Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Lots of information about UHF and what they did to this Christian Academy here:

http://www.kissimmeeacademy.org/
Will Of Faith - Christian Academy Fights Back Against Muslim Extremism

WAKE UP AMERICA!

"Meet The Universal Heritage Foundation"
http://www.kissimmeeacademy.org/

snippets...

Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah - Director, Universal Heritage Foundation, Former ICNA President--Kissimmee Florida

was president of the Islamic Council of North America [ICNA]. ICNA has already been documented as voicing support for Hamas, violent jihad and as engaging in jihad fund-raising. It is sometimes called the North American branch of Jama'at-I-Islami or is described as "allied" or "linked" with Jama'at-I-Islami.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj - Universal Heritage Foundation Board Member and guest speaker - Kissimmee, Florida

"Take my word; if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us."

Has proclaimed that the “real terrorists" are the FBI and the CIA

"In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam."

Muzammil H. Siddiqi - Universal Heritage Foundation Board Member and speaker

has spoken at pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas rallies, and has supported an Islamic state in the U.S., while praising martyrdom for the Islamic cause

Dr. Talat Sultan - Islamic Circle of North America President and Guest speaker Universal Heritage Foundation, Kissimmee Florida

a group that is under investigation by FBI counterterrorism agents for terror ties

Imam Abdul Malik - Guest Speaker Universal Heritage Foundation, Kissimmee Florida

voiced empathy and support for suicide bombers,

denied Muslims were involved in 9-11,

Sheik Abdul Rahman al-Sudais - Senior Imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca and Invited guest speaker Universal Heritage Foundation, Kissimmee, Florida

said Arabs should bid farewell to peace with the Jews…"the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the killers of prophets and the grandsons of monkeys and pigs."

Tayabb Yunus - Muslim Youth leader, Webmaster and guest speaker for Universal Heritage Foundation Kissimmee, Florida

In 2000, Muslim Youth leader Tayabb Yunus urged parents at an ICNA conference to "send your children to fight Jihad in Chechyna."

Imam Maulana Shafayat Muhammad - Invited guest speaker Universal Heritage Foundation – assisting with current fund-raising for UHF’s Kissimmee purchase

Shafayat Mohamed, on his website, has a picture of himself shaking the hand of Ahmed Deedat. According to the FBI, Deedat has received millions of dollars from Osama bin Laden. And his own son claims to be a friend of bin Laden's. In fact, the picture of Shafayat Mohamed with Deedat was taken in what was then called the Bin Laden Center, located in Durban, South Africa.

PLENTY MORE AT LINK

Has anyone mentioned today? The Clinton Library hosting
past Presidents. Good Oportunity? My husband Dryman and
I were discussing this. Maybe he will be a TMer yet.

Google "Super Stop Petroleum"

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Super+Stop+Petroleum%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

Thanks again for the new thread!!

>Good opportunity?<

Yes.

Mr. Dryman would fit right in. ;-)

I remember the UHF group now. (Coffee kicked in)

Google "Universal Heritage Foundation"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22universal+Heritage+Foundation%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

Search Continues For Missing Fertilizer Truck
http://www.kirotv.com/news/3925645/detail.html

Good morning folks. Quiet in Reston this morning. Nothing unusual. Had a bad feeling for a few days but it has since waned.

New thread looks GREAT nwctwx. Thank you so much for this. The information gleaned from this thread keeps us all safer. It's so nice to be able to discuss these threats in a serious forum. Helps me cope with it all and for that I thank all TMers, lurkers too!

Thought I was going to have to drive up to Columbia, Md. this afternoon, but the issues were resolved. I don't like going anywhere near DC or even the beltway. The next event, IMHO, will come without warning and I don't like traveling too close to any highly populated areas, especially when I don't know the area.

To Post 4,038 from Thread 21

Thanks, callmejoe, for your always elucidating comments. You're so right about the logistics for enriching uranium. It's no small matter. Hopefully, Osama is just talking through his turban here.

Here's a site that includes case studies on illicit procurement networks for nuclear weapons.

exportcontrols.org

This is a repost since it was posted too close to the end of the last thread to allow comment or discussion - Godzilla

Terrorism Summary 11/17/04

Bombing at banks in Argentina. Terrorists in Iraq try to spread coalition forces thin by initiating attacks in Mosul and other cities. Terrorists in Falloujah decimated with a few pocket remaining. Rumblings of problems in N. Korea, is Kim on the way out? Islamic terrorists continue their push jihad across the world. Let me know if you want on or off the Ping list.

11/17/04 Current National Homeland Defense threat level is YELLOW

1. Attack threat windows
11/17/04 Primary Window: High concern over possible attack by al-Qaeda within 60 days of 29 Oct. OBL video. However, nothing specific to the US and the message calls for attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan (see #2 below). This is inclusive of much of the Nov 24 - Jan 1 - Thanksgiving / Christmas Holiday season.
10/23/04 Secondary windows:
January 20, 2005 - Presidential inauguration
Feb. 6 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.

2. Attack Indicators
11/16/04 In what could be from the anticipated video from OBL, a web statement purportedly from the al-Qaida chief called on Pakistani Muslims to fight, saying their country and neighboring Afghanistan faced an American invasion. The authenticity of the statement, which appeared Tuesday on a website linked to Muslim radicals, could not be verified. "We urge our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to use all their capabilities and whatever they possess to prevent the American crusader's troops from invading Pakistan and Afghanistan," said the statement, signed: "your brother in Islam, Osama bin Laden."
http://www.trackingterrorism.com

11/16/04 In addition to chatter about the Falloujah battle, there have been some discussions about a nuclear attack appearing on some jihadi forums. ACSA has also issued an alert that an nuclear attack is expected within the next 3 months. The credibility of this chatter and alerts is questionable, however, AQ has repeatedly stated it desires nuclear weapons.

3. Current Terrorist Operations

Al-Qa'ida
11/15/04 A key al-Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan recently offered an alarming account of the group's potential plans to target the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction. Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian who was captured in late August near Pakistan's border with Iran and Afghanistan, has told his interrogators of "al-Qaeda's interest in moving nuclear materials from Europe to either the U.S. or Mexico," according to a report circulating among U.S. government officials.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041122-782068,00.html

Iraq
11/15/04 Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office confirmed that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released. Allawi's cousin, Ghazi Allawi, 75, his cousin's wife and his cousin's pregnant daughter-in-law were abducted at gunpoint last Tuesday in western Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood. "Yes, yes, the two women were released yesterday," said an Allawi spokesman who declined to be named. There was no word on the cousin, Ghazi Allawi.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041115/D86CATL00.html

Iran
11/15/04 Trying to rally Muslim countries for regional cooperation, Iran's intelligence minister Ali Younessi said that Israel and the U.S. are threatening them with terrorism. Iran has been under the threat of U.S.-backed U.N. sanctions because of its nuclear program, which the U.S. believes is a cover for the development of atomic weapons. Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday that it would fully suspend its uranium enrichment program -- the core issue under debate. Enriched uranium can be used in civilian nuclear programs, but it also is needed for atomic weapons.
http://www.cnsnews.com//ThisHour.asp#US,%20Israel%20Called%20a%20Terror%20Threat%20to%20Muslim%20Countries

11/15/04 The leader of a militant group involved in beheading hostages and other attacks has been arrested and the group was broken up, Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Monday. Allawi identified the group as Jaish Muhammad, Arabic for Muhammad's Army. The group "has been arrested ... We arrested their leader," Allawi said, identifying him as Moayad Ahmed Yasseen, also known as Abu Ahmed.
Muhammad's Army was known to have cooperated with Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaida and Saddam loyalists and was responsible for killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq Allawi said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_arrests

Argentina
11/17/04 Three banks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were rocked by explosions on Wednesday, killing at least one person, Reuters news service reported. The explosions struck two separate Citibank branches, killing a security guard. Another bomb went off at a branch of Banco Galicia, an Argentine bank, according to Reuters. It wasn't immediately clear whether the blasts were carried out by an international terrorist network such as Al Qaeda, or by local groups. Citibank has been named in Al Qaeda documents as a target for attacks.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138815,00.html

N. Korea
The demise or overthrow of Kim could have some positive effects depending upon who takes over control of the country. – Godzilla

11/17/04 Posted on 11/17/2004 3:06:16 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo edit by Godzilla
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is shown (obviously alive) on North Korean last night, (Korean time), on 17 November 2004, recently inspecting (date unclear) the North Korean Peoples Army "Unit 754". However, as South Korean TV reporters from YTN-TV in the voice-over in this clip note, the traditional Korean-language title of "Great Leader" is absent from the usual script.

11/17/04 Posted on 11/17/2004 12:50:28 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo, edited by Godzilla
Report from Sankei (Japanese) newspaper (conservative) coming in. Said that a number of hand made circulars have been circulating widely around North Korea (Pyongyang, Nampo, Chonjin, Sinuiju), etc. The flyers are by an underground anti-Kim Jong-il group active in North Korea. Sankei says they support the defector Hwang Jang Yop, who is now in South Korea.
There are several flyers which counter the common DPRK Party myths and deifications about Kim Jong-il, showing Kim as a spoiled aristocrat rather that a man of the people, with the Russian nickname "Yura" who did not even grow up nor was born in North Korea. Driving wedges between Kim and the starving people, commenting on the rich food he eats while people starve. Saying the "Chuche" Ideology of the North is a big farce which merely enslaves the Korean people. Another underground flyer (again hand written and many copies run off) that is making the rounds in North Korea says "Kim Jong-il killed his father Kim il-Sung".
Sankei reports the North Korean Secret Police is mobilizing in an attempt to find out who is doing this. The flyers also contain detailed personal information on Kim Jong-il that only those in select positions would know. Accordingly, north Korean defectors theorize that these flyers are gaining some cooperation from some people in positions of power in the NK military or Party.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20041118-00000000-san-int

11/16/04 Pictures of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il are being removed from public places in Pyongyang and other parts of country. No word so far on who gave the order or its meaning.
A Moscow diplomacy source also said, “The removal of Chairman Kim Jong Il’s pictures from public places is well known among foreigners living in Pyongyang, and diplomats of each country are working on understanding the meaning of this.” He conveyed, “Opinions like ‘unsound health,’ that Chairman Kim recently got an operation, and an “internal conflict for power” are spreading, but none has been confirmed.”
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2004111718248 ^

11/16/04 Hardliners have tightened their political grip on North Korea while Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist state dictator, has retreated into virtual seclusion after the death of his favorite consort from cancer. Chinese and Western sources say the regime has prepared for a state of siege as it confronts a re-elected US Administration under George W. Bush that is determined to break Pyongyang and disarm it of nuclear weapons.
As Japanese envoys tried to persuade North Korea last week to rejoin multinational talks, Mr. Kim's absence from the scene led to speculation that a debilitating power struggle might have paralyzed the ruling group. The meetings followed the death of Koh Youg-hee, a dancer who had provided Mr. Kim with an heir apparent to the world's only communist dynasty.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11387512^2703,00.html

Pakistan
11/17/04 An Islamic militant wanted in connection with the murder of American Journalist Daniel Pear was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pakistani authorities on Wednesday, who also announced the arrest of a suspect in the deadly bombing near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi two years ago.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said authorities arrested Naveed-ul Hasan, an alleged member of the outlawed militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Alami. Sherpao said that Hasan was wanted for the suicide bombing near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi that killed 14 Pakistanis in June 2002, and another smaller blast during New Year's celebrations 2002 at a popular club in the city that wounded at least nine people.
Earlier Wednesday, police in Karachi announced the death of Asim Ghafoor, wanted in the January 2002 kidnapping and killing of Pearl who was killed in a shootout with police and intelligence agents as they tried to arrest him at a hideout in the west of the city.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBOXJQ0O1E.html

11/15/04 Pakistani military says Osama bin Laden is nowhere to be found in its South Waziristan border region as government forces battle tribal fighters and foreign militants in the area. The South Waziristan assault was aimed at capturing militant leader Abdullah Mehsud and his followers. The army claims it has taken over a few militant strongholds, and seized a weapons cache. But no clues of bin Laden or his deputies were found.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/15/content_2221222.htm

Israel
11/16/04 The interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has asked Palestinian militants to halt violence during the campaign for Jan. 9 presidential elections, a participant in truce talks said Tuesday. Abbas is trying to work out a deal with rival Palestinian groups on a cease-fire and possible power-sharing.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138724,00.html

11/15/04 Palestinians protect new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas(C) as gun shots are fired after he arrived to accept condolences for Yasser Arafat in Gaza, November 14, 2004. Palestinian militants burst into the mourning tent on Sunday and fired shots in protest at the presence of his moderate successor Abbas, but he was unhurt witnesses said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/041114/photos_wl/mdf75640

Germany
11/16/04 Islamic preachers in Germany have been told that they may be ordered to deliver their sermons in German rather than in Arabic in an attempt to halt racist diatribes The move reflects Berlin’s fears that a spark of ethnic and religious unrest could leap from the Netherlands to Germany, a country with more than three million Muslims.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1361943,00.html

Belgium
11/17/04 A Belgian senator of Moroccan origin, known for her criticism of conservative traits within immigrant Muslim communities, has gone into hiding after receiving death threats, officials said Wednesday. Bousakla last week criticized the Belgium's Muslim executive for not condemning the attack. "Because of the murder of Theo van Gogh, the executive should have protested and called on the Muslims to criticize the attack. Instead it did nothing," she was quoted as saying on her web site. Over the weekend, an unknown caller threatened "to ritually slaughter her" and she took the threat seriously enough to warn police, the official said.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBP8NVBN1E.html

Spain
11/15/04 AN Islamic extremist cell uncovered in Barcelona provided finance for an alleged al-Qa'ida kingpin in Pakistan indicted in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl, it was claimed yesterday.
The Pakistani cell, which Spanish police smashed in September, had this year sent money orders of €3000 ($5050) each to Amjad Farooqi, who was killed in an encounter in Pakistan with security forces that month, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais. El Pais said the Barcelona group had also sent money to Farooqi associates allegedly involved in al-Qaeda attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11395458^401,00.html

Russia
11/15/04 The Prosecutor's Office in Russia's Ulyanovsk Region, on the Volga River, has instructed a district court to conduct criminal proceedings against a group of Islamic militants suspected of a whole number of serious crimes. According to Vasily Zima, senior assistant to the Ulyanovsk Prosecutor, eight members of the group have been arrested. They are facing charges of banditry, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, munitions and explosive devises, instigation of interethnic hatred and religious strife, robbery, and murder, among others.
The detainees include local residents, as well as from the neighboring republics of Chuvashia, Tatarstan, and Daghestan. One of them, Lev Selendeyev, worked at a district police department in Ulyanovsk, Mr. Zima said. The Prosecutor's assistant said the gang had been involved with the distribution of Wahhabist literature and video materials debasing Christians and Jews, as well as non-radical Moslems.
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5088155&startrow=1&date=2004-11-15&do_alert=0

Saudi Arabia
11/17/04 One security officer was martyred while eight of his comrades were injured" during a shootout at a house in Al-Qadissiyah quarter in the town of Unayzah, 370 kilometers (230 miles) north of Riyadh. Five men were arrested, "two of whom are wanted for security-related matters and belong to the deviant group," SPA said, using a term referring to Al-Qaeda sympathizers in Saudi Arabia. The security squad found a cache of weapons in the house, including machine guns, pistols, grenades and ammunition, the official said.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11910

11/16/04 Al Qaeda militants have defied a crackdown and the loss of senior leaders in Saudi Arabia by using the Internet to win over new recruits in Osama bin Laden's birthplace. Despite the killing of top contributors, including one of its leading Web magazine editors Issa Saad bin Oshan, the group has continued to publish its two widely distributed magazines regularly for the past year.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6825416&section=news

Netherlands
11/17/04 Minister Verdonk (Immigration) has declared a 38 year old Algerian as unwanted foreigner last week and expelled him to Spain. The Algerian is A.B., a man who was suspect before of recruiting jihad warriors in the Netherlands. B. had a Spanish residence permit and is therefore handed over to Spanish authorities. A.B. was found innocent because according to the judge the Justice department had arrested and prosecuted him illegally based on information from the AIVD (intelligence service). But according to Verdonk he was a threat to society. She bases this on information from the AIVD that the man had extremist sympathies and has called on several meetings for violence against Westerns and especially Dutch.
http://nu.nl/news.jsp?n=443571&c=11

11/16/04 The Danish section of the fundamentalist Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir has called on Muslims to go to Iraq and fight a holy war against American forces there. In a leaflet handed out in a mosque in a suburb of Copenhagen and dated 8th November, the organization urges Danish Muslims to go and “help your brothers in Fallujah and wipe out your rulers if they get in your way”. Furthermore the leaflet accuses Iraq’s interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, of being a traitor and threatens soldiers in the Iraqi army with hell if they don’t turn their weapons against the Americans.
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/fremmedsprog/English/article.jhtml?articleID=214163

11/16/04 Three members of so-called Hofstad group, which has been linked to the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh earlier this month were arrested June 11 and deported from Portugal just before the Euro 2004 football championship in June on suspicion of planning an attack. It is suspected that the group wanted to target former prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso as well as other international figures who were in Oporto for Euro 2004 opening festivities.
The three men possessed a second-hand car with Dutch licence plates which had been bought in the name of van Gogh's alleged killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, and had made daily withdrawals of small amounts of cash from a bank at the airport. Among the three men was El Fahtni Noreddine, a Moroccan national who at one point shared a flat in Amsterdam with Bouyeri, who holds both Moroccan and Dutch citizenship, he added.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041115/1/3ojgy.html

11/15/04 Two suspected Islamic extremists arrested this week are suspected of plotting to assassinate two Dutch lawmakers known for their critical stance towards Islam, the Dutch press reported. One of the deputies targeted was Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a liberal lawmaker of Somali origin who co-wrote a film about the place of women in Islam along with Theo van Gogh, the outspoken filmmaker who was murdered by a suspected Muslim radical on November 2, the NRC Handelsblad reported. The suspects, who were arrested Wednesday in a police raid in The Hague, also intended to kill Geert Wilders, a deputy highly critical of Islam who intends to launch a new, staunchly right-wing, party, the report said.
http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003099.html

Britain
11/15/04 Police and intelligence agencies had prevented international terrorists from striking Britain by disrupting planned attacks, the head of London's police said today. However, the minister in charge of law enforcement said the threat of a terrorist attack in Britain remained.
In late March police arrested six men and seized 600kg of potential bomb-making fertilizer. The men have been charged with conspiring to cause an explosion and their trial is tentatively set for September.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11389251%255E1702,00.html

China
11/15/04 Two neighboring villages, Nanren and Weitang, which have co-existed peacefully for centuries - but where, earlier this month, martial law was abruptly declared after a row over a traffic accident escalated into pitched battles that left 148 people dead. The eruption of conflict between Hui Muslims and their Han Chinese neighbors escalated and Chinese troops sealed off the villages to prevent other militants coming to the aid of their fellow Muslims and stop the fighting spreading across China.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/14/wchin14.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/14/ixworld.html

United States
11/15/04 Two American Jewish leaders say they are "disgusted and outraged" by threats of violence made against Presbyterian Churches. Last week, the Presbyterian Church (USA) said it had received a letter threatening arson attacks on its churches for its "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish attitudes."
http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation.asp

4. Attack method.
11/17/04 No real change in the preferred method of choice of AQ which are bombs - the bigger the better. With the exception of 9/11, car/truck bombs have been widely used. There are special concerns regarding the use by terrorists of the following types of vehicles:

1. Uhaul type cargo trucks.
2. Gasoline / Propane supply / tanker trucks.
3. Emergency vehicles (ambulances, police cars, fire trucks)

Current alerts out for two stolen fuel/tanker trucks, a stolen crop duster and about a hundred propane tanks. It is uncertain if the thefts are linked to terrorism at this time, however they could be adapted for use in a terrorist attack.

There a rumors again regarding nuclear or dirty bomb attack, however a nuclear attack is unlikely.

5. Personnel
11/17/04 Nothing new to report.

6. Significant meetings canceled:
11/17/04 No new cancellations.

7. Security has been heightened in specific cities
11/17/04 NYC is at a locally declared ORANGE where it had been since. 9/11/01.

GENERAL: Ongoing work to upgrade security at sea ports and airports.

8. Military operations.
11/17/04 Carrier Battle Groups
Deployed
CV-67 Kennedy 25 Jul 2004 - Persian Gulf
CVN-75 Truman 12 Nov 2004 - Red Sea
CVN-72 Lincoln 10 Nov 2004 - Pacific Ocean
Surge Ready
CVN-70 Vinson 02 Oct 2004 - Completes COMPTUEX
CVN-73 Washington Surge carrier until ~Dec04
Basic Training
CVN-68 Nimitz 29 Oct 2004 - Pacific Ocean

11/17/04 F-117s are still reported to be deployed in S. Korea.

9. Dept of Homeland Scty. / State Department
11/17/04 Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520
This information is current as of today, Wed Nov 17 07:37:04 2004.
Yemen
November 16, 2004
This Travel Warning is being issued to provide updated security information for Yemen. This supersedes the Travel Warning for Yemen issued on May 11, 2004.
The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to consider carefully the risks of traveling to Yemen. The security threat to all U.S. citizens in Yemen remains high due to continuing efforts by Al-Qa'ida to re-constitute an effective operating base. This could lead to possible attacks by extremist individuals or groups against U.S. citizens, facilities, businesses and perceived interests. From time to time the Embassy may temporarily close or suspend public services for security reasons. Emergency assistance to U.S. citizens during non-business hours (or when public access is restricted) is available through Embassy duty personnel.
http://travel.state.gov./travel/yemen_warning.html

11/15/04 Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520
This information is current as of today, Mon Nov 15 2004 15:04:31 GMT-0800. Afghanistan
November 15, 2004
This Travel Warning provides updated information on the security situation in Afghanistan and on the upcoming Afghan presidential inauguration events. The security threat to all American citizens in Afghanistan remains critical. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning for Afghanistan issued July 30, 2004.
The Department of State strongly warns U.S. citizens against travel to Afghanistan. There is an ongoing threat to kidnap and assassinate U.S. citizens and non- Governmental organization (NGO) workers throughout the country. The ability of Afghan authorities to maintain order and ensure the security of citizens and visitors is limited. Remnants of the former Taliban regime and the terrorist al-Qaida network, and other groups hostile to the government, remain active. U.S.-led military operations continue. Travel in all areas of Afghanistan, including the capital Kabul, is unsafe due to military operations, landmines, banditry, armed rivalry among political and tribal groups, and the possibility of terrorist attacks, including attacks using vehicular or other Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs ), and kidnapping. The security environment remains volatile and unpredictable.
http://travel.state.gov/travel/afghanistan_warning.html

10. Suspicious Domestic Incidents Not Currently Linked to Specific Terrorism Attempts
11/17/04 Authorities evacuated three San Diego courthouses Tuesday after law enforcement officials in three states were told that explosives had been planted in the buildings. Searches found no explosives.
The threats from an anonymous caller or callers were made to authorities in Maine, Rhode Island and Washington state and then relayed to police in San Diego, said Chris Saunders, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff's office
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/11/17/Calls_received_in_three_states_lead_to_Calif._court_evacuations.htm

11/16/04 Investigators believe the bright yellow Buxton Oil truck, carrying 3,000 gallons of home heating oil, was taken sometime on Friday. Owner Donna Buxton said she also is worried the tanker might be used for terrorism. Buxton said she and other fuel oil dealers received a letter from the government after the 9/11 attacks warning that terrorists were looking to steal fuel trucks.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=54355

11/16/04 A Falls Church man who worked as a federal informant on terrorism set himself on fire in front of the White House yesterday, hours after announcing his suicide attempt and citing his growing despondency over how the FBI managed his case. Mohamed Alanssi, 52, approached the northwest guardhouse on Pennsylvania Avenue about 2:05 p.m. and asked the security detail to deliver a note to President Bush. When uniformed Secret Service officers turned him away, he stepped about 15 feet from the guard post and used a lighter to ignite his jacket, according to the U.S. Park Police.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51575-2004Nov15?language=printer

Thanks, Godzilla, for keeping us on track.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282880/posts

Interesting questions on a Ford Explorer found in Fallujah with Texas tags. My question, did it come from Texas, or was it bound for Texas?

Thank you once again.

Interesting that the muslim conflict in Nanren and Weitang bubbled up through the British press. I wonder how close to the Wahiristan (sp?) region this is? You don't suppose they had to pull some Chinese troops off of a border section in order to suppress this, do you?

Post 20 on that thread has an interesting bit:

"I remember seeing a video several years ago where an 18 wheeler was stolen from a trucking company in Florida, driven through the chain link fence and right to the port facility and onto a ship bound for South America."

My guess...It came from Texas and was bound for Texas after being first customized for OBL's road show.

Thanks nwctwx for #22...and WOW! The intro. info. is fantastic! I just don't know when you find the time....hopefully your academic GPA is doing well...and not suffering!

I wonder how close to the Wahiristan (sp?) region this is? You don't suppose they had to pull some Chinese troops off of a border section in order to suppress this, do you?

Not sure how close. However, border police are separate from regular military and they have plenty of military to draw from.

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Broken twig trailmarker...

That was my thinking as well. I won't speculate on how, because I don't want to give anyone else any ideas.