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.

[Lucy Lake]

Good news for a change.


Big News Brewing in Japan?
April 21, 2004
Thomas Lifson


Almost unnoticed by the American press, the aftermath of Japan’s hostage crisis in Iraq is developing in a direction which may have permanent and serious positive implications for American foreign and military policies.

Prime Minister Koizumi’s response to the kidnapping of the first three Japanese taken hostage in Iraq marked a watershed in Japan’s posture for dealing with external threats. Prime Minister Koizumi simply refused to “go Spanish” in the face of terror threats against his citizens.

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Despite large public anti-war demonstrations and tearful pleas from relatives of the hostages, the public has been strongly backing Koizumi's tough stance.

Now, a steady stream of news, much of it leaked from governmental sources, is hinting that the first three hostages may have faked their kidnapping. If and when these suspicions becomes provable, the public backlash in Japan against the anti-war left could be fearsome, and drive Japan’s foreign policy even further toward muscular collaboration with American defense efforts.


http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3500

[Oorang]

Well, that's a possibility. Sparrow missile and what was the sparrow phrase they used? Good find rickylc; thanks.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I noticed that also, not the regular Mjahideen out today. This one from IH but he is the only one so far.

How America will be destroyed

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We are going to draw the americans out of there hole, let them set up bases all over the world, then we will destroy there "so called coalition" use there own fiscal sytem to destroy there economy and turn them into a 3rd world country. It might take ten years or 20 years or 30 years but by the will of allah inshallah, patience is the key to beating the USA or the great satan. Blair better get the hell out as quickly as possible and join the EU, unless he wants to meet the same fate as the USA. The great nations such as Russia,China and Africa will truely regain there true place, as well, the new world trade centers will be in China.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> The great nations such as Russia,China and Africa <<

Seems unusual for the moose limbs to be speaking kindly of such nations. Not sure what to make of this.

[jerseygirl]

I saw this over at TB 2000. This is just a snippet. The rest of the article contains numerous graphs.

"A Special Market Watch

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TPTB are doing their best to hold the econ together for the President but it's getting shakey. There is sooo much debt that there is a sell-off of stocks in order to pay down debt. That could lead to a crash as hands reach for dollars. This is from Clive Maund who offers a good technical analysis. I will post what Richard Russell is saying. He is also saying that people and corporations are running to liquidity...dollars.

Pay special attention to the real estate chart. That tells me that we've reached the top of the market. Now is the best time to sell, a horrible time to buy.

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MARKETWATCH Wednesday 21st April -
CRITICAL SECTORWIDE BREAKDOWN,
BROAD MARKET CRASH ALERT

A critical breakdown has occurred across the gold sector. Yesterday, the HUI plunged, violating crucial support at first the 200-day moving average and then the support at the 200 level.

Many stocks crashed down through support levels that I had earlier indicated must hold, in a Marketwatch article on the 11th April, to maintain any prospect of an advance. It was no coincidence that the general market went into a nosedive later in the session, as what we are witnessing here is the start of a stampede out of any freely traded assets that can decline in value.

The reason for this is the sudden and terrifying realization that the Indian Summer of seemingly endless low interest rates is about to end.

This would not be so bad were it not for the fact that debt is at extreme levels across every strata of US society – personal debt, corporate debt and Federal debt are at levels which can fairly be regarded as insane and catastrophic.

In the face of rising rates debtors have good reason to break out in a cold sweat – they are so highly leveraged that any significant rise in rates will crush them.

They are now starting to scramble to reduce debt as fast as possible and are selling assets to raise the wherewithal to buy the dollars to pay off the debt – hence the recent and increasing support for the US dollar.


To understand the implications of what is about to happen, we’ll start by looking at the bond market. The chart for the 30-year Treasury bond shows an ugly plunge, the drop on 2nd April being, I believe, the largest single one-day drop for about 8 years. The other bond and note charts look similar. The steepness of this plunge implies much lower levels to come, regardless of interim rallies to alleviate an oversold condition. What this means is significantly higher interest rates.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Anyone that knows about stocks is this a unusual or not? I know nothing about stocks.

AMR rally leads airline stocks higher

By August Cole, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:56 PM ET April 21, 2004


SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Airline stocks charged higher Wednesday, with shares of American Airlines' parent rallying more than 9 percent after the world's largest airline dramatically pared its first-quarter losses.



The Amex Airline Index (XX:$XAL: news, chart, profile) rose 2.5 percent.

AMR (AMR: news, chart, profile), parent of American Airlines, rose $1.09, or 9.1 percent, to $13.12 after reporting narrower quarterly losses than analysts had forecast. See full story.

Northwest Airlines (NWAC: news, chart, profile) ended higher, rising 24 cents to $10.59. The carrier's losses, though narrower than last year, were worse than analysts expected. See full story.

US Airways, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have matched a move by Northwest to raise airfares by 3 percent, according to Tom Parsons, of Bestfares.com.

"On many routes, airfares will increase much more than the $10 fuel surcharge they had wished for. The airlines are happy. Consumers will pay more," Parsons wrote in an e-mail update.

Other movers included Continental Airlines (CAL: news, chart, profile), up 52 cents to $12.26. Continental raised the fuel surcharge on its domestic tickets on Tuesday. See full story.

And America West (AWA: news, chart, profile) rose 90 cents, or 9.1 percent, to $10.78.

JetBlue Airways (JBLU: news, chart, profile) rose 80 cents to $25.71.

Southwest Airlines (LUV: news, chart, profile) added 17 cents to $14.73.

ATA Holdings (ATAH: news, chart, profile) rose 61 cents to $8.51.

On the downside, US Airways (UAIR: news, chart, profile) fell 27 cents, or 8.3 percent, to $3.08. The company's CEO stepped down earlier this week.


http://www.marketwatch.com/news/print_story.asp?print=1&guid={E1620E21-0C66-489A-B410-BEA31CCD2D2E}&siteid=yhoo

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Keep in mind Russia is in big trouble over the oil for food program and the last to leave Iraq when the war started.

We live in odd times! The only other time I know of these 3 together is in prophecy.

[Oorang]

More media "spin" MamaD. Check out this thread and linked article at the bottom of the first post. The thread was posted by a Polish freeper.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121881/posts

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I don't like this.



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MARK HULBERT

Market's at a critical juncture -- really

By Mark Hulbert, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 12:04 AM ET April 21, 2004


ANNANDALE, Va. (CBS.MW) - According to some psychologists, each of us has a tendency to conceive the current moment as a critical juncture.


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Whether we are considering the span of our individual lives or the grand sweep of human history, we always tell ourselves that our fates lie crucially in the balance of what is happening right now.

A year from now, of course, we'll be saying the same thing about what's happening then, having forgotten what we said today.

So you have every right to be skeptical when I tell you that the stock market appears to be at a particularly crucial juncture right now.

But it nevertheless appears to be true. A number of newsletter editors who are not otherwise known for hyperbole have drawn attention in recent sessions to rare phenomena that could be either very bullish or extremely bearish.

Consider the stock market's advance-decline data for Tuesday, April 13. On that day, there were more than 2,500 more declining stocks on the New York Stock Exchange than there were advancers.

That turns out to be a record, according to the trio of editors at Wall Street Winners (Elliott Gue, Ivan Martchev and Yiannis Mostrous). According to them, there have been only two other occasions in which the plurality of decliners over advancers on the NYSE came anywhere close to April 13's number.

The first was the day before the Oct. 9, 2002, bottom of the 2000-2002 bear market, when there were 2,371 more decliners than advancers.

The second was the day the stock market reopened after the September 11 terrorist attacks, when there were 2,218 more decliners than advancers.

Both of those previous occasions occurred "near-washout lows," and presaged powerful subsequent rallies.

That might suggest that April 13's experience also will be bullish for the stock market. The problem with this analogy, the Wall Street Winners editors argue, is that the stock market is not currently at a washout low. On the contrary, the Dow Jones Industrials Average is within striking distance of its high.

The editors conclude that April 13's huge plurality of decliners over advances therefore must mean one of two things: Either "everyone who wanted to sell sold [on April 13] and the market is home free, or we're at the beginning of a waterfall decline."

You might not be inclined to pay much attention to an analysis that concludes that the market could either go up or down. That's not very helpful, you might say.

But I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the Wall Street Winners' analysis. If they're right, the one thing that will not happen is that the stock market in coming weeks and months will be dull and trendless.

Something big is about to happen. They just don't know what.


http://www.marketwatch.com/news/print_story.asp?print=1&guid={B46883A7-C419-42D4-A4DF-D2C4E2B1AE6C}&siteid=yhoo

[Oorang]

Their website (usps.com) has a contact page with email and telephone (toll free). I emailed to let them know IMO this was a disgrace and would be a real money looser.

Give them a phone call/email to let them know what you think.

[Oorang]

Look, here's the thing

Look, here's the thing. The Irish Catholics are not trying to take over this country. The Irish Catholics have not repeatedly attacked our people, our military, our ships, our barracks or our innocent civilians on American soil. Nor are the Irish Catholics still plotting and planning future attacks.

Your Irish Catholic analogy does not wash.

There's the thing.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Hey Grizz,

To quote you from your last FReepmail....."Ah Ha!"

When are you moving back to SoDak...we need more conservative voters.

[Indie]

hinting that the first three hostages may have faked their kidnapping.

FR is so ahead of it all. This possibility was reported by a FReeper after they were first kidnapped// one of the "victims" had been proven to have anti-war, anti-American website and was thought to be a shill for the terrorists. Looks like all was figured out correctly at the very beginning.

Thanks for the update. It's good to see our news is way ahead of the leftist nazi media.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Agreed

[Oorang]

I couldn't find out where the Kitty Hawk will be, but, maybe that's a good thing. Here is the Kitty Hawk website.

http://www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/main.html

[jerseygirl]

Our news is always ahead! :)

[Indie]

The only other time I know of these 3 together is in prophecy.

Me too. Don't like the fact the bad guys used them all in one sentence.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Our news is always ahead! <<

And has not been put through the 'spin' cycle.

[Oorang]

Thanks. I got a little hot under the collar on that one :-)

[Oorang]

When I was about 4 years old we lived in Baltimore. All the kids in the neighborhood would run behind the mosquito spray trucks. I wasn't allowed to go because I was too young but my brothers did. They are both still "normal". Well, relatively so :-)