The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.

Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for names, e-mail addresses or keywords.

Such a technique is broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's legally permissible.

Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach. It's employed when police have obtained a court order and an Internet service provider can't "isolate the particular person or IP address" because of technical constraints, says Paul Ohm, a former trial attorney at the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. (An Internet Protocol address is a series of digits that can identify an individual computer.)

That kind of full-pipe surveillance can record all Internet traffic, including Web browsing--or, optionally, only certain subsets such as all e-mail messages flowing through the network. Interception typically takes place inside an Internet provider's network at the junction point of a router or network switch.

The technique came to light at the Search & Seizure in the Digital Age symposium held at Stanford University's law school on Friday. Ohm, who is now a law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Richard Downing, a CCIPS assistant deputy chief, discussed it during the symposium.

In a telephone conversation afterward, Ohm said that full-pipe recording has become federal agents' default method for Internet surveillance. "You collect wherever you can on the (network) segment," he said. "If it happens to be the segment that has a lot of IP addresses, you don't throw away the other IP addresses. You do that after the fact."

"You intercept first and you use whatever filtering, data mining to get at the information about the person you're trying to monitor," he added.

On Monday, a Justice Department representative would not immediately answer questions about this kind of surveillance technique. (Late Tuesday, the Justice Department responded with a statement taking issue with this description of the FBI's surveillance practices.)

"What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. "What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets."

When the FBI announced two years ago it had abandoned Carnivore, news reports said that the bureau would increasingly rely on Internet providers to conduct the surveillance and reimburse them for costs. While Carnivore was the subject of congressional scrutiny and outside audits, the FBI's current Internet eavesdropping techniques have received little attention.

Carnivore apparently did not perform full-pipe recording. A technical report (PDF: "Independent Technical Review of the Carnivore System") from December 2000 prepared for the Justice Department said that Carnivore "accumulates no data other than that which passes its filters" and that it saves packets "for later analysis only after they are positively linked by the filter settings to a target."

HAIFA – With his shaved head and handsome face, Or Baron, just 20-years-old, looked more like a young pop star than a heroic soldier as he sat on his bed in a cramped room at Rambam Hospital surrounded by friends and Israel supporters from overseas.

While everyone else in the room was glum and emotional, Baron, an avid guitarist and rock band member, kept on smiling despite having lost both his legs during a battle in Lebanon – he still had his hands

“I knew from the beginning that I lost my legs. I was in excruciating pain,” Baron said. “I crawled out of the tank with the remainder of my strength, with these wonderful hands, and I arrived at Rambam with 20 percent chance to live. But I still had my hands and my life as a gift and I’m already dying to get rehabilitated and return to perform with the band.”

Baron maintained his infectious smile while he thanked his well-wishers for their visit, posing for pictures with them and even serenading them on the guitar.

“It’s the most greatest feeling that people appreciate what you did,” he said. “Its not taken for granted.”

Baron was seriously wounded when his tank was hit in Maroun a-Ras. He said an RPG missile hit his tank. He saw almost immediately that he lost his legs and knew he would have to depend on his upper body to get himself out of the tank. He lifted himself up and started to yell for help.

“My commander, Yaakov Parness, helped me. He saved me along with the medics and other wonderful people who helped to stop my artery from bleeding,” Baron said.

Doctors said that when Baron woke up in the hospital, he immediately checked his hands to make sure they were okay. Then he asked for his guitar.

Hezbollah Terrorists in America

By Dale Hurd
CBN News

CBNNews.com – (CBN News) - The leader of Hezbollah has declared America the enemy. Many Arabs and Muslims in America openly support Hezbollah.

Several thousand people marched through the Detroit suburb of Dearborn a few weeks ago, chanting "Hezbollah" and holding up photos of Hezbollah

leader Sheik Nasrallah and posters comparing President Bush to Hitler.

Similar protests took place in San Francisco, New York, and other cities.

The U.S. government calls Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but don't tell that to these Americans.

Osama Siblani publishes the Arab-American News, the largest Arab-American newspaper in the United States. He said, “No, They are not terrorists. Absolutely not. No. They are freedom fighters.”

He told the Chicago Tribune that if the FBI wants to go after Hezbollah supporters in Dearborn, "…they better bring a fleet of buses. I, for one, would be willing to go to jail."

Hezbollah is an Iranian creation, and although it has a measure of independence, it's considered Iran's proxy army in southern Lebanon. As many as 15,000 of Dearborn's Arabs come from the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon.

In fact, the current mayor in Bint Jbeil, Haj Ali Bazzi, is from Dearborn. He has an American passport and a Michigan driver’s license.

The dominant Islamic leader in Dearborn is Mohammed Ali Elahi, an Iranian-American whose Web site displays photos of Elahi with Hezbollah spiritual leader Sheikh Fadlallah and former Iranian President Rafsanjani, who once suggested nuking Israel.

Debbie Schlussel, a Detroit columnist and attorney, was the first to call attention to Elahi’s Web site and to his ties to Iranian government officials.

“I went to his Web site, and I found even more outrageous pictures of him with Ayatollah Khomeini--who we know held many Americans hostage for 444 days," Schlussel said. "We have pictures of him delivering prayers to the Iranian parliament. We have pictures of him with the former President of Iran, Mr. Khatami.”

Yet Elahi is respected by many in the Detroit area, and even does a regular column for the Detroit News.

“We need to have another interview,” said Elahi, “of talking about Hezbollah – whether that is a terrorist organization or not. I know that, legally, in the U.S. now, Hezbollah is on that list. And whether we agree with the law or disagree, we have to follow the law of the land.”

Before 9/11, Hezbollah killed more Americans than any other terrorist group: 300 murdered in six separate attacks, including 241 Marines in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. Now, with America's building confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program, the New York Post reports that Hezbollah is prepared to activate terrorist sleeper cells in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Detroit.

No less than nine Federal prosecutors are investigating Hezbollah ties in the Detroit area alone. And the FBI has issued a nationwide alert for local and state police to be vigilant in investigating Hezbollah sympathizers.

Newman said, "Hezbollah makes al-Qaeda look like Sunday-schoolers. They're the best light infantry in the world, and they're dangerous, and they're all over America.”

"It's an army that was started in 1982 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,” Newman explained. “And they wanted to impose the same type of regime on Lebanon as they have in Iran. They're a mortal enemy of the West and of democracy."

Hezbollah fighters have also already fought the United States in Iraq, and Newman says it’s building improvised explosive devices that kill GIs.

"The FBI just told me that Hezbollah is making the most advanced ones that are coming into play. Plus, they're training. They have offices there. It's not widely known," she said.

Arab and Muslim Americans who support Hezbollah have expressed anger that their patriotism is being questioned. But critics wonder how it's possible to support both Hezbollah and the United States.

Museum Gives Different View on Creation

By Tracy Winborn
CBN News.com

CBNNews.com - Here’s an interesting notion to ponder: Dinosaurs roamed the earth alongside Adam and Eve. That’s not the kind of history lesson most natural science museums tell. Yet the Bible states that “First God made heaven and earth,” and later, on the sixth day, “God made all sorts wild animals.”

Some believe these “wild animals” may have been dinosaurs. It’s this belief that has creation scientists building a new museum that’s already receiving world-wide attention even though it’s not slated to open until next spring.

The $25 million Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky is designed to give a Biblical perspective of the Earth’s history. Ken Ham, founder of the Creation Museum and the Christian publishing company Answers in Genesis, talked with CBN News about this massive undertaking.

Ham explained his goal is to refute a commonly held scientific point of view taught around the world. He said the burden to tell the truth was placed on his heart years ago when he was a high school teacher in Australia where evolution was taught.

Ham reflected back on field trips taken to various museums: “I remember standing around an exhibit of apes and seeing a father say to his child, ‘That’s where we came from,’ and I had this burden.”

Ham said his desire in building the Creation Museum is to “tell the world the truth about the creation of the universe.”

The museum, still under construction, will include animatronics (robotic creatures) and live animals, a 40-foot tall recreation of a section of Noah’s Ark, and a 180-seat special effects theater that vibrates and blows water. You’ll also find picnic areas, waterfalls, a planetarium, a castle-like bookstore, and of course, a café that looks like it was a part of Noah’s Ark. Ham jokingly said the idea is to make the Ark area look as though after the flood, Noah landed at the café.

The Creation Museum has reportedly received $21 million in private donations, but Ham said most of the money has come from $100 gifts. Developers told Ham for what the museum has to offer, it could have easily cost around $80-million. However, Ham stated God has provided so much already. And he strongly believes God will provide the rest of the money they need to complete the project, allowing the museum to open debt free.

“We believe in the God of creation…It’s been the provision of the Lord, a miracle of the Lord. We move ahead not knowing where the money comes from.”

Ham said it was wonderful to witness all the ways God has already provided up to this point in the project. He said someone donated the computer cable that was put into the museum. Others donated their time and some highly-talented people came on staff, including a Biblical creationist from Japan and another who worked on the set of Jurassic Park.

Evolutionists claim that man could not have roamed the earth alongside the dinosaurs. Ham explains in his book, The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved, that God created all the land animals on the sixth day, and he believes dinosaurs were land animals. He also said the word “dinosaur” wasn’t invented until 1841, and they were referred to as dragons before that time. Ham points out that you can find the Hebrew word for dragon, tannin, mentioned a number of times in the Old Testament.

Media from all over the world have reported on this one-of-a-kind museum. Ham’s belief is that the museum will be a great witnessing tool, and he said even the construction workers are already promising to come back and bring their friends and family.

Ham said it’s only natural that people take a chronological approach to understanding reality. That’s why the Creation Museum believes in teaching the seven Cs of history:

∙Creation
∙Corruption
∙Catastrophe
∙Confusion
∙Christ
∙Cross
∙Consummation

“It will tell people the Bible history is true: the flood, sin, and death – that’s why you can trust the message of the cross,” said Ham.

August 4, 2006
By Dale Hurd
CBN News

CBNNews.com – (CBN News) - The leader of Hezbollah has declared America the enemy. Many Arabs and Muslims in America openly support Hezbollah.

Is this treason?

Is this a potential threat to our safety?

Several thousand people marched through the Detroit suburb of Dearborn a few weeks ago, chanting "Hezbollah" and holding up photos of Hezbollah leader Sheik Nasrallah and posters comparing President Bush to Hitler.

Similar protests took place in San Francisco, New York, and other cities.

The U.S. government calls Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but don't tell that to these Americans.

Osama Siblani publishes the Arab-American News, the largest Arab-American newspaper in the United States. He said, “No, They are not terrorists. Absolutely not. No. They are freedom fighters.”

He told the Chicago Tribune that if the FBI wants to go after Hezbollah supporters in Dearborn, "…they better bring a fleet of buses. I, for one, would be willing to go to jail."

Hezbollah is an Iranian creation, and although it has a measure of independence, it's considered Iran's proxy army in southern Lebanon. As many as 15,000 of Dearborn's Arabs come from the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon.

In fact, the current mayor in Bint Jbeil, Haj Ali Bazzi, is from Dearborn. He has an American passport and a Michigan driver’s license.

The dominant Islamic leader in Dearborn is Mohammed Ali Elahi, an Iranian-American whose Web site displays photos of Elahi with Hezbollah spiritual leader Sheikh Fadlallah and former Iranian President Rafsanjani, who once suggested nuking Israel.

He spoke with CBN News terrorism expert Erick Stackelbeck.

“We need to have another interview,” said Elahi, “of talking about Hezbollah – whether that is a terrorist organization or not. I know that, legally, in the U.S. now, Hezbollah is on that list. And whether we agree with the law or disagree, we have to follow the law of the land.”

Before 9-11, Hezbollah killed more Americans than any other terrorist group: 300 murdered in six separate attacks, including 243 Marines in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. Now, with America's building confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program, the New York Post reports that Hezbollah is prepared to activate terrorist sleeper cells in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Detroit.

No less than nine Federal prosecutors are investigating Hezbollah ties in the Detroit area alone. And the FBI has issued a nationwide alert for local and state police to be vigilant in investigating Hezbollah sympathizers.

Barbara Newman, a former investigative producer for ABC news, is co-author of Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil.

Newman said, "Hezbollah makes al-Qaeda look like Sunday-schoolers. They're the best light infantry in the world, and they're dangerous, and they're all over America.”

"It's an army that was started in 1982 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,” Newman explained. “And they wanted to impose the same type of regime on Lebanon as they have in Iran. They're a mortal enemy of the West and of democracy."

Hezbollah fighters have also already fought the United States in Iraq, and Newman says it’s building improvised explosive devices that kill GIs.

"The FBI just told me that Hezbollah is making the most advanced ones that are coming into play. Plus, they're training. They have offices there. It's not widely known," she said.

Arab and Muslim Americans who support Hezbollah have expressed anger that their patriotism is being questioned. But critics wonder how it's possible to support both Hezbollah and the United States.

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Land Vs State
BY Matthew Wagner

Avi Abelow, a religious soldier from Efrat serving in an IDF demolition unit, abandoned his post on the Lebanese border last week in protest against what he called Israel's morally corrupt leadership.
Abelow had his doubts when he received his call to reserve duty.
"Expelling Jews from Gaza and Northern Samaria caused the war in the North. We taught our enemies that terrorism works. So I did not like the idea of fighting under a chief of general staff and a prime minister who were responsible for the expulsion. But ever since I was a kid I've wanted to be a soldier in the IDF," says Abelow, 32, who grew up in New York City and immigrated to Israel in 1990.
The last straw, says Abelow, was Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent comment to Reuters that the present war in the North would create the momentum for launching the realignment plan, which includes the dismantling of tens of settlements in Judea and Samaria.
"After he said that, I realized every advance in the North would bring closer the expulsion of my brothers and sisters in Judea and Samaria. The war itself is justified, but what this government wants to do with the victory is immoral.
"I was not alone. A lot of the religious guys were outraged," says Abelow, speaking from outside the Prime Minister's Office where he is demonstrating for the immediate resignations of IDF Chief of General Staff Dan Halutz and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
"About 70 of us signed a petition demanding that Olmert retract his statement. When Olmert apologized, my friends were satisfied, but I was not. I could not escape the feeling that this government wants to sacrifice more Jews on the altar of additional expulsions."
Yigal Amitai, spokesman for Yitzhar, a settlement near Nablus, says that if he is called to do reserve duty he will refuse. He also forbade his son, who reached military age this year, to enlist.
"There are enough religious soldiers filling our military cemeteries," says Amitai. "Why should we contribute disproportionately high numbers of combat soldiers and middle and low rank officers but be blocked from upper echelon IDF command?
"It's taxation without representation. We are the Uncle Toms of the state."
Amitai says his negative approach to army service is the ideological fallout from disengagement.
"I realized that the whole purpose of the expulsion was to destroy the settlement movement. It had nothing to do with peace with the Palestinians."
ABELOW, AN American immigrant, and Amitai, whose settlement represents a unique strain of Orthodox theology that has consciously deviated from mainstream religious Zionism, are not representative. But their opinions strike a chord of sympathy in the hearts of many religious Zionists, even if Abelow's and Amitai's operative conclusions are rejected.
The vast majority of religious Zionist soldiers have joined the war effort against Hizbullah. But they fulfill their duty to the state and people with varying degrees of internal conflict. Reverberating in their minds are the questions raised against the government by Abelow and Amitai and others: Can we trust political and military leaders who expelled their own people - the Jews of Gush Katif and Northern Samaria - but did nothing to stop Hizbullah's missile stockpiling on the northern border? Shouldn't we be concerned that military achievements, paid for with the lives of our soldiers, will later be squandered by foreign policy makers who appear to be devoid of Jewish pride? Won't a victory in the North be used by the government as leverage for more territorial compromises?

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Hezbollah Terrorists in America

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Museum Gives Different View on Creation

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Hezbollah Terrorists in America

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Museum Gives Different View on Creation

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