Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Sixteen

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[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!

[British chick]

Please can we stop this discussion? I for one do not want to see this thread get pulled again. Let's draw a line under this.

[brucecw]

[Why are you brucecw coming out of the woodwork to defend the islamic "god" on this as well??? And that IS what you are doing.]

Why am I not surprised that you want to put these kinds of words into my mouth????? There is NOTHING in my post that could be taken that way - in fact just the opposite.

I have said before on this forum, and in fact what I posted implies, that I think it very likely that Islam is not merely an antichristian (small a) religion, but is in fact the religion of the Antichrist (big A). Is that not enough for you???

But I did not reach this conclusion because of any cheap linguistic trick about what word they use to mean "God" (after all, the root of the English word also was originally applied to various pagan gods)!

My grandfather the preacher used to complain about parishioners who thought that "if the King James Version was good enough for Paul and Silas, it's good enough for them." You're giving the impression of having a similar uneducated view of Christianity.

[freeperfromnj]

Al-Qaeda 'determined to attack'

From correspondents in New York August 09, 2004

US officials may issue new public safety alerts based on information from computer discs seized during the arrests of suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Britain last week, reports say.

US and British intelligence officials are analysing the content of more than 1000 discs, which "appear to contain evidence of previously unknown terrorist planning activities in the United States", according to the New York Times.

"As a result, Bush administration officials are preparing for the possibility of expanded public and private threat alerts," the daily said quoting an unnamed intelligence source.

In intelligence gleaned from arrests of al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan, "we've seen that al-Qaeda appears determined to attack again in the near term", a government official told the newspaper.

The United States on August 1 heightened security around five key financial centres in Washington and the New York area, based on information found in a laptop seized during an arrest in Pakistan.

US homeland security chief Tom Ridge said in The Wall Street Journal Monday that 40 pages of computer files contained a "shocking" level of detail about the five buildings.

Meanwhile, there was new information about vehicles Al-Qaeda has considered using in terror attacks - tourist helicopters and limousines.

New York tourist helicopters are "an area of identified risk based on specific and credible intelligence" from Pakistan, a security official told The Times.

[ExSoldier]

Or perhaps a concrete or "mystical" rebuilding of the temple, resumption of the sacrifice and burnt offerings, and rise of the Antichrist?

Bingo! Head of the class and you get to go out to recess, early.

[Velveeta]

Regarding the Monica Crowley incident. That is interesting. I wonder why the air space was close off then?

[Velveeta]

Wasn't "Jaffar the Pilot" spotted in Honduras?

What a good memory you have! I believe you're right.

[NCjim]

Mark for later.

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

OOPS! I'm so embarassed! Forgive me, I do know which book you're talking about (& heard the author's name revealed too). I'll try to be more careful.

...extracting foot from mouth...

[texasbluebell]

Don't worry about it! (Good book too, if you need one to add to your list!)

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Those $#@%^&*!. Out of all the possible pics of Tom Ridge past, present and live, this is the one deliberately chosen:

US homeland security chief Tom Ridge defended the timing of recent terror alerts in the United States, saying the 'shocking new detail' of Al-Qaeda reconnaissance of US buildings compelled officials to act immediately(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Chernin)

Here is the original link (can't make it clickable because I am using html to show pic above):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040809/photos_pl_afp/040809143419_sblje1tt_photo0

[Mossad1967]

An interesting item That I came across at Timebomb2000.com (Public area):
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=112316

By Islamic Calendar, August 10, 2004 is 3rd anniv. of 9/11

I had a thought and when I followed through, made me a bit more concerned for the immediate future. The thought: What if OBL is using the Islamic calendar rather than the Julian calendar to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks?

Went to http://www.moonsighting.com/calendar.html which is the Islamic calendar for North America.

Sept. 11, 2001 was the date 23 Jumada II.
(ref: http://www.moonsighting.com/2001.html )

Tomorrow, August 10, 2004, is 23 Jumada II.
(ref: http://www.moonsighting.com/2004.html)

This may prove to be nothing, but consider this to be a heads up to be extra vigilent today and tomorrow.

[MamaDearest]

my short term memory has flown the coop! I got 3 herbs to help ehance it but guess what, seriously? I forgot to take them!

ROFL - but you always remember how to get back to TM and that's a good sign.

[Godzilla]

"In light of the rising frequency of human/grizzly bear conflicts, the Montana Department of Fish and Game is advising hikers, hunters, fishermen and campers to take extra precautions and to keep alert for bears while in the field." "We advise outdoorsmen to wear noisy little bells on their clothing to not startle bears that aren't expecting them. We also advise outdoorsmen to carry pepper spray with them in case of an encounter with a bear."

LOL, what do grizzlies think about when they hear the bell - supper

"Grizzly bear manure has little bells in it and smells like pepper."

ROTFLAICGU

[JellyJam]

Thanx for posting that turd's ugly mug. :-)

[texasbluebell]

And people wonder why anyone would question the motivations of some (many) in the media...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Anyone here game to attend the next summit with me? ;)

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Monday, August 09, 2004

Al-Qaeda plans to hold summit near Afghan-Pak border, plots new strikes

Press Trust of India/Agence France Presse

New York, August 9: High-level al-Qaeda operatives from around the world had been travelling to Afghanistan-Pakistan border apparently to hold summits that had an uncanny resemblance to the Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000 which firmed up plans for September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, a media report said on Monday.

For several months, it said, the US government had been picking up reports from its spies, electronic intercepts, and "liaison services" (friendly intelligence services) of a Qaeda plot to strike the American homeland before the November elections.

But no one seemed to know the essential details: what were the targets? When would al-Qaeda strike? And were the attackers already in the United States? "We are in the midst of al-Qaeda efforts to attack the US on a scale as big or larger than 9/11," John Brennan, chief of the Terrorist Threat Integration Centre, the inter-agency operation that consolidates threat, information and produces the President's daily threat report, was quoted as saying.

Newsweek reports that the arrest of Qaeda operative Abu Issaal-Britani came after Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), the 9/11 mastermind who was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, gave up his name during interrogations.

Al-Britani is a Pakistani-born militant who holds a passport from the United Kingdom. Better known as Esa-al-Hindi, he was dispatched by KSM - and, possibly, Osama bin Laden himself - to case targets in New York City, Newsweek said.

According to a secret FBI report quoted by the magazine, al-Hindi Since 9/11, al-Hindi, the magazine said, has been living in Britain at least some of the time and was the subject of on-and-off surveillance. After the Pakistani and CIA captured Qaeda operative Mohammed Neem Noor Khan in mid-July, al-Hindi’s name popped up again potentially as a central player in the "pre-election" plot.

Newsweek reports that al-Hindi was apparently the author of some of those detailed surveillances of the five financial institutions named in the alert. Though the casing was done before 9/11, the CIA was able to determine that the reports were actually written up after the attacks - and that someone called them up on Khan's computer as recently as January.

The magazine says that someone accessed what one senior government official guardedly referred to as "preparatory material" as recently as two or three weeks ago.

A senior US intelligence official told the weekly that the British did not know al-Hindi’s whereabouts when his name came up in the meetings of top officials two weekends ago. Indeed, they were worried that he might actually accelerate plans to strike once his casing reports were revealed.

In another development, according to the document, al-Hindi noticed that a local British imam employed African-American bodyguards with families in Montana.

"KSM tasked him with travelling to Montana to recruit the bodyguards' family members," according the report.


© 2004: Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd. All rights reserved throughout the world.

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=34823

[Godzilla]

Hey, I forgot what you posted that I just read ~tease But serious, my short term memory has flown the coop! I got 3 herbs to help ehance it but guess what, seriously? I forgot to take them!

Is this like losing your mind and not noticing?

[Godzilla]

Please take this to FM, this is getting way off topic.

[Godzilla]

In another development, according to the document, al-Hindi noticed that a local British imam employed African-American bodyguards with families in Montana. "KSM tasked him with travelling to Montana to recruit the bodyguards' family members," according the report.

Now this is interesting. Being a rural state (as well as my home), islam is not that prevalent. There are not that many african americans in the state either. Although the Unibomber was able to live there in relatively obscurity for a considerable time, this is definitly different. They better hope the milita types don't get wind of this.

[tmp02]

What about 311? Spain