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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

For all of you non-believers and skeptics

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad, is likely responsible for the terrorist attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center Newsletter

Overview

1. On the night of July 27-28, 2010, an explosion took place in the stern of the Japanese oil tanker M. Star when it was anchored in the Strait of Hormuz. It appears that the explosion was caused by a boat laden with explosives and piloted by a suicide bomber. The boat came alongside the oil tanker and blew up. The tanker, which was en route to Japan’s Port of Chiba, carried over three million oil barrels. One person sustained minor injuries, and slight damage was caused to the hull of the tanker. 2. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades,1 an organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad, claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack (August 4, 2010). According to a statement released by the organization, the terrorist attack was perpetrated by its Arabian Peninsula branch, which refers to itself as the Yusuf al-Ayiri Companies. The attack itself was carried out by a suicide terrorist named Ayyub al-Taishan, who was assisted by other operatives belonging to the organization. Attached to the statement was the terrorist’s photograph, showing him dressed in a traditional white robe and headdress, and pointing to a photograph of the tanker on a laptop computer.

3. The announcement says that the terrorist attack was carried out on behalf of the Egyptian blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence in the US for his involvement in the first World Trade Center bombings in 1993. “The attack sought to weaken the infidel global order which is thrust unto Muslim lands and which loots its resources,” the announcement said, adding that the claim of responsibility was published only after the “heroes returned safely to their bases”.2

4. Yusuf al-Ayiri, codenamed As-Sayf al-Battar (the sharp sword/the slicing sword/the piercing sword), was born in Saudi Arabia in 1973. He was one of Al-Qaeda’s senior ideologues and field commanders.3 Al-Ayiri was killed in Saudi Arabia in 2003, having fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and the Philippines.4 The Abdullah Azzam Brigades network in the Arabian Peninsula is named after him.

Yusuf al-Ayiri (Al-Riyadh, June 7, 2010)
Yusuf al-Ayiri (Al-Riyadh, June 7, 2010)

A photograph of Ayyub al-Taishan, the suicide terrorist,
A photograph of Ayyub al-Taishan, the suicide terrorist,
released with the claim of responsibility (INTELCENTER)

5. The terrorist attack against the tanker is the first to be carried out by the organization’s network in the Arabian Peninsula. It is not the first time, however, that an organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad uses such modus operandi. On October 6, 2002, there was an attempt to attack the French oil tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, where it was waiting to pick up a load of crude oil. A small motor boat rammed the tanker and detonated; the vessel caught fire. One person was killed and twelve were injured in the terrorist attack. Prior to that, in October 2000, the American destroyer USS Cole was rammed by a boat laden with explosives while in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen US sailors were killed in the attack.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades

The organization’s logo
The organization’s logo

6. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attempted terrorist attack against the oil tanker, is an organization affiliated with global jihad and Al-Qaeda. The organization is headed by Saleh al-Qar'awi, a Saudi national who fought US forces in Fallujah, Iraq, where he became acquainted with Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi (who headed the Al-Qaeda branch in Iraq until he was killed in a US air strike on June 8, 2006). Senior Abdullah Azzam Brigades operative Nijm al-Bardawi noted that the organization has several networks (“battalions”) deployed in various locations. According to Al-Bardawi, each network is named after an Al-Qaeda operative. One of the networks is called Ziad al-Jarrah, and it operates out of refugee camps in Lebanon (www.ceifit.com).5 Another network operates in the Arabian Peninsula and is named after Yusuf al-Ayiri.

7. In an interview to Al-Jazeera TV, Abd al-Ilaa al-Shaii, introduced as a Yemeni expert on Islamic movements, said that even though networks which called themselves the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for acts of terrorism perpetrated prior to 2009,6 it was only in 2009 that the Abdullah Azzam Brigades organization was established under the command of Saudi operative Saleh al-Qar'awi. He further added that a clear link between the Abdullah Azzam Brigades and the Al-Qaeda senior leadership first became apparent only in 2009.7
Profile of Abdullah Azzam Brigades leader Saleh al-Qar'awi

Saleh al-Qar'awi, www.aawsat.com, April 5, 2010
Saleh al-Qar'awi, www.aawsat.com, April 5, 2010

8. Saleh Bin Abdullah Bin Saleh al-Qar'awi, codenamed Nijm al-Khayr, is mentioned on several Islamic forums as the operative commander of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades. In an interview granted by Al-Qar'awi in April 2010, he presented himself as the field commander (al-qa’ed al-maidani) of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades. Al-Qar'awi was born in 1982 in the Saudi Arab city of Barida, in the region of Al-Qaseem. He is married and has children. In the years 2004-2005, he fought US forces in Fallujah, Iraq, where he became acquainted with Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi. Reports say that despite his young age, he is one of the 85 most wanted Al-Qaeda members in Saudi Arabia.8

9. According to Al-Qar'awi, during his stay in Iraq Al-Zarqawi entrusted him with the mission of acting on his behalf outside of Iraq. He then left for Syria, where he was arrested for a short period of time and extradited to Saudi Arabia. After a brief prison term in Saudi Arabia, he was released once again. Available information suggests that Al-Qar'awi uses fake documents to travel between Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the UAE, and currently appears to be in Al-Qaeda’s training camps in Iran.9 It is likely that he stayed or is staying in Afghanistan as well.

Abdullah Azzam Brigades network in Lebanon

10. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades have a terrorist network in Lebanon which operates from Palestinian refugee camps, home to local networks which are affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad. According to Saleh al-Qar'awi, the Lebanese network is called the Ziad al-Jarrah Companies, and its mission is to engage in anti-Israeli operations from Lebanese territory. He noted that the operations in Lebanon are not limited to firing rockets on Israel, and that the organization aims to diversify its activity and “surprise the enemy” (Al-Fallujah forum, April 4, 2010).

11. Ziad Jarrah, after whom the Lebanese “companies” are named, is Lebanese by birth and one of the 19 terrorists responsible for the September 11 attacks in the US. Jarrah spent several years in Germany, where he married a woman of Turkish descent. He then moved to Afghanistan and later to the US, where he was to take part in the terrorist attacks.10

Jarrah taking flight lessons in Florida (Wikipedia)
Jarrah taking flight lessons in Florida (Wikipedia)

12. A video clip released on behalf of the Lebanese network in July 2009 showed rockets being moved and prepared for firing, while a voice-over featuring Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri called on jihadists in Lebanon to unite and act “against the Jews” and against UN Security Council Resolution 1701 “in words and in actions” (Al-Fallujah forum, July 24, 2010).

13. In practice, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for several rocket attacks on Israel carried out from southern Lebanon:

a. On September 11, 2009, two or three 122-mm rockets were fired from the vicinity of the village of Qlaileh (in the western sector of southern Lebanon) on Israel's Western Galilee. The rockets landed in open territory, causing no injuries and no damage to property. A message published on an online forum affiliated with Al-Qaeda (September 14) said that an organization called Abdullah Azzam Brigades, whose Lebanese network is known as the Ziad al-Jarrah Companies, claimed responsibility for the attack (Al-Fallujah forum, September 14).

b. On October 27, 2009, a rocket, apparently 107mm, was fired into Israeli territory from the area of the Shi’ite village of Houla in the central sector of south Lebanon. The rocket hit was identified in an open area near a northern Israeli population center. There were no casualties but vegetation was burned as a result of the explosion (IDF Spokesman, October 27, 2009). The following morning, four additional rockets ready for firing were discovered at the launching site. They were found on the outskirts of the village of Houla. A claim of responsibility for deploying five rockets in the surroundings of the village of Houla was published on the global jihad forum (Fallujah forum, October 29, 2009).

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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