Iran regional meeting to champion INTERPOL’s Central Asian anti-terror ‘Shield’

20^th May 2008.

 
TEHRAN, Iran ( ISIJ News) – The need to harness a pro-active, multi-disciplinary approach in terrorism-related investigations is the focus of the fourth working group meeting opening today in Tehran on Project Kalkan, Interpol’s on-going anti-terrorism initiative in Central Asia.

The two-day meeting draws together countries from the Central Asia region as well as from Africa, Asia and Europe and will review progress on the collaborative regional project amongst its 19 core countries. Specific issues under discussion include counter terrorism initiatives and operational cases, terrorism financing and the recruitment methods of terrorist groups.

Project Kalkan – meaning Shield in Central Asian countries – is one of several key regional components of Interpol’s multi-region Fusion Task Force (FTF) which was created in 2002 to identify active terrorist groups, and to collect, share and analyze information and intelligence on their activities. From just five initial member countries at the launch of Project Kalkan in 2004, following terrorist attacks in Tashkent, a total of 60 INTERPOL member countries are now sharing terrorism-related information as part of the initiative.

Miracle in Haripur Pakistan.

Another Miracle.

 

The name of Muhammed (SAWW) developed in  Arabic in a green field situated in Haripur a city of NWFP Province of Pakistan.

 

How Long you will survive in this bloody culture?

Harry Potter actor is killed in knife attack.14th victim of UK capital’s gang and knife culture.

Monday, May 26, 2008.

An 18-year-old actor became this year’s 14th teenage victim of London’s knife and gun street culture when he was stabbed in a brawl outside a bar in Sidcup on Saturday, just two weeks after 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen was knifed to death outside a bakery in nearby Lee. Four other young men were treated for stab wounds after a fight broke out in Sidcup shortly after midnight. A 16-year-old was stabbed in the chest; a 21-year-old is in hospital after being stabbed in the neck; and another youth was treated for a hand wound. Police said a 21-year-old man had been arrested. The man who died was named yesterday as Rob Knox. He is understood to have had a minor role in the next Harry Potter film. A statement from Warner Bros released yesterday said: “We are all shocked and saddened by this news … our sympathies are with his family.”

An internal Scotland Yard report obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveals that, while violent crime is generally falling in London, the murder rate for victims aged 20 and under “has more than doubled in the past three years”. It adds: “The 11- to 20-year-old age group has also nearly doubled in gang [and] public order type violence.” As if to underline the point, a boy of 17 was fighting for his life last night after being shot in Archway, north London, in an incident being investigated by Scotland Yard’s Trident squad. On Thursday, London’s Metropolitan Police Authority will hear grim details of research into life on some of the city’s streets for young people. The report highlights fear among teens who say they are scared to travel on public transport, to leave their own “endz” or postcode areas, and that dinner-money theft is so common it is hardly reported. Of children interviewed who said they had been victims of crime, just 47 per cent said they had reported it to police, indicating that actual crime could be twice as bad as official figures. It adds that despite this, young people are suspicious of stop-and-search powers, which the Met is stepping up to try to combat knife crime.

The sentiments were echoed by the Children’s Commissioner for England yesterday. Sir Al Aynsley-Green said: “There is a balance here: on the one hand for young people to feel safer by police [presence], but on the other making sure new powers don’t create further antagonism by increased stopping and searching.” Alf Hitchcock, Acting Assistant Commissioner of the Met, said the force was working on community initiatives and tougher policing to clamp down on knife culture. Measures include sending police to schools to talk to pupils, an anonymous texting service to report crime, to begin next month, and a nationwide “one strike and you’re out” policy. “If you are caught with a knife and there is an aggravating factor, such as you are in school, you will go to court,” he said. “It’s a long-term effort,” he said, adding that no single measure would solve the problem, which involves social deprivation, parenting and criminality.

The toll of criminality 14 victims in 5 months.

 

Teenagers killed in 5 months, of 2008. Henry Bolombi, 17, 1 Jan 2008;

Bradley Whitfield, 16, 1 Jan; Faridon Alizada, 18, 5 Jan;

Alex Holroyd, 19, 10 Jan; Boduka Mudianga, 18, 21 Jan;

Faud Buraleh, 19, 26 Jan; Joe Dinsdale, 17, 11 Feb;

Sunday Essiet, 15, 19 Feb; Tung Le, 17, 23 Feb;

Ofiyke Nmezu, 16, 29.Feb; Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim, 17, 10 Mar;

Michael Jones, 18, 13 Mar; Nicholas Clarke, 19, 14.Mar;

Devoe Roach, 17, 27 Mar; Amro Elbadawi, 14, 27 Mar;

Robert Spence, 17, 2 May; Lyle Tulloch, 15, 3 May;

Jimmy Mizen, 16, 10 May; Nathan Lyons, 17, 13 May; and Rob Knox, 18, 24 May.

The toll of criminality 14 victims in 5 months.

Teenagers killed in 5 months, of 2008. Henry Bolombi, 17, 1 Jan 2008;

Bradley Whitfield, 16, 1 Jan; Faridon Alizada, 18, 5 Jan;

Alex Holroyd, 19, 10 Jan; Boduka Mudianga, 18, 21 Jan;

Faud Buraleh, 19, 26 Jan; Joe Dinsdale, 17, 11 Feb;

Sunday Essiet, 15, 19 Feb; Tung Le, 17, 23 Feb;

Ofiyke Nmezu, 16, 29.Feb; Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim, 17, 10 Mar;

Michael Jones, 18, 13 Mar; Nicholas Clarke, 19, 14.Mar;

Devoe Roach, 17, 27 Mar; Amro Elbadawi, 14, 27 Mar;

Robert Spence, 17, 2 May; Lyle Tulloch, 15, 3 May;

Jimmy Mizen, 16, 10 May; Nathan Lyons, 17, 13 May; and Rob Knox, 18, 24 May.

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Media invitation for 37th INTERPOL European Regional Conference.

  LYON, France – Senior law enforcement officials  from across Europe will meet in Vilnius, Lithuania from 28 to 30 May for the 37th     INTERPOL European Regional Conference. The conference will focus on a range of issues, such as fighting trafficking in human beings and illegal immigration, combating organized crime and drug trafficking and expanding access to INTERPOL services beyond National Central Bureaus (NCB’s). The opening ceremony and speeches by INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and senior Lithuanian officials will be open to the media at 9.30am on Wednesday 28 May.

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Visions of Mars through PHONIX landing today.

 

PASADENA, California – A three-legged NASA spacecraft was closing in on Mars Sunday for what scientists hope will be the first-ever touchdown near Mars’ north pole to study whether the permafrost could have supported primitive life.

The time it takes the Phoenix Mars Lander to streak through the atmosphere and set down on the dusty surface has been dubbed “the seven minutes of terror” for good reason. More than half of the world’s attempts to land on Mars have ended in failures.

“I’m a little nervous on the inside. I’m getting butterflies,” Peter Smith, principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tucson, said on the eve of the landing. “We bet the whole farm on this safe landing and we can’t do our science without this safe landing.”

Phoenix is preprogrammed to plummet through the Red Planet’s atmosphere, and will rely on the intricately choreographed use of its heat shield, parachute and rockets to slow its descent from over 12,000 mph to a 5 mph touchdown.

‘Beautiful butterfly’.

In the ideal scenario, “we evolve out of this cocoon and spread our wings and we turn into this beautiful butterfly on the surface,” said Ed Sedivy, program manager at Lockheed Martin Corp., which built Phoenix.

Mission controllers decided late Saturday to skip an opportunity to adjust Phoenix’s flight path since the lander was well on track for its target landing site.

NASA has not had a successful soft landing in more than three decades since the twin Viking landers in 1976. The last time the space agency tried was in 1999 when the Mars Polar Lander angling for the south pole crashed after prematurely cutting off its engines.

Phoenix was built from a lander that was scrapped after the Polar Lander disaster. Engineers spent years testing Phoenix to resolve all known problems, but there are no guarantees on landing day.

“It’s kind of like going to Vegas. If you have high odds, you play a number of times, eventually one of them is going to bite you,” said Barry Goldstein, project manager of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “That’s what’s concerns us the most.”

Phoenix is preprogrammed to plummet through the Red Planet’s atmosphere, and will rely on the intricately choreographed use of its heat shield, parachute and rockets to slow its descent from over 12,000 mph to a 5 mph touchdown.

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Arrest of Mr. Sabir in UK, an act of negligency.

 

May 24, ISIJ.

The arrest of an academic and a student from Nottingham University, central England, for possessing extremist material has provoked outrage on the campus after it was revealed the apparent offence concerned downloading material for a PhD course. Politics student Rizwaan Sabir was arrested on May 14 along with a 30-year-old member of staff under the Terrorism Act 2000. Both men were eventually released on May 20, although the staff member was re- arrested on unrelated immigration issues.

According to the Muslim News, students and staff alike branded the arrest an exploitation of anti-terror laws and stifling of civil liberties.

Coordinator of Dissertation and Sabir’s personal tutor, Dr Bettina Renz, said that the material in question, an edited version of an al-Qaeda handbook, was “easily accessible” and available on government websites. “The information he downloaded was 100% related to his studies,” Dr Renz said. “The information he obtained is available on websites that are widely used on reading lists in the School of Politics,” she told the publication.

His personal tutor was also annoyed about behavior of the university authorities towards Sabir, who was preparing for his PhD on radical groups. “Nobody tried to speak to him or to his tutors before police were sent in,” Dr Renz said. She also added that he “actually missed one of his exams because of his detention” was also convinced his Muslim faith “undoubtedly played part” in his arrest. Saber’s other lecturer, Dr Rod Thornton, also confirm the PhD student was engaged in research into Al Qaeda. “So it would be no surprise if he accessed material related to Al Qaeda’s activities,” he said.

Dr. Thornton told the Muslim News that “the likes of Al Qaeda’s Training Manual is not hidden away,” adding it was “freely available on US government web sites.” In response to the wrongful detentions, academics from Nottingham University are holding a public reading next week of the research material that led to arrests under the Terrorism Act. It is being followed silent vigil to object to the attack on academic freedom. The arrests are understood to be the first since the government issued guidelines under its counter-extremism strategy to effectively target and spy on Muslim students and Islamic groups. We condemned the arrest of a Muslim Scholar without any reasonable evidence or giving the chance to explain his position before arrest. The supreme council of ISIJ responded immediately.

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Mr. Misra a New Vice President elected for Interpol.

Central President of ISIJ Dr. Syed Akbar Abbas have sent the word of congratulation to Mr. Misra on his wonderful victory in IPO. Central Bureau of Investigation director U.S. Misra was on Wednesday elected vice-president of Interpol, the international police organisation headquartered in Lyon, France.

Mr. Misra defeated Andrew Hughs, Commissioner of Police, Fiji, by 53 votes in the election held on the concluding day of the Interpol General Assembly in Berlin. His election to the 184-member body is being described as a major achievement for India and Pakistan. As vice-president representing Asia, Mr. Misra will have a one-year term.

P.C. Sharma, former CBI director, was elected vice-president in 2003 for three years but he resigned recently necessitating the election. Mr. Sharma is now a member of the NHRC..

Mr. Misra has 37 years of experience in various areas of policing, ranging from criminal investigation, policy formulations to management. In his Berlin speech, he promised to strive to make Interpol pro-active and responsive in collection, analysis, collation and dissemination of intelligence.

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US and ISRAEL are interfering in Lebanon, Iran Said.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman here Friday expressed deep regret over prevailing chaotic status in Lebanon, emphasizing US-Israeli adventurism there is main cause for lingering crisis and instability there. Mohammad-Ali Hosseini who was reflecting Iran’s basic stands on recent clashes between political forces in Lebanon, repeated that Iran’s stand on Lebanon has always been based on non-interference in a matter that is entirely related to the Lebanese nation, alone. He added, “The Islamic Republic of Iran also believes under the current conditions the Lebanese nation and various political groups there should maintain full alertness about the plots hatched abroad for their country.” 

Hosseini further reiterated, “Unfortunately, a part of the political scenario planned for Lebanon abroad, whose aftermaths were easy to predict well in advance, and warnings about which had been issued in time, has now been put to effect.” According to Foreign Ministry Media and Information Office, he expressed hope that the responsible sides for the emergence of the ongoing crisis in Lebanon would now take necessary steps aimed at restoration of peace and stability to that country.

The Foreign Ministry Spokesman further emphasized that the US and Israeli irresponsible interferences in Lebanon’s internal affairs is the root cause for the ongoing political crisis and chaotic conditions there.

He further emphasized, those who failed in achieving their goals in the course of the 33-Day War against the Lebanese nation aimed at Lebanon’s political independence and national unity ever since then, to take revenge.” Hosseini expressed regret over the ongoing chaotic conditions in Beirut, reiterating, “Incessant efforts made by the Islamic Republic of Iran to make up among various political groups in that country have not been accompanied with the assistance of the other countries. The Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that the Islamic Republic of Iran would all the same continue such efforts, believing they are to the benefit of the Lebanese nation.

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Why Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd supporting to the Kings of terrorism?

 

   Date: 5/14/2008 4: 36: 00 PM.

  Double Standard of Australian 

  PM.

Australia is considering taking      Iran’s president to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had threatened to eliminate the Jewish state and the government was taking legal advice on launching a case against him at the international court in the Hague, Rudd said.

 

“The Iranian president’s repeated extraordinary statements, which are anti-Semitic and expressing a determination to eliminate the modern state of Israel from the map, are appalling by any standards of current international relations,” he told Sky News. “They are an incitement of international violence and what we have said in the past is that we will take legal advice, which the attorney-general is currently doing, on whether there is a profitable way forward here through the appropriate international legal mechanisms and we’ll study that advice carefully.”

The Australian premier was commenting on a press report which said that in the run up to last year’s elections, he had promised Australia’s Jewish community his government would act against Ahmadinejad if he won power. He stated that Iran does not recognize the Jewish state, and since becoming president in 2005 Ahmadinejad has repeatedly provoked international outrage by predicting that Israel is doomed to disappear. In his latest comments, made on Wednesday to coincide with the arrival of US President George W. Bus in Israel, Ahmadinejad reportedly said Muslims would uproot Israel at the first opportunity and that the Jewish state was “dying”. He has also caused controversy by playing down the scale of the Holocaust. Rudd said the comments were “dangerous stuff” in the context of international relations.

“It’s not just hyperbole from the bully pulpit of Tehran, it’s the roll-on effect across the Islamic world, particularly those who listen to Iran for their guidance,” he said. Attorney-General Robert McClelland confirmed to The Australian that the government was seeking legal advice on taking Ahmadinejad to the International Court of Justice. “The government considers the comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling for the destruction of Israel and questioning the existence of the Holocaust, to be repugnant and offensive,”

President of ISIJ Dr. Akbar Abbas said that Australian Prime Minister Mr. Kevin Rudd should take PM of Israel, ex PM of UK and President of USA in the International Court of Justice, because of their wicked acts proved against the innocent men around the world. But how you can do it? Cause you are the one of them. Any one who is a supporter of the terrorism / terrorists, must be considered one of them. Therefore, we think that you and your supporters from Judaism should be considered terrorists, cause of supporting the International Terrorists like, Bush Blair and Ehud Olmert. You must understand that the world is not a globe of stupid ness, and your double standard have no value in this globe.

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Shame, Shame, Shame for Israel

 A man of sexual immorality Israeli PM, pressured to  

 resign over bribery scandal.

 Date:  5/10/2008 1:36:00 PM.

 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  is facing mounting calls to resign over a criminal probe into allegations he took bribes from a millionaire US financier. Olmert has vehemently denied any wrongdoing but has said he would quit if he is charged in a case that threatens to shake the political landscape at a crucial moment in Middle East peacemaking. Pressure on the 62-year-old premier mounted after a gag order over the case was lifted on Thursday. The timing was particularly embarrassing for Olmert, coming as Israel celebrated its 60th anniversary and a week before a scheduled visit by US President George W. Bush.

Gideon Star, who heads the parliamentary group of the conservative opposition party Likud, said that “considering the seriousness of the suspicions that surround Olmert, he is no longer in a position to carry out his duties”. Olmert has been dogged by scandals since he took office in 2006 and even his coalition partners are now getting edgy.

“It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back, considering all the previous investigations,” said Eytan Cabel, secretary general of the Labour party said on Friday.

Meanwhile, Palestinian officials expressed fears the affair could affect the peace process, particularly if early elections are called.

“In the immediate future, we fear this crisis could have an impact on talks led through Egypt’s mediation for a truce (in the Gaza Strip),” said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat. “In case of early elections, the peace process will be put on hold,” Erakat told AFP. White House Spokesman Gordon Johndroe stressed that Bush will go to Israel as planned and will meet with Olmert.

The president is pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal to be reached before he leaves office in January even though little progress has been made since long-dormant negotiations were restarted in November. The justice ministry said on Thursday that Olmert was being investigated over suspicions he unlawfully received payments from a foreign businessman during his time as mayor of Jerusalem and as industry minister. “Citizens of Israel, I look you in the eye and I say to you, in no uncertain terms, I have never taken a bribe, nor have I unlawfully pocketed money,” Olmert said at a hastily convened press conference on Thursday. “If the attorney general decides to file an indictment against me I shall resign immediately, even though I am not required to do so by law.” Olmert acknowledged that he had received financial contributions for various election campaigns from Jewish-American businessman Morris Talansky, 75, but insisted they were not illegal. Anti-fraud investigators had grilled Olmert for an hour on Friday, while his former office manager, Shula Zaken, has been questioned four times.

Olmert took office after his predecessor Ariel Sharon collapsed into a coma in January 2006 and then led his centrist Kadima party to election victory in March of that year. He has weathered a string of corruption scandals, massive unpopularity, accusations of failings in the 2006 war against Hezbollah and a cancer scare. Before the latest case came to light, Olmert was already the subject of three police inquiries into suspected corruption involving potential conflicts of interest, fraudulent property transactions and abuse of power in connection with political appointments. Another case against him was dismissed.

When a premier resigns it is up to the president, currently Shimon Peres, to pick a successor who can try to form a government. Failing that, early elections must be held. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a member of Kadima, has been tipped as the most likely candidate to succeed Olmert if he goes. Former prime ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu also faced corruption investigations, none of which ever led to indictments. Then Israeli president Moshe Katsav last year became the country’s most senior official to step down over wrongdoing after he was found guilty of sexual harassment.

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