Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

LINK TO THREAD SEVEN

BREAKING NEWS

Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.

Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.

[Velveeta]

Miami-Dade police search for stolen nuclear soil-testing gauge


MIAMI -- Miami-Dade County police were searching for a soil-testing device containing small amounts of radioactive material after it was stolen from a construction site, but the gauge posed little health risk, officials said.(snip)
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040529/APN/405290637

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

let me go look for pictures.

[liberallyconservative]

Hey JP! Well, I'm doing ok... I had a car wreck last week on the way to work. Hydroplaned in my Jeep and had quite a thrill ride, hitting 2 construction retaining walls and took a ditch nose-first. Bumps, bruises and sprains, but nothing broken.

I've bitched about it costing me $35 to fill her up, but I will NEVER be without my big SUV, because if I'd been in a car... let's just say it would have been "R.I.P. liberallyconservative."

[Rushmore Rocks]

FOX New us reporting that the terrorists are holding 50 hostages in Khobar, Americans among them.

[Rushmore Rocks]

New=News
us=is

I'm angry and can't type.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks RR, I'm on the race thread and TV, Keep me posted!!

[BurbankKarl]

Burbank's power grid died last year due to a metallic balloon hitting a substation.....the whole city! NBC and Disney Channel and other live feeds went to emergency generators.

Now, if you had a bunch of that balloon material, and shot it out those air cannons they used to shoot toys at basketball games, no telling what you could accomplish

[Indie]

See #4840

[liberallyconservative]

Here's the latest on the Saudi attack:

Militants kill 10 in Saudi Arabia Complex

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia - Suspected Islamic militants sprayed gunfire inside two oil industry compounds Saturday on the Persian Gulf, killing at least 10 people _ including one American _ before taking at least 50 hostages at an expatriate residential complex.



http://www.comcast.net/News/INTERNATIONAL//XML/1107_AP_Online_Regional___Middle_East/a8fdbe98-55dc-4f8a-9bff-05769e64a8bb.html

[Donna Lee Nardo]

OMG! I am so glad you are okay. Same for your Mom, as I read in an earlier post. Be careful. Prayers for you and Mom.

[Mossad1967]

Some more great news:

news.xinhuanet.com/englis...493366.htm

Panama believes al-Qaida member in Latin America


www.chinaview.cn 2004-05-27 10:53:30


PANAMA CITY, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The Panamanian government warned Wednesday that Adnan El Shukrijumah of Saudi Arabia, an alleged member of the terror organization al-Qaida, might be in Latin America.

The Panamanian authorities said in a communique that five months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States,El Shukrijumah entered Panama as a tourist. *****The suspect could be organizing possible terrorist attacks from countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region, the communique said.

The Justice Ministry said that the whereabouts of the suspect remained unknown and the country has been searching for this alleged terrorist.

Ramiro Jarvis, chief of the Panamanian National Security Council, said it was necessary to find out what this wanted man was doing when he stayed in Panama.

According to the communique, El Shukrijumah was born on Aug. 4,1975, in Saudi Arabia, has a US residence permit and speaks several languages, including Spanish.

The US Justice Department on Wednesday included El Shukrijumah on a list of people wanted for questioning about possible planned terror attacks.

US officials said El Shukrijumah used to live in South Florida and was believed to be a possible terrorism cell leader or organizer similar to Mohamed Atta, a top planner of the Sept. 11 attacks. Enditem


*****The suspect could be organizing possible terrorist attacks from countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region, the communique said.*****

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Have you guys seen this? was looking for pictures and rings put in Adam Yahiye Gadahn some kind of phone codes.

http://www.islamonline.net/dialingcode/english/CountryLookupAck.asp

[liberallyconservative]

Explosion Hits Russian Train Near Chechnya

VLADKIKAVKAZ, Russia - A bomb exploded under the rails as a passenger train traveled by in southern Russia early Saturday, derailing seven cars and slightly injuring about six people, officials said.

Authorities responding to the scene also found a land mine about 150 feet away, but they detonated it without any casualties, police said.

http://www.comcast.net/News/INTERNATIONAL//XML/1103_AP_Online_Regional___Europe/774dac7f-2499-4d44-b0ec-0ae782def7a2.html

[BurbankKarl]

Hmmm....from debka

US embassy urges Americans to leave Saudi Arabia after small al Qaeda-linked Quds Brigades band kills at least 10 foreigners, takes 60 Americans and Italians hostage at eastern Saudi Khobar oil center Saturday. Saudi security forces surround Oasis housing compound where terrorists holed up with hostages after losing 7 men.

Assailants carried out multiple attacks on four Western-Saudi oil company offices and residential compounds. Apicorp reports three of its workers among dead. Dead also include Americans, a Briton and a child. Four Lebanese hostages released. Terrorist group says Americans will not be allowed to “steal Saudi Arabia’s riches.”

DEBKAfile adds: Three days ago, al Qaeda Saudi commander Abdul Aziz Moqrin ordered small bands of four to keep up continual strikes at Saudi government and US targets. Khobar attack first in series.

[Mossad1967]

"DEBKAfile adds: Three days ago, al Qaeda Saudi commander Abdul Aziz Moqrin ordered small bands of four to keep up continual strikes at Saudi government and US targets. Khobar attack first in series."

IMHO,

Attack on U.S. soil imminent.

[BurbankKarl]

ha fool

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed at least 16 people, including Westerners, and seized 50 foreigners as hostages in a Saudi city on Saturday in an attack on the world's biggest oil exporter.

Saudi forces stormed the Oasis housing compound, where the hostages were being held, in the eastern city of Khobar after the militants -- spraying gunfire at several buildings in their attack -- killed at least nine Saudis and seven foreigners.

"They are holding 50 foreign hostages. There are Americans, but there are more Italians. There are also Arabs," said a compound manager, declining to be named. He said there was an Italian restaurant in the complex, home to at least 20 Italians.

Shots rang out in the area as fighting raged between the militants and Saudi forces, who have been battling for a year to stamp out al Qaeda attacks in the kingdom -- a key U.S. ally.

The attack is the second in a month to target the oil industry and Westerners who form a large part of its workforce. Markets have been on edge over the possibility of a militant strike disrupting oil supplies because the situation in Saudi Arabia has already helped push world prices to $40 a barrel.

"NERVE CENTER"

"This is close to the nerve center of the Saudi oil industry, (state oil firm) Aramco headquarters in Dhahran," said Yasser Elguindi, an analyst with Medley Global Advisers in New York. "It could have a devastating impact on the oil market when we reopen (on Tuesday) after the Memorial Day weekend."

An American, a Briton, an Egyptian, two Filipinos, an Indian and a Pakistani were killed in the attack, along with two Saudis and seven security force members, the security sources said.

"We can verify that at least one American citizen has been injured and one killed," said Joanne Moore, a State Department spokeswoman.

Ambulances carried on rushing into the compound, suggesting the death toll might rise.

Witnesses said the militants tied the body of the Briton, an employee of Arab oil firm Apicorp, to a car and dragged it 1.2 miles before dumping it near a bridge.

Apicorp said three of its employees were among the dead.

A statement purportedly from Saudi-born Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was posted on Islamist Internet sites claiming responsibility for the attack, the third on foreigners in less than a month in the birthplace of Islam.

Al Qaeda has vowed to destabilize the U.S.-allied kingdom. In 1996, the group chose Khobar to mount one of its first major attacks, killing 19 U.S. soldiers at a compound.

HUMAN SHIELDS

A policeman said the militants were using the hostages as human shields and that officials were trying to negotiate.

"Security forces are worried about storming because the gunmen have grenades," he said.

The kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, vowed to crush the militants who he said were harming the economy.

"We will continue to chase this deviant group until we eradicate them," he said in remarks on the Saudi Press Agency.

Saturday's attack prompted the U.S. embassy to reiterate a call last month for its citizens to leave the kingdom.

Oil industry sources said Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi was set to meet Western oil company executives in the nearby city of Dhahran to reassure them after the attack.

An Oasis compound employee said the militants had asked residents to show identity cards to find out their religions.

"(The militants) were asking people if they were Christian or Muslims," he said

Saudi state television showed footage of a man with Western features, slumped in his car, apparently shot dead. It also showed a charred car and a third blood-spattered vehicle.

GUNFIRE AT OIL OFFICES

The attackers opened fire at the Al-Khobar Petroleum Center building, believed to house offices of major Western oil firms, before storming into compounds with oil services offices and homes of employees, the security sources said.

Witnesses said the attackers drove cars with military markings into the Apicorp complex and opened fire. An Egyptian boy was killed when a school bus came under fire.

They also entered the Rami and Oasis compounds, where they took people hostage. Five Lebanese were later released.

Employees of Shell, Honeywell and General Electric lived in one of the compounds. The Oasis residence has housed executives from leading oil firms Royal Dutch/Shell, Total and LUKOIL.

The attack occurred two days after the top al Qaeda leader in the kingdom, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, issued plans for urban guerrilla warfare designed to topple the royal family.

Earlier this month militants killed five foreigners in an attack on a petrochemical site in the Red Sea town of Yanbu and dragged the body of an American through the streets.

[_Jim]

   Unfortunately our enemies are under no such restriction.

Looking PAST the present situation and ignoring the present - we're engaged in DEBATE here, to which END a few BASIC terms and CONCEPTS need to be made CLEAR, and, ANYWAY, one would have to have SOME KNOWLEDGE to intentionally do in 'the grid' in the first place ...

No one gets it yet. Why am I not surprised?

You people, attempting to speak to and ADDRESS issues FAR above your comprehension level ...

I suppose this is the future of the Internet - idiocy attempting to do rocket science.

[Revel]

You may be right. In any case...If the markets were open today...It would not be good.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Hello and Amen;)

[_Jim]

Let's not burn bandwidth re-educating you about the

Ahem - I need no 'education' on this subject; rather, it's the BULK of the unwashed, non-technical WallMart Shrink-wrapped merchandise consuming masses here (perhaps including YOU) who need, nay, require the education.

Got it?

Now, how about you? Are you the least bit conversant or knowledgeable on the history of development of bulk power generation and delivery systems and the measures undertake to assure system reliabity - also termed 'security' (NOT physical or internet 'security', but, rather the integritity and 'stability' of a LOT of rotating machinery and interconnected buses that comprises the myriad of rotating generators making up the generation part of 'the grid') by professionals working in the field -

- or not?

Heck 99.99 percent of you guys haven't taken THE TIME to study the HALF DOZEN or so well--documented BLACKOUTS we've had in the last forty years (BY WHICH you could see JUST how much of a foul-up it takes ON BEHALF OF the power company to bring about a LARGE blackout).

No, it isn't I who require education, it's others ...