October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Jihad-training site: apparently, UK police closed it, arrested instructor.
by Xeni Jardin 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

None of the wire stories I saw before this 8AM Reuters piece today (below) indicated clearly who shut the site down, or specified that the site closure occurred in conjunction with the instructor's arrest and detention. The later AP story dated 3:33 today further specifies that the arrested instructor is one London resident by the name of Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin. --XJ -----Original Message----- UK Shuts Down 'Ultimate Jihad Experience' on Web October 4, 2001 7:59 am EST url (will wrap)< http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011004/wr/ attack_britain_jihad_dc_1.html > UK Shuts Down 'Ultimate Jihad Experience' on Web By Karen Matusic LONDON (Reuters) - A Web site offering young Muslims the chance to learn all about explosives and the ``art of bone breaking'' was shut down this week under a new British crackdown on Islamic extremists. Police sources told Reuters Thursday that the closure of the London-based Sakina Securities Web site (www.sakina.fsbusiness.co.uk) followed the arrest Monday of one of its instructors on terrorism charges. The 43-year-old alleged Sakina instructor -- police refuse to name him -- is one of two men being held on terrorism charges in Britain as it tightens the net on militants. Britain's clampdown follows the September 11 hijack attacks on the United States. Some of the 19 alleged hijackers are said to have passed through Britain in the months before the attacks. Sakina, which bills itself as an international security firm, claims to have sent fighters to Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Chechnya (news - web sites). The Web site said Sakina ``prides itself on high-risk jobs in the former Soviet Union and in the civil war arenas of the world'' and prepared Muslims to ``defend themselves'' by training them in self-defense and outdoor survival strategies. ``Islam is not an aggressive belief but we have the right and the obligation to defend ourselves,'' founder Mohammed Jameel told Reuters in 1999. ``We are not going to escalate violence because we're restricted in what we do by Islamic law.'' Virtual violence was another matter. Describing its course as the ``ultimate jihad experience,'' the site offered participants the chance to shoot off 3,000 live rounds at a U.S. firing range, ``improvise explosive devices'' or learn all about bone crushing. Jameel was not available for comment Thursday. No one answered the phone at Sakina's London office. CRACKDOWN The shutdown is the latest sign of a clampdown on militancy in Britain, long criticized as a haven for Islamic extremists. Along with the Sakina instructor, police have detained Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, who is accused by the FBI (news - web sites) of teaching the hijackers to fly the planes which crashed into U.S. landmarks last month. Raissi, due to appear in a London court Friday, is expected to be questioned soon by FBI agents in Britain. Another Algerian, arrested in central England in connection with planned terror attacks in France and Belgium, was extradited to France last week. All those arrested were charged under new anti-terrorism laws that came into effect in February, making it an offence to incite anyone to commit an act of terrorism, including murder, or to support anyone who committed a terrorism act. A suspect in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris told French investigators he recruited several militants at British mosques. Britain has stepped up its monitoring of the activities of outspoken self-styled Islamic clerics like Syrian-born Sheikh Omar Barki Mohammed who issued a fatwa, or religious edict, ordering the death of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf has supported the United States in its campaign to force Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to hand over Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), Washington's prime suspect in last month's attacks.

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details on UK arrest of Jihad-trainer who promoted courses online ("Sakina Security")
by Xeni Jardin 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

In a round-up story on allied military planning timeline & recent European terror-related arrests, AP just published this update on the arrest of one of the instructors affiliated with the now-shuttered website for Sakina Security Ltd.: <snip>"Elsewhere in Europe, judicial and police authorities continued to hunt for terrorist suspects. In London, police charged Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin under sections of the Terrorism Act that cover weapons training for terrorist purposes and recruitment for training, but declined to say whether his arrest was tied to the Sept. 11 attacks. The 43-year-old chef was apprehended on Monday and Scotland Yard said he was scheduled to appear at a magistrates' court on Friday. Reports in newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent have said Zainulabidin was suspected of involvement with Sakina Security Ltd., a London security firm believed to have providing arms training to young extremists. Scotland Yard would not comment on that reported link and the company is not listed in the London telephone directory. " </snip> --XJ ---------------- U.S. May Take Time Planning Attack Audio/Video U.S. Gathering Allies For Attack (Reuters) Thursday October 4 3:33 PM ET http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011004/wl/attacks_europe_2.html By EMMANUEL GEORGES-PICOT, Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - U.S. military retaliation following last month's terrorist attacks on Washington and New York isn't likely for several weeks, France's defense minister said Thursday. Defense Minister Alain Richard said many key decisions by nations participating in the U.S. anti-terrorism campaign had not yet been made and should not be made in haste. German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping was quoted Thursday as saying that German troops may soon be involved in reconnaissance in an anti-terror campaign and could also be called up for ``classic'' military operations. ``German soldiers serve, for example, in NATO (news - web sites)'s so-called integrated operations - on board AWACS aircraft or ships,'' Scharping said in an interview with the mass-circulation Bild daily. The defense ministry confirmed the remarks but added no details. Scharping said Germany's contribution ``may include also classic military capabilities'' as part of a long-term fight against terror. ``We mustn't only look to Afghanistan (news - web sites), which correctly stands in the center at the moment,'' he was quoted as saying. On Thursday, the 18 NATO allies approved U.S. requests for specific military contributions in the campaign against terrorism, NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson said. The NATO move came after Washington offered evidence of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s involvement in the New York and Washington attacks. Some of that evidence was detailed publicly for the first time by Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) in London on Thursday. Blair told parliament that three of the hijackers have been ``positively identified'' as bin Laden associates and that one of them was involved in the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in East Africa and last year's attack on the U.S.S. Cole. ``We are now approaching the difficult time when action is taken. It will be difficult, there are no easy options,'' Blair told lawmakers. But in Paris, the french defense minister said action was not likely to take place for ``several weeks.'' ``The decisions to take action haven't been made,'' Richard said. ``Everyone is going to prepare their own means that will be well-adapted for a joint effort. We aren't at the end of that.'' France has made its ports available to American warships and sent an ultramodern frigate and a fuel and supply ship to the Arabian Sea for use by the U.S. naval fleet gathering in the area. Cyprus also announced it had given the United States permission to use airports and airspace for its war on terrorism, availing U.S. forces of a potentially helpful stopping-off point in the Mediterranean. Elsewhere in Europe, judicial and police authorities continued to hunt for terrorist suspects. In London, police charged Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin under sections of the Terrorism Act that cover weapons training for terrorist purposes and recruitment for training, but declined to say whether his arrest was tied to the Sept. 11 attacks. The 43-year-old chef was apprehended on Monday and Scotland Yard said he was scheduled to appear at a magistrates' court on Friday. Reports in newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent have said Zainulabidin was suspected of involvement with Sakina Security Ltd., a London security firm believed to have providing arms training to young extremists. Scotland Yard would not comment on that reported link and the company is not listed in the London telephone directory. In Germany Thursday, a court in Wiesbaden allowed investigators to obtain data from five Internet service providers used by a suspected terrorist for radical Islamist Web sites. Court spokesman Juergen Fehr said the servers were used by a Turkish suspect arrested last week in Wiesbaden on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in Germany.

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04 Oct '01

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Islam
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Let's see, as far as the Taliban and probably other extremists are concerned, all of Islam is in a life and death battle against non-believers, non-Muslims, namely a bunch of atheist Americans. The U.S., OTOH, is taking great pains to emphasize that we are not at war with Islam but rather with a relatively small group of extremists. Somebody has the wrong picture.

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04 Oct '01

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Re: RAND/Pentagon congressional advisory body to create subpanel on Civil Liberties
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Wonderful news, unless they're just rubber stamp jockeys. "Quitcher Bitchin the CL panel says it's OK."

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04 Oct '01

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RE: Russian plane explodes before crashing into the black sea
by Trei, Peter 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

> Black Unicorn[SMTP:unicorn@schloss.li] wrote: > > Nah, terrorists don't typically mess with the Russians. They are famous > for > returning the testicles of terrorists to the families via post. > > > From: Tolan Blundell > > If this turns out to be a terrorist attack, which seems fairly likely, i > > imagine it could deal the idea of draconian security measures at > > airports a hefty blow, as Isreal has some of the toughest airport > security in the world. > > http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/04/russia.plane.crash/index.html > Said 'nads may already be on the bottom of the Black Sea. Willing-to-suicide terrorists change the security equations in many ways. Peter Trei

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RAND/Pentagon congressional advisory body to create subpanel on Civil Liberties
by auto301094＠hushmail.com 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- EXCELLENT PULLED QUOTE which proves why civil libertarians shouldn't give up on contributing to the public policy process just yet: "For the third report, commissioners are mulling a proposal to establish a subpanel on civil liberties. Already the commission has set up subpanels for detailed research on border security, using the military to fight terrorism, cyber-security, medical and health issues, and the concerns of local responders to man-made disasters. "We've obviously interwoven civil liberties throughout all of our discussions," Wermuth said. "The suggestion on the table is should we now have a group that gets together and looks across the broad spectrum of things that we've already recommended -- but more importantly, perhaps, some of the things that are being considered by the [Bush] administration and Congress as a result of what happened on Sept. 11 -- to comment on those specifically from a civil liberties standpoint." AMEN! Hooray! Hell yeah!!! A little good news at last... :) ~F. Here's the whole article: Inside the Pentagon Complete report due in December Date: October 4, 2001 - GILMORE COMMISSION TO RELEASE KEY RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN WEEKS The high-profile Gilmore Commission, a congressionally mandated study group on terrorism, will release advanced copies this month of findings and recommendations that the group plans to include in its December report to the president and lawmakers. The information will be collected in a document panel members are calling an "advanced executive summary." All the conclusions and recommendations adopted by the panel in late August meetings were re-examined after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. The group met Sept. 24 at RAND's offices in Arlington, VA, and decided to release some of its recommendations early to help inform public debate about how the United States should prepare for possible future attacks. RAND staffers support the commission's work. "In our meeting earlier this week, we went back through those [already approved conclusions and recommendations] to see which of them were still material, and . . . they all were," Michael Wermuth, RAND project director for the commission, told Inside the Pentagon in a Sept. 27 interview. "With very little modification, they will become the essential recommendations in [this December's] report, but we'll try to publish that list" with some explanation and background on specific recommendations and findings, he added. The commission, formally called the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, was established under the fiscal year 1999 Defense Authorization Act. Its chairman is Virginia Gov. James Gilmore (R), and panel members include former State Department counterterrorism official Paul Bremer, former Army Secretary John Marsh, as well as a number of state and local emergency officials. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), who at the time headed the House Armed Services research and development subcommittee, called for creating the commission to examine how the federal government interacts with state and local officials in preparing for terrorist attacks. To date, the group has produced two reports and is scheduled to produce the third in December. The first report, released in December 1999, assessed the terrorist threat facing the United States and called for a national strategy to address it, as well as better cooperation between federal and state antiterrorism officials (ITP, Dec. 23, 1999, p6). The second report, released last December, recommended establishing a "National Office for Combating Terrorism" in the executive office of the president to plan and synchronize antiterrorism initiatives (ITP, Dec. 14, 2000, p14). This December's report is scheduled to be the group's final undertaking. However, the House recently approved an amendment to the FY-02 defense authorization bill that would extend the life of the commission for another two years (ITP, Sept. 20, p15). The Senate this week approved its defense authorization bill without a similar provision, setting it up as a conference issue. In another recent development, President Bush has decided to create a White House Office of Homeland Security (ITP, Sept. 27, p18). The office will be headed by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R), who will resign as governor this week to take on the new job. The Gilmore Commission's National Office for Combating Terrorism is the inspiration and, in some respects, the model for the new White House homeland security coordinating entity, several sources said this week. "It may not turn out to be what we proposed in every detail, and not all the details are available yet," but the new White House office resembles the Gilmore Commission model, Wermuth said. "They have some policy decisions" still to make on how the new office will function, he added. One critical area that needs to be addressed is research and development for antiterrorism efforts, according to Wermuth. In its second report, the Gilmore panel recommended that the National Office for Combating Terrorism establish priorities for R&D programs related to the terrorist fight. In addition, the NOCT should focus on the antiterrorism programs and budgets related to domestic preparedness efforts, intelligence gathering, and health and medical services. "I really believe R&D and other essential points will be included in the kind of structure [the White House] sets up," Wermuth said. "I am convinced that they already know they have to get their hands around R&D because everybody's out doing their own thing -- all well-intentioned, but there's no prioritization." The RAND official also talked about a number of issues to be covered by the commission's advanced executive summary and third report. Earlier this year, commissioners said they plan to focus on the following topics in the December document: border security, using the military for combating terrorism, cyber-security and engaging the public and private medical communities to prepare for terrorist attacks using weapons of mass destruction (ITP, April 19, p1). The advanced executive summary could include more than 30 recommendations on those subjects, Wermuth said. Results from the commission's national survey of first-responders on how the federal government is doing when it comes to supporting state and local entities in the terrorist fight is still scheduled to be published in December. But the advanced executive summary will include "the top five things that survey provided to us in terms of information," the project director said. For the third report, commissioners are mulling a proposal to establish a subpanel on civil liberties. Already the commission has set up subpanels for detailed research on border security, using the military to fight terrorism, cyber-security, medical and health issues, and the concerns of local responders to man-made disasters. "We've obviously interwoven civil liberties throughout all of our discussions," Wermuth said. "The suggestion on the table is should we now have a group that gets together and looks across the broad spectrum of things that we've already recommended -- but more importantly, perhaps, some of the things that are being considered by the [Bush] administration and Congress as a result of what happened on Sept. 11 -- to comment on those specifically from a civil liberties standpoint." Another proposal raised at the Sept. 24 panel meeting involves the expansion of the group's focus to include terrorist strikes on various modes of transportation. "The panel concluded we didn't have anywhere near enough research in that area for this third report, and if, in fact, we are extended -- which now looks more likely -- we'll take that under consideration in the next round," Wermuth said. The advanced executive summary will also cover critical infrastructure protection. The commission will recommend placing state and local government representatives on a new interagency Critical Infrastructure Protection and Continuity Board, which is expected to be set up by executive order. According to a draft copy of the executive order ITP obtained earlier this year, the board would be headed by a new White House cyber-security chief and would include officials from the Defense, State, Commerce, Justice, Energy, Treasury and Transportation departments, as well as the director of central intelligence and the deputy director of the National Security Agency (ITP, July 26, p17). The cyber-security chief would serve as the administration's liaison with industry on issues under the board's purview. "We believe any entity established to advise the president, or the president and Congress, on issues involving critical infrastructure protection, [must] have representation from state and local governments," Wermuth said. And just as importantly, he added, the board should include representation from private industry: "They own most of the systems; they have to be an integral part of anything dealing with cyber-security." At its recent meeting, the commission decided to change the name of the third report's section on border security to immigration and border control. "They decided to rename it because border security doesn't necessarily indicate all the things that we think need to be addressed," according to Wermuth. "Border security sounds like doing things at the border as people or things are coming in. Immigration reform may very well have to do with people who are dangerous and already here." A concern is how to deal with people who come to the United States on visas and overstay their time in the country. "There are not any good control mechanisms to deal with that situation," the project director said. "For example, we don't have an exit program. We don't know when or if people who are supposed to leave for one reason or another actually have actually left. "We've got to have an exit control program," he added. The Immigration and Naturalization Service "knows that this is a problem," but lacks resources to solve it. "That is a data-intensive effort, but let's face it, it needs to be done. We don't need any more reminders that it needs to be done." In addition to INS, the commission's recommendations on immigration and border control will touch upon Coast Guard, Customs Service, Border Patrol and Federal Aviation Administration activities. Agencies that deal with border control must do a better job of sharing intelligence information to interdict threats to the homeland, those associated with the commission say. "All of the various agencies that have border control responsibilities are not currently in a wide-reaching, consolidated, information-sharing database network. It's got to happen," Wermuth said. "All of those agencies have pieces of information on the movement of people and things," he added. "We have to figure out a way to consolidate all that and sift through it to find out what all that data means." By using information on people and goods moving across borders, and comparing that information with other intelligence collected by the federal government, a picture can be drawn about potential threats to the United States, Wermuth said. Therefore, federal border control entities must be recognized as "full partners" in the overall intelligence community to the extent that available intel information can support the government's homeland security mission. -- Keith J. Costa _source: Inside the Pentagon _date: October 4, 2001 _issue: Vol. 17, No. 40 _title: GILMORE COMMISSION TO RELEASE KEY RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN WEEKS ) Inside Washington Publishers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAju8vWkYHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P qXIAn0Li05RuUW5XjJ/8JcdVUgXeiR4pAJ9Gzs6Mt+mVqUq+fyYj9582B1uP/Q== =EKUg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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private US (chick!) groups using domestic surveillance tools
by Khoder bin Hakkin 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

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