Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Seven

The Washington Times ^ | 4-26-04 | Bill Gertz

[JustPiper]

"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.

[StillProud2BeFree]

they're afraid of speaking out against their own

That unfortunately says it all. In this country, we'll canabalize anyone who we disagree with with no regard for the consequences. We do this to our president, to our military, and to everyone in power, without considering how it looks to the rest of the world.

The rest of the world sees this squabbling, senses weakness, and goes for the jugular. And it is killing us.

[freeperfromnj]

The Associated Press

April 28 — Following is a list of countries with significant Muslim minority populations:

THAILAND: Muslims comprise about 5 percent, or 3.1 million of Thailand's population of 62 million. They have long complained of discrimination in jobs and education in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, Thailand's only Muslim-majority provinces. Alienation caused by the central government's policies has been the source of a decades-old separatist struggle.

INDIA: The country's 150 million Muslims nearly 14 percent of the population of 1.1 billion makes India home to more Muslims than any other country but Indonesia. Periodic riots between Muslims and the country's dominant Hindus have killed thousands over the years. In 2002, at least 1,000 Muslims were killed by Hindu mobs and more than 100,000 fled their homes in Gujarat state after 58 Hindus were killed by Muslims on a train in Godhra.

PHILIPPINES: Muslims represent about 5 percent of the country's population of 85 million people. There are two main Muslim separatist groups. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has been fighting for self-rule in the south for more than two decades and has agreed to peace talks with the government to be held in Malaysia, although no date has been set. The Abu Sayyaf has a 13-year history of kidnappings-for-ransom and beheadings and envisions turning a string of southern islands into an Islamic enclave.

CHINA: About 50 million Muslims comprise just under 4 percent of China's 1.3 billion people. They are concentrated in the southwestern province of Xinjiang, where opponents of Beijing's rule say the government represses them and is sending millions of ethnic Han Chinese from the east to cement its political and cultural control over the region.

SRI LANKA: Muslims number 1.3 million, or about 7 percent of the country's population of 18.6 million. Muslims have been the target of systematic killings at the hands of the country's rebel Tamil Tigers, who are Hindus. Muslims remain marginalized in a country dominated by Buddhist Sinhalese. In 1990, 130 Muslims were massacred at two mosques.

SINGAPORE: About 15 percent of its 4 million people are Muslims. A ban on traditional Muslim head scarves at schools caused an uproar in multiracial Singapore in 2003. The tiny city-state has adopted a strong-arm approach to terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, locking up scores of suspected terrorists under a security law that allows indefinite detention without trial.

MYANMAR: Muslims make up about 4 percent of Myanmar's 53 million people, most of whom are Buddhist. In the early 1990s, around 250,000 Muslims from the northwestern Rakhine state fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape alleged religious persecution by the ruling junta. Most of the refugees have since returned under a U.N.-sponsored program.

CAMBODIA: Approximately 600,000 Muslims, mainly part of the Cham ethnic group, make up less than 5 percent of the primarily Buddhist country's 13 million people. The Cham are among the country's poorest people. The government is concerned the Cham minority has ties to Muslim terror groups, specifically Jemaah Islamiyah, but has been unable to uncover specific links.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040428_1114.html

[all4one]

There seems to be so much dis-information regarding this explosion, that the one other incident that comes to my mind is Chernobyl. For some reason I can't shake the feeling that this was really a nuclear incident.

[appalachian_dweller]

Anyone have the latest info on the thwarted chem attack in Jordan? News report said it could have killed 80,000 people. Further reports said the bomb was made in a particular way to spread the chemicals rather then the blast incinerating them. I found that tidbit of info rather disturbing.

If our enemies have mastered this type of bomb, I'm going to go get plastic sheeting today. I'm going to speak with building security to see if they have a plan to deal with this.

[KylaStarr]

FWIW, and I have not been able to find out anymore information from authorities nor on the news, so keep in mind this is ONLY what my 28 year old son observed this morning and he is definately not prone to hysterics,exaggerations, etc...

On his way to college this morning on a street that parallels Gillespie Field airport (small airport) 3 CHP's had a car pulled over to the side of the road. All 3 CHP's were out of their vehicles with hands on guns, guns NOT drawn, and the driver was standing outside the open door of his car. The driver, according to my son, was definately a ME. ME was gesturing wildly with his arms and as my son drove by he tried to step in front of my son's car. Son swerved and accelerated around him and went on ahead a ways and said that he pulled over to watch what was happening behind him. He said that a CHP motorcycle cop came flying down the street from the opposite direction and parked in front of ME's car. At this point he said that the ME reached back inside his car and was then holding what appeared to him to be a backpack. As my son put it, he decided it was time to get out of Dodge so he left.

I've no idea what this was all about but would really like to get more information. Please take this "for what it's worth" until I can hopefully find out more. It could have been nothing at all but who knows.

I drove down through the area to see if they were still there or to see if there was any type of law enforcement activity. I didn't see anything except for the usual Border Patrol vehicles cruising the area.

It was just a very strange incident from my son's viewpoint.

The area where this was taking place is a light industrial/commercial area on the south side of the street, which borders Gillespie Field and low income housing on the north side. A lot of warehouses, used car dealers, metal fabrication, etc. There have been quite a few illegals picked up along that stretch but this struck my son as something different.

I debated whether to post anything at all about this but feel since I keep repeating that this has not been verified that you all could take this as what it is. Totally unverified for now. I'm hoping that on the noon news they have more information. If not, I'm thinking that perhaps it was nothing more than an outstanding warrant or something along those lines.

[KylaStarr]

""The only thing you get from sitting on the fence is a butt full of splinters, plus you run the risk of getting shot by people on both sides. ""

LOL!! What a great tagline that would make! And, how very true!

[bored at work]

Well put SP2BF.

Followers of Islam let it be known now and forever. Americans are a peaceful and tolerant people but we will not cower. We will not be terrorized and we will not be bullied. We Americans are ready to fight for our familys our soil and our God and WE WILL WIN! We are a nation of arms and we're not afrain to use them. Stop your madness or you will get a healthy dose of some good old fashioned American justice!

[swarthyguy]

Hints and glimpses of the hidden war, that some of us believe, is taking place around us.

Thank You very much for posting.

Yes, it's only anecdotal, but it's the most visceral and factual we can get, seeing the government wants to hide it from the citizens, and media organs are going along with them.

Put together all the incidents, anomalies, eyewitness type accounts like yours and ALL of them can't be innocuous.

[freeperfromnj]

From what I've read, the chemical bomb contained 71 different chemicals, including blistering agents and nerve agents. It collapses the lungs and there is no antedote. That's quite an evil potion they've cooked up. And you're right. If they have the recipe, no telling which cells here might have it. Interesting that one of the 9/11 operatives was also involved in the Madrid bombings. Wonder how many are here.

[swarthyguy]

Read this guy's archives. I've got some bookmarked. Here's his latest.

But a lone voice more or less, and in exile in California after death threats after his writings caused him to flee from Pakistan.

Individually, many muslims, like the Pakistanis and Indians can be rather critical of their own, but put them in a group and they either clam up or mouth the usual pieties and slogans. Or they are so secularized, they rarely associate with the beards and their ilk.

http://www.paktoday.com/tashbih.htm

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By: Tashbih Sayyed
There are always four players in any conflict; the aggressor, its partners, the victim and the facilitators of aggression. The Middle East conflict presents the best example of the four. The Palestinians are aggressors, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and other Arab countries are their partners, the U.S., Israel and most of the democratic world are the victims and the organizations like European Union, United Nations, countries like France, and Germany and left leaning groups and liberal minded individuals, who believe that the best way to solve the Middle East conflict is to appease the Arabs and condemn the victim are the facilitators of aggression.

[swarthyguy]

The translated version on TV said the aim was to overwhelm the first responders and hospitals by releasing multiple varieties of the nasty stuff they had. By a Jordanian intel guy.

[freeperfromnj]

If they would do this to their fellow arabs, imagine what they are cooking up for us?

[angcat]

Here in Northeast PA we try not to plant any flowers or the garden till Memorial Day. Last year we had so much rain the Tomato’s never grew, they were pathetic.

[Lucy Lake]

AQ manipulating the gold market?

Or Soros?

[Oorang]

All those pony pack veggies we planted last weekend are probably going to get whacked.

Two options. Go to a nursery/garden store and get some Remay. It's a garden "fabric" kind of like thin felt. Early evening (or when it's starting to cool off) put the Remay (loosely so the plants don't get squashed) over your plants holding down corners with rocks or whatever. Will protect your plants from potential frost. We use it every year.

Or, if you can't find Remay or want to go a cheaper route, use clear plastic. Make sure it's clear plastic and not black plastic. Just be sure to get the plastic OFF the plants in the morning before the sun gets too hot or the heat will kill the plants in no time.

Both of these options, in effect, make a mini-greenhouse.

[KylaStarr]

I've gotta laugh at my gardening attempts when I first moved to SoCal.

I grew up with planting in late April - May so that's exactly what I did upon moving out here. Needless to say, my lettuce and peas, although they did sprout and start to grow, quickly withered and died. Tomatoes put on a valiant attempt at growth and after watering 6 plants faithfully through the summer, I was rewarded with about 2 dozen ping pong ball sized beefsteak tomatoes. Which I might add came off of 2 plants as the gophers ate the other 4.

Now I only grow a few tomato's in containers only because if I plant them in the ground, they just end up fattening the gopher population. Ah the joys of gardening!

[Oorang]

Excellent observations SP2BF. I couldn't agree with you more. How can muslims expect us to believe they are a "religion of peace" when they do not condemn the violence taking place "in the name if Islam". Their silence speaks volumes.

It reminds me of that old bumper sticker: "Visualize whirled peas"

[appalachian_dweller]

>> 71 different chemicals, including blistering agents and nerve agents. It collapses the lungs and there is no antedote. That's quite an evil potion they've cooked up. <<

Quite evil indeed. Never thought about getting the sheeting until I heard about this. I'll be stopping by the hardware store on the way home tonight. Thanks for the info.

As much as I resent the gov't hiding things from us, if we suffer no major attacks this summer, I'll give the gov't the credit it's due....

[Oorang]

Thanks for your report and for driving to the location to check it out. Where is Gillespie Field (L.A., Orange Co., etc.)?
Stay safe Kyla and tell your son thanks as well.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Hey Calpernia. Just checking in with you. I know you are okay because you have been posting on other threads. Are you lurking?