U.S. military channels were hacked either by the Chinese or North Koreans, the source said. Access to such communications - even unclassified military systems - suggests a serious breach of technology security.

A Pentagon spokesman declined comment.

A purportedly "U/FOUO" or "Unclassified but For Official Use Only" message claimed to have been put out Saturday by the Office of National Intelligence and prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency. It said:

"Today, March 06, 2010 at 11.46 AM local time (UTC/GMT -5 hours),US seismographic stations recorded seismic activity in the area of Okinawa Island (Japan). According to (sic) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Democratic People's Republic of Korea has carried out an average range missile attack with use of nuclear warhead (sic). The explosion caused severe destructions (sic) in the northern part of the (sic) Okinawa island. Casualties among the personnel of the US military base are being estimated at the moment."

Although, officials said he did not have any suspected links to terrorist groups it was discovered this weekend that Bedell used the Arabic term "inshallah" or "God willing," using Arabic font - "إن شاء الله" - on more than one on his internet postings.
Creeping Shariah reported:

A Twitter post revealed that John Patrick Bedell had an account on SourceForge containing "Jihad code." Looking at the account of jpbedell - he used the Arabic term "inshallah" or "God willing," using Arabic font - "إن شاء الله" - on more than one page. Here are screenshots from the website and project named "openinsurgent."

"The attack, yet another jihad and provocation of the Christians, started at about 1.30 a.m. last night. We are in touch with the survivors though many of them are still in trauma.

"Dogo Nahawa is a Christian community. The eye-witnesses say the Hausa-Fulani Muslim militants came chanting 'Allahukabar' and broke into homes, cutting human beings, including children and women with their knives and cutlasses.

Jim Maurer said he was fired from his $130,380-a-year security job in mid-September not because he "physically attacked" one of Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino's top lieutenants, as Andolino claimed, but because he raised security concerns the commissioner didn't want to hear.

Maurer's explosive charges are outlined in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against Andolino and her top deputy, Ellen O'Connor. He's seeking reinstatement, back pay and in excess of $2 million in damages for what he calls a "retaliatory discharge" and "slander" of his reputation.

Maurer's lawsuit claims that O'Connor, an assistant aviation commissioner, even went so far as to file a "false police report" claiming that Maurer had assaulted her, when he did not.

Andolino "made up this stuff to get rid of me because I was the guy who brought the turd to the punch bowl. Every time I would bring up a security issue, they didn't want to hear about it. It all cost money. It interfered with their O'Hare Modernization Program. That's all they care about," said Maurer, 63.

"O'Hare is the least secure airport in the country because of security lapses they poo-pooed every time I brought it up. I can't go into some of it because it would be so easy for some whack job to go in and shoot up the place."

Pressed for specifics, Maurer talked about his failed efforts to persuade Andolino to move the communications nerve center away from the terminal core.

In the latest diatribe to come out of the Montgomery Alabama based mini-ACLU, titled - Rage on the Right - The Year in Hate and Extremism - the group lays out their justification for striking fear in the hearts of every Tea Party, 912 and town hall activist, angry over the federal governments mishandling of their country.

The SPLC report opens with - "The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation."

According to the report - "The anger seething across the American political landscape -- over racial changes in the population, soaring public debt and the terrible economy, the bailouts of bankers and other elites, and an array of initiatives by the relatively liberal Obama Administration that are seen as "socialist" or even "fascist" -- goes beyond the radical right. The "tea parties" and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism."

The State Department welcomed the 600-page document known as a fatwa, which was released in London with the British government's support, as a "very important step" in "taking back Islam" from al Qaeda and other extremist groups.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a former Pakistani lawmaker and a leading scholar of Islam, has issued similar, shorter decrees in the past. But the new fatwa makes the most detailed and comprehensive case against Islamic extremism by a Muslim, diplomats and analysts said.

"Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence, and it has no place in Islamic teaching, and no justification can be provided for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts," Mr. Tahir-ul-Qadri said at a news conference in London. "Good intentions cannot convert a wrong into good; they cannot convert an evil into good."

It was not clear how much influence the fatwa will have in the broad Muslim world or even outside the South Asian community whose members are Mr. Tahir-ul-Qadri's most dedicated followers.

Timothy R. Furnish, a historian of Islam, said the fatwa may not carry significant weight for many Muslims because Mr. Tahir-ul-Qadri is a Sufi Muslim, and not a Koranic literalist, as are such Sunni groups as the Wahhabis and the Salafis, who form the core of groups such as al Qaeda.

"It would seem to be simply another example of this centuries-long Sufi/Wahhabi-Salafi spat over how to interpret the authoritative texts of Islam," said Mr. Furnish, who noted that he has not read Tuesday's fatwa. "For every such legal pronunciamento, there is an antithetical one from the literalist camp ..., which justifies such attacks with clear Koranic and Hadith [Traditions] citations."

This is sheer insanity. Our most important ally for well over the past century has been Britain. Britain has stood with us shoulder to shoulder on countless issues and in countless ways. We should be supporting them fully unless it is clear that they are overreaching. But they are not. Britain's claim to the Falklands is in fact significantly stronger than Argentina's. Moreover, in terms of democracy, the people of the Falklands overwhelmingly want to continue British rule - something not hard to understand if you know the political and economic history of Argentina.

This is all part of the Taliban plan to shift public anger from themselves, to the foreign troops. The Taliban cause most of the civilian deaths in Afghanistan, but that is expected by Afghans. The Taliban have always been quick to kill civilians that opposed them. But getting killed by a foreign soldier is something that is particularly unpopular among Afghans. Especially Pushtun Afghans, and it's the Pushtun tribes in the south, around Kandahar and in Helmand province (where Marjah is) that supply most of the Taliban leadership and gunmen. The Taliban haven't got much popular support in Afghanistan as a whole. The majority (60 percent) of the population are not Pushtun, and are very hostile to the Taliban. Most Pushtuns are also anti-Taliban, but the Pushtuns around Kandahar and Helmand are more hospitable. Some of these Pushtuns have tribal connections to the Taliban, and others are getting wealthy from the drug business, which is centered in Helmand.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201318.php

Pakistan's army has discovered a complex network of 156 caves used by the Taliban and al-Qaeda dug into rocky mountains close to the Afghan border.

The tunnels, which are thought to have been created over five to seven years, were carved into sheer rock within view of the snow-capped peaks of eastern Afghanistan.

The network was found during an offensive against Islamist militants in the country's semi-autonomous tribal areas in which 75 militants were killed.

lMaj Gen Tariq Khan said the caves served as a key militant headquarters until troops overran the complex in the offensive.

"There were Egyptians, Uzbeks, Chechens and Afghans killed in the operation," he said.

Bedding including pillows and mattresses were found in the caves in Damadola, in the Bajaur tribal region, suggesting inhabitants had camped out for significant periods.

Maj Gen Khan added: "Al-Qaeda was there. They had occupied the ridges. There were 156 caves designed as a defensive complex.

In support of that statement, disability advocate and Mercer County (N.J.) CERT member Norman Smith, who has cerebral palsy, added that for many years, "On the emergency management side, there was the assumption that someone else was 'responsible' for us--an agency, an institution, a parent, or the health care system."

Recognizing that changes needed to be made, the National Council on Disability commissioned our organization to conduct extensive empirical research on emergency management issues pertaining to people with disabilities. The resulting report of over 500 pages examines all phases of emergency management.

An assault team from the Danish destroyer HDMS Absalon, the NATO force flagship, boarded and then scuttled the large open boat after it left a well-known pirate camp in eastern Somalia, the alliance announced Monday. Without that ship, which served as a floating dock and supply depot to smaller and faster attack vessels, the pirates are

The scuttled boat, loaded with what NATO described as pirate equipment and supplies, was heading to offshore hunting areas on Sunday at the outset of what has in recent years been the most lucrative season for pirates operating in the region. With the northeasterly monsoons coming to an end, the wind and sea conditions for March, April and May are favorable for piracy in waters that carry a substantial amount of the world's seaborne trade among the Middle East, India, Eastern Asia, Europe and Africa.

"Disrupting the pirates' capability just off their main pirate camps sends a strong signal to the pirates that NATO and the international community do not tolerate their actions," said Danish Commodore Christian Rune, the mission commander. "Disposing of their vessels before they can head to sea hits the pirates before they can present a threat to merchant shipping."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsRADXMBYg

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0301101ivins1.html

After the Department of Justice last month formally closed its probe of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the FBI released the first batch of documents detailing the years-long investigation that ended with officials concluding that Bruce Ivins, a government scientist who committed suicide in July 2008, was responsible for the mailings that killed five victims. The records, released pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests, portray Ivins as becoming increasingly unhinged as it became clear that he was the principal target of the FBI's "Amerithrax" probe. Additionally, the memos--a selection of which you'll find on the following pages--reveal how agents examined every aspect of Ivins's life, monitored his e-mails, searched his trash, and were even surveilling his Maryland home at the exact time he was inside overdosing.

Some findings verbatim of our conversation:

* "She cut the bridge Mariscadero"
* "The coastal road to Pelluhue Curanipe is torn, filled with debris, you can not pass"
* "In a bus grandparents came when 47 people hold the sea, rescued 20 of the others do not know"
* "A car Wave take it with a person inside, the guy saved"
* "The sea is reflected in and out, the water is cloudy and full of sticks"
* "The trucks and cars from the people down below, walk on the waves"
* "In the sea are refrigerators, toilets"
* "Today (27/02) was sunny all day with tremendous heat, then entered a very thick fog at sea"
* "at night the full moon lighting the way"
* "the rock of the turret, and which is next, the wave slowed down a bit, but to the south, hit them at full speed"
* "Pelluhue has nothing, is a town that's dead"
* - According to my old, witnessed the entry just before the tsunami, said:
* "The noise was deafening, the first wave was 10 feet, was impressive to see the advancing speed"