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.

[Velveeta]

This story is getting stranger by the minute...
Sean: Any idea what's going on here?
*****

Rescue mission for cave divers
From correspondents in Cuetzalan Del Progreso, Mexico
26mar04
RESCUE divers headed in to check on five British military cave divers and their civilian guide today even as Mexico was protesting against the divers' presence.

President Vicente Fox announced during a trip to Honduras that his government was sending "a protest and a demand for clarification from the English government. Why were those people there?"

Two British divers and members of a Mexican army diving team headed into the cave overnight. Officials said they would navigate through 100 metres of flooded tunnels to reach a dry area where the trapped explorers are holed up.

The cave divers' three-day underground tour stretched into a second week after rising water blocked the entrance to the Alpazat caverns they were exploring near Cuetzalan, a mountain town in the central state of Puebla, 180 kilometres north-east of Mexico City.

Stocked with provisions to last until the weekend and equipped with rock-penetrating radios, the explorers had earlier turned down help from Mexican rescuers.

Scores of heavily armed state policemen guarded the cave site overnight, keeping bystanders and most reporters far from the scene.

Local officials and news media said they were offended by the insistence on British rescuers and suspicious at why members of Britain's Combined Services - which encompasses the army, navy and air force - were exploring caves in Mexico.(snipped)

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9080753%255E1702,00.html

[freeperfromnj]

I've been following this story as well. I think there is something going on here. Wonder if it has anything to do with our discussions a couple of weeks ago about the operative who was supposedly almost across the border near Texas. I also wonder if this has anything to do with the refinery threat.

[thecabal]

Many thanks to the both of you. Revel, that was very kind of you to take the initiative to do this. You rock! :)

Much gratitude to Jim Robinson for the bandwidth and time to host the Threat Matrix logo. It is a great honor.

[Velveeta]

I was wondering the same things, as well as remembering the "cave of darkness" threat. We'll have to keep an eye on this.

[judicial meanz]

My take on that is gas is heavier than air, and it settled in low lying depression areas after a cold front come through.

My question is: Why are toxic gasses being emitted in such concentration to kill such a large animal?

Something isnt right there.

[Mossad1967]

This is from the page at
www.geocities.com/iraqire...urder.html

HAMAS STATEMENT

O Murderous Zionists, you have bestowed martyrdom upon our Sheikh, and we will bestow violent death upon you on every city and every street.

O masses of our Mujaheed and Islamic people, the sons of our Palestinian people:

The terrorist Zionist Nazis have targeted our founding leader His Eminence the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, after performing morning prayers at the Islamic Complex [Al-Mujamma al-Islami] Mosque.

What the Zionists have committed today illustrates the pinnacle of breakdown and failure.

By directing their rancorous rockets at the chair of the disabled Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, they thought they had killed him.

The Zionists did not know that millions of Muslims will go out to "visit with destruction all that fell into their power" [part of Koranic verse].

Today, Ahmed Yassin will come out from every city, street, and alley to grant them violent death, after they have granted him martyrdom, which total paralysis did not prevent him from seeking.

Today, the criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon has issued a death sentence for hundreds of Israelis on every street and every inch of land occupied by the Zionists.

We vow Sheikh Abu Muhammad [Ahmed Yassin] to continue our march, and pursue Zionists everywhere they hide.

Abu Muhammad, your martyrdom-seeking sons will inform you of their retaliation soon.

So rest in peace our leader, teacher, sheikh, instructor, icon, our joy, and our dearest.

O Sheikh, Palestine and the Islamic nation will not miss you because you have planted strong righteous men in every house and every street. They have carried your thought and marched on your path.

While announcing to the entire world the death of the founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Group in Palestine, His Eminence Leader Sheikh Ahmed Isma'il Yassin, also known as Abu-Muhammad, and his companions, Ezzedin al-Qassam Martyrs, stresses the following:

1. He who made the decision to assassinate Sheikh Ahmed Yassin has made a decision to kill hundreds of Zionists.

2. The Zionists did not take such a step without the approval of the terrorist US administration. Therefore, it should bear responsibility for this crime.

3. The Zionists will soon see, not hear, our response, God willing.

4. The response to the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin will not be made on the level of all the Palestinian people's mujahideen factions only, but all Muslims in the entire Muslim world will have the honor to respond to this crime.

They ask you when will that be, say: Maybe it will be quite soon [Koranic verse].

[jerseygirl]

I just got on the thread- any major updates? I had a most horrible dream last evening, regarding nuke attack.

[jerseygirl]

Just started checking, Quayle updated once again. When you get to his site, click on the Q, then scroll down.

I was just there, and I'm praying he is WRONG.

[jerseygirl]

I post Quayle's stuff as I suspect it's the "too sensitive" information NEIN won't post.

[jerseygirl]

Re: Pakistan. Who has the Paki nukes?

[jerseygirl]

Remember AQ said that they would be coming from a totally unanticipated location. Just a paranoid thought :)

[jerseygirl]

Same thoughts here. Dead divers/refineries-oil slicks- too many things coinciding at the same time.

My son says that in the Pittsburgh area, there has been an incident of "mystery virus" at another school. Suspected to be Norwalk virus. The comments he heard said the virus was rapidly spreading east.

[judicial meanz]

Last I heard, Pakistan still has all of their nuclear weapons in inventory.

None have been taken out as far as I know.

[judicial meanz]

Last I heard, Pakistan still has all of their nuclear weapons in inventory.

None have been taken out as far as I know.

[judicial meanz]

Last I heard, Pakistan still has all of their nuclear weapons in inventory.

None have been taken out as far as I know.

[jerseygirl]

Didn't we have some kind of "contingency plan" in place to quickly obtain control of the Paki nukes if the country starts to fall apart?

[freeperfromnj]

Do you have a link for Quayle's site?

[united1000]

http://www.stevequayle.com/

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks - I just checked it out and I'm almost sorry I asked. Lots of gloom and doom.