Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Four

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Four (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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Some American Mosques Carry Extremist Tracts, Study Says
Full Story

WASHINGTON -- Mosques across the U.S. continue to carry books and pamphlets describing non-Muslims as "infidels" and promoting intolerance against Western society, according to a forthcoming study by Freedom House, a U.S. human-rights group.

Despite vows from American Islamic leaders after Sept. 11, 2001, to proselytize peacefully, New York based Freedom House researchers found 57 documents with incendiary material in more than a dozen mosques and Islamic centers in six states and Washington, D.C., visited over the past year.

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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-Three "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		Tracking the Chatter with TM

[Cindy]

THAT IS INTERESTING FreeperfromNJ.

[JustPiper]

Safe from a cyberattack?
Nuclear regulatory officials formalize security standards for safety systems
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0207/pol-nuke-02-07-05.asp

The other nuke nightmare
Worst case scenario, al-Qaeda detonating a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/07/nuke.nightmare.tm/index.html

[JustPiper]

TROUBLE SPEAK
Prof: I want U.S. off the planet
Embattled, terror-condoning academic said he wants America 'out of existence'

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42740

[JustPiper]

Suspicious Fires Damage Sutter Creek Apartments
(CA and our friends from ELF)

Authorities are investigating a series of suspicious fires at a new apartment complex in the Amador County town of Sutter Creek.

Investigators said the fires are considered suspicious because what appeared to be crude fire bombs were found inside the damaged units.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20050207/lo_kcra/2573095

[JustPiper]

Bump to you!

[JustPiper]

Good to see you Bell ;)

[JustPiper]

SECURITY chiefs at Holyrood hope to identify terrorists who try to get a job at the parliament - by asking: 'Have you ever been involved in terrorism?'

Bump

[Cindy]

Thanks JP, I'm glad you posted that.

Do you remember the other new contruction homes (in the Sacramento area, I believe it was) that had (if I rrecall correctly) explosives on timers set up? It was more than one home.

[Cindy]

Well Cindy, what a memory... (smiling)...

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ON THE NET...

FBI.gov
http://www.fbi.gov

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http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4168918/detail.html


"FBI Puts Up $50,000 For Information On Firebombs"

POSTED: 1:40 pm PST February 5, 2005

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --

[Cindy]

Adding this new link here for archival-reference purposes:

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1337979/posts

"RADICAL ISLAMICS TARGET CHRISTIAN WRITER, JEREMY REYNALDS, FOR MURDER"
Internet Haganah ^ | February 6, 2005 | Aaron Weisburd, Jeremy Reynalds


Posted on 02/07/2005 11:48:27 AM PST by JohnathanRGalt


SNIPPET: "Islamists target Christian journalist on website


Christian journalist and long-time friend of Internet Haganah, Jeremy Reynalds has been targeted for killing by Islamists on the Al Ansar forum (ansarnet.ws)."

[Godzilla]

Do you remember the other new contruction homes (in the Sacramento area, I believe it was) that had (if I rrecall correctly) explosives on timers set up? It was more than one home

Those homes were in the Lincoln area immediately north of Sacramento. This latest firebomb are in Sutter Creek near the 'motherload' country, east of Sacramento and near Jackson.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/sacramento020405.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/sacramento0204052.jpg
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/sacramento0204051.jpg
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/sacramento0204053.jpg

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FBI.gov - SEEKING INFORMATION

SEEKING INFORMATION SNIPPET: "THE DETAILS SURROUNDING THE CRIME

The FBI, acting as part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Sacramento, California, is seeking information regarding several incendiary devices found by construction workers on December 27, 2004, at a site in Lincoln, California, and on January 12, 2005, in Auburn, California. Both Lincoln and Auburn are located in Northern California. In Lincoln, the devices were located in three houses which were under construction and were capable of causing extensive fire damage to the structures if they had successfully functioned. In Auburn, five devices were located in a commercial building under construction. These devices were also capable of causing extensive damage had they ignited. Red dye diesel fuel was used as the accelerant in both of the incidents. In a letter sent to several Sacramento area newspapers, an individual claiming affiliation with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) assumed responsibility for both incidents.

Additionally, graffiti was also discovered on December 27th on another house under construction in the same development in Lincoln. Photographs of the graffiti are shown above and read "Quit Destroying Their Homes", "Evasion", and "You Will Pay! 4Q".

REWARD

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for these crimes.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS CASE, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE.

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ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: (202) 324-3000 

| Sacramento Field Office | Seeking Information |
| FBI Home Page | FBI Field Offices |

[Velveeta]

LOL and now dinner time, and I'm still not caught up. LOL

[wakingup]

Russia, China boost joint defense plans

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Quietly, with almost no notice taken in the U.S. media, Russia and China have just stepped up their military cooperation to a level not seen in half a century since the end of the Korean War.

The two countries have quietly agreed to hold their most ambitious joint military exercises in modern times this fall. Interfax news agency reported late last month that the exercises would involve what it described as "Russian strategic aviation", a description that appeared to be a reference to the use of Russia's super-huge Antonov military transport planes, to rapidly deploy forces on Chinese territory.

"For the first time (over the entire history of Russian-Chinese military contacts), the two countries' exercise will begin on our territory, where plans for the maneuvers will be developed, while all tactical operations will take place on the territory of China," three-star Col. Gen. Alexander Belousov, Russia's first deputy defense minister, announced in Moscow Jan. 28.

The official China Daily Feb. 2 quoted Belousov as describing the maneuvers as the "first joint staff command exercises" between the two countries. It will involve "various forces to practice issues involving fighting our common enemy -- international terrorism," Belousov said. "The maneuvers would center on measures aimed at deploying Russian units in China, joint military operations and joint efforts against international terrorism, he added.

Last week a Russian military delegation was in Beijing negotiating with the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army to work out the details of the proposed exercises, currently scheduled to be held in August and September. The exercises will be on a vast scale and will also involve air force and navy units of both nations, including submarines.

The large scale of conventional forces involved suggests that international terrorism may not be the only hypothetical enemy the Russian and Chinese forces will practice deploying against. While not a single statement about the exercises mentioned the United States, U.S. policy in recent months has increasingly alarmed both Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hu Jintao of China and appears to be drawing them more closely together.

Putin and Hu have been equally alarmed by the spectacular success of President Viktor Yushchenko's "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine from November to January. As reported last week in these columns, Hu has authorized a revival of the study of Mao Zedong's Thought among the entire 68 million members of China's ruling Communist Party, an ideological campaign the likes of which has not been seen in the 29 years since Mao died.

Articles in the official Chinese press have explicitly explained the campaign as a response to the threat that China may be destabilized and ultimately splintered by a wave of democratic activism from Ukraine spreading across eastwards across Eurasia through the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.

Russia and China in fact have been military allies for almost all of the last decade, slowly but steadily increasing their ties in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, also known as the Shanghai Pact, which was expanded and formalized in its current shape, involving both giant nations and four of the five Central Asian republics between them, at a meeting in Shanghai on June 15, 2001.

At the time Chinese President Jiang Zemin insisted the SCO be referred to informally as "The Shanghai Pact," a deliberate echo of the Warsaw Pact organization that kept all the Soviet Union's Central European satellite nations in line from its foundation in 1955 to the collapse of communism in the region in the fall of 1989.

In the mid-1990s, it was Russian Foreign Minister, and later Prime Minister, Yevgeny Primakov, whom Putin has always held in high regard, who wanted to boost Sino-Russian ties into a close military alliance but at that time the Chinese, wary of endlessly angering the Clinton administration, flatly refused to do so.

The current upgrading of ties remains low key, at least in public, and is certainly cautious. But it is also relentless. It comes in the context of increasing fears about a wave of democratic activism radiating outwards from Ukraine that may threaten the structural integrity of both China and Russia. And it also follows the highly activist language that President George W. Bush used in his second inaugural address and latest State of the Union message, vowing to use American power to spread democratic values and governments around the world.

Significantly, the Sino-Russian military exercises now planned for August and September do not appear to involve the deployment of any Chinese troops into Russian territory to help Russia against any international terrorist threat, even though Russia has suffered far more grievously than China form such attacks in recent years. Instead, they envisage Russian forces being deployed in China to help protect it as an ally. The only conceivable military scenario that could possibly require such a deployment would be if China felt itself threatened by the United States in some future clash over Taiwan.

The coming fall exercises are certainly not conceived as any kind of aggressive scenario against the United States, or against any nations bordering China or Russia either for that matter. But they appear to be a highly significant straw in a wind that is driving Beijing and Moscow ever more closely together, and both nations ever more apart from the United States.

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/02070004aaa054db.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=LATEBRKN&Type=News&Filter=Late%20Breaking

[BurbankKarl]

there are armed guards and fences around all the developments I see in Santa Clarita now....

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Can you believe this?

Monday, February 7, 2005 · Last updated 3:57 a.m. PT

Russia gets U.S. money to destroy weapons

By WILLIAM C. MANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. arms-control organization agreed Monday to supply the money for a railroad bridge necessary for Russia to destroy nearly 2 million chemical munitions stored in desolate southeastern Siberia.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Chemical%20Weapons%20Russia

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Pakistan Denies Passing Nuclear Information to Arab Countries By Michael Kitchen
Islamabad
07 February 2005


Pakistani officials are calling a report about Abdul-Qadeer Khan in Time Magazine baseless.

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The report also refers to Pakistan's refusal to allow U.S. investigators to question Mr. Khan personally.

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He said that Pakistan is still looking into Mr. Khan's international nuclear black-market operation and has promised to share its findings with Washington.


http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-07-voa10.cfm

[Cindy]

Good.
That's a start.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

City debates methods of delivering medicines in event of terrorist attack

February 7, 2005, 6:52 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) _ The city is debating over several proposals on how to deliver medicine to thousands of people within the first 48 hours of a terrorist attack.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-readiness0207feb07,0,6066242.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[Cindy]

Hey....

Salmon fillets, cabbage and carrots, and home-made cookies for dinner, but I can't do that now, I'm still shredding with my new shredder.

Now if Hillary was here, this job would go a lot quicker...LOL.