Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread SEVENTEEN

World Net Daily ^ | 8-10-04 | Paul Sperry

[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 Sixteen

With the nation on high alert for al-Qaida terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security is putting its border officers through "etiquette" classes to soften their image and make them less threatening to arriving foreign immigrants, WorldNetDaily has learned.

"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!

[judicial meanz]

If the L and N frame pistols are too big for her, the K frame works like a charm for women.

A lot of smaller handed police officers chose the K frame Smiths for the exact same reason. I've seen the larger frame Smiths literally tear gashes in the web of skin between the thumb and forefinger..ouch.

[judicial meanz]

Believe it or not, I'm more worried about this storm than the last one, because of the flooding rains. We've been soaked the last few weeks, and the wind/rain will cause us some pretty good flooding.

Bonnie is supposed to track along the Appalachians, and Charlie will hit the Piedmont about twelve hours later when the runoff from the mountain rains is clogging the rivers.

Perfect combination for some widespread flooding.

[JustPiper]

Speakin of Cow-Poop Here {Obama} is Alan's interview where Obama refused to be on Hannity:

Alan Keyes on Hannity & Colmes
~~~
August 9, 2004



ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: And just 85 days left until John Kerry becomes president-elect of the United States, but the new race to watch is the Illinois Senate race, where former Ambassador Alan Keyes has stepped in as the new candidate for the Republican Party.

Ambassador Keyes joins us from Chicago tonight. Ambassador, thank you for being with us.

Let me play for you what you said here on Fox News in the year 2000 about Hillary Clinton moving to New York, becoming a candidate. I know you know the quote. Let's show it to our audience and get your response. Here it is.


CLIP OF ALAN KEYES: "I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So, I certainly wouldn't imitate it."
So, why is it not all right for her to do it, but it's OK for you to do it?

ALAN KEYES: Well, I was criticizing Hillary for not having proper respect for state sovereignty, for the principle of the integrity of representation in the states, and I still believe it's wrong for national figures to use the states as platforms for their personal ambition--and she did it in a very calculated way: planned it out, did it beforehand.

I don't think there's anything wrong with responding first to a decision that was made by the Illinois state Republicans and the grassroots that they needed help, any more than it was wrong for the people of New York to appeal for firefighters to come into the state and other people to and help them out when they faced a crisis during 9/11.

That's standard procedure for states to be able to decide that, and I'm simply responding to their draft. No personal agenda. I hadn't even thought of this until a week ago, and I had to be convinced of the real need.

Second, there's a deep issue of principle that divides me from Barack Obama. The great principles of our national integrity are at stake, and even Lincoln, the great statesman from Illinois, made it clear: when those principles are threatened, state sovereignty has to give way to our defense of the principles of our national union.

COLMES: Some would say your answer is "Clintonesque." I wouldn't say that, but some Republicans would . . .

KEYES: No, they wouldn't.

COLMES: . . . that you're splitting hairs, you have a different standard, based on what you said about Hillary Clinton when she--she'd already moved to New York and then decided to run for the Senate. You're not yet living in Illinois and you blasted her for representing people from another state.

KEYES: I did. And I blast her still.

I believe--and what's clear, Alan, sadly--I just made an argument. You have to respond to that argument, not just sort of dismiss it out of hand, because it's clear and it's actually valid and correct.

We have in Illinois a challenge that the people of Illinois believe would result in having someone--who has abandoned the principles that Lincoln fought for as the foundation of America's conscience--enter the Senate representing the Land of Lincoln, and they have called on me to defend those principles against this, just as Lincoln defended our national principles against Stephen Douglas when he was pushing for extension of slavery into the states, which would also have been the destruction of our national principles.

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Ambassador, what do you think about your opponent?

KEYES: Well, I thought, given all the hype, that there was some substance there. Today, however, after saying he wanted six debates, that he'd debate anybody that the Republicans put up, I'm told today he had a press conference, somebody told me now he wants to reduce it to two, ah, to four. I was just told it was two. He says and claims, and everybody claims, he has such national stature and ability.

I step onto the scene, and he's running for the ropes at the side of the arena.

It seems to me we may have a situation here of all hype and no handle. We've got somebody who's like the Wizard of Oz in the famous picture: big head projected by the media, full of hype, sound, and glory, but when it comes down to it, he doesn't want to face the test.

HANNITY: Yeah.

You feel confident, in a debate situation you'd win?

KEYES: Well, the truth of the matter is, if you want to go to the Senate of the United States against the most capable people for presenting and articulating issues, you'd better be prepared for the national arena. And if you're not prepared for the national arena, you're not going to be capable of representing the people of Illinois.

I have stood in that arena toe-to-toe with the best, and I have shown that I'm not going to run for the sidelines when the goin' gets tough. I'm going to stand there and make the case for the people of Illinois.

He has to prove he can do the same thing.

HANNITY: You say the area of vulnerability he has is on gun rights and on abortion. Aren't the two driving issues for all states national security, the War on Terror, and the economy?

KEYES: You don't listen, I think, sometimes, folks in the media. This is what I don't understand. I did not say . . .

HANNITY: I listen very well, Alan.

KEYES: Can I answer please?

HANNITY: Yes.

KEYES: I didn't say that the "key issues," in some horserace, political sense, were gun control and so forth. What I said was that he and I are divided on the deep issue of principle which is at the heart of the national integrity of this country, and that that issue of principle and the defense of those principles was the reason that I, abiding by a true understanding of federalism, have come forward to defend those national principles.

The motto of Illinois is "state sovereignty, national union." When the national union is threatened, state sovereignty gives way, and I responded to the people of the state in that spirit.

HANNITY: Was it wrong what they did to the prior candidate Jack Ryan by suing? His wife didn't want those records made public, he didn't want those records made public. I think an argument can be made that his child is affected. Was that wrong to do?

KEYES: I absolutely think it was. I do not understand why the judge would make a decision, after he had appointed a special investigator to look into it on behalf of the child's interest, why he would reach the conclusion those records should be released. It was incomprehensible, I think.

COLMES: We're just out of time. We, I'm sure, will talk again as the campaign progresses.

We'd also like to note that we invited the Democratic candidate for Senate, Barack Obama, to appear on this program. He declined our invitation. We hope he will at some point come on.

http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/04_08_09hc.htm

[nwctwx]

Very true.

This storm is being quite underplayed thus far though. If the current thoughts verify, monetary/structural loss will be equal or greater than Andrew. Wherever the 14' surge goes, all buildings will go with it.

I've seen a lot of these things fizzle right before landfall, but it is something to think about.

[judicial meanz]

Good to see you back partner!

Guiness-the beer of choice of Holy Loch submariners!

[JellyJam]

Nope, Sarasota ... about 40 miles south.

My in-laws live in St. Pete.

[JustPiper]

Humor break to show what a man Keyes is:

Alan Keyes on the Mancow Show in Illinois

{Not to be missed readind the transcript LOL}

http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/04_08_11mancow.htm

[JellyJam]

I hear ya ... that's an incredible amount of rain. It could be devastating.

[drymans wife]

Take care JJ. Are you evacuating?

[JellyJam]

We're not in a mandatory evacuation zone ... but I guess if things get too bad, we may have to leave later tomorrow. We're going to have to play it by ear.

[milkncookies]

Guninness has had an annual contest since '96 that anyone, from anywhere in the world can enter. I assume they are still doing it but I am not sure. Entrants simply write a 50 word essay beginning with "Guinness is..."(there is a maximum word count).

Finalists are flown to Ireland (yes Ireland) for a final round of competition including dart-throwing, building a perfect pint of Guinness, blarney delivery, and delivering a fifty word essay on why they should win the Seanachaoi.

Winner gets his or her own refurbished Irish countryside pub complete with living quarters.

[nwctwx]

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/webspecials02/andrew/1921video.shtml
(Click Link for Animation - Scary Scenario)

It's the worst-case scenario: a powerful storm on a northeast track heading straight for Tampa Bay.

What would happen?

That's the question emergency planners posed to the National Hurricane Center. The computer-generated image you're looking at is one answer.

It shows the potential flooding from a storm about the size of Hurricane Floyd, which ravaged the North Carolina coast in September 1999, killing 57 people. It was bigger, deadlier and almost as fierce as Hurricane Andrew, but not as costly.

It follows the same track as the unnamed hurricane that hit Tarpon Springs in 1921, the last time Tampa Bay took a direct hit from a hurricane.

Under this scenario, high winds create a storm surge causing massive flooding, particularly in Hillsborough County, where nearly the entire Interbay Peninsula would be underwater.

That may seem odd. Aren't the Pinellas beaches more vulnerable? The reason lies in the track of the storm, the counter-clockwise rotation of the winds, the shallowness of the Gulf of Mexico and the bay itself.

Hurricane experts call it the funnel effect.

The shallowness of the gulf makes Florida's west coast particularly vulnerable to hurricane-driven storm surge, said Brian Jarvinen, hurricane storm surge specialist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

In Atlantic storms, a lot of the energy produced by a hurricane is absorbed by the ocean. But in a gulf storm, the energy hits bottom, churning water toward the shoreline, Jarvinen said. That creates an even bigger problem if the storm is headed toward Tampa Bay.

"The added impact of the bay creates a funneling effect," Jarvinen said. The churning water surges into the bay, washing over the farthest point.

A computer model Jarvinen created shows flooding up to 17 feet above sea level in parts of Pinellas and Hillsborough.

"Certainly the impacts there are incredible, there's no doubt about it," said Jarvinen. "There's no doubt in our mind that someday we will see a storm like this and create that type of flooding. The question is when, but someday it will occur."

[HipShot]

Part time for a little bit, probably. I'm about out of mustard.

[JustPiper]

Two Hurt as Spanish Cities Hit by Bombs Blamed on ETA

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/nm/20040812/ts_nm/spain_explosion_dc

[HipShot]

I just want a bar towel.

It'd be fun to take a stab at that contest though.

[JustPiper]

Radioactive Device In Sugar Grove Accident
Thursday, August 12, 2004, 3:47 p.m.

- SUGAR GROVE, IL -- A state nuclear safety team was summoned today to far west suburban Sugar Grove after a traffic accident involving a radioactive device.

The story from WBBM's suburban bureau chief Julie Mann. LISTEN HERE
http://www.wbbm780.com/includes/news_items/news_items_more.php?section_id=9&id=2780

Crews check for leak of radioactive gauge after truck accident

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/081204_ns_radioactive_ax.html

NOTICE:

They give us no information on who was driving that pickup!!!

[judicial meanz]

I hope you get to feeling better soon.

Dont make me call the sawbones and have them drag you out of the rack for an inspection...LOL

[JustPiper]

[REUTERS ALERTNET] USA - Al Qaeda plans include assassination plot - report [Multiple targets in multiple venues]

"A high-profile political assassination, triggered by a new message from Osama bin Laden, will lead off the next major al Qaeda attack, The Washington Times reported in Wednesday editions, citing U.S. intelligence officials"

""The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election,""

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10162470.htm

[AP] USA - Possible Southeast US Terror Threat

"defendant also had videotapes of buildings in other major U-S cities, including Atlanta; Austin, Houston and Dallas in Texas; and New Orleans"

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2156904&nav=4QcHPiz1

[News 8 Austin] TEXAS - Videotape arrest has city on alert

http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=116132

See also : http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2004/08/09/daily23.html?jst=b_ln_hl

[JustPiper]

[AP] LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas police, FBI confirm officers were shown terrorist surveillance tapes in 2002 [ Not necessary to alert the public ?? ]

",FBI officials and Las Vegas police confirmed Tuesday night they learned in the fall of 2002 about two videotapes suggesting terrorists had cased the city's casinos but decided it wasn't necessary to alert the public"

http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw102543_20040810.htm

[JustPiper]

[WCCO] MINNESOTA - Task Force Asks For Public's Help To Reduce Terror Risk

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_223075955.html

[UPI] MINNESOTA - Woman of Syrian decent arrested in Minn.

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/08100000aaa05264.upi&Sys=rmmiller&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National News