Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Ten

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[JustPiper]

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

LINK TO THREAD NINE

U.S. Charges Australian Linked to al-Qaida

WASHINGTON - An Australian held at the Navy's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will face a military tribunal for allegedly training and fighting alongside members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan (news - web sites), the Pentagon (news - web sites) announced Thursday.

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm

[Letitring]

Any power failure on Plum Island would be a major disaster. Catastrophic!

There should be some Governmental reports and investigation if that sort of outage happened, I would think.

[Letitring]

Paul Johnson trusted them. Worked around them, lived amongst them.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Of course, it is DUCK tape.

LOL

All I could think of was "Plumbers tape", which it is not, but is when I use it.

The possibilities of this is so thick in my mind that Duct tape wouldn't come in. Now I guess I know my minds size and it is full, needs a bit of deleting......

[JellyJam]

When you mentioned Plum Island, and described what it is, I immediately thought of the terrorists' threat about "dog disease."

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Yes it does! We have this debate all the time and never find an answer. When I read the Camp of the Saints I was SICK for days. I would read put it down read some more put it down. Never was there an answer.

[nw_arizona_granny]

There have been several power outages on Plum Island, for some reason, there are many union strikes and in one the power was out and none of the generators would work.

they realy did seal the lab doors with Duct tape.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Earlier this year, a Pakistani nuclear scientist named A.Q. Khan confessed
to his role in a black market network that has been acting as a "one-stop
shop" for those seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Reports indicate that the
network, which has operated undetected for more than a decade, has provided
nuclear weapon designs, sensitive materials, and 24-hour technical support to
customers worldwide -- including North Korea, Iran, and Libya.
The New York Times has called the Khan network "one of the most complex
and successful efforts to evade international controls to stop nuclear
proliferation." Moreover, Khan's confession has sparked international concern
that other such networks may exist and that terrorists and rogue states may
have greater access to nuclear technology than previously thought.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-22-2004/0002198148&EDATE

[nwctwx]

That's true. I hope the ones that attend my school are a little more civilized than his butchers though! I have wondered about several students I have met, but for the most part.. they are just as 'American' as you or I.

My Arabic teacher is a student from Lebanon, I honestly had some level of distrust for him for a long while (I would always ask him questions during the elevated alerts and he was sheepish with his answers). At the end of the year, the 2 other people left in the class and I sat and talked with him for a few hours about everything that is going on. He let me know that he does not support any of the terrorist acts against America and that he does not understand the reasoning the terrorists give for their actions. When the subject of Iraq came up, he was a little more angry with the US. He told us never to go there, he said it was not our war and we do not deserve to die for the cause. I guess I disagreed with him a bit on his belief over that subject, but all in all he is a good guy. I do believe a majority of the Muslims in the US are.

[liberallyconservative]

Googling the terms "plum island security breaches" I found this on the first page:

October 22, 2003 Previous | Next
Animal lab inquiryProblems persist at biocontainment research facility on Plum Island | By John Dudley Miller

Confirming continuing congressional allegations, a General Accounting Office (GAO) report says that until June of this year, security at the nation's top laboratory for deadly animal diseases was dangerously lax. Although many improvements have since been made, the lab's acting director admits that security is still not as tight as it needs to be.

"This report is not just a wake-up call; it's a blaring alarm," said Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY), a persistent critic whose district includes the Plum Island Animal Disease Center...

The probe revealed that USDA officials once allowed eight foreign scientists free rein in the biocontainment area where diseases are stored, even though they had never undergone mandatory federal background checks. Foreign students attending classes at the facility never underwent such checks either. Because guards carried unauthorized firearms, local police departments refused to agree to provide assistance during potential bioterrorist attacks.

Physical security was also inadequate, said the report, which Harkin released Monday (October 20) after a 30-day review period. Electronic locks on doors and on refrigerators containing disease samples did not work correctly. Some outdoor security cameras looked out blindly over areas too dark to see anything at night because USDA had never installed adequate security lighting.

(excerpted)

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031022/04

[WestCoastGal]

These 19 all appeared to be part of our society, went about living here unsuspected.........

) Khalid Al-Midhar - Possible residence (s) : San Diego, California and New York, New York; Visa Status: B-1 Visa, but B-2 Visa had expired.

2) Majed Moqed - No information available.

3) Nawaq Alhamzi - Possible residence (s) : Fort Lee, New Jersey and Wayne, New Jersey and San Diego, California.

4) Salem Alhamzi - Possible residence (s) : Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Wayne, New Jersey.

5) Hani Hanjour - Possible residence (s) : Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California. Believed to be a pilot.



American Airlines #11
Boeing 767
7:45 am departed Boston for Los Angeles
8:45 am crashed into North Tower of the World Trade Center

1) Satam Al Suqami - Date of birth used: June 28, 1976; Last known address: United Arab Emirates.

2) Waleed M. Alshehri - Dates of birth used: September 13, 1974/January 1, 1976/ March 3, 1976/ July 8, 1977/ December 20, 1978/ May 11, 1979/ November 5, 1979; Possible residence (s) : Hollywood, Florida/ Orlando, Florida/ Daytona Beach, Florida; Believed to be a pilot.

3) Wail Alshehri - Date of birth used: July 31, 1973; Possible residence (s) : Hollywood, Florida, and Newton, Massachusetts; Believed to be a pilot.

4) Mohamed Atta - Date of birth used: September 1, 1968; Possible residence (s) : Hollywood, Florida/ Coral Springs, Florida/ Hamburg, Germany; Believed to be a pilot.

5) Abdulaziz Alomari - Date of birth used: December 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979; Possible residence: Hollywood, Florida; Believed to be a pilot.



United Airlines #175
Boeing 767
7:58 am departed Boston for Los Angeles
9:05 am crashed into South Tower of the World Trade Center

1) Marwan Al-Shehhi - Date of birth used: May 9, 1978; Possible residence: Hollywood, Florida; Visa Status: B-2 Visa; Believed to be a pilot.

2) Fayez Ahmed - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

3) Ahmed Alghamdi - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

4) Hamza Alghamdi - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

5) Mohald Alshehri - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.



United Airlines #93
Boeing 757
8:01 am departed Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco
10:10 am crashed in Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania

1) Saeed Alghamdi - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

2) Ahmed Alhaznawi - Date of birth used: October 11, 1980; Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

3) Ahmed Alnami - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

4) Ziad Jarrahi - Believed to be a pilot.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Every disease known to man is there and some we don't know about.

Your "Dog Disease", for that one, you get a 100+.

That is an excellent tie and makes sense to me.

There are also labs in Texas and Ohio and who knows where else, seems that there have been several reports of "trouble" in Texas.

I know there was the one Texas College man who lost the vials of germs (?), that was up on the panhandle, I have a hunch there is another lab in Texas, down near the sea.

It is near the sea that I keep thinking there was news of trouble in this year.

My computer is too old to open Promedmail.org so that is lost to me. It won't even open my email box at Yahoo, now that the new system is in.

Thanks and good for you, good thinking.

[JustPiper]

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[DAVEY CROCKETT]

FYI

Deadly virus kills 20 dogs within weeks
By DANIEL SLUGGETT
June 24, 2004

AN outbreak of what has been described as "the SARS virus for dogs" is sweeping the Port Lincoln area – killing more than 20 dogs in the past three weeks.

Vets in the region say a deadly strain of the parvo virus has struck the southern part of the city, infecting about 40 dogs in the past fortnight, with the potential to spread even further.


http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9937439%5E2682,00.html

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[JustPiper]

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[Cindy]

Thanks for the link.

Yes, I had read that in a foreign news release and just thought...
well, how sad...that poor man must have been terrified.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Good find!

Why am I not surprised that other networks might exist?

I cannot find my note on it, think it might have been on
one of the long lists of news, but the one I am thinking of, is about a country that was going to close its nuclear Department next year and if it did so, there will be 900 Nuclear scientists out of work............

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Castro warns Bush against invading Cuba

HAVANA (AFP) - President Fidel Castro Monday warned his colleague George W. Bush not to make war on Cuba and offered health care to 3,000 Americans who cannot afford it.
"You would not win that war," he told an absent Bush while addressing a crowd of 200,000. "You will not find glory in military action against Cuba," because "your march on Cuba would not be easy."

http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/wed/jun23w24.htm

[Domestic Church]

Plum Island always brings anthrax to my mind.

[WestCoastGal]

Is this on at 7:15?