Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Eighteen

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The Threat Matrix

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."

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Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word."
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High alert after Russia jet crash

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the state security services, the FSB, to probe a plane crash, and another missing plane.

One plane with 42 people on board went down in the Tula region south of the capital, Moscow.

Meanwhile, air controllers say they lost contact with a second plane with 44 passengers on board, near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.

I can personally ask some questions about that story,I will report any news if I get any.

161 posted on 08/25/2004 2:48:30 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Bong Hits, Fraggle Rock Reruns and DU is no way to go through Life..........)

great, thanks... I've been keeping up with it since they went missing.

162 posted on 08/25/2004 2:50:59 PM PDT by nwctwx

Well that's just sick!

163 posted on 08/25/2004 2:52:21 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Jesus Christ ~ "whosoever will may come" ///// mohammed ~ "convert, submit, or die")

Thank you Pegita
~Amen

164 posted on 08/25/2004 3:01:14 PM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

165 posted on 08/25/2004 3:05:38 PM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

Notice how it also happened on a "Tuesday?"

166 posted on 08/25/2004 3:07:45 PM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

I too believe Hillary is capable of anything to satisfy her lust for power. One thing I observed during the darkages of clintonism was that whatever they did they had a secret/evil motive alterior to what the sheeple assumed was the obvious motive.

167 posted on 08/25/2004 3:13:33 PM PDT by mindspy

168 posted on 08/25/2004 3:15:55 PM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

I will definitely check out the World Clock. I have one wall clock local time and one that is, I think, Baghdad time. I'm not really good with time or directions so I'm going to get a compass, too. Mr. hummingbird would endorse the compass...if there are two choices to make, I always turn the wrong way! Thanks for the link, united1000.

169 posted on 08/25/2004 3:29:05 PM PDT by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")

Actually, one of the earlier sources stated that there had been a claim of responsibility by the London spokesman for a Chechyen rebel group.

170 posted on 08/25/2004 3:34:33 PM PDT by liberallyconservative

Or could planes have been shot down?

I don't think so. There simply wasn't enough time between one plane's transponder code going to 'hijack' and the loss of that plane.

The other plane went down with no external indication of trouble.

171 posted on 08/25/2004 3:37:12 PM PDT by null and void (KERRY'S A POODLE: He's French, A Rich Lady's Pet, Won't Protect You, and Spends lots on grooming...)

You are welcome. I have a customized one set to certain cities around the world and the link in my links bar. I live in Indiana where no one ever knows what time it is:-) So I admit I use it a lot.

172 posted on 08/25/2004 3:46:28 PM PDT by united1000 (Politicans are like diapers. They both need to be changed often and for the same reason.)

To: nwctwx; JustPiper; Kinetic; Calpernia; freeperfromnj; jerseygirl; Cindy; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Hi Everyone. I'm still with you all in spirit but I have not time to keep up considering how fast the TM moves. I get though with this next project and things should calm down around here.

Again, please keep on your ping lists so I can find you guys. Thank you all once again for your hard work and dedication to the TM!!! The thread looks GREAT!

God Bless

173 posted on 08/25/2004 4:00:10 PM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Threat Level: HIGH -- For a list of survival gear go to my FR Homepage.)

Thanks, LayoutGuru2.

174 posted on 08/25/2004 4:27:25 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo

To: appalachian_dweller

Greetings to you AD.

175 posted on 08/25/2004 4:45:46 PM PDT by Cindy

To: Old Sarge; JohnathanRGalt; All

176 posted on 08/25/2004 4:52:54 PM PDT by Cindy

Now you stop that, Ian. Put a leash on Frances, will ya?!

177 posted on 08/25/2004 5:04:34 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo

To: Donna Lee Nardo

Is the one on the left the office look.

178 posted on 08/25/2004 5:19:01 PM PDT by angcat

Good evening to all.

Excellent job on the thread.

I found this article to be very interesting.

I believe that enough Nuke material has been smuggled in over the years to make this scenario entirely feasible.

What do you guys think?

http://www.hallindseyoracle.com/articles.asp?ArticleID=7965

8/25/2004
NY Threat Includes Nukes?

An unclassified CIA report issued last month says al-Qaeda and related groups are ready to deploy WMD against the US Homeland.

According to the report, al Qaeda and other terrorists also could produce what the CIA calls an "improvised nuclear device" capable of causing a nuclear blast. Such a bomb is "intended to cause a yield-producing nuclear explosion," the report said.

Terrorists could produce a nuclear device in three ways, including a bomb made from "diverted nuclear-weapons components," a nuclear weapon that had been modified, or a new, indigenously designed device, the report said.

As far back as the mid-1970's the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment concluded, "a small group of people none of whom have ever had access to the classified literature, could possibly design and build a crude nuclear device".

In March, 1996, CIA Director John Deutch warned that the Soviet collapse brought about "the chilling reality that nuclear materials and technologies are more accessible now than at any time in history." Plans for nuclear weapons were found in Afghanistan after the Taliban were defeated.

The only thing we don't know for sure is if they have if they have acquired fissile material. If so, a functioning bomb is not hard to make. In a simple gun-model bomb, one baseball-sized "bullet" of weapons-grade uranium is shot at high speed down a barrel against a second slab of enriched uranium.

The result is a chain reaction that could reduce much of Manhattan to radioactive rubble and kill about a million people before you can say 'Saddam was no threat to US National Security'.

By 1981, Saddam had 27.5 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium. The Israelis bombed the Osirek reactor into rubble, but what happened to Saddam's plutonium?

It was assumed to be destroyed by the attack, but plutonium is hard to destroy and easy to find amid the rubble with a Geiger counter. Where is it now?

And Russia holds an estimated two million pounds of weapons-grade uranium-enough for 80,000 bombs. Throughout the 1990's about 30 cases of nuclear materials' smuggling were reported a year during the confusion surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Question: How many smugglers DIDN'T get caught? A recent report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace pointed out that, unlike countries, which may fear retaliation; terrorist groups are undeterred about using nuclear weapons.

Agence France-Presse reported in late April that U.S. analysts believed North Korea had at least eight nuclear weapons, rather than two as previously suspected. And Iran's ambitions to produce nuclear weapons appeared more real after Iran announced it would resume enrichment activities, defying the IAEA.

And Egypt, Saudi Arabia or other nations might follow Iran's lead and initiate or renew nuclear programs, the report said. All of these countries have ties with Islamic terrorism.

The Department of Homeland Security describes the effect of a nuclear suitcase blast on its website under the heading, "Terrorism Survival Guide".

There are two components to a blast's shock wave. First, there's the wall of pressure that expands outward from the explosion. It is this pressure, measured in psi (pounds per square inch), that blows away the walls from buildings.

A typical two-story house subjected to 5 psi would feel the force of 180 tons on the side facing the blast. Additionally, the blast creates a 160 mile-an-hour wind. And that's only at 5 psi. The wind speed following a 20 psi blast would be 500 mph.

The second component is thermal radiation. If you're seven miles away from a one megaton explosion, the heat emanating from the fireball will cause a first-degree burn to any exposed skin hit by the light of the blast. If you're six miles away, it will cause second-degree burns. And if you're five miles away, the thermal radiation will cause third-degree burns.

The intense heat would also ignite a "mass fire" -- i.e., a fire that could cause large areas to simultaneously burst into flames. President Bush, and most of the Republican Party leadership will be at the Republican National Convention Center in New York next week.

If al-Qaeda has even one nuke, this is the place to plant it. Suppose a one megaton bomb were detonated near the site?

According to the Department of Homeland Security, at Ground Zero will be a crater one thousand feet wide and 200 feet deep. The rim of this crater is composed of highly radioactive soil and debris.

Nothing recognizable will stand for more than a half-mile in all directions. At a mile and a half, only some of the strongest buildings -- those made of reinforced, poured concrete -- are still standing. Ninety-eight percent of the population in this area are dead.

At two and a half miles, the walls of typical multi-story buildings, including apartment buildings, have been completely blown out. The bare, structural skeletons of more and more buildings rise above the debris.

Single-family residences within this this area have been completely blown away -- only their foundations remain. Fifty percent of the population within this area are dead, forty percent are injured.

At five miles, any single-family residences that have not been completely destroyed are heavily damaged. The windows of office buildings have been blown away.

The contents of these buildings' upper floors, including the people who were working there, are scattered on the street. Five percent of the population are dead, forty-five percent injured.

Within seven days of the blast, greater-than-lethal doses of radiation will have contaminated a radius of thirty miles. It will take at least ten years before the radiation drops below lethal levels. Lethal radiation will have blanketed a radius of ninety miles.

Everyone in this circle will die within fourteen days of exposure. Radiation can cause cell damage, the loss of white blood cells and even temporary hair loss within a radius of 160 of Ground Zero.

179 posted on 08/25/2004 5:24:12 PM PDT by Mossad1967

One of the links you provided (towards the top) caught my eye. It involved horses racing, and reminded me of the upcoming Breeder's Cup. Can you post the image here?

180 posted on 08/25/2004 5:27:20 PM PDT by liberallyconservative

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