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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Sixteen
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Posted on 08/02/2004 5:12:31 PM PDT by JustPiper
TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: muslims; terror; threatmatrix; threats
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To: Imperialist
Don't worry. It will be labeled as a hoax ... possibly perpetuated by white guys pretty soon ;)
841
posted on
08/04/2004 6:19:34 AM PDT
by
Tilly
(I'm not paid to be stressed!)
To: Imperialist
RE: Chicago
There are alot of apartment buildings south of the Chicago loop, both upscale and down.
842
posted on
08/04/2004 6:23:52 AM PDT
by
Tilly
(I'm not paid to be stressed!)
To: JustPiper
Actually, music is forbidden to strict Muslims because it is considered to be a distraction from the Koran and from deriving satisfaction from traditional things like their families.
The penality for strict muslims who listen to music is having molten gold poured into their ears in Paradise.
You'll notice that alot of their "music" is keening or wailing ... that is acceptable.
843
posted on
08/04/2004 6:30:13 AM PDT
by
Tilly
(I'm not paid to be stressed!)
To: LayoutGuru2
To: DAVEY CROCKETT
"A BULLETPROOF LandCruiser at high speed bursting out of a tribal compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan region..." I just can't stop chuckling at this one. I am not laughing at our armed forces or our will to catch top al qaeda ops, but it is a funny statement the way it is written.
To: Myrddin
That is not right, not right at all. If it was a sign on a mosque property, fine. But public property? A sign in Arabic with no English equivalent? Did it at least have a Spanish translation?! We are a country headed towards disaster, allright.
To: British chick
847
posted on
08/04/2004 7:10:23 AM PDT
by
bitt
(what a crew!)
To: Donna Lee Nardo; JustPiper
Knife attack at Beijing nursery
A doorman at a Beijing kindergarten has stabbed 15 children, killing one of them, according to Chinese state media.
Three teachers were also injured when the knife-wielding man went on the rampage at a nursery in Beijing University's Number One Hospital.
The alleged attacker, 51-year-old Xu Heping, has now been detained by police for questioning.
The motive for the stabbing is unclear, but Mr Xu is said to have had a history of mental illness.
The incident was "the worst attack on children in the capital in decades", according to China Central Television (CCTV).
To: bitt
Interesting read:
SOUTH AFRICA REPORTEDLY AL-QAIDA TARGET
Wednesday August 4, 2004 2:46 PM
By PAUL HAVEN
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Two South African men - captured along with a senior al-Qaida terrorist - were plotting attacks on tourist sites in their home country, and vowed an unceasing battle against America and President Bush when authorities nabbed them after a 12-hour gunbattle, a senior police official said Wednesday.
The South African suspects were identified as Feroz Ibrahim, believed to be in his 30s, and Zubair Ismail, a man in his 20s, said Raja Munawar Hussain, the chief of police in Gujrat, the eastern Pakistani city where they were arrested on July 25.
Hussain told The Associated Press that authorities found several maps of South African cities among the items seized after the raid, which also netted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian with a $25 million bounty on his head for the 1998 twin East Africa embassy bombings.
``They were all very well trained terrorists because of the way they fought the gunbattle and the way they engaged us for 12 hours. This is something no common man could have done,'' said Hussain.
A Lahore-based intelligence official said authorities believe the men wanted to target tourist sites in Johannesburg, South Africa's commercial center. The men are believed to have arrived in Pakistan on a flight from the United Arab Emirates just days before their arrest.
The Johannesburg daily The Star quoted unidentified police sources as saying that key landmarks were among the targets, including the Carlton Center shopping mall, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg; parliament and the V&A Waterfront mall in Cape Town; and the U.S. Embassy, government buildings and the Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria.
Another Johannesburg newspaper, ThisDay, said the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was another target that was supposed to be attacked as it arrived in Durban or Cape Town from Mauritius.
Ronnie Mamoepa, a spokesman for South Africa's Department of Foreign Affairs refused to confirm the reports.
``There has been no independent confirmation of the reports, therefore in our view this remains speculative,'' he said. He added that the South African Embassy in Islamabad is awaiting permission to visit the prisoners and has no details of the investigation.
``We have not been told anything,'' he said.
The men are not believed to be the two high-level al-Qaida terrorists that Pakistan's interior minister said were arrested in the past few days.
Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat said the men were of African origin, and that one had a multimillion dollar bounty on his head. He has refused to name them.
Hussain, the Gujrat police chief, said the two South Africans and Ghailani denounced America and President Bush as they were arrested, after a fierce 12-hour gunbattle.
``They were all very emotional and very aggressive,'' he said. ``They were putting down Bush, saying he is our enemy and we will pursue him and America until we win.''
He said Ghailani was shaking with anger as he shouted: ``God is great! This is God's land and we are his men.''
Pakistani authorities also denied reports in a local newspaper that they had handed Ghailani to U.S. officials.
Interior Ministry spokesman Abdur Rauf Chaudhry said Ghailani was still in Pakistani custody.
Also Wednesday, a Pakistani woman filed a petition in a Karachi court saying authorities had mistaken her husband for a wanted terrorist named Masrab Arochi.
Authorities say they arrested Arochi - the nephew of former al-Qaida No. 3 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - in a raid in Karachi in June. But Jamila Khatoon, said the man was actually her husband, Abdul Karum Mahmood, and that he had nothing to do with terrorism.
``The man arrested on that night is Mahmood who hails from Turbat, settled in Kuwait and frequently used to visit Pakistan. He has a Pakistani identity card and passport,'' said the woman's lawyer, Khaja Naveed Ahmed. There was no immediate reaction from authorities.
Arochi is said to have led authorities to another man, a suspected al-Qaida computer expert identified as Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan. Khan was arrested July 13, and in turn led police to Ghailani.
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said authorities found plans for attacks on the United States and Britain in Ghailani's computer.
Intelligence gained from Khan's and other arrests was a major factor in U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's decision to issue a warning Sunday about possible al-Qaida attacks on prominent financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J.
Pakistani officials have pointed to several other arrests in recent days, including a policeman accused of passing information to militants, a Syrian nabbed at a bus stop, and three suspected militants - two Pakistanis and a foreigner - arrested on a road near Lahore. Police found five grenades and two AK-47 rifles in their sports utility vehicle, a high-ranking intelligence official told AP.
Associated Press Writers Asif Shahzad in Lahore, Zarar Khan in Karachi and Munir Ahmad in Islamabad contributed to this report.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4385331,00.html
To: freeperfromnj
"Another Johannesburg newspaper, ThisDay, said the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was another target that was supposed to be attacked as it arrived in Durban or Cape Town from Mauritius."
To: JustPiper
"Borders not affected by elevated terror alert"Not surprising. Borders free 24/7 regardless of terror level... Also, I think they know that everyone is already here anyway.
To: Donna Lee Nardo
To: OXENinFLA
To: freeperfromnj; Donna Lee Nardo; All
To: Velveeta
I did - unfreakin believable. They think they can just come to our country and impose their radical culture on us. I sure hope she fights it.
To: Unknowing
August 5, 2003 Bombing of J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, that killed 17 and injured 137
August 5, 1997 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
August 5, 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 5, 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 5, 1973 Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55
August 5, 1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
August 5, 1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam
August 5, 1963 Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
August 5, 1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
August 5, 1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
August 5, 1071 Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
856
posted on
08/04/2004 7:33:06 AM PDT
by
milkncookies
(Hillary to Berger: Is there something in your pants or are you just happy to see me?)
Stolen Egypt explosives cause terror fears
CAIRO, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- An Egyptian newspaper reported Wednesday a ton of explosives stolen from the warehouses of a foreign oil company might be used in terrorist attacks.
The daily al-Ahali, mouthpiece of the opposition Leftist Tajamoo' Party, quoted a security source as saying 1,062 pieces of explosives, which could be detonate by remote control, disappeared from the stores of the petroleum company in the coastal city of Marsa Matrouh, northeast of Cairo.
The paper said police started an investigation into the incident and detained 1,000 people, including employees and guards at the company as well as residents of Marsa Matrouh.
The theft triggered fears the explosives could be used in terrorist attacks against Western interests in Egypt.
But police sources say they think the thieves might sell the explosives to fisherman who Illegally use them to kill fish on a large scale.
Egypt was plagued by terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 1,200 police and Muslim militants seeking to topple the regime in the 1980s and 1990s.
The last such terrorist attack was perpetrated by the Islamic Jamaa' (gathering) in October 1997, killing 60 Western tourists in the ancient city of Luxor in southern Egypt.
To: freeperfromnj; All
To: milkncookies
To: freeperfromnj
One take on it is that sometimes the truth must be denied by some even after it is stated by others. I cannot believe that Katherine Harris would make up such a story; perhaps someone mislead her deliberately. If the story is true, then why she was so specific is the question. It may be political. By being specific, her statement put the heat on the authorities in Indiana. It would have the effect of making the population in that state angry at their elected officials over why they were not made aware of the threat in the first place. The only answer for the authorities is to deny it ever happened.
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