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!

[ExSoldier]

I take a .30-30 everytime and never look back. No regrets.

[flutters]

July 30, 2004, TM Headlines

Thread 15 - The number in front of the title denotes the post number.

2752 - Islamic Leader to Plead Guilty in Libya Plot
2758 - HLF Indictments Reveal Link Between Dallas Worker and Terror Group
2763 - Oklahoma Doctor Denounces Indictment Of Islamic Charity Ponca City Pediatrician One Of 10 Board Members For Holy Land Foundation
2771 - BBC NEWS World Americas US Arabs 'fear for their family'
2777 - NETWORK ANALYSIS TO PREVENT ATTACKS
2779 – Cindy’s Links On The Net
2788 - Bulgarian newspaper Says Zarquawi captured
2789 - Phones out in Athens, Greece for 10 Hours
2790 - Meningitis Epidemic in Burundi
2793 - FBI: Al-Qaida may be targeting N.M., Calif.
2794 - China Warns of Military Clash with Taiwan by 2008
2794 - Karachi Put on Alert Against Suicide Bombers
2794 - Islamists Warn Europe Again After Bin Laden Truce (NOT AGAIN)
2794 - Top Al Qaeda Men Resists Pakistani Interrogators
2795 - Israel has 200 nukes
2797 - At Least 10 Said Killed in Belgium Blast
2798 - Belgian Gas Blast Kills 15, Injures 100
2799 - Belguim pipeline explodes
2800 - Belgian Gas Explosion Kills 14, Injures 200
2802 – Cindy’s Links On The Net
2808 - Ridge Tells Colleagues He May Retire
2825 - Report: Explosions at U.S., Israeli Embassies in Tashkent
2826 - Second pasenger saw suspicious behavior on that Syrian musician flight
2832 - Underground Explosions (Colorado)
2838 - Extremists Group Warns of a "new Type" of Battle in Europe
2845 - Turkey Nabs Explosives at Border
2847 - Explosives Found in Gloversville (NY)
2855 - Planners of the next destruction
2858 - Don't let the unexpected happen
2863 - Underground Explosions In Colorado Springs
2865 - Second passenger saw suspicious behavior (Syrian musicians)
2913 - May(AlQaeda)Attack in New Mexico'Postponed,' FBI Reports
2915 – Cindy’s Links On The Net
2920 - Are You Prepared? What U.S. Cities Need to Know About Protection Before Spending Their Department of Homeland Security Funding
2922 - 100 Kilos of Plastic Explosives found going from Iraq into Turkey
2925 - Company President and Wife Indicted for Illegal Sale of National-Security Sensitive Items to Chinese Interests
2929 - Kuwaiti newspaper: Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border
2933 - Part III: Terror in the Skies, Again? [Update!]
2934 - Like Sheep without a Shepherd: The Lack of Leadership in Sunni Islam
2941 - Oil prices shattered record highs Friday, fueled by worries of a disruption in supply
2949 - Conoco-Phillips Looking to Invest in Russian Oil
2954 - YUKOS increases oil exports to China
2960 - Third Terror Threat in Week Seen on Web
2966 - Some Facts to Remember
2974 - Inquiry over 'fuel leak' airliner
2975 - Hanford nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown
2977 – Cindy’s Links On The Net
2981 - Art Using Box Cutter Removed From Airport
2981 - Woman Injured in SF Airport Carjacking
2985 - Four Palestinian makeshift rockets land in southern Israel at different times without causing any casualties
2986 - Russian Oil Companies Hard to Persecute
2991 - W Africa agrees on polio fight
2998 - "Burnham Leaves Philippines After Testifying"
2998 - Arroyo thanks Gracia Burnham
2998 - THE MARTIN AND GRACIA BURNHAM FOUNDATION
2998 - Philippines: Report - Abu Sayyaf hostage Martin Burnham killed, Gracia rescued
3012 – Godzilla’s Summary
3020 – Cindy’s Links On The Web

[flutters]

July 31, 2004, TM Headlines

Thread 15 - The number in front of the title denotes the post number.

3028 - Hackers will settle your scores online (prices start at £50)
3029 - PALESTINIAN COMPANY STEPS UP TO DISTRIBUTE AL QAIDA DOCUMENTS
3029 - WHO WANTS TO EMAIL AL-QAEDA?
3035 - Inside the Ring
3043 - Powell uses Iraq visit to sound Iran warning
3044 - Uncommon bacteria found in seven babies at Westchester hospital; four have died
3057 – 3058 - Can't find Osama bin Laden? Perhaps we're not looking in the right place
3059 - DEBKA is the mouthpiece for MOSSAD
3078 - China leader warns Bush on Taiwan over the phone
3080 - al Qaida builds a Euro Army
3082 – Cindy’s Links On The Net
3083 - Godzilla Summaries : July, 2004
3084 - Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claims Tashkent blasts
3084 - Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: a primer
3086 - NEW YORK - The former police officer who said he found a flaming backpack that exploded
3094 - Hardline threat to al-Aqsa Mosque
3095 - Terrorism Crackdown Goes Beyond Sea-Tac Arrests
3096 - Man Arrested At Sea-Tac Had Been Detained Before Newspaper Reports Man First Detained Around 9/11
3101 - Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
3109 - Palestinians Have Been in Holy Land Since Creation, Video Says
3132 - 7.31.04 - Audio Message from OSAMA Bin Laden
3134 - U.S. census unit offers data on Arabs
3139 - Official: Al Qaeda intends to strike in New York
3141 - Sources: Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
3141 - NEW MEXICO - Al-Qaida postponed New Mexico attack
3142 - Iowa company supplied Internet services for terrorists
3142 - IOWA - Mismarked helicopter puts officials on alert
3142 - NEW YORK - "Suspicious package" found in Gloversville
3142 - FLORIDA - Suspicious Incident Prompts Port Evacuation
3149 - Re: 7.31.04 - Audio Message from OSAMA Bin Laden

[OXENinFLA]

Internet discussion groups

And we busted the "computer geek" when?

[Indie]

Each of us is a warrior in their own way.

You speak the truth my friend.

[flutters]

August 1, 2004, TM Headlines

Thread 15 - The number in front of the title denotes the post number.

3160 - Message From Shaikh Osama to Americans 7-2004
3183 - Today, all of our lives have changed
3195 - Dr. Eugene Mallove is dead
3214 - FBI Confirms Traces of Ricin and rinolic acid Found In Baby Food jars
3214 - F.D.A. Finds Traces of Poison in 2 Jars of Baby Food in California
3214 - Democratic Delegate Has Terror Ties
3214 - 3 Middle Eastern Men Detained Trying To Board OIA Flight On Do Not Fly List
3214 - FBI Issues Terror Warning for Calif., N.M.
3214 - GWB Terminates Exec Order 12722 of August 2, 1990 [IRAQ]
3214 - May(AlQaeda)Attack in New Mexico'Postponed’
3214 - Big Apple Terror? Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
3240 - New York Police Alert Businesses of Terrorist Threat, NYT Says
3247 - Caller claims US attacks by Japan's Red Army to avenge Hiroshima
3247 - 2001-09-11 - Anonymous caller claimed responsibility for attacks in the US
3247 – 2001-09-11 - Japan's Red Army Claims Responsibility for US Attacks: Al Jazeerah
3247 – 1998 – Federation of American Scientists
3267 - Police asked company officials to be on guard for ``infiltration of your operation by individuals seeking employment
3286 - Technical glitch grounds American flights
3291 - PRESS Release by Al-Qaeda
3295 - Five Britons, Three Irish Hurt in Prague Bomb Blast
3361 - Joint FBI/Homeland Security statement on the new NYC terror threat
3365 - LA On Heightened Terror Alert
3368 – nwctwx - The Threat Matrix : July, 2004 Wrapup
3379 - Government Considers Raising Threat Level
3388 - Computer glitch grounds flights at O'Hare
3388 - Security alert issued in wake of terror threat
3422 - Qaeda-Linked Group Gives Italy 15 Days to Leave Iraq
3424 - Tom Ridge's Statement
3425 - Transcript of Secretary Ridges Conference
3427 - Ted Turner's feelings about Russia
3429 - Secty Ridge Raises threat level to Orange in NYC financial
district and parts of NJ and Washington DC.
3477 - Hamas Has $25 Million Invested in Real Estate in the US
3481 - Fresh AQ training manual? RPG "How To"???
3495 - Intelligence Obtained on (NY/NJ/DC) Threats Described Targets in Great Detail
3522 - U.S. ANNOUNCES PLEA IN TERRORISM FINANCING CASE
3528 - Police investigate missing bags of ammonium nitrate (North Carolina 7/9/04)
3540 - Saudi Royal Family Blasts Michael Moore
3551 - Blasts hit churches across Iraq, killing 11, wounding at least 50
3552 - Experts fear South Africa's Muslim community could be a breeding ground for terrorists
3553 - A Vote for Bush is a Vote Against Terrorism
3559 – WestCoastGal & ChefKeith’s Announcement
3561 - A computer and several disks were seized when Ghailani and 13 others were seized last weekend southeast of Islamabad
3574 – JustPiper’s Week In Review
3575 – JustPiper’s Alerts
3578 – JustPiper’s Bombs
3579 – JustPiper’s Nukes and other things that go bump in the night
3580 – JustPiper’s Chems
3581 – JustPiper’s Mosques
3583 – JustPiper’s Isolated Incidents
3585 – JustPiper’s This N’ That Terror
3587 – JustPiper’s Hmmmmmmmm
3588 – JustPiper’s Follow The Money
3590 – JustPiper’s Border Disintegration
3592 – JustPiper’s Headlines Only
3614 - Maryland Homeland Security Team Returns Home
3632 - IMF cracking down on terrorist funding?
3638 - computer glitch grounded American Airlines and US Airways flights from coast to coast Sunday morning
3652 - The Central America connection
3653 - US Backs World Bank and IMF
3653 - Global Exchange Fact Sheet
3660 - West Nile virus kills second California man
3661 - Rep. Solomon Ortiz, "very credible" people told him Ahmed has traveled within the United States more than 250 times
3668 - Pentagon looks to directed energy weapons
3677 - THREAT INFO CAME FROM CAPTURED AL QAIDA COMPUTER GEEK
3679 - Comes Death on a Pale Horse
3686 - Re: Terrorist Information/ Limited Discussion II
3687 - Global Islamic Media "Greatest Hits
3688 - Captured Qaeda Figure Led Way to Information Behind Warning

[nwctwx]

Thanks much flutters!

[flutters]

August 2, 2004, TM Headlines

Thread 15 - The number in front of the title denotes the post number.

3732 - TRANSCRIPT: DETAILED BACKGROUND BRIEFING BY SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS ON NEW TERROR THREATS
3734 - Personal Interview by Warren White with Ahmed Mohamed
3742 - Citigroup: Changes at the top
3745 - PEACE, ISLAM STYLE
3746 - Captured Qaeda Figure Led Way to Information Behind Warning
3748 - Ten Commandments on tour
3750 - Background information about al Qaeda
3750 - South Asian Terrorism Portal
3762 - Revealed: the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy
3791 - Aziz attack 'linked to arrest of key suspect'
3798 - Pakistan-trained fidayeen(holy warriors) to fight American forces in Iraq
3800 - St. Louis FREEPERS. Need help tracking terrorist reports at the local fire stations
3809 - Kerry no-show in intelligence committee
3810 - NEW TERROR GROUND: Bin Laden is a hero to S. African groups 8/2/04
3811 - [Eurasianet] AFGHANISTAN - AFGHANS MOVE CLOSER TO MULLAH OMAR CAPTURE
3813 - Part III: Terror in the Skies, Again?
3842 – Google Search “MOTHERS OF MAHDI ARMY”
3828 – Cindy - Headlines today at ASSIST NEWS SERVICE
3830 - Pakistani-U.S. Raid Uncovered Al Qaeda Cell's Plans for Attacks
3832 – Google Search “Arabic Island”
3836 - Emergency Responder Awareness Advisory From FEMA/USFA - More Suspicious Activities at Fire Houses
3843 - Pakistani women being trained as suicide bombers
3844 - Comes Death on a Pale Horse
3847 - THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST,NOMEN NESCIO SAYS CHICAGO WILL BE NUKED
3847 - Nomen Nescio - Progressive Rock/Metal
3855 - Bomb Scare Delays Columbus-Bound Flight - Passenger Detained Inside Plane
3879 - 9/11 Commission Report : Online
3887 - New Info About What's Behind the Terror Alert
3892 - Runaway barges on the Mississippi
3898 - Plans for New Attacks Against U.S. Found (E-mails from Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's computer)
3922 - COURIER INTERCEPTED IN IRAQ W/MESSAGE TO BIN LADEN
3923 - CLERIC HOUSE SURROUNDED
3924 - REPORTS: Al-Qaida Plotting Suicide Truck Bombs for NYC
3926 - 3927 – JustPiper’s Today’s Terror Briefs
3930 - UCLA Student Vanishes Without A Trace
3935 - Kerry no-show in intelligence committee
3943 - Bush Calls for New Intelligence Director
3987 - Salmonella Outbreak - Fresh Produce Scare (Pennsylvania - 8/2/04)
3999 - FBI, ATF Told Of Three Tons Of Stolen Ammonium Nitrate; Volatile Fertilizer Often Used In al Qaeda Truck Bombs
4017 - Pakistani women being trained as suicide bombers
4024 – null and void - Freeper HTML rundown
4029 – FReeper Research – 15 Boat Explosions
4034 - Manhole cover pops in Newton outage
4039 - Bombs in cars and trucks easy to hide, hard to find
4042 - Security at AirVenture after Suspicious Web Post Found (Wisconsin - 8/1/04)
4053 - Gasoline tanker recovered hours after being reported missing
4066 - Statue of Liberty to reopen to the public
4072 - Report: Pakistan's ISI 'Fully Involved' in 9/11
4082 - Sources: More Targets Cited by Al Qaeda
4088 - An Oil-for-Food Connection?
4098 - N.America Muslim Conference Calls For 'Just World Order'
4099 - Karachi put on suicide bombers alert
4103 - Sources: More Targets Cited by Al Qaeda
4107 - Winds of Black Death": Coming Soon To Your Part Of The World

THREAD SIXTEEN (August 2, 2004, Continued)

5 - PLAN TO ATTACK LONDON FOUND IN AL-QAEDA RAID
16 - PHILLY OFFICIALS REMAIN WATCHFUL FOLLOWING NEW TERROR THREAT
29 - D.C. police to block Capitol traffic flow
42 - Airport Alert on for Suicide Bombers (Phillipines - 8/3/04)
61 - Did the British take 2 Top Secret Disks from Los Alamos?
63 - The Threat Matrix : July, 2004 Wrapup
65 - Suspicious activity in New York ignored by police
72 - QAIDA DOCUMENTS YEARS OLD, BUT OFFICIALS SEE REAL THREAT
85 - Courthouse Closed Temporarily Over Mystery Illnesses
101 - Al-Qaeda files in Pakistan prompted U.S. alert
106 - Thread on Threat Briefing
129 – Codes
133 – Codes

[flutters]

You're welcome. Not really a good place to put all of that stuff but I wanted to get it on here so you all can copy/paste and use it as you need it. Hopefully Jim will have the index organized in the next few weeks and that will help a lot.

Sorry again for the long posts.

[El Gato]

I sure as hell hope our airline screeners (and any other security screeners) have been educated about these sorts of "innocuous" looking things.

Why? So they can take them from the likes of ExSoldier or Joe Foss?

They, airport screeners, tried to take Foss' Medal of Honor. They were lucky he did't beat them bloody with his cane. He died not long after that of an anuerism. He was a World War II Marine fighter ace, who won the Medal of Honor after shooting down 26 enemy planes. He helped found the South Dakota Air National Guard, and served in the Korean war. He was South Dakota governor starting in 1955. He was commissioner of the American Football League 1960 to 1966. He also hosted the television show "The American Sportsman" on ABC, and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1988-90.

You really want old men and little old ladies completely helpless?

[Indie]

Akso ironic many of TSA's screeners are "not of this country."

[Honestly]

Didn't the Paks capture him July 13th? This may be a good example of why his capture wasn't disclosed to the world for several days. It would have scared his bad buddies underground. I hope this story is the first of many that we get to hear about.

[Unknowing]

Thank you, sir. It's a natural.

[nwctwx]

I hope this story is the first of many that we get to hear about.

A friend of the family works in Customs, he told me to be on the lookout for a big news capture either tomorrow or thursday. He didn't disclose more than that, but said it would be big news if true.

[flutters]

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/nation/9306322.htm

Posted on Tue, Aug. 03, 2004

Runaway Barge Sinks in Mississippi River

JIM SUHR

Associated Press


ST. LOUIS - A runaway grain barge hit one of the Mississippi River's busiest crossings and sank, forcing the Coast Guard to close a two-mile stretch of the river Monday while the agency decided how to deal with the submerged vessel.

The barge was among 15 that broke away late Sunday from a towboat and floated down the river, with an unknown number hitting the Poplar Street Bridge, the Coast Guard said.

Highway officials later determined that the bridge, which carries three interstates across the river, was safe and it was never closed, officials said.

Five other towboats rounded up the remaining 14 barges, the Coast Guard said. There were no injuries.

The Coast Guard reopened the river to northbound traffic late Monday. Officials expect to allow southbound traffic to use the channel during daylight hours only on Tuesday.

By Monday morning, crews pinpointed the sunken barge on the Missouri side of the river and marked the location with a lighted orange-and-white buoy. It could take days for a salvage crew to set up a crane to retrieve the barge, Coast Guard Lt. Bill Clark said.

The Coast Guard sent test tows through the channel Monday to ensure that it was passable. The agency said only one tow at a time will be allowed to pass.

The Poplar Street Bridge is the largest in St. Louis and one of the nation's busiest Mississippi River crossings, carrying more than 120,000 vehicles a day.

[cibco]

"More than a million Atlantic croaker fish are believed to have died in recent days off the Maryland and Delaware coasts, and many of them have turned up on the beaches from Ocean City to Delaware’s Indian River, Maryland officials said."

Maybe someone tossed a 'Big Ol' stick of dynamite into the ocean?

[ExSoldier]

I live in Miami but have family near Gainesville as well as many friends there. Many of my friends brought their kids home so I could give them firearms instruction. I assessed the capabilities and mindset before giving the class (which was free, I don't charge when there's a rapist killer on the loose and my friends are in danger) and if I felt they would be more of a danger to themselves, I'd recommend a stun device. Not "pepper spray" or "mace."

Danny Rolling is lucky he never met some of the folks I know in that area. He would have disappeared and then taken weeks to die in agony. Then he'd be nothing more than gatorbait and gas bubbles in the Florida Everglades.

[Domestic Church]

"What to do if approached from behind "

I was taught for starters to jab into the person with elbow(other hand over fist pushing back)followed by a kick straight back (with high heels of course) and then slam down on the instep. Do this as rapid and as forcefully as you can.

[JellyJam]

Capitol Police step up security ... and how!

THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer has taken several aggressive steps in recent months to heighten security around the U.S. Capitol, including retraining officers to shoot a suspected suicide bomber in the head if other efforts to stop an attack fail.

Gainer’s decision Monday to close a major thoroughfare and impose 14 vehicle checkpoints on Capitol Hill was one piece of a much larger security strategy, which has included intensive training with Israeli counterterrorism experts and bomb technicians.

In addition, Gainer said he is urging congressional officials to create a “virtual fence” that would allow his officers to search any person who steps onto the Capitol grounds, a significant expansion of current policies on searching visitors.

Monday’s decision to restrict traffic drew criticism from city officials who said it would cause gridlock and send the wrong message to tourists and residents. That debate may foreshadow an even tenser exchange over how much to curtail public movement in the name of security.

“We are trying to present ourselves as the capital of the free world … and lead by example,” said Rep. James P. Moran Jr., D- Va. “To have the right to search anyone whenever they step on the Capitol grounds, when they don’t even try to enter a building, is overreaching.”

[El Gato]

And now I'm going to take my beloved wife out for low carb ice cream. I'll catch y'all later.

Don't tell me you're doing Atkins too? And your wife is a quilter, like mine. She's the educator though, as is our younger daughter. I was informed today that I have to run up to Austin this weekend to help daughter set up her new classroom. She's in "in service" all this week and most of next, with open house next Thursday. Wife will do the design, and some of the needed sewing, I'll be there for the "high work" with what my wife calls my "gorilla arms". She said something about hanging curtains? (to remind you, wife is Chair of Teacher Ed program at Austin College in Sherman TX) Daughter taught at McKinney last year, but they closed her school, so she decided to break with North Texas and move to Austin (actually Round Rock schools.) The school is about 3 blocks from older daughter's house in Austin. She'll be teaching 5th grade math and science. The school is the Vietnamese bilingual school for the district. But they only have one bilingual classroom for each grade, except 4-5 which is a combined one. Both daughters live in Austin, but Round Rock schools.