AL-QAEDA COMMUNICATIONS DISRUPTED ACROSS THE WORLD

OCTOBER 16, 2008 - Al Qaeda's leadership is suffering from a communication breakdown and struggling to issue directives after its computer network was hobbled in September.

Four of the five main online forums that the terrorist group uses to communicate with followers were disabled on Sept. 10, monitors of the Web sites report.

The loss to Al Qaeda is the equivalent of the Pentagon's and the White House's Web sites suddenly going offline, expert Evan Kohlmann told the Post, and it has left the propaganda strategy that Usama bin Laden and his followers rely on "hanging by a narrow thread."

Al Fajr Media Center, a support group created by Al Qaeda and other Sunni extremist groups, issued a statement Sept. 29 saying that the forums were down for "technical reasons" and that Al Qaeda's followers shouldn't trust look-alike sites.

The report noted there have been several examples in recent years of extremist Web sites being attacked by hackers, though it isn't clear who the hackers are nor whether the United States is involved in the attempts to disable the terrorist communication network.

MARINES BEGIN VICTORY LAP

WASHINGTON - When Marine Maj. Gen. John Kelly deployed to Iraq in February, the violence had fallen so low in Anbar province that he began figuring out how to start closing bases and prepare to go home.

In the last 10 months the Marines in Fallujah have done what was unthinkable before the surge began — they have quietly transferred out of one of Anbar province's largest cities.

ALIEN NATION REPORT has learned in an exclusive interview with Kelly from Fallujah that 80 percent of the move is complete. In February there were 8,000 Marines living at Fallujah base. Now there are about 3,000 left. By Nov. 14 there will be none.

BOMB MASTERMIND DEAD IN IRAQ

SKY NEWS
3:08pm UK, Saturday October 04, 2008

An al Qaeda leader suspected of masterminding a series of deadly attacks in Baghdad has been killed, the US military says.

Al Zubaydi is thought be behind Thursday's Baghdad bomb attacks

Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu' al Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, was killed by coalition troops during a firefight in the capital.

"Acting in self-defence, coalition forces returned fire, killing Abu Rami and a female," a US military statement said.

The woman was al Zubaydi's wife, the military added.

Al Zubaydi is thought to have been one of Iraq's most senior al Qaeda insurgents.

He is alleged to have directed the insurgent cell believed to be responsible for the Baghdad mosque bomb attacks that killed dozens of Shi'ite muslims on Thursday.

The military also blames him for several car bombings and mortar attacks in Baghdad's main Shi'ite district of Sadr City in 2006 and 2007, killing hundreds of people.

He is also believed to have planned and participated in abductions and videotaped executions, including one in which he was seen shooting one of four kidnapped Russians.

Al Zubaydi's death is expected to be a major blow to al Qaeda in Iraq.

US military spokesman Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll said: "His removal from the AQI network will send shockwaves through Baghdad's terrorist bombing networks."

Al Zubaydi is believed to have originally been a member of the Sunni insurgent group Ansar al Islam and joined al Qaeda in Iraq in 2004.

He was the terror network's military "emir" in eastern Baghdad "before taking over responsibility for all terrorist operations there this year," the military said in the statement.

OBAMA'S REAL NAME ?

Status: Phillip Berg vs. Barack Hussein Obama

By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director
Northeast Intelligence Network

3 October 2008 To discredit the merits of the lawsuit and have it summarily dismissed, all Barack Hussein Obama (a/k/a Barry SOETORO)has to do is provide a legitimate copy of his birth certificate. The lawsuit was filed by Philadelphia lawyer Phillip Berg in late August.

Instead, Obama has opted to fight the lawsuit as illustrated in the federal court documents which can be viewed online HERE.

As they say, however, the devil is in the details...

First, it is notable that Barack Hussein Obama retained Washington lawyer Joseph SANDLER of the Washington law firm Sandler, Reiff, and Young to fight the lawsuit. Who is Joseph SANDLER? He is a lawyer who has represented CAIR - the Council on American Islamic Relations and MoveOn.org.

Last week, Obama and the Democratic National Committee filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit. On Monday, Attorney berg filed a response to that motion, requesting (1) that the suit not be dismissed, and (2) that the Court order the production of documents that would validate Obama's constitutional qualifications as a legitimate candidate for president.

As mentioned - the devil is in the details - well beyond the obvious (the obvious being a CAIR lawyer responding on behalf of Obama).

Over the last few days, there have been relentless Internet rumors that the court has dismissed the Berg lawsuit. As of this writing, that is untrue, and Attorney Berg claims that he is confident that the defendant's Motion to Dismiss will be defeated.

Based on information I obtained confidentially from sources close to this case within the last 48 hours, it appears that the court will, in fact, dismiss this complaint. Unfortunately, the dismissal will be based on a series of obscure technicalities and citations, thus setting the stage for a larger constitutional crisis in the months ahead.

Count on it.