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Islamic Terrorism

Mexican and Colombian drug cartels may be moving operations to Argentina

September 8, 2008 M3 Report   El Universal (Mexico City) 9/5/08 –  There is evidence that drug cartels are moving their operations to Argentina. Because of tougher enforcement measures in Mexico and Colombia, the “capos” are forced to seek countries with laws and enforcement more lax.  Argentina has been considered only a “port of transit” for […]

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Islamic Terrorism

Islam On the March to World Domination – Update August 20, 2008

August 20, 2008 Hizb ut Tahrir London meeting: an eyewitness report This report comes from Jihad Watch, and is a first hand account of Islam’s quest for world domination through the control of land, energy, ports, and the subversion of world governments.  Here are the facts:  A Jihad Watch reader went undercover to the Hizb […]

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Geopolitical

Russia Wants to Annex Half of Ukraine

Could Ukraine Become Russia’s Next Target? By Peter Fedynsky Moscow Voice of America 15 August 2008 The former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine are allies engaged in similar attempts to establish democratic rule, to join NATO and realign themselves with the West, much to the displeasure of Russia.

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Islamic Terrorism

Islamists Actively Establishing Worldwide Islamic State

August 8, 2008 As the West Sleeps, Islamists Work on Establishing a Worldwide Islamic State (Part I of II) by M. Zuhdi Jasser How many of our State Department employees are following Qaradawi’s Arabic writings and its influence upon impressionable Muslims? While we in the West sleep, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), […]

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Islamic Terrorism

China and the Enduring Uighurs

August 6, 2008 By Rodger Baker Stratfor Terrorism Intelligence Report On Aug. 4, four days before the start of the Beijing Olympics, two ethnic Uighurs drove a stolen dump truck into a group of some 70 Chinese border police in the town of Kashi in Xinjiang, killing at least 16 of the officers.

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Geopolitical

STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Strike Plan

July 25, 2008 By Hans M. Kristensen  FAS The U.S. military has canceled a controversial war plan designed to strike adversaries promptly – even preemptively – with conventional and nuclear weapons. The strike plan was known as Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 8022 and first entered into effect in the summer of 2004 to provide the president […]

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Geopolitical

The Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser Exchange

July 21, 2008   Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)    Two years after the second Lebanon war the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were exchanged for five Lebanese prisoners, including the terrorist murderer Samir Kuntar, and 199 terrorist remains. Hezbollah exploited the exchange to produce a […]

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Islamic Terrorism

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Training Mexican Cartel Thugs

July 18, 2008 DEA Reports show that Mexican Cartel “Thugs” are receiving training from Iranian Revolutionary Guard.  NAFBPO: El Universal (Mexico City) 7/17/08 – This paper accessed “restricted circulation” reports of the DEA which show that the Sinaloa and Gulf narcotraffic cartels have contacted extremist groups in Iran to send “elite” thugs, mainly ex-military, to […]

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Geopolitical

The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008

June 18, 2008 INSS Tel Aviv Preface of from the Institute for National Security Studies, 2008 by Heller, Mark A., ed. (Full PDF report linked below) Veteran observers of the Middle East scene are understandably prone to skepticism about the prospects of any fundamental transformation in regional realities. After all, the sense of dynamism and […]

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Islamic Terrorism

Honor Killing – Women of the Middle East Raise Their Own Executioners

June 2, 2008  Memri Dispatch 1945  Saudi Human and Women’s Rights Activist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar Speaks Out Against Honor Killings On April 7, 2007, a teenage Yazidi Kurdish girl named Du’a Al-Aswad was stoned to death by a lynch-mob in Iraq, because she had violated her family’s honor. A video of the stoning, filmed by the […]

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Israel

Anti-Israeli Terrorism in 2007 and its Trends in 2008

May 26, 2008 IICC (see Hebrew version) This study analyzes anti-Israeli terrorism in 2007, an important, continuing influence on the country’s political agenda. It includes analyses of the terrorist attack policies and the modus operandi of the various terrorist organizations and networks (Palestinian terrorist organizations, Hezbollah and global jihad). It also analyzes the factors influencing […]

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Islamic Terrorism

Islamist Forums Instruct How to Make and Use Explosives, Weapons and Poisons

May 8, 2008 Memri Dispatch #435 By: D. Nagy * Islamist Forums Teach Mujahideen in terrorist activities to carry out Jihad Introduction (complete 15 page PDF) In recent years jihadist organizations have been using the Internet for purposes of indoctrination, propaganda, recruitment, and maintaining morale among the mujahideen. In addition, Internet forums provide venues not […]