai a few weeks ago, while

they were making their way to one of the underground tunnels leading

into Gaza.


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Experts Predict Pakistan’s Collapse


Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:00 PM PDT




If anything keeps you awake at night, this should. What could be worse than

Iran or North Korea having a nuke..? How about Pakistan collapsing and terrorists
having access to over 100.


This is a serious, serious problem.


A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have

concluded that there’s little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan from
disintegrating into fiefdoms controlled by Islamist warlords and terrorists.

“It’s a disaster in the making on the scale of the Iranian revolution,” said a

U.S. intelligence official with long experience in Pakistan who requested
anonymity.


Pakistan’s fragmentation into warlord-run fiefdoms that host al-Qaida and

other terrorist groups would have grave implications for the security of its
nuclear arsenal; for the U.S.-led effort to pacify Afghanistan; and for the

security of India, the nearby oil-rich Persian Gulf and Central Asia, the U.S.

and its allies.


“Pakistan has 173 million people and 100 nuclear weapons, an army which is

bigger than the American Army, and the headquarters of al-Qaida sitting in
two-thirds of the country which the government does not control,” said

David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency consultant to the Obama administration.


“Pakistan isn’t Afghanistan, a backward, isolated, landlocked place that

outsiders get interested in about once a century,” agreed the U.S. intelligence
official. “It’s a developed state.”


He added: “The implications of this are disastrous for the U.S.”


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Al Qaeda Urges Somali Pirates To Attack Ships



Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:20 PM PDT


A senior Saudi Arabian al Qaeda operative has called on Somali jihadists to step

up their attacks on “crusader” forces at sea in the pirate-infested Gulf of
Aden, and on land in neighboring Djibouti, which hosts France’s largest military

base in Africa.


“To our steadfast brethren in Somalia, take caution and prepare yourselves,”

Sa’id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri aka Abu Sufian al-Azdi says in a new
audiotape acquired by CBS News.


“Increase your strikes against the crusaders at sea and in Djibouti.”


Shihri warns Somali militants against a conspiracy led by “the crusaders, the

Jews and traitor Arab rulers,” to put an end to the Muslim extremists’

progress in Somalia.


[...]


It was the first clear sign since the U.S. and French navies thwarted recent

pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden that al Qaeda is trying to take advantage

of anti-Western sentiment, and a ready supply of well-armed young men

with access to boats and maritime skills, in the restive country.


Al Qaeda does have links to Islamic extremist groups operating in Somalia but,

thus far, piracy and al Qaeda’s brand of terrorism have remained largely
separate. The pirates in the Gulf of
Aden have always sought ransom

payments or loot — they have not been motivated by Islamic

fundamentalism.


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