Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

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

[Revel]

February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding. The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.

[MamaDearest]

...included also is the last speech from Mulla Omar

If only we could be sure it was the very last speech from Mulla Omar! May God protect us all from the Mojahideen, OBL and Daleel. Thank you LOG2 for posting this.

[Calpernia]

;)

[Nemo1USA]

Remove my account.

For so many reasons, the last being the amount of replies associated to this the reply post.

I happen to support the military od The United States.

[MamaDearest]

...but airport screeners should be aware of the possibility.

Thanks for the alert - I forwarded your message to my airline contacts for their perusal.

[MamaDearest]

Oops - apolgize for double post.

[Calpernia]

CLICK!!!

[Selene]

Possible 9th sniper shooting on Monday

CHP boosts search for I-580 shooter
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86%257E10669%257E1990988,00.html?search=filter

[Revel]

What in the world are you talking about. The only reply to the post you refference is from you.

[Selene]

The LIVERMORE LAB GUY:


March 02, 2004 - 3:40:14 AM PST


Newark man home after being held
Terrorism charges untrue,

By Sandhya Somashekhar, STAFF WRITER

NEWARK -- As he lay blindfolded, gagged and shackled in a Philippine prison, deprived of food or a toilet, Jamil Daud Mujahid doubted he ever would return to the United States, he said.

Yet Monday afternoon, he played with his grandchildren at their Newark home, nearly two weeks after agreeing to be deported from the country that had held him on terrorism charges for more than two months.

"I'm still angry, because I've been hurt and it was for no reason," said Mujahid, 57, who arrived Saturday at San Francisco International Airport. "But it feels good to be back."

In mid-December, Mujahid and his brother, Michael Stubbs of Antioch, were arrested in the Philippines on suspicion of maintaining "constant contact and communication with known members of terrorist groups operating within the country," according to Mujahid's deportation papers.


Mujahid, born in the United States as James Stubbs, said he was in the Philippines visiting his wife of six years, a Filipina who was pregnant with his eighth child.

During the visit, however, he was arrested by Philippine government agents -- who swarmed his brother's home and virtually kidnapped him, he says -- and was charged with trying to raise money for mosques and schools through Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group associated with al-Qaida.

U.S. agents also investigated Stubbs' prior employment at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's nuclear weapons laboratory, where he worked as a heating and air-conditioning technician for 10 years.

Immigration officials since have said they have found no evidence that the brothers violated federal law, and FBI officials say there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by Stubbs while he worked at the lab.

FBI officials would not say whether they still are investigating the men.

Mujahid has maintained since his much-publicized arrest that he was innocent of the charges and has no ties with any terrorist groups. He believes he was targeted because he is a Muslim American, because he spent some time in Sudan and because he was a Black Panther and a civil rights activist in the 1960s.

Mujahid, who converted to Islam in 1971, went to Sudan to study Arabic and teach English, he said.

He does acknowledge that, on one of his trips to the Philippines, he agreed to help a man he met at a Friday prayer service to raise money in the United States for various agricultural, health and educational projects.

Nothing ever came of that request, Mujahid said.

After being bound and gagged for four days after his arrest, Mujahid said, he was moved to a dormitory-style detention facility with about 200 foreign nationals being held for various offenses, including drug dealing and murder.

There, food came in little baggies, most of which he refused, he said. The environment was "toxic," he said, with inmates suffering untreated from various illnesses.

He has lost a great deal of weight and has more gray hair now, said Jamil Stubbs, Mujahid's 30-year-old son.

"He's definitely aged," said Jamil Stubbs, who lives in Newark. "You can just see that he's been through a lot."

On Feb. 18, Mujahid signed a voluntary deportation order, an act he says was recommended by the U.S. embassy. On Friday morning, he said, he boarded a commercial air jet to Japan, then to San Francisco, escorted all the way by Japanese security officers.

Barred from returning to the Philippines, he is in the process of trying to bring his wife and their children to the United States.

He says he plans to sue the Philippine government.

"It feels good to be with my family and my grandkids, but I know I still have work to do and a story to tell," he said.

Staff writer Sandhya Somashekhar covers education for The Argus. She can be reached at (510) 353-7010 or ssomashekhar@angnewspapers.com .

http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~1990992,00.html

[knak]

I've been working on this stupid computer all day. It has driven me PLUM CRAZY! I still can't get to two sites I used to read all the time. They just quit on me. I keep getting "cannot find server" messages. Can everybody else get to Jill St. Clare's site? Or freedomwatchers.org? The last one was a site somone created from the daleel/eom yahoo board. But I can't get to it or Jill's for about 2 weeks now. Anyone else having trouble?

Gosh I'm so behind on the posts now! I'll never get caught up.

[rickylc]

How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web

One senior official said the authorities were grateful that Qaeda members were so loyal to Swisscom. Another official agreed: "They'd switch phones but use the same cards. The people were stupid enough to use the same cards all of the time. It was a very good thing for us."

hehehe!!! :)

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Jill's site is reachable for me right now.

[Revel]

Yes they are both up. Jill has done almost nothing on her site in the last week. You are not missing anything there. I was just thinking that you might want to check your hosts file and make sure there is nothing strange in there that is keeping you from getting to these sites. These sites should not be listed in your hosts file. I am not expert on hosts files, but I do know that much.

[knak]

tried that, thanks though, I've been to microsoft pretty much all day today trying different things.... I quit!

[Revel]

Try downloading NeoTrace and try running a trace on the websites you can't get to.

[thecabal]

Did Mommy not pay enough attention to you?

[texasbluebell]

Huh? What gives?

The only reply to your post was one you yourself made.

Or is that the problem?

Too bad, so sad. Toodle-ooo.

[thecabal]

Yeah, I think his point was that he's quitting because no one replied to one post. Real good reason. Of course, him implication is that none of us is as patriotic as him because we didn't reply to his article about the military.

That's pretty ironic coming from someone who comes off as a ESL speaker. Well, don't let the door hit you where Good Lord split you, Nemo.

[Selene]

Offending odor leads to Gold River evacuation

By Molly Dugan -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 5:33 p.m. PST Wednesday, March 3, 2004

A noxious odor forced the evacuation of about 50 people from an office building Wednesday morning. Four people were taken to the hospital and released, and 10 treated at the scene for nausea and headaches.
Hazardous materials teams could not find the cause of the smell, which some described as sulfur or rotten eggs, at the building on Tributary Point Drive near Hazel Avenue. Investigators ruled out poisonous gas and other hazardous materials.

Sacramento Metro Fire District spokesman Patrick Ellis said the smell may have come from outside the building, which houses several businesses. "We tested the building and we couldn't figure out what it was," he said.........

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/8396416p-9325867c.html

[cibco]

bttt