Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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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!

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.

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

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

Well, now that is interesting.
Just finished reading the thread.

2,621 posted on 10/28/2004 10:49:37 PM PDT by Cindy

To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Arafat with potentially fatal blood disorder

Terror warning issued for Saudi Arabia

SNIP: Bomber's recognition

The government has placed an award of Rs 5 lakh for the person who would recognise the face of the suicide bomber involved in the tragic incident at Jamia Masjid Kashmirian, Mochi Gate, Lahore on 10th October. The actual chopped off head appeared in papers, the next day, and then another photo showing his made up face after performing plastic surgery on October 13.

It is a bad attempt by the plastic surgeon as there is no resemblance left between the two pictures. I wonder if computer technology could be used to treat the face. From the original chopped off head, one could guess that the bomber was not a Muslim. However our intelligence agencies may be better able to make out who he was from his personal belongings.

Partial list of hostages killed or captured by terrorists in Iraq (from Chinese source)

Traffic chaos as SA crowds support man accused of inciting hatred

Scottish hospitals losing superbug fight

2,622 posted on 10/28/2004 11:23:06 PM PDT by MamaDearest

Hi Piper, how ya doin'?

I haven't had much time for FR since I am now working full time and going to school full time. This tape made me come back and see what was going on.

2,623 posted on 10/28/2004 11:26:45 PM PDT by thecabal ("For all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" --Aragorn)

Excellent collection of information and comments.

I have to get back to reading this thread regularly.

2,624 posted on 10/28/2004 11:45:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion (GET OUT THE VOTE. ENSURE A BUSH/CHENEY WIN.)

2,625 posted on 10/29/2004 12:09:27 AM PDT by Cindy

To: Donna Lee Nardo

In Britain it is not uncommon to refer to Yemen as "The Yemen".

2,626 posted on 10/29/2004 12:23:00 AM PDT by British chick

can't buleeve I'm up this late koomkrab

2,627 posted on 10/29/2004 12:26:09 AM PDT by Chani

That guy sure is on the jerk list, that's for sure.
Thanks Velveeta.

2,628 posted on 10/29/2004 12:32:28 AM PDT by Cindy

So you think it might be a Democrat?

2,629 posted on 10/29/2004 12:35:50 AM PDT by Cindy

I think he's holding up two fingers in that photo to let the guard know how badly he needs to go to the bathroom.

2,630 posted on 10/29/2004 12:40:49 AM PDT by Cindy

To: Old Sarge; fullwave; LayoutGuru2; JohnathanRGalt; ganeshpuri89; All

2,631 posted on 10/29/2004 1:53:50 AM PDT by Cindy

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200410\FOR20041029b.html

"Chinese Muslim Terror Suspects Cleared; Fearful of Going Home"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief
October 29, 2004

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - The Pentagon has approved the release of a group of Uighur Muslims who are among the terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay, but the U.S. is trying to find a third country willing to take them, because of fears they will face persecution or death if they return to China."

2,632 posted on 10/29/2004 2:40:34 AM PDT by Cindy

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04100125.htm

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.net

Thursday, October 28, 2004

UZBEK AUTHORITIES RAID BAPTIST CHURCH DURING SUNDAY SERVICES
Tashkent Congregation Refused Registration For Eight Years

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN (ANS) -- Police in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent raided the Bethany Baptist Church during Sunday worship on October 17, declaring the service an “illegal religious meeting” and demanding the pastor promise to stop all the church’s activities, writes Barbara G. Baker of Compass Direct (www.compassdirect.org)

Baker said Pastor Nikolai Shevchenko declined to do so.

After confiscating samples of literature found in the church sanctuary and classrooms, the officers left, telling the pastor and eight members that they would be called to answer in court over the case.

A member of the Baptist Union, Shevchenko’s church has been seeking official registration in vain for the past eight years. Despite a three-year lull in police actions against their activities, the church remains caught in an apparent standoff between local city regulations and the government’s restrictive registration laws instituted in 1998.

About 120 members of the congregation of the Bethany Baptist Church in Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district were midway through their Sunday morning service when eight district police officials appeared at the door.

Ringing the bell, the officers demanded to speak with the church’s leader. Pastor Nikolai Shevchenko complied, leaving the platform at the front of the church to walk outside and speak with the officers.

According to Shevchenko, who spoke with Compass Direct two days after the incident, the policemen demanded, “What’s going on here?” When he stated that he and his congregation were singing and worshipping, the officials asked, “Do you have permission to do this? Is your church registered?”

“I told them no, so they asked me, ‘Why not?’” Shevchenko said. “That is also my question,” he told them. “Why is our church not registered?”

When the police insisted that paper be brought so they could write up official documents on the case, the pastor led them back through the church sanctuary to a room off the church’s inner garden. There they demanded that the pastor list the names of everyone present. When he refused to do this, they told him to write and sign a statement, admitting that he was conducting an illegal religious meeting.

“It is not pleasant for me to persecute you while you are praying to God,” one officer reportedly told Shevchenko. “But we have orders, so if you do not comply, we will have to call for trucks and buses so we can arrest everyone and take them to the police station.”

With the officers’ permission, Shevchenko returned to the congregation to ask if any would volunteer to represent the church by writing a personal statement for the police. Eight of the members came forward to write and sign statements declaring they had been present at the church’s morning service.

Although the police demanded that Shevchenko promise not to meet again in the church, he declined to do so. After confiscating samples of literature found in the church sanctuary and classrooms, the officers left, telling the pastor and eight members that they would be called to answer in court over the case.

In repeated attempts to gain legal registration, the Bethany Church congregation has provided the required list of 100 founding members and three pastoral leaders, paid a large registration fee and even secured the written approval of local community leaders and neighbors.

But nevertheless, police have twice before interrupted their worship services, assessing fines against the congregation, arresting the pastor and several members and filing criminal charges against them in May 2000 and again in June 2001.

In a straightforward plea to be heard, the church sent a letter in March 2001 to President Islam Karimov, attaching 18 documents confirming the history of the church’s attempt to register itself legally. Although Shevchenko was told orally that Karimov’s cabinet had seen the letter and would “resolve” the case, there has been no written response.

On October 19, Shevchenko told Compass that he had heard about three other Tashkent churches which had experienced similar interruptions from police officials over the past few days. “The clouds are gathering again over our churches here,” he said.

Shevchenko, 57, started the Bethany Church as an independent congregation in 1996. With Sunday attendance averaging 130 or more, the church has since started two spin-off church groups in nearby districts of northeast Tashkent. The members are an ethnic mix of Germans, Koreans, Uzbeks, Tatars, Kazakhs and Russians, the pastor said.

“We have existed since 1996,” Shevchenko said, “so how can the authorities say we do not exist?”

***Photographs of Pastor Nikolai Shevchenko and the Bethany Baptist Church are available electronically. Contact Compass Direct for pricing and transmittal.

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** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.

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2,633 posted on 10/29/2004 2:44:57 AM PDT by Cindy

Tape is being shown by ABC...(only clips)

2,634 posted on 10/29/2004 4:11:34 AM PDT by tmp02 (Don't come to the US. We too are dipping our bullets in pig's blood)

Video also on www.foxnews.com. (only clips)

2,635 posted on 10/29/2004 4:15:38 AM PDT by tmp02 (Don't come to the US. We too are dipping our bullets in pig's blood)

To: piasa; backhoe; Ernest_at_the_Beach; RaceBannon; JohnathanRGalt; All

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/10/003706print.html

October 29, 2004

"Canada: Islamic leader apologizes but won't quit"

"The latest on Elmasry from the Globe and Mail, with thanks to Ali Dashti:"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mohamed Elmasry, the embattled president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, apologized again yesterday for his controversial remarks but did not resign -- despite repeated calls to do so from other Muslim and Jewish organizations.

Instead, the CIC issued a statement yesterday saying it accepted Mr. Elmasry's apology for saying that all Israelis over the age of 18 are fair targets for suicide bombers, but not his offer to resign, noting "one unintentional mistake does not wipe out his exemplary 30-year record."

An unintentional mistake that happens to coincide with fatawa issued by many Islamic clerics?"

2,636 posted on 10/29/2004 4:38:20 AM PDT by Cindy

Was this the new tape. I got the impression it was not scary. I don't know why, I have not seen it yet.

2,638 posted on 10/29/2004 5:08:46 AM PDT by angcat

http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=560

"Friday, October 29, 2004

'Why Al-Qaeda's Attack is Delayed'
Source: Militant Castle | 7:32:40 AM EST

The following posting was made this morning on a popular Islamic Insurgent Website. This person briefly gives his opinion on why he believes Al-Qaeda's Attack on America has been delayed. We have provided the Machine Translation for you below.

MACHINE TRANSLATION

A its postponement took place until before the appearance of the results of the American elections directly

Bush tries its postponement of a year

Kerry and the democratic erupt

And the violent chaos occurs in the countries

And the economy wears out the head is my international money as all and the worn originally

I believe that there is a thing waving the horizon

She has waited for the Al-Qaeda 01 / 11 / 2001 and until 01 / 11 / 2004

A note : Allah testifies that I did not expect the occurrence of any thing in the middle of Ramadan at all"

2,640 posted on 10/29/2004 5:18:09 AM PDT by British chick

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