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.

[Calpernia]

Bump!

[WestCoastGal]

We probably need to go back through what we've come up with so far. It seems as though the most important clue are the audio messages sent by Zawahiri. This article is from November but is pertinent now based on the attack in Spain. I don't know if they could hit us with 10 bombs like that without being detected by someone. But, never say never.

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HOMELAND INSECURITY
Al-Qaida terrorists
to gas U.S. subways?
DHS memo warns of device that uses cyanide to asphyxiate its victims

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Posted: November 25, 2003
9:00 p.m. Eastern


By Paul Sperry
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily.

"Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland," says the internal warning. "Terrorists have designed a crude chemical dispersal device fabricated from commonly available materials, which is designed to asphyxiate its victims."

Marked "For Official Use Only," the five-page memo issued Friday says the device produces cyanogen chloride gas and hydrogen cyanide gas, and can be placed near air intakes or ventilation systems in crowded open spaces or enclosed spaces.

"These gases are most effective when released in confined spaces such as subways, buildings or other crowded indoor facilities," adds the Homeland Security memo, which was distributed to federal agencies in anticipation of possible al-Qaida attacks around the end of the Muslim holiday Ramadan, which happens to coincide with Thanksgiving and the start of the regular holiday season.

Citing "recent information" from al-Qaida sources, the directive also warns of possible car-bombings in America, as first reported yesterday by WorldNetDaily, and advises security officials to take code-red protective measures to guard government buildings and gas and other chemical plants.

"Al-Qaida continues to plan attacks against U.S. targets," the memo asserts.

Despite the high-threat measures, the administration has decided to keep the public terror-threat alert at yellow, or elevated. Phone calls to Homeland Security were not returned.

Experts in chemical weapons say al-Qaida is known to have sought a weapon to pump cyanide gas into ventilation systems.

"Al-Qaida has shown an interest in cyanide as a weapon," said Amy Sands, former deputy director of nonproliferation studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.

She cites Ahmed Ressam, the terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations. He claims to have been trained to kill people with cyanide at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan.

"His terrorist masters also taught him how to introduce cyanide gas into public ventilation systems in order to affect the maximum number of victims, while minimizing the risk to the perpetrator," Sands said.

She also points to the nine al-Qaida-tied Moroccans arrested last year in Rome. They allegedly were planning to poison the water supply of the U.S. embassy with potassium ferrocyanide.

"Al-Qaida has shown a continued interest in targeting subways, rail systems, dams and water facilities" in America, the Homeland Security memo warns.

Noting the recent "sophisticated" car-bombings in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, it adds that the terror group may use "novel methods" to pull off such attacks in America, including disguising suicide bombers as women.

"Male bombers may dress as females in order to discourage scrutiny," the federal memo warns.

[null and void]

Hmmm, yes. A "Kill the Carnivores" campaign.

Wear predator fur and save the herd...

[thecabal]

Hey, I said "please", didn't I?

Fine, don't post! :)

[null and void]

FWIW, Cyanide gas really does smell like bitter almonds...

[rickylc]

So, following the supporters of the great satan theme, London would be the next logical target. Would they mess with eastern European countries? Poland would be the other major US European supporter, then Japan and Australia.

It just keeps flashing back to me that if they want to actually DO anything, it's going to have to be a lot of very rapid attacks. It's going to have to be big attacks that can't be recovered from.

I grieve with our Spanish friends and am outreged by the atrocity, but the attack has really done nothing other than turn sentiment against AQ across Europe.

That's what's crazy to me. All they seem to be doing by all these attacks, including 9/11 is assuring their own destruction.

[little jeremiah]

I just read here. I know my limits. ;^)

(I do the Homosexual Agenda ping list, we all have our specialties. You guys know about the terrorists trying to destroy civilization from without through weaponry, then there's the psychopaths trying to destroy from within through judicial oligarchy and enforced deviancy!)

[null and void]

My guess is the highest immediate threat is in areas that were once under islamist (Ottoman) rule.

We are still target #1 in the long run.

Second tier targets would be countries that joined us in Iraq, probably in either order of joining, reverse order of joining, or by number of troops deployed.

This is making the huge assumption that there is still central control, otherwise it's as each severed hydra head gets it's shiite together...

[null and void]

That's what's crazy to me. All they seem to be doing by all these attacks, including 9/11 is assuring their own destruction.

From their viewpoint, everything they can do to promote violence against their fellow møøselimbs is a plus.

It increases their pool of warriors to draw from.
It hastens the day the whole world is møøselimb.

They sincerely believe with all that's left of their hearts and souls that God is on their side, and that they CANNOT lose.

[Revel]

Quite a picture:


More than eight million people took to Spain's streets...

Article

[rickylc]

That's what I mean, if they do these piece by piece attacks all over Europe, and where ever else, it will very quickly become difficult to walk to the grocery store if your a muslim, there won't be a mosque left standing anywhere.

Here's a really entertaining thought, put Kerry and his wife at one end of that mob wearing their asses of evil pins and make them walk through it. Think they would make it to the other end?

[FairOpinion]

Extremely High Uranium Levels Found in Groundwater at Nevada Mine
The Associated Press
Published: Mar 12, 2004

RENO, Nev. (AP) - New tests show extremely high levels of uranium in groundwater beneath an abandoned copper mine in northern Nevada, and federal regulators say more tests are needed to determine if nearby wells could be contaminated.
The Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to provide bottled water to at least 10 households with wells near the mine even though most private wells and all of the municipal wells met U.S. drinking water standards in the latest round of tests. The company is responsible for cleaning up the 3,500-acre former Anaconda mine site that has been mined since 1953.

Tests conducted in December found concentrations of uranium in a monitoring well at the mine at more than 200 times the Environmental Protection Agency's standard for public drinking water. Uranium is considered a carcinogen.

Armed with the new data, the EPA is pushing the state to broaden its investigation into how far the pollution may have moved off the site bordering the small, rural community of Yerington.



http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAUUFR7RRD.html

[FairOpinion]

Mask Protecting Against Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Agents Approved for Civilians
The Associated Press
Published: Mar 12, 2004

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Federal regulators on Friday approved the first gas mask intended to protect civilian emergency personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents.
The company that produces the mask, Mine Safety Appliances Co., said it would begin production of the mask almost immediately following the approval by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Testing prototypes proved especially complicated because all the masks exposed to terminal agents had to be destroyed and it was difficult to determine what went wrong with those that failed, said Ron Herring, vice president and general manager of the company's safety products division.

The new masks have attached air purifiers, which make them easier to transport than their military counterparts.

Mine Safety Appliances was founded in 1914 as a developer of mine safety equipment. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the company has provided equipment for emergency responders such as police and fire officials.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAV45K5RRD.html

[null and void]

Just a thought. Bomb a train get 8 million targets out where they can be exposed to...

[rickylc]

Canada Worried by Nuke Missile Mishap....Developing.

on Drudge, no details :(

[null and void]

A 5.3 in Wyoming?...

[rickylc]

Yeah, it was a donovan earthquake.

first there was an earthquake

then there was no earthquake

then there was...

[rickylc]

There are a bunch of links posted in the discussion in the last thread. (wow, number 4 is down already!, seems starnge saying that)

For the most concise story go to Timebomb2000.com and read the thread on the wyoming earthquake and the thread on elk deaths related to Seismic activity.

[FairOpinion]

Could it be related to this?


Nuclear missile damaged in Wash. port, official says

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0312missile21.html

SEATTLE - A ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead was damaged in November while it was being removed from a submarine at a naval base near Seattle, a Defense official said Thursday, speaking the condition of anonymity.

There was no release of any radioactive material, the official said. Military experts quoted in newspaper stories about the Nov. 7 accident said the chances of a nuclear explosion were extremely remote.

The incident involved a Trident I C-4 missile as it was removed from a missile tube on the USS Georgia. Details were first reported on a Web site run by a former Navy officer.

[LayoutGuru2]

Sweet! Yet Another Thread! Thanks for starting it up!