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*Australia Terror alert issued
23rd November 04: JEMAAH Islamiah's attempts to develop bio-chem weapons to
increase the devastation of future terror attacks must be taken seriously, a
senior security analyst believes. A JI bio-chem instruction manual uncovered
during a raid in the Philippines last year was among the most concerning
intelligence to be picked up on the group, terrorism analyst Rohan Gunaratna
will tell an Australian emergency medicine conference in Adelaide today. The
28-page document and traces of chemicals were found during the raid on a JI
safe house in the village of Cotabato in October last year. The manual
discusses obtaining cyanide and arsenic and their potential use in attacks.
"It clearly demonstrated that JI organisation has the intention to use
chemical and biological agents in the future," Dr Gunaratna of Singapore's
Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies has said. The document has
heightened concerns JI and other terrorists in South-East Asia are
attempting to develop non-conventional weapons. The Cotabato raid narrowly
missed capturing up to eight JI suspects. Mayer

*Explosives find...
November 24, 04: Police and federal agents are inspecting a trash bin after
they say three grenades and a live rocket launcher were found nearby. A
worker in Duncanville (Texas) reported the devices to authorities after
noticing a suspicious bag. Officers shut down several roads Tuesday while
federal agents inspected the devices. Investigators said the grenade's
firing mechanisms all appeared to be in place. Dean

*Iraq
25 November 04: The news today that Iraqi forces and U.S. Marines searching
a mosque in Fallujah "discovered the largest weapons cache to date" in the
city, where the coalition has been carrying out an assault on insurgents,
should surprise no one. According to news reports, the stockpile was found
yesterday in and around the compound of the Sa'ad Abi Bin Waqas Mosque in
the Hey Al-Shorta District, according to a military statement e-mailed from
the capital, Baghdad. The building was used by Muslim cleric Abdullah
al-Janabi, leader of the city's rebels, to preach "anti-coalition rhetoric,"
the military said.

There are 100 Mosques in the city of Fallujah: 3 out of every 5 Mosques were
found to have fighting positions for a total of 60 found to date. 653 total
improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found and detonated in Fallujah.
The average number of IEDs found and/or detonated across Iraq per month from
July to October was 772. 11 IED Factories were found. 3 slaughter houses
where innocent men and women were tortured and either beheaded or shot were
found. 1 out of every 5 blocks had a cache of weapons, totaling 203 to date.
3 hospitals in Fallujah were used as fighting positions.

A chemical weapons production lab has been found in Fallujah, according to
Iraqi minister Daoud, with booklets and instructions on how to make bombs
and poisons including anthrax. US Marines unaware of discovery, but report
finding banner belonging to Zarqawi's group in a chemical lab. Unclear if
same lab or not.

*Re the F-16 video we place on the web site....
Col Fraser sends us "the rest of the story": The Marines were pinned down in
a building in a Fallujah neighborhood. The word got out and terrorists were
rushing to the area on foot through the streets to try and take the Marines
out. The Marines called in air support and the Air Force F-16's responded.
This video shows a group of "t's" (they are going to be really small "t's")
rounding a corner leading to the Marines. For edification:
-The F-16's altitude appears in the upper right corner
- In the lower right corner is the countdown until the bombs impact
- The crosshairs in the middle indicate where the pilot is directing the
laser spot to guide the bombs
- The number just to the right of the crosshairs is the length of one of the
arms of the crosshairs on the ground in meters.
- The bombs are two 500lb laser guided bombs.
- Anyone (that was) standing unprotected within a quarter mile of their
impact is killed instantly.
- The total casualty count from this one strike was 48 and No Marines were
hurt!!!! ....GO AIR FORCE!!!! http://www.informedsource.info/downloads.htm

*The "Prophet"
Though untried in battle conditions, "Prophet" is hailed as the most
advanced and pro-active electronic intelligence system ever provided ground
commanders in the field. It displays on their laptops enemy movements up to
150km away and is capable of electronically attacking hostile forces. It has
been delivered to Baghdad.

*Hack Attack
Hackers may have launched a widespread attack in Europe using banner ads to
redirect users to Web sites that download malicious code, security experts
warn. After receiving several reports that rogue banner ads had infected
users' PCs, researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center cautioned that
hackers may have attacked a large number of servers hosting the
advertisements. By placing the link to malicious code in a banner ad
delivered to hundreds of Web sites, the attackers multiply the number of
potential victims they can reach. "The Storm Center received a report of a
high-profile U.K. Web site that contains a pointer on their main page to
another URL hosting the Bofra/IFRAME exploit," wrote Marcus Sachs, director
of the SANS Internet Storm Center. "We have confirmed that if this site is
visited using Internet Explorer, the exploit will be downloaded." Yet
ANOTHER reason to use the Firefox browser. c
http://news.com.com/Bofra+burrows+in+through+banner+ads/2100-1002_3-5462....
html?tag=nefd.top

*Mexican drug war
The bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, were discovered
at a pair of sites outside Cancun, a Mexican resort city that lies near a
route used to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to America's streets. Police are
blaming a drug turf war for control of the area in and around the
mega-resort for the killings. Five bodies were found just off the highway
leading to the airport, on a dirt road 10 miles south of Cancun. All those
victims had been shot in the head and one was found with his hands tied
behind his back, Assistant State Attorney General Luis Alfonso Chi told a
news conference. Authorities recovered an abandoned car nearby. Three of the
victims - Luis Octavio Guzman, Roberto Alcantara and Fernando Perez - were
federal police, Chi said. The other two were identified as Leonardo Martin
Flores, a jeweler, and Eduardo Solis, whose hands were tied. Solis'
occupation was unclear. Another four charred bodies were found in the trunk
of a burned-out car parked in an illegal dump near the highway between
Cancun and the city of Merida, about 6 miles from the Cancun airport. Police
said the killings were reported by two, separate unidentified emergency
calls Thursday morning. The vehicle containing four bodies was still on fire
when authorities got there, he said.

*Clinton Library
Nov. 22, 04: Saudis, Arabs Bankrolled Clinton Library......The names of most
of the 113,000 donors to Bill Clinton's presidential library remain a
closely guarded secret, but a new report claims that the facility was
heavily funded by the Saudi royal family and other wealthy Arabs. According
to Monday's New York Sun, the $165 million complex was funded in part by
gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royals and three Saudi
businessmen. The governments of Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar and the deputy prime
minister of Lebanon also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the
archive and museum that opened last week, the paper said. News of the Saudi
cash infusions confirms a report by columnist Robert Novak, who revealed in
2003 that the Saudis had pledged up to $20 million to help build the Clinton
facility. In January 2002, Clinton traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to
speak before a conference of Middle Eastern businessmen organized by the
Saudi BinLaden Group, the powerful construction conglomerate run by the
family of Osama bin Laden. Clinton was paid $267,000 for his appearance,
according to reports in the Financial Times and Middle Eastern news
services. The Sun used a database at the library that lists 57 donors as
"Trustees" - people who gave $1 million or more to help build the facility -
to track the Middle Eastern contributions. Steve

*New York Times: 'Physicians' Committee has a PETA link'
November 24, 04: "Like other animal rights organizations, the misnamed
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is essentially a
vegetarian public-relations project. Other than fundraising, media coverage
is its most important measure of success. So it wasn't surprising to find
PCRM (for the fourth year in a row) promoting a media-friendly "survey" of
airport food as Americans prepared for the busiest travel day of the year.
PCRM sampled the meals available in twelve major U.S. airports, and
predictably awarded "healthy" ratings only to vegetarian meals. For its
trouble, the phony medical charity was given uncritical mentions in over 100
news stories. But this week, with some help from a Center for Consumer
Freedom news release, The New York Times blew the whistle on PCRM and
described its clear relationship with the animal-rights propagandists at
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Times travel columnist Joe
Sharkey writes that in his initial interviews, a PCRM spokesperson "said
that the group had no relationship with PETA." But Sharkey explains that
PCRM president Neal Barnard also runs The PETA Foundation. "So the
physicians' committee has a PETA link, and its food rankings reflect that
agenda." And in a rare victory for common sense, the Times gave us the last
word. "If you want to be a vegetarian or a vegan whatever, God bless you,
it's your choice. But when this so-called doctor's group comes out and says
if you don't make the same choice I do, then you are putting your family's
health at risk when there is no medical consensus about that, I object. I
have nothing against vegetarians or vegans. I just wouldn't want to go out
to dinner with one." Steve
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2693

*Want some PETA intell of your own??
"If you're still not a peta2 Street Teamer you really ought to visit
http://www.peta2.com/street.html. Once you sign up just send emails to
StreetTeam@peta.org, or even better fill out the appropriate form at
http://www.peta2.com/street.html, telling us what you've done to help
animals, and we'll credit you with points that you can exchange for
t-shirts, messenger bags, and other cool animal rights gear. We even have a
message board where you can meet others interested in helping animals. Also
we will periodically email you with information about events and
opportunities to help animals in your local area." Steve

*Bird Flu update
The World Health Organization has issued a dramatic warning that bird flu
will trigger an international pandemic that could kill up to seven million
people. The influenza pandemic could occur anywhere from next week to the
coming years, WHO said. "There is no doubt there will be another pandemic,"
Klaus Stohr of the WHO Global Influenza Program said on the sidelines of a
regional bird flu meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. "Even with the best case
scenario, the most optimistic scenario, the pandemic will cause a public
health emergency with estimates which will put the number of deaths in the
range of two and seven million," he said. "The number of people affected
will go beyond billions because between 25 percent and 30 percent will fall
ill." Pandemics occur when a completely new flu strain emerges for which
humans have no immunity.

*What sex are they? TJ
ZIPLOC BAGS: Male, because they hold everything in, but you can always see
right through them.
SHOE: male, because it is usually unpolished, with its tongue hanging out.
COPIER: female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm up.
TIRE: male, because it goes bald and often is over inflated.
HOT AIR BALLOON: male, because to get it to go anywhere you have to light a
fire under it...and, of course, there's the hot air part.
SPONGES: female, because they are soft and squeezable and retain water.
SUBWAY: male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.
HOURGLASS: female, because over time, the weight shifts to the bottom.
HAMMER: male, because it hasn't evolved much over the last 5,000 years, but
it's handy to have around.
REMOTE CONTROL: female! ... Ha! You thought it'd be male. But consider
this... it gives men pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't
always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying!!