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?
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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

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

More on the tape... I hope this isn't a double post I have lost 2 tonight, sorry if it is.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1260598/posts

[Velveeta]

Hopefully, we'll happen upon a transcript soon.

75 minute video.

Another long-winded jihadi.

[Chani]

bookmarkin for the easily amused. ;)

BTW I agree with DLN about Debka

And I think the tape maker is a big fish wannabe, or is just being used to make noise.

[Velveeta]

Thanks for your analysis. I'd love to see more!

[Velveeta]

Traveller2022 is flapping his jihadi jaws over at IH again:

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Two tuesdays remained !

Lets see how many tuesday yet to come before Ramadan ends :

We have tuesday 2/11
We have tuesday 9/11

But still , many tuesdays yet to come after Ramadan

Who knows !? Not Travy for sure and non of you !

Maybe Benny ?

Know guyes ? AM a tough , very tough man but though am holding my breath , been tracking AQ news for 14 years , studying every aspect of it , monitoring its progress , stratigy ... etc . AlQaeda is getting bigger ,bigger and stronger even more than i peronaly expected !

America , it looks your in a big trouble !

( Remember my ex threads about the economical affects of such attacks , your country will certainly economicly collapse )
http://www.itshappening.com/showthread.php?p=1686523#post1686523

[Oorang]

I agree with you ffnj. The excerpted MamaD posted at 2251 is chilling. Should be noted. Stay safe up there.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks for the link, Davey.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Cheers for Debka!

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13242490,00.html

MORGAN'S TERROR GAFFE (Sky News)

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks for posting this, Vel.

I was just at IH but I was hovering in alneda. It would be interesting if Trav would pop into alneda once in awhile and add his, umm..., uh..., add his insight.

I wonder why he chooses to stick to rant and rave.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I enjoyed that whole Morgan escapade!

Whoops!

[Rushmore Rocks]

I do not think this is Adam Gadahn. (sp?) Just doesn't sound like a California raised, hard rock kid. I'm fairly certain this man has spent time in this country, but lacks the idioms and pronunciations we use. Just my opinion. I'm sure the linguists with the alphabet agencies will figure it out.

[FairOpinion]

Do you or anybody has that picture of NY City, with blood running and the bull with a human face?

This latest warning made me think of that picture, and I can't find it.

I think it would be worth taking another look at it, in the current context.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Well, I guess we are making a whole lot of something out of nothing? Vel, I guess you can say, "whew, I'm glad that's over" again!

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Intelligence on Election Threat Quieted
Associated Press ^ | Thu Oct 28, 5:32 PM ET | KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER


Posted on 10/28/2004 8:54:40 PM EDT by Northwesterner


By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - U.S. government officials say the level of information picked up about an election terror threat has ebbed recently, but they still believe the danger posed by al-Qaida has not waned.

Law enforcement authorities are making arrests and increasing surveillance, tracking several hundred people nationwide in a final push to break up any potential plots before Tuesday's elections or beyond.

Officials have been on alert for a possible al-Qaida strike since intelligence sources this spring and summer indicated the group's interest in such an attack. The sources were never specified publicly.

In the past four or more weeks, however, the various sources of such information have quieted down. That includes a decrease in the contacts and communications among terror suspects and sympathizers that governments can monitor. This often-ambiguous dialogue can include things as easy to track as postings to Internet chat rooms.

U.S. authorities are picking up less of that kind of traffic, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Within the past week, U.S. officials also have said that some of the information from one intelligence source who led to the heightened election concerns now has been deemed not credible.

The FBI (news - web sites) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are arresting people who are considered a possible threat; they are usually being taken in on charges unrelated to a potential terror threat.

Law enforcement officials said "several hundred" people are under tighter surveillance ahead of Tuesday's election.

Since Oct. 1, agents have arrested 137 people on immigration violations in a stepped-up enforcement action aimed at finding those who may pose a threat to national security, ICE officials said. The names of some of those arrested appear on government lists of those with possible connections to terrorism.

Those people under heightened government scrutiny were identified through methods such as intelligence gathered inside and outside the United States; FBI interviews with an estimated 10,000 Muslims, Arabs and others based on investigative leads; and immigration database alerts triggered when someone violates the terms of a visa, such as failing to attend college as promised.

"We now have systems in place to address this vulnerability, and we are doing so aggressively," ICE chief Michael Garcia said.

Some Muslims worry the arrests and interviews could intimidate Muslims from voting, said Council on American-Islamic Relations spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed. The FBI has had town-hall meetings and other forums hoping to ease those fears.

"Members of our community have been targeted for reasons that are often unexplained or untold," Ahmed said.

Democrats have suggested that the timing of some highly publicized terror warnings this year was designed to improve support for President Bush (news - web sites).

That includes a summer warning from Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge that terrorists might try to disrupt the political process. The announcement came shortly after Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) named Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) as his running mate.

Ridge and others have said politics do not play a role in security decisions.

Authorities are cautioning that they have no credible information about a specific attack, including a time, place or method of assault. Ridge has said the threat could extend after the election to the Jan. 20 inauguration and beyond.

No one is sure about the meaning of a decrease in dialogue monitored among suspected terrorists and sympathizers, and other incoming intelligence.

Some view such a trend as a warning, noting a similar lull in the summer before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Before that lull, in July 2001, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) has said the government picked up "frustratingly vague" messages, including: "Big event — there will be a very, very, very, very big uproar." Then came the lull, then the attacks.

Others see the decline this time as a potentially positive development, or a sign that al-Qaida might be inactive or weakening.

Associated Press writer Curt Anderson contributed to this report.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1260761/posts

[Velveeta]

I keep wondering why Traveller2022 doesn't come here.

He talks about us enough.

Did you see the post where he wants freepers to go over to IH and make threats to him there? ROFL

What a putz.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Jill St. Claire has a small pic of that image up here:

http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/threat2.jpg

I don't want to put the pic up here without Jill's permission for bandwidth reasons. I will look around for the regular size pic though. Someone else here may have it handy before I can find it.

[Velveeta]

~grin~

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I didn't see that one either. He is a character.

[Godzilla]

Our analysis of the video has overlooked an item!!!! Has anyone looked at the arabic writing below the head to see if 1) It forms coherent sentences. 2) The information would be something compatable with the presentation? Personal observation after hearing the audio. There is a possiblilty that this is a hoax. If it is, there may be a glitch in the presentation such as the arabic text that gives him away. It was definitely designed to try to sway the election against Bush.

[fourscore]

I need some feedback on this. I mistakenly posted this on another thread. I think, perhaps, it belongs here

I just had a chilling thought and I hope I am simply having a "tin foil" moment.

Here goes the scenario

Kerry has behind the scenes knowledge that ABC has a terror tape from Al Qaeda threatening attacks on America just like Kerry was also tipped off about so-called "missing" explosives from Iraq and accuses Bush of incompetence.

Kerry is setting himself up to blame Bush for any preelection attack on America. (The weapons that attacked us came from Iraq etc. etc.)

This may be what is driving Kerry. He is desperate and is setting himself up for this as a way to counter the conventional wisdom that any attack helps Bush.

For a whole variety of reasons I hope I am horribly off base. But with the Dems, I think one can exhaust one's imagination without selling short their ability to get as low as the situation requires.