North Korea Warns Of Fire Shower of Nuclear Retaliation
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 12:00 AM PDT
North Korea condemned a recent U.S. pledge to provide nuclear
defense of South Korea, saying Thursday that the move boosts its
justification to have atomic bombs and invites a potential “fire shower of
nuclear retaliation.”
The commentary in Pyongyang’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper was
the North’s latest reaction to last week’s summit between President Barack
Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. The allies issued a joint
statement committing the U.S. to defend the South with nuclear
weapons.
It also came as an American destroyer trailed a North Korean
ship suspected of shipping weapons in violation of a U.N. resolution
punishing Pyongyang’s May 25 nuclear test, and as anticipation mounted
that the North might test-fire short- or mid-range missiles in the coming
days.
The North’s newspaper claimed that the “nuclear umbrella”
commitment made it more likely for the U.S. to mount a nuclear attack on
the communist North, and only “provides us with a stronger justification
to have nuclear deterrent.”
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North Korea Threatens to Wipe U.S. Off The Globe
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:45 PM PDT
North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off
the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will
launch a series of missiles in the coming days.
Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean
ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be
the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an
underground nuclear test last month.
The Kang Nam left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago
with the USS John S. McCain close behind. The ship, accused of
transporting banned goods in the past, is believed bound for Myanmar,
according to South Korean and U.S. officials.
The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states
to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it
would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused
the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.
“If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and
people of Korea will … wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for
all,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.
The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the
start of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a
peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in state of war.
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NYPD’s Counterterrorism Operations
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:40 PM PDT
Yesterday afternoon, the Washington Institute hosted Richard
Falkenrath, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism, as part of
a lecture series the Institute has been running since late 2007 with
senior US counterterrorism officials.
Here is an excerpt of his remarks:
The threat is both external and internal. The external threat,
I think, is best understood by the federal government and by the Beltway
experts. I think the internal threat – the homegrown threat – is far less
well understood by counterterrorism experts in Washington. And there’s a
reason for that, which is our entire counterterrorism intelligence
collection process in the United States requires predication. It requires
various conditions to be met in order for the FBI or the other agencies
involved to proceed with their investigations.
Now, that predication is usually foreign intelligence of one
kind or another. And when we get it, the federal government is
well-positioned to proceed with counterterrorism investigations. It’s far
more difficult when there is no connection to a foreign terrorist
organization, and when there’s no connection to any terrorist organization
– when it’s just an individual or a small number of individuals who may be
watching television or downloading videos or getting on Web sites, but not
actually connected to anyone who we know to be bad, but who might
themselves decide to go try something.
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US Embassy in Sudan Warns of Terror Threat
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:35 PM PDT
The U.S. embassy in Sudan is warning of a threat by Islamist
extremists to attack the Sudanese government as well as “Western
interests.”
A statement on the U.S. embassy website warned that a post on a
radical Islamist website threatened an attack on the Sudanese government.
It indicated the threat is related to the recent death of a suspected
Islamic extremist.
The statement provided few details of the threat, but warned
that calls for violence against the government as well as “Western
interests” could also be made during prayers on Friday, and urged
Americans in Sudan to exercise caution.
Sudan has been on the U.S. government’s list of state sponsors
of terrorism since 1993. Sudanese officials have been pushing Washington
to remove Sudan from the list in recent years, as the country has
cooperated in sharing intelligence as part of the war on terror. The
United States says terrorists remain active in the country.
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Pakistan Foils Major Terror Attacks
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:27 PM PDT
Pakistani police today claimed to have foiled terror attacks in
major cities across the country, including on parliament here, with the
arrest of 25 “significant terrorists”, including at least two would-be
suicide bombers.
Interior minister Mr Rehman Malik said one of the two would-be
suicide bombers had plans to target the parliament house. The other bomber
had plans to strike at the office of an intelligence agency, he said.
Police said the arrested suspects were planning attacks in
major cities across the country. Inspector general of police Syed Kaleem
Imam described the arrested persons as “significant terrorists”. Six of
them were “high value targets” wanted by authorities for killing law
enforcement personnel in Swat and carrying out bomb attacks, he said. The
arrests had helped foil attacks and subversive activities in Karachi and
Lahore.
Some of the terrorists hailed from Swat and South Waziristan
tribal agency while some had links to the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad,
Mr Imam said.
The terrorists, who were arrested with the help of intelligence
agencies, planned to target law enforcement agencies, vital installations
and foreign dignitaries. Suicide jackets and explosives had been found in
their possession, Mr Imam said.
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Is Your Cell Phone Spying On You?
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:20 PM PDT
Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to
recent developments in “spy phone” software, a do-it-yourself spook can
now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The
programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The
would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys
authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time
needed to download a ringtone.
This new generation of -user-friendly spy-phone software has
become widely available in the last year—and it confers stunning powers.
The latest programs can silently turn on handset microphones even when no
call is being made, allowing a spy to listen to voices in a room halfway
around the world. Targets are none the wiser: neither call logs nor phone
bills show records of the secretly transmitted data.
More than 200 companies sell spy-phone software online, at
prices as low as $50 (a few programs cost more than $300). Vendors are
loath to release sales figures. But some experts—private investigators and
consultants in counter-wiretapping, computer-security software and
telecommunications market research—claim that a surprising number of
people carry a mobile that has been compromised, usually by a spouse,
lover, parent or co-worker. Many employees, experts say, hope to discover
a supervisor’s dishonest dealings and tip off the top boss anonymously.
Max Maiellaro, head of Agata Christie Investigation, a
private-investigation firm in Milan, estimates that 3 percent of mobiles
in France and Germany are tapped, and about 5 percent or so in Greece,
Italy, Romania and Spain. James Atkinson, a spy-phone expert at Granite
Island Group, a security consultancy in Gloucester, Massachusetts, puts
the number of tapped phones in the U.S. at 3 percent. (These
approximations do not take into account government wiretapping.) Even if
these numbers are inflated, clearly many otherwise law-abiding citizens
are willing to break wiretapping laws.
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Locals Call Virginia School Breeding Ground For Terrorists
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:15 PM PDT
A coalition opposing the expansion of the radical Islamic Saudi
Academy in Fairfax County, Va., has filed a conflict-of-interest complaint
with the Virginia state attorney general over the county government’s role
in distributing invitations to an Islamic dinner.
Invitations to the free dinner – which is billed as,
“Understanding Islam Conference: A Symposium to Promote Peace, Harmony,
Understanding and Cultural Diversity” – were distributed by e-mail to
county residents by Fairfax County official Sandra S. Chisholm, community
interfaith liaison for the Department of Systems Management for Human
Services.
Local citizens trying to block the expansion of the Saudi
academy, which they say is a “breeding ground” for terrorists, complain
that the conference reveals the county’s bias in the fight.
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