Tyhjä uhka? Terroriepäily säikäytti viranomaiset Lontoossa ja Yhdysvalloissa

United Kingdom spy chief, "codename "C", defends secrecy in 1st public speech

deseretnews.com | Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 10:58 p.m. MDT
By Paisley Dodds, Associated Press

LONDON — Britain's spy agency chief stepped out of the shadows with an unprecedented public address, defending the need for secrecy to counter growing terror threats such as Iran's nuclear proliferation.

MI6 chief John Sawers said Thursday even though Cold War-era secrecy has been lifted and intelligence agencies were working to become more accessible, keeping intelligence material secret was vital to protect people against terror attacks.

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service chief John Sawers addresses a gathering of academics, officials and editors in London Thursday.
- "Secrecy is not a dirty word. Secrecy is not there as a cover-up," Sawers told a select group of journalists in London. "Without secrecy there would be no intelligence services, or indeed other national assets like our special forces. Our nation would be more exposed as a result."

The question of secrecy has dominated world news in the last week, after the whistleblowing group WikiLeaks published nearly 400,000 U.S. intelligence logs detailing daily carnage in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. In July, the same group published 77,000 secret U.S. documents on the war in Afghanistan.

Some of the leaked documents show that coalition forces handed over terror suspects to Iraqi security services even after abuse was suspected, or continued with interrogations despite visible injuries to suspects. There has been no clear mention of MI6 involvement in the logs, however.

Sawers' speech also comes as two government inquiries probe whether MI6 and other agencies were complicit in the abuse of terror suspects — allegations that Sawers denied Thursday.
- "And we do —even though that allows terrorist activity to go ahead," he said, adding that although his agency hasn't been specifically accused of torture it has been accused of "being too close to it."

Sawers — also known by the codename "C" as all MI6 directors have been known since the first chief Mansfield Cumming — said progress had been made in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but new terror threats were growing in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa. The new threats come amid severe budget cuts ahead.
- "We get inside terrorist organizations to see where the next threats are coming from," he said. "What we do is not seen."

He said while a "typical" terror attack would not bring down Britain, the dangers of nuclear proliferation — as well as chemical and biological weapons — had the potential to alter the political balance of power in the region.

"The revelations around Iran's secret enrichment site at Qom were an intelligence success," he said. "They led to diplomatic pressure on Iran intensifying, with tougher U.N. and EU sanctions which are beginning to bite. The Iranian regime must think hard about where its best interests lie."
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Milloin viimeksi ei ole ollut tyhjä uhka?
Lopettakaa jo tämä pelleily.

CNN:n sivulla näkyy "pommin" osista kuvia. Kyse on laservärikasetista ja piirilevystä johtoineen. Nyt käytetty jauhe ei ollut väriä eikä räjähdettä.

Esim. Sun arvelee kyseessä olleen terroristien kuivaharjoituksen. Se kait tarkoittaisi sen testaamista, miten muotoiltuna pommi saadaan läpi tarkastuksista. Voisi tuo tietenkin olla ihan vain pelottelua itsessäänkin?

Sopivasti aina vaalien alla sattuu ja tapahtuu kun spin doctorit puuhailee.

Jospa niissä värikaseteissa oli WTC7:n raunioistakin löytynyttä nano-thermatea. LOL

Chemical Explosive Used in Cargo Plane Threats a Small, Powerful Agent Used in Many Recent Terror Attempts

CBSNews.com | By David Hancock

CBS) CBS News has confirmed that the explosive found in crude devices on planes in the United Kingdom and Dubai was powerful agent known as PETN - a favorite of terrorists in many attacks and attempts in recent years.

PETN, short for pentaerythritol trinitrate, is a widely available - and easily detected - chemical explosive that has a long history of terrorist use.

PETN eli pentaerytritolitetranitraatti (pentriitti, nitropenta) on hyvin voimakas räjähdysaine, joka syttyy TNT:tä tai tetryyliä helpommin iskusta, lämmöstä tai kitkasta. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETN

Terrorist incidents in recent years involving PETN include:
* The suspect in a failed Christmas Day 2009 airliner bombing attempt. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was traveling from Amsterdam when he tried to destroy the plane carrying by injecting chemicals into a package of PETN explosive concealed in his underwear.
* The Saudi government said PETN was used in an assassination attempt on the country's counterterrorism operations chief in August, 2009.
* It was also a component of the explosive that Richard Reid, the convicted "shoe bomber," used in his 2001 attempt to down an airliner.
* PETN was widely used in the plastic explosives terrorists used to blow up airplanes in the 1970s and 1980s.

According to Encyclopedia Brittanica, PETN is a highly explosive, colorless organic compound, and is related to nitroglycerin. Introduced as an explosive after World War I, PETN is "valued for its shattering force and efficiency ... and is the least stable of the common military explosives but retains its properties in storage for longer periods than nitroglycerin or cellulose nitrate (nitrocellulose) does."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/29/world/main7004474.shtml

[29/أكتوبر/2010]
SANA’A, Oct. 29 (Saba)- Yemeni defendants of an four-member al-Qaeda cell have revealed interesting information, including information about civilian and military targets.

The confessions were made during a hearing session at the specialized criminal court in Sana’a.
- During the hearing, the prosecution reviewed the investigation and evidence-collecting minutes which include the confessions of Faraj Hadi Masaud, the second defendant, who said that al-Qaeda had made plans to attack targets in Sana’a and confessed to recruiting other elements in the organization.

Qasim Ali al-Osami, the third defendant, confessed that al-Qaeda had planned to target security checkpoints, detain soldiers, steal employees' salaries and target vital installations.

Al-Osami also revealed in his confessions that in 2009, the military chief of al-Qaeda in Yemen Qasim al-Rimi had used to move around disguised as a woman. Al-Rimi stated that on one occasion they travelled from Jawf province to Arhab district in a car in which there was a woman.

The court decided to adjourn the case until November 01.
In 2009, the security forces arrested four defendants in this cell at Arhab in Sana’a province. The prosecution charged them with involvement in an armed gang from 2008 until late 2009 to commit criminal acts against national and foreign interests and harm the peace and security of the society.

The prosecution also accused them of resisting the military forces assigned to pursue them, using machineguns to shoot at soldiers and military vehicles, drawing up plans to attack civilian and military targets and assassinating a number of senior security officials.

YA
Saba
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http://www.sabanews.net/ar/news227616.htm

[29/أكتوبر/2010]
SANA’A, Oct. 29 (Saba)- The Yemeni army has ended its military campaign aiming to cleanse the rugged al-Kur mountain area at Shabwa province in the southeast of the country, of armed militants without finding the elements of al-Qaeda.

Last week, the Yemeni army launched a large military campaign involving 1000 troops and 500 armed tribesmen, to chase and arrest the al-Qaeda elements who were believed to be hiding in the mountains of al-Kur.

(...Nigerian Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the Yemeni hard-line cleric Anwar al-Awlaki...
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=19547 )

- "The campaign ended without finding al-Qaeda elements in the mountains of al-Kur", parliamentary Mahdi Abdul-Salam, a commander of the military campaign, said to the UAE-based newspaper al-Ittihad.
- "We found traces in the area of Khawaw indicating that al-Qaeda elements were in this region three days ago", he added, confirming that al-Kur mountain range no longer hosts elements of the extremist organization.
YA
Saba
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http://www.sabanews.net/ar/news227614.htm

Detroitin lentoterroristi oli suomalaisnaisen opiskelukaveri - katso kuvat!
IS | 07.01.2010 19:39

Suomalainen Inga Härmälä tajusi tunteneensa nigerialaisen Umar Farouk Abdulmutallabin, kun tämän kuva julkaistiin internetissä. Abdulmutallab yritti räjäyttää joulupäivänä matkustajakoneen Detroitin lähellä.
- Kehitysmaantiedettä Helsingin yliopistossa opiskeleva Härmälä oli vuonna 2005 joitakin kuukausia Jemenin pääkaupungissa Sanaassa...
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/ulkomaat/uutinen.asp?id=1858333
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International Business Times | By Ben Berkowitz | December 29, 2009 6:48 AM EST
Detroit scare sparks debate on full-body scanners
Technology exists that might have detected explosives hidden in the underwear of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a plane over Detroit, but cost and privacy worries have until now prevented its widespread use.
- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, is suspected of trying to ignite an explosive called PETN using a chemical-filled syringe as Northwest Flight 253 approached Detroit on Christmas morning.
He had passed through security checks in Lagos and Amsterdam, where standard metal detector archways failed to spot his weapon.

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport has at least 15 full-body "millimeter wave" scanners that see underneath passengers' clothes to detect suspicious packages or weapons.

The problem: their use has been only voluntary because of concerns that the scans reveal passengers "naked" to the operators and anyone else passing by the machine's screen.

The costs are also substantial. Whereas a traditional archway metal detector runs up to $15,000, more intensive whole-body scanners cost about 10 times as much.
- "I don't anticipate myself that there'll be a rush to buy new equipment because airport operators are strapped for cash at the moment and the equipment itself, whilst good, is not a solution to the problem," said Kevin Murphy, product manager of physical security for Qinetiq Group, a British-based defense and security technology group.
- "Some passengers are reassured that there's new technology there and are prepared to give up some measure of their privacy for it, and others have been outraged by it."

Airport operators need effective security plans, behavioral modeling and hiring processes just as much as they need advanced hardware, he told Reuters. Qinetiq is focusing its efforts on "standoff screening" that scans passengers even before they reach security checkpoints.

SEEING UNDER CLOTHES
Both "millimeter wave" and "backscatter X-ray" scanners try to do roughly the same thing -- see under clothes and identify unusual objects by their different densities relative to the human body...
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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/589/20100603/foxconn-stocks-reord-low.htm

A CNN exclusive: An American-born cleric's audio message calls for jihad against the United States. - VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr8TUEfNrBk
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Al-Awlakin tapaus on herättänyt polemiikkia Yhdysvalloissa, kun hänen isänsä nosti oikeusjutun estääkseen Yhdysvaltain tiedustelupalveluja tappamasta poikaansa.
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http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
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Obama invokes 'state secrets' claim to dismiss suit against targeting of U.S. citizen al-Aulaqi

By Spencer S. Hsu | Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 25, 2010; 1:49 AM

The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets.

The U.S.-born citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, is a cleric now believed to be in Yemen. Federal authorities allege that he is leading a branch of al-Qaeda there.

Government lawyers called the state-secrets argument a last resort to toss out the case, and it seems likely to revive a debate over the reach of a president's powers in the global war against al-Qaeda.

Civil liberties groups sued the U.S. government on behalf of Aulaqi's father, arguing that the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command's placement of Aulaqi on a capture-or-kill list of suspected terrorists - outside a war zone and absent an imminent threat - amounted to an extrajudicial execution order against a U.S. citizen. They asked a U.S. district court in Washington to block the targeting.

In response, Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the groups are asking "a court to take the unprecedented step of intervening in an ongoing military action to direct the President how to manage that action - all on behalf of a leader of a foreign terrorist organization."

Miller added, "If al-Aulaqi wishes to access our legal system, he should surrender to American authorities and return to the United States, where he will be held accountable for his actions."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/25/AR201009...