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by Paul Marshall - Senior Fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom.
One distinctive feature of Islamic Terrorists is that they repeatedly attempt to explain and justify their atrocities, complete with extensive Koranic citations. One distinctive feature of western analysts is that Terrorists' explicit goals are often ignored, and instead their actions are misread as reactions to Israel, third world poverty, or supposed American unilateralism.
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by Imre Salusinszky - columnist and editorial writer for The Australian and co-editor of Blaming Ourselves: September 11 and the Agony of the Left
A group in our society – small in number but large in influence in parts of the media and some key institutions – has insisted at every stage that it utterly rejects the mainstream interpretation of the conflict, as well as the approach being taken to it. In the War between liberal values and Islamo-fascism, the attitude of this minority can be summed up by the phrase, "Not in our names".
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Willie Brigitte may have been deported but analysts believe al-Qaeda will persist with plans to attack Australia's heartland.
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Surely it's time to stop groping for euphemisms when Terrorists commit atrocities.
The bombing of the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad exposes yet again the absurdity of attempts to portray the wave of violence in Iraq as other than a vicious and calculated campaign of Terror. The International Committee of the Red Cross is one of the world's most respected international aid agencies. It is not a foreign occupation force, much less an extension of American power. It is a humanitarian agency - one of the few left in Baghdad - attempting in difficult circumstances to provide needy Iraqis with food, water and emergency medical care.
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by Senator Robert Hill, Minister for Defence
Owen Harries argues in his final lecture for the ABC's Boyer series that because Australia is not directly threatened it should not commit its limited military resources to combating global insecurity ("Howard's Dangerous Design", article appearring in the Melbourne 'Age' Newspaper).
Professor Harries makes a thoughtful and well-articulated argument. However - and naturally - I disagree.
Harries criticises Australia's commitment to its alliance with the US and our role in the War on Terrorism. He makes a sharp distinction between his own brand of unilateral realism and the Government's engagement with allies, friends and international organisations.
His mistake is that he assumes that Australian defence policy is a matter of simple alternative courses of action. It is not - the Government is heavily committed to the US alliance, but we also pursue a layered strategy of international engagement with other countries to provide for our common security.
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Jack Thomas was "just an average Aussie," a
sometime cabdriver and chef who enjoyed watching
movies and playing pool. That is, until he
converted to Islam, changed his first name to
Jihad, forsook a can of VB, and journeyed to
Pakistan - where he is now under arrest on
suspicion of Terrorist activities and ties to
al-Qaeda.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Makhdoom
Faisal Saleh Hayat asserts that "there is more
than credible evidence" to establish Thomas’s
Terrorist activity.
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An Address to the National Press Club by Alexander Downer
That notion of a "little Australia" had been the prevailing paradigm
throughout the previous Government and remains strong among its remnants.
Kim Beazley routinely articulated Labor's position as its Federal leader
in 1998. He told the national Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the need
for innovation "to compensate for what we lack in competitive clout by
being a small nation".
I repeat "a small nation".
Where does Simon Crean stand on this fundamental question? It's difficult
to know. Neither as Labor's Deputy Leader nor as Leader in his own right,
has he distanced himself from the Beazley Line, so to speak.
Nor has he rebuked Kevin Rudd, his spokesman on Foreign Affairs, when he
described Australia as "a small nation". Senator Bob Brown, Leader of the
Greens, also says "we're a small nation".
I have good news for him and for the Labor Party, although I doubt it will
come as much of a surprise to the rest of the country. Even on the basis
of population, Australia is around the top 25 per cent. But social
cohesiveness, strong institutions, and confidence in what we stand for as
a nation count for much more.The tendency to regard Australia as a second-class state infects baby-boomer members of the commentariat, although thankfully most Australians of the same cohort and most people under 35 remain uninfected by the virus . . .
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by B. Raman
Additional Secretary (ret), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India
Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai
Former member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India.
Head of the counter-Terrorism division of the Research & Analysis Wing, India's External Intelligence Agency, from 1988 to August, 1994.
Why? Who? Whose turn next?
These questions come to mind after the truck bomb suicide explosion outside the camp headquarters of the Italian military police in Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on Wednesday, killing 17 Italian personnel and at least eight Iraqis
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Western-made Terrorists motivated by 'Green-Left', anarchist and Marxist ideology are forming alliances with Jihadists and are planning copycat-style attacks and others utilizing funding from Islamists, according to intelligence sources, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
While old-line non-Muslim Terrorists seem to have been in hibernation, since Sept. 11, 2001, they are waking up to the need to act and the availability of funds from al-Qaida and other similar Jihadist groups, according to the premium, online intelligence newsletter.
Danger spots were recently identified in Europe, Asia and North America. Recent assessments indicate that daily reports on the success of Islamic Terror in disrupting normal life are creating an urge within the ranks of western Terrorists to return to action.
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The number and lethality of international Terrorist incidents directed against U.S. interests increased last year. The Riyadh and Al Khobar bombings in Saudi Arabia resulted in the largest number of U.S. fatalities at the hands of international Terrorists since the December 1988 downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Terrorist violence represents a serious threat to U.S. personnel, facilities, and interests around the world.
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Terrorism is a factor to consider in all military plans and operations. Combating Terrorism requires a continuous state of awareness; it is a necessary practice rather than a type of military operation. Detailed guidance for establishing an organizational program to combat Terrorism, including preventive and protective measures and incident response planning, can be found in Joint Publication 3-07.2 (1993). Terrorism is a criminal offense under nearly every national or international legal code. With few exceptions, acts of Terrorism are forbidden in war as they are in times of peace. See, for example, the Hague Regulation of 1907 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
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Osama bin Laden
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Considered the world's foremost Terrorist, Osama bin Laden is the Terrorist Mastermind behind the horrific Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged part of the Pentagon, and resulted in a plane crash in Pennsylvania. He described the attacks as "punishment from Allah."
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Presented by Salah Najm and conducted by Jamal Isma'il in an unspecified location in Afghanistan.
Aired 10 June 1999
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Saddam Hussein
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by Greg Sherridan - 'The Australian'
The capture of Saddam Hussein is the most significant event in Iraq
since the end of formal combat. It is a turning point in the history
of Iraq, with consequences that could be global in scope.
This will have profound and immediate consequences in Iraq. But it
will also massively bolster the position of US President George W
Bush. And perhaps most significant of all, the pictures of the
captured and humiliated Saddam Hussein were being watched last night
in Syria, Damascus and Pyongyang. Axis of Evil dictators should know
this is the end point of the defiance of US power.
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From Al-Bawaba.com...
December 13th, 2003 will go down in history as a day all
Arabs will remember with bitterness and astonishment.
The Iraqi strongman...was seized by US
forces dramatically without any resistance on his part. Unlike his two sons, who resisted till the very last bit
of life in them, this has been a great disappointment to
all those supporters he had scattered throughout the
Arab world, who expected more from the fallen leader.
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Islamic Fundamentalism
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by Dr. Millward - Strategic Analyst in the Analysis and Production Branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
In Part I of this series, Dr. Millward examines the genesis and
objectives of the Islamic revival, and traces its two basic
patterns - mainstream and militant Islamism — in the major countries of the
Middle East and North Africa. Deliberately excluded from this discussion,
and left to Part II, is the question of support for Islamism in what the
author terms "A Growing Iranian Islamist Network".
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by Dr. Millward - Strategic Analyst in the Analysis and Production Branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
On this page of the Site, Dr. William Millward concludes his two-part series on Islamic Fundamentalism by examining the nature of the fear engendered, and threat posed, by this complex phenomenon.
Central to his discussion are three principal trends in the Islamist movement: political successes of mainstream elements; radicalization as a result of repression; and an "Iranian network".
In the concluding section, the author looks to the future of Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa, where it will face serious competition from other forces, not the least of which is a growing demand for democratization.
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by A. Salari
This paper argues that the root cause of the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, to a large extent, has been foreign interference in domestic politics, which affected the other aspects of societal life in Muslim countries, as it is the case in Iran. The industrial countries, particularly the US have had crucial interests in the region especially in protecting the flow of oil and controlling its price. Hence, for National Governments of oil producing countries, being independent, pursuing their National interests, and having cooperative relations with the West have always been controversial. In Iran for instance, foreign manipulations in the central Government level, have always led to chaos in the society. It is a common saying in Western politics that "left and right fight and moderate wins'".
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by Robert Spencer - Director of Jihad Watch and the author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery Publishing -- a HUMAN EVENTS sister company) and Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter Books).
"REMEMBER 9/11" Last Tuesday, a band of demonstrators appeared outside the British Prime Minister's offices on Downing Street in London. Some were carrying signs bearing photos of the burning World Trade Center, with the exhortation to remember as a caption. But it wasn't a memorial. It was a threat..
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Jihad Unspun is a radical Muslim website that defends Osama bin Laden and others like him. It posted an explanation of Jihad, "The True Meaning of Jihad" by one Sidik Aucbur, which differs considerably from the peaceful version presented at UCLA by CAIR's Hussam Ayloush.
In Onward Muslim Soldiers, auther Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch recounts how American, British and Australian Muslim spokesmen often blame Western scholars - "Orientalists" - for inventing the notion that Jihad has anything to do with War, while radical Muslims simultaneously blame "Orientalists" for creating the idea that Jihad is a peaceful spiritual struggle!
Likewise Ayloush asserts that "the image of long-bearded men carrying machine guns is media-produced," while Aucbur, coming from an opposite perspective, says that "it should not surprise anyone that the West will try its utmost to distort the meaning of Jihad from the minds of the Muslims." How are the wicked Westerners distorting Jihad's meaning? By saying that it's peaceful!
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by Jamie Glazov who holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Soviet Studies. He is the author of 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist
If you hate women, and you hate their sexuality, and you are terrified that you cannot control it, the most effective thing you can do is to mutilate female sexual pleasure. This can be done by a sexual lobotomy, which will destroy an essential and sacred part of a woman's natural makeup. In achieving this feat on all women, you will become able to ruthlessly dominate them.
That's what female circumcision is all about...
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1792) could be considered the first modern Islamic
fundamentalist. He made the central point of his reform movement the idea that
absolutely every idea added to Islam after the third century of the Mulsim era (about
950 CE) was false and should be eliminated.
The reason for this extremist stance, and a primary focus of his efforts, was a number
of common practices which he regarded as regressions to the days of pre-Islamic
polytheism. These included praying to saints, making pilgrimages to tombs and special
mosques, venerating trees, caves, and stones, and using votive and sacrificial
offerings.
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by Robert Spencer - Director of Jihad Watch and the author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery Publishing) and Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter Books).
Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, a London-based Imam, has lost an appeal of his conviction for soliciting murder and making threats during his taped lectures. The BBC reports that in the lectures he was "urging followers to kill non-believers, Jews, Hindus and Americans." He also "told young British Muslims they would be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise if they died in a Holy War."
At his trial, el-Faisel argued that "he was interpreting and updating the words of the Qur'an, the Islamic holy book."
The Mufti of Australia and New Zealand, Taj Al-Din Hamed Abdallah Al-Hilali, has earned criticism this week from Australian Prime Minister John Howard and other Australian officials for his remarks calling for Jihad in Israel -- but they might have had even more reason to be concerned about remarks Hilali made about Australia itself. Evidently, before shrimp on the barbee, Foster's Lager, and Crocodile Dundee, there was the burqa, the book, and the Prophet. According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Hilali claimed that Australia was originally Muslim land, settled by Afghans. The Aborigines, or at least some of them, are their descendants.
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"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and goods; for theirs ( in return ) is the garden ( of paradise ): they fight in his cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qu'ran."
[Qu'ran 9.11.1]
"It is a 'divine' commandment to persecute Jews and Christians, to defeat them in battle and then to consign them either to slavery or to death."
[Surah 8:39; 9:5, 29: 47:4]
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There is - in practical terms - no such thing as a "Moderate Muslim". There are Muslims who DO follow Islam, there are "Muslims" who DO NOT follow Islam, and there are Muslims who understand that there are TWO Islams: One which is presented to the western media, and one which is presented in mosques and followed. The one presented to the media is a lie.
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by Barney Zwartz - Religious Affairs Writer - Melbourne 'Age'
Western churches are betraying Christian minorities in Muslim countries by trying to appease Islam, according to an international expert on Islam.
Patrick Sookhdeo said Christian leaders rushed to call Islam a religion of peace, but did not speak out against the persecution of Christians, such as the death of 3 million in Sudan.
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Robert Spencer - FrontPageMagazine.com - October 31, 2003
The semi-official Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica has done nothing less than shock the world by publishing an absolutely scathing criticism of the mistreatment that Christians suffer in Islamic societies. Why so shocking? It's a sharp break with Pope John Paul II's long-standing policy toward Islam, which some have characterized as “dialogue to the point of extremism.” Nothing is published in La Civiltà Cattolica without the approval of the Vatican Secretary of State — so this blistering article presumably corresponds to the views of some very high placed Vatican officials, if not the ailing Pope himself.
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In recent years Islamic Fundamentalist organisations have assumed a
presence on the Internet, and according to a number of indications
this is set to grow. Why they are posting, the purpose and nature
of their communiqués and their relevance to researchers is the subject
of this article.
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One of the questions I am most often asked is “Where are the Muslim leaders denouncing Terrorism in all its forms?” This question has become all the more urgent lately in light of statements such as this one from the Lebanese cleric Sheikh Maher Hammoud: “It is not the Islamic way to bomb places like the Red Cross or Iraqi Police. But in principle, Ramadan is a blessed month and known as a month for Jihad.” For many Muslims, that means Ramadan is a month for war - as taxi driver Abdullah Hissein put it after an American helicopter was downed in
Iraq last Sunday: “We usually celebrate Ramadan at the end of the month. Now we are celebrating in the beginning after these infidel Americans were shot down.”
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Jack Thomas was "just an average Aussie," a
sometime cabdriver and chef who enjoyed watching
movies and playing pool. That is, until he
converted to Islam, changed his first name to
Jihad, forsook a can of VB, and journeyed to
Pakistan - where he is now under arrest on
suspicion of Terrorist activities and ties to
al-Qaeda.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Makhdoom
Faisal Saleh Hayat asserts that "there is more
than credible evidence" to establish Thomas’s
Terrorist activity.
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The Taliban
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The Taliban ("Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement") governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war. Although they managed to hold 90% of the country's territory, their policies - including their treatment of women and support of Terrorists - ostracized them from the world community.
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This interview was published in Arabic by Markaz Al Dirasaat wa
Al Buhooth July 17, 2002 and has been translated to English. In this interview, Muhammad Tayyeb Agha, spokes-man for
the Commander of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, gives us a glimpse of
the aims and activities of Mullah Omar and the remaining Taliban fighters inside
Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban Government in 2001.
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Bio-Chemical Threats
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Advances in technology due to genomic research could produce the worst known diseases and the "most frightening" biological weapons, a panel of outside experts has told the CIA.
"The effects of some of these engineered biological agents could be worse than any disease known to man," the panel said.
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Now that Terrorists have demonstrated they're capable of carrying out unthinkable attacks of
extreme devastation, some believe the United States should be on higher alert for a biological or
chemical attack. ABCNEWS.com talked to several experts to learn about these weapons, the preparedness
of the United States for such attacks and possible defenses against them
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Terrorists are experimenting with pathogens and poisons. But they have failed before: daunting technical obstacles stand in the way of Biological and Chemical Weapons. Martin Quintino figures he's ready. On the day after the atrocities of Sept. 11, the 22-year-old Miami salesclerk bought one gas mask, one chemical bodysuit, a pair of camouflage gloves and an airtight hood that seals off the head and neck, all for $150. He wasn't alone . . .
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The number and lethality of international Terrorist incidents directed against U.S. interests increased last year. The Riyadh and Al Khobar bombings in Saudi Arabia resulted in the largest number of U.S. fatalities at the hands of international Terrorists since the December 1988 downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Terrorist violence represents a serious threat to U.S. personnel, facilities, and interests around the world.
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Terrorism is a factor to consider in all military plans and operations. Combating Terrorism requires a continuous state of awareness; it is a necessary practice rather than a type of military operation. Detailed guidance for establishing an organizational program to combat Terrorism, including preventive and protective measures and incident response planning, can be found in Joint Publication 3-07.2 (1993). Terrorism is a criminal offense under nearly every national or international legal code. With few exceptions, acts of Terrorism are forbidden in war as they are in times of peace. See, for example, the Hague Regulation of 1907 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
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Cyber-Terrorism
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Security analysts who specialize in tracking Terrorist groups like al-Qaida are expressing increasing concern that such organizations may use Cyber-Terrorism as a way to launch attacks inside the United States and other countries. They warn that computers can be used to severely damage critical infrastructure and have the potential to cause widespread bloodshed.
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Computer Warfare? Terrorists take control of the New York Stock
Exchange? Terrorism over the Internet? Computer viruses in the
arsenal of Hizballah?
Sound implausible?
Maybe. But such possibilities are currently being discussed by strategic
analysts under the catch-all title, "Information Warfare"
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In recent years Islamic Fundamentalist organisations have assumed a
presence on the Internet, and according to a number of indications
this is set to grow. Why they are posting, the purpose and nature
of their communiqués and their relevance to researchers is the subject
of this article.
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Archived News Item - November 30, 2003
The US Homeland Security Department's first
simulation of a Terrorist attack on computer, banking, and utility
systems exposed problems with the ways victimized industries
communicated vital information during the crisis, the US Government's
new Cyber-Security chief said.
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Joint News Release
Daryl Williams AM QC MP - Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Senator Robert Hill - Minister for Defence
Philip Ruddock MP - Attorney-General
3 December 2003
Australian Government agencies will be able to respond more quickly to
information security threats with the launch today of the 'OnSecure' website.
'OnSecure', jointly developed by the National Office of the Information Economy
(NOIE) and the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), allows Government agencies to
securely report information security incidents online rather than by mail or
facsimile.
The secure website will make it easier for Government agencies to report any
attempted hacking, denial of service or other breaches of information security.
It will also help the DSD to analyse incident reports more quickly and
effectively, to identify any developing patterns and to assess the resulting
threat level.
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Archived News Item - December 09, 2003
Aljazeera.Net - Security agents are confronting a new threat - teams of computer
hackers aiming to maximise the death toll in armed attacks by
paralysing the emergency rescue services.
Since the 11 September attacks, police and intelligence officials
have been forced to add a new dimension to their planning: groups of
highly skilled "Cyber-Terrorists".
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Nuclear-Terrorism
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A nuclear Terrorist attack is an
incident in which a Terrorist Organization uses a nuclear device to cause
mass murder and devastation. Nuclear Terrorism also includes the use, or
threat of use, of fissionable radioactive materials in an attack, for example,
an assault on a nuclear power plant for the purpose of causing extensive and/or
irreversible environmental damage. In this case, the Terrorist
organization need not develop, acquire or gain control of a nuclear bomb in
order to cause extensive damage. It need only use conventional weapons
against one of the many nuclear reactors in the world in order to seriously
damage the reactor, thus releasing radioactive matter into the
atmosphere. Such an attack can endanger large population centers.
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The short answer to that question is: YES!
In March 2000 police in New Zealand uncovered a possible plot to blow
up a nuclear reactor in Sydney during the Olympic Games. In the course
of an investigation into people-smuggling by organized crime syndicates the
Auckland police conducted a series of house raids in the capital city of New
Zealand and found evidence suggesting a plan to attack the Lucas Heights nuclear
reactor near Sydney, Australia.
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An attack against a nuclear facility has always been considered by
specialists to be one of the main potential threats of nuclear Terrorism.
However, the historical record to date has been benign. Terrorists have rarely
attacked nuclear facilities, stolen Nuclear Weapons or weapon-grade nuclear
materials.
To date, there have occurred perhaps six attacks on nuclear power plants in
France, South Africa, Argentina, the Philippines, and Spain. Fortunately, all of
the reactors were in the early stages of construction and were not operational.
Between 1966 and 1977 there were 10 Terrorist incidents against European
nuclear installations.
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According to various reports, Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire
responsible for the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, not to mention the terrorist attacks against the US on September 11 2001,
and his organization al-Qaida are involved in an effort to acquire
weapons of mass destruction, along with the capabilities to develop such weapons
themselves.
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By Kaushik Kapisthalam
In his first State of the Union Address after the September 11 attacks, President Bush said "Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor Terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with Weapons of Mass Destruction. ” The President had Saddam Hussein's Iraq foremost in his mind when he uttered those words. Saddam is gone now and the world is still looking for his Weapons of Mass Destruction cache. There is another regime, however, that is thriving despite having Nuclear Weapons and strong links to Terrorists. It is the regime of Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.
Pakistan is, on the “official record,” a US ally in the War on Terror. Under Gen.Musharraf, Pakistani authorities have arrested and handed over hundreds of al Qaeda Terrorists and the General himself has appeared intent to transform his country into a moderate, West-friendly Islamic democracy.
But there is also another Pakistan.
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Archived News Item - November 14, 2003
A secret study is believed to warn that four million people could be
contaminated in the event of a successful terror attack on the Lucas
Heights nuclear reactor, according to a magazine report.
..."(This report) confirms that an estimated four million
residents living within 80 km of the reactor - virtually Sydney's entire
population - risk radioactive contamination in the event of a successful
strike on the reactor," the report said.
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Archived News Item - November 14, 2003
Australian authorities now fear that al-Qaeda bomber Willie Brigitte may have been plotting attacks against Sydney's Lucas Heights Nuclear Reactor, or military sites such as the Garden Island Naval Base and Holsworthy Army Barracks.
ASIO, which conducted secret hearings last week at the Sydney offices of the Australian Crime Commission, has spent the past two weeks building a case against Brigitte, and has reaffirmed initial suspicions that he was a skilled bomb-maker sent to Australia to commit a serious Terrorist act.
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Archived News Item - November 21, 2003
Czech police have arrested two Slovaks who attempted to sell 3kg of an unknown radioactive material worth US$600,000 ($965,500), police said.
The suspects were arrested in the Voronez Hotel in Brno, 200km southeast of Prague. Police said the men were detained as they were counting the money. The arrests came after a week-long sting by undercover officers.
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Archived News Item - December 09, 2003
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida Terrorist network plotted to detonate a 'dirty nuke' bomb floated into London on one of its armada of mystery ships, but
the plan was foiled by security forces, says an official.
The device was to be delivered on a cargo ship and moored at a dock ready
to be detonated when the wind was right, according to the People newspaper
in London. If it had exploded, it would have contaminated a huge area and
forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of terrified people.
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Archived News Item - January 17, 2004
A Dirty Bomb (high explosives coated with radioactive material) is an ideal weapon for Terrorists. Not because they would kill more people than chemical or biological weapons, but because anything associated with the word, "radioactive" is more terrifying to people. Terrorists are more interested in scaring you than killing you.
What makes a Dirty Bomb particularly troublesome is that radioactivity, like fire, is something we deal with on a daily basis. For example, there is a US Government standard of 5,000 mrem (a measurement of radiation) a year for those working with nuclear material.
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