Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eleven

WND ^ | 6/24/04 | N/A

[CJ Wolf]

Hey all, been on travel to the old country for the past week. Haven't been able to catch up here, got work to do ya know.

From this past weeks personal experience, I'll tell you the people in Europe sound much different in person then they are depicted in the press. It was comforting, but I realized we have the same type of distortion going on in the press here. Anti-Americanism is just a sales tool for the media, It's almost shock-jock type. CNN is worse over there then here. And Che' appears to be the "cool" in thing for the unwashed, I couldn't believe how many of those shirts and backpacks I saw. I wonder how the dead commie likes his image being used as a such a capitalist tool. Ironic.

Anyrate, Everyone have a great 4th and I'll catch up later. If you want to point me toward anything pressing please do!

[milkncookies]

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Office of Administration

Notice of Meeting of the Commission on the Intelligence
Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (``Commission'') will meet in closed session on Wednesday, July 14, 2004, and Thursday, July 15, 2004, in its offices in Arlington, Virginia.

Executive Order 13328 established the Commission for the purpose of assessing whether the Intelligence Community is sufficiently authorized, organized, equipped, trained, and resourced to identify and warn in a timely manner of, and to support the United States Government's efforts to respond to, the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction, related means of delivery, and other related threats of the 21st Century. This meeting will consist of briefings and discussions involving classified matters of national security, including classified briefings from representatives of agencies within the Intelligence Community; Commission discussions based upon the content of classified intelligence documents the Commission has received from agencies within the Intelligence Community; and presentations concerning the United States' intelligence capabilities that are based upon classified information. While the Commission does not concede that it is subject to the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 United States Code Appendix 2, it has been determined that the July 14-15 meeting would fall within the scope of exceptions (c)(1) and (c)(9)(B) of the Sunshine Act, 5 United States Code, Sections 552b(c)(1) & (c)(9)(B), and thus could be closed to the public if FACA did apply to the Commission.

DATES: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), and Thursday, July 15, 2004 (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.).

[Quix]

I believe the news distortions are a deliberate slant as a result of deliberate orders from the puppet masters.

The globalists are working 24/7 to bring about the evil world government and to set the stage for it every way they can.

The Jihadi's are just ignorant that they are a tool of the puppet masters, to be terminated themselves when they are done with.

[milkncookies]

Now it's orcas and penguins...

SAN JUAN ISLANDS Sun Link

Missing orcas pose a mystery

• All of K-Pod and seven members of L-Pod haven't returned on schedule.

By Christopher Dunagan, Sun Staff

Killer whale researchers are wondering what has happened to about 30 Puget Sound orcas that have not returned from their winter travels. They normally appear in the San Juan Islands in early June. (SNIP)

(SNIP) "It's like they disappeared off the face of the Earth," Berta said, "but we know they're out there somewhere." (SNIP)

[JustPiper]

Getting ready to make the new thread

I'd suggest maybe mailing LeadModerator if there are any further problems, I am at a loss when those determined to throw our thread up in arms, they obviously do not care

[Quix]

THANKS TONS FOR YOUR COURAGEOUS, PATIENT (mostly, lol!), resourceful, persistent, productive . . .

LEADERSHIP.

Please insure I'm on the ping list for anything you post about anything.

Blessings,

[HipShot]

All of K-Pod and seven members of L-Pod haven't returned on schedule.

Maybe they weren't aware of the schedule. Did anyone give them a copy of it?

[wakingup]

Hello all,
I have never posted on this thread but have lurked here since the first post. I have seen the ones that have came to cause trouble MeThinks probably to make you lose focus. This is the best and most informational thread anywhere on any board! Please don't let the ones that obviously have a different agenda stop your efforts. You are a awesome bunch of people with great insight. Thank you for all the work you have done in the fight against terrorism.

[WestCoastGal]

Welcome wakingup and thanks for the kind words. This IS a very important thread, most are trying to STOP whatever the terrorscum have in mind for us. If WE don't do it, who will?

Latest threat.....................BACK TO HOUSTON

Baytown Plant Increases Security After Threat Scare
FBI Warns ExxonMobil About Chatter Directed At Refinery

POSTED: 11:23 am CDT July 2, 2004
UPDATED: 11:37 am CDT July 2, 2004

HOUSTON -- A Baytown chemical plant elevated security Friday after federal officials notified company officials about threatening chatter directly aimed at the facility, News2Houston reported.

An official with the ExxonMobil Plant, 5000 Bayway Drive, confirmed they are taking precautions over the Fourth of July weekend after a FBI spokesperson and the Department of Homeland Security's weekly general briefing warned of a possible act against gas and chemical plants.

"(Federal officials) issued a request for extra vigilance on everyone's part. Refineries and facilities like ours are mentioned routinely as ones that should be extra careful, which we have been," ExxonMobil spokeswoman Tricia Thompson said. "In response to (this week's briefing), we were requested to take and have taken extra security precautions (for the holiday weekend)."

A FBI spokesman said no direct terror threat had been made, and that chatter heard several months ago and over the last week concerning the ExxonMobil plant turned out not to be credible.

The spokeswoman said there is no specific threat to the ExxonMobil plant as of Friday, and that she was not sure how other plants in the Baytown area were handling the briefing.

"We are taking the precautions that we were asked to take," Thompson said.

Thompson said added security measures include increased vehicle searches, limited facility access and closing some entrances and exits -- basically tightening up and securing the facility.

ExxonMobil employees were not officially told to stay home Friday; however, if an employee felt threatened by the increased security, Thompson said the company would support their decision.

A letter was posted Thursday, notifying employees of federal officials' cause for concern. Baytown residents were also informed about the plant's increased security.

The Baytown Sun received a copy of an internal Exxon Mobil warning that said the company "elected to take more aggressive action in its security profile" after talking to the Department of Homeland Security.

This week's industry warnings were not based on any specific threats, FBI spokesman Bob Doguim said. Rather, they are part of continuous vigilance based on earlier warnings of a possible domestic terrorist strike before Election Day in November.


http://www.click2houston.com/news/3486335/detail.html

[knak]

Looks to be an interesting weekend huh?

[WestCoastGal]

Let's not forget the last FBI bulletin re: this area.

Possible threats VULNERABILITY Houston is considered one of eight U.S. cities most vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack because of:


• A porous Gulf of Mexico coastline and border with Mexico


• A petrochemical industry that holds the military's contract for fuel and supplies 50 percent of the nation's gasoline


• The Texas Medical Center


• NASA's Johnson Space Center


• A nuclear power plant in Bay City


• One of the nation's largest ports


• An international airport named for former President Bush, making it a symbolic target


• More foreign consulates (60) than any city other than New York and Washington, D.C.

[Vigilantcitizen]

And Che' appears to be the "cool" in thing for the unwashed...

Hmmm...do I smell a market for a "Che's still dead, get over it" t-shirt?

[knak]

welcome

[HipShot]

Are there enough Coast Guard vessels to search all inbound ships?

[JellyJam]

Welcome aboard, wakingup! Where do you live? Perhaps you can keep an eye out for us in your neck of the woods.

[milkncookies]

Correction to 4104 : Pelicans, not penguins.

[drymans wife]

Thank You..Keep Lurking..Or maybe join in.

[eastforker]

The security at that plant is a joke. I know I have worked there for years. You would not believe some of the stories about security breaches there.

[drymans wife]

I posted an article about the new Security measures
last night. I will get the link to it.

[WestCoastGal]

Yes unfortunately we will probably never be able to have a holiday without thinking about who may attack us. They are here, let's not fool ourselves!!!

Here is more on Texas that I pulled from the archive at thecabals backup site.

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In a small South Texas town, an illegal immigrant managing a convenience store aroused suspicion by asking customers about explosives -- enough to detonate several city blocks. Investigators said he was also collecting photos of skyscrapers, including ones in Houston.


In Corpus Christi, investigators found 30 illegal immigrants from the Middle East hidden in the bowels of a large ship. The stowaways refused to say why they had come.


And in The Woodlands, the owner of a $350,000 house is about to be sentenced for leading a double life as an arms dealer for terrorists.


Two floors of the FBI headquarters in Houston are devoted to task force operations, giving members a round-the-clock base where they can access secure telephones and computers.


Local police have been sent to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to interview Taliban and al-Qaida detainees, though Powers declined to elaborate on the missions.

"They went to get names and intelligence about possible cells to disrupt," he said.


But Assistant U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez, who serves on the local task force and is chief of the regional Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, said the group thwarted attempts by suspected terrorists to cross the Mexican border into Texas.

In one, a few days after the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, task force members received intelligence that five Iraqis in Mexico City wanted to exchange millions of dinars for U.S. currency and find a smuggler to bring them across the border near Laredo, officials said.

They were believed to be planning an assault on President Bush's Crawford ranch, where they "wanted to blow something up," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Porto, another task force member.

The smuggler they approached sought help from two people with links to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, which has been named a foreign terrorist organization, Martinez said.

"The threat was interrupted and went away," he said. "I can't say how."


Another tip triggered a task force investigation of a convenience store owner in Alice who was seeking explosives and collecting photos of tall buildings. Muhammad Navid Asrar is now in federal prison after pleading guilty to being an undocumented immigrant in illegal possession of 50 rounds of 9 mm bullets, records show.

Asrar, a Pakistani who overstayed his student visa, denied any connection to terrorists, and investigators said they could not prove what he intended to do with the photographs.

However, FBI Agent David Troutman has testified that Asrar remains the subject of an investigation.

"Besides trying to purchase explosives from an oil field worker, Asrar had made donations to the Holy Land Foundation," Martinez said. A federal appeals court in 2003 ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department had ample evidence connecting the Texas-based foundation to a terrorist group blamed for orchestrating suicide bombings in Israel.


"It is the only area in the U.S. with critical infrastructure in all risk categories," he added.



Houston also has the nation's second-largest Muslim population, numbering 350,000, and 80 mosques, Martinez said. Yet investigators are quick to stress that they do not use a broad brush to target Middle Easterners.



With the informant's help, investigators were able to track Varela from his fashionable home in The Woodlands to AUC commandants in the Colombian jungles. The trail led to clandestine meetings in Mexico City, London, St. Croix, Panama City and San Jose, Costa Rica. Eventually, a case was built against Varela and three others, all of whom have pleaded guilty.



Some probes expose breaches in security that need to be corrected, Martinez said, citing the discovery in 2003 of 30 Middle Easterners illegally hiding on a ship in Corpus Christi. The stowaways would not tell investigators why they were sneaking into the country, and they eventually were deported.



The U.S. Coast Guard ordered four armed security guards posted to see that none of the stowaways escaped. None did, but when Coast Guard officers returned they found only three guards on duty. One was asleep and only one was armed. Furthermore, the firm supplying the guards was not licensed to do business in Texas and was owned by a felon convicted of smuggling illegal immigrants, authorities