Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty

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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!

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Ramadan terror concerns?
Full Story

ATLANTA (CNN) -- As more than one billion Muslims prepare to celebrate Ramadan, terror experts are mixed about whether the holy month is a tool for recruiting terrorists.

Some terrorism experts and Islamic scholars say Ramadan gives extremists an opportunity to enlist new recruits.

"It's a time which can be exploited by radical clerics to motivate individuals into taking action on the basis they are somehow serving their religion," says terror expert M.J. Gohel.

And analysts see another temptation for terrorists: exploiting the Battle of Badr, a symbolic date in Muslim history, which falls near the U.S. presidential election.

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"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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Link to Thread Nineteen	Terror-Alert.com "Code Red Implications: Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word." From Tm'er and Freeper ~MamaDearest~	Cindy's Links of Interest
Threat Matrix "TM'er" Tips		ExSoldier's Invaluable Tips
TM Code of Conduct		Godzilla's Summaries
TM's 'Be on the Lookout'		nwctwx's Highlighted Links

[Tilly]

I know, oorang. None of this stuff is happy.

[Tilly]

hey, well said, Davey!

[Tilly]

ROFL, Piper!

[MamaDearest]

What do you think of this news story? DU last ditch effort to topple President Bush?

Hillary's October Surprise?

[Chani]

replyin to self

[Cindy]

I understand.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256734/posts

"Armed civilians can help fight terrorism"
Backwoods Home ^ | 10-25-04 | Massad Ayoob


Posted on 10/25/2004 5:14:41 PM PDT by SJackson

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255463/posts


"Terrorists Kill 50 Unarmed Iraqi GIs in Ambush (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Group claims responsibilty)

Fox News ^ | 10/24/04


Posted on 10/24/2004 1:02:06 PM PDT by kendu


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136419,00.html

[Right_Handed_Writer]

UAL flight 835 sucked in a bird almost immediately after takeoff. Blew the starboard engine. ATC took it out over Lake Michigan and had it create a fuel spill. Someone must have complained because I heard the pilot report in about 5 minutes before it landed that they still had 100,000 lbs of fuel on board. It landed at 10:35 last night without incident. The flight finally left today around 11:00 AM.

The flight was airborne for about 40 minutes total.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-041025edplane2,0,7835514.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[Cindy]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/10/003664print.html

October 25, 2004

"Bomb blast at a Turkish McDonald's"

[ExSoldier]

Thanks, this is AWESOME! I actually put it on a document to use with my classes. Great stuff for our open forum discussions.

[tmp02]

Cuba to No Longer Accept U.S. Dollars

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256826/posts

[Domestic Church]

Bookmarking

[Mossad1967]

Check your Freepmail.

[nw_arizona_granny]

From my memory, I think the Stock Market always goes crazy for the election time.

I can recall doing a bit of worrying myself, and I don't own stocks, but it also affects the real estate market and even
jobs in factories and casinos.

Calpernia has a good knowledge of Soros.

The KGO Radio station is on (KGO 850.com maybe?), from San Francisco has had a couple reports that are odd.

The electric is shut down, and so is traffic near the Bart Station (I think earlier, the station was called Fruit something?)

A few minutes ago, there was an update, it appears that there is a man UNDER the tracks.

News did not know who, what or why he was there, but the goal appears to be an attempt to get him out.

If I get more, I will send it on.

Thank you Tilly for a good report.

[Cindy]

Interesting, huh?

[Velveeta]

bookmark

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1243381/posts?q=1&&page=1601#1601

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1243381/posts?q=1&&page=1606#1606

http://www.itshappening.com/showthread.php?t=68684

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Traveller2022%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

[MamaDearest]

Good code for Traveller 2022 - I believe it's the universal code, is it not?

[nwctwx]

The War Bin Laden Wanted
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102604E.shtml

...excerpt...

George W. Bush’s re-election campaign rests on three claims, distinct but always run together: that the United States is at war against terror, that it is winning the war, and that it can ultimately achieve victory but only under his leadership.

The second and third propositions are hotly debated. Critics of Bush contend that the U.S. is losing the struggle against terror on the most important fronts and that only new leadership can bring victory, but except for a few radicals, no one denies that the struggle against international terrorism in general and groups like al-Qaeda in particular constitutes a real war. The question comes up in the campaign only when Republicans such as Vice President Cheney charge that Democrats view terrorists as mere criminals and do not recognize that the country is at war. The charge, though false - no Democratic leader would commit political suicide by even hinting this - is effective politically.

Some experts on international law and foreign policy object to calling the struggle against terrorism a war, pointing for example to the legal problem of whether under international law a state can declare war on a non-state movement and claim the rights of war, or arguing that terrorism constitutes a tactic and that no one declares war against a tactic. Both arguments indicate the sloppy thinking that pervades the rhetoric of the War on Terror. The first point, moreover, has important practical consequences for such questions as the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere, and for our relations with allies, other states, and the UN. Yet these kinds of arguments seem too academic to matter. The general public can hardly understand them, much less let them influence their votes.

Other reasons, however - different, more powerful, highly practical, and astonishingly overlooked - argue against conceiving of the struggle as a war and, more important still, waging it as such. The reasons and the logic behind them are somewhat complicated, but the overall conclusion is simple: by conceiving of the struggle against international terrorism as a war, loudly proclaiming it as such, and waging it as one, we have given our enemies the war they wanted and aimed to provoke but could not get unless the United States gave it to them.

This conclusion is not about semantics or language but has enormous implications. It points to fundamentally faulty thinking as one of the central reasons that America is currently losing the struggle, and it means that a change in leadership in Washington, though essential, will not by itself turn the course of events. What is required is a new, different way of thinking about the struggle against terrorism and from that a different way of waging it.

Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda repeatedly and publicly declared war on the United States and waged frequent attacks against its property, territory (including embassies abroad), and citizens for years before the spectacular attack on 9/11. This admission would seem to destroy my case at the outset and end the discussion. If bin Laden and al-Qaeda declared war on the United States and committed unmistakable acts of war against it, then obviously the U.S. had no choice but to declare war in reply, just as it had to do so against Japan after Pearl Harbor.