Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Fifteen

CNN ^ | 07/25/04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Credit: The Cabal

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the Judge and get informed.


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

Group linked to al Qaeda warns of 'columns of car bombs'

Australia and Italy have received warnings through a statement purportedly from militants linked to al Qaeda that demanded those countries withdraw troops from Iraq.

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



Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

LINK TO THREAD FOURTEEN

[MamaDearest]

Gotta go connect some dots!!!

You're a bad boy if the dots are on the belly dancer!

[MWestMom]

Reading now before bed. Now you have mail. Thanks!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks for posting these article links, Honestly.

"And instead of the war in Afghanistan being the end of Al-Qaeda, the terror group appears to have regained the capacity to plan massive attacks with a presence in over 60 countries; Iraq can be added as a new hospitable base of operations."

The Muslim writer in that first article you linked is wrong with this comment! He is being blatantly disingenuous. Right after 911, GWB repeatedly stated that the war on terror was a long-term effort. The writer is so wrongly and deliberately painting GWB and the U.S. as the culprits instead of al qaeda and all the Muslim and Arab nation supporters of terrorism. GROWL!

[MamaDearest]

The only shame here is that the "missing" terrorists in Morroco are not missing in the way my imagination would have them gone.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Sorry, my previous post was to Myrddin instead of Honesty.

[JellyJam]

more fun in Phoenix ....

PHOENIX (AP) — A fire at an electrical substation early Tuesday left about 50,000 northwest Phoenix homes and businesses without power. It was the second substation fire in the area in two weeks.

All but 13,000 homes and businesses had power restored within two hours of the 2:30 a.m. fire, said Damon Gross, spokesman for Arizona Public Service Co. The fire damaged one of three transformers at a substation, but APS had a replacement, he said.

Investigators didn’t immediately know what caused the fire, but Assistant Fire Chief Bob Khan said it was probably an internal problem. “Nothing seems suspicious at this time,” he said. The fire was put out in about two hours, he said.

Earlier, Gross had said security was stepped up at some facilities “just to err on the side of caution.”

[Honestly]

I always weigh the source and use discernment when making any conclusions. Frequently I find articles that have valuable information but also have a slant that I don't appreciate. As with all reading, I try to glean what I can about the bad guys and disregard the misinformation.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Morocco: Not just your Casablanca movie backdrop anymore...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Morocco: Not just your Casablanca movie backdrop anymore...

[drymans wife]

Thanks Flutter's for your link.

ON THE WEB!!!!!! PLEASE OPEN WITH CAUTION. VIRUSES COULD
HARM YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!


www.hostinganime.com/seer/

www.hostinganime.com/haramin/index.htm

(http://k1mrm.notlong.com

http://k2mrm.notlong.com

www.abualbukhary.net

www.hostinganime.com/qaedoon/index.htm

Hosting Anime appears to run with impunity from at least one branch of the FBI. An agent from the Phoenix FBI recently told a reporter that the Internet Service provider was not suspected of being involved with terrorism, and that investigative efforts toward that end were going down the wrong road.

A few weeks ago the agent ominously said that it would not be a good idea for a reporter to look for additional information about the operators of Hosting Anime.

He added, "You could end up helping people you don't want to help. You may already have." The agent refused to clarify what he meant by the statement.

However, an agent from the Seattle FBI said the bureau would look into the situation.

According to its current Internet registration, the contact information for Hosting Anime is listed as 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Westchester, CA 90045. However, the building manager for that address said that Hosting Anime is not located at this address.

That is also the same location as the one used by www.namecheap.com, an Internet name registration service operated by Richard Kirkendall. That service buys its ability to operate from the Bellevue, WA-based www.enom.com. An employee from that company asked that communications be directed to the abuse department of the organization.

Reached by telephone a few weeks ago, Kirkendall's mother Irma Hernandez said her son lives part of the year in France and could only be reached by e-mail, but she explained the location situation by saying that the Sepulveda address is a mail drop she rented for her son's business.

Hosting Anime's "Mike Smith" supposedly lives in Seattle Washington. However, a phone number listed for Smith was for Seattle's Wharfside Pointe Apartments. The apartment manager said she didn't know anyone called Mike Smith.

During the last few months, Smith has also provided other addresses and contact telephone numbers for his registrant site contact (which in addition to Hosting Anime include among others www.darkfiles.net and www.onefreehost.com). A call to one Seattle number listed was answered by an woman who said she knew nothing about terror and was a very peaceful citizen.

However, an individual speaking on condition of anonymity who called a reporter soon after may have shed some light on the puzzle. He said his teenage son, who has been in trouble before, may have been somehow involved as the telephone number given was for the boy's grandmother and the address given was for his (the father's) home.

The source said, "I'm shocked for both me and my mother. I don't know what's going on. I really don't have any idea but my son plays around with computers a lot."

Due to personal reasons, the individual said he was initially unable to contact his son to find out for sure whether or not he was responsible. However, he later called a reporter and said he had been told indirectly that his son was cooperating with the FBI.

When the father's apparent concern about his son was expressed to the Phoenix FBI agent, the same individual told a reporter that the father wasn't concerned at all. The agent refused to elaborate and a call to the individual who made the statement was not returned.

In addition to the threats of upcoming terrorism and increasing use of Hosting Anime by radical Islamic groups, two beheadings of innocent victims by Islamic militants have been shown on the free web site pages of www.hostinganime.com.

Citing free speech (and now backed up by a court victory in another case), the operators of Hosting Anime continue to make available at www.hostinganime.com/iraqnews1/index.html
the gruesome beheading video and still pictures of 33-year-old South Korean translator Kim Sun-Il.

Hosting Anime also hosts a number of other terror related sites. They include:
www.hostinganime.com/gim/GIMfaroq.htm, www.hostinganime.com/neda2/page/new.htm,
www.hostinganime.com/neda3/sout/index.htm and www.hostinganime.com/meshawir/aljhad.html

Pictures of engineer Paul Johnson after he was beheaded are still prominently displayed on www.hostinganime.com/neda3/sout/index.htm, and www.hostinganime.com/neda2/page/new.htm is a web site with the same design and graphics as an al Qaeda site formerly known as www.alneda.com.

Commenting on the company's hosting of these sites, a Hosting Anime company official commented on a company forum site; http://forums.hostinganime.com/viewtopic.php?t=176 In that forum, Hosting Anime was asked on June 18, "Did you know your services are being used as the official web page for the group that beheaded the American in Saudi? I would hope your company is smart to remove this site from your database."

A Hosting Anime official initially thanked the individual for bringing fact that to his attention.

However, when the site remained on line, another letter was written to Hosting Anime, (sic) "This is ... pathetic. Delete it already. Block the freaking IP address. QUIT ALLOWING TERRORIST WEBSITES TO BE HOSTED ON YOUR SYSTEM FOR DAYS BEFORE YOU GET RID OF THEM. Block this IP, find all other ones, block them. You are American? Quit letting them spread their message unless you agree with what they do."

He received a shocking response (http://forums.hostinganime.com/viewtopic.php?t=176) from Hosting Anime.

"We will look into this manner when we have time, this is a free hosting company, and there are no profits being made, so that we can afford to sit and review all emails/abuse reports as this takes a large amount of time. Please give us time to get that done, in the mean time, please take the first amendment into consideration, free speech, just because you don't like the content of a site does that mean it should be shutdown?

"An email sent to me this morning I think is worth posting on the subject:

"‘Hey, screw those people that didn't like the site. They didn't have to go there to begin with, and whoever accused you of supporting terrorism has totally lost it. What about us who want to know why these people think the way they do and act the way they do ??? It's about communicating and I think it SUCKS that you cave to a few that would rather just throw a blanket over their head's and hope when they lift it off themselves, everything will be just fine. It makes me SICK !!'

"As stated, we will take a look into this site and see what can be done in good time."

In response to a further complaint, the Hosting Anime System Administrator wrote, (http://forums.hostinganime.com/viewtopic.php?t=176),

"Thank you for your additional comments on this matter, nothing can be done at this time, we will review the site and decide what is best.

"If you have looked at some of our users web pages, you will see that there are no banners/pop ups on our users pages, that means no income. If you don't want me to use that excuse, what excuse would you like to hear? It's either I lie to you or tell you the truth, I have told you the truth, if you don't accept that, feel free to imagine whatever you would like."

Hosting Anime appears to host its terror sites by renting space on the servers of the Houston based Everyone's Internet, which has hosted sites in the past for groups such as the Hamas.

Everyone's Internet did not return a number of e-mails seeking comment but did generate an automated response which read in part, "We have received your report of possible abuse of our network resources. The current number of notifications that require investigations limits the number of personal responses from the staff to senders and this might be the only response you receive regarding your notification; however, we do investigate each report."

In addition, when asked recently if EV1 administration would respond to an e-mail seeking answers about the company's continued relationship with Hosting Anime, a receptionist said, "If they're interested they will contact you. All we say is that they're unavailable and we can take a message."

Jeremy Reynalds

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Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter. The shelter web site is http://www.joyjunction.org.
He was honored with the prestigious Jefferson Award in 1994. Reynalds emigrated from England to the United States in 1978 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1999. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in intercultural education at Biola University, located in La Mirada, California, just outside Los Angeles.

He is also the author of two books and a contributor to a third, which deals with the media's images of the homeless. He may be reached by e-mail at jeremy@joyjunction.org.

[Domestic Church]

Just found the thread...thank you!!!

Bookmarking after being out in the wilderness!

[Honestly]

Is this the fire that was previously thought to have been caused by bird droppings?

[MamaDearest]

Prior to retiring, one of the cities we considered moving to was Tucson. After investigating problems with illegals there, we marked that city off our list for consideration:

Bus Company Transports Illegals Over Western USA

Hours After 9/11 41 Iraqis and 13 Yemeni terrorists attempted to cross into USA from Mexicdo

This article is a little old, but it gives you a good idea how many terrorists have undoubtedly crossed the border since it was written...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Yes, that is key. He actually makes a good and seemingly valid assessment of al qaeda's aims, but I was so mad over that slam of GWB/U.S. early on that I almost didn't finish reading the piece.

[MamaDearest]

I know just what you mean. Cashmir, Istanbul, all those exotic places that held smoldering intrigue. I imagine the travel business is not what it used to be. Too bad the locals don't cause the terrorist minorities a little terror of their own. Exterminating them is the ONLY way to rid our planet of them (again, cockroach comparison).

[BurbankKarl]

Four parachutists said to have landed on Tip O'Neill Federal Building next door to Fleet Center in Boston. SWAT teams on the way... Developing...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Parachustist's land on Boston Federal Building
Drudge Report ^ | 7/25/04 | Drudge


Posted on 07/26/2004 12:37:55 AM EDT by CedarDave


Four parachutists said to have landed on Tip O'Neill Federal Building next door to Fleet Center in Boston. SWAT teams on the way... Developing... Drudge

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178487/posts

[JellyJam]

That lede says early Tuesday ... that can't be right. It must be "Sunday."

[drymans wife]

OMG!!!!!!!! If this story turns out to be true, it
leaves me very concerned. Remember, the Balloons,
gliders and parachute theory.

[HipShot]

It's about time.