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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) only takes action against a “small portion” of foreigners who overstay their visa—like several of the 9/11 terrorists—and allows hundreds of thousands to enter the United States without proper authorization under a provision that already relaxes scrutiny for dozens of countries.</div>
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It gets better. When congressional investigators demanded answers from the agency, officials said they had not yet completed a review of the cases to determine the extent of the risk. Your government at work! It’s as if nothing has been learned from the 2001 terrorist attacks, when security was so lax that Middle Eastern extremists slipped right through to plan their plot from inside the country.</div>
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Outlined in an investigative congressional report, these lapses are of special concern. The first involves foreigners who enter the U.S. from 36 countries that have special visa waiver agreements with Uncle Sam. They still need authorization, though the system is more lax than a typical visa process. Foreigners must comply with a special DHS Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) that requires them to submit biographical information and answer eligibility questions before traveling.</div>
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While most of the visitors comply with the requirements, an estimated 2% don’t, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. That translates into 364,000 travelers a year, investigators found. Additionally, only half of the countries that have visa waiver agreements with the U.S. are fully compliant. The GAO points out in this latest report that it has published five others addressing the same subject yet little has been done to improve security.</div>
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It’s almost as if the monstrous agency created after the 2001 terrorist attacks to protect the nation is blowing off Congress. This theory appears to be supported by the DHS’s handling of visa over stayers. If you recall, several of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. with valid visas but simply never left. This should be an area of deep concern for the DHS, though it doesn’t appear to be.</div>
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<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/03/dhs-clueless-about-unauthorized-foreigners-in-u-s/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read More at judicialwatch.org</a></div>
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19 JIHADISTS ARRESTED IN FRENCH RAIDS<br />SARKOZY: "IT'S IN CONNECTION WITH A FORM OF RADICAL ISLAM"</h3>
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More raids are expected on devout Muslims, aka Islamic warriors.</div>
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<strong>Paris (CNN)</strong> -- Nineteen people have been arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French radio Friday morning.</div>
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The raids come a week after gunman Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people, was shot dead after a long siege in the southwestern city of Toulouse.</div>
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The arrests took place in Toulouse, Marseille, Nantes, Lyon and the Ile de France region, around Paris, the Interior Ministry said.</div>
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Authorities have not said that any of those arrested were directly linked to Merah.</div>
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<strong>Sarkozy told Europe 1 that the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">decision</span> to act had been taken by the interior minister and foreign minister "to deny the entry of certain people to France" who did not <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">share</span> the country's values.</strong></div>
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<strong>"It's not just linked to Toulouse. It's all over the country. It's in connection with a form of radical Islam, and it's in agreement with the law," </strong>he said.<cite></cite></div>
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"What you have to understand is that the traumatic events in Montauban and Toulouse were profound in our country. I don't want to compare horrors but it's a bit like <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">the form</span> of trauma visible in the United States and New York after 9/11. We have to be able to draw some conclusions."</div>
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<strong>Interior Minister Claude Gueant said that several firearms, including five rifles, four automatic weapons and three Kalashnikovs, had been found in the searches, as well as a bulletproof vest.</strong></div>
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Speaking to French media, he said the raids targeted people who have made the claim online <strong>that they are "mujahedeen," or Islamist fighters, and support "an extremely radical ideology.</strong>"</div>
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The authorities' decision to swoop was in part based on the suspects' claims that they had received paramilitary training, Gueant said.</div>
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Sarkozy suggested that more raids will follow, saying, "T<strong>here will be other operations that will continue and that will allow us to expel from our national territory a certain number of people who have no reason to be here."</strong></div>
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Sarkozy said he was obliged to act to ensure the nation's safety. "It's our duty to guarantee the security of the French people. We have no choice. It's absolutely indispensable."</div>
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The Interior Ministry media office said<strong> "the police had <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">plans</span> to carry out 19 arrests, and therefore 19 arrests were made in connection with the group Forsane Alizza."</strong></div>
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What, in G-d's name, are our soldiers doing there? Seriously. They are not fighting jihad (the only reason we should be over there). The saboteur-in-chief has banned identifying ideology and motive for the war on <a class="asset-img-link" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0163037adc75970d-pi" style="color: #006699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Screen Shot 2012-03-30 at 12.38.40 PM" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c60bf53ef0163037adc75970d" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0163037adc75970d-150wi" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 150px;" title="Screen Shot 2012-03-30 at 12.38.40 PM" /></a>the west. Our troops are operating under suicidal rules of engagement designed by Obama's DoD to "respect" the enemy's barbaric ideology and not to inflame the bloodthirsty savages. Bring them home!</div>
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Troop death skyrocketed under Obama, more than all the years combined under Bush (graph right). Bring. them. home.</div>
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<li>'Guardian angels' are troops who watch over comrades even as they sleep</li>
<li> The lengths Taliban are prepared to go to to gain access to coalition forces shown as two militants dressed in women's clothing are arrested</li>
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U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have assigned 'guardian angels' <strong>- troops who watch over their comrades even as they sleep - as part of a series of increased security measures to protect troops against possible rogue attacks.</strong></div>
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The <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">added</span> protections are part of a directive issued in recent weeks by Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to guard against insider threats.</div>
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<strong>And they come in the wake of a spike in attacks on U.S. and coalition forces by Afghans, including the point-blank shooting deaths of two U.S. advisers in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior. </strong></div>
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<strong>The lengths the Taliban are prepared to go to in order to gain access to coalition forces was illustrated yesterday when <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">local</span> police arrested seven men dressed in women's clothing in Mehterlam, Laghman province, east of Kabul.</strong></div>
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Disguise: Captured Taliban militants are presented to the media in Mehterlam, east of Kabul, yesterday. Concerned by the increased threat to U.S. forces, military commanders have assigned 'guardian angels' - troops that watch over their comrades even as they sleep - as part of a series of increased security measures</div>
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Spectacle: The insurgents dressed as women show the Taliban's determination to infiltrate coalition forces</div>
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Tensions have increased in recent weeks, most noticeably after Staff Sergeant Robert Bales wandered off a U.S. military base in southern Afghanistan and allegedly killed eight Afghan adults and nine children.</div>
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Some of the security changes have been subtle, others not so much. </div>
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In several Afghan <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">ministries</span>, Americans are now allowed to carry weapons. And they have been instructed to rearrange their<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">office</span> desks there to face the door, so they can see who is coming in, said a senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. </div>
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<strong>While General Allen did not detail the new measures in a briefing earlier this week, he acknowledged that changes had been made. </strong></div>
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He said: 'We have taken steps necessary on our side to protect ourselves with respect to, in fact, sleeping arrangements, internal defences associated with those small bases in which we operate.'</div>
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He added that now someone is 'always over-watching our forces'. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122130/Chief-army-officer-Afghanistan-orders-guardian-angels-protect-U-S-troops-insider-attacks.html" style="color: #003399; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Read the rest.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Muslims try to leave flowers on jihad mass-murderer Muhammad Merah's doorstep</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white;">To restore their community's "dignity," doncha know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">And yet no one ever, ever calls out the apologists for murder and terror and the claimants of Muslim victimhood for their sanctioning of evil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Video courtesy <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2012/03/moderate-muslims-prevented-from.html" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blazing Cat Fur</a>, via <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/03/devout-moderate-muslims-prevented-from-honouring-child-killing-jihadist-mohammed-merah.html" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pamela Geller</a>.</span></div>
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There is simply no way to screen these guys out. Islam teaches jihad against infidels and counts as enemies those who collaborate with the infidel as well. This whole mission in Afghanistan is a fool's errand, and these kinds of incidents are going to keep happening. "Afghan police officer kills 9 comrades," from CNN, March 30 (thanks to Block Ness):<br />
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An Afghan police officer shot and killed nine other officers in southeast Afghanistan on Thursday night, authorities said.<br />
The incident occurred in Paktika province, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. Two police officers were arrested, and another, believed to be part of the attack, fled, the spokesman said.<br />
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said in a statement that the officer who fired the shots was actually a Taliban fighter.<br />
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The shooter was a member of the Afghan Local Police force, International Security Assistance Force spokesman Maj. Joe Buccino said in a statement.<br />
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Buccino described the officer as a "rogue" and said the attack was not preceded by any signs of trouble....<br />
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This year, a third, or 16, of the 46 American service members killed in Afghanistan have died at the hands of Afghan security forces, including Monday when a man alleged to be a local Afghan police officer killed an American service member in eastern Afghanistan.<br />
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Gen. John Allen, the commander of the NATO-led force, said officials are working on a new procedure to check the background of Afghans who sign up to join the security services....<br />
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I'm sure it will work great.<br />
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Israel: Jihad terror attack inspired by al-Jazeera<br />
The Jihad News Network's hateful propaganda has its effect. "'Terror attack inspired by Al-Jazeera,'" by Aviad Glickman for Ynet News, March 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):<br />
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The Jerusalem District Prosecution indicted 18-year-old Mohammed Shuman, from Beit Hanina, for the attempted murder of an Israeli soldier in Jerusalem in early March.<br />
Shuman stabbed 19-year-old Yehudit Aharon in her chest and hand on Jerusalem's Light Rail.<br />
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Shuman fled the scene and was later arrested at the Qalandiya checkpoint. He admitted to the stabbing.<br />
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According to the indictment, Shuman left his home that day en route to school, where he was supposed to take a religious class test, carrying a pocket knife.<br />
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The State alleged that upon arriving in school, Shuman decided to skip the test, left school ground and boarded the light rail, where he spotted Aharon.<br />
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According to the prosecution, Shuman – an avid viewer of Al-Jazeera, Al-Quds and Al-Manar TV stations – was frustrated by what he perceived as the unfair treatment of Palestinians in IDF checkpoints, and especially in Qalandiya, decided to kill the soldier....<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/French+police+arrests+people+crackdown+suspected+Islamists/6384974/story.html" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="6384787.bin.jpg" class="mt-image-center" height="400" src="http://www.jihadwatch.org/images/6384787.bin.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="620" /></a><em><strong>Reuters photo caption: "Masked special forces police escort a member of the Islamist community under heavy guard in Coueron, near Nantes, March 30, 2012." Islamist community?</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />They had rifles and were apparently preparing for more jihad in France. "French police arrests 19 people in a bid to crackdown suspected Islamists," by Charles Sicurani and Nicolas Gaudichet for <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/French+police+arrests+people+crackdown+suspected+Islamists/6384974/story.html" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Agence France-Presse</a>, March 30 (thanks to all who sent this in):</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">PARIS — French police swooped down on suspected Islamist networks Friday, arresting 19 people as President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed a crackdown would continue after an extremist gunman's killing spree.</span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;">The arrests took place in several cities including Toulouse, where Mohamed Merah was shot dead by police last week after a series of cold-blooded shootings in southwestern France that left seven dead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sarkozy said the arrests targeted "radical Islam" and that the trauma in France after the shootings in Toulouse and Montauban was somewhat like that felt in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"What must be understood is that the trauma of Montauban and Toulouse is profound for our country, a little — I don't want to compare the horrors — a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks," he told Europe 1 radio....</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The operation "is not linked only to Toulouse, it's on all of French territory, is linked with a form of radical Islam and is in full accordance with the law," Sarkozy said....</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"We have some extremely precise questions to ask a certain number of people and what happened this morning will continue," said Sarkozy, in the thick of a heated campaign for France's two-round April-May presidential election.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"There will be other operations that will continue and will also allow us to expel from our national territory a certain number of people," he added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sarkozy also defended France's decision this week to bar some Muslim preachers from entering the country, saying: "We don't want people who advocate values contrary to the republic to be invited to our territory."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Police sources said the raids were "not directly linked" to the Toulouse shootings but targeted at extremists networks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Among those arrested was Mohammed Achamlane, the head of a suspected extremist group called Forsane Alizza, the sources said, with three Kalashnikovs, a Glock pistol and a grenade were seized from his home....</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In the thirteenth century the Ismaili Shi'ite Hashishin (حشّاشين), or Assassins, got their name from their practice of using hashish before setting out on jihad missions to assassinate Sunni leaders. The modern Shi'ites running Iran seem to have found in them an inspiration and model. "Exclusive: Secret Iran 'Terror' Squad Unmasked," by Sam Kiley for <a href="http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16199713" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sky News</a>, March 30 (thanks to Kenneth):</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Intelligence agencies are searching for members of a secret Iranian network of assassins under orders to attack Jewish, Israeli and Western targets in Turkey.</span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;">According to intelligence sources, the organisation behind the attack is known as Unit 400, a secret part of the al Quds Brigade, which falls under the direct command of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Unit 400 of the Qods Force has been developing in the last few months a standing operating procedure for carrying out an attack in Turkey against western targets as well as Israeli and Jewish. It is our firm assessment that these procedures are in a very advanced stage, and that the intention is to act on the plans very soon," an intelligence source told Sky News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">There is also evidence that Unit 400 has been given instructions to carry out more frequent and more daring 'terror' attacks around the world as a demonstration of 'Iran's asymmetric power' - in the face of the growing threat of Israeli or American air strikes on its alleged nuclear weapons programme, the sources said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The sources named a senior officer in Unit 400 as being a key Iranian agent who "has been working up plans for potential attacks in European countries".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Israel and the United States have repeatedly said that Iran would not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has also warned that the window for launching military strikes to destroy it is closing fast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Intelligence services in the West and Middle East, where Iran is treated with deep suspicion for its support of Syria, may have an interest in painting Iran in a poor light and associating it with international terrorism as a means of building the case for military intervention against its alleged weapons programme.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Unit 400 is a top-secret "special ops" unit within the elite overseas wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF). It plans and carries out terror attacks on external targets, and provides material support to foreign militia groups, at the direct behest of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This is in accordance with the regime's core strategic considerations about how best to challenge perceived enemies in Israel and the west - through asymmetric warfare - and to cope with mounting international pressure over its nuclear programme," a secret study by a foreign intelligence agency said....</span></div>
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KABUL, Afghanistan, March 30, 2012 - An Afghan-led security force captured a Haqqani leader during an operation in the Khost district of Afghanistan's Khost province today, military officials reported.</div>
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The leader organized roadside bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout the district, officials said. He also supplied insurgents with materials for building explosive devices.</div>
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-- A combined force captured a Taliban leader, detained one other suspected insurgent, and seized material used in the construction of improvised explosives, including multiple bags of fertilizer and a large drum of gasoline, in the Nad 'Ali district of Helmand province. The leader organized roadside bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces in the province.</div>
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-- An Afghan-led security force captured a Taliban leader and detained two suspects in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province. The leader coordinated insurgent movements in western Kandahar province for attacks against Afghan and coalition troops.</div>
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-- A combined force detained multiple suspects during a search for a Haqqani leader in the Pul-e 'Alam district of Logar province. The leader coordinated the manufacture of roadside bombs and directed attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in the district.</div>
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<span class="dateline"></span>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia —The Obama administration is moving to strengthen its ties with Persian Gulf nations whose geography and oil resources have already made them key players in U.S. defense and energy security.</div>
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday will inaugurate a strategic dialogue with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council that the administration expects will ultimately lead to a coordinated, U.S-supplied regional missile defense system and increased stability in international oil markets.</div>
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Clinton arrived here Friday for initial meetings with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the GCC’s most powerful member and closest U.S. partner. The other members are Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.</div>
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Proposed by the administration last fall as a regular gathering, the first U.S.-GCC Strategic Cooperation Forum comes as the organization has become an increasingly powerful player in the turmoil that has shaken the Arab world over the past year.</div>
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The GCC was in the forefront of calls for international intervention in Libya. And last year, Gulf states sent troops to Bahrain to quell an upheaval in that Persian Gulf island nation. Additionally, they proposed a transition of power that ultimately led to a change of government in Yemen.</div>
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To the consternation of some of their partners in the broader Arab League, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have advocated supplying weapons to the Syrian opposition. Clinton and the Gulf foreign ministers will hold a side meeting here before the formal opening of the forum to try to achieve a common position on Syria before they attend a Sunday meeting in Istanbul on the Syrian crisis.</div>
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But the administration has indicated that it will not support a Saudi-led call to establish a protected “safe zone” along the Syria-Turkey border to unify, train and arm the Syrian opposition. Instead, Clinton has called for more diplomatic and economic pressure on the Syrian regime, and for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to act on a U.N-Arab League sponsored plan to stop the violence and move toward a political transition.</div>
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Underlying the aggressive posture of the Gulf Arabs, particularly Saudi Arabia, is a desire to quell and resolve Arab upheavals before they cross into the autocratic Gulf monarchies, and competition with Iran for regional power.</div>
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A desire for more robust U.S. action toward Iran’s nuclear program is one of the few issues on which the Gulf states and Israel have found common ground. At the very least, the GCC governments want more information on the administration’s strategy as it moves toward another round of diplomatic talks with Tehran.</div>
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The Gulf states, like Israel, are within Iranian missile range, and their oil exports pass within miles of Iranian territory through the narrow Strait of Hormuz.</div>
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Both Saudi Arabia and the Emirates have U.S. Patriot missile defense systems in place — systems that are being upgraded to the latest generation with recent purchases. Kuwait also has purchased Patriot missiles, and late last year the administration finalized the sale of a Terminal High Altitude Defense System to the Emirates.</div>
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“We’re working with each of them to develop the architecture” for a regional system, a senior State Department official said. The administration’s goal, he said, is to put existing U.S. tactical defense cooperation with individual Gulf nations into “a strategic context,” the official said.</div>
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Diplomats from the region said they paid close attention to President Obama’s promise to “have Israel’s back” in the event of Iranian aggression and are looking for similar assurances.</div>
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The State Department official said that the GCC talks would include enhanced strategic cooperation on other issues, including counterterrorism and maritime security and the threats posed by upheavals in Syria, Yemen and Somalia.</div>
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A second State Department official said that in bilateral talks with the Saudis, Clinton on Friday briefed Abdullah and Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on “unfolding plans” for a resumption of long-suspending talks between Iran and the P5+1 group — the United States and the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany.</div>
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As world oil supplies have tightened with sanctions against both Iran and Syria, and with Iraq and Libya production still struggling, the Saudis have quietly spread the world that they will use their spare capacity and full storage facilities.</div>
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<em>via <a href="http://www.leaderpost.com/news/French+police+arrests+people+crackdown+suspected+Islamists/6384974/story.html" style="color: #105cb6;">French police arrests 19 people in a bid to crackdown suspected Islamists</a>.</em></div>
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PARIS — French police swooped down on suspected Islamist networks Friday, arresting 19 people as President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed a crackdown would continue after an extremist gunman’s killing spree.</div>
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The arrests took place in several cities including Toulouse, where Mohamed Merah was shot dead by police last week after a series of cold-blooded shootings in southwestern France that left seven dead.</div>
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Sarkozy said the arrests targeted “radical Islam” and that the trauma in France after the shootings in Toulouse and Montauban was somewhat like that felt in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.</div>
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“What must be understood is that the trauma of Montauban and Toulouse is profound for our country, a little — I don’t want to compare the horrors — a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks,” he told Europe 1 radio.</div>
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Agents from France’s DCRI domestic intelligence agency working with anti-terror and elite police units carried out the dawn raids in Toulouse, Nantes, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Paris and other areas.</div>
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The operation “is not linked only to Toulouse, it’s on all of French territory, is linked with a form of radical Islam and is in full accordance with the law,” Sarkozy said.</div>
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He said Friday’s operation was only the start.</div>
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“We have some extremely precise questions to ask a certain number of people and what happened this morning will continue,” said Sarkozy, in the thick of a heated campaign for France’s two-round April-May presidential election.</div>
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“There will be other operations that will continue and will also allow us to expel from our national territory a certain number of people,” he added.</div>
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Sarkozy also defended France’s decision this week to bar some Muslim preachers from entering the country, saying: “We don’t want people who advocate values contrary to the republic to be invited to our territory.”</div>
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Police sources said the raids were “not directly linked” to the Toulouse shootings but targeted at extremists networks.</div>
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Police said Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons were seized during the raids.</div>
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Among those arrested was Mohammed Achamlane, the head of a suspected extremist group called Forsane Alizza, the sources said, with three Kalashnikovs, a Glock pistol and a grenade were seized from his home.</div>
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The arrests came a day after Merah, who was shot dead by a police sniper on March 22 at the end of a 32-hour siege at his flat in Toulouse, was buried in the city under heavy police watch.</div>
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The 23-year-old had shot dead three soldiers, and three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in a killing spree that shocked the country.</div>
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The man branded a “monster” by French leaders was laid to rest in Toulouse’s Cornebarrieu cemetery after his family’s homeland Algeria refused to accept the body, citing security concerns.</div>
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French authorities have charged Merah’s brother Abdelkader with complicity in the attacks and said they were looking for other accomplices.</div>
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Abdelkader Merah was charged with helping his sibling steal the powerful Yamaha scooter used in the shootings and police have said they were seeking a third person who may have been involved in the theft.</div>
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France on Thursday banned the four Muslim preachers from entering the country to attend an Islamic conference next month, saying their “calls for hatred and violence” were a threat to public order.</div>
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The ban applies to Saudi clerics Ayed Bin Abdallah al-Qarni and Abdallah Basfar, Egyptian cleric Safwat al-Hijazi and a former mufti of Jerusalem Akrama Sabri.</div>
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In terms of threat deterrence, sometimes the best defense is a good offense. In a secure facility in the plains of North Dakota, an Air Force news team was offered the rare chance to tell the story of the men and women tasked with maintaining America's nuclear missiles.</div>
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03/30/2012 02:16 PM CDT</div>
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_14_1333235369101746">The US Air Force and Latvian military are teaming up in Northern Michigan and training Latvian JTACS on calling in close air support missions from A-10's.</span></div>
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Posted on <span class="postdate" style="color: #a12a2a;">March 31, 2012</span> by creeping</div>
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<em>via <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/local/investigators-link-nightclub-owner-associates-to-drug-deals-2265889.html?viewAsSinglePage=true" style="color: #105cb6;">Investigators link nightclub owner, associates to drug deals, militant Islamic group, homicide case</a>. h/t <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/texas-muslim-club-owner-arrested-on-drug-charges-accused-of-funneling-money-to-hizballah.html" style="color: #105cb6;" target="_blank">Jihad Watch</a></em></div>
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<strong>Drug deals. Weapons purchases. Ties to a prison gang and a militant Islamic group and even a potential link to an unsolved homicide.</strong></div>
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That was the list of allegations federal officials laid out against an Austin nightclub owner and nine of his associates in a dramatic hearing Tuesday.</div>
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Arrested last week on money laundering and drug charges, Yassine Enterprises owner Hussein Ali “Mike” Yassine, his brother, Mohammed Ali “Steve” Yassine, and eight others appeared in federal court and heard more details about the cases against them.</div>
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Mike Yassine, who owns eight Austin nightclubs, and the other suspects in the case face a variety of charges. Some are accused of cocaine distribution, purchases of guns to be used during drug deals and money laundering dating back to 2007.</div>
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Officials linked one suspect to the Texas Syndicate prison gang. They also said thousands of dollars were transferred to a Yassine relative in Lebanon who is reportedly connected to the militant group Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.</div>
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Prosecutors for the first time also revealed that Mike Yassine is a “person of interest” in a case being investigated by the Austin Police Department’s homicide cold case unit. Austin police declined to provide additional details Tuesday, including the name of the alleged victim.</div>
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Mike Yassine might have also threatened witnesses, officials said, and is being investigated as part of a sexual assault case.</div>
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Judge Dennis Green denied bail for Mike Yassine and Steve Yassine. Bail for four others — including a third Yassine brother, Hadi Ali Yassine — ranged from $10,000 to $25,000. Bail rulings for the other suspects will be made at a later date, officials said.</div>
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Outside the courtroom on Tuesday, their father, Ali Yassine, said his sons are not guilty of the charges against them. “My boys … everybody’s innocent,” he said. “They’re very good boys.”</div>
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Also charged in the case are Marisse Marthe “Madi” Ruales, Karim Faiq, Alejandro “Cueta” Melendrez, Edgar Orsini, Nizar “Nino” Hakiki, Amar Thabet Araf and Sami Derder, all Central Texas residents who authorities say have various levels of involvement with the purported crimes.</div>
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During raids on the suspects’ homes and businesses last week, investigators said they seized more than 400 boxes of evidence.</div>
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They also report finding $200,000 in cash in a safe at the Yassine Enterprises offices on West Fourth Street, as well as cashier’s checks totaling $45,000 made out to a member of the Yassine family in Lebanon. That man is associated with Hezbollah, IRS agent James Neff testified.</div>
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The searches also turned up a bogus University of Texas diploma with Mike Yassine’s name, prosecutors said.</div>
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The American-Statesman has learned that businesses linked to Mike Yassine currently owe almost $600,000 in state sales and mixed-beverage taxes. His bank accounts have been frozen by the state comptroller’s office, his attorney said in court.</div>
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Yassine Enterprises, owns eight Austin bars: Pure, Spill, Kiss & Fly, Treasure Island, Hyde, Fuel, Malaia and Roial. They’ve remained closed since last week’s arrests and, officials said, will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future after the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission obtained a court order that blocks all eight nightclubs from selling or serving alcohol.</div>
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Mike Yassine is also part owner of Stack Burger Bar, which is still open for business. Its liquor license remains intact, according to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.</div>
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The new system gives the radar operators both a bigger and more detailed picture as they monitor all aerial activity in the area.<br /><br />"Our job is to constantly watch the skies," said Lt. Col. Steven A. Breitfelder, the 727th EACS commander. "Our operators defend the Arabian Gulf and its surrounding countries by monitoring the area for enemy aircraft."<br /><br />The 727th EACS set a goal for increased radar coverage to improve their current mission capabilities. Airmen began looking and coordinating with the host nation in January to find a suitable site able to support the TPS-75.<br /><br />"This was a major goal of ours, and it's a really great feeling to get it accomplished," said Breitfelder, who is deployed from Blue Ash Air National Guard Station, Ohio. "The maintenance folks finally get to see the results of all their hard work, and that is very rewarding."<br /><br />Radar maintenance craftsman Staff Sgt. Ron Applegate, also deployed from Blue Ash ANG Station, was thrilled to have the opportunity to set up the radar.<br /><br />"We've been chomping at the bit since January to set her up," Applegate said. "I'm just happy we finally get the chance to set up and work on the radar. I love the sense of pride that I get as a radar maintenance technician, knowing that our job is going toward the successful execution of the mission."<br /><br />Once they received the orders, the entire squadron's maintenance section formed a team and got to work. Comprised of radar, computer, radio, and satellite and generator maintenance experts, the team combined their talents to set up an operational radar site in less than two days.<br /><br />"Once we got out there and started working, everything just fell into place," Applegate said. "It gave us all a chance to put our training and skills to good use, and to show off what we do best."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123295822" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1333176760_1" style="color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123295822</span></a><br /></span><span class="yiv1977043336story_title_large" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">727th EACS takes control of new mission</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Posted 1/9/2012 Updated 1/6/2012</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><img height="1" src="http://www.af.mil/shared/AFImages/transparent.gif" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" width="40" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="yiv1977043336mainlink_small" href="http://www.af.mil/news/story_email.asp?id=123285123" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">Email story</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="yiv1977043336mainlink_small" href="http://www.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123285123" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">Print story</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><div class="yiv1977043336fb-like yiv1977043336fb_edge_widget_with_comment yiv1977043336fb_iframe_widget" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
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<a class="yiv1977043336addthis_button" href="" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Share" border="0" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="125" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="yiv1977043336maintext_large" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">by 1st Lt. Victoria B. Porto<br />380th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="yiv1977043336maintext_large" id="yui_3_2_0_26_13329883647144185" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">1/9/2012 - <b>SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS)</b> -- The 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron changed missions Dec. 30 as it supported the end of Operation New Dawn and began supporting the air defense of the Arabian Gulf.<br /><br />The timing of the transition allowed for a full-circle moment for members of the 727th EACS, who are deployed from the 606th ACS at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.<br /><br />"It was an honor for our squadron to close out Operation New Dawn because the 606th ACS was the first air control squadron on station in Iraq," said Lt. Col Justin Hickman, the 727th EACS commander.<br /><br />The 727th EACS provides command and control capabilities through real-time radar surveillance that allows Airmen to coordinate the movement of aircraft in their battlespace.<br /><br />Turning their focus to the Arabian Gulf, the Airmen will continue to provide surveillance and tactical command and control to deconflict the flight paths of various air assets in the region and protect troops on the ground, just as they did while supporting the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.<br /><br />"We're here to execute the air tasking order and to make sure our assets and our host nation partners are safe," said Capt. Lynn Senior, a 727th EACS air surveillance officer.<br /><br />Staff Sgt. Sarah Hanby, a 727th EACS weapons director, emphasized the importance of their new mission.<br /><br />"We know it's important to have our eyes out there to support this entire region," she said. "We keep people safe; we give them a sense of security by watching from overhead."<br /><br />But members of the 727th EACS can't do the mission alone. They work closely with the airborne warning and control system Airmen stationed at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing as well as the Soldiers from the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade who monitor the sky and man the Patriot batteries in defense of the region.<br /><br />"They are outstanding teammates and they've set us up for success," Hickman said of the daily efforts between the units to efficiently control the air space.<br /><br />And as their rotation comes to an end, the Airmen of the 606th ACS will pass the reins to the 123rd ACS from the Ohio Air National Guard; the same "sister squadron" based with them in Iraq in 2003.<br /><br />"I am very proud of my Airmen and I want to thank all the Airmen of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing that have helped us transition from Iraq to our new mission," Hickman said.<br /><br />http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123285123</span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>cwarrenrobertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10120739658751425976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547291769783784632.post-62083562326332365612012-03-30T23:48:00.001-07:002012-03-30T23:48:23.817-07:00NY-NJ Port authority overhauling security operations | Homeland Security News Wire<a href="http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20120330-nynj-port-authority-overhauling-security-operations#.T3aosNm3WmU.blogger">NY-NJ Port authority overhauling security operations | Homeland Security News Wire</a>cwarrenrobertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10120739658751425976noreply@blogger.com0