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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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The Threat Matrix

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the judge and get informed!

Home grown Islamists may hit US: FBI chief
Full Story

WASHINGTON -- The United States could be attacked by "home grown" Islamist terror groups, the FBI's chief has warned.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the London Financial Times newspaper in an interview published Thursday that the United States could face attacks from "home-grown terrorism" very similar to the July 7 bombings in London that killed 52 people and wounded another 700, Mueller said.

When asked if the United States could face such attacks from "home-grown groups", Mueller answered emphatically: "Absolutely, it could," the Financial Times said.

Related:
U.S. Officials Warn on Global Reach of al-Qaida
U.S. seeks more cooperation to fight terrorism
FDNY Chaplain Resigns After 9/11 Remarks
Nuclear option escalates jihad threat

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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[all4one]

'FOOD DISEASE' STRIKES TOT (NY - 10/12/05)

By TODD VENEZIA and NEIL GRAVES

October 12, 2005 -- A toddler was fighting for his life in a Manhattan hospital last night against a food-borne illness that prompted fears he was sickened by a meal at the day-care center he attended, authorities said. A probe of the Kiddie Academy on Staten Island found no evidence of an outbreak of any food-borne diseases, health officials said — leaving the question of just what sickened 22-month-old Joshua Salamanca unanswered.

The illness, hemolytic uremic syndrome, causes kidney failure and intense bleeding.

The Health Department contacted numerous parents at the center, but they found no evidence any food served at the school caused the illness.

But Joshua's mom, Melissa, said: "I think the Health Department is seriously covering up something."

Link to Article

**Ukraine Update**

141 Children Stay in Hospitals with Flux Diagnosis in Ukraine City (10/11/05)

LVOV, October 11 (Itar-Tass) -- As many as 141 children from about 500 children who got poisoned with kefir of poor quality in kindergartens of Netishin in the Khmelnitsk region of Ukraine continue their inpatient treatment from flux. Seven children are staying in the intensive therapy ward, eight adults who were drinking kefir of poor quality were also hospitalized,the press service of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The Khmelnitsk regional prosecutor’s office instituted criminal proceedings on the massive poisoning case of children, first deputy prosecutor of the region Viktor Nalutsishin pointed out. According to him, the case was opened under Article 137 Part 1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code for the inappropriate performance of professional and office duties on protection of life and health of children...

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300 Sickened; Health Department Tracking Norovirus Doubletree Says Its Property Isn't To Blame (Nebraska - 10/10/05)

OMAHA, Neb. -- About 300 people were sickened at an Omaha hotel, according to the Douglas County Health Department, and tests show the illness was caused by norovirus....

More than 50 people were sickened during a fundraiser ball for the Midlands Community Foundation. At least 200 Air Force officers fell ill the same week after they stayed at the Doubletree. The 311th Human Systems Wing in Texas released a statement that officials are investigating an incident of possible food-borne norovirus illnesses that occurred at an Omaha hotel during the General Officers Call...

Link to Full Article

Syria Says Interior Minister, Who Ran Lebanon for Many Years, Has Committed Suicide (10/12/05)

By Albert Aji Associated Press Writer Published: Oct 12, 2005

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's interior minister, who ran Lebanon for many years and was one of several top officials caught up in the U.N. probe of the slaying of that nation's former prime minister, died Wednesday. The country's official news agency said he committed suicide in his office.

The death of Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan - just days before the final U.N. investigation report is due - was a new and startling sign of turmoil...

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[lahargis]

Prayers for both of you.

L

[Pegita]

Heavenly Father, we return to thank You that medical personnel could provide assistance to Soldier's beloved Cathy before transport. Thank You for those who serve their communities as first responders. May their efforts, along with those at the hospital, be the means of restoring Cathy to health. Take from her all manner of distress, that soon she would be home again. Give wisdom to her medical team that they would know the cause of her reaction, and may it be something that can easily be avoided. Minister to Soldier as he tends to his wife ... take from them both any anxiety and replace it with the knowledge that their FReeper family stands with them in prayer before the Throne of Grace. Grant mercy and healing to this dear woman, Merciful Father, to Your Honor and Glory. In the Name of Jesus, we pray, Amen ...

[Oorang]

Thank you all for your prayers and kind words to Ex-S and his wife.

[Cindy]

Personal Note:

I was eating at a Chinese Restaurant recently.
I opened my fortune cookie.
My little fortune said, "NEVER STOP. One always stops
as soon as something is about to happen."

I opened up my email today and one of the special links
was this inspiringthots site. A link jumped out at me:
"DON'T QUIT."

===

ON THE NET...

DON'T QUIT
http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/dont-quit.php

http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/

[Cindy]

Thanks to nw_arizona_granny for pointing to this article:
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"NYC Mayor Not Sure Subway Threats Were Hoax"
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171953,00.html
AP

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police officials questioned reports on Tuesday that an alleged subway bomb plot that spread fear
through the city was a hoax.

"I don't know that it was confirmed that it was a hoax at all,"
Bloomberg said when asked about the reports by a cable news network and the
New York Post, which is owned by News Corp., the parent company of
FOXNews.com.

The reports, citing unnamed sources, claimed an informant in Iraq who
had told U.S. authorities about the possible threat by Al Qaeda later
admitted he made it up.

The informant's allegation prompted city and FBI officials last week to
issue a dire public warning and to flood the subway system with
thousands of extra police officers.

After four days of high alert, the officials announced Monday there was
no clear evidence an attack would be carried out and scaled back the
protection.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, appearing with Bloomberg at a
hospital groundbreaking in Harlem, said the informant could not have recanted
because U.S. authorities in Iraq had lost track of him.

"As far as we know right now, the source is not in custody," he said."

[SlowBoat407]

One always stops as soon as something is about to happen."

That sounds almost like my tagline du jour. I got it from a miniseries about the theater, in which a director admits to feeling as though his sanity is hanging by a thread. "Oddly enough," he says, "Some of the best things happen just before that thread snaps".

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

FOX NEWS.com (AP): New York - "NYC MAYOR NOT SURE SUBWAY THREATS WERE HOAX" (October 12, 2005)

FOX NEWS.com: "SOURCES: NYC SUBWAY THREAT INFO NOT SUBSTANTIATED" (October 11, 2005)

DEFENSElink.mil: "INTEL FROM IRAQ RAIDS LEADS TO NEW YORK CITY SECURITY HIKE" by Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service (October 7, 2005)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "NYC SUBWAY ALERT" (October 6, 2005)

FOX NEWS.com: New York - "NYC UPS SUBWAY SECURITY AFTER BOMB THREATS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Authorities stepped up security on the city's mass transit system Thursday after receiving a credible threat that the New York City subway may be the target of a terrorist attack in the coming days.") (October 6, 2005) (Read More...)

WHITEHOUSE.gov - News Release - Office of the Press Secretary: "PRESIDENT DISCUSSES WAR ON TERROR at National Endowment for Democracy Ronald Reagan Building and Intrnational Trade Center, Washington, D.C." (October 6, 2005)

DEFENSElink.mil: Washington - "PRESIDENT URGES MUSLIMS TO DENOUNCE VIOLENT EXTREMISM" by Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service (October 6, 2005)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "BUSH HITS 'ISLAMIC RADICALS'" by Bill Sammon (October 7, 2005)

FrontPageMagazine.com: "BUSH DECLARES WAR ON RADICAL ISLAM" by Daniel Pipes (October 11, 2005)

[Cindy]

THE BEST THINGS...key words.

[Cindy]

Dear Lord,

Thank you Jesus for ExSoldier and his wife, Cathy.
Cathy has suffered an emergency illness.
Please comfort her.

Please guide the doctors, nurses and caregivers
as they work on her.

I ask all of this in Your precious name, Lord.
Amen.

[Cindy]

Ditto to your post and that is exactly what my husband and I discussed.

[Cindy]

and Amen.

[Oorang]

I did speak to the sheriff for that area. He said they know who owns the house but not who owns the transmitter. Also said it was a older transmitter. I asked what he meant by older and he said not 2005. He also indicated that transmitters were designed to be taken off airplanes rather easily. I know nothing about airplanes other than I don't like them, or flying in them :-)

[nw_arizona_granny]

malfunction of equipment controlling the public water supply is
regarded as the most likely cause of the outbreak. -- ProMED-mail<<<<

above from TM 2496, it has 1729 now sick with Hepatitis A,
in a Russian town.

My first thought, "oh, just the same as the exploding electric transformer, in San Jose, Calif. a couple days ago".....

Your post on the sick children, gives me chills.

Does it have something to do with the people who are eating and not observing ramadan?

Making 200 Air Force ill, is not hard to figure out.

There have been threats to our children.

Food tampering is easier than Beslan, Russia school.

It was going on before 9-11, about 1999, I was picking up
news reports of all 500 people getting "food Poisoning" at
a New Jersey Company picnic. (Think it was New Jersey, not
sure on the year, about then).

There were several reports of fancy get togathers that all
got sick at, which had been catered.

One was blamed on the shrimp salad... I keep thinking of all
the stuff that I would not choose on a buffet table, and know that there is no way that 500 people all ate out of every dish.

I would not have chosen the fish dishes and would have passed on the chicken, my brother would have had both.

There are coverups going on and will continue to do so.

I am hearing more bio weapons and nuclear talk and public service announcements on the radio, the liberals are of course saying it isn't true, but a few callers will allow for the dangers coming our way.

Rarely does Legionaires or Norovirus hit a group that is not a high class group, in a resort or convention setting.

As usual I have the questions, not the answers.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, appearing with Bloomberg at a
hospital groundbreaking in Harlem, said the informant could not have
recanted
because U.S. authorities in Iraq had lost track of him.

"As far as we know right now, the source is not in custody," he said."<<<<<<

the above was why I posted that post.

Why don't we have him? Where is he? Is the statement true?

Why? Why? Why?

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[Cindy]

Trivia can be interesting...THANKS Oorang.

[all4one]

Thanks...as always, your thoughts on these things help confirm the gut feelings that I have about these incidents. I like to defer to those, like you, who have more life experence to keep me grounded. But the timing of some of these & ramaden & Iraqui Constitution, etc., make me delve deeper and put the puzzle pieces together in more than one way.

[Cindy]

Thanks for that update Oorang.
UPDATES always appreciated.

[all4one]

***Update on Stolen $7 Million Dollar Jet***

Man Arrested, Charged in Jet Joy Ride (10/12/05)

PIMPLE-FACED JET JOY RIDER CHARGED...

A man was arrested on charges of stealing a charter jet and taking it on a 350-mile joy ride from Florida to Georgia, police said Wednesday.

The circumstances of the theft were not clear, but nothing threatening was found on the plane, police spokesman Darren Moloney said. The incident "appears to be a joy ride."

Daniel Andrew Wolcott, 22, of Buford was charged with felony theft and misdemeanor reckless conduct, police said, adding that additional federal charges were expected.

Investigators said they made the arrest after interviewing five people who said they were on the 10-passenger, $7 million Cessna Citation 7 when Wolcott flew it.

The plane, which is owned by Pinnacle Air of Springdale, Ark., was found Monday at the Gwinnett County Airport-Briscoe Field near Atlanta, police said. Moloney said a key is not needed to start the plane. The plane has a lock on the door, but it isn't difficult to pry open, he said.

Wolcott has a commercial rated pilots license but is not licensed to fly that type of plane, police said. The exact circumstances of how Wolcott obtained the plane were unclear.

Bryan Cooper, assistant manager at St. Augustine Airport, said the plane was still there at midnight Saturday but was gone by 5 a.m. The plane landed at Gwinnett sometime between 9 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday. It had some damage to the front edge of one wing.

Link to Article

Nothing to see here folks...most 22 year-olds can just grab a jet and fly it at night...just like riding a bike.