Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Sixteen

Yahoo ^ | 8-02-04 | AP

[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."

Link to Thread Fifteen

Police Secure Businesses on Terror Alert
NEW YORK - Police searched trucks, blocked streets and posted machine-gun toting officers outside financial landmarks Monday, a day after the government's chilling warning that terrorists might target the buildings with bombs.

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
-- Jewish proverb

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




"What good are the color codes at all if we are suddenly hit with a bio or chem attack? There would be no warning and the danger would be instant."

"Code Red Implications
Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word."
by MamaDearest

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[Velveeta]

Munitions found in clamshells

Baltimore, MD, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is investigating recent discoveries of munitions found in crushed clamshells used to pave driveways in Delaware.

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040804-094829-9707r.htm

[Indie]

Again??? Or is this the old story ongoing?

[brucecw]

Any 2-bit attorney could blow this false premise out of the water in court and prove with a preponderance of the evidence that the real reason was her religion.

Oh?? There's not a whole lot of evidence detailed in the story at all. IF you could get enough evidence that that was the case (possible but if so it's missing from the story) then the "2-bit attorny" would have a chance. If not then the employee has no case.

Most employment (especially in small companies) is "at-will" - if you don't abide by company policies while at work, you can be terminated without recourse. If you admit violating those policies, proving that the real reason was religious becomes very problematic.

Look, I agree she was in all liklihood treated very shabbily - but that isn't a Federal crime. However if the law worked any other way it would be impossible for small business owners to ever feel safe employing anyone.

[Velveeta]

Looks new to me. I'd heard about them found hidden in clamshells before, but not ground into driveway material.

[Velveeta]

I thought the 12/2003 interview was proven to be a hoax?

Asuquf = fuq usa

[Velveeta]

4 cites alright.

So, who is Khodja Kahn? There's nothing on google.

[Cindy]

"Not found" because you have ... as part of the url and therefore, I did not click on a correct url.

Let's check the root site and see if it is up:

http://www.alqassam.net

Ok, WARNING...DO NOT VISIT THIS DISGUSTING, DISTURBING SITE.

Thanks Velveeta for the info.

[HipShot]

My opinion of EOM is fairly obvious to anyone who reads my sig.

I don't believe him.

I do believe that most of us (americans) are suffering from some mass "awareness" of an impending event. I believe that TPTB are holding their breath. All indications point towards a major event, and EOM is taking advantage of that. It may even be his job to do that.

When whatever is going to happen does happen, it won't be because he predicted it. He's been doing that "2 week" or "72 hour" or "soon" thing for too long to be given any real credence.

OTOH-- He is giving us the only target info outside of the obvious. I even have my doubts about that. Were I a goblin, my targetting priorities would be different.

As far as the "War Games" thing, we're talking about different missions. There's probably the same or similar primary means of communication between the individual cells and their contact. There's no way that the guys planning on the building attacks are part of the same cell(s) that are assigned to creating radioactive slag.

[Selene]

Great summary. Thanks for that.

I would have to quit my job to keep up with the number of posts in the last few weeks.

[HipShot]

I'll take your word for it. I hadn't paid any attention to it before.

[nwctwx]

Reminders:

•	Tom Ridge : NYC, DC, N. NJ : Orange Alert	US News	8/1/04
•	Threats Against Italy & Europe Mount	World News	7/28/04
•	Usama bin Laden Speeches Re-Released	World News	7/23/04
•	A Look Back : al Qaida's Nuclear Fatwa	US News	7/23/04
•	Possible al Qaida Threat Against Italy	World News	7/15/04
•	Osama's Revenge : Quotes & Analysis	Book Review	7/14/04
•	Tom Ridge Speech : Growing Threat	US News	7/8/04

[JellyJam]

GROUP PLANS ILLEGAL PROTESTS AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK — Members of a group opposed to the Republican National Convention, many describing themselves as anarchists, said Wednesday that they would carry out illegal protest activities on the convention’s second day.

Organizers in the group, the A31 Action Coalition, said they were calling for a nationwide day of nonviolent civil disobedience on Aug. 31 aimed at using parts of Midtown to stage demonstrations, without permits, against the Bush administration. The organizers said they were looking to break free of government intervention to have their say; they called the process for issuing protest permits broken and criticized the city’s practice of using metal barriers to create rally areas or march routes.

“It is here, at the end of the barricades, that we will create free-speech zones, where we can create the kind of world we want to see through music and free food and dancing and debate,” said Tim Doody, an organizer, at a news conference at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, in the East Village. He added that that if asked to move, participants planned to sit down and refuse. “Freedom of assembly isn’t so free if you have to ask the government where, when or if.”

Throughout the day, organizers said, participants plan to demonstrate outside a variety of institutions, including a Bank of America finance round table planned the morning of Aug. 31 at Tavern on the Green and several corporations they see as contributing to the Bush administration’s foreign policies or profiting from them. That evening, the protesters plan to converge around the convention site, Madison Square Garden, outside the official protest zone. The coalition, still being formed, represents a broad array of interests, including education, welfare and opposition to the war in Iraq.

[nwctwx]

8:1:2004	8:2:2004
Orange Alert : NYC, DC, N. NJ	Bush Calls for Intelligence Director
Tom Ridge's Comments	Raid Uncovered al Qaida Plans for Attacks
Update : Financial District Threats	Reports Leading to Alert Were Years Old
Focus : The Citicorp Center	Sources : More Targets Cited by al Qaida
Captured al Qaida Figure Led to Information	Zarqawi Trying to Get Message to bin Laden
Chuch Bombings in Iraq & Afghanistan	Afghans Move Closer to Mullah Omar Capture
-	Iraq : Clashes Reported Near al Sadr Home
-	Crude-Oil Futures Flirt With $44 a Barrel
8:3:2004	8:4:2004
Building Plot an Inside Job	al Qaida's Terror Plot Was Active
Source : Terror Attack to be in Early September	al Qaida May Have Made Contact in US Recently
Terror Alert 'Essential,' Ridge Asserts	FBI Fears al Qaida Suspects are in New York City
Intelligence Behind Alert 'Chilling,' Not Old	UK Arrests al Qaida Operative
A Look Back : Tape Shows al Qaida Casing WTC	U.S. Struggles to Grasp Scope of Threat
Two Senior al Qaida Suspects Arrested in Pakistan	Terror Warnings : How Much to Reveal?
Police Arrest 13 in Anti-Terror Operation	Guantanamo : Detainee Vows to 'Kill Americans'
Unusual Illegal Border Crossing Draws Attention	Crude Oil Sets Records in London

[Cindy]

As we discussed yesterday, more or less, "C_THIS" is a piece of ____.

[Velveeta]

Oh dear, sorry.

[Velveeta]

I saw it was debunked on one of the forums. Can't remember which at the moment. Maybe TB2K or abovetopsecret. If I run across that thread, I'll let you know.

[ExSoldier]

I treat news of cells unraveling with great skepticism. By their very nature cells are not supposed to be hooked into anything, for just the reason that they are able to avoid detection. Cells hooked together would have to all be working on the same operation and that might be truly unworkable for a number of reasons. Logistics and security being chief among them.

Yes, perhaps some cells have a "handler," and arresting this person might well yield info to the cell members but I find it highly unlikely the info would be on somebody's hard drive. I also find it highly unlikely that a "handler" would roll over very easily, unless he was a CIA/you name the alphabet agency asset to start with.

Even IF a number of cells have formed a "network" and they are compromised, that would still leave thousands (how many did I post the other night? 70,000?) of free roaming terrorists who may be charged with specific missions or free agents looking for targets of opportunity. It's just the nature of covert operations is designed to preclude exposure in such simple fashion. These guys aren't playing games of hide and seek. It's deadly serious business and if they win we lose a lot of folks. Either way, for them, it's most likely a one way trip for them and they know it, so why not go to Allah with style and enough infidel points to win the big prize?

[HipShot]

No biggy, really. I trust your memory and judgement.

[Honestly]

Pakistan arrests more than 20 al-Qaida members, officials say

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - (KRT) - More than 20 al-Qaida members have been arrested in Pakistan in the past three weeks, partly because of efforts to flush out foreign fighters in the country's tribal areas, officials said Wednesday. (snip)

In the past 48 hours, two other al-Qaida members from Africa have been arrested, but the government would not identify them, Hayyat said. Another man, with a reward of several million dollars offered for his capture, was arrested in the past three weeks, said Hayyat, who declined to identify the man. (snip)

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/9320636.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Could this unidentified man with a reward of several million dollars on his head be al-Zarqawi, as was reported last Friday and then denied by TPTB? Last report was that DNA was being tested. It would explain a lot, but I'm probably engaging in wishful thinking.

[Indie]

However if the law worked any other way it would be impossible for small business owners to ever feel safe employing anyone.

Now I know who you are.