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!

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Low level radiological leak reported coming from a box in the back of a pickup truck involved in an accident in Dalton, IL. Dalton is a south suburb of Chicago.

Reported on WLS-AM news.

[freeperfromnj]

Good find. I have to put this site on my NJ news resource list.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Dalton=Dolton

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Clarifying on the radio. Not Dolton now but Sugar Grove, IL. Far west suburban Chicago, near Aurora.

[freeperfromnj]

Similar incident in NY. See post #607.

[Domestic Church]

Have you been reading Clancy's Executive Power? I hope and pray you are wrong but the possibilty certainly exists. I wish the convention would be moved at last minute to Nebraska.

[all4one]

Must just be a "coincidence" that Blair's vacation plans were leaked...some type of manfunctioning fax machine....

Just where do they come up with these stories to cover their butts?! Thankfully Blair found out about the leak prior to his vacation, hopefully they have changed their plans significantly.

[4thygipper]

Sati is the practice through which widows are voluntarily or forcibly burned alive on their husband's funeral pyre. It was banned in 1829, but had to be banned again in 1956 after a resurgence. There was another revival of the practice in 1981 with another prevention ordinance passed in 1987 (Morgan 1984). The idea justifying sati is that women have worth only in relation to men. This illustrates women's lack of status as individuals in India

FAQs on Sati Courtesy: Miral Patel and Ekta Bhattarai


I. What is Sati?
Hindu custom in India in which the widow was burnt to death on her husband?s pyre. Can be a voluntary choice or force upon a woman by her in-laws.

II. Reasons for Sati

A widow's status was looked upon as an unwanted burden that prevented her from participating in the household work. Her touch, her voice, her very appearance was considered unholy, impure and something that was to be shunned and abhorred.

A woman was considered pure if she committed Sati.

III. The History Behind Sati
Sati, the wife of Daksha, was so overcome at the demise of her husband that she immolated herself on his funeral pyre.
Sati was the consort of Lord Shiva. She burnt herself in fire as protest against her father, Daksha did not give her consort Shiva the respect she thought he deserved.

IV. Theories of Origin
Even though Sati is considered an Indian custom or a Hindu custom it was not practiced all over India by all Hindus but only among certain communities of India.

Sacrificing the widow in her dead husband's funeral or pyre was not unique only to India. This custom was prevalent among Egyptians, Greek, Goths, and others.

Ramayana- Sita walks through fire to prove her purity.

Mahabharata- Madri throws herself on her husband, Pandu?s fire.

V. Outside Views Impact
A few rulers of India like the Mughals, tried to ban this custom. Italian Traveler Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652) has documented the Sati ritual that he witnessed in the town of Ikkeri in November of 1623. Colonel William. H. Sleeman (1809 - 1856 A.D.) served as the collector of Jabalpur.

VI. Sati in the Modern times

In general, before this custom was outlawed in 1829, there were a few hundred officially recorded incidences each year.

The efforts of Raja Rammohan Roy and other Hindu reformers greatly impacted the movement to outlaw this practice.
Even after the custom was outlawed, this custom did not vanish completely. It took few decades before this custom almost vanished

In 1987 an eighteen years old widow, Roop Kanwar, committed Sati in a village of Rajasthan

The 'Sati' version is that Roop told her father-in-law she wanted to commit Sati.

Roop was forced to commit Sati.

The case went to court, but no one was charged with her
murder.

Even in the year 2000, you hear about Sati occurring in rural villages.



http://www.indianchild.com/sati_in_india.htm

[4thygipper]

Another -

Yemeni teen missing from Purdue summer program


By Barb Berggoetz
barb.berggoetz@indystar.com
August 12, 2004


Police are searching for an 18-year-old Middle Eastern student reported missing from a five-week Purdue University summer program.

The Yemeni student, Anwar Saleh Ahmed Al-Awdi, was last seen on the West Lafayette campus at 9 p.m. Friday. He was leaving with a family acquaintance and another person.

Purdue officials are worried that he has not returned but say they have no reason to suspect he is involved in anything illegal.

"There's no indication of anything like foul play -- that there's anything in particular going on at all," said Joseph Bennett, vice president for university relations. "The biggest concern is his safety, locating him and getting him back on track."

Although Al-Awdi had been informed he was expected back on campus by 11 p.m. Sunday, Bennett said, he may not have understood because of language difficulties or cultural differences. The students are free to travel when they're not involved with the program.

Al-Awdi is among 18 recent high school graduates from the Middle East who have been visiting Purdue since July 17 as part of the U.S. 2004 Summer Institute on American Life and Youth Leadership.

"Students selected for the program are outstanding academically -- potential leaders of their country," said Bennett. "They're top-echelon people."

Purdue police, who were notified Monday of Al-Awdi's absence from campus, are investigating and have sent an advisory to police in Indiana and Michigan. Bennett said the FBI and the U.S. State Department have been notified, as well as Al-Awdi's family.

A State Department representative said this is a rare incident for exchange programs it sponsors and that the department is working with local authorities and Purdue to assure Al-Awdi's safety.

The institute, based at Purdue, is sponsored by the State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative and its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

A grant for the institute was awarded to the Indiana Center for Cultural Exchange, a partnership among Indiana University, Purdue and the University of Notre Dame.

While at Purdue, students have taken classes on government, economics and culture. They also have visited government offices, attended concerts and met athletes and religious leaders. The students are to visit Chicago and Washington, D.C., before leaving the United States on Aug. 22.

Purdue officials hope someone will recognize Al-Awdi and call police. Al-Awdi is 5 feet tall with a thin build.

He left campus with Mausuar Yousef Yahya, a friend of the family from Detroit, and another man identified only as Yaha. They were to go to an address in Hamtramck, Mich., but police were not able to reach anyone at that location in the Detroit suburb.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/169638-2238-009.html

[Godzilla]

I'm trying to remember, but didn't they find some video's a few years ago (maybe in Afghanistan?) that showed the terrorists attacking people in 'hotel' rooms? They dressed up like 'room service', then shot the person opening the door?

I can't remember either, perhaps another part of the collective memory does?

[Domestic Church]

Rereading post 255 (very good, very informative) on the fourth generation warfare. It doesn't touch on the political ramifications or the Gramscian infiltration which can't be ignored either.

It's no secret Clinton sold us down river now but this still is an elephant under the living room rug.

[Godzilla]

Now I know for certain that both of you are male. Sometimes it is impossible to know for sure here on FR, or on any board for that matter.

Eeeeek, Headlines now, Godzilla uncovered.

[Godzilla]

Welcome back!!!! I've missed your contributions to the thread.

[freeperfromnj]

Laden To Air Message Ending Truce Offered To Europe: Islamic Website
Agence France-Presse | August 12, 2004

Posted on 08/12/2004 7:37:43 AM PDT by HAL9000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190143/posts

[freeperfromnj]

That should be Bin Laden to Air Message.....

[Rutles4Ever]

From Jill's site:

Ben Laden issued attacks writs of execution

Wednesday 25 / 6 / 1425 hijri - 11 / 8 / 2004 AD ( last update ) at 22 : 52 ( Holy Mecca ), 19 : 52 ( Greenwich )

The authorities continue the detention of the suspect in their belonging to the Al-Qaeda Pakistan intelligences : Ben Laden issued attacks writs of execution

A source in the Pakistani intelligences revealed that Osama Ben Ladin 's alqaeda organism leader issued orders actually for the launch of attacks on targets in The United States and Britain .

And the source that refused the revelation of its name added that Ben Laden gave the green light for targeting the places and the important personalities in The United States and Britain and Pakistan also .

However the source reduced the importance of the information that Washington Times Newspaper published according to sources in the US Intelligences that Ben Laden will appear soon in a recorded tape so that it gives a specific signal of alqaeda elements for the execution of the attacks planned to them .

And the newspaper have mentioned also that alqaeda plans for the assassination of the American president George Bush and a last foreigner leader whether inside or outside The United States .

It is pointed that the Pakistani intelligence agencies interrogate now a number of the suspect that they are from the top members in alqaeda organism between them Tanzanian Ahmad Ghilani the accused with the involvement in the explosion of the American embassies in Dar Es Salaam and Nairobi in year 1998 and the computer expert Na'im Nour Khan .

And the news said that the information that some of the detainees gave in The United States after a revelation plans about the execution of attacks against the greatest financial enterprises in Washington and New York and New Jersey led to raising the security alert .

And on the background of the Pakistani investigations aljazeera correspondent in Islamabad according to Pakistani security sources reported that the security authorities carried out the arrest of three persons they are two Pakistanis and an Arab holds the Emirian nationality and Khaled Rashid is called by the charge of the belonging to alqaeda organism .

And the three persons detention has taken place while they were in their way from the tribes region to Peshawar city . And now the investigation with them takes place for the knowledge of their identities and their prayer by the Al-Qaeda .

[freeperfromnj]

Looks like the "go" signal is about to be released.

[Quix]

THANKS.

That along with the dead zone cropping up again off the Oregon Coast . . .

sounds like moving toward the end times prophecy about 1/3 of the oceans being dead.

[null and void]

Never fear being umpopular for telling the truth.

I fear you are right, if al Qaeda 'clears the board' where's our second string?

Hillary?™