Zitat:In Bagdad, Polen und Italien herrscht nun große Freude bei Angehörigen und Betroffenen. "Mir fällt ein Stein vom Herzen, dass Jerzy frei ist", sagte der aus dem Entführer-Auto geflüchtete Firmenkollege Radolsaw Kadri zu SPIEGEL ONLINE. Über die Details der Befreiung dürfe er allerdings nicht sprechen. In Italien informierte das dortige Innenministerium die Familien der Sicherheitsleute über deren Freilassung. Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi erfuhr an Bord eines Flugzeuges, das ihn zum G-8-Gipfel in die USA bringt, von der erfolgreichen Aktion.
"Das ganze Flugzeug brach in Jubelstürme aus", berichtete sein Sprecher.

Zitat:Die westlichen Geiseln, auch wenn sie befreit sind, werden sich wahrscheinlich bald wieder in den irakischen Strassen tummeln und könnten so auch der polnische Ingenieur alsbald wieder 'eingefangen' werden

Zitat:TimuCin postete
@Alexander

Wenn man die westlichen Geiseln, die nun befreit (?) wurden, wirklich hätte töten wollen, dann hätte man dies alsbald getan.

Zitat:AP: Al-Qaida Continues to Siphon Charities

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Al-Qaida has siphoned millions of dollars from Islamic charities that help poor Muslims in Africa and Asia, and U.S. and Saudi government efforts to cut the flow have largely failed, Western diplomats and former charity workers say.
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Zitat:Western Airliners May Be al-Qaida Target

Mon Jun 7,11:02 PM ET

By MOHAMED KHALIFA, Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt - An Internet statement signed by an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia warned Monday that the terror network will target Western airlines, military bases and residential compounds and told Muslims to stay away from Westerners.
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Zitat:Piracy ‘could cripple world trade’

SINGAPORE: Attacks on ships by sea pirates in South-East Asia are resembling military operations – growing bolder, more violent and fuelling fears of an attack that would cripple world trade, Singapore said yesterday.
...Singapore has repeatedly warned of the potential link between pirates and religious militant networks such as Jemaah Islamiah, blamed for the deadly 2002 bomb blasts in the Indonesian island of Bali and widely linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
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Zitat:Italy, Belgium Seize Suspected Militants in Raids

By Emilio Parodi and Clara Ferreira-Marques

MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - Italy arrested an Egyptian alleged to have plotted the Madrid train bombings and Belgium held 15 people for preparing a "terrorist attack" as police across Europe swooped on suspected Islamic militants.
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Zitat:Pakistan warns of suicide attack plots

By NASEER KAKAR
The Associated Press
6/5/2004, 8:41 p.m. CT


QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities have warned Western aid groups and the U.N. refugee agency to strengthen security against threats of Taliban attacks, officials said Saturday.
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Zitat:US extends the war on Islamic terror to the Sahara Desert
By Damien Mcelroy, Foreign Correspondent
(Filed: 06/06/2004)


America has launched a secret war against Islamic terrorists across the southern Sahara after it discovered that a group linked to al-Qaeda bought heavy weapons using the proceeds of a ransom deal with the German government.
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Zitat:Defeating Global Jihad: Reagan Showed the Way

By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 7, 2004

Mark Steyn reminds us that “only Reagan could have stood there and declared without embarrassment: Tear down this wall!” In the warm glow of this week’s encomia it’s easy to miss the reason why anyone might have felt embarrassed at all. With the dreaded wall long made into paperweights, it’s easy to forget that before (and during, largely) the age of Reagan, the idea that Communism was evil, and the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” was, among the intelligentsia in America and Western Europe, in the worst possible taste.
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Zitat:American Shot to Death in Saudi Arabia

Jun 8, 10:22 AM (ET)

By DONNA ABU-NASR

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - An American citizen was shot and killed Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, a U.S. Embassy official said, the second deadly shooting of a Westerner in the kingdom in three days.

"We can confirm that an American has been killed in Riyadh," a U.S. Embassy official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. He provided no further details.
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Zitat:Wahabi vs. Wahabi

By Walid Phares
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 8, 2004

"And remember," said Osama bin Laden in his February 11, 2003 audio tape to al Jazeera, "those who deal with the infidels will be treated as infidels." The master of al Qaeda, angry with his former friends of the 1980s, blasted the Saudis for not cutting their relationship short with the US and its allies.
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Zitat:Italy, Belgium Arrest 17 Terror Suspects

Jun 8, 3:25 PM (ET)

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO
ROME (AP) - In a coordinated strike across Europe, police arrested 17 suspected Islamic militants, including an alleged mastermind of the Madrid train bombings who authorities say was planning further attacks, officials said Tuesday.
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Zitat:France Possible Target of Suspected Militants

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By Emilio Parodi

MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - A group of suspected Islamic militants arrested in Italy and Belgium may have been planning an attack in France, an Italian judicial source said on Wednesday.
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Zitat:European nations tighten laws to oust extremists

By Jennifer Joan Lee
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

PARIS — Western European countries are tightening their laws to facilitate the expulsion of Islamist extremists, a response to court rulings overturning several high-profile deportation orders.
In France, an imam expelled for publicly advocating violence against women won a court ruling last month that allowed him to return.
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Zitat:Spain Arrests Six in Madrid Bombs Probe

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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested six people in northern Spain Wednesday in connection with the sale of explosives used in March 11 train bombings in Madrid, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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Zitat:US-EXPERTEN

Padillas "schmutzige Bombe" wäre Blindgänger geworden

Der mutmaßliche Terrorist Jose Padilla hat laut US-Justizministerium eine "schmutzige Bombe" mit radioaktivem Uran vorbereitet, die er in einer Großstadt zünden wollte. Nun sagen Experten, die Bombe hätte niemals funktioniert.

New York - Renommierte Physiker zeigten sich gegenüber der Nachrichtenagentur AP irritiert über die Mitteilung des Justizministeriums, der US-Bürger Jose Padilla habe eine Bombe aus "Uran, eingepackt in Sprengsätze" bauen wollen. Dies sei schlicht unmöglich, sagte der amerikanische Nuklearphysiker Peter Zimmerman vom Londoner King's College. Dazu sei die Radioaktivität von Uran zu gering.
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Zitat:Das US-Justizministerium hatte in der vergangenen Woche Verhörprotokolle veröffentlicht, wonach Padilla Hotels und Wohnungen sprengen und eine schmutzige Bombe zünden wollte. Die Inhaftierung des US-Bürgers als so genannter "feindlicher Kämpfer" wird derzeit vom Obersten Gerichtshof geprüft. Dabei geht es um die Frage, ob die Regierung die Befugnis hat, terrorverdächtige Amerikaner auf unbestimmte Zeit und ohne Zugang zu ihrem Anwalt in Haft zu nehmen.

Zitat:SAUDI-ARABIEN

Sympathie für Landsmann Bin Laden

Eine Umfrage bringt das saudische Königreich in Verlegenheit. Fast die Hälfte ihrer Untertanen stimmt demnach den Hasspredigten von Osama Bin Laden zu. Die Saudis mögen, was der Terrorist über den Irak, Afghanistan, die USA und Israel zu sagen hat.
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Zitat:TERRORISMUS-BERICHT

Bushs Lieblings-Statistik völlig unbrauchbar

Die Statistik war ein Eckpfeiler im Wahlkampf von US-Präsident George W. Bush: Im vergangenen Jahr sei der Terror weltweit eingedämmt worden, hieß es im US-Terrorismusbericht für das Jahr 2003. Jetzt musste Außenminister Powell das Zahlenwerk korrigieren. Es habe nicht weniger, sondern deutlich mehr Terroranschläge gegeben.

Washington - "Es haben sich Fehler eingeschlichen, die wir ehrlich nicht bemerkt haben",...

Zitat:In der vergangenen Woche waren in der nordwestlichen Provinz Badghis drei europäische Mitarbeiter medizinischer Hilfsorganisationen und zwei Afghanen bei einem Angriff getötet worden. Dies könnte ein Zeichen für eine Ausweitung des Untergrundkampfes der Taliban und ihrer Verbündeten vom ohnehin instabilen Süden und Osten auf den bisher eher ruhigen Norden sein.

Zitat:Scientists Say Dirty Bomb Would Be a Dud

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By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent

NEW YORK - The "dirty bomb" allegedly planned by terror suspect Jose Padilla would have been a dud, not the radiological threat portrayed last week by federal authorities, scientists say.
At a June 1 news conference, the Justice Department (news - web sites) said the alleged al-Qaida associate hoped to attack Americans by detonating "uranium wrapped with explosives" in order to spread radioactivity.
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Zitat:Buddhist teacher killed in restive south Thailand
07 Jun 2004 12:26:11 GMT

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BANGKOK, June 7 (Reuters) - Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a Buddhist teacher in Thailand's restive Muslim south on Monday, the latest casualty in a spate of violence which has claimed over 200 lives since January, police said.
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Zitat:Petrol bomb hurled at church
From correspondents in Jakarta
June 10, 2004
A petrol bomb has been hurled at a Roman Catholic church in the fifth attack this week on a church in Indonesia, police said today.

The attack on the Santo Yusuf church in the Sleman district of Yogyakarta city took place early on Wednesday, said a duty officer at a local police station.
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Zitat:Pakistan's Jihad-Friendly Army

By Kaushik Kapisthalam
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2004

Amidst the media hype here over the Iraq prison scandal and the Presidential election campaign, alarming developments in Pakistan have slipped under America’s radar. For starters, on May 27, 2004, Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf disclosed in an interview with the Pakistan based Geo-TV network that a few “low level” Pakistani Air Force and Army soldiers had conspired with a Pakistani Al Qaeda mastermind in the two attempts to assassinate him late last year.
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Zitat:Iraq anger in India's city of courtesy
By Siddharth Srivastava

NEW DELHI - Reverberations from the US-led war in Iraq are being felt in Lucknow, the capital city of Indian state Uttar Pradesh, known for nawabs (rich hereditary rulers of Mughal states), tehzeeb (culture), Mughlai cuisine and the pehle aap (you first) school of manners.

Over the past week, a spate of protests as well as statements from clerics in the city have warned British, US and Israeli citizens to stay away from the state capital. There are also fears that the demonstrations may spread to the rest of the state, with calls being made to prevent foreigners from entering the precincts of the famous Taj Mahal in Agra, 363 kilometers away from Lucknow. India's Muslims, especially Shi'ites, have reacted sharply to the clash between US forces and Shi'ite militiamen last month in which one of the most sacred shrines of the Shi'ites, the shrine of Hazrat Ali, was damaged. Muslims form a sizeable population in Lucknow, as well as in Uttar Pradesh as a whole.
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Zitat:Revere raid by terrorism task force results in one arrest
Weapons, radios among belongings
By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff | June 11, 2004

The FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Department of Homeland Security have joined local police in investigating a Syrian national after a search of his Revere duplex uncovered flight-simulation software, pictures of Osama bin Laden, two small-caliber weapons, police scanners, and radio-jamming equipment, law enforcement and court officials said yesterday.
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Defying fanatacism
By Diana West
Published June 11, 2004

With the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the nearly coinciding death of Ronald Reagan, Americans have been compelled to reflect on the past, seeing rocky, bloody eras fall into the clean arc of history that appears only in a flash of hindsight.
Looking back on Nazism and communism, we see the seamless succession and demise of totalitarian threats once poised to rob the West of its liberties. In this sweeping history lesson, it becomes clearer still that the rise of Islamism -- or Islamist totalitarianism, or Islamist radicalism or Islamofascism (we haven't yet settled on a term) -- has now succeeded these vanquished foes. Whatever it is called, this ideology is now the principle menace to freedoms treasured by 21st-century Western civilization, a secular society still rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Zitat:Paris was 'apparent target' for arrested militants
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A group of suspected Islamic militants arrested in Italy and Belgium appeared to have been planning a suicide attack in Paris, said an Italian detention warrant.

The 27-page warrant includes transcribed telephone conversations in which the suspects discussed the Paris metro, security arrangements and a "martyr" referred to as Mohammed.
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Zitat:Boston Police to Search Rail Riders; Work Stops

Tue Jun 8, 2:30 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!

BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's transit police on Tuesday announced plans to search subway and train riders to foil a possible a terror attack while other city workers brought preparations for the Democratic National Convention to a standstill.
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Zitat:Portugal police arrest 15 at Euro 2004 city

By Reuters

LISBON - Portuguese police arrested 15 people of Arab origin on Friday in the city of Porto, site of the inaugural game of the Euro 2004 soccer championships, a police spokesman said.
The 15 were arrested in a joint operation by the Judiciary Police, an investigative body, and Portugal's Security Intelligence Service (SIS), a police spokesman in Porto said.
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Zitat:The Patriot Act Is Your Friend By Kim Zetter
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02:00 AM Feb. 24, 2004 PT

Viet Dinh has been called a "political pit bull" and "a foot soldier" for Attorney General John Ashcroft. But the 36-year-old author of the Patriot Act prefers to be called an "attendant of freedom."

In May 2001, the professor of law at Georgetown University was tapped by the Justice Department to work for two years as an assistant attorney general, working primarily on judicial nominations for the department. But three months later the World Trade Center towers collapsed, and Dinh was drafted to work on the USA Patriot Act, a bill that would give the government some of its most controversial surveillance powers. The bill, coupled with the government's subsequent treatment of immigrants and native-born citizens, prompted critics to charge the administration with overthrowing "800 years of democratic tradition."
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