Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread 6

Voice of America ^ | 01 Apr 2004 | Nick Simeone

[thecabal]

Link to Thread 5

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US Promises to Punish Those Responsible for Gruesome Iraq Attacks

The top U.S. official in Iraq says Wednesday's gruesome attacks on four American civilians whose burned bodies were put on display in the town of Fallujah will not go unpunished.

"It's going to be deliberate, it will be precise and it will be overwhelming," U.S. General Mark Kimmitt said, speaking to reporters in Baghdad. He warned insurgents in the town of Fallujah to be prepared for U.S. forces to strike back following Wednesday's killing of four American contractors by a frenzied mob that dragged their charred bodies through the streets.

Televised footage of the act has provoked outrage from Americans in the United States and led U.S. administrator in Baghdad Paul Bremer to issue a warning.

"Their deaths will not go unpunished," he promised.

The White House blamed the attacks on supporters of Saddam Hussein. The remains of the four were to be turned over to the U.S. military.

A day after the attack, three American soldiers were injured in another attack near Fallujah, this time when their Humvee struck a roadside bomb.

[Oorang]

Thanks for your reply. I figured you did as you are right on top of things. I wish I had your language skills. Does the "human" version of the post that references June 23rd (or thereabouts) make more sense than the machine translation?

[Oorang]

Well that seems odd.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Now would someone be so kind as to tell me what all the uproar was about yesterday. I pulled the post because I realized a few lines were missing from the translation, which would have made it clear. I PULLED THE POST BECAUSE IT WAS NOT COMPLETE AND THEREFORE WAS NOT 100% ACCURATE!

I posted at work on a break, and then got busy. I had family stuff to do last night, went to bed early, and I did not check back into FR until this morning.

I find the post, which is NOT CORRECT, and WHICH I HAD PULLED FOR THAT REASON, is back up, and everyone is up in arms because I pulled the post, calling me sensitive.

Guys! Have I ever been touchy and sensitive no matter how vicious the slams get (and they do get that way from time to time). If you're going to post in a public forum, you have to have a thick skin.

I'm not going to pull a post because someone disagrees with me. The only reason I will pull a post is if it is not correct. I do take pride in my work and try to do it accurately.

[Indie]

An electronic intruder alarm first alerted police to a problem at the Route 9 building, and responding Patrolman Thomas Laffan found the fire. Authorities could not say if an intruder might have caused the fire or if the fire set off the alarm.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.............

[Indie]

Guys! Have I ever been touchy and sensitive no matter how vicious the slams get (and they do get that way from time to time). If you're going to post in a public forum, you have to have a thick skin.

You know...I agree. So why are you being so sensitive?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[sorry..i don't know what's going on but it seemed like an appropriate time for a rim shot..;) ]

And thanks for all the great translations!!

[freeperfromnj]

Does anyone remember the Italian who flew the plane into the building in Milan?

Top Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor says Italian mobsters and Islamic terrorist groups have links

By FRANCES D'EMILIO
The Associated Press
4/20/04 9:52 AM

ROME (AP) -- Italian mobsters and Islamic terrorist groups have forged links in arms and drug trafficking, Italy's top anti-Mafia investigator said.

Pierluigi Vigna, Italy's national anti-Mafia prosecutor, singled out a Naples mob known as the Camorra, which deals in arms and drugs, among other rackets.

"There are ties without doubt," Vigna told reporters Monday at a briefing at the Foreign Press Association. "We have evidence that Camorra groups are implicated in exchange of arms for drugs with terrorist groups," Vigna said.

Asked if these were Islamic terrorist groups, he replied, "Muslim terrorist groups."

He said judicial secrecy prevented him from describing the evidence. But Vigna suggested that the collaboration might have begun when a Camorra member who converted to Islam met fellow Muslims jailed in Italy. He didn't identify any of the inmates or elaborate on how they may have worked together.

Vigna, who wants his office to handle terror probes as well as organized crime investigations in Italy, said there were already examples of mobsters working with foreign groups -- such as Italian criminals dealing with Colombian FARC guerrillas in cocaine trafficking.

Vigna said prosecutors in Sicily and Calabria, both strongholds of organized crime, have excluded that mobsters there have made alliances with foreign groups trafficking in illegal immigrants.

http://www.nj.com/breakingnews/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0503_BC_Italy-Mafia-Terrorism&&news&tradecentercrash

[Lucy Lake]

BTT.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Good for you SP2BF. I find everyone on here is touchy (not you). With good reason so pull together. You are a true value, keep up the outstanding work (we need you).

We need to organize better. At the top of the next thread or somewhere (yahoo)we need to post who is keeping up with virus, fires, power outages, moderate chat rooms,and the names of terrorists and there movements etc. So they can be pinged with new information.

We already know SP2BF is our interpretor. Whoever likes to start threads and has time front and center. This person will be the point person.(I can't I have erratic hours and a husband with heart problems.) I will pick a subject. We are losing and forgetting allot of information. The smallest detail may be the key and maybe we can get a feel for pattern or just be as prepared as possible in this madness.

Everyone pick a subject and get started. One great tool is Google News Alerts. You can key in any word and it will e-mail you all the current news on that word for the day. You can also do a news search and get all old news to start a base. Some of the news will not pertain to terrorism but at least we will have exhausted the subject.

See you guys on the other side of the river.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Aha! So here's where you went.... Welcome to FR. ;)

[Domestic Church]

Another accident(s) on a bridge shutting down traffic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121047/posts

[Indie]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1121056/posts?page=22


Would someone PLEASE go rip these neocons a new one?? I'm the only "nutcase" on the thread who thinks we are being destroyed by outsourcing. The article is real, but was posted by a neocon free-trader trying to be funny.

[4thygipper]

Just want to remind people about receiving police, fire and other dispatches from www.incidentpage.net. You can select what type of info you want to receive. I received the page about the oil refinery fires a few weeks ago about an hour before it showed up on the news. This service It is very informative and gives a great lead on things before they show up on the news. It is a must for any freeper.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Not a problem - some days are busier than others - usually I can get back to the forum but yesterday was one of those busy ones.

It's an innocent misunderstanding - certainly no hard feelings on my part :)

[LayoutGuru2]

Bwaaaaaa, Haaaaaaa, Haaa... What a pleasant surprise this morning as I checked out my list of terrorist-supporting Yahoo! groups...

Yahoo! Groups

There is no group called globalislamicmedia.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Here's another one that was posted yesterday.

The jihad tourism season in America and the European countries

Oh Allah, there is no god except you, you are the great forbearance, oh Allah more beneficient and our more merciful, oh Allah learn our weaknesses and our small group’s treachery and our disgrace on the people, oh Allah you are Lord and the oppressed Lord . Oh Allah, Oh Allah! Take our foreheads to the floor. Oh Allah Oh Allah! Guide us to each good and repay our words and our actions.

My brothers, the boldness of America on us and its occupation of our land, and its demonstration to the Jews regarding us are their hateful crimes. Europe refused the truce of the prince of the militants, who requested nothing from them except that they cease their attacks on us. America’s demonstration to us, with the assassination by the Jews of the militants leaders in Hamas, one leader after another, are flagrant indications that this struggle has embraced a new level. An open opposite stage distant from all political maneuvers. Then these criminals no longer care about hiding their hostile intentions towards us as a nation. That appeared clear from their statements and its last the statements of the fool, the Italian minister, who threatened to deport thousands of the innocent Muslims, and will deport them only because they believe in Islam. My brothers we are at the front of a critical stage in the struggle with the ominous Roman alliance under America’s command, and this encourages us to rely on the alliances with the unbelievers from Asia and South America.

My brothers if we know that we are at the beginning of a new stage in the confrontation then what adaptations must we face? My brothers many of us are prepared for our the departure for Iraq or Afghanistan to confront of this massacring barbarism against Islam and the Muslims, and this a beautiful scent, but it displeases us that all military activities result in a destruction that will effect us and on our families because the millwheel of battle turns inside our lands and between our families, and we are obliged confront them on our lands regardless of the results at the insistence of our fighting brothers presently in these occupied territories.

But my letter is to the brothers presently abroad, and they find it the arrival of this difficult, I beg them to immediately stop now with me so that we think together in a loud voice how we can benefit from each other. I believe my brothers, so what is your opinion of the results that have been achieved practically only in Spain (not Iraq or Afghanistan). I doubt that you are disbelieve that its roots were strategic and that it had a big effect, and that it dropped a political system, and that it made Europe reconsider its decisions once again, and that it stirred the public opinion, and so on. Now I ask you were any of our child or our women or any Muslim sheikhs affected with this operation, and did it destroy any of our houses or did any missiles descend upon our families. The answer is a clear denial of those things. Now we must think of the next step forward and we say imagine if that it was not one operation but several operations and in several countries, so you see that the effect will be multiplied a great extent.

If we are Muslim brothers with a need to transfer the theatre of operations and confrontation to their land, so that the casualties are from their sons and the buildings that collapse are their houses and the facilities which are ruined are their facilities. If Armegedon is what they want then so be it but we will transfer the Armegedon to them and their land and their sons.

My brothers, why do we tighten our belts, and count souls in Afghanistan or Iraq? My brothers there are before us tens of jihad fields and which will have a greater effect in ending the blockade around our fighting brothers, and in the humiliation of these pigs; there are examples before us in all of these countries that for us; taking their blood and their moneys and their honor are permitted and this only those that supported America on us in the occupation of Iraq and the killing of our sons there and the violation of our brother's honor there. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm

In addition to that the countries that participated in America attacks on us in Afghanistan. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oef_orbat_030701.htm

Also the matter need not be restricted to the travel of the brothers, but also he can join the jihad with present brothers who are actually there now, then I think that they hold a principle role in this battle that our nation is in.

My brothers, it is now April and the summer is at the doors, then will we see results from the brothers who plan for jihad tourism in America and the European countries?

And our last prayer, the praise of Allah is the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds.

I wish from the brothers the supervisors that they prove the subject to for some time - if they saw that - hopefully we hear from the participating brothers what he benefits and benefits rest of the brothers .

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

This is a Must!
Everyone pray everyday. If nothing else just say Pegita"s prayers out loud at your computer. Pegita's prayers are the best. We are so lucky to have her.

When needed add our special request.

[Indie]

We pray her prayers out loud before bedtime :) Her prayers give us all strength.

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Evidently, this is why all the brooha about Russia shutting off the internet for the week was about...

Core Internet Technology Is Vulnerable WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers found a serious security flaw that left core Internet technology vulnerable to hackers, prompting a secretive effort by international governments and industry experts in recent weeks to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages. Experts said the flaw, disclosed Tuesday by the British government, affects the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic. Left unaddressed, they said, it could allow hackers to knock computers off line and broadly disrupt vital traffic-directing devices, called routers, that coordinate the flow of data among distant groups of computers.

[codyjacksmom]

Prayers to your mother and to you and your family!