Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Two

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Two (Index)

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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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Connect these dots, now
Full Story

"We should have secured the Mexican border."

That could be the pitiful lament we hear from negligent U.S. officials if Al Qaeda pulls off an attack on the United States using weapons of mass destruction smuggled across our southern frontier.

Were that horrendous event to happen, leaders in the administration and Congress would be justly hit with the same question that was perhaps unjustly cast at them and their predecessors after the unprecedented Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: Why didn't they connect the dots?

Related:
Bordering on Nukes?
'Bin Laden has fatwa for nuclear attack'
Jihadists Anticipate Imminent Nuclear Strike Against U.S.

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"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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Threat Matrix "TM'er" Tips	Link to Thread Twenty-One "Code Red Implications: Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word." From Tm'er and Freeper ~MamaDearest~	Cindy's Links of Interest
TM Code of Conduct		ExSoldier's Invaluable Tips
TM's 'Be on the Lookout'		Godzilla's Summaries
Threat Matrix Book List		Arabic Image Links

[tmp02]

Iran's air force ready to defend nuclear sites: army chief

http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041222122249.na6rh842.html

The Iranian military led by the air force has been ordered to stand ready to defend the country's nuclear sites in case of attack, army chief General Mohammad Salimi said Wednesday.
"The air force has been ordered to protect the nuclear sites, using all its power," Salimi said, quoted by the government daily Iran.

"The air force has temporarily suspended all its maneuvers and focused its means on patroling the sky," he added.

"All our forces including land forces, anti-aircraft, radar tactics ... are protecting the nuclear sites and an attack on them will not be simple," the general said.

American newspapers and the regional press have speculated over a possible US or Israeli attack on the nuclear sites of Iran, which the Jewish state and Washington suspect of working to develop the bomb.

US and Israeli officials have denied any such plans.

[Domestic Church]

"US Accuses Israel of Spying; Second Charge in 4 Months"

And we demanded the resignation of the big cheese at the defense ministry...sounds like they certainly were caught with their hands on some very hot cookies.

[crabbie]

I agree with thanks for the Noel song/poem and the opportunity to honor the birth of Christ in this forum.

Last year people seemed to try to be politically correct with greetings of "Happy Holidays" so as not to offend. This year the PC attitude feels like it is being shoved down our throats in so many venues. In my own way I have made every effort to say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Hanukkah" where appropriate instead of this generic nonsense. Enough is enough!

[crabbie]

It would be interesting to know whether the homicide bomber had the opportunity to request the dining hall assignment or was simply assigned there.

[all4one]

Thanks. I was checking the Phila. news stations today...and no mention at all. I should have written down the name of the man when I heard it this morning. Just another story that "disappeared".

[Myrddin]

The geological record indicates we are due for another ice age. It is a simple consequence of the movement of our solar system through the galaxy. For the sake of brevity, Not by Fire, but by Ice by Robert Felix offers a nicely documented explanation.

[crabbie]

How large is Iran's air force?

[milkncookies]

DC, And there was this:

Cloudcroft chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo
By  Michael Shinabery Staff Writer, Alamogordo Daily News

CLOUDCROFT, NM -- That they were speeding through the school zone first got his attention.

That they had Israeli driver's licenses and expired passports made him suspicious.

Cloudcroft Police Chief Gene Green stopped the 2-ton van on Thursday, for speeding. Initially, Green thought the truck was commercial because of exterior markings. But when he found it was out of Chicago, he asked for documentation such as logs books and manifests.

"They said this is a U-Haul truck and handed me a rental agreement (for) in-town delivery only in Illinois, (which) had expired two days before," Green said. He called for backup, and Otero County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Anders, who patrols the Sacramento Mountains, arrived, along with Capt. Norbert Sanchez and Det. Eddie Medrano.

"We got them out and started digging a little deeper," Green said, "got permission to search the truck. They claimed they were hauling furniture from Austin to Chicago." When officers advised the men they were not exactly en route from one town to another, Green said the two men claimed they were Deming bound. "But they couldn't give us an address in Deming they were going to," he said. "Once we got into the truck, they had some junk furniture I wouldn't have given to Goodwill."

Also inside the vehicle were, Green said, "50 boxes" they claimed was a  "private" delivery, but the men insisted they had no "idea what was in them."

At that point, the officers called for drug-sniffing and bomb-sniffing dogs.  The men were turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and U- Haul recovered the truck.

Contents of the boxes remain unknown, pending  investigation.

And this:

On May 7, 2002, local police authorities pulled over a Budget rental truck in  Oak Harbour, Washington near the Whitney Island Naval Air Station.  The driver  and his passenger were Israeli nationals, one of which had entered the country  illegally.  The other had an expired visa.  Tests performed on the vehicle  revealed that there were traces of TNT on the gearshift and RDX plastic  explosives on the steering wheel.  But no actual explosives were reported to  have been found in the truck.  [Fox News, 5/13/02]

A report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the following day reported that the  FBI performed follow-up tests on the truck which turned-up negative.  One  source speculated that perhaps the original tests had actually detected just  cigarette residue, and not explosives.  [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5/14/02,  Jerusalem Post, 5/14/02]. 

And this:

On September 11, five employees of Jewish owned Urban Moving Company were detained as a result of  witness accounts that they were taking pictures of the flaming ruins of the  World Trade Center and celebrating!

Shortly after the collapse of the towers a witness called the police and  reported that the 5 individuals were, “going to unusual lengths to photograph  the World Trade Center ruins” and they were obviously and blatantly “making light of the  situation.”  The witness stated that these men were on the roof of the office  of their employer, Urban Moving Company, and were posing, dancing, and  laughing.  [New York Times 10/8/01;  Bergen Record 9/12/01;   Ha'aretz 9/17/01;   Gotham Gazette 11/2/01]

After their indiscreet celebration on the roof of the building, the five Israelis headed down to  a nearby parking lot where they mounted the roof of their truck and resumed  their photographing and celebrating.  Another witness called the police and  told them that the men were smiling, dancing, and giving each other high-fives while viewing the destruction of the symbol of Free Enterprise in America.   [Gotham Gazette 11/2/01;  ABC News, 6/21/02]

A few hours later, the five Israelis were stopped by police while driving their  truck.  One individual had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, while another had  two foreign passports.  They were also found to be in the possession of a box- cutter, which they presumably had because of their job as professional movers.   [New York Times 10/8/01;   Gotham Gazette 11/2/01;   ABC News, 6/21/02]

On September 14, Dominic Suter, the owner of the moving company, left the  country very abruptly after FBI agents indicated that they wanted a second  interview with him.  According to ABC News’ 20/20 [ABC News 6/21/02], “Three  months later  20/20's cameras photographed the inside of Urban Moving, and it  looked as if the business had been shut down in a big hurry. Cell phones were  lying around; office phones were still connected; and the property of dozens of  clients remained in the warehouse.  The owner had also cleared out of his New  Jersey home, put it up for sale and returned with his family to Israel.”  [New  Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, 12/13/01;  Gotham Gazette 11/2/01;   ABC News, 6/21/02;   Forward, 3/15/02]

Shortly after the arrest of the men, FBI officials suspected that the Urban Moving company was an Israeli intelligence front.  Vince Cannistraro, a former  chief of operations for counterterrorism, told ABC News that the FBI was  concerned that the moving company had been “set up or exploited for the purpose  of launching an intelligence operation against radical Islamists in the area,  particularly in the New Jersey-New York area.” [ABC News, 6/21/02]

The five employees that were taken into custody were all former members of the  Israeli Army.  After being transferred to jail, the FBI’s Criminal Division  sent the case to the Counterintelligence Section on account of suspicions that  they were Israeli spies.  They were then detained for more that two months.   Some of them spent 40 days in solitary confinement.  [New York Times 11/21/01;  ABC News, 6/21/02]

And this:

It seems that Urban Moving Company was not an isolated phenomenon.

According to a small local newspaper in  Pennsylvania, The Mercury, three Israeli employees working for Moving Systems,  Inc. were detained by police on October 11, 2001, after being caught illegally  dumping garbage from their moving truck into the dumpster of a restaurant.  The  suspects had fled the seen after being confronted by the restaurant’s manager,  who immediately reported the incident to the police. [The Mercury 10/17/01]

The Mercury reported: “The area was searched by township police, and the  vehicle was spotted parked on the curb in front of John Kennedy Ford on Ridge  Pike, just west of Industrial Way.  An officer proceeded to make contact with  the occupants of the truck by knocking on the cab, according to reports.

  A  Middle Eastern [an Israeli according to Executive Intelligence Review 3/29/02]  man, later identified as Ron Katar, 23, exited the sleeper area of the cab and  said that the operator - Elmakias - was across the street as he pointed toward the Don Rosen  Porsche dealer, reports said.

  Elmakias and a white female, Ayelet Reisler, 23,  were approaching the vehicle from the dealership, but the female then began  walking in a different direction, acting as if she were not with Elmakias,  according to reports.  . . .

Elmakias said that his destination was New York  and that he was also coming from New York. He said he was in Plymouth because  he was supposed to make a pickup from a male in the morning and pointed toward  the Storage USA facility on Belvoir Road and West Ridge Pike, police said.   Elmakias could not, however, provide a name or telephone number of the  customer.” [The Mercury 10/17/01

] A search of the truck turned up detailed video footage of the Sears Towers  along with several other suspicious articles.  It was also discovered that the  driver of the truck had falsified his driver log.

As of this date, no ties to Israeli intelligence have been made.  [The Mercury  10/17/01]

And this:

It seems that Israeli ‘art students’ -  Israelis posing as ‘art students’ selling their art  [actually made in China], - were suspected of spying for Israel. They were detained by  the FBI and later deported to Israel on account of visa violations.   The FBI first took notice of them in January of 2001

. A highly detailed DEA report that was acquired by French intelligence analysts documented 180 cases of Israeli art students  infiltrating DEA facilities.  It provided names, drivers' license numbers,  addresses and phone numbers of the Israelis. [DEA report 6/01;  Insight  3/11/02]

  Despite official confirmations of the report, other U.S. officials  denied its existence.  In response, Intelligence Online released the document  to CreativeLoafing.com who published it on the Internet for the public.  [DEA  report 6/01] The Associated Press also reported that it had a copy [AP 3/9/02] The report acknowledged that the art students “may well be an organized  intelligence-gathering activity.”  [DEA report 6/01;  AP 3/5/02; Sun Sentinel  3/7/02]

Bill Carter, a spokesman for the FBI, said, “After an agency reported  suspicious activities by those so-called students, the FBI conducted an  investigation and determined that there was no credence to the assumption that  this was an Israeli spying operation. None of the Israelis were charged with  espionage and they were all deported by the INS for visa violations.” [Forward  3/15/02]

Five of the Israeli "art students" had been living at 4220 Sheridan St in Hollywood, Florida. 

Four of the five so-called 9/11 hijackers  that were on AA Flight 11 [Mohammed Atta, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Walid and Waïl Al- Shehri] and one of the five hijackers [Marwan Al-Shehhi] from UA Flight 175 had at one time  or another also resided in Hollywood, Florida.

Compilation courtesy of Cassiopaea.org  

[milkncookies]

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.

[Domestic Church]

"...under the skin of an elephant."

Double Creepy!

[liberallyconservative]

See my post from last night -- #3981. Is this the incident you were referring to?

That whole drama seemed unreal to me. The 2 Israelis were driving a moving van from FL to somewhere in WV and got "lost" on a curvy 2 lane highway in eastern TN. Unicoi County, to be exact, which happens to be near the Nuclear Fuel Services Plant in Erwin (the only supplier of nuclear fuel for the Navy). They were traveling at a high rate of speed and when a small town sheriff tried to pull them over, they threw "an unknown substance" in a bottle from the window. They had a business card or flyer from a FL flight school in the van.

Turns out, one of the guys was the son of the Likud Party spokesman, and was himself the former spokesman for the National Union of Israeli Students which represents the country's 150,000 university students.

The case was taken out of the local sheriff's hands when the FBI was called in. It was eventually turned over to INS who deported them. Seems they showed fake identification even though they were in the country legally (?).

Here's a couple of links: http://www.rense.com/general52/likud.htm
http://www.chattanoogafax.com/news.php?newsid=73

I never did like the smell of this one.

[Domestic Church]

"The first of these cosmic ray blasts occurred nearly 5 years ago and have been increasing in their frequency and intensity since the end of November... it remains an undisputed fact that this world of ours is facing a type of global cataclysmic event buried in our common geological past"

Brings to mind that prophecy of St Malachi (13th C I think) about the Popes...JPII was given the words "under the laboring sun" (though it was in latin) and there have been many solar flares.

[all4one]

milkncookies...I found this article earlier...and it didn't seem so interesting until I read your article.

Astronomers Baffled by Jodrell Sabotage Bid

A MULTI-MILLION pound project at Jodrell Bank has been hit by a series of strange, unexplained sabotage attacks.

Astronomers at the observatory are baffled and say the incidents could harm a global effort by specialists from the University of Manchester to scan the heavens and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Police are investigating six separate incidents where telephone lines linking the telescope with the control centre have been deliberately cut.

Experts say the saboteur must have detailed knowledge of a project called Merlin which is being operated at the observatory.

But it is not clear if the attacker is a modern-day Luddite opposed to scientific progress, someone with a grudge against the astronomers or an educated vandal.

Conspiracy theorists could look towards an extra-terrestrial force hoping to keep us in the dark about life elsewhere in the cosmos.

Dr Tony Battilana, the chief engineer at Jodrell Bank, said: We don't know if the culprit has a grudge against us or whether it is simply vandalism. "The police have asked if there is anybody with a grudge against us but we don't believe there is.

"The attacks have been on buried junction boxes and equipment above ground as well. It would not be obvious to anyone without specialised knowledge that we use the lines in question."

He said that every time the lines have been cut, work has had to be suspended on the Merlin project for an entire day. "The effect is to delay our programme of observations," Dr Battilana added.

"If one telescope goes down, the whole network is effectively stopped. It is very annoying and we hope the police catch whoever is doing this very soon."

Merlin is the name of a project that links a series of telescopes around the country to form a single giant telescope that is effectively 135.6 miles wide. The project gives astronomers at Jodrell Bank a facility that is more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope.

Police confirmed the incidents are being investigated.

Link to Article

Link to Jodrell Bank site

[Domestic Church]

Thanks for refreshing my memory of the Urban Moving Co.'s exploits. It's a hard chess game to follow isn't it? These incidents are real though...not propaganda.

[Domestic Church]

Yes, that was the incident I referred to but the Urban Moving Co. hijinks are eyepopping too.

[penguino]

Everything I've posted as translations recently comes from this page:

http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26660

It's an ongoing thread on Mosul.

The forum itself is also interesting and very active. On a banner they refer to it as being both a school and a chicken roost.

[Cindy]

THANK YOU penguino.

[Cindy]

Yep.
I agree.

[Cindy]

I agree.

[nwctwx]

We are... I'm doing about 3 million things at once right now though! I'm getting lost. ;-) I'm going to try to get it started tonight, but it may be tomorrow night. :)