Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

New York Post ^ | February 24, 2004 | By NILES LATHEM

[knak]

here you go:

Second Suspicious Diver in Harbor
Dateline: February 29, 2004 - Angela Keen

(KGMB) Keehi Lagoon : For a second time in a week, a suspicious diver in Honolulu Harbor triggered a Homeland Security Alert. We talked to some of the people who were in the middle of it all.

People who live on boats in and around Keehi Lagoon and La Mariana Sailboat Club saw quite a commotion last Saturday night around 10:30pm. They say they saw Coast Guard choppers hovering extremely low, looking for something or someone.

"We saw the Coast Guard chopper just breeze the top of the masts and the top of the posts. They were really low and there were double search lights going on and they were looking in the water,” La Mariana resident Mike Nakamura said.

Tim McRobert explained, "It woke me up but no it didn't bother me.” McRobert was around when the Coast Guard searched 4 days ago after a report of an unauthorized diver near a Coast Guard Cutter. McRobert said, "And then during all that time the coast guard helicopters just went back and forth and that lasted for about 2 and a half hours and then they just left.”

He said they even searched his neighbor's boat but owner Nakamoto said he doesn't have diving equipment. "They were looking for a diver I have no diving equipment I don't have a padi license either so,” Nakamoto said.

Nakamoto said one of his neighbors spotted the mysterious diver but search crews couldn't find him. He added, "From what we hear the diver actually hid under the grey-masted boat. And a lady saw him and the guy kept waving his hand cause he was hanging on to the mooring ball.”

People who live in the La Mariana pier are glad the Coast Guard is being diligent and they welcome the extra security. "Honolulu Police will come out but they don't have any jurisdiction so nobody is policing the area,” McRobert said. “So there's a lot of ice dealing, ice using, and even making it on the boats.”

The Coast Guard isn't talking about the situation just yet, that's because it involves Homeland Security. However, authorities are encouraging mariners to report any suspicious activity in and around the ports and waterways.

[knak]

It's not much info, but then there's not much out there

[Indie]

FYI--NOw there is a sniper in Grapevine TX [near DFW airport]..has shot 3 vehicles and wounded one woman in abdomen. Looks like a large caliber weapon from the holes in the cars.

[Calpernia]

If the talks of the nukes are true, they are suppose to be here already.

Those nukes they wouldn't be able to get inside of Israel.

The Muslims don't want to blow up Israel, they want to inhabit it.

Iran and pakistan have nukes they can use on Israel if they change their minds. So they don't have to plant nukes in Israel.

[Velveeta]

"From what we hear the diver actually hid under the grey-masted boat. And a lady saw him and the guy kept waving his hand cause he was hanging on to the mooring ball.”

Now we know, that according to a witness, he was hiding.....

[MamaDearest]

Just Piper where are you?

[Calpernia]

Are we speaking of the agreement that Roosevelt made? The concession agreement?

And as for CIA/State payoffs....That all got flushed with the Clinton Enron stupidity that started this memorable war on terror.

1992
Enron sent a group of officials to New Delhi to make arrangements to survey the land around Dabhol for the purpose of building a large power plant.
Enron and the government of the state of Maharashtra signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to build the plant. This led to formation of the Dabhol Power Company (DPC), a joint venture of Enron and two other American corporations, General Electric and Bechtel.

1993
A formal agreement was signed for a plant that could generate about 2450 megawatts at an approximate cost of $3 billion.
Heinz Vergin, World Bank manager for India, rejects Enron's loan application, saying that the Dabhol plant is "not economically viable."
The Central Electricity Authority in New Delhi gave provisional clearance to the project. It was the largest single foreign investment in India.

1994
The Washington-based Export-Import Bank approved a $302 million loan toward a $3 billion Enron-controlled power plant in India. President Clinton took an interest in the deal, asking the U.S. ambassador to that country and his former chief of staff, Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, then a presidential adviser, to monitor the proposal.

1995
Clinton administration's cabinet members, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, personally urged India to accept Enron's proposed project.
Indian Prime Minister Rao and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati discussed a routing alternatives for a natural gas pipeline, including one which would run through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

1996
"Mack" McLarty, who later became a paid Enron director, spoke with Ken Lay on several occasions about the plant. Four days before India granted approval for Enron's project, the Houston-based firm contributed $100,000 to the Democratic Party.

1996
Enron signed a contract giving it rights to explore 11 gas fields in Uzbekistan, a project costing $1.3 billion. The goal was to sell gas to the Russian markets, and link to Unocal's southern export pipeline crossing Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.

1996
Enron and the state government of Maharashtra reached a new agreement that would shift some of the construction costs and lower the electricity tariffs.

1997
As an advisor for Unocal, Zalmay Khalilzad drew up a risk analysis of a proposed gas pipeline from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan across Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. He participated in talks and social meetings between Unocal and Taliban officials in 1997.

1997
Police stormed the homes of several women in western India who had led a massive protest against Enron's new natural-gas plant near their fishing village. According to Amnesty International, the women were dragged from their homes and beaten by officers paid by Enron.
Enron International's CEO Rebecca Mark unveiled an energy plan that included a $300 million project to build a pipeline from Dabhol to Hazira and to the North to add 1200 km of complimentary pipeline system to the existing HBJ pipeline at a cost of $900 million.
Unocal invited a Taliban contingency to visit them in Houston, Texas, housed them in five-star hotels, dined them at the home of Unocal VP and medically treated the former foreign minister, Mullah Mohammed Ghaus before he returned home.

1998
Testimony of John J Maresca, vice-president, international relations, Unocal Corporation was heard by the House Committee on International Relations and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific regarding "a proposed extension (of the proposed trans-Caspian pipeline) would link with the SUI pipeline system, moving gas to near New Delhi, where it would connect with the existing HBJ pipeline..."
In a speech to the "Collateral Damage Conference" of the Cato Institute, Cheney said, "the good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is."
The Department of State is pleased that Turkmen Minister of Oil and Gas Arazov announced Turkmenistan's selection of the U.S. company Enron to carry out a feasibility study funded by the Trade and Development Agency for a trans-Caspian gas pipeline.
U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles target Kandahar Afghanistan and sites believed to be Osama bin Laden's training camps. Shortly after, the UN imposes sanctions on Afghanistan that isolate the nation.

1999
Human Rights Watch released a report that indicated human right violations had occurred as a result of opposition to the Dabhol Power project. Beginning in late 1996 and continuing throughout 1997, leading Indian environmental activists and representatives of villagers' organizations in the affected area organized to oppose the project and, as a direct result of their opposition, were subjected to beatings, repeated short-term detention and were not paid.
Joint agreement signed by Turkmenistan and two American companies, Bechtel and GE Capital Services to build a $2.5 billion trans-Caspian pipeline, after Enron conducted a feasibility study.
Enron purchased 5.1 percent of the company that operates the country's sole long-distance gas pipeline, which runs from the offshore gas fields in the Bombay High area to the country's capital, New Delhi.

2000
Maharashtra government allies demand scrapping the project because of the cost of the power it produces.

[Calpernia]

From DoctorZIn's Live Iranian Aler thread

Iran Can Produce Nuke Warhead in Days

February 28, 2004
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily.com

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1087255/posts?page=39#39

[Calpernia]

From Freeper BlackVeil

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088137/posts

Israeli kidnapped by Hezbollah admits link to drug deal in Dubai: reports

JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli businessman freed by Hezbollah admitted he went to Dubai to conduct a drug deal when he was kidnapped in the Gulf Arab emirate by Lebanon's radical Shiite militia, newspapers reported. During interrogation by Israeli security services, Elhanan Tannenbaum confessed to having travelled to Dubai for a deal set up by his former business partner Qais Obeid, an Arab Israeli who has taken refuge in Lebanon and is thought to be a Hezbollah agent, the Haaretz and Maariv dailies said.

[JustPiper]

Seems to be an obvious connection between the two to me also

[Calpernia]

Found that California article I was thinking of:

http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/4485500p-4524505c.html

Prosecutor: San Diego agency leader accepted money from group linked to terror

By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer

Posted: Tuesday January 27th, 2004, 7:40 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday January 28th, 2004, 2:50 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The head of a San Diego relief agency that accepted more than $350,000 from a charity suspecting of funneling money to al-Qaida also personally received thousands of dollars from the Saudi government, a prosecutor said.
Omar Abdi Mohammed, the president of the Western Somali Relief Agency, was paid monthly by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs and traveled frequently to both Saudi Arabia and Australia, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parmley said in court.

The prosecutor made the allegations during a lengthy hearing in U.S. District Court on Tuesday to determine whether bail should be set for Mohammed. Magistrate Judge Louisa Porter said she was not prepared to make a ruling and continued the hearing until Feb 3.

Mohammed, 41, a Somali refugee who is a permanent legal U.S. resident, pleaded innocent Friday to two counts of lying to an U.S. immigration officer about receiving $351,036 from the Global Relief Foundation. President Bush has designated the Bridgeview, Ill.-based foundation, as a suspected fund-raiser for terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

Defense attorney Joan Bader did not address the Global Relief money. She said the money from Saudi Arabia was intended to support her client's work in the community, where he has taught the Quran and educated children about the dangers of gangs and drugs. Saudi Arabia also paid for what she called his family visits overseas.

Mohammed earns $800 a month as a part-time teacher's aide at a San Diego elementary school. He has no criminal record.

"There are hints and allegations of al-Qaida here, which would suggest violence, but we don't have any link," Bader told the judge.

For three hours, more that 100 members of the tight-knit Somali community, including Mohammed's six children, packed the small courtroom and waited in the hallway until late afternoon when the case was called last. Five community members offered money for bail, Bader said.

Parmley asked the judge to detain Mohammed without bond, saying his frequent travel and access to vast sums of money raised concerns that he was a flight risk. Mohammed is being held in a segregation unit at a federal jail in San Diego.

"Unless there is something to hold the defendant here, he's not going to be here," he said.

Parmley said more than $300,000 sent to the Western Somali Relief Agency between 1998 and 2001 by Global Relief was relayed overseas by Dahab Shil, part of an informal, international system of money transfers known as hawala "never to be seen again." The rest of the Global Relief money, about $40,000, wound up in Mohammed's pocket, the prosecutor said.

Mohammed also received $1,750 a month from the Saudi government plus an annual $5,000 housing stipend, Bader said. Payments from the Saudi government have totaled more than $100,000, according to Parmley.

Over the past three years, Mohammed has traveled once to Africa, twice to Saudi Arabia and made four trips to Australia, where he has a second wife, Parmley said.

The prosecutor also said that Mohammed's past contacts with the U.S. government have been "rife with fraud." He entered the United States in 1995 as a religious worker with a job teaching Arabic at a local mosque, Parmley said. But Mohammed showed up for work only one day and was never seen again.

[JustPiper]

Anyone else think sending our troops to Haiti is a mistake?

[Myrddin]

Recall that Sean's original post cited that the devices were distributed in blocks of 5 in 7 or 8 cities. I wonder if these assclowns understand the concept of fratricide. The first device could destroy the others if they are too close. Calculating "too close" requires information they probably don't have.

[Calpernia]

No!

Clinton had arrange for Aristide to receive over $500 million in aid from EU and the US after he propped that brutal dictator up.

Now you know that we just got a trail on the Pakistani Blackmarket of Khans.

There has been nothing reported saying Haiti had any illegal weaponery.

But the timing of our ousting Aristide makes you wonder why we pounced on them now.

[Myrddin]

Anyone else think sending our troops to Haiti is a mistake?

Clinton did it 10 years ago. It's small place. The rebels wanted Aristide out. I don't think they have any serious intent or capability to engage the U.S. military.

[JustPiper]

"there's no reason to believe there's a terrorism nexus," said Pam McCullough, a spokeswoman for the FBI

Sure OK Pam

[Cindy]

TALIBAN online
http://www.muslimthai.com/talibanonline/text/taliban/

[JustPiper]

Wouldn't we know by now, isn't Israel several hours ahead?

[JustPiper]

The Coast Guard isn't talking about the situation just yet, that's because it involves Homeland Security. However, authorities are encouraging mariners to report any suspicious activity in and around the ports and waterways.

To report suspicious activity you can call the local Coast Guard Command at 541-2450, the National Response Center at
1-800-424-8802 or you can also dial 911.

Doh!

[JustPiper]

I'm here sweetie, thanks, just sleeping more than awake ;)