Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Very interesting link JP. Glad to see you back online.

Proof positive it is the religion of hate and must be recognized and dealt with as such.

Once again you are using logic and common sense MamaD. You know where that will get you :-)

Sadly that article could have come from China or N. Korea as well as Iran. I do not understand totalitarianism.

Amer Azizi

From the article you posted:

Late last year, the State Department offered $5 million for information leading to the capture of another man believed to oversee Azizi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar. The al-Qaida operative ran a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.

With his red hair, fair skin and Spanish citizenship, Nasar is thought to be of high-value to extremist Islamic causes because of his ability to blend in to Western society, a U.S. official said.

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

Hamas now has a "Martyr of the Week" section.

http://www.alqassam.info/english/

Hey Mamadearest, how are ya? No problem for the PM. It was a rather long one- my apologies.

From what i know of the Los Angeles makeup and the other states that border Mexico, I think the amount of illegal immigrants would be baffling if we had real stats. It's sad that the borders are so pourous (sp)?

Im this town, literally there are so many immigrants that can't speak english at all and i just wonder to myself, what customs officer let this person in? French is supposed to be Canada's second language, but if you go to a bank you will find a punjabi speaking teller faster than you will find a french one. Odd eh?
Boggles the mind at times.

-skeggs

Osamas head being raised to $50 mil. Geez they really want the guy it seems.

FR thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326703/posts

-skeggs

Hamas now has a "Martyr of the Week" section.

Unfortunately they can't provide a "Statesman or Peacemaker" of the week. This must be the best they can come up with.

Geez they really want the guy it seems.

$50 million could be a whole Iraqi, Pakistinian or Afghan town or village with people living a very good life for many many years to come. Certainly some lone person is more intelligent than to let that kind of money go unclaimed. Sadly, it appears they are either so loyal or so fearful the money appears to be unimportant. What good is $50 million if they send their henchmen after you and your family and your family's family?

Robo-Soldiers bound for Iraq

Doubleday commissions anthology of Al Qaeda terrorist leader writings

Germany nabs two suspected Al Qaeda suspects

General Gary Luck seeks faster training of Iraq soldiers

Best CIA agents unable to crack secret code

....and no time for freeping!

I'm now becoming very seriously concerned about you! Say it isn't so....!

So true, i think he is with such close confidants that the chances of someone turning on him is low. 25Million is still a lot of money, and would be for a long time with the same people you mentioned, but when you combine the 'families being killed/tortured' factor, the money depreciates.

There's a thread on FR about Zaquari being captured, the guy claims he has two very reliable sources, one from the gov't and another.

This week is going to pan out very interesting with the elections and all.

-skeggs

Snow pictures

http://www.wnbc.com/slideshow/weather/4120981/detail.html

Terrorism Summary 01/23/05

We have passed through the Inauguration window without any attacks. There was great concern regarding an alledged dirty bomb attack by chinese illegals but the legitimacy of that claim is waining fast.

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01/23/04 Current National Homeland Defense threat level is YELLOW

1. Attack threat windows - America
01/23/04 Primary Window: Feb. 6 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.

01/23/04 Secondary windows: None currently identified.

11/23/04 This post is being maintained for a historical track - Godzilla
ACSA has predicted a nuclear attack within the next 3 months. This window ends approximately 02/23/05

2. Attack Indicators
01/23/05 There are currently no significant or otherwise indicators available.

3. Current Terrorist Operations

Al-Qa'ida / OBL
01/18/05 Al Qaeda is "heavily damaged," constantly on the run and so financially strapped that it is having trouble making payments to the families of its dead fighters, the Daily News has learned. The terror group remains determined, however, to attack the U.S.
"What we see, and I'm including information we've seen as recently as this month, is that the remnants of the organization are not diverted from their goals of attacking us," a senior counterterrorism official told The News.
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/272491p-233148c.html

Dennmark
01/19/05 Monitoring Potential AQ Attack Window Feb 1 - 10
Denmark's intelligence service is on full alert amid concern that terrorists may strike before the country's Feb. 8 general election in an attack similar to last year's Madrid train bombings, the head of the agency said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=avsPdAdgnEgw&refer=europe

Iran
01/23/05 Summary - Threat and warnings continue from Iran to any one who may seek to preemptively strike their nuclear program. More Iranian agents have been captured in Iraq.

Afghanistan
01/20/05 suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday near an Afghan warlord who helped the United States defeat the Taliban, injuring more than 20 people but failing to harm the apparent target, officials said. A spokesman for the hard-line militia said it carried out the attack on Abdul Rashid Dostum to avenge the killing of Taliban prisoners during the U.S. invasion thee years ago, although police said the attack carried the hallmark of al-Qaida.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2005/jan/20/012004284.html

01/20/05 Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has rejected negotiations with US-led forces and the Afghan government and vowed to continue his "holy war", a statement purportedly from the radical cleric said on Thursday.
http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/21/top8.htm

Iraq
01/23/05 Summary- Attacks on Shiites by Sunni/al-Zarqawi continue in an effort to thwart national elections and create a civil war.

01/20/05 An audio tape purportedly from al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has urged militants to prepare for a lengthy holy war against U.S.-led forces in Iraq, saying victory could take months and years.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050120/wl_nm/iraq_zarqawi_tape_dc

Indonesia
Monitoring - AQ attack watch through 02/15/05
Australia and Japan issue warnings on 15 Dec. over threat to a foreign hotel in Indonesia, hotel identified as Hilton Hotel in Jakarta. Indonesia is forcing a reduction in the relief efforts in order to reduce potential counter-islam influence on region. - Godzilla

01/23/05 Summary - Negotiations between Islamic terrorists and Indonesian military representatives continue. Security concerns remain for disaster aid workers.

Kuwait
Monitoring - AQ attack watch through 03/15/05
US Embassy on 15 Dec.: Credible information that terrorist groups are developing near-term plans for attacks against unspecified targets in Kuwait. Very active recently

01/23/05 Kuwait, facing an increase in militant violence, is hunting between eight to 10 Saudis and Kuwaitis suspected of links to Al Qaeda and a local anti-US network, a security source said yesterday. "Among the Kuwaitis and Saudis being sought by state security are three individuals who have been wanted since the summer as part of a network that trained and sent youths to Iraq to fight US-led forces," the source said. ...snip...
Kuwait has boosted security and cracked down on Islamists opposed to the US military presence. Police have seized weapons and munitions in a series of hauls and have so far detained up to 25 suspected militants for questioning.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=102521&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27309

Israel
01/18/05 Zachariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, announced Tuesday that his group would stop attacks inside Israel as a gesture to Mahmoud Abbas. Zubeidi announced the halt as Abbas was in Gaza, trying to negotiate a cease-fire to be honored by the various organizations. Shortly after Abbas arrived in Gaza on Tuesday, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up there, wounding eight Israelis. Hamas took responsibility. The Al Aksa group has been behind dozens of shooting attacks and some suicide bombings in Israel and the West Bank.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106018362525

Thailand
Monitoring - AQ attack watch #1 through 01/31/05
Thai intel has reportedly warned about terrorist threats in Bangkok during the latter part of Dec. and early Jan.

Monitoring - AQ attack watch #2 through 12/31/05
Terrorists are plotting attacks next year at tourist resorts across Thailand, according to documents found in the house of a fugitive leader of the country's Islamic insurgency, a senior security official said. The documents show that in 2005, the militants plan to attack "soft targets" such as the tropical beach resorts of Pattaya and Phuket, which draw tourist from around the world.
http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=1305
This area was among the hardest hit as a result of the tsunami of Dec 26, 2004. Must watch carefully. Godzilla

01/23/05 No incidents, on-going relief efforts.

Germany
01/23/05 Reports of two additional AQ related individuals being arrested recently.

Yemen
01/05/05 Monitoring - AQ attack watch through 03/01/05
Britain closed its embassy in Yemen on Dec 30, 2004 because of "there is specific information that terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks against British targets and other Western interests in Yemen," and warned that terrorists were in the end stage of planning assaults against British targets in the country. ..snip..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=721&e=6&u=/ap/20050105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/britain_yemen

01/23/05 No further information available.

Saudi Arabia
Monitoring - AQ attack watch through 02/28/05
Call for attacks on oil infrastructure in Iraq and Gulf region by Osama bin Laden

01/20/05 Saudi security forces are hunting three men suspected to be al-Qaida members after thwarting what they believe was an attempt to blow up a mosque in the kingdom, a newspaper said.
The three, referred to by police as members of a deviant group - usually a reference to Usama bin Ladin's al-Qaida which is seeking to overthrow the Saudi ruling family - fled in a white jeep, the paper said. Excerpted
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4FDDEA1-90B1-46A5-A17C-5B4D96233349.htm

Godzilla - Obviously by the increased work of Saudi security forces they are taking this threat seriously. Any major disruption of their oil production capabilities has the potential to throw the country into chaos.

Pakistan
01/19/05 At least 7 simultaneous bomb blasts tied with one concrete pillar under Indus river bridge of Bye Pass road connecting Karachi with Hyderabad and up country damaged the pillar only slightly without interruption of vehicular traffic which continues to ply over the bridge. ….snip…….
Police officers said that it appeared a group had tried to blow up the bridge as sabotage activity but said that their attempt was made for spreading terror and fright more than damage.
http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/18/welcome.htm

India
01/18/05 Terrorists on Saturday attacked regional passport office located in high security zone at Gojibagh near Bakshi stadium in Srinagar. In a bid to flush out the hiding terrorists, the security forces have cordoned the premises and the gunbattle is still on.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/991286.cms

United States
01/19/05 In letter to the Auburn Journal, the environmental terrorist group Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for planting incendiary devices at construction sites in Auburn last week and in Lincoln last month, and says it will strike again.
"It got a little angry toward the end. There were a couple of threats ... they were threatening to do it again in the next couple of weeks ... it said to expect one or two more incidents in the next few weeks," Auburn Journal reporter Penne Usher said.
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4108750/detail.html

4. Attack method.
11/23/04 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. However, aircraft are also still in the mix. 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)

Recently a new twist in the missing crop duster incidents is the potential that they could be used to create a fuel-air explosive (FAE) bomb by spraying fuel over a area and igniting it. This type of explosive is very powerful. Questions remain if a cropduster can carry sufficient amounts of fuel and dispense it in a manner necessary to create the explosive effect or even how large of an area it would effect.

5. Personnel
01/21/05 Jamaat al Muslimeen member Clive Lancelot Small will appear before a US district court judge in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, on January 31 to face gun-running charges. Small was indicted by a US grand jury on May 23, 2002, on charges of conspiracy to possess firearms and possession of firearms, contrary to the laws of the US. The charges arose out of an alleged plot in May, 2001, to import 60 AK-47 assault rifles and ten Mac-10 machine-guns with silencers into T&T.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news10.html

6. Significant meetings canceled:
01/23/04 No new cancellations.

7. Security has been heightened in specific cities
01/23/04 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.
01/23/05 No announced operations out of normal.

9. Dept of Homeland Scty. / State Department
01/19/05 Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520
This information is current as of today, Fri Jan 21 07:47:51 2005.
ALGERIA
January 19, 2005
This Travel Warning is being updated to alert Americans to ongoing security concerns in Algeria. This Travel Warning is being reissued without change following a periodic review. The overall security environment remains dangerous, especially in the Sahara regions. However, the situation has improved and the Embassy is gradually lifting the restrictions it has placed on its employees. This supersedes the Travel Warning of July 15, 2004.
The Department of State urges U.S. citizens who travel to Algeria despite this Travel Warning to evaluate carefully their safety and security. Over the past several months, the city of Algiers and its immediate suburbs have recorded a drop in the number of terrorist-associated incidents. However, there are continued security concerns. Random terrorist attacks still occur in rural and remote areas, on public transportation outside the major cities, and in some parts of the country at night. .....snip....
http://travel.state.gov./travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_929.html

01/18/05 In April, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced that al Qaeda terrorists might strike during this week's presidential inauguration festivities in Washington. The warning was ……… that terrorists were seeking to launch attacks both during and after the election season.
Nine months later, the threat level has been lowered, and Ridge, speaking at a news conference last week, said there is no evidence of a plot to disrupt President Bush 's inauguration. Previous warnings, Ridge explained, stemmed from threat reports tied to the elections -- not to the inauguration more than two months later.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=2&u=/washpost/20050118/ts_washpost/a16499_2005jan17

10. Suspicious Domestic Incidents Not Currently Linked to Specific Terrorism Attempts
01/23/05 Godzilla summary - Boston Dirty Bomb Alert
On Jan 19th, Federal law enforcement officials said they had received a tip Wednesday about an unspecified threat against Boston, and released photographs of the two Chinese men and two women they were seeking. Also associated with the four my media sources were 2 Iraqi illegals were also smuggled across the US-Mexican border. The informant, who was also the smuggler, inferred that the Chinese were ‘chemists’ and that additional personnel/materials were to be smuggled across the border to support what was interpreted to be a ‘dirty bomb’ in Boston. A BOLO was issued and the threat caused the Boston Emergency Action Center to be activated. The four Chinese named by the FBI were identified as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin. Authorities said none of the names had appeared on previous watch lists of terror suspects. The bureau also released pictures of those four but not of the others being sought.

Questions about the authencity of the tip quickly became apparent as one of the origional four “chemists” turned out to be a 13 year old. The informant also failed to meet with FBI agents. One leading theory in the case is that the motive for the tip came from the smuggler to exact revenge on the group, perhaps because members failed to pay. Officials have stressed since news of the tip first broke on Wednesday that they doubted the credibility of the terror claims.

The FBI on Thursday, Jan 20th, added the names of nine Chinese people and one other man to the list of those being sought for questioning about a possible terror plot targeting Boston. The names are part of the same anonymous tip that led authorities on Wednesday to announce that they are seeking to question four other Chinese and two Iraqis. The new names bring to 16 the people being sought for questioning. A partial list included one woman was among the nine new Chinese names added: Yu Xian Weng, a woman either 40 or 41 years old. The others were all men: Quinquan or Quiquan Lin, 21; Liqiang Liang, 28; Min Xiu Xie, 27; Xiang or Xing Wei Liu, 22; Mei Xia Dong, 21; Xiuming Chen; Cheng Yin Liu; and Zao Yun Wang. The final name on the new FBI list was Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones, of unknown age or national origin.

On Saturday, Jan 22nd, one of the 16 people sought for questioning in an alleged terror plot in Boston has been in federal custody for more than two months and has no terrorist connection, the FBI said Saturday. In an announcement posted on the FBI Internet site, officials said that Mei Xia Dong, a Chinese woman, has been at a Homeland Security Department immigration detention facility in San Diego since Nov. 11. The match was made soon after her name surfaced last week as part of an anonymous tip about the possible terror plot. The original information indicated that Dong was a 21-year-old man. Investigators say Dong paid a human smuggler to enter the United States through Mexico and that she came to this country only for economic reasons.

The BOLO is still in effect although the credibility of the terror threat appears to have been decreased with both the passing of the Inauguration and the publicity surrounding the case.

Godzilla analysis - Due to the potential security threat, a poorly supported terror threat was met by wide spread media attention and hype in some circles. The theory that a coyote made the claim for revenge purposes is very likely. Unless something big breaks, this will probably drop well below the media radar screen. However, this incident does point out the weakness of the security of our southern border to the infiltration of terrorists and material for terror attacks.

Yep.
(Note: That possibly may be an older photo.)

Yep.
Take a good look at that top photo.

ONN NEWS.com: "WHY WERE POSSIBLE TERRORISM SUSPECTS SET FREE?" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Two men arrested in Monroe, Michigan are free tonight, despite a possible connection to terrorism. Mohamed Behdi, 32, and Mohamed Ould-Ahmed, 38, both of Cincinnati, are the two men caught on I-75 north of Monroe last week with more than 1400 containers of baby formula inside their mini-van.") (January 23, 2005) (Read More...)

Dong, a Chinese woman, has been at a Homeland Security Department immigration detention facility in San Diego since Nov. 11... Dong paid a human smuggler to enter the United States through Mexico and that she came to this country only for economic reasons

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