Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Eliot Spitzer has a weblog.  Excellent.  7:25:32 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Jamestown has a translation of the Jeddah attack announcement.  And today, Monday 24 Shawwal 1425, your brothers in the Martyr Abu Anas al-Shami Squadron undertook the blessed Fallujah Raid', stormed one of the Crusader fortresses in the Arabian Peninsula and penetrated the stronghold of the American Consulate in Jeddah, through which the Land of the Two Shrines is ruled, the affairs of the Pilgrimage and the pilgrims are decided, and from which spies and cowards are disseminated. 2:37:54 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

AT.  By some acounts there are 500 tribes in Saudi Arabia.  The Asia Times lists the top ones. 10:00:25 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Startribune.  Negative CIA report on Iraq.  Also this nugget:  Negroponte at work building loyalist paramilitaries (which was anticipated by this author)....  Since then, however, violence in Iraq has increased, including the recent formation of a Shiite militia intended to carry out attacks on Sunni militants. 9:59:32 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

CSM.  CIA agent recruitment within al Qaeda.  But the opposite occurs within Islamist terror groups. If the CIA targets the young, it gets someone who is street savvy - a gunrunner, document forger, or drug trafficker. But as the militant burrows deeper into the group, as the CIA would want, he finds the Al Qaeda doctrine and leaders more appealing.  "The ideological lure of militant Islam is stronger as you progress into the organization," Scheuer says. "From the perspective of Islam, now, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are decent, pious men." 8:41:05 AM    Comment_ Trackback []