Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty

[nwctwx]

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?
Full Story

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

[Velveeta]

bumping that

[jerseygirl]

"This is a very sensitive time. People on both sides have reasons not to want to talk about it. For Republicans, they don't want to upset the apple cart for Bush, while for Democrats, they know this whole issue of the border is very sensitive within the Hispanic community.


Sick

[jerseygirl]

hmmm- both PA areas are near Philly- hotbed of radical Muslims

[Velveeta]

Update on one of the reports:

Bus Fumes Send Children To Hospital
None Appear To Be Seriously Ill
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3824013/detail.html

[jerseygirl]

Ramadan---NOT a holiday of peace but one for jihad:

"Militants believe they win a special place in paradise if they die in a jihad, or holy war, during Ramadan."


Holy month of Ramadan begins Friday

October 14, 2004


CAIRO, Egypt

Leading clerics in many countries of the Middle East didn't spot a new moon Wednesday, meaning the four weeks of dawn-to-dusk fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will begin Friday, local news media reported.

Reports from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Egypt said the Ramadan fast begins at dawn Friday.

Iraqis fear an escalation in violence during Ramadan. Last year, insurgents sharply increased attacks on U.S. and coalition forces during the holy month. Militants believe they win a special place in paradise if they die in a jihad, or holy war, during Ramadan.

During Ramadan, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

Muslims believe it was during Ramadan about 1,400 years ago that the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed.



www.suntimes.com/output/n...dan14.html

[jerseygirl]

Something is going to happen in North Korea- VERY SOON IMO!
(courtesy of mutter's)

"China has recently deployed 10,000 elite troops to the North Korean border,"


China sends more troops to N. Korea border


WASHINGTON


China has dispatched thousands of additional soldiers to its border region with North Korea, prompting an alert among intelligence officials in South Korea and the United States, says a diplomatic source here.

'Based on the US satellite photos and South Korea's human intelligence, the two countries concluded that China has recently deployed 10,000 elite troops to the North Korean border,' the source in Washington was quoted by South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo as saying yesterday.


Last Saturday, Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper also reported that China had sent 10,000 troops earlier this month to three border areas along the Tumen River, running between China and North Korea.

The Washington source said: 'China already has two divisions of troops guarding the border. Seoul and Washington are now analysing why China had to send another division of its best-trained troops to the area.'

China reportedly already has some 150,000 People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops stationed along its 1,400km border with North Korea, with which it signed a Border Cooperation Agreement in June.

In response, Beijing confirmed on Tuesday that it had deployed troops to the border, but denied media speculation that the move was aimed at stopping North Koreans from defecting or in protest against Pyongyang's continuing nuclear arms development.

In a related development, two North Korean refugees, including the wife of an economic official, were to fly to the US yesterday to seek political asylum, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.

Ms Chang Sun Young, the wife of a senior state-run trading company official, and Mr Chung Sung Il, are to arrive in the US via Japan and Germany, Yonhap said.

Ms Chang has information regarding the family tree of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, it said.

The two would be the first North Koreans to apply for political asylum in the US after the US Senate approved a Bill last month pressuring North Korea to improve its human rights conditions.



straitstimes.asia1.com.sg...8,00.html?

[Cindy]

Thanks.
I learn something new everday.

[nwctwx]

Zarqawi group added to terror list
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&click_id=2813&art_id=qw1097854381549U262&set_id=6

Washington - The United States on Friday formally designated the Iraqi insurgent group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi a "foreign terrorist organisation", and slapped sanctions on him and other members.

This comes a day after they claimed responsibility for deadly twin attacks in Baghdad's Green Zone.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell made the designations amid worsening violence in Iraq, including kidnappings and beheadings of foreign hostages by members of the Jordanian-born Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) group.

Powell said the organisation headed by Iraq's most wanted man posed a "significant risk" to US national security.

"The Secretary of State has concluded that there is a sufficient factual basis to find that the relevant circumstances (for the designation) exist with respect to Jam'at al Tawhid wa'al-Jihad," the State Department said in a notice in the Federal Register.

"Therefore, effective October 15, 2004, the Secretary of State hereby designates that organisation as a foreign terrorist organisation," it said.

In a separate notice, Powell imposed economic sanctions on the Zarqawi group and three of its aliases, including a freeze on all assets it may have in US jurisdictions.

"I hereby determine that the organisation known as Jam'at al Tawhid wa'al-Jihad... has committed, or poses a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States," he said.

The aliases for the group were listed as the "Monotheism and Jihad Group," "the al-Zarqawi Network" and "al-Tawhid," the notice said.

On Thursday, Zarqawi's group claimed responsibility for the attacks in the Green Zone that killed at least five people.

The claim was made in a statement attributed to the group that was posted on an Islamist website but its authenticity could not be independently confirmed.

"This operation is one of the most successful operations carried out by your brothers in the Tawhid wal Jihad group, thank be to God. We will subsequently inform the (Islamic) nation of the details," said the statement which was signed by the group's military wing.

Zarqawi's group, which is allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, is accused of some of the deadliest car bombings and a string of kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq.

The attack came only a day after Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warned the rebel city of Fallujah to surrender Zarqawi, who has a $25-million bounty on his head, or face invasion.

[Cindy]

Thanks for that link Velveeta.

[Cindy]

Thank you tmp02 for that summary.

[Cindy]

urls please?
Thank you.

[Cindy]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2004/10/15/n_dak_senator_wants_unmanned_planes_along_canada_us_border/

AP

"N. Dak. senator wants unmanned planes along Canada-U.S. border"

October 15, 2004

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A North Dakota senator wants to beef up patrols of the U.S.-Canada border to include unmanned surveillance planes and the latest high-tech sensors."

[hankbrown]

I receive IPN emergency calls by subscription. The IPN webpage does include important call information in a scroll atop their webpage at www.incidentpage.net.

[Cindy]

Thanks NW.
It sure took long enough to get on that list.

[Cindy]

Thanks Hank.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Evanston Township High School, Evanston IL. Just picked it up on scanner. Requesting several ambulances, SWAT Team with long guns. Perimeter is set around school.

More as I hear it. So far perps sound like male blacks.

Several wounded.

[tmp02]

"I receive IPN emergency calls by subscription. The IPN webpage does include important call information in a scroll atop their..."

Thanks for letting us know the REAL information.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Forget it. It's a drill.

[drymans wife]

Dear God!!!! Please keep us posted!!!

[bored at work]

RHW! You just about knocked me off my chair with that one . . .