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!

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Your neighbor is making himself a woman skin dress...

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Nothing to see here, move along...™

[Velveeta]

The poop story was big news all day. I heard some commentators wondering if it was the poop tanks released from one of the "rock band" tour buses. Snoop-Doggy was in town and they were joking that it could have been "Snoop poop".

I didn't hear *anything* about a hazmat at Rosemont!

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

Hand over nuclear weapons and know-how, Iran tells Britain
Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2004-08-10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189008/posts

Maybe I'm a little slow, but I just don't get this. We all know they want to go nuclear. What on earth makes them think that demanding support (or lack of interference) from the EU is going to get them anywhere? I can sort of see a "Mad Mullah" hopping on a table saying "Gimme, gimme, gimme!" while the well-dressed Europeans sit with puzzled looks on their faces, hoping he won't step in the Brie.

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The observed pattern was OBL appearances preceded attacks by one month ± a few days.

Once it was revealed that we noticed the relationship (and OBL died) the pattern ceased.

*sigh*

[Velveeta]

The officials also said the terrorist group has begun using female members for preattack surveillance and possibly as suicide bombers, thinking that women will have an easier time getting past security checkpoints at airports, borders and ports.

Important to note, I think. Watch for middle eastern women who appear to be casing or filming potential targets.

[tmp02]

Or African women

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The Russians sure are in a hurry to help get that nuke plant finished, aren't they?

Yup. The Russians want to get off the target as quickly as possible...

[4thygipper]

Bin Laden hints major assassination

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. intelligence officials say a high-profile political assassination, triggered by the public release of a new message from Osama bin Laden, will lead off the next major al Qaeda terrorist attack, The Washington Times has learned.

The assassination plan is among new details of al Qaeda plots disclosed by U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports who, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the killing could be carried out against a U.S. or foreign leader either in the United States or abroad.

The officials mentioned Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two nations that are working with the United States in the battle against al Qaeda, as likely locales for the opening assassination.

The planning for the attacks to follow involves "multiple targets in multiple venues" across the United States, one official said.

The new details of al Qaeda's plans were found on a laptop computer belonging to arrested al Qaeda operative Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan of Pakistan.

"We're talking about planning at the screwdriver level," one official said. "It is very detailed."

Khan was arrested July 13 in Lahore, Pakistan, along with Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian who was indicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa and was on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists.

U.S. and allied counterterrorism officials are pursuing leads on other terrorists based on the data from Khan's seized laptop. At least one arrest in Britain has been made so far, and others are expected, the officials said.

Additionally, U.S. intelligence officials said they think that several al Qaeda terrorists already in the United States are part of the plot, although their identities and locations are not known.

The targets, in addition to the financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J., that have been the subject of public warnings, include such economic-related targets as oil and gas facilities with a view toward disrupting the November election.

"The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election," the official said. "The view of al Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush.' "

The officials also said the terrorist group has begun using female members for preattack surveillance and possibly as suicide bombers, thinking that women will have an easier time getting past security checkpoints at airports, borders and ports.

The al Qaeda attack plans call for bombings using trucks and cars, and hijacked aircraft, including commercial airliners and helicopters.

"There is a particular concern that chemical trucks will be used," one official said.

Regarding the new bin Laden message, the officials said there are intelligence reports, some of them sketchy, that a new tape from the al Qaeda leader will surface soon.

In the past, video and audio messages by bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, were broadcast days or weeks before an attack, the officials said.

"The message likely will be the signal for the attack to be launched," one official said.

A second U.S. official said one intelligence agency was aware of unconfirmed reports of a new bin Laden tape.

"There may be such a tape, but it hasn't surfaced and we haven't seen it," this official said.

Bin Laden last released a taped message in April. The CIA said that the audiotape probably was the voice of bin Laden and that the mention of the March 11 Madrid train bombings shows that the tape was current.

That tape offered a "truce" for any European state that pledged to stop attacking Muslims and end cooperation with the United States.

Contrary to what some Democratic critics of the Bush administration have said, intelligence officials said the new details of al Qaeda planning were obtained from the Khan laptop. The terrorist group was in the process of updating older attack plans, the officials said.

On Aug. 2, the Bush administration raised the terrorism threat level from "elevated" to "high" for five finance-related sites in the District, New York and New Jersey, based on the intelligence in Khan's computer, as well as other intelligence.

Frances Townsend, a White House homeland-security adviser, said Sunday that the government has received a steady "stream" of intelligence indicating that an al Qaeda attack is planned.

"What we know now that we didn't know six months ago is that they've done a good deal of planning and surveillance work to accomplish that goal," she said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040811-123531-3824r.htm

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

He told me we'd go back to pay the next day, but if he went home without a cake, Mom would kill him. :-)

I love it!

[CharlotteVRWC]

"The view of al Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush.' "

quote Bill Gertz, Washington Times 8-11-04

That would make a good Bumber sticker!

[Velveeta]

Yes, right.

[Godzilla]

What would the government do if 100,000 died in NYC or even 50K or 5K?

There are many options and intelligence we are not privy too in regards to the nature and size of any response. Unless you are new to the world, the simplist part of the WOT has been accomplished. The hardest part is the ferreting out the scum from their holes. Or are you advocating the Spanish/Kerry solution?

[Velveeta]

The Russians probably also want to hurry back to help DPRK with whatever their needs are as well.

[Velveeta]

ROFL. Ones of those great childhood memories.

[Velveeta]

Suspicious parcel leads to evacuation (PA)

PALMYRA - Police evacuated 32 dwellings in two buildings at the Palmyra Harbour Condominiums last night after a resident of the complex opened a suspicious package and found chemicals that could be made into an explosive, police said.(snip)
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-08112004-346229.html

[Velveeta]

Officials await results of tests on envelopes left at bank (Ohio)
http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/282703055224062.php

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That too...

[freeperfromnj]

Russia test-launches missile

From correspondents in Moscow
August 11, 2004

RUSSIA successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile in a test firing today, the Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement.

The RS-18 missile blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and hit a set target in the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East, about 6700 kilometres east of Moscow.

The missile, also known as the SS-19, was launched to determine whether its service life could be extended. It has been in service for 27 years.

The launch was the fifth this year by the Strategic Missile Forces and a total of 10 launches have been scheduled for 2004, the Interfax news agency reported.

Earlier this year, Russian military forces suffered two embarrassing failures of ballistic missile launches from submarines during highly publicised naval maneuvers.

Later in February, Russia said it had successfully tested a space vehicle that could lead to weapons capable of penetrating missile defences. Details remain sketchy, but military analysts believe the device is a maneuverable ballistic missile warhead.

[milkncookies]

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