Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

NEWS - RECAP - UPDATES:

TEXAS...DFW.com - STAR-TELEGRAM: "MOTORIST SHOT AFTER ARGUMENT, POLICE SAY" by Dave Ferman (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police are also investigating two other reports of vehicular damage involving a firearm Saturday morning. Jason Connover, 28, of Garland was traveling west on Interstate 635 near Texas 121 about 5:15 a.m. when shots damaged both of his vehicle's front windows. He was not injured. About 6 a.m., Brendia Taylor, 53, of Keller was traveling south on Texas 121 near Texas 360 when she heard something hit her vehicle. She arrived at her job in Fort Worth and discovered a bullet hole in the rear driver's-side door of her Dodge Durango. She was not injured. Police have not established whether the three incidents are connected, but they were continuing to interview witnesses in the Plummer shooting Saturday afternoon, Dearing said." (February 28, 2004) (Read More...)

DAILY HERALD.com: "HOMEMADE BOMB EXPLODES IN NAPERVILLE PARK" by Beth Sneller (February 29, 2004) (Read More...)

FOX NEWS.com: "EXPERTS WARN ABOUT SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE THREAT" by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (February 29, 2004) (Read More...)

HERALD TRIBUNE.com (AP): Austin, Texas - "SAN DIEGO-BOUND SOUTHWEST FLIGHT DIVERTED AFTER THREAT"

STARBULLETIN - HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN: "MAN DRIVES SUV INTO KAHULUI AIRPORT, SETS VEHICLE ABLAZE Outgoing Flights Canceled for Much of Today" (February 29, 2004) (Read More...)

THE HAWAII CHANNE.com - KITV 4 NEWS: "DIVER SIGHTING NEAR COAST GUARD STATION RAISES CONCERN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""A man in a black diving suit come out from that area, like coming up off the shoreline, walk by that bathroom, cut across, and going towards the waterline," Laurie Johansen said. "He had some kind of a box in left hand, or right hand, cause he was facing this way." She said the black box measured about 15 inches high and maybe two feet in length. He was also carrying what looked like a fishing spear. "You could tell he was slowing down looking around, but he had one of those masks across his face, so you couldn't see his face and he had the gear over his head already, completely in black with gloves," Johansen said.") (February 29, 2004) (Read More...)

SUN-SENTINEL.com - South Florida's Latest News: "POLICE SEEK PUBLIC'S HELP TO ID DIVER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An autopsy revealed the man may have died under suspicious circumstances, but police would not elaborate.") (February 26, 2004) (Read More...)

HONOLULU ADVERTISER.com: "SIGHTING OF DIVER IN HARBOR PROMPTS INVESTIGATION" by Rod Ohira (February 24, 2004) (Read More...)

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN.com: "DIVER IN WATER PROMPTS WIDESPREAD SEARCH" (February 24, 2004) (Read More...)

CDNN.info: "SCUBA DIVER FOUND DEAD IN HUDSON RIVER" by Michael Randall (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEWBURGH, New York (24 Feb 2004) -- Here's a mystery that would challenge even Sherlock Holmes. A man's body is found floating in the Hudson River. He's wearing a diving mask and scuba gear. But it's February, a time of year in the Northeast when only members of the Polar Bear Club – or actual polar bears – are likely to venture into the water. That's the mystery that federal and local investigators were still trying to solve yesterday afternoon. The man's body was first spotted Sunday morning by the crew of a Cyprus-based ship that had just delivered a load of coal to Dynegy's Danskammer power plant.") (February 24, 2004) (Read More...)

stepping back in time...FBI.gov - Congressional Statement: "Statement for the Record of James F. Jarboe Special Agent in Charge, Tampa Field Office Federal Bureau of Investigation on Homeland Security: Facilitating and Securing Seaports Before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security,Veterans Affairs and International Relations Washington, D.C." (August 5, 2002) (Read Entire Text Here.)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an LA TIMES article: "FEARS PERSIST OF TERRORISM LINKS AT SCUBA SCHOOL Few Answers Appear in the Probe of Students in Netherlands Suspected of Ties to Al Qaeda" (July 31, 2003) (Read More...)

WHITEHOUSE.gov - News - Offfice of the Press Secretary: "Expanding the Scope of the National Emergency and Invocation of Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels Into Cuban Territorial Waters By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation" (February 26, 2004) (Read Entire Text Here.)

THESTAR.com - THE TORONTO STAR (AP): "STOLEN BLANK PASSPORTS ALARM INTERPOL Hundreds of Thousands are in Circulation, Agency says" (February 27, 2004) (Read More...)

WTOP.com (AP): "TANKER EXPLODES OFF VA.; AT LEAST 3 DIE" (February 29, 2004) (Read More...)

KVIA.com - ABC7: "THIRD UNION PACIFIC TRAIN ACCIDENT IN SIX DAYS" (February 26, 2004) (Read More...)

FBI.gov: "SEEKING INFORMATION Erie, Pennsylvania Bank Robbery"

WTOP.com (AP): "CALLS TO ARSON TIP LINE JUMP AFTER PHOTO" by Derrill Holly (February 19, 2004) (Read More...)

FBI.gov - War On Terrorism: "SEEKING INFORMATION" (Read More...)

FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS" (Read More...)

WorldNetDaily.com - Geostrategy-Direct Intelligence Brief: "IRAN CAN PRODUCE NUKE WARHEAD IN DAYS Cleric-Led Regime Covertly Developed Uranium Enrichment Facilities" (February 28, 2004) (Read More...)

WorldNetDaily.com: "9 IRAQI SCIENTISTS MURDERED IN PAST 4 MONTHS U.S. Believes Killings Effort to Conceal Scope of Iraq's Nuke Program" (February 26, 2004) (Read More...)

PAK TRIBUNE.com: "TALIBAN LURCHES BACK TO POWER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "KABUL, March 01 (Online): A convoy of about 20 Honda motorcycles surrounds a house, looking for people who support the United States or President Hamid Karzai. If they find one, they kill him. If not, the householders are beaten to serve as a warning to others. In the village of Shah Joy, about 300 kilometres southwest of Kabul, the return of the Taliban has been swift and harsh, as it is in about one-third of Afghanistan's southern regions where the ousted regime has regrouped and is widely thought to be preparing for a spring offensive against the Karzai government and its U.S. allies.") (March 1, 2004) (Read More...)

On The Net..."muslimtahai.com/talibanonline/text/taliban"

JIHAD WATCH.org (Read More...)

AFTENPOSTEN.no - Search Term: "KREKAR" (Mullah Krekar) (Read More...)

Nukes in the states don't make sense to me...why would terrorist use planes or smaller attacks, which I believe was attempted earlier this year, only to be out done by nukes...it seems to be a waste of time to plan small attacks only to clean them up with a nuke...

i still say its to retrieve drugs stashes.

I can't speak for Hawaii or Hollywood, FL, but I do know the Hudson River Valley like the back of my hand. I guarantee you that there are literally thousands of places to stash drugs, which would never be found unless you knew where to look, and you wouldn't have to risk your life to do it.

I'll take a SWAG at that tmp02. This is not my opinion, but others have a strong conviction that AQ and related terrorist groups are simply "front" organizations for a larger, much more malicious state(s) sponsorship. These individuals argue that by staging numerous "small scale" attacks over an extended period of time by AQ and related groups "we" (i.e. general population, government ) will be convinced that when the big blow(s) comes, there will be no question in our minds as to who carried it out. At that point how do we respond? Who can we go after if in fact there is no apparent country or government behind it?

Syria and Iran sign military pact. DEBKAfile Reveals: Iran promises transfer of advanced Shihab-3 technology and additional investment in Syria’s long range missile and artillery industry. More....

I'd like to add, if we get Bin Laden AND Nuclear weapons are detontated in the CONUS, who do we Blame? Who would we retaliate against? We already have troops everywhere.

Got any more news or a link on that possible sniper in DFW area, Indie? Haven't seen anything on local news today. (I live close to Grapevine.)

In addition to my SWAG in post #1804, I offer the following quote and it's source:

From Russia With Terror- An interview with Ion Mihai Pacepa, former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage service:

"Pacepa: In the early 1970s, the Kremlin established a “socialist division of labor” for persuading the governments of Iraq and Libya to join the terrorist war against the US. KGB chairman Yury Andropov (who would later become the leader of the Soviet Union), told me that either of those two countries could inflict more damage on the Americans than could the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof group and all other terrorist organizations taken together. The governments of those Arab countries, Andropov explained, not only had inexhaustible financial resources (read: oil), but they also had huge intelligence services that were being run by “our razvedka advisers” and could extend their tentacles to every corner of the earth. There was one major danger, though: by raising terrorism to the state level we risked American reprisal. Washington would never dispatch its airplanes and rockets to exterminate the Baader-Meinhof, but it might well deploy them to destroy a terrorist state. We therefore were also tasked to provide those countries secretly with weapons of mass destruction, because Andropov concluded that the Yankees would never attack a country that could retaliate with such deadly weapons."

A good read.

If a larger organization is putting this whole thing together, what is the final goal?...everyone killing everyone else?

Sorry for the double click........Is it 'who can take over the world'? or who can take home the biggest prize? That seems so futile.

Do I have to answer you twice? JK :>)

I can only speculate as I have indicated that this is not my opinion but that of others. I suggest you do some research on this and form your own opinion, Suffice it to say that those who subscribe to the notion that state sponsorship is, at least in part, pulling the strings of these terrorist groups, believe that the ultimate goal is obviously our downfall. The end of the West, so to speak, as a global power.

This is "Baghdad Bob, signing off."

More nonsense on stilts. These scenarios where countries from the eleventh century take down the entire Western World are just BS

There are no known or confirmed terrosit "nukes" in the United States. My info is SOLID.

>>>>Everything I heard today indicated we are in control, that he was forced to leave by gunpoint? Not looking like we're the good guys on this one Cal.

I know JP. But the timing is what catches my attention. All of that foreign aid (and our aid) money that Clinton enabled....I just keep thinking of the Blackmarket Nuke trail we recently uncovered.

If it was just the Haitian Civil Relations, I'm sure we would have followed up on that at a more convenient time. JMO.

That is not good :(

I wonder if they will ever reopen the TWA investigation.

To shift the world power.

That is a quote from a WTO conference.

Why would you think that when the countries in question have stated that is there purpose in WTO meetings?

The Emperor has no clothes. :>)