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Palestinian Militant Use of Google Earth

Palestinian Militant Use of Google Earth
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Guardian reports that Palestinian militants have relied on Google Earth for their attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets:

Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with the Fatah political party, say they use the popular internet mapping tool to help determine their targets for rocket strikes. "We obtain the details from Google Earth and check them against our maps of the city centre and sensitive areas," Khaled Jaabari, the group's commander in Gaza who is known as Abu Walid, told the Guardian. Abu Walid showed the Guardian an aerial image of the Israeli town of Sderot on his computer to demonstrate how his group searches for targets. The Guardian filmed an al-Aqsa test rocket launch, fired into an uninhabited area of the Negev desert, last month. Despite the crudeness of the weapons, many have landed in Sderot, killing around a dozen people in the last three years and wounding scores more.

Google's response to this revelation was predictable. In a statement, the company said: "We have paid close attention to concerns that Google Earth creates new security risks. The imagery visible on Google Earth and Google Maps is not unique: commercial high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery of every country in the world is widely available from numerous sources. Indeed, anyone who flies above or drives by a piece of property can obtain similar information."

This is not the first time that militant use of Google Earth has been alleged. Back in January, the Telegraph reported that in raids of insurgent homes in Iraq, British soldiers found printouts and photographs taken from Google Earth. From these finds, the soldiers concluded that insurgents were using Google Earth "to pinpoint their attacks." It is quite obvious how terrorists could find Google Earth a useful tool, as it contains an enormous amount of information about such appealing targets as nuclear reactors, military bases, government installations, and much more. Other countries have voiced their concerns about the possible security implications. DMEurope.com reported in late 2005 that Dutch politicians were "concerned that certain locations in the Netherlands, such as the port of Rotterdam, the royal palace in the Hague and Amsterdam Airport, already potential terrorist targets, could be made more vulnerable to terrorists thanks to the detailed images created from satellites and aircraft within the last three years available via Google Earth." The operators of Australia's nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights were so concerned that they asked Google to censor images of the reactor.

As has often been the case with Google, the company's defense of the images is fatuous. Google's statement that "anyone who flies above or drives by a piece of property can obtain similar information" is true enough, but most people can't just hop in a plane and fly over a nuclear reactor. Those who stop to scope out likely targets will often attract authorities' attention. In the Guardian's latest story, Palestinian militants themselves speak of Google Earth's utility to them.

This highlights one of the tensions of the information age, between freedom of information and security. Google Earth is a useful tool for many people, terrorists among them. Terrorists have been adept at exploiting the West's liberties and technology in their war against us, and Google Earth is no exception. There aren't easy answers to the conflict between freedom of information and security, but to pretend that no problems exist -- as Google does -- is not helpful.
October 26, 2007 07:58 AM

CNN: Police seize 'world jihad' team

Police seize 'world jihad' team
From CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Six suspected Islamic militants were Wednesday arrested in northern Spain on suspicion of using the Internet to recruit for and plot a 'world jihad,' a Ministry of Interior statement said.

The arrests came in Burgos province, a few hours' drive north of Madrid.

The six, allegedly linked to international Islamic terrorist activity, were seized in an operation involving U.S., Danish and Swedish intelligence agencies, the statement said.

"A large part of the activity was carried out on restricted Internet 'chats' and forums, which shows that the cell arrested was the first one detected and dismantled in Spain that promoted 'world jihad' through the Internet," the statement said.

Police were searching the homes of the six suspects and also a butcher shop run by one of them. Documents and computers were seized, the statement said.

Some of the money raised by the group allegedly was sent to Islamic terrorist convicts or suspects in prison, it said.

The alleged ringleader is Abdelkader Ayachine, an Algerian, and his top aide, Wissan Lotfi, a Moroccan. They were allegedly preaching violent jihadi ideology to promote an international "holy war," especially in Iraq, the statement said.

Spain has detained 250 suspected Islamic terrorists since the Madrid train bombings in 2004 that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 others.

Spain's defense minister recently told radio network SER. But most of those arrests have been in Madrid, Barcelona, and coastal areas.

A verdict in the Madrid bombing trial is expected next week. The trial earlier this year involved 28 defendants, mostly Islamic terrorist suspects.

Last week in Madrid, another terrorism trial began with 30 defendants, mostly Algerians, charged in what prosecutors said was a failed suicide truck bombing plot against the National Court in central Madrid.


Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/24/spain.arrests/index.html

© 2007 Cable News Network.

Saudi Religious Hatred Taught in Schools

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/10/19/todd.saudi.schools.cnn

Religious Freedom

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Saudi Arabian Airlines . . . We aim to please you: "Items and articles belonging to religions other than Islam are also prohibited. These may include Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings, items with religious symbols such as the Star of David, and others."

Giuliani cites Glasgow attack in call for immigration policy

July 1, 2007
Giuliani cites Glasgow attack in call for immigration policy

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The car bomb scare in London and the attack Saturday at the Glasgow airport underscore the need for a strong immigration policy in the United States, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Saturday.

Border security is critical to knowing who is entering the United States and who is at the borders, said Giuliani, who was mayor of New York at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror
attacks.

Giuliani, who toured work to repair one of the canals where floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina, said government at all levels failed after that storm. He said he is accustomed to making government run more efficiently and believes he could do that as
president.

Giuliani was on his first trip to New Orleans as a presidential contender. He was last here in April 2006, for a tour of areas like the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward and a briefing on levee protection and coastal wetland restoration, campaign spokesman Elliott Bundy said.

Virtually no major Republican candidates have visited New Orleans, or Louisiana, in recent months. Sen. John McCain did, in August, before announcing his run for president. His was a
fundraising appearance in Baton Rouge for GOP state candidates.

Several major Democratic candidates, including Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards, have visited– in some cases, repeatedly. Edwards announced his candidacy in a still-devastated New Orleans neighborhood in December.

After Saturday’s briefing, Giuliani planned to attend a private fundraiser in suburban Metairie, Bundy said.

Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack: An in-Depth Investigation into the London and Madrid Subway Bombings of 2005 and 2004

Here is a link to my capstone seminar (joint dissertation PDF file) from last year on the subject the London bombings. I also have many hours of footage from the trip I made there to do the research:

http://www.ridgway.pitt.edu/docs/working_papers/Capstone-FinalProduct-PH12-7-06.pdf

or at:

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=27221

Here is the story from the Pitt News covering our trip:

London trip full of stories
By: MEREDITH MISHKIN
Staff Writer
Posted: 3/23/06

Every victim of the London terrorist attacks seems to have a unique story, said one of two graduate students who did research over spring break on last summer's bombings in London.

"Because of my experience with terrorist attacks in the Mideast, it seemed very unusual to me," said Josh Wander, who used to work for the Jerusalem Post in Israel.

Wander mentioned a man who said that it was so crowded on the train that he had to keep picking up his briefcase from the floor, to his lap, to his chest, to eventually in front of his face. It was in front of his face when the bomb went off.

The briefcase offered some protection from the explosion. After the attack, his face was saved and the briefcase was full of shrapnel.

"Everyone in London had an unusual story about not usually taking that train, or something strange that saved them," he added.

There was also an Israeli woman killed that day who was debating whether or not to go back to Israel because of the suicide bombings. She died in a bus bombing in London.

Wander explained that those most willing to speak about the occasion were members of a terrorist attack support group he found through the Internet. The class' other goals were to meet with representatives of security establishments, representatives of first responders like the Red Cross, and prominent members of the London Muslim community.

All meetings that were not directly with victims were cancelled by the organizations.

"We met with a few random Muslims about how they felt about the situation, but no representatives of the community," Wander explained.

The class, "the anatomy of the terrorist attack" led by Professor William Keller, director of the Ridgeway Center for Security Studies, focuses this year on the London and Madrid subway and bus bombings. Some students from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs went to London to try to gain further understanding of the attacks.

Keller wants the students to understand all aspects of terrorist attacks, not just when, where and why, but the ideology behind each attack. He has done the program for three years. The goal is for the two teams of students to find out everything they can about how those involved planned the attacks, who carried them out, how the authorities reacted and how such attacks might be prevented in the future.

The Center gave a small grant to help the students travel and follow the contacts through to the end.

"I think it will really add to the education of the students and the group that they're working with," said Keller.

The class plans to use this information to produce a case study report as the capstone paper for master's degrees. Half the class researches the underground bombings in London while the other half researches the bombings in Madrid. The groups will combine to learn the mechanics of writing about an incident like this by producing a briefing report to be presented the Ridgeway center on April 18.

"After we complete that," Wander said, "we're going to do a comparison between the two."

Wander initiated the trip during spring break because it would be more interesting, beneficial and creative for the paper. There is not a lot of printed material on the subject, he said, so a lot of the unique material had to be obtained firsthand.

"We hope that when the class is finished, we'll publish this on the Ridgeway Web site. This, we hope, will be the best resource out there on the Madrid and London subway bombings," Keller added. "I want my students to not just leave with a master's degree, but with a set of professional credentials."
© Copyright 2007 Pitt News

http://media.www.pittnews.com/media/storage/paper879/news/2006/03/23/News/London.Trip.Full.Of.Stories-1784722.shtml

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