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

[Velveeta]

I always wonder too, why these things are blown up?

Someday, someone will put something in the suitcase that they want blown up....germs and such as you suggested.

[Velveeta]

Yes, three in a row.

We see a pattern here. ;-)

[Velveeta]

Well now, that's a strange one.

[4thygipper]

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A small plane spiraled out of control and crashed into a building near the Martin Luther King Jr. birthplace in downtown Atlanta during a storm on Tuesday. Unconfirmed local media reports said two people aboard were killed in the fiery 10:45 a.m. EDT crash. "It was trying to regain altitude, but it nosedived and it hit a building," said Zahir Ali, a 23-year-old construction worker. "After that, there was fire everywhere and people were running."... http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6544901

[Velveeta]

I bet they find al-Libbi soon. Musharraf will make certain of that.

[Velveeta]

Thank you.

I've never heard of "construction equipment used to x-ray buildings".

Any construction experts here at TM?

[bored at work]

I'm no construction expert but I do know they x-ray welds. At construction sites though I dont know. . .

[Velveeta]

Hmmmm.

Also unusual is the fact that so far, there is no listing which can be found for a J&R Aircraft out of FL.

[Velveeta]

At construction sites though I dont know

Well, that makes 2 of us. LOL

[tmp02]

Cheney: Terrorists May Bomb U.S. Cities

CARROLL, Ohio - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept "you've got to get your mind around."

"The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us — biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans," Cheney said.

"That's the ultimate threat. For us to have a strategy that's capable of defeating that threat, you've got to get your mind around that concept," Cheney said.

Cheney, speaking to an invitation-only crowd as he began a bus tour through Republican strongholds in Ohio, said Kerry is trying to convince voters he would be the same type of "tough, aggressive" leader as President Bush (news - web sites) in the fight against terrorism.

"I don't believe it," the vice president said. "I don't think there's any evidence to support the proposition that he would, in fact, do it."

The Kerry campaign has contended its Republican opponents are trying to frighten people with warnings of likely terrorist attacks in the United States and by suggesting America's enemies want Bush to be defeated. Cheney sparked Democratic outrage last month when he linked "the wrong choice" in the presidential election with a future terrorist attack.

In Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 7, Cheney told supporters: "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war."

Cheney praised the recent elections in Afghanistan (news - web sites) but said they don't mean the U.S. mission there is finished.

"Does that mean it's over now and we can walk away? No, it doesn't," he said. "This is three yards and a cloud of dust. There's no touchdown passes in this business. We'll stay as long as we need to help them train their own security forces, which we're doing actively so they can take over responsibility for their own security."

In a campaign appearance Monday in Johnstown, Pa., Cheney criticized rival vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) for going "overboard" in his comments about Kerry's support of unrestricted federal funding for stem cell research, which Bush and Cheney oppose. He also accused Edwards of giving people "false hope."

Edwards told supporters in Newton, Iowa, on Oct. 11, "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." The actor, a quadriplegic who became an advocate for stem cell research, had died a day earlier.

"I thought, frankly, the other day what John Edwards suggested when he made his comments about Christopher Reeve, that somehow if John Kerry were president, Christopher Reeve could get up out of his wheelchair and there all of his problems would be solved, I really thought was an inappropriate remark, especially given ... well, given the false hope it engendered," Cheney said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/cheney

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

Arkansas is the same way. We had a friend who helped take the census in one NW county in 1990. He said at that time there was one Hispanic family in the whole county. In the last 5-10 years Tyson Chicken has brought in people to work in their plant. Now there are whole neighborhoods of primarily Mexican Hispanics with Spanish-speaking churches and grocery stores.

[JustPiper]

Thank you AD, I'm trying ;)

[JustPiper]

I , like you 'lived' close to that but am now in Hangover Park

[JustPiper]

I am so watching this house! Directly across thr street. The activeity there is stealthy and secretive

[4thygipper]

One of these days I will learn HTML for a

return. If only I could remember it all the time.

[JustPiper]

Contemplating how best to do it, been trying to get plate numbers but from the basement not easy

[4thygipper]

False alarm causes evacuation in Boston NYC subway. IPN reported earlier that there was a gas leak in the NYC subway as well, but no stories posted at this time.


South Station evacuated as dust sets off sensor
By Boston.com Staff | October 19, 2004

South Station was evacuated this morning shortly before 11 after sensors activited and sounded an alarm that sent police and fire emergency units converging on the station.

Within a short time, however, fire officials reported that dust from work being done on the new MBTA Silver Line project had erroneously set off the chemical sensors.

Fire officials at the scene told WBZ Radio News that even though there was a short period of concern until it could be determined what caused the sensors to go off they were pleased to see how effective the warning system worked.

The sensors are engineered to detect smoke and other various forms of air contamination.

For a brief period MBTA subway trains did not stop at South Station but did continue to operate through the station.

It was not known immediately what, if any effect the emergency had on MBTA and Amtrak rail trains that operate in and out of the Station.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/19/south_station_evacuated_as_false_alarm_sounds/

[Oorang]

Seriously there is a park named "Hangover"?!?

Leave it to you to move across the street from a suspicious household! At least we have a good "house watcher".

[Oorang]

Is there a front porch, or stoop, where you are living? Can you just "casually" sit there with a book/magazine so you could get a better view of license plates?

[4thygipper]

excuse the typo in my previous post. the false alarm was in Boston. no other information can be located about nyc.