Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Monitoring a HAZMAT in Chicago for a garbage truck that dumped its load at one of the city incinerators and set off the radiation detectors at the facility (750 N Kilbourn, west side incinerator). Dept of Energy is now on the scene, the truck has been isolated and the driver is being checked out by EMS. They also requested that the crew that was on the truck be held at their yard office (Higgins/Nagle) for evaluation and questioning.

I will check local noon news here shortly to see if they have picked up on it.

[Velveeta]

has failed to detect any trace of a terrorist cell operating in the U.S

Well, glad that threat's over. /sarcasm

[Velveeta]

Thanks, RHW. Pinging Rutles as well.

Nothing on CLTV news as yet.

[Mossad1967]

What you guys really mean to say is that you have failed to find any trace of the numerous cells that have so well integrated themselves into our society that they are almost impossible to detect.

When they strike again it will be just like 9/11.
Out of the blue and completely shocking.
(Of course, not to us who have been following the TM)

[tmp02]

Putin: Terror Attacks Aimed at Bush



DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) said Monday that terrorists are aiming to derail U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s chances at re-election through their attacks in Iraq (news - web sites).


"I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush (news - web sites)," Putin said at a news conference after a regional summit in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.

"International terrorism has as its goal to prevent the election of President Bush to a second term," he said. "If they achieve that goal, then that will give international terrorism a new impulse and extra power."

/snip/

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041018/ap_on_re_eu/russia_us_election_1

[Velveeta]

Dozens Injured in Ill. Highway Bus Crash

(snip)Authorities said the bus passengers were residents of Tennessee and Mississippi who were returning home after participating in a prostate cancer fund-raiser in Chicago organized by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.(snip)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-bus-crash,1,4842849.story?coll=chi-newslocal-hed

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Nothing on WGN News yet. Fire Dept has left the scene, secured the truck and isolated it and turned it all over to the Dept of Energy. I'll keep listening and update if I hear anything.

[OldFriend]

I suspect Dubya chose the venue for the proximity to PA......the Philly media market will no doubt carry the rally.

[Rutles4Ever]

This is news to me. Medical equipment being tossed? Gauges?

Hm.

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

bookmark

[Velveeta]

Insurgents behead two Macedonians in Iraq
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/292/world/Insurgents_behead_two_Macedoni:.shtml

[4thygipper]

Why Didn't 99 Other Senators Close Up Shop Too?
Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton shuts down his office after a

CIA briefing
By ELAINE SHANNON



Monday, Oct. 18, 2004
When Senator Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office last week, ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety, many on Capitol Hill wondered if the Minnesota Democrat knew something everyone else didn't. The answer, it turns out, is far from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical."

Even stranger, Dayton sent his staff home several days after the CIA toned down the dramatic multiple-attack scenario, which the intelligence community "no longer believed to be valid," says the official. The CIA's initial report conflicted sharply with assessments by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security that al-Qaeda is no longer able to mount synchronized spectacular events. In fact, fears of a pre-election attack have eased as an all-out push by law-enforcement and intelligence officers has failed to detect any trace of a terrorist cell operating in the U.S. "It's about as quiet as it can possibly be," says a top counterterrorism official. But he and others remain watchful. It was eerily calm before 9/11 too. Dayton's press secretary says the Senator has had "no second thoughts" about the closing.

From the Oct. 25, 2004 issue of TIME magazine

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041025-725093,00.html

[Labyrinthos]

Bookmark.

[bored at work]

Anybody listening to the president via Rush Limbaugh? This guy is hilarious.

[Labyrinthos]

What's he saying?

[LilyBean]

We can look high and low. We can look up and down. We will not predict the next attack. It will be in their own good time. When they are ready. EOM is a complete waste of time. I don't know why Jeannie even bothers to post that chit anymore. An attack will happen when they are good and ready, and not before. I think we have put a major damper on what they want to do. Time will tell. And some bozo on the internet is not going to be telling us when that hit will be.

[bored at work]

Rush is funny not Bush.

Rush:"right on, right on, right on". Sounded like off an old Cheech and Chong album.

[Labyrinthos]

I stopped paying attention to EOM many months ago.

[Mossad1967]

Analysis from ERRI spokesman Clark Staten.
He runs an excellent website.
http://www.emergency.com/ennday.htm

Time Magazine: Dayton Reportedly Evacuated DC Office Over "Hypothetical Threat"

WASHINGTON, DC: According to a report in the Oct. 25, 2004 issue of TIME magazine, Senator Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office last week as the result of a CIA worst-case scenario briefing involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. apparently Senator Dayton took the "hypothetical threat" as opposed to an "imminent one."

The CIA then toned down the dramatic multiple-attack scenario, which the intelligence community "no longer believed to be valid," an intelligence official told Time. The CIA's initial report conflicted sharply with assessments by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security that al-Qaeda is no longer able to mount synchronized spectacular events. In fact, fears of a pre-election attack have eased as an all-out push by law-enforcement and intelligence officers has failed to detect any trace of a terrorist cell operating in the U.S.

The problem with that assessment, ERRI counter-terrorism analysts say and the Time magazine article points out, is that it also got "extremely quiet" just prior to the 11 September, 2001 attack in Washington and New York City. "There are many historical pattern similarities between the Summer of 2001 and the Fall of 2004," ERRI spokesman Clark Staten noted.

"Furthermore and with all due respect to the experts in DC...anyone who does not believe that Al-Qaeda operatives could carry out a series of car bombing in the United States tomorrow must be simply kidding themselves," Staten added. "Our assessment would suggest that Al-Qaeda is waiting and planning for one or more spectacular terror events...they do not want to carry out simplistic car/truck bombs that kill a few dozen people in each occurrence...that doesn't prove anything," the veteran analyst continued.

"What they really want is a major attack(s) that again prove their prowess and spread wide-spread fear among American citizens...they want to 'top themselves' and undertake an attack(s) that surpasses the events of 9/11," Staten said. "If this attack (or series of attacks), manages to take a hundreds or thousands of lives they will have achieved their objective. If concurrently these events influence or change the election process in the United States -- so much the better, in the view of the bad guys," Staten concluded.

[Mossad1967]

"The problem with that assessment, ERRI counter-terrorism analysts say and the Time magazine article points out, is that it also got "extremely quiet" just prior to the 11 September, 2001 attack in Washington and New York City. "There are many historical pattern similarities between the Summer of 2001 and the Fall of 2004," ERRI spokesman Clark Staten noted.

"Furthermore and with all due respect to the experts in DC...anyone who does not believe that Al-Qaeda operatives could carry out a series of car bombing in the United States tomorrow must be simply kidding themselves," Staten added. "Our assessment would suggest that Al-Qaeda is waiting and planning for one or more spectacular terror events...they do not want to carry out simplistic car/truck bombs that kill a few dozen people in each occurrence...that doesn't prove anything," the veteran analyst continued.

"What they really want is a major attack(s) that again prove their prowess and spread wide-spread fear among American citizens...they want to 'top themselves' and undertake an attack(s) that surpasses the events of 9/11," Staten said. "If this attack (or series of attacks), manages to take a hundreds or thousands of lives they will have achieved their objective. If concurrently these events influence or change the election process in the United States -- so much the better, in the view of the bad guys," Staten concluded."

Absolutely correct.