Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirteen

WND ^ | 7-11-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

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HOMELAND INSECURITY

Backup electrical systems failed to kick in

A mysterious power failure at Logan Airport that delayed dozens of flights for more than five hours has still not been explained – six days later.

Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.

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

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[Quix]

i certainly still feel that way.

[Velveeta]

Off topic, but a topic we've discussed:

Communist Party USA supports John Kerry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171567/posts

[drymans wife]

I think someone needs to pray for our President to lead
this Nation through horrific times as we fight terrorism.
But what is even more despicable is what the demon-crats
are trying to turn this country into. To me they are
much more degrading than what the terrorist are doing.

WE CAN NOT LET THEM HAVE CONTROL OF THIS NATION IN ANY
FORM. NOT THE TERRORIST, NOT THE DEMON-CRATS!!!!!!!

[Domestic Church]

Bookmarking 2242.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Iran has some of the same buzz words

"Iran's counter-response is likely to be called 'sudden death' and 'the Angel of Death suddenly revealed.' That very day, those who resist [Iran] will be struck from directions they never expected. The heartbeat of the crisis is undoubtedly [dictated by] the hand of Iran

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD74304

[drymans wife]

Thanks Davey, I am just about to the point to say
"NUKE EM", before they nuke us.

[xzins]

I don't think they have them.

(I agree that they do exist...you can see that in my post. Just that a major nuclear power would be the ones who could miniaturize them into suitcases.)

My reason: they haven't used them.

I have no doubt they would have been used if they have them. The attack on Iraq would have been the ideal provocation and it didn't produce a nuke attack. This is especially true, if, as we are told that have about 20 or more of these things.

Surely one of them would have been blown to send a message.

They don't have them, in my view.

BUT...if we are ever attacked by nukes, we should respond with nukes. There should be no doubt about that. We should respond whether we're certain who did it or not.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

FYI
Florida Citizens to Help Catch Terrorists
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

MIAMI — Law enforcement officials in central Florida are planning to train cable repairmen, exterminators and apartment managers to report signs of terrorism inside their clients’ homes.

Supporters of the program say making private citizens the eyes and ears of the police will save lives.

But opponents, like the ACLU (search), call the plan “un-American” and say it’s a violation of privacy.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125598,00.html

[HipShot]

I'm not sure that we can compare what our soldiers are doing in Iraq to what would happen if we were in proximity to these extremist states that raise their children this way.

[liberallyconservative]

This just posted...

Expert: Spain ignored mosque tied to bombs
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/14/04 | Daniel Woolls - AP


Posted on 07/14/2004 9:24:30 PM CDT by NormsRevenge


MADRID, Spain (AP) - The Spanish government deliberately ignored a mosque known for fundamentalist preachings and frequented by suspects in the Madrid train bombings because the facility was financed by Saudi Arabia, an academic expert testified Wednesday... (excerpted)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171632/posts

[Cindy]

That's interesting.
I'll look at that after dinner.

[Pegita]

+ To God be the Glory ... may He look with favor upon our beloved country ...

[HipShot]

"My reason: they haven't used them."

Using that logic, no one else has them either, other than the US.

I have no doubt they would have been used if they have them. The attack on Iraq would have been the ideal provocation and it didn't produce a nuke attack. This is especially true, if, as we are told that have about 20 or more of these things."

You're possibly misunderstanding the problem. They are not fighting a defensive war. The only "provocation" that they require is our (and Israel's) existence. Projecting a secular reaction to a religious problem won't work. You're trying to put yourself in their shoes, and that's appropriate as far as it goes, but you also need to put yourself into their minds.

"Surely one of them would have been blown to send a message."

What would that message be? Why would they show their hand, given their announced goals? They are sending plenty of messages. They posture with words. Other than that, they act. These guys are highly trained, highy motivated, and highly educated. They have a plan for long term victory. There will be no truce or compromise. Islam demands that we submit or die. That's at the very core of their religion, and hence at the very core of our problem.

I'm going to paraphrase this again, becuse I don't remember the actual words that are hammered into them in their training:

"I will be patient until patience is tired of being patient."

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Check out the source on this article.....hhhmmmmm

High radioactivity recorded in Israel


Wednesday 14 July 2004, 13:29 Makka Time, 10:29 GMT


The Dimona nuclear plant is situated in the Negev desert



Related:
Israel: No nuclear talks now
Freed Vanunu: Inspect Israeli nukes

Worringly high levels of radioactivity have been discovered in southern Israel's underground water table.


According to scientific research published on Wednesday, the soaring radioactivity levels measured in the Negev Desert and in the Arava valley are caused by natural radioactive elements such as uranium and radon gas.

But Professor Avner Vengosh, who co-authored the study by Ben Gurion University, dismissed any relation between the abnormal findings and the nearby nuclear plant of Dimona, also in southern Israel.

Contaminated water?


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AE4FB40C-5F1C-4AED-B02C-2EEAB498AA6B.htm

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Russia to sell planes to Cuba



Moscow, Russia, Jul. 14 (UPI) -- The Cuban government has agreed to pay $100 million for two passenger planes from the Russian manufacturer Ilyushin.

Cubana Aviation and Ilyushin Finans Co. signed an agreement for delivery next spring of two large planes that can transport at least 200 passengers, according to the news agency Novosti.

The planes are used widely by the Russian airlines Aeroflot and Domodedovo Airlines. One of the planes also has functions like the Russian version of the American presidential plane, Air Force One. It has transported the Russian president Vladmir Putin, and is named "Putinavia."

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040714-025848-8449r.htm

[nwctwx]

I agree with you 100%.

Just because they have not used WMD against us certainly does not mean they will not. It will be a final resort type of operation, one aimed at destroying us for good. It actually makes sense that they have not hit us yet. They hit us on 9/11 and nearly destroyed our economy, then they waited. They continue to wait until the time is right, the time must be right for them to accomplish their larger goal. Every sinlge piece of what is likely a massive puzzle must come together for them to attain what they want. It takes a long time to plan such an intricate operation.

The exact Quranic verse is: I will be patient until patience wears out from patience.

AQ fighters in Afghanistan training camps chanted it while prepping for, as Saddam called it, "The Mother of All Battles."

Most westerners simply cannot fathom the level of patience inculcated by AQ leadership into their followers.

[cmsgop]

Isn't tomorrow the Al Queda deadline for the European coalition to pull it's troops from Iraq?

[HipShot]

"The exact Quranic verse is: I will be patient until patience wears out from patience."

Thanks! Not I just need to remember it. :)

[xzins]

Using that logic, no one else has them either, other than the US.

We're talking about suicidal, islamofascism as exemplified by musab al zarqawi.

They would have used them if they had them.

[liberallyconservative]

This was just posted as another thread. Good read...

World War III ?? Since 1979
Internet | Capt. Quimette


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171098/posts

Posted on 07/14/2004 7:42:34 AM CDT by captnorb

To stop the spin mongers have them read this.

Some important facts that many don't think about.

You have to read the chronological catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, re-set the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.

U.S. Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!

That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.

It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 23 years.

America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.

America's military had been decimated and downsized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War.A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.

Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.

In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.

Then just six short months later a large truck heavily laden with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.

Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.

The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.

Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.

Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.

The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259. Clinton treated these terrorist acts ascrimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war. The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.

The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.

Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.

A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 andinjuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.

They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.

The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.

And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.

In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.

The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past 23 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough.

America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "...it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.

This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year, this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.

Please forward this to as many people as you can especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action.

Time to wake up !!