Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Three

[penguino]

You're most welcome Oorang. I hadn't seen Cindy's - mine was in transit!

[judicial meanz]

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[Rushmore Rocks]

That's okay. Maybe we need to see it twice.

[Cindy]

Yep.

[JustPiper]

Laser aimed at Chicago-bound jet
Federal officials investigating latest in series of incidents
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/03/laser.aircraft.ap/index.html

Head up on the encore tonight:

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The Abrams Report

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The U.S. sends hundreds of millions in aid and massive military resources to areas devastated by the Tsunamis. . .but will that help our image in the country with the largest Muslim population in the world? Indonesia was hardest hit by the Tsunamis and it just happens to be a key focus of the war on terror. And why aren't certain Arab nations, who we often hear talk about Muslim solidarity, doing more to aid their brothers and sisters? We discuss tonight.

[appalachian_dweller]

Just saying hello and setting a placemark...

Have a quiet and safe night everyone.

a_d

[JustPiper]

Miss you AD!

[JustPiper]

FBI: No terror link in lasers aimed at aircraft
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-02-lasers-fbi_x.htm

Jury Told New York Lawyer Chose to Aid Terror Message
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7225582

[judicial meanz]

Hello right back at ya!

Just now getting over my period of illness, and roaring back to full steam. I've really missed you guys, but glad to say I will be around for a long time now...finally cleared by the DR.

You have a great nite man!

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.ribaat.org/
http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/

http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27168
http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27160
http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/image.php?s=58f226fefebcc56a129a836254404b0a&u=5763&dateline=1100645062

http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/showthread.php?t=27154
http://www.ribaat.org/services/forum/member.php?userid=1899
http://img78.exs.cx/img78/3629/strangers1bk.jpg
http://www.himaya.org


http://www.himaya.org
"Himayat at-Tawhid"
http://www.himaya.org/forum/index.php

[Oorang]

Hey there ad! How is your new home coming along? Made another 25 pounds of sausage yesterday - yum.

[JustPiper]

AL-JAZEERA IN LEAGUE WITH SADDAM
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16515

Tin SoldierAn American Vigilante In Afghanistan
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/1/blake-soldier.asp

http://www.swans.com/library/art11/mgarci28.html

2. Paul Krugman, the economist and New York Times columnist was arrested in a joint operation carried on by the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, and charged with being an "enemy combatant." Spokesmen for the government, citing reasons of security, would not comment where Krugman is being held, but an unnamed source said Krugman had been sent to the US base at Guantánamo, Cuba. "He's chilling in the cell we had ready for Aristide," was all the information available at this time.

8. In a shocking revelation, Federal investigators announced they have uncovered a major network of underground interstate commerce in pornography organized by a wealthy, ruthless and previously unknown syndicate -- evangelical churches. It seems this syndicate would fund the production of pornographic movies and Internet web pages in the San Fernando Valley of California for distribution throughout the country, but primarily in the church's stronghold areas of the Mid-West and South. The money for these activities would first be funneled through overseas ministries and charitable funds with offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, to disguise the connection. The distribution of the pornography was facilitated by the transfer of congregation membership lists to the production companies. The profits from this operation swelled church coffers, especially as they are exempt from taxes. Indictments of several prominent tele-evangelists named as principals in the syndicate were quashed, and grand juries investigating the matter were disbanded, shortly after President Bush gave his much loved speech to the nation on "my belief in the power of Christian forgiveness, as I have been forgiven to go on and make good, so I feel it important to forgive others so they, too, can go on to do greater good for themselves." A spokesman for the League Of American Christian Evangelicals countered the allegations by saying "Our pastors understand the meaning of sin and the power of redemption to overcome sin and be forgiven for it. By helping our flocks to know sin, and from turning away from the works of the devil, we build our congregation here on earth, joined in anticipation of our reward in heaven." Critics point to the parallel growth of the evangelical and fundamentalist population and the extent of the pornography business, and claim this indicates a major national problem. "Very convenient," said a leading American critic, too far to the left to actually be named or quoted in a respectable family newspaper. "What we have here is tax-exempt pornography with a no-fault chaser for the customers, who are absolved of any moral consequence until after they are safely dead. What a racket."

16. The US Coast Guard came upon a group of forty-three American vacationers clinging to a swamped fishing boat south of Key West. In a surprise to officials, the trip these people had intended was "one way" to Cuba, and their vacation was intended to be "permanent." By odd coincidence, all members of the group lacked any health insurance, and nearly all had some chronic condition, or were elderly. One man, who refused to give his name because his son-in-law is a prison guard in the United States, and whom he feared might lose his security clearance and his job in retaliation, said "After I lost my Social Security at Atlantic City, I wasn't able to borrow anything and start over again. So, rather than drain my daughter's savings since she got a baby and all, I figured I'd go where I could sweep the streets or shine shoes and still be able to stay alive, seeing as I'm old and no one hires you for nothing after even forty in the States, and I need to be able to see a doctor for my heart and the injury workman's comp wouldn't cover, and to keep from freezing in winter; I figured it's time to get to Cuba. I'm even learning Spanish." The old man was very disappointed when he learned he'd been rescued and was being taken back to Florida. "You mean you're not going to help us pump out the boat?" he cried. "Man, you people go out of your way to be mean."

20. It has just been disclosed that an experimental strain of bacteria, created by genetic manipulation of synthetically fabricated genes, has been accidentally lost. After it is synthesized the new bug is irradiated, producing a rapidly-multiplying mutant strain that has so far been immune to germicidal agents. The new organism is a hydrocarbon eating bug, based on a natural petroleum eating bacteria. The accidental release of this bug -- called the High-Carb Eater, or HCE -- is beginning to cause panic, the prior secrecy was an effort to prevent this. The accident occurred somewhere between Fort Detrick, Maryland, and Savannah River, Georgia. The leaked description of the original plan was to develop a super-bug to eat petroleum, which was a joint project of the EPA and Army, to have a bacterial agent to clean up oil spills and, in a mutant version of much greater appetite, to attack an opponent's oil supplies in time of war. Newly synthesized batches of the Carb-Eating Bacteria, or CEB, were taken from the Bio-Warfare Lab at Fort Detrick to be irradiated in nuclear reactors at Savannah River. During a recent tropical storm, one such shipment returning from Savannah River was released as a result of a highway accident. It appears that gallons of the radioactive bacterial sludge leaked into a local stream along with rainwater runoff from the scene of the accident, and was dispersed into the riparian systems of the southern United States and possibly the Ogalalla Aquifer. It appears now that the increase in carb-eating potency produced by the radiation was much larger than anticipated, and the antigermicidal immunity was unanticipated. The news of the incident was finally leaked to the press as the epidemic of dissolving automobile tires spreads north and west. The bacteria will eat any hydrocarbon material, for example oil products and plastics. At this time, further questions remain unanswered.

[Oorang]

finally cleared by the DR

Excellent news! Glad you are doing better. I have missed your insightful posts.

[Cindy]

A good evening to you too AD.
The fog is coming down on the snow now...so early gloom here.

[Oorang]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of these laser incidents are innocent, but, I wouldn't be surprised is it is a test run to see what our response is, etc., by the bad guys.

[Cindy]

That's great news judicial meanz!

[Oorang]

Thanks for the links Cindy.

[Oorang]

Interesting JP, thanks.

[Oorang]

HAITI: How Much is Peace Worth?

January 2, 2005: The government has been unable to destroy the dozens of armed gangs that control towns and neighborhoods throughout the country. The gangs are pro-Aristide, pro-Army or just out for themselves.

A popular idea among the people is the establishment of a UN protectorate. In other words, a decade or more of colonial rule.

There are still fond memories of this sort of thing 70 years ago, when the US Marines ran the country for over a decade. In the 1930s the marines were withdrawn, partly because the US could not afford to run Haiti any more, and partly because it was thought Haitians could do it themselves. But the country soon fell under the rule of another series of corrupt dictators, leading to the current situation.

The idea of a UN protectorate was also popular in Somalia, and several other African countries. The problem is, running a protectorate is expensive, and no one wants to pay for it. There's also the bad PR, with accusations of "colonialism" and all that it implies.

But with the threat of Islamic radicals setting up camps in parts of the world that are unable to govern themselves, there is interest in getting some kind of government operating in places like Haiti. Colonialism was always a losing proposition, financially, which was one of the reasons it was largely abandoned after World War II.

http://www.strategypage.com//fyeo/qndguide/default.asp?target=haiti

[Rushmore Rocks]

Welcome home...........so glad to hear you are feeling better. With my rather hectic home life, I'm sorry to say that I didn't even know you were ill. Delayed prayers for you. Seems I've missed a bunch of stuff here.