Threat Matrix: September 2007

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The Birth of al Qaedastan

In the year 2016, the world may find itself gloomily marking September 6 as the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan. The Emirate received de facto recognition when the Taliban used the name on the ceasefire agreement they signed with Pakistan on that day in 2006. If things go terribly wrong in the coming decade, they could come to rule a mountainous fragment of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Emirate would be a nightmare state: Osama bin Laden as sultan, Ayman al Zawahiri as vizier, and Mullah Omar the spiritual leader. An economy built on smuggling and heroin. Primary export: terrorism. Welcome to ‘Al Qaedastan’.

Analysts say the rise of a terrorist state straddling the rugged area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is now viable. The reason is a number of troubling trends. One, the revival of a Taliban firmly in the control of Al Qaeda. Two, the seeming inability of either Kabul or Islamabad to defeat the new threat militarily. Three, and the most striking, the Taliban’s systematic supplanting of the traditional tribal leadership in the area. Full story...

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[Cindy]

Yes, and it’s always interesting to follow where this activity is occurring.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jihad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taleban

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=alqaeda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=alqaida

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http://www.satp.org
http://www.saag.org

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?tag=Pakistan&blog_id=7

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http://www.threatswatch.org

http://rapidrecon.threatswatch.org/2007/10/alqaeda-taliban-recreating-afg/

“Al-Qaeda, Taliban Recreating Afghanistan Inside Pakistan”
(October 1, 2007)

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http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2007/09/understanding-alqaedas-psy/

“Understanding Al-Qaeda’s Pakistan PSYOP and Insurgency
The Troubling Effectiveness of al-Qaeda’s PSYOP On The Pakistani Army”
By Steve Schippert
(September 25, 2007)

[Cindy]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071001/NATION/110010062/1001

“Terror database gets plenty of hits”
By Sara A. Carter
October 1, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Terrorist Screening Center has detected more than 40,000 people trying to gain entry into the U.S. who either associated with terrorist groups or were known terrorists themselves, and the database is only going to get better, says the agency’s chief.”

[Cindy]

OFF TOPIC - SPECIAL REQUEST:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/vetscor/1904740/posts

[Cindy]

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_928.html

Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

This information is current as of today, Mon Oct 01 2007 02:38:05 GMT-0700.

NIGERIA

January 19, 2007

[Cindy]

http://www.scroogle.org

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14369&Itemid=21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071001-02
October 1, 2007

Concerned local citizens turn in caches to Coalition Forces
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

PATROL BASE INCHON, Iraq — Concerned local citizens turned in two caches to Coalition Forces at Patrol Base Inchon Sept. 26.

Soldiers from Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., took the cache from the concerned citizens and inventoried the contents.

The first cache consisted of 13 bags of homemade explosives, which were tested positive for Styphnic Acid.

This follows a similar cache of 51 bags of HME that were turned in earlier in the day by concerned citizens to Soldiers of 4-31 Inf. Regt.

The second cache contained 28 projectiles and four 155mm artillery shells formed as improvised explosive devices, five rockets and a Raven unmanned aerial vehicle.

Coalition Forces took the serial number off the Raven to track it back to the unit and time in which it was lost in flight.

The caches were destroyed during several controlled detonations conducted by an explosive ordnance disposal team.

-30-

[Cindy]

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07090214.htm

Sunday, September 30, 2007
“Two Pastors And Church Believers Beaten Up By Hindu Radicals”

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “COORG, KARNATAKA, INDIA (ANS) — A 50 member group of Rashtriya Swayem Sevaks (RSS), a Hindu radical group, badly beaten up a pastor and church believers of the IPC Prayer center at Kodlipet in Coorg District, Karnataka State, during the Sunday worship service on September 30.
According to the news carried by Global Council of Indian Christians* (GCIC) on their website — www.persecution.in — at about 11.30 in the morning, about 50 Hindu radicals came to the church, shouting anti-Christian slogans. They entered the church and locked its back door and started thrashing the pastor and believers with rods and pipes.

Pastor Freddy, 34, the minister of the church and Pastor Benny, also 34, his colleague, were the ones who were leading the worship service in the church with about 50 believers.

Pastor Freddy, His Father Mr. Cherian (72 years), and Pastor Benny were beaten up badly and they have sustained serious head injuries. Both of them are being transported to Bangalore for better treatment. Two other believers were also injured in the attack.

Local municipal election poll results were declared this day and these radicals were celebrating their election victory. Pastor Freddy had been attacked earlier and was warned by the state police and intelligence agencies about a possible murder.”

[Cindy]

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07090218.htm

Sunday, September 30, 2007

“U.S. Report Highlights Christian Persecution in Burma”

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

BURMA

[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Mon Oct 01 2007 03:26:57 GMT-0700.

Worldwide Caution

April 10, 2007

[Godzilla]

note tagline

[drymans wife]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_go_ot/airports_toy_screening

TSA to scrutinize remote-controlled toys

By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer 33 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Airport screeners will be taking a closer look at remote control toys in carry-on luggage due to concerns they could be used to detonate bombs, U.S. officials said Monday.

The new practice is not a result of a specific threat, according to the Transportation Security Administration. But authorities recently arrested two Florida college students and accused one of them of posting a video online with instructions on how to use a remote-controlled toy to set off a bomb.

Passengers — including children — carrying these toys may have to go through secondary screening.

“While not associated with a specific threat at this time, TSA is aware that remote control toys can be used to initiate devices used in terrorist attacks,” according to Monday’s press release. “Transportation security officers have trained on this possibility and travelers may encounter additional screening when bringing remote control devices in carry-on luggage.”

[drymans wife]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_re_eu/austria_us_embassy_explosives Attack at US embassy in Vienna thwarted

By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer 20 minutes ago

VIENNA, Austria - A Bosnian who tried to enter the U.S. Embassy in Vienna with a backpack filled with explosives, nails and Islamic literature was arrested Monday after the bag set off a metal detector and the man fled on foot, authorities said.

Police sealed off the neighborhood as a precaution and shut down or rerouted nearby bus and tram lines. Officers patrolled the area with bomb-sniffing dogs.

The suspect was described only as a 42-year-old native of Bosnia-Herzegovina who now lives in the province of Lower Austria, which encircles most of the capital. Police said they made the arrest a short distance from the embassy building in a neighborhood where security is tight.

Vienna police spokeswoman Michaela Raz said explosives experts were examining the contents of the backpack.

“There were a lot of nails in that bag. Had it exploded, it would have had an enormous shrapnel effect,” said Doris Edelbacher, of Austria’s federal counterterrorism office.

The explosives resembled hand grenades, she told reporters, but that munitions experts were still working to determine whether the device had been properly rigged to explode.

The suspect spoke broken German and appeared to ramble during an initial interrogation, Edelbacher said.

It was unclear how far he made it into the embassy. Public broadcaster ORF, citing unidentified officials, reported that a metal detector sounded an alarm as the man was passing through security checks and that he fled immediately.

The nature of the Islamic material he allegedly was carrying also was unclear.

Embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Last month, authorities arrested three people — all Austrian citizens of Arab origin in their 20s — in connection with a video posted online in March that had threatened Austria and Germany with attacks if they did not withdraw their military personnel from Afghanistan.

One of the suspects was released several days later for lack of evidence.

On Friday, the Interior Ministry said it found a list of politicians circulating online as potential targets for attacks. The individuals were notified, but authorities said there were no indications that any of them were ever in danger.

[JellyJam]

Man Charged in Boston Airport Threat

By Associated Press

BOSTON - A man accused of telling an airline worker at Logan International Airport that he was a member of al-Qaida and planned to "blow up things" pleaded not guilty Monday.

Ermiyas Asfaw, 27, was charged with making a false communication of an explosive device. He appeared in district court and bail was set at $1,500.

[Oorang]

Chess anyone?

Silence in Syria, panic in Iran

Did A'jad predict Armageddon at the UN?

U.S. said mulling 'surgical' strikes on Revolutionary Guards in Iran

Assad says Syria reserves right to respond to attack

Israel Foreign Min Calls For Urgent UN Action Against Iran

[SlowBoat407]

Not chess, Mr. Spock...

Poker.

[Oorang]

Islamist uprising leader captured (Lebanon)
October 01, 2007

The military commander of Fatah al-Islam, which led a 15-week uprising against the Lebanese army this summer, has been captured in a northern refugee camp, a camp official said today.

"Nasser Ismail was captured by a (Palestinian) security force in the camp of Beddawi," Abu Ali Fares, a spokesman for Palestinian factions in the refugee camp said. "The force raided the house of a relative of Nasser Ismail and found him hiding in the attic with another person," Mr Fares said.

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22514919-23109,00.html

[Oorang]

Thanks for that update JJ.

[Cindy]

Thanks drymans wife.

I’ll add your post to this Goose Creek thread here:

ttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876505/posts

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876505/posts

[Cindy]

This is GREAT news — the bad guy caught and no injuries.

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ADDING links:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=usembassy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=embassy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=austria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=vienna

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jihad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=internet

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018334.php

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1904948/posts?page=26#26

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21082350

“Man with grenades arrested at U.S. Embassy
Austrian police say he’s a Bosnia native, had Islamic literature”
Updated: 8:27 a.m. PT Oct 1, 2007
VIENNA, Austria

26 posted on 10/01/2007 2:21:22 PM PDT by Cindy

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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/10/vienna_attack_foiled.php

“Austria: Attack on US Embassy in Vienna Foiled”
By Jeffrey Imm

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Three weeks after the arrest of suspected Jihadists in Austria, today the U.S. Embassy in Vienna foiled an apparent nail bomb attack by a 42 year old Bosnian man. The Bosnian man, who lives in Austria, was stopped with a backpack with hand grenades, nails, and Islamic literature as he tried to enter the U.S. Embassy in Vienna today. The Daily Telegraph reports that Doris Edelbacher, of Austria’s counterterrorism office stated “There were a lot of nails in that bag. Had it exploded, it would have had an enormous shrapnel effect”. The Bosnian man was detained after the metal detector stopped him and he attempted to flee, and the man is now being questioned.

Today’s apparent attempted nail bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Vienna is one of a series of disturbing Jihadist activity growing in Austria.”

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http://www.jihadwatch.org