Arab League Chief Amr Moussa will hold an emergancy meeting of Arab Foriegn Ministers to acess the situation in the region. The Isreali-Palestenian conflict is the main issue to be discussed. www.ynet.com
Anonymous Coward User ID: 541437 11/10/2008 3:25 PM
Re: BIN LADEN RISES FROM THE DEAD TO ATTACK U.S. ONCE AGAIN
Bin Laden 'plans new attack on United States'
PAOLA TOTARO
10/11/2008 1:15:00 PM
Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will "outdo by far" September 11, 2001, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.
And, a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative said, the terrorist organisation has entered a "positive phase", reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next "wave of action" against the West.
The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and reported widely in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being "very close to al-Qaeda" in Yemen.
The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, who is said to have been the last journalist to interview bin Laden, in 1996.
Bin Laden is himself closely following preparations for an attack against the US and aims to "change the face of world politics and economics", the report says.
The former operative is quoted as saying that "this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia".
He says he remains in contact with current chiefs of the organisation in Yemen and that, only six months ago, bin Laden sent a message to all jihad cells in the Arab world, asking them not to interact with their governments or local political parties and to deny any request for mediation or formal talks.
The source also said that, during the next few days, the terrorist organisation might send a sign of its violent intentions.
The warning has emerged at the same time as publication of a report leaked to London's Telegraph newspaper, which reveals that a document drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence says that thousands of extremists are active in Britain.
The document says the operatives are predominantly British-born and aged between 18 and 30. Many are believed to have been trained in overseas terrorist camps.
Security officials are convinced al-Qaeda cells will attempt another "spectacular" inside Britain with major transport centres, such as airports and train stations, the most likely targets, the Telegraph reports.
Other targets include the Houses of Parliament, Whitehall and Buckingham and St James' palaces, with the threat level described as "severe".
I found myself laughing reading this. It reads like an Onion article it's so ludicrous.
I particularly LOVE this line:
Bin Laden is himself closely following preparations for an attack against the US and aims to "change the face of world politics and economics", the report says.
Translation: We, the NWO, are about the change the face of world politics and economics and will be blaming the impetus for this change (another false flag attack) on Bin Laden once again.
LOL! This stuff's hilarious!
What's SCARY, though, is that people take this as TRUTH and will be blaming Bin Laden when the time comes.
Oy vay. What has this world come to? A bunch of dim-witted idiots.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 547680 11/10/2008 3:39 PM
Re: BIN LADEN RISES FROM THE DEAD TO ATTACK U.S. ONCE AGAIN
At the end of the video segment the last fellow to speak says
"I think The United States lost its way a little bit, I think thats indisputable now"
I hope The US is praying for direction and leading. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews: 11
Anonymous Coward User ID: 547719 11/10/2008 8:31 PM
Re: BIN LADEN RISES FROM THE DEAD TO ATTACK U.S. ONCE AGAIN
Pirates seize chemical tanker, 23 crew off Somalia
By EILEEN NG – 1 hour ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Pirates hijacked a Philippines chemical tanker with 23 crew near Somalia, bringing the total number of attacks in waters off the impoverished African nation this year to 83, a maritime official said Tuesday.
The tanker was heading to Asia when it was seized Monday in the Gulf of Aden by pirates armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, said Noel Choong, who heads the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur.
In Manila, Foreign Ministry spokesman Claro Cristobal said the Philippine Embassy in Nairobi and the ship's operator identified the chemical tanker as the MT Stolt Strength.
All 23 seamen on board are Filipino and are "reportedly unharmed," he said, adding that Philippine authorities are coordinating with the ship's operator to secure the early safe release of the vessel and crew.
Choong said there was an attempted attack the same day on a refrigerated cargo ship in eastern Somalia, but the vessel managed to escape with evasive maneuvering. The ship flies a Saudi flag but is operated out of Britain.
Separately, the Indian navy said its marine commandos operating from a warship prevented pirates from hijacking an Indian merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday.
Choong said the bureau was still verifying the attack with the Indian ship owner. He said there were several other attempted attacks Tuesday, but details are still being ascertained.
The bureau has issued an urgent warning to ships to take extra measures to deter pirates even while sailing in a corridor of the gulf patrolled by a multinational naval force.
"The corridor is protected, but safe passage is not 100 percent guaranteed. The patrol boats cannot be everywhere at the same time. The ship master must maintain a strict radar watch for pirates," he said.
Many ships have fended off pirate attacks after seeking help from the coalition forces, he added.
Russia began escorting a Danish-operated cargo ship with Russian crew members on Tuesday following pirate attacks that claimed another ship operated by the same company last week, officials from both countries said.
NATO has sent three ships to the Gulf of Aden — one of the world's busiest shipping lanes — to help the U.S. Navy in anti-piracy patrols and to escort cargo vessels.
The European Union has said at least four warships backed by aircraft will begin policing the dangerous waters in December. The EU flotilla will eventually take over the NATO patrols.
Despite the increased security, attacks have continued unabated off Somalia, which is caught up in an Islamic insurgency and has had no functioning government since 1991.
As of Monday, there have been 83 attacks this year in Somali waters, with 33 ships hijacked. Twelve vessels remain in the hands of pirates along with more than 200 crew, Choong said, most notably a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks and weapons seized Sept. 25.
Associated Press writers Oliver Teves in Manila and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 433665 11/11/2008 11:13 AM
Re: BIN LADEN RISES FROM THE DEAD TO ATTACK U.S. ONCE AGAIN
Bin Laden 'plans new attack on United States'
PAOLA TOTARO
10/11/2008 1:15:00 PM
Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will "outdo by far" September 11, 2001, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.
And, a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative said, the terrorist organisation has entered a "positive phase", reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next "wave of action" against the West.
The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and reported widely in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being "very close to al-Qaeda" in Yemen.
The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, who is said to have been the last journalist to interview bin Laden, in 1996.
Bin Laden is himself closely following preparations for an attack against the US and aims to "change the face of world politics and economics", the report says.
The former operative is quoted as saying that "this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia".
He says he remains in contact with current chiefs of the organisation in Yemen and that, only six months ago, bin Laden sent a message to all jihad cells in the Arab world, asking them not to interact with their governments or local political parties and to deny any request for mediation or formal talks.
The source also said that, during the next few days, the terrorist organisation might send a sign of its violent intentions.
The warning has emerged at the same time as publication of a report leaked to London's Telegraph newspaper, which reveals that a document drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence says that thousands of extremists are active in Britain.
The document says the operatives are predominantly British-born and aged between 18 and 30. Many are believed to have been trained in overseas terrorist camps.
Security officials are convinced al-Qaeda cells will attempt another "spectacular" inside Britain with major transport centres, such as airports and train stations, the most likely targets, the Telegraph reports.
Other targets include the Houses of Parliament, Whitehall and Buckingham and St James' palaces, with the threat level described as "severe".
A former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative said, the terrorist organisation has entered a "positive phase", reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next "wave of action" against the West.
Now the KEY part
The former operative is quoted as saying that "this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia".
Now connect the dots today
Somali Islamists seize key port town with airstrip
The capture of Merka, 56 miles (90 kilometers) from the capital, Mogadishu, means the hardline al-Shabab militia holds both major ports with airstrips south of the capital, Mogadishu. Merka is a key conduit for food and aid workers. The group now controls most of the country's south, with the crucial exceptions of Mogadishu and Baidoa, where the parliament sits
President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.
The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.
That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.
The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."
(Column continues below)
When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the president can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."
Translated into layman's terms, when the president determines a national emergency has occurred, the president can declare to the office of the presidency powers usually assumed by dictators to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency is declared over.
Ironically, the directive sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.
The directive specifies that the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.
Further established is a Continuity Policy Coordination Committee, chaired by a senior director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, to be "the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination."
Currently, the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend.
Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as assistant commandant for intelligence.
She is a White House staff member in the executive office of the president who also chairs the Homeland Security Council, which as a counterpart to the National Security Council reports directly to the president.
The directive issued May 9 makes no attempt to reconcile the powers created there for the National Continuity Coordinator with the National Emergency Act. As specified by U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 34, Subchapter II, Section 1621, the National Emergency Act allows that the president may declare a national emergency but requires that such proclamation "shall immediately be transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register."
A Congressional Research Service study notes that under the National Emergency Act, the president "may seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and, in a variety of ways, control the lives of United States citizens."
The CRS study notes that the National Emergency Act sets up congress as a balance empowered to "modify, rescind, or render dormant such delegated emergency authority," if Congress believes the president has acted inappropriately.
NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 appears to supersede the National Emergency Act by creating the new position of National Continuity Coordinator without any specific act of Congress authorizing the position.
NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 also makes no reference whatsoever to Congress. The language of the May 9 directive appears to negate any a requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists, suggesting instead that the powers of the executive order can be implemented without any congressional approval or oversight.
Homeland Security spokesperson Russ Knocke affirmed that the Homeland Security Department will be implementing the requirements of NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 under Townsend's direction.
The White House had no comment.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 433665
Anonymous Coward User ID: 505155 11/12/2008 2:09 PM
Re: BIN LADEN RISES FROM THE DEAD TO ATTACK U.S. ONCE AGAIN
Pirates raise stakes with oil tanker hijack
By Andrew England in Cairo and Robert Wright in London
Published: November 17 2008 13:11 | Last updated: November 17 2008 19:08
Pirates operating off the coast of east Africa have hijacked a Saudi supertanker fully laden with an estimated 2m barrels of oil in an attack that marks a significant escalation in the scope of banditry in the region.
The pirates, believed to be from lawless Somalia, seized control of the Sirius Star, which is owned by Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, on Saturday, 450 nautical miles south-east of the Kenyan Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Crackdown faces waves of obstacles - Nov-17Piracy blows ships off Somali course - Nov-12Plea for UN force to fight Aden piracy - Nov-02Editorial comment: Pirates of the Horn - Nov-11It is estimated that the tanker was holding more than a quarter of the daily exports from Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter. The oil would have been worth about $100m (€79m, £66.5m) at Monday’s market price but is probably of little interest to the pirates.
Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International Maritime Bureau, said that the only cargoes that had interested Somali pirates previously were the shipments of World Food Programme aid.
Instead, pirates seize vessels to extort ransoms – often of about $2m – from shipowners desperate to have their crews returned.
Somali lawlessness spreads
November 16: Abdullahi Yusuf, Somalia’s president, says Islamist insurgents now control most of the south of the country, with the exception of the coastal capital and, Baidoa, the provincial seat of parliament
November 15: The Sirius Star, a fully laden Saudi tanker carrying 2m barrels of oil is attacked 450 nautical miles south-east of Mombasa, Kenya, the US Navy says
November 12: Two Somali pirates die in an exchange of fire with the Royal Navy in the Gulf of Aden. Somali Islamists, who have been gaining territory all year, take the port of Merka and the town of Elasha, bringing them within nine miles of Mogadishu, the capital
October 1: The Russian and US navies are given permission by Somalia’s interim government to use force against pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian ship laden with 33 tanks and other military hardware
September 15: European Union foreign ministers approve plans for a possible naval mission to the Horn of Africa to crack down on Somali pirates
The number of pirate acts reported to have occurred or been attempted off the coast of east Africa rose to 84 between January and September, compared with 46 over the same period in 2007, according to the International Maritime Organisation, making it the world’s worst affected region in terms of piracy.
Pirates currently hold 14 ships off the coast of Somalia.
Seven per cent of world oil consumption passed through the Gulf of Aden in 2007, according to Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit.
The tanker is about three times the tonnage of a US aircraft carrier, making it the largest vessel ever seized by pirates.
The attack also took place farther out to sea than before, signalling that the pirates have become increasingly bold, organised and able to adapt their tactics, experts say.
“It certainly represents a fundamental change in the pirates’ ability to be able to attack vessels out to sea,” said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US Fifth Fleet, which patrols the region’s waters.
Somali pirates in speed boats, heavily armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, have been wreaking havoc in the Gulf of Aden, launching regular attacks on vessels in the past two years. But the latest incident suggests they are moving further south into the Indian Ocean as western navies increase their patrols off the waters of Somalia, experts say.
The seizure puts an end to hopes that a succession of engagements in recent weeks between international military forces and pirates might have put an end to the security crisis in the area.
While most other seizures have been of vessels heading into or out of the Suez Canal, the latest incident will raise question marks about the safety of the route from the Arabian Gulf to the Cape of Good Hope – a route taken by the largest oil tankers heading from the world’s main oil-producing regions to both Europe and North America.
The development therefore puts at risk a far higher proportion of the world’s energy shipments than the 12 per cent that shipping organisations had already considered in danger. “That route from the Cape to the Gulf was not considered the riskiest route,” said Mr Mukundan.
Cyrus Mody, manager at the International Maritime Bureau, said the pirates would probably look to move the Sirius Star to the coast of Somalia where they would anchor it and begin negotiation with the owners.
However, the pirates are likely to face challenges navigating the vast ship, which will be sitting far too low in the water to go anywhere near the coast where they have normally taken captured ships.
Mr Mukundan also warned there was a substantial danger of pollution, either if the vessel was involved in an accident through poor navigation or if the cargo was not properly cared for while it was being held.
The Sirius Star, flagged in Liberia and operated by Vela International, has a deadweight tonnage of 318,000 tonnes and sits 10m above the water level. Its 25-man crew is made up of numerous nationalities, including Britons and Saudis.
“I think they will demand good money because it’s a brand new ship,” said Andrew Mwangura, of the East Africa Seafarers’ Assistance Programme. “I think they have hit the jackpot.”
Bin Laden has been dead for years. Who would believe the US government after their track record over that last few years. There is about as much chance of finding Bin laden alive as finding Elvis alive or finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The truth is that the USA wants an excuse to invade Pakistan and that could cause a third world war. Europeans hate the American government, Asians hate them, South Americans hate them Africans hate them and the people of the Middle East hate them. Only other governments support the US government. The US government used to be respected by the people of the world but now they are seen as a threat. The American people are still liked though its just that they aren't told the truth by their own media. The UK's government is just as bad though as they have similar policies.
Watch this video in which Benazir Bhutto clearly says Bin Laden is dead. [link to uk.youtube.com]
If you really want to know why the USA is invading other countries then watch this video from insider John Perkins.
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