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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Seven
The Washington Times ^ | 4-26-04 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 04/26/2004 3:35:38 PM PDT by JustPiper

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Laboratory guard post near classified facilities in what U.S. officials think was an intelligence mission, The Washington Times has learned.


(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: homelandsecurity; plethoriaofinfo; terrorthreats; threatmatrix
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To: KylaStarr
God Bless your Uncle Don and God console you and other family members and friends.
2,561 posted on 05/05/2004 7:23:28 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo
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To: Donna Lee Nardo
My apologies to God's creatures, the animals. / no sarc
2,562 posted on 05/05/2004 7:50:51 PM PDT by Indie (We don't need no steenkin' experts!)
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To: All
This is really funny dont miss it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1130399/posts
2,563 posted on 05/05/2004 8:03:04 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: Cindy
The evil suspended website is up and running again. http://www.muhajiroun.com/
2,564 posted on 05/05/2004 8:23:46 PM PDT by Honestly
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To: Honestly; Old Sarge; LindaSOG; Marine Inspector; Calpernia; JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; piasa; All
ON THE NET...


"muhajiroun.com" - "AL MUHAJIROUN"

JIHAD WATCH.org: "AL-MUHAJIROUN SEIZES AN OPPORTUNITY" (May 4, 2004) (Read More...)

AL-MUHAAJIROUN.com - News: "SHEIKH OSAMA'S MESSAGE TO EUROPE PEACE OR WAR; THE CHOICE IS YOURS" (April 15, 2004)

AL MUHAJIROUN.com.pk - Harkat-ul-Khilafah (Discussion Forum)

"AL-MUHAJIROUN Harkat ul Khilafah" (Pakistan Branch)

AL MUHAJIROUN.com: "Here is the translation of Sheikh Osama bin Ladens January 4th tape, without the Quranic references." (2004)

GAWAHER.com - Islamic Discussion: "Al-Muhajirun, good or bad?" (November 22, 2003)




groups.yahoo.com/group: "UK ISLAMIC FRONT *Iman*Shari'ah*Jihad*"




KHILAFAH.com.pk: "COMMUNIQUE FROM HIZB UT-TAHRIR: 'And wage Jihad against those who fight you' [Al-Baqarah 2:190] ANNIHILATE THE FOURTH CRUSADE"

2,565 posted on 05/05/2004 8:40:38 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy
I apologize if this excerpt offends anyone, but the toilet instructions at al muhajiroun are hilarious and proof positive that they are strange creatures. This is one of many found in their "personality" section.

7 - TO STAND OR SIT DURING URINATION.

A'isha: "Whoever said they saw the Prophet (saw) urinate standing, do not listen to them I saw him do it sitting."

Hudhaifah said: "I saw the Prophet (saw) urinate standing."

The Fuquha say it is the strongest evidence to do it standing.
- To avoid impurity
- To be able to see if anybody is there.

The Prophet (saw) did both, so we accept both. And anybody who says there is a recommendation either way, then it is an innovation.


2,566 posted on 05/05/2004 8:43:47 PM PDT by Honestly
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To: All
NOTE: This is the complete text (minus the graphic.)
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May 5, 2004

Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125
www.joyjunction.org

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE

 

 

     Apparently forgetting to be outraged about the four murdered American contractors whose bodies were desecrated and paraded in a most humiliating fashion just a few weeks ago, the Arab world has rushed to judgement about the alleged abuse carried out by a handful of American soldiers on Iraqi prisoners incarcerated at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad.

 

     Not surprisingly, the al Jazeera Television Network is doing its best to stoke the flames of anti-U.S. fury and keep them burning bright. A recent comment (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D56AA81D-A4A9-42B1-95FA-D8F6AD7D5438.htm )
 in an al Jazeera report read, "The images of abuse have dented the US argument that it invaded Iraq to bring democracy and human rights to a nation ‘brutalized' by former President Saddam Hussein."


 
Al Jazeera Picture Captioned

"US military report: 'Abuses were sadistic, blatant, criminal acts.'"


    Really? To me and most other thinking Americans they have done nothing of the sort.
Assuming the images are genuine, and as despicable and humiliating as they appear to be, all they show is that we had some rogue soldiers who for whatever reason were out of control.

 

     While a  report on the alleged abuse released in early March by Major General Antonio Taguba called the incidents "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses," it also put the number of soldiers under scrutiny into perspective. An extract from the report read "This systemic and illegal abuse of detainees was intentionally perpetrated by several (emphasis mine) members of the military police guard force (372nd Military Police Company, 320th Military Police Battalion, 800th MP Brigade), in Tier (section) 1-A of the Abu Ghuraib Prison (BCCF)."   

 

     So unlike many Arab nations practicing radical Islam, where abuse is routinely justified in the name of the Koran, we have an admission of wrongdoing by senior members of the military. In addition, we also have numerous members of the United States Congress putting the wheels of democracy into motion and demanding an immediate investigation into what happened.

 

     For example. National media reported that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn) called the abuse disgusting and degrading. Sen. John Warner (R-Va) reportedly described the alleged incidents as the most "serious a problem of breakdown in discipline as I've ever observed."

 

     Then national media reported that U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told the al Arabiya television network that, "We all feel outraged at these pictures ... I want to assure people in the Arab world ... that the president is determined to get to the bottom of it." 

 

     U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is planning to do just that. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer referring to the alleged abuse, Rumsfeld said, "That is wrong. It shouldn't have happened. It's un-American. It's unacceptable. And we all know that. And that apology is there to any individual who was abused. It seems to me that these things have occurred. The task for me, as the responsible person in the Department of Defense, is to see that if it's an isolated instance that it's punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If it's systemic, if there's something broader than that, obviously we have to undertake the kinds of investigations we're taking to see if other individuals conceivably have behaved that way."

 

        Interestingly but not surprisingly, those connoisseurs of outrage in the Arab world who are comparing these allegations of abuse by U.S. soldiers to life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein are failing to see one essential difference. What happened with those dozen or so soldiers was an aberration. That's in sharp contrast to life under Saddam Hussein, where abuse and torture was par for the course and would have never been investigated.

 

     As Rumsfeld told reporters at a Pentagon press briefing, "The fact is this is an exception ... The pattern and practice of the Saddam Hussein regime was to ... murder and torture. And the killing fields are filled with mass graves. And equating the two I think is a fundamental misunderstanding of what took place."

 

     Now assuming that these allegations of abuse are authentic, I am most certainly not defending them. No human being deserves to be treated in that degrading and humiliating manner and a certain amount of outrage against the alleged perpetrators is justified and to be expected.

 

     But just as I said at the beginning of this article, Arab outrage seems to be rather selective, as in one sided, don't you think? I'm sure that the families of those murdered contractors would like to see Iraqi officials (or somebody in a position of authority from some Middle Eastern country) appearing on the network news over here and apologizing for that incident.

 

     There wasn't exactly an outpouring of Arab outrage over the terrible events of 9/11 and every time a Hamas suicide bomber blows himself up along with scores of Israelis, I don't see Arabs wailing in the streets over the terrible injustices being perpetrated on the Jews.

 

     With that in mind, I am beginning to think there is much more to this story than meets the eye, not the least issue being why those who committed the alleged acts took those photographs. While I'm not one to usually indulge in conspiracy theories, is it remotely possible that for the sole purpose of embarrassing America and the Bush administration the abusers were paid by radicals/insurgents to commit those acts. The idea is worth thinking about and would definitely answer some questions.
2,567 posted on 05/05/2004 8:49:17 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: texasbluebell
Well said texasbluebell. I would rather fight for what I believe in and what I have worked for than not fight at all. I don't think I could live with myself if I just walked away, or worse, let them walk all over me.
2,568 posted on 05/05/2004 8:55:08 PM PDT by Oorang ( Those who trade liberty for security have neither)
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To: Revel; JustPiper; FairOpinion; RaceBannon; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Dog; Shermy; Sabertooth; mhking; ...
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2,569 posted on 05/05/2004 8:57:08 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Indie
A lot truer than I like to admit even to myself.
2,570 posted on 05/05/2004 9:00:49 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Indie; All; JustPiper
OK kids, I am gonna tell you about a dream........

I don't often have them, but this has been a prayerful day and I try to listen when God speaks to me.

I will try to give it as "Just the facts mam", as that is the way it was given, both times that I woke up this afternoon and there was no doubt what the message was.

I worked for George Bush in a fancy real estate office, and I was telling him that it was run all wrong and the whole set-up was wrong, that it should be done in my "old way".

GW listened and we were interrupted by people and calls, seems that I had published an article and my old people had found me.

I told him that I could turn it around, we could be a real office. There was no one in the office going after listings or sales, it was like they didn't want to be bothered with work.

He asked me to go with him and interview a man, (unknown to me) and write it up so he could use the article as a chapter in his book.

GW said: " You can help me by writing".

Rest of the story:

Even when I wrote western history and the real estate column, I wrote as I talk in my native language of "Texas -Sharecropper".

The magazine ran two real estate articles, mine for the working man and another that had so many fancy words in it, that even I didn't know what he was talking about, guess he didn't either, as he lost his license a couple years later for being dishonest.

In the dream, God sent a young lady that had once needed me as she was 15 and pregnant......It was nice to see her at 30 and a lady with a new child. This was God's way of reminding me that need came in many ways.

God wanted me to tell you that you can help too.

I have lived with this all my life, I say God told me and I think he does, so don't bother asking me a bunch of questions, I can't answer them, except to say that my mother was the same and it may be the Cherokee blood line as she was a full blooded Cherokee.

This is what we need to do.

Letters to the editors, radio and TV and any place they will get read, write, maybe even some opinion articles and definitely some "Truth" articles.

We have all been saying "What will happen to us and country if President Bush looses."

Go to the Court House and become a Register of Voters, I was in the 1970's, proved I was an American and registered folks.

Keep in mind that some of them won't show up, so find out how to get them to vote on the mail in ballot and help them sign up for it. The 500 you register this summer, may be what it takes to win this election.

WE CAN TURN THIS ELECTION AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!
2,571 posted on 05/05/2004 9:04:25 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You can help win the election by becoming a REGISTER OF VOTERS, easy go to Court House and sign up)
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To: grizzfan
I saw your post about 60 minutes too late to check out the LINEAR Comet. I may have to drive 20 miles north to clear my horizon at 240 degrees. I have mountains rising over 3,000 feet above the horizon at that azimuth.
2,572 posted on 05/05/2004 9:20:12 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Revel
I'm afraid a lot of Americans HAVE forgotten 9/11 and are so wrapped up in their smug little worlds dictating their liberal agenda to us. They may unwittingly accelerate the next terrorist attack on us by their actions.
2,573 posted on 05/05/2004 9:34:56 PM PDT by MamaDearest (Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are!)
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To: Oorang
bkmark
2,574 posted on 05/05/2004 9:44:51 PM PDT by Oorang ( Those who trade liberty for security have neither)
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To: mfccinsd
I;m thinking something at MSNBC was hacked today, here's their news:

 


2,575 posted on 05/05/2004 9:49:04 PM PDT by JustPiper (Look for the dream that keeps coming back - It is your destiny)
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To: F14 Pilot; Old Sarge; LindaSOG; Calpernia; All
http://www.inatoday.com/irans%20covert%20war%205604.htm

"IRAN'S COVERT WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES"


May 6, 2004
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2004 International News Analysis Today
www.inatoday.com
2,576 posted on 05/05/2004 9:49:04 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All
*Breaking*

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A car bomb explodes near the main U.S. complex in central Baghdad.
2,577 posted on 05/05/2004 9:51:10 PM PDT by JustPiper (Look for the dream that keeps coming back - It is your destiny)
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To: Cindy
Poor Michael, Poor Disney {{Not!}}
2,578 posted on 05/05/2004 9:52:11 PM PDT by JustPiper (Look for the dream that keeps coming back - It is your destiny)
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To: BulletBobCo; Velveeta; All
[CBS 2] ILLINOIS - Plane Scares Fans At Cellular Field

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_121174143.html

2,579 posted on 05/05/2004 9:57:01 PM PDT by JustPiper (Look for the dream that keeps coming back - It is your destiny)
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Massachusetts Introduces Ads to Combat Terrorism

"asking riders of the state's 16 transit systems to report any suspicious activity or packages in an effort to prevent terrorist attacks against buses and trains"

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aYCUKRZitRRE&refer=us

Newsday] NEW YORK - Suspicious bags investigated [ 5 bags, possibly terrorism related]

"prompting an investigation into whether they were left by terrorists attempting to gauge the city's response"

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/transportation/nyc-nysuit033784047may03,0,4969441.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-trans

LOUISIANA - Bomb-anthrax hoax author gets 30 years

http://www.theadvertiser.com/newsupdate/html/D3E2CCEC-C370-406A-A171-ADFF671D7D0B.shtml

MISSOURI - Authorities confirm pipe bomb in Greene Co.

http://www.ky3.com/newsdetailed.asp?id=6195

[New York Post] NEW YORK - TERROR BY TANKER

"nothing new to report" on the case"

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/23438.htm

PENNSYLVANIA - Powder not hazardous [ White powder found in income tax return]

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/west/index.ssf?/base/news/1083662471117890.xml

USA - Report Warns of Infiltration by Al Qaeda in US Prisons

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/national/05CHAP.html?ex=1084334400&en=28a95a3f8ae91efd&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

2,580 posted on 05/05/2004 10:04:09 PM PDT by JustPiper (Look for the dream that keeps coming back - It is your destiny)
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