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BOMBING YOUR HARD DRIVE - U.S. AIR FORCE WANTS TO ‘OWN’ YOUR COMPUTER AS THE WORLD’S BIGGEST FUTURE HACKER? - ‘Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers’ – ‘U.S. Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions: As More Americans Are watched, Fewer Cases Are Made. The Trend Concerns Civil Liberties Groups As Well As Some Lawmakers And Legal Experts.’

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May 14, 2008, 10:27:54 AM5/14/08

U.S. AIR FORCE WANTS TO ‘OWN’ YOUR COMPUTER AS THE WORLD’S BIGGEST
FUTURE HACKER? - ‘Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All'
Computers’ – ‘U.S. Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism
Prosecutions: As More Americans Are watched, Fewer Cases Are Made. The
Trend Concerns Civil Liberties Groups As Well As Some Lawmakers And
Legal Experts.’

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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

By Noah Shachtman
Wired.Com,
May 13, 2008.

The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to --
and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the
info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their
"adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected."

The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war
online. The Air Force recently put together a "Cyberspace Command,"
with a charter to rule networks the way its fighter jets rule the
skies. The Department of Homeland Security, Darpa, and other agencies
are teaming up for a five-year, $30 billion "national cybersecurity
iniative." That includes an electronic test range, where federally-
funded hackers can test out the latest electronic attacks. "You used
to need an army to wage a war," a recent Air Force commercial notes.
"Now, all you need is an Internet connection."

On Monday, the Air Force Research Laboratory introduced a two-year,
$11 million effort to put together hardware and software tools for
"Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement." "Of interest are any and all
techniques to enable user and/or root level access," a request for
proposals notes, "to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing platforms...
any and all operating systems, patch levels, applications and
hardware." This isn't just some computer science study, mind you;
"research efforts under this program are expected to result in
complete functional capabilities."

Unlike an Air Force colonel's proposal, to knock down enemy websites
with military botnets, the Research Lab is encouraging a sneaky, "low
and slow" approach. The preferred attack consists of lying quiet, and
then "stealthily exfiltrat[ing] information" from adversaries'
networks.

But, in the end, the Air Force wants to see all kinds of "techniques
and technologies" to "Deceive, Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, [or] Destroy"
hostile systems. And "in addition to these main concepts," the
Research Lab would like to see studies into "Proactive Botnet Defense
Technology Development," the "reinvent[ion of] the network protocol
stack" and new antennas, based on carbon nanotubes.

raditionally, the military has been extremely reluctant to talk much
about offensive operations online. Instead, the focus has normally
been on protecting against electronic attacks. But in the last year
or so, the tone has changed -- and become more bellicose. “Cyber, as
a warfighting domain . . . like air, favors the offense,” said Lani
Kass, a special assistant to the Air Force Chief of Staff who
previously headed up the service's Cyberspace Task Force. "If you’re
defending in cyber, you’re already too late."

"We want to go in and knock them out in the first round," added Lt.
Gen. Robert Elder, commander of the 8th Air Force, which focuses on
network issues.

"An adversary needs to know that the U.S. possesses powerful hard and
soft-kill (cyberwarfare) means for attacking adversary information and
command and support systems at all levels," a recent Defense
Department report notes. "Every potential adversary, from nation
states to rogue individuals... should be compelled to consider... an
attack on U.S. systems resulting in highly undesireable consequences
to their own security."

SOURCE (original ‘Wired’ article has additional information links):
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/air-force-mater.html

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Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions

As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are made. The trend
concerns civil liberties groups as well as some lawmakers and legal
experts.

By Richard B. Schmitt,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer,
May 12, 2008.

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or
having their financial and other records reviewed by the government
has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers
approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the number of terrorism
prosecutions ending up in court -- one measure of the effectiveness of
such sleuthing -- has continued to decline, in some cases
precipitously.

The trends, visible in new government data and a private analysis of
Justice Department records, are worrisome to civil liberties groups
and some legal scholars. They say it is further evidence that the
government has compromised the privacy rights of ordinary citizens
without much to show for it.

The emphasis on spy programs also is starting to give pause to some
members of Congress who fear the government is investing too much in
anti-terrorism programs at the expense of traditional crime-fighting.
Other lawmakers are raising questions about how well the FBI is
performing its counter-terrorism mission.

The Senate Intelligence Committee last week concluded that the bureau
was far behind in making internal changes to keep the nation safe from
terrorist threats. Lawmakers urged that the FBI set specific
benchmarks to measure its progress and make more regular reports to
Congress.

These concerns come as the Bush administration has been seeking to
expand its ability to gather intelligence without prior court
approval. It has asked Congress for amendments to the 1978 Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act to make it clear that eavesdropping on
foreign telecommunications signals routed through the U.S. does not
require a warrant.

Law enforcement officials say the additional surveillance powers have
been critically important in ways the public does not always see.
Threats can be mitigated, they say, by deporting suspicious people or
letting them know that authorities are watching them.

"The fact that the prosecutions are down doesn't mean that the utility
of these investigations is down. It suggests that these investigations
may be leading to other forms of prevention and protection," said
Thomas Newcomb, a former Bush White House national security aide. He
said there were half a dozen actions outside of the criminal courts
that the government could take to snuff out potential threats,
including using diplomatic or military channels.

Although legal experts say they would not necessarily expect the
number of prosecutions to rise along with the stepped-up surveillance,
there are few other good ways to measure how well the government is
progressing in keeping the country safe.

"How does one measure the success? The short answer is we aren't in a
great position to know," said Daniel Richman, a former federal
prosecutor. With prosecutions declining, he said, the public is left
with imperfect and possibly misleading ways to gauge progress in the
Bush administration's war on terrorism -- such as the number of secret
warrants the government issues or the number of agents it assigns to
terrorism cases.

"These are the only tracks in the snow left by terrorism
investigations, if there are no more counter-terrorism prosecutions,"
Richman said. "This is why, more than ever, there is a pressing need
for congressional oversight, for accountability at the top of the
[Justice] department, and for public confidence in the department."

Changing numbers

A recent study showed that the number of terrorism and national
security cases initiated by the Justice Department in 2007 was more
than 50% below 2002 levels. The nonprofit Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which obtained the data under
the Freedom of Information Act, found that the number of cases brought
declined 19% in the last year alone, dropping to 505 in 2007 from 624
in 2006.

By contrast, the Justice Department reported last month that the
nation's spy court had granted 2,370 warrant requests by the
department to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies in
the U.S. last year -- 9% more than in 2006. The number of such
warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has
more than doubled since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The department also reported a sharp rise in the use of national
security letters by the FBI -- from 9,254 in 2005 to 12,583 in 2006,
the latest data available. The letters seek customer information from
banks, Internet providers and phone companies. They have caused a stir
because consumers do not have a right to know that their information
is being disclosed and the letters are issued without court oversight.

The inspector general of the Justice Department has found numerous
cases in which FBI agents failed to comply with rules and guidelines
in issuing the letters, often gaining access to information they were
not entitled to. The FBI has responded by taking a number of measures
to tighten its internal procedures.

Civil liberties groups say the new data reveal a disturbing
consequence of the government's post-Sept. 11 expanded surveillance
capabilities.

"The number of Americans being investigated dwarfs any legitimate
number of actual terrorism prosecutions, and that is extremely
troubling -- for both the security and privacy of innocent Americans
as well as for the squandering of resources on people who have not and
never will be charged with any wrongdoing," said Lisa Graves, deputy
director of the Center for National Security Studies, a Washington-
based civil liberties group.

A mixed record

But Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, said statistics on
court-approved FISA applications and statistics on criminal
prosecution were "apples and oranges."

"There are a variety of factors that may account for the increase in
court-approved FISA applications since 9/11," he said. Boyd said he
could not comment on those factors, but said, "It is important to
remember that surveillance under FISA is authorized by an independent
court and used carefully and judiciously to protect the country from
national security threats."

Certainly, the government has pursued a number of high-profile
terrorism cases of late. A U.S. sailor was convicted in March of
providing support to terrorists by passing classified information
regarding movements of a Navy battle group to operators of an Internet
site suspected of terrorist leanings.

The record in court has been somewhat mixed, however. Federal
prosecutors in Miami twice have failed to secure verdicts in the cases
of six men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and
several FBI offices. After two mistrials, the "Liberty City Seven"
case is due in court in January.

Even some former government officials concede many intelligence
investigations fail to yield evidence of a serious threat to the U.S.
"Most of these threats ultimately turn out to be wrong, or maybe just
the investigating makes them go away," said Washington lawyer Michael
Woods, former head of the FBI national security law unit. "A lot more
information is going to pass through government hands, and most of
that is going to be about people who turn out to be innocent or
irrelevant."

SOURCE: http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0285.html

(These news items are posted under ‘Fair Use’ provisions)

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THE COMING ISRAELI AND U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN - MUST READ! ‘The Prime
Directive: U.S. War Plans Targeting Iran Are All About "Protecting"
Israel’ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12827

‘Target: Iran? On Israel's 60th Birthday, The Jewish State May Be
Readying For Its Biggest Fight Yet. What That Could Mean For The Next
American President.' http://www.newsweek.com/id/136065

(I don't agree with its 'Irresistible Push For War' premise, but this
article makes some valid points - so wake up and GET ACTIVE to
massively protest and prevent this next planned war crime!) 'Why All
of Our Efforts Won’t Stop the Attack on Iran'
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/why-all-of-our-efforts-won%E2%80%99t-stop-the-attack-on-iran/

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IRAN ATTACK: THE WARNINGS KEEP MULTIPLYING

‘Backing Into War: Israel's Strike on Syria, a Precurser To Iran
Holocaust’
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?200297

'Pakistan Warns Against Attack On Iran'
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168303

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Tommy Davis, LORD RAMA. (The 19 terrorists who attacked our nation on
September 11, 2001 used a total of 364 aliases.)

Islam broke world records of genocide, slavery, religiously sanctioned
rape, abuse of human rights, and prohibition of scientific inquiry. It
forbids Muslim emigration to the lands of the infidels because a
Muslim minority cannot enslave the infidel majority. Despite this
prohibition Muslims emigrate to the West, not as migrants, but as
conquerors. They live in sharia mini-states and expand these mini-
states by terrorizing infidel neighbors and driving them out. Arabic
proverb says "first comes Saturday, then Sunday." It means that Arabs
are going to exterminate Jews before they exterminate Christians. It
also means that Israel is the first line of defense against Islam.

“I have been made victorious with terror.” - Muhammad (according to
Sahih Bukhari)

Europe’s Muslim population is set to increase from around 13% today to
between 22% and 37% of the population by 2025. source:
http://news.scotsman.com/europeanunion/CIA-gives-grim-warning-on.2595505.jp

The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to
3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe.
Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being born into
Muslim families… By 2025, one-third of all European children will be
born to Muslims… In Italy, 95% of all rapists are Muslims. Eighty-five
percent of all murderers are Muslims… France will have a Muslim
majority in less than 25 years! Another telling statistic is that
although the Muslims are 12% of France's population, 70 percent of a
total of 60,775 prisoners in France are Muslims! All of France's urban
suburbs are being roamed by Muslim black African or Arabic gangs… A
very high proportion of French Muslims are in the underclass, that
segment of the population that relies not so much on education and
work as on welfare and predatory activities. In fact, over one
thousand Muslim neighborhoods are under monitoring throughout France.
Seven hundred of those Muslim neighborhoods are listed as "violent"
and nearly 400 hundred are listed as "very violent." Violence ranges
from rape (95% of rapists are Muslim), murder (85% of murderers are
Muslim), theft and looting of cars (58% committed by Muslims) and
street fighting to assault on teachers and civil servants… source:
http://www.masada2000.org/islam.html

"There does not exist an identifiable body of Muslims, substantive in
number or an outright majority, who could be described as "moderate"
by their repudiation of Muslim extremists. Violence has been an
integral part of Muslim history, irrespective of whether it is
sanctioned by Islam, and Muslims who unhesitatingly use violence to
advance their political ambitions have created a climate within their
faith culture that any Muslim who questions such practice is then
deemed apostate and subject to harm. Consequently, what might pass for
"moderate" Muslims, the large number of Muslims unaccounted for as to
what they think, in practical terms constitute a forest within which
extremists are incubated, nurtured, given ideological and material
support, and to which they return for sanctuary." - Salim Mansur

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23-year old French Jew, Ilan Halimi was abducted by Muslim immigrants
and tortured for three weeks in a basement of an apartment building in
a southeastern suburb of Paris. Some Muslim neighbors came to the
basement to watch the torture and to participate in the torture. About
30 Muslim immigrants living in the building heard the screams of the
tortured Jew for three weeks, but none of them called the police. The
Jew was later found tied to a tree near a railway track. Cigarettes
were burned into his skin. He had multiple stab wounds. One ear and
one toe was severed. 80% of his skin was burned. He died on his way to
a hospital. While the Jew was held hostage, his torturers called his
family on the phone many times. They made ransom demands and quoted
Koran while tortured Jew's screaming was heard in the background. The
French police refused to trace the phone calls claiming that they had
technical problems. The police also claimed that there was "no anti-
Semitism involved." The Jew's mother, Ruth Halimi was not happy with
the way the police handled the case. She said: "We told the police
that there had been at least three other attempted abductions of young
Jews, but they persisted in considering the motives purely criminal
because they are afraid of reviving a clash with the Muslims." The
French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the abduction,
torture and killing of the Jew as an anti-Semitic crime.

Two years earlier another Jew named Sebastien Sellam was savagely
killed in the eastern part of Paris by a Muslim. The Muslim cut off
the Jew's head and took out his eyeballs with a fork. He came home a
few minutes later saying to his family: "Now, I can go to paradise. I
killed my Jew." The Muslim was sent to jail, then to an insane asylum,
and declared cured two years later.

"I’ll tell you about the twelve young impure men I saw executed at
Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war. They executed them on the
field of Dacca stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or abdomen, in
the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name of
God from the bleachers… After [killing] the twelve impure young men
they killed a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to
save his brother who had been condemned to death. They smashed his
head with their combat boots… at the conclusion of the slaughter, the
twenty thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers
and went down on the field. Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an
orderly manner, with solemnity. They slowly formed a line and, again
in the name of God, walked over the cadavers. All the while thundering
Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar. They destroyed them like the Twin Towers of
New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet of smashed bones." -
Oriana Fallaci (The Rage and the Pride)

Islam has the world’s record of genocide. Its victims, over more than
1,350 years, number in the hundreds of millions, many more than the
victims of the Holocaust and World Communism combined. Muslim genocide
is still ongoing in the Sudan, Ivory Cost. Mauritania, Somalia, the
Philippines, Indonesia, and, to a lesser extent in other Muslim
countries. source: http://allaboutmuhammad.com/page15.html

"The massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in
history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the
massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the
slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading
Spanish and Portuguese." - Francois Gautier

More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of
the Spanish Inquisition combined. source: http://www.crisismagazine.com/october2003/madden.htm

Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan
has in the last 50 years. source: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html

"As Hitler pointed out many times, Islam is the ideal religion for
those who want to dominate the world.” - Albert Speer (Inside the
Third Reich)

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May 15, 2008, 1:33:47 AM5/15/08

Changing numbers

A mixed record

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