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

[Teri0811]

"Invisible! And all those mysterious balloons & parachutes indicate something heavier than air."

I may be misunderstanding you but I meant someone actually going up in a hot air balloon and just dumping the stuff over the side, no parachutes. It wouldn't take many balloons either...a few here and there in a few select cities.

[Godzilla]

I'll bet they don't even have MOPP 1 capability, let alone MOPP 4! It'd be fine just to watch 'em flop around on the ground like a gasping fish out of water.

We wouldn't need to do that if the wind shifts like you said. But I cringe at the innocent lives that would be lost in such an attack.

[MamaDearest]

You did a great job getting it to us for us to see! Thanks!

[null and void]

"Who created the seven skies layer upon layer! (It comes in narration of the Prophet Mohammed that on top of the first sky is the second sky, and on top of that is the third, all the way up to the seventh sky. And the distance from one sky to the other is five hundred years of travel)."

So what's 3500 lightyears from earth?

[Godzilla]

This has been a whale of a weekend and I've barely gotten caught up on the posts, let a lone get much other independent research done. I want to thank all you Freeper TM'ers - the collective memory - for what has been brought back to refresh our memories. Before I call it a night (wore out helping to move a church full of stuff to our new location), lets pause and note a few key things

1. We have two authentic AQ video tapes.
2. Their proximity and message suggest that they are related and in their desired sequence of presentation.
3. Both tapes imply that any strike will depend upon the people's choice in the election - suggesting that any attack will be post election.
4. We are potentially entering the most dangerous week since 911.

I'll hopefully have a better analyzed post tomorrow.

[Teri0811]

*******IMPORTANT*******

"Excellent job on the Iraq Pipeline Watch - I kNOW firsthand what effort you put in to this and I appreciate it."

While I had posted this earlier, I'm going to repeat my post because at least one person has missed the post in which I tried to correct my error.

I had posted either yesterday or two days ago that I had come across that particular timeline in another website. Or, at least, I thought that I had. Considering the length and the subject at the time, which was regarding the two videotapes, I had asked if anyone was interested in the timeling, stating that I wouldn't post it unless it was of particular interest to anyone. Someone had requested my sharing so I posted the info. Unfortunately, when I did finally post it, I left out the fact that the timeline came from the Iraqi Pipeline Watch website because I thought that I had already mentioned that fact.

Long story short: That timeline is not of my doing, it's just information I came across on the Iraqi Pipeline Watch website. My apologies for causing confusion.

http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm

[Velveeta]

Professional networks standarize this.

It could at least mean that there are different people doing the editing. Those who tend to put it in the right corner (westernized editing) and those who tend to put it in the left (middle eastern editing).

[Teri0811]

"You did a great job getting it to us for us to see! Thanks!"

Ugh...I should've read another 2 posts and I would've seen that you had already gotten that it wasn't my own work. I seem to be all over the place and awfully confused these past few days...

[ExSoldier]

Yeah, I know. But I keep seeing all those little Palestinian kids and moms jumping for joy as they heard about WTC on 9/11. We can't be responsible for their kids. They wanna stay safe? Give up. And give us the bad guys we seek. And Godzilla? How many would a MOAB vaporize? I'm not suggesting we just go out and GAS 'EM. As a nation we have foresworn the option of first use of chemical weapons. That was Saddam's style. The insurgents (wolves) are hiding among the sheep. If the sheep won't turn in the wolves, then they have no legitimate beef if they get turned into lambchops.

[texasbluebell]

Unless it's been refuted, the imam of the mosque that Gadahn attended in LA has stated that this is Adam in the video.

That was either on Thursday or Friday that Fox had that report.

Has anyone heard otherwise?

I saw the segment, he watched the video 3 times very carefully and then stated this was Gadahn. This was the same imam who was assaulted by Gadahn.

[Godzilla]

Those who tend to put it in the right corner (westernized editing) and those who tend to put it in the left (middle eastern editing).

Yes, without standardization, they are free to place it in any corner. Lack of standardization does not necessarly negate authencitiy, but variations should be noted. Perhaps some one else out there has screen shots of previous Sahab videos to see where the logo has been placed in the past.

[ZOTnot]

Seat belt not connected?

(Just kidding! Please, weird sense of humor).

Today's reading's in church were rather unsettling regarding 'do not be deceived in the last days...'

I do not remember that reading in the past although I have been 'churched' for 50 years now.

[Godzilla]

If the sheep won't turn in the wolves, then they have no legitimate beef if they get turned into lambchops.

There is a part of me that wishes we could just turn those towns into heaps of rubble. I've been told that when allie forces were sweeping through southern Germany towards the end of WW2, the word was put out that the Allies wouldn't damage a town if it surrendered and didn't form a point of resistance. Those few that did were leveled, the rest got the message.
But I also remember the Brit officer in 'The Patriot' who savaged the innocents to get the info on the Continental Army. Not quite the same comparison though. I guess it is the ethic of trying to avoid killing non-combatants from my active duty days wanting some restraint. Perhaps restraint is counter productive and an example needs to be made.

[Honestly]

New militant group claims responsibility for deadly Al-Arabiya car bombing in Baghdad Oct. 31, 2004

CAIRO, Egypt

A previously unheard of militant group claimed responsibility Sunday for the car bombing a day earlier outside the Baghdad offices of Al-Arabiya TV that killed seven people, including five of the station's Iraqi employees.

The Jihad Martyr's Companies in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on an Islamic web site known for carrying announcements by militant groups.

The statement accused the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based television network of "siding with America, the oppressor which kills Muslims and Arabs, occupies their lands and plunders their wealth."

It was impossible to verify the claim's authenticity, which followed Saturday's release of another Internet statement attributed to a militant group calling itself the "1920 Brigades" claiming responsibility for the attack. That statement was also unable to be authenticated. Al-Arabiya on Sunday aired a video statement showing four masked gunmen belonging to the similarly named "1920 Revolution Brigades" denying involvement in the attack.

The 1920 Revolution refers to the uprising against British military occupation, which historians consider the birth of Iraqi nationalism. (snipped)

http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=40843

[MamaDearest]

I thought that too, but if you look at the other links for the site, they all give the news source in addition to the city, thus it was a bit ambiguous.

Dawn News links

[ExSoldier]

Perhaps restraint is counter productive and an example needs to be made.

Lord 'Zilla, I'm sorry I made the comment preceeding yours. Makes me sound like a damn SS officer. I'm not certain there is an easy solution to the stuff we're dealing with in Iraq. It may come down to the quiet professionals (SF) going door to door and house to house, just like they went cave to cave in Tora Bora and hunt down the scum and shoot them with 45's.....It'd be bloody but it'd be honorable.

[JellyJam]

High-ranking Russian air force officer shot and killed

MOSCOW (AP) — A high-ranking Russian air force officer was shot and killed on a road in western Russia on Sunday, a police official said.

Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, deputy commander of the air force’s strategic aviation division, and his driver died after their car was strafed by automatic weapons fire, the Interfax-Military News Agency reported. A second passenger was injured and hospitalized, it said.

A duty officer in the police department of the Smolensk region, 250 miles west of Moscow, confirmed the report but declined to give any details of the killing other than the site: near the village of Arkhipovka on the main highway linking the Russian capital with the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

[Honestly]

Pakistanis held in Spain ‘funded Al Qaeda’

MADRID: Ten Pakistanis arrested in Barcelona in mid-September were believed to have funded Al Qaeda operatives by transferring ill-gotten money to Pakistan from Spain, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday.

The paper, citing sources close to the investigation, reported that the men had wired money earlier this year to three collaborators of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected of planning the September 11 attacks. The paper did not name the collaborators but said that they had been arrested in a swoop earlier this year in Pakistan, which had left one of them dead. Spanish authorities had detained the Pakistanis on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation and it is believed that the men could have made up to 18,000 euros ($23,000) per day from drug trafficking, stolen bank cards and counterfeit passports. The newspaper reported that part of the money was sent to Karachi and Islamabad to fund terrorist activities. The men were arrested on September 15 and were found in possession of several kilogrammes of cocaine, 18,000 euros in cash as well as videos which showed some of them calling for holy war.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-11-2004_pg1_4

[Lucy Lake]

According to the NYT, Soros and Heinz-Kerry are next door neighbors in Idaho.

[Lucy Lake]

According to the NYT, Soros and Heinz-Kerry are next door neighbors in Idaho.