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!

[cmsgop]

Anyone know how to ID a rental SUV?

Look for a small barcode sticker in the window.

[Oorang]

Nica-U.S. Military Relations Strengthened
By Tim Rogers
Tico Times Nicaragua Correspondent

snip from article

WEDNESDAY'S meeting at the Pentagon came one week after the Nicaraguan Army destroyed – at the United States' behest – a second batch of 333 surface-to-air missiles, know as SAM-7s. In destroying the shoulder-launch missiles, Nicaragua complied with its promise to reduce its Soviet-era missile stockpile by 30%.

President Enrique Bolaños first announced his administration's plans to destroy the missiles last October, following a request to do so by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The U.S. government expressed concern that the missiles could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used against commercial jetliners. Critics in Nicaragua, meanwhile, argued that Nicaragua should not be forced to give up its only defensive weapons when other countries in the region were not going to surrender their offensive weapons, such as Honduras' fleet of F-5 fighter jets.

http://www.ticotimes.net/cent_amer.htm

[jerseygirl]

Will get list of what I have gleaned for the past 2 months together and present as soon as I can get back on a computer probably tomorrow afternoon. Some does not come from valid sources like NYT- but talk radio and such. So bear with me.

[texasbluebell]

In these circumstances is it permissible for Muslims living in the West to shave off their beards and headcoverings in order to do taqiyyah?

Ah yes, the apparently little known (in the West) practice of the moslems, which lets them deceive their enemies, in order to further the goals of islam.

From what you posted, Donna, it doesn't appear that it applies only to the sect of islam that has supposedly been the main sect to practice taqiyyah. I believe it's the Shi'a who traditionally have used it over the centuries, along with other minority sects.

Moslem apologists, here on FR (not this thread), in the past 3 years, have been quick to state that only the one sect practices this tactic.

But I'm starting to believe it's been appropriated by most of islam at this point.

Anyone know differently?

And I certainly wish our media and our politicians would awaken to the existence of this practice.

[JustPiper]

Bump!

[Lucy Lake]

Chicago politician, Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr., announced on radio talk show Nashville This Morning in October, 2000, the separation of church and state and the tax code simply don’t apply to blacks.

He actually said that? Wonder what the IRS thinks about it.

[JustPiper]

Please tell your husband I hurt for the loss of his sibling, it is so very painful, two of my brother's died abruptly and too young...prayres for all of you!

[Labyrinthos]

Look for a small barcode sticker in the window.

Although all rental cars have the bar codes, not all bar codes indicate a rental car. Many auto service centers also place bar codes on the window.

[JustPiper]

Oh, we plan to give it our all to stop this!
Shades of Stillson!

Please keep researching for the CamPAIN and if Keyes is getting 25% approval after only his beginning we can work it!

[Godzilla]

Thanks for your feelings. Understandably being close to historic and current targeted areas I can understand your concerns. I'm not too far away from left coast target areas. Let me throw out some observations that may help.

However- I keep thinking about how that number 19 enters into their thought patterns.

Although they do have a liking for that number, it really hasn't been a good predictor in the past (911 & 311), same as moon phases. They hit when they are ready and feel they can pull it off.

Also, I keep thinking about how they might well want to move up the attack as so many captures and discoveries are being made currently. (Use it before you Lose it).

Being too hasty could result in having their cover blown wide open. Case in point are the Pali attacks in Israel continually being stopped. Historically AQ has been VERY patient, with multiple years invested in target analysis and prep. They've not been hasty in the past.

More US actions (Coast guard on alert- what is up with GPS and GWEN? What is up with the Red Cross post disaster list that the local red cross did not even know about?)

The coast guard has been working hard since 911 to be to the point that they can impliment the inspections and increased security they are doing now. Operational planning, training and equiping takes time. Red Cross is not immune to comms screw-ups.

Continued bioterror practices scheduled far too late to do any good---October? December? April? Why? To prove that they had a plan in operation?

These have taken place with lower profile in the past as mass casuality exercises -developed after problems with other disasters. Because of the increased problems Bio/Chem create, time would be necessary to sit down and stubby pencil out procedures before trying to practice mock -up exercises. These have to be done routinely to maintain proficiency and iron out problems uncovered from the previous exercise.

Rumors only of well-heeled Americans moving to Montana

LOL, I'd like to see them go through a winter there. :0 Our best response is to take a deep breath, pray and realize that God will not put us into a situation absent of His presence.

[JustPiper]

My son was curious on comments for the pics/posteres he created...anyone like either of them?

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

He would play the race card. Also do a search on FR tons of info. This guy is bad news.

http://www.therant.us/staff/stix/barack_obama_man_of_faith.htm

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

My son was curious on comments for the pics/posteres he created...anyone like either of them?

They were all great. Tell him his work is excellent! I loved the way he framed them.

[Lucy Lake]

They have a webcam.


http://www.us.bahai.org/how/webcam.htm

[JustPiper]

Good hypothesis, but I still believe EOM may have been real pre 911 but other's componded it and used it as a terror tool for a myriad of reasons

[ironcitymike]

NO, I'm more worried about post election dates. While we are rightly concerned about 9-11 style attacks on buildings, I am troubled by the successes in another avenue of attack: assasination. Afghanistan, Iraq and recently Pakistan have seen such attacks, and I'm worried that an election year presents rare opportunities for AQ. Consider what would happen if Kerry/Edwards wins the election, and both are then assasinated. If it happened before the Electoral College meets, then the Dems get to pick a candidate to be voted on by the College. If it's after, I believe that the constitutional and other provisions of succession kick in, meaning that the Speaker of the House, then Senate Pro Tem and down the line of Cabinet members (all currently Republican) take over. How would the country react? I don't know, but I am praying for the Secret Service and our President-Elect, whoever he is come November.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

FYI

Terrorism in Ship Shape

By Russell Seitz Published 08/06/2004
Basking on New England's beaches this time of year, you'll find a few of the old cold warriors once tasked with thinking about the unthinkable. Even lying on the sand, they can point to how terror strikes where vigilance fails. Sky gazing surfers get wiped out by rogue waves rising up behind them.


Despite obsessive airport security, ships outnumber planes 2 to 1, and even one barge can carry more than a fleet of a jumbo jets. The free passage of a billion-ton armada of 40,000 merchant vessels makes freight so cheap that we drink bottled water from Fiji. Even fertilizer circles the globe by the kiloton. Terror's bottom dollar favorite, explosive ammonium nitrate, is a common cargo far more hazardous than liquefied natural gas.



A ship's machinery is dual-use technology incarnate. Compressors that refrigerate can be modified to liquefy air, and liquid oxygen can transform a cargo of charcoal or coal dust into the powerful blasting agent Cardox. Even an empty vessel could fill its hold with ammonium nitrate at sea -- air, water, and energy, are all it takes.



In living memory, seaports have been devastated, and thousands killed, by cargos detonating aboard ships whose International Maritime Organization papers were in perfect order. It makes one wonder if the latest documents touted to stop marine terror can do better than letters of marque and reprisal did in the days of the buccaneers. The foremost Islamic terrorists of the age of sail, the Barbary Pirates, had credentials galore, but their crews of Meds with clubs preferred to arrive unannounced with false flags flying.



Al Qaeda is accomplished in the art of making ships invisible. No one has traced the one that paused between Mombassa and Zanzibar in 1998 to offload the explosives that destroyed two American embassies. As the wakes of vessels of veiled ownership cross, and re-cross, registry can shift, names can be repainted and silhouettes altered. Shipping agents choose crews that can change in every port from among the world's large cast of shady waterfront characters. Just who's on deck is as opaque as their intentions.



Hurricanes, fishermen and drug smugglers aside, coast guards must track 40,000 floating walnut shells and an unknown number of peas. Little wonder 400 Al Qaeda members have been nabbed ashore in Pakistan, while 15,000 interceptions and 200 boardings by NATO naval forces have yielded only 19 fugitives at sea.



Testifying to the House Judiciary Committee on The Comprehensive Antiterrorism Act of 1995, I related measures to help track or defuse deadly cargos. But lobbyists, including an ex-FBI explosives expert, made it clear low prices (a million dollars will fill a tramp steamer with a virtual Hiroshima) leave little margin for them. Even today, ship owners oppose GPS transponders that reveal a vessel's location to competitors.



Another sort of navigational aid poses a worse problem.



Lighthouses may seem unlikely arsenals for terror, but hundreds powered by radioisotopes were left unguarded by the Soviet Union's bankrupt navy. Each contained a canister of reactor fission waste in ferociously concentrated form -- pounds of pure strontium 90 and cesium 137. Some of these ideal and transportable dirty bomb cores are missing, each small enough to send ashore under the radar -- and indeed the bows -- of the most vigilant harbor patrol.



The ton of fertilizer that rattled the World Trade Center a decade before 9-11 barely got our attention. Two years later, two more tons leveled the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Yet the bulk trade in ammonium nitrate continues.



Despite 9-11, last spring a million pound cargo of ammonium dynamite bound for a post office box in the Sudan cruised the Mediterranean for six weeks, aboard a Balkan rust bucket crewed by Azeris and Ukrainians, registered in the (U.S.!) Marshall Islands, and flying the Comoro Islands flag.



Flags of convenience, invented to confuse the issue of wartime neutrality, are a boon to stateless terrorists because many belong not to nations, but corporate fictions. How the maniacs and mercenaries who helm these leaky ships of state manage to manage hundreds of millions of tons of shipping is a comedy of legal manners worthy of Gilbert & Sullivan. Ships of Bolivian registry are rarely seen migrating upstream to Lake Titicaca like lovelorn salmon, and the hallowed Liberian flag of convenience belongs to a private registry domiciled in suburban Virginia.



The Navy can interdict one kamikaze supertanker, but merchantmen using GPS can converge with precision to bowl over coastal patrol craft. Even in this election year Olympic summer, no defensive naval mines have been deployed.



If the new maritime security regime achieved 99.9% success on paper, it would still leave a megaton of shipping unaccounted for in reality. Those dozing on the sand this summer may dream of ships on the horizon sailing to Byzantium, but just one incoming from Basra could bring a rude awakening. Osama Bin Laden is certainly no Sinbad, but the Jolly Roger is still a flag of a thousand faces.


http://www.techcentralstation.com/080604F.html

[JustPiper]

I am worried in gen eral and the thing that sticks in my craw is the Italian deadline of 8/15 and the fact Pooper has had two white SUV incidents in 2 weeks, what are the other things out there we need to keep our eyes wide open for?!

[JustPiper]

Paki per FNC:

they started spying in 2000
Have uncovered 3pc's 50+ disks
pics of hundreds of targets

But hey info is 3-4 yrs old!!!

[JustPiper]

Nichols Asks Forgiveness After Sentencing
{Admission?}

The Jayna/ME connection?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20040809/ap_on_re_us/nichols_sentence_15