Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty

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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.

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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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[Selene]

October 31, 2004 | Reuters

To cries of "Death to America" and "God is Greatest" Iran's hardline-dominated parliament passed a bill on Sunday obliging the government to continue efforts to develop a civilian nuclear energy program.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

[jstolzen]

Really? They're "almost identical?"

How's that? I read it but must've missed what you saw there.

[texasbluebell]

I did a search at google for that article, it's in their cache, here's the link:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:95L-CRB0StgJ:www.dawn.com/2004/10/29/top10.htm+Tape+warns+of+massive+new+attack+on+US+LOS+ANGELES,+Oct+28+dawn&hl=en

[jerseygirl]

More on timing from Jill's site: Possible Times of Terrorist Attack 10-30-2004 Athraaa of the subject, it was added : The observer of the Al-Qaeda operations finds them by most of them that have happened: As for Tuesday day And as for Friday noon And in the glorified ... She happened in the morning times.

The timings he elevated it that is not it is committing, but if the operations Lmnfthoa became possible, the choice they chose the times that it elevated. But why ؟؟؟؟

* a choice took place on Tuesday optimism about a Battle of Badr, has happened on Tuesday, the choice of Althathaa day takes place if it was the land the intended is the execution of its works by it a land not its Islamist ( any in the countries others is its Islamist ) Also, one of its request informed me the knowledge that Allah created the evil on Tuesday. (Its optimum: the battles of Manhattan and New York, Madrid, tattered) *

a choice takes place on Friday for the execution of the operations in the Islamic countries, with the coincidence with he prayed it Friday, in order not to it is injured Muslims in the attack, then the Muslim should be in the mosque at this time, and who it was injured from the Muslims then no Ylomn is except himself . (Its optimum: Kenya explosions and Dar Es Salaam) *

the choice of the morning takes place in most times in order not to she misses executor\ the executors that its letter prayed.

Then the time between the call to prayer of the dawn is to the call to prayer of the noon a wide, and in order not to the attacker and he is a debtor is martyred with the prayer of its letter. (its optimum : all Al-Qaeda operations except Bali attacks and Taba )

[Selene]

Agree.

Isn't it creepy how a week earlier Kerry started his daily rant "Bush let OBL get away at Tora Bora"?

[mindspy]

I never heard about it. I was in my car in traffic and heard three distinct chimes. At first I thought they were church bells but there was no church and it didn't come from outside. They sounded alot like the bell thing you here in a plane. It was just very weird and I thought perhaps someone on here knew something about them, perhaps they have a biblical reference.

[freeperfromnj]

The two key points that I picked up on that seem to be points OBL also makes in his tape are where Daleel states "You have stood hand in hand with your governments and left the Jews take control of the rest of the world." -- in the tape OBL pretty much says the same thing.

They include a demand that there will be no more "invasion" anywhere in the world of any Islamic lands and the return in gold of all "stolen" Muslim money. -- In the tape OBL talks about how we have taken their oil and resources.

This is what I found most disturbing:

we will give you a prior few minutes notice before our blessed attack so that you will be able to watch your destruction with your own satellite as we would be by then have passed the sky's of the seventh sky to heaven and your nation to the fires of hell, and what and end for letting you govern them and move them to the direction of hell and what a direction!"

I would watch for a new tape to appear after the election results. At that point I'd go right to red.

[mindspy]

It is a subsidiary of Michael Moore Productions? sarcsm.

[nwctwx]

Osama bin Laden casts himself as Muslim elder statesman
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1101/p01s03-wosc.html

...excerpt...

WASHINGTON AND ISLAMABAD – The Bush administration has rarely voiced his name. Kerry's campaign has uttered it as often as possible.

But Osama bin Laden spoke for himself Friday in his first videotaped comments in more than two years. "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al Qaeda," he said to Americans. "Your security is in your own hands."

Intelligence experts were struck by Mr. bin Laden's tone and by his appearance: No guerrilla garb, no rifle, no direct threats, or religious rhetoric of the past. Bin Laden was wearing a traditional Arab white thobe and princely, gold-trimmed outer garment. With the fall of Saddam Hussein and the marginalization of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, "part of what bin Laden is trying to do is fill the vacuum of leadership in the Muslim world," says Bruce Hoffman, a RAND Corp. expert on terrorism. "Part of his game is to portray himself as a statesman."

Bin Laden's reappearance serves to remind Americans not only of his threat - but of his elusiveness three years after Sept. 11. Why is he so hard to find?

One Pakistani military commander now says the Al Qaeda leader has fled the mountainous areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan. There's speculation he may be hiding in Kashmir or in the cities of Pakistan - where several key top lieutenants have been caught in the past year. But most experts say that the US and Pakistan have no idea where he's holed up.

While bin Laden has been forced into hiding, effectively prevented from using cellphones, satellite phones, or the Internet, and many of his top echelon have been captured or killed, Al Qaeda's network continues to evolve and grow - as does bin Laden's legacy and mystique in the Muslim world.

[jerseygirl]

Meanwhile- this is developing:


Rebels vow to use chemical weapons
Hala Jaber, Baghdad
November 01, 2004



AS the US reeled from the death of nine marines in Iraq at the weekend, insurgents in Fallujah claimed to have obtained chemical weapons and threatened to use them in any battle for control of the rebel stronghold.

Rebel commanders said chemicals such as cyanide had been added to mortar rounds and missiles that would be deployed against coalition troops reported to be preparing for a major assault on the town west of Baghdad.

A military committee made up of former officers in Saddam Hussein's army, including experts on chemicals and guerrilla warfare, is said to have been organising forces in Fallujah and planning tactics.

The committee is understood to include members of all the main insurgent groups, including that of Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader behind the beheading of several foreign hostages and a string of car-bomb attacks.

The US suffered its worst day in Iraq since May when the marines were killed as violence flared across Iraq's rebel heartland.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.a...55E2703,00.html

[Mossad1967]

Check Freepmail.

[British chick]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263720/posts?q=1&&page=1

Fox TV News Reporting Indian Intelligence has Sighted Ben Laden
Fox News | 10/31/2004 | Vanity


Posted on 10/31/2004 8:27:09 AM PST by nikos1121

[jstolzen]

I find it odd that the 'chatter' level has been virtually non-existent since the two AQ tapes from last week.

Normally, these guys are going full-tilt, 24x7, threatening us with anything they can think to put up on a Web page (usually our total annhiliation, and other hyperbole).

So what happens? The big kahuna (Usama) puts out a tape that's totally out of character for him (playing statesman vs. someone making more hyperbolic threats), and everything goes "radio silent".

SOMETHING Ain't Right about this, gang.

I remember hearing how pre-9/11 that the same thing happened..terrorist chatter went to virtually nil in the weeks leading up to 9/11.

And then we hear many 'experts' this weekend on FNC, etc saying that they "don't think the tapes imply a prelude to an attack".

I dunno about this. It doesn't seem "in character" for AQ, despite Usama's desire to apparently impact the election and get the considerably weaker (on defense) "Breck girl" team into the WH.

Anyone else get the feeling that something isn't quite kosher here? It just doesn't seem to...fit.

Comments/ideas? Just wondering what everyone else thinks and if any of you guys have picked up on the same here.

[jstolzen]

Gee..I thought Saddam "didn't have WMD".

How on earth can the insurgents use chem weapons in the Fallujah battle, then?

Oh, never mind.

[jerseygirl]

Something does not seem quite right to me. I would like to know how the Arabic forums are reacting to the OBL tape.

It had seemed they (AQ) had acknowledged his loss/death some time ago and Zawahiri had taken over control.

Also, OBL has to know that 50,000 did not die in the WTC attacks....

I still believe AQ is planning a big "hit" on the US- I'm just not sure about the tape.

[JellyJam]

Sounds good to me! :-)

[JustPiper]

and that is my biggest question Ian, what does it say about the UBL tape. They also were saying on FNC how different his choice of words were (UBL) and how it wasn't like him at all, in fact that many of the missing 15 min is him whining, I guess we'll know soon enough if these tapes are real.

[JustPiper]

Terror warning issued

WASHINGTON, Oct 30: The United States on Friday warned US citizens in the Gulf state of Qatar of a possible terrorist attack some time in the next week directed at a hotel or hotels in Doha that are frequented by Americans.

The US embassy in Doha said the threat, which it first publicized on Thursday, was for a "relatively specific timeframe" and advised Americans to steer clear of all major hotels in the capital for the next seven days.-AFP

http://www.dawn.com/2004/10/31/top16.htm

[JustPiper]

the feds have authenticated the fact that it came from al Qaida

Enough said

[JustPiper]

Fox TV News Reporting Indian Intelligence has Sighted Bin Laden
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263720/posts