Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread 5

CNN ^ | March 12, 2004

[thecabal]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- This week's deadly train bombings in Spain will not lead to a rise in the U.S. color-coded terror threat alert system, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said Friday.

"Based on the current intelligence, we have no specific indicators that terrorist groups are considering such an attack in the U.S. in the near term," said department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse.

[JustPiper]

I love his no-nonsense straight out country way of telling it like it is and his catch phrases and laughter, my goodness, he's as adorable as the Pillsbury Doughboy!

[TexKat]

Calls on PM to condemn killing

March 24, 2004 - 6:05AM

Australia's Muslim community has called on Prime Minister John Howard to join world leaders in condemning Israel's assassination of the spiritual leader of the Hamas terrorist group.

Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Dr Ameer Ali urged Mr Howard and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to express Australia's outrage to Israel.

The wheelchair-bound Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and seven others were killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike in Gaza.

Mr Downer says he regrets the use of targeted assassinations but endorses Israel's right to protect itself from terrorism.

"This government strongly supports Israel's right to defend itself from terrorism and Hamas is a terrorist organisation," he told parliament.

"This government does not support targeted assassinations, and I'm concerned that the killing of such a high-profile Palestinian leader would simply lead to further violence and the loss of innocent life."

Opposition Leader Mark Latham condemned the killing, saying it would not help achieve Middle East peace.

Mr Downer has urged Australians in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip to leave if they can.

[WestCoastGal]

"Mr Downer has urged Australians in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip to leave if they can. "

What are they doing there anyway??

[JustPiper]

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ALL that is Shep

[StillProud2BeFree]

I believe it is safe to assume that he does not like what happened. He doesn't sound too friendly, does he?

This appears to be a reprint of a statement issued by the Ezzedine Qassem Brigades, a division within Hamas:

BEGIN TRANSLATION

From the believing men who fulfilled what is promised by Allah, then from those who have met their death, and from those who waits, and that which is changing.

An issued military statement from Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades

You the Zionists killers, you granted our sheikh the martyrdom, and sudden death will find you in each city and a street

O the public of the Arab Nation and the Islamic nation who fight...
Our Palestinian citizens:

Today the Nazis target, the Zionists terrorists, killed our sheikh, our established leader the fighting, His Eminence Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, after he completed the dawn prayer in the mosque of the Islamic institute. What the Zionists started today represents the summit of collapse and failure, and they direct their envious missile fire to the chair of the crippled sheikh, Ahmed Yassin. Then they thought that they have killed him, and what the Zionists knew that the Muslims would return to them a height of destruction. Today Yassin will be avenged in each city and in each street and an alley, and will send to them sudden death after they granted him the martyrdom that his complete paralysis did not prevent his search for. Today the criminal Sharon issues the decision to kill of hundreds of Zionists in each street and each span the Zionists occupy, at a time our sheikh Aba Mohammad that we set into motion. We will pursue the Zionists everywhere that they hide, Aba Mohammad your martyred sons will soon know our answer. Then our leader and our teacher and our sheikh and our teacher and our symbol and a delight will congratulate the eyes of our hearts, O our sheikh. Palestine and the Islamic Nation will not miss it since it is implanted in each house and all street of believing men with strong strength, who carry your thoughts and follow your way.

Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades brings to the whole world an established Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and Moslem Brotherhood's in Palestine.

His Eminence Sheikh leader Ahmad Ismail Yasin (Aba Mohammad ), and its companions

We stress the following:

First : Whoever issued the decision for Sheikh Ahmad Yassin's assassination also made the decision for the killing of hundreds of Zionists .

Second: the Zionists did not complete this act this without the permission of the terrorist American administration and they should holds the responsibility for this crime.

Third: it will be returned to us that which the Zionists drove us from soon regardless of what they hear, God willing.

Fourth: the answer to Sheikh Ahmad Yassin's assassination will not limited to all fighting Palestinian people and their families, but will include all the Muslims in the Islamic world, all for them will have the honor of participating will be in the answer to this crime.

And they ask you when, the answer is “soon”

Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades

1/2/1425 AH 22/3/2004 AD

[all4one]

French Embassies Get Letter From Mysterious Group in Second Wave of Threats

By Pierre-Antoine Souchard Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 23, 2004

PARIS (AP) - Letters threatening terror attacks - similar to one addressed to France's prime minister - were received by French embassies in Muslim countries across the globe, officials said Tuesday.

The letters are signed by a previously unknown Islamic group identifying itself as "Servants of Allah the Powerful and Wise."

The letters, sent to two Paris newspapers and addressed to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, threatened terror attacks against France and French interests, saying the ban on Islamic headscarves in public schools made France an enemy of Islam.

French embassies in Muslim countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia received the same letter, the officials said. They were sent March 15 from a post office near the Louvre Museum in central Paris.

Authorities have taken the threat seriously. However, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has said the letters do not resemble typical messages by Islamic extremist groups, and authorities are looking into whether they could have been sent by an extreme-right group masquerading as Islamic militants.

Scientists at a laboratory in the northwest city of Nantes are studying the messages for traces of DNA, the officials said.

France's ban on headscarves and other religious apparel in the classroom - designed to uphold a tradition of secularism in schools - is seen by many in the Arab world as anti-Muslim. After being approved in parliament, the measure became law last week. It is to be enforced as of the new school year starting in September.

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[JustPiper]

Miss you Ma

[TexKat]

What are they doing there anyway??

That has always puzzled me WestCoastGal. Why any non-Israeli would want to be in that terroritory I'll never understand. Was'nt it there where American students were killed in a suicide bombing at a university .

[JustPiper]

Putin resurrects
Cold War threats
Presides over practice of Russian nuclear attack on U.S.

Posted: March 23, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37694


SEARCH FOR OSAMA
France says recent bin Laden location found
International troops discovered refuge on Afghan-Pakistani border

Posted: March 22, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37688

COMING TO AMERICA
Convoy of illegals tries to run down agents
Border officers stop 6 of 12 pickups, 165 aliens found in truck beds

Posted: March 22, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37687

[WestCoastGal]

Alert: Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz begin their opening statements at the 9/11 hearing!! I'll be off to work after that, BBL.

[JustPiper]

New Bin Laden Tape to be released
FOX

Posted on 03/23/2004 12:42:03 PM CST by dusty99994

will be released to the Arab media and will reference the recent fighting in Pakistan..just had a blip about it on dayside..then moved on

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103765/posts

[appalachian_dweller]

>> report on ABC radio that there was a bomb threat at the Pentagon <<

What's the latest on this? Anyone have any updated info?

[nw_arizona_granny]

piper and all,

I f you only knew how much I miss you, all of you.

If I hear one more argument about where we lived in 1950, i may go around the bend.

they don't understand a word I have said.

Now, in checking on the lost child story, it turns up that there was a damaged ammonia tank, story at this link, a church burning and a mill burning (unknowns).

and a Bush said that he was ready to go against OBL on 9-10 article.

I have only had stolen seconds on line, so didn't have time to read the articles as well as I should have, but this town is in N. Carolina and it was high on the subjects last week.

http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/news

Love and hugs,

Ruth

P.S. Yes, some good things came out of the visit, Ray worked on the electric and after a year, I can now use the stove and air cooler.

[knak]

Was it you looking for info about planets aligning?

Five Planets Offer Rare Stargazing Spectacle

happening for the next two weeks and won't again for thirty years.

[freeperfromnj]

I haven't seen or heard anything else since the 2:00 news on WABC radio. They mentioned that a man in a vehicle was being searched

[TexKat]

Alleged Qaeda Letter Threatens U.S. Over Yassin Assassination

Mon Mar 22, 2004 03:30 PM ET

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamist Web site published a statement Monday purporting to come from an al Qaeda-linked group vowing revenge on the United States and its allies over Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Shaikh Ahmed Yassin. "We tell Palestinians that Sheikh Yassin's blood was not spilled in vain and call on all legions of Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades to avenge him by attacking the tyrant of the age, America, and its allies," said the statement by Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades carried by the Al Ansar forum Web site.

It was also published by another Islamist Web site called Islammemo, which said the letter was received by email and sent to several Arab media outlets.

The group, which aligns itself to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, had claimed this month's train bombings in Spain. There was no means of verifying the statement.

"We tell fighters in Palestine, especially Hamas and Jihad, that your real enemy is the tyrant of the age, America, because Shaikh Yassin was killed by American money, weapons and political and media support," the statement said.

[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks. Seeing as how that was a couple of hours ago I guess it was another false alarm.

Please ping me if you hear anything else.

[freeperfromnj]

Will do.

[Cindy]

UBL tape?

Well, I check Aljazeera tonight.

Thanks JP.

[knak]

Israeli Navy Opens Fire Off Gaza Shore -Witnesses

Israeli naval gunboats opened fire off Gaza City's shore Tuesday, witnesses said.

The target of the attack, a day after Israel assassinated Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in Gaza, was not immediately known.

Palestinian security sources said there were no reports of injuries and that two Israeli warships and two helicopters were in the area.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment.