Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty

[JustPiper]

WTG Bump!

[JustPiper]

I know at POD there are so many violent verses

[Mossad1967]

That is 100% accurate.

The greatest triumphs are those that we never here about.

I have heard the same thing from reliable people on the job.

***There is so much going on behind the scenes right now***

Agents from numerous agencies are all over the place here at home and abroad.

I myself have been involved in numerous seizures of undeclared currency that was to be smuggled into our country for shall we say, nefarious purposes.

That being said, It's the one or few that we can't thwart that has DHS worried.

They are trying to hurt us in a real bad way.
If an attack does take place, it will not be because of inactivity on our part. I can guarantee you that.

[diamond6]

So sorry for your loss. I've had to put a couple dogs down and its torture. Maybe you could adopt another cat from the pound and save a little animal. :)

[Oorang]

Please know my tears are for you and Mrs. ExSoldier as is this:

Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water, and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.

The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing--they each miss someone very special to them who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; his eager body begins to quiver. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face, your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...

[SunnyUsa]

Oh geez, How sad....

I'm not a cat person, but even I am moved by your loss.

It sounds like you gave that kitty a very happy life with your family, take comfort with that...take care! :(

[Velveeta]

Glad to hear you verifying that report, thanks.

It's a shame that they and you are not recognized for everything that is thwarted.

They will quickly be blamed for the one that will get through.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Very Interesting. North Korea seems intent on pissing everybody in the area off.

I think a problem we are overlooking is the possibility of the Chinese seriously considering regime change in North Korea.

It would have the effect of removing a viable threat to the peace and economies of the region 7 china itself and would allow China to put in a more reliable and stable puppet government for their own interests. Odd that China is now as much a capitalist in many ways, as it is communist - though I would never make the mistake of calling them a free market society, just a bunch of communist with capitalist tendencies.

This would do two very important things for Beijing (if they were to pull it off). One, they would gain greater standing in the region as the superpower capable of keeping the peace in Asia. Second, they would give Taipei a reason to rethink they're 'independence' tendencies. Though in all put name only Taiwan is independent, just don't tell the Chinese that.

[callmejoe]

This is the Mubarak reference on Debka last week. This references two possible explosions at Ras Satan. But I found over 700 references to three explosions and only 3 (plus this) referring to four explosions.

If you see further references on the boards it might indicate more trouble in Egypt. Either the fourth explosion is yet to occur, or the fourth explosion was at Ras Satan but not widely known.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=915

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The triple terrorist attack in Sinai Thursday night, October 7, was aimed against Israelis and Egyptians. Its central targets were:

1. The Taba Hilton which was crowded with Israelis.
2. The Nueiba resort, further south on the Red Sea coast of Sinai.

DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources reveal the bomb car was timed for the arrival of a group of 40 high-ranking Egyptian officials, most of them close friends of Gemal Mubarak, son and heir apparent of the Egyptian president. Twenty were hurt, some very seriously, and flown out by one of the two presidential planes sent over to remove them from danger without delay. Among them was the head of the ruling party’s economy committee, the director general of Egyptian airports and a son of a former deputy prime minister who is now a leading financial figure. That the terrorists had advance knowledge of this high-powered group’s private visit to the resort is a measure of their efficient and well-placed intelligence, not only in Sinai, but in Cairo too.

3. Ras al-Satan between Taba and Nueiba boasts a cluster of straw-thatched restaurants, popular with Israelis and Egyptians alike. Some witnesses report two suicide cars, not one, exploded at its center.

[ExSoldier]

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...

Just when I thought I couldn't cry any more.....

[Chani]

marked

[Mossad1967]

Thank you.

It is at times a thankless job.

It's the one that gets through that will be remembered.

I am in favor of the strictest Immigration and Border policies.

Unfortunately, many of the ones who put the laws on the books do not see it that way.

IMHO, this PC Immigration policy will be the death us unless there are drastic changes.

[Velveeta]

Suspicious briefcase forces evacuation at DFW airport

Tomorrow police will resume thier investigation into an abandoned briefcase at DFW airport.

Terminal "E" had to be partially evacuated this afternoon after the briefcase was found outside along the curb.

The bomb squad used a robot to remove it.

Tonight the briefcase is being kept in a secured remote area on airport grounds.

No word yet on what is in it... But authorities tell CBS 11 News they don't believe it's dangerous.
http://cbs11tv.com/localstories/local_story_288215936.html

[callmejoe]

Either it is a joint move, or it was a warning by China to North Korea to behave. (It so happens that North Korea cut short their highly provocative missile exercises as the Chinese started deploying on the border.)Or China could be about to stab both the North Koreans and the U.S. in the back and instead of undertaking a "corporate reshuffling" in Pyongyang with regime change, they perform a "friendly takeover" and set up shop themselves (they become the de facto regime). I'm all for regime change. I'm not for China establishing themselves inside North Korea and dictating a reunification where the reunfied Korea becomes a vassal state within a Chinese sphere of influence and neutralized as an American partner. I think the North and South Koreans would resist that as well. If China invaded North Korea and it was apparent that North Koreans were dying in large numbers to defend their homeland, I expect the South Korean would come to their defense, and instead of averting the showdown with China, we just arrive at it in a more circuitous manner.

So either it is a good cop - bad cop routine with China and North Korea in cahoots, or China is terrified of Japanese rearmament and South Korean and Taiwanese nuclearization and is truly being the good cop by reining them in for their own self-interest, or China has decided to take the historic opportunity of exploiting temporary Korean irresolution, weakness and division, to "Finlandize" Korea for decades to come - - weakening American influence in Asia and advantaging China vis a vis Japan.

I noted the coincidental increase in Chinese and North Korean naval activity because it seems coordinated and suggests that the six-way talks and the Chinese efforts to restrain North Korea may be a strategic maskirovka. China's assertions in recent months that there is no HEU program in North Korea is a troubling indication that they have ulterior motives contrary to the stated goal of denuclearizing the Peninsula.

Maybe the North Koreans will reflect upon the fact that it is not the U.S. that is massing forces on their border.

Perhaps Pyongyang should consider asking for fraternal assistance from their brethren in the South before it is too late.

[Velveeta]

Officials detonate bottles containing suspicious substance
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2432783&nav=9qrxS1AL

‘It's the legal buzz'
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/articles/1015hook15.html

[Velveeta]

Here's yet another version:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=23211

1st car: The Taba Hilton was at 95 percent capacity with up to 900 guests and 500 employees inside when a car crashed into the lobby. Officials said the suicide bomber detonated 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives.

2nd and 3rd cars: Within two hours, two more car bombs detonated nearly simultaneously outside the backpacker-oriented beach huts of Ras Shitan, 55 kilometers (35 miles) to the south, where many Israeli youths were spending the holiday.

4th car: South Sinai Gov. Mustafa Afifi said an Egyptian security guard was suspicious about one of the cars in Ras Shitan and intervened, preventing it from blowing up close to lodging.

[Domestic Church]

" Did anyone notice there were no questions regarding dealing with..."

Yep...and I suspect that was mandatory.

[Velveeta]

I agree with you, Mossad.

Thanks for being among the eyes and ears out there.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

"I'm not for China establishing themselves inside North Korea and dictating a reunification where the reunfied Korea becomes a vassal state within a Chinese sphere of influence and neutralized as an American partner. I think the North and South Koreans would resist that as well. If China invaded North Korea and it was apparent that North Koreans were dying in large numbers to defend their homeland, I expect the South Korean would come to their defense, and instead of averting the showdown with China, we just arrive at it in a more circuitous manner."

I too, am very wary of a Chinese incursion into the North. There is no possible win scenario for us, the Japanese, the Taiwanese or the South Koreans.
You are absolutley correct in asserting that this sort of thing would allow Beijing to considate her power over the Peninsula and the rest of Asia.
Though I do not fully buy into the ROK coming to the North's 'rescue'. I think the Chinese will have a plan to destabilize Seoul or will negotiate a back door deal. Which, of course, they could renege on, at a later date.

A unified Korea under Chinese terms would be a disaster for the U.S. and our two major allies (Japan and Taiwan). But I think the Chinese know, short of going nuclear, there is almost nothing we could do about it, in the near term. We may be wishing that Japan had re-militarized a couple decades ago.

[Domestic Church]

"I myself have been involved in numerous seizures of undeclared currency that was to be smuggled into our
country for shall we say, nefarious purposes."

Many store chains have just started using UV dectectors on all paper currency in the NE corridor. They must be expecting a large scale attack. I'm concerned about bioWMD being passed this way.