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There is a great need in the world for earnestness, truth, honesty and trust. There seems to be little of it in today's world, when we can't believe in what we hear, see and often question what we even know within ourselves.

Again the world often seems to be mired in war physically, mentally and even spiritually.

What we know within ourselves, our own individual truths need to be reinforced. If we follow our hearts and our higher selves, our minds will follow.

My intention is to take ideas, ask the questions, look for the answers, inform, make connections, and sometimes create art and literature.

I am an admirer of the journalism of William Shirer and Ernest Hemingway, Eric Severied, and all the old timers who gave us the facts so vividly that we are able to create pictures in our minds, seeing the news/history as it was without bias.

I am an admirer of the craft of the writer Hemingway, when he was young, earnest and honest in love, whose work still speaks volumes on the inner person.

May I write well and create images and words of worth, and give people insight into what they truly know and feel within themselves about many things.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Adnki.com:TERRORISM: AL-QAEDA LAUNCHES SITE IN GERMAN

TERRORISM: AL-QAEDA LAUNCHES SITE IN GERMAN

Baghdad, 1 Sept. (AKI) - The latest frontier in al-Qaeda's cyber propaganda war is an attempt to win the hearts and minds of young Muslims living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The Global Islamic Media Front, the 'media arm' of the terror netework, has launched a webpage that translates into German all the statements of the Iraqi guerilla groups and publishes their videos. The site is updated daily publishing the most interesting of the Jihadi douments that can be found in jihadi forums in Arabic.

The latest update contains a video testament of a young Saudi suicide bomber Abu Omar al-Najdi who killed himself attacking a US military convoy in northern Iraq. The video was published on the Internet in recent days by al-Qaeda.

There is also ample material regarding the Chechen conflict and Algerian militants, as well as videos of the leadership of al-Qaeda, in particular Ayman al-Zawahiri, produced by the terror network's production house al-Sahab.

In the past there have been similar experiments with English and French language content. However the German site appears more professional than these previous propaganda efforts, being rich in both written and audio/video material and regularly updated.


Found this on UPI International Intelligence today. How intelligent are the Germans? Not much given the new threat posted in the Adnki article and the finding of the 2 suitcase bombs in Cologne train station two weeks ago and now this "anti-terror file dilemma" of theirs.


German govt. bickers over anti-terror file



BERLIN, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Germany's grand coalition government is bickering over how much information a new database on terror suspects should contain.



The anti-terror file, in planning for the past five years, is currently having final touches made before the German parliament decides on it in the next few months.



Conservatives feel the database, which would be accessible to all German police institutions and intelligence agencies, should include superficial details such as address and hair color as well as full-text fields where agents can enter more personal information on the suspect.



The Social Democrats claim the file should not contain more than basic information for the sake of data protection rights. They argue intelligence agents should not be allowed to handle personal information on a suspect collected by police agents.



Germany has stepped up its fight against terror after a failed train bombing last month.



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Article Link: http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060901-115208-5849r

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