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.

[JustPiper]

Good find CoCo!

[JustPiper]

Don't you just love how often this is popping up lately?

[JustPiper]

what does a "Maldive" look like? -g- seriously though

[JustPiper]

-giggling-

[FairOpinion]

"Terrorists may use Pens filled with poison gases "


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It was very odd -- they had that as breaking news, then NOT a single mention of it anywhere afterwards. Fortunately others saw it too and said so.

It's as if they were warned that they shouldn't have released this news -- it was an FBI bulletin for law enforcement that FoxNews got ahold of.

I also never read another word about those 4 German bases closed down for 3 weeks on account of a virus.

I thought the dolphin story was kind of cute -- even the dolphins are helping in the War on Terror.

[JustPiper]

U.S., Europe at Odds on Strategy on Iran
Wed Mar 3
By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key European allies have rejected a U.S. push to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions due to its nuclear activities but Washington still hopes some sort of tough statement calling Tehran to task will be adopted next week, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Although the United States and its allies have expressed concern about Iran's nuclear pursuits, the issue is sowing new transatlantic divisions, with Washington demanding tougher action against the oil-rich Islamic republic than the Europeans are willing to consider.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040304/wl_nm/nuclear_usa_iran_dc_2

US seeking common stance towards Iran
Wed Mar 3
By Roula Khalaf and Stephen Fidler in London

Washington will not press next week to refer Iran to the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council at a meeting of the governing board of the UN's nuclear watchdog, in spite of Iran's failure last year to come clean on all aspects of its uranium enrichment programme.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ft/20040303/bs_ft/1077690871142

Iran halts pilgrimages to Iraq
Wed Mar 3

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran announced it had halted all pilgrimages to Shiite Muslim sites in Iraq (news - web sites), after scores of its nationals were killed or injured in bomb attacks in Karbala and amid US charges the attackers may have crossed from Iran
{{Looks like they got what they wanted, control!}}
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040303/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_blasts_iran_040303123024

IAEA chief ElBaradei hopes Iran has told the whole nuclear truth

LONDON (AFP) - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said that he hoped omissions by Iran in disclosing details of its nuclear program would be their last.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040303/wl_mideast_afp/iran_nuclear_iaea_040303005925

Iran Blames al-Qaida for Shiite Attacks
Tue Mar 2
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian vice president blamed al-Qaida for Tuesday's attacks on Shiite Muslims in Iraq (news - web sites) and Pakistan, condemning the terrorist group's rigid thinking for the bombings and shootings

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040302/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_bombings_reaction_2

US backs "notorious terrorists": Iran's Rafsanjani
Fri Feb 27

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani alleged that the United States was backing "notorious terrorists," after the United States criticized the Islamic Republic's human rights record

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040227/wl_mideast_afp/iran_us_rights_040227205225

Pakistan Threatened to Give Nukes to Iran
Fri Feb 27
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Pakistan warned the United States 14 years ago that it might give nuclear technology to Iran, but the administration of President Bush (news - web sites)'s father did little to follow up, former Pentagon (news - web sites) officials say.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040227/ap_on_re_as/us_pakistan_nuclear_2

Iran's top nuclear negotiator hopes for cooperation with India
Fri Feb 27,

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani said he hoped India's "positive cooperation" would continue with Tehran on its nuclear programme, currently under international scrutiny.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040227/wl_sthasia_afp/india_iran_nuclear_040227072733

[JustPiper]

Iranian defence minister slams US plan for Middle East
Fri Feb 27

BEIRUT (AFP) - Iran's Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani rejected Washington's plan to spread US-style democracy across the Middle East, saying it was a pretext to threaten his country, as well as Lebanon and Syria.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040227/wl_mideast_afp/lebanon_iran_us_reform_040227195659

ISRAEL FRENZY
Wed Mar 3

By William F. Buckley Jr.

It is being claimed, ever more widely, that neoconservative policies are determined by the advantages they bring, manifest or putative, to the state of Israel. Patrick Buchanan (news - web sites), in the current issue of American Conservative, believes this ardently, while the most quoted advocates of neocon militancy, Richard Perle and David Frum, go further than merely to deny that neoconservatism is an Israel First worldview. They insist that criticism of neocon policies is, at heart, anti-Semitic.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclicktext/20040304/cm_ucwb/israelfrenzy

Mild U.S. Reaction as Russia, Japan Pursue Iran
Thu Feb 19
By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As President Bush (news - web sites) pushes a global effort against proliferation, Russia and Japan have signaled plans for more cooperation with Iran, which the United States considers a growing nuclear threat

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040219/wl_nm/iran_usa_deals_dc_1

[JustPiper]

Mexico lobbies for alien amnesty

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Mexican government is lobbying U.S. lawmakers and civic leaders for amnesty or guest-worker status for millions of illegal aliens now in the United States, working through a coalition of U.S.-based immigration rights associations, Mexican-American organizations and grass-roots Hispanic groups.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040304-122246-4433r.htm

[JustPiper]

Breaking News Alert
BEIJING (AP) Chinese democracy activist Wang Youcai released from prison on medical parole, en route to United States, human rights activist says.
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Bomb threat targets French railway
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 Posted: 9:44 AM EST (1444 GMT)

A group says it has hidden bombs under seven or eight spots in the French rail network.

PARIS, France -- French officials say they have received letters threatening to bomb sections of the state railway unless an previously unknown group is paid millions of euros.

One letter from the group, which calls itself AZF, directed police to an explosive device under tracks in central France, officials said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/03/france.bombthreat/index.html

Death ship 'suicide bomber' riddle
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 Posted: 6:28 AM EST (1128 GMT)

The Super Ferry 14: Company would not comment on reports of threats

MARIVELES, Philippines (Reuters) -- Clutching photos and flowers, relatives of 134 people missing after a Philippine ferry fire visited the wreck Wednesday as officials said the passengers included a man named by rebels as a suicide bomber.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/03/philippines.ferry.reut/index.html

[JustPiper]

A cry for attention that was meant to be private? -g-

[JustPiper]

Someone else here posted the headline and also said they couldn't find nada on it, that means it is a real threat when there is no news -g-

[thecabal]

Hey Piper, how are things? I haven't chatted with you in a while.

[JustPiper]

Notes: Poisonings

Bulgarian secret police used a KGB-designed poison-pellet umbrella gun to kill dissident emigre Georgi Markov in 1978. KGB assassin Boris Stashinsky used a poison gas gun to kill exiled Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera in the late 1950s. Another KGB assassin, Nikolay Khokhlov, was poisoned by radioactive thallium in 1957 after refusing an assignment and defecting to the West

In looking for info on this pen thing:

Image from "The Ultimate Spy Book" by H.Keith Melton. © 1996 DK Publishing.

Assassination gun
This silenced weapon was designed to be folded in a newspaper and fired from that concealment. The effect of its silencer is heightened by the fact that it is designed to be fired while pressed against the victim's body.

The KGB built both conventional and gas-firing versions of this weapon, which is similar to concealed and silenced weapons built during World War II.

Image from "The Ultimate Spy Book" by H.Keith Melton. © 1996 DK Publishing.

Poison-pellet weapons
Designed by the KGB, the poison-pellet umbrella was used in the assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London. A jab with an umbrella at a bus stop -- easily dismissed as a meaningless accident -- delivered a pellet of ricin, a poison derived from castor-oil seeds. Markov was dead soon after.

Ricin is an extremely toxic poison; Scotland Yard estimated that only 425 micrograms of the poison killed Markov. It is also extremely difficult to detect in the bloodstream. Markov's assassination was detected only because the pellet carrying the ricin had not dissolved as expected.

The KGB also designed a pen-sized assassination weapon to deliver ricin pellets, one of a family of poison assassination pens that delivered gas or liquid poisons.

Cigarette case weapon
A cigarette case provided an excellent cover for this weapon, surrendered by KGB assassin Nikolai Khokhlov when he defected to West Germany in 1954. The device fired hollow-point bullets filled with poison through the false cigarettes at the opening of the case.

Khokhlov, sent to assassinate anti-Soviet emigre Georgi Sergeyvich Okolovich, defected rather than carry out his mission. Also in his possession were two miniature silenced pistols.

Suicide weapons
Throughout the Cold War, interrogation techniques reached ever-increasing heights of psychological, physiological and pharmaceutical sophistication. Despite the Hollywood fantasy of a heroic agent stoically refusing to answer questions under torture, it quickly became clear that no one could long withstand a technically skilled and ruthless interrogator.

Spies operating behind enemy lines might be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice and kill themselves to avoid giving up vital information or compromising the safety of fellow agents.

Suicide weapons, easily concealable and quickly lethal, were developed as a last resort should capture become inevitable. Fast-acting poisons that killed within seconds could be delivered in the form of a capsule, a glass ampule full of liquid poison, or a poison-tipped pin.

Suicide weapons are a less-than-perfect defense and are only as effective as the resolve of the operative; at the show trial of downed U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers, his poison pin was on display, debunking the U.S. claim that his was a weather flight.

Here are some links related to intelligence services and security services around the world. Some of them are very valuable resources for those interested in information warfare

[JustPiper]

Things are there cabal, thanks for asking. I've slowed myself down alot, devoting myself just to this thread...how you been?

[JustPiper]

Another great and interesting link!

http://www.sjwar.org/731/731.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

Piper,

There was something on the poison gas pen a week or two ago, but I am not sure where I read it, maybe on Sean's site.

I took the time to go to the Nuc News home-site and discovered it is a full commie supporting site, so feel much better about stealing their links........LOL..

Our local radio news, never gives us real info on breaking news. This plant is only about 125 miles from me. From some of the troubles that are in the report, it makes me wonder if a terrorist is busy there.

Third incident in a month, Palo Verde Nuke Plant Shutters on Wednesday.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nucnews/message/14820

Note that there are a bunch of new posts there, covering lots of different countries.

Energy Dept, says it can't account for 14,000 kilograms of highly enriched uranium that it shared with 33 nations in the past 50 years.

http://www.energy-net.org/is/en/nuke/doe/FED/04302164.TXT

[JustPiper]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I was waiting for you to wash me. And look at what happened. Who will wash me now?"
MULKHIA DHAKHEL, preparing a daughter's body for burial after a bombing in Iraq.

[JustPiper]

10,000 hunt for French rail bombs
Thursday, March 4, 2004 Posted: 4:07 AM EST (0907 GMT)

The group says it has hidden several bombs under French rail tracks.

PARIS, France -- Thousands of French rail workers are searching the network for bombs after a group threatened attacks unless it was paid millions of euros.

A letter from the previously unknown group, which calls itself AZF, has already directed police to an explosive device under tracks in central France, officials said.

Fearing more bombs may be hidden, the state rail company SNCF has sent nearly 10,000 maintenance workers to inspect its some 32,000 km (20,000 miles) of track on foot.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/04/france.bombthreat/index.html

[JustPiper]

Official Tells of Investigation Into Mad Cow Discrepancies
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Published: March 4, 2004

The government has begun a criminal investigation into whether documents were falsified in the lone case of mad cow disease found in the United States, the Agriculture Department's inspector general said yesterday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/politics/04COW.html?th

[JustPiper]

Thanks Ma! I meant to check nukenews for the pen story!
Reading the site now ;)