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To: zonder who wrote (265075)	10/29/2003 10:16:45 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

<<Who do you think I am - your sob sister? Go ask someone who cares what you feel about some imam in Boston. >> lol slob sister?lol it is not just the iman,that hates America, the whole congregation supports the hatred of the United States ,funding terrorists. can you read and understand? <<A 101-page search warrant affidavit unsealed in federal court in Virginia last week said financial activity by the Safa Group ``evidences a conspiracy. . .to route money through hidden paths to terrorists and to defraud the United States.'' ``I believe that Barzinji is not only closely associated with PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad). . . but also with Hamas,'' wrote David Kane, an agent in the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division. Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been formally designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government since 1995, Kane wrote. According to Kane's affidavit, Barzinji is an officer of at least 14 Safa Group entities, and his neighbor, M. Yaqub Mirza, is an officer of 29 Safa Group entities. Mirza was also a board member of Ptech, a Quincy-based computer software company raided by federal agents last year as part of Operation Green Quest. Another link between the Islamic Society of Boston and the Safa Group is Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder and first president of the local Muslim organization. Alamoudi was indicted last week for laundering money from the Libyan government and is suspected of funding terrorist groups in the Mideast through Safa Group charities and businesses. The Herald reported yesterday that in addition to Alamoudi, the Islamic Society of Boston has a longstanding relationship with Dr. Yusuf Abdullah al-Qaradawi, a radical Egyptian cleric whose vocal support of suicide bombings and the terrorist group Hamas prompted the State Department to bar him from entering the U.S. four years ago. Even though the group's tax filings from 1998 to 2000 list al-Qaradawi as a director, the Islamic Society of Boston said in a written statement Monday that al-Qaradawi ``never played any role in the ISB.'' The group attributed the appearance of the cleric's name on its tax forms to ``an administrative oversight.''>>

To: zonder who wrote (265075)	11/1/2003 4:13:17 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Science - Reuters Israeli Processor Computes at Speed of Light Wed Oct 29, 5:03 AM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Tova Cohen HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli start-up has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light, the company said. Lenslet said its processor will enable new capabilities in homeland security and military, multimedia and communications applications. "Optical processing is a strategic competitive advantage for nations and companies," said Avner Halperin, vice president for business development at Lenslet. "Processing at the speed of light, you can have safer airports, autonomous military systems, high-definition multimedia broadcast systems and advanced next-generation communications systems." An optical processor is a digital signal processor (DSP) with an optical accelerator attached to it that enables it to perform functions at very high speeds. "It is an acceleration of 20 years in the development of digital hardware," Lenslet founder and Chief Executive Officer Aviram Sariel told Reuters. The processor performs 8 trillion operations per second, equivalent to a super-computer and 1,000 times faster than standard processors, with 256 lasers performing computations at light speed. It is geared toward such applications as high resolution radar, electronic warfare, luggage screening at airports, video compression, weather forecasting and cellular base stations. Lenslet said its Enlight processor, unveiled at the MILCOM exhibition in Boston this month, is the first commercially available optical DSP. "Optics is the future of every information device," said Sariel. Jim Tully, vice president and chief of research for semiconductors and emerging technologies at Gartner Inc, said most companies working with optics focus on switching optical signals for telecommunications rather than processing information optically. "I'm not aware of any company that has taken it to the extent of processing optically," he said. Lenslet has raised $27.5 million so far from such investors as Goldman Sachs, Walden VC, Germany's Star Ventures and Chicago-based JK&B Capital. PALM PILOT (news - web sites) SIZE The company's prototype is fairly large and bulky but when Lenslet begins to supply the processor in a few months it will be shrunk to 15 x 15 cm with a height of 1.7 cm, roughly the size of a Palm Pilot. "In five years we plan to shrink it to a single chip," project manager Asaf Schlezinger said. Tully said one issue is whether this technology can be produced in volume the way silicon chips are made. "Because semiconductor manufacturing technology is well developed, you can produce millions at quite low cost," said Tully, who is not familiar with Enlight. Lenslet said its processor will be competitive in price with a multi DSP board. Sariel is negotiating joint projects with companies and/or government agencies in the United States, Europe and Japan to produce the processor for specific applications. It already has projects signed with Israel's Defense Ministry. "We don't rule out licensing our technology to others," Sariel said. "We are looking at a virtual production line where production is done by others and we provide testing equipment." Tully said semiconductor companies are working on technology that would use optical channels inside a chip to allow very high speed communication from one part of a chip to another. "It's conceivable this technology could become mainstream inside chips in 10 years time," Tully said.