Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Five

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Five (Index)

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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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U.S. works 'day and night' to rein in al-Qaida
Full Story

WASHINGTON - Prompted by new intelligence indicating Osama bin Laden reached out to the most feared terrorist in Iraq, President Bush charged Thursday that "al-Qaida still hopes to attack us on our own soil."

"Recently, we learned that Osama bin Laden has urged the terrorist Zarqawi to form a group to conduct attacks outside Iraq, including here in the United States," Bush said at the swearing-in of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

The president vowed, "We're working every day and night to dismantle (bin Laden's) network and to bring him to justice."

Related:
Officials: Bin Laden Urges Zarqawi to Hit U.S.
Al-Qaeda's Completed Warning Cycle - Ready to Attack?

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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-Four "Code Red Implications: Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word." From Tm'er and Freeper ~MamaDearest~
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[appalachian_dweller]

Please excuse the all caps. High wind warning continues for my area.

From http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/va/allwarnings.html

DCZ001-MDZ002>005-009-010-013-VAZ021-025>031-036>042-052>054-
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PRINCE WILLIAM/MANASSAS/MANASSAS PARK VA-RAPPAHANNOCK VA-
ROCKINGHAM VA-SHENANDOAH VA-WARREN VA-WASHINGTON MD-
422 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2005

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING.

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA WILL DRIFT NORTH INTO NEW ENGLAND BY MONDAY. A VERY TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT AROUND THIS LOW WILL CREATE STRONG WINDS TODAY.

SUSTAINED WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED. OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS... WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE AFTER SUNSET.

THESE WINDS WILL DOWN TREES AND POWERLINES AND MAY CAUSE WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES.

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[JustPiper]

Thanks for finding the order Cindy, what disturbs me is what is "Not" said in it, that citizens will be quarantined and it was like something out of a movie

[JustPiper]

This is the meat of it, thank you very for finding this AD!

an executive order Friday authorizing the government to impose a quarantine to deal with any outbreak of a particularly lethal variation of influenza now found in Southeast Asia

Bush's order was described as a standby precaution, adding pandemic influenza to the government's list of communicable diseases for which a quarantine is authorized. It gives the government legal authority to detain or isolate a passenger arriving in the United States to prevent an infection from spreading.

(What bothers me is what else is hidden under the guise of someone 'arriving' in the US)

"This is just another practical step to prepare for the possibility" of an outbreak"

[JustPiper]

Big Iraq pullout seen next year
Sources say most U.S. troops out by February as terror attacks down, base closings begin

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43619

[JustPiper]

[jerseygirl]

re: Terri. How tragic. It sounds like she could have been rehabilitated to some extent. Her parents would have willing taken her home and worked with her.

[kingofhearts]

Terror Scare In London?


This was on the Cynical Nation blog:

Terror scare in London?
(posted by Barry N. Johnson)

This hasn't hit the news yet, but my brother-in-law is sitting on a plane in Heathrow Airport as we speak, and there is apparently some action going on. It seems his plane was stormed by agents with machine guns, who seized a Middle Eastern passenger from my brother-in-law's row and removed him from the plane.

This is happening as I type this. The wonders of modern technology. More to follow, no doubt....

UPDATE: The flight in question is British Airways flight 0215, from London to Boston.

UPDATE: Multiple passengers were removed from the plane by force. My brother-in-law is now off the plane as well, but he has been herded into some special area at Heathrow....

UPDATE: According to the BA website, the flight will be experiencing an "estimated" two-hour delay.... make that four....

http://www.cynicalnation.com/archiv..._04.html#001005

[jerseygirl]

And possibly to deal with an outbreak of any other pathogen...

[jerseygirl]

Amazed after finding this one:

U.S. SAYS ISRAEL MUST GIVE UP NUKES
By Amir Oren, Haaretz Correspondent

www.haaretzdaily.com/hase...60278.html

The State Department Saturday called on Israel to forswear nuclear weapons and accept international Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all nuclear activities.

This is the second time in about two weeks that officials in the Bush administration are putting the nuclear weapons of Israel, India and Pakistan on a par.

The officials called on the three to act like Ukraine and South Africa, which in the last decade renounced their nuclear weapons.

The similar phrasing used by the officials refers to Israel's military nuclear capability, as distinct from "nuclear option," which is to be rolled back, although not necessarily in the "foreseeable future."

The rare use of these terms contradicts the custom of senior administration officials to avoid any possible confirming reference to Israeli nuclear weapons.

The officials, who hold middle-level and lower ranks, are Jackie Wolcott Sanders, ambassador, Conference on Disarmament and special representative of the president for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and Mark Fitzpatrick, acting deputy assistant secretary for nonproliferation.

Sanders was quoted Saturday in the State Department's Electronic Journal, published ahead of the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference scheduled in New York at the beginning of May.

Fitzpatrick spoke on March 17 at a security conference of the Organization of American States (OAS).

On March 7 President George Bush called for a strengthening of the NPT regime and thwarting the efforts of rogue states and terrorists to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Bush devoted his statement to enforcing NPT clauses on treaty regime members (like North Korea and Iran) and ignored non-member states (India, Pakistan, Israel and Cuba).

In the past six years, since the Wye conference in 1998, presidents Clinton and Bush repeatedly promised then prime ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak and also Ariel Sharon that Israel's strategic capability to protect itself will not be harmed.

Israeli experts on Bush's nuclear policy say that the president is focusing on objecting to the nuclear process of North Korea and Iran, and even approves aid to India - in nuclear energy among other things - and to Pakistan (selling F-16 planes), while far lower ranks abound with verbal formulas to excuse the withdrawal of the NPT regime during the Bush era.

Sanders and Fitzpatrick refrained from calling on Israel, India and Pakistan explicitly to renounce their weapons. The expectation of these three states was phrased in terms of a vow - a verbal pledge to forswear, rather than real action. Nor was this demand accompanied by a time table, conditions and sanctions.

An official known for his sympathy for Israel, Robert Joseph, has been nominated undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, and has been serving in a similar position on the staff of the National Security Council. His predecessor in the post is UN ambassador-designate John Bolton, also known for his sympathy for Israel.

Sanders and Fitzpatrick hold more junior ranks in the administration.

In her statement Saturday Sanders said: "The Conference should also reinforce the goal of universal NPT adherence and reaffirm that India, Israel and Pakistan may join the NPT only as non-nuclear-weapon states. Just as South Africa and Ukraine did in the early 1990s, these states should forswear nuclear weapons and accept IAEA safeguards on all nuclear activities to join the treaty. At the same time, we recognize that progress toward universal adherence is not likely in the foreseeable future. The United States continues to support the goals of the Middle East resolution adopted at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, including the achievement of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction."

According to the Israeli experts, the American administration does not want to expand nuclear proliferation to additional states in the region and agrees that in time it would be preferable to have the Middle East nuclear free, but disagrees with the immediate adoption of a policy which would prevent American forces like the Sixth Fleet ships and airplanes from carrying nuclear warheads in bombs and missiles as well.

This is the seventh time that the Review Conference is convening, to mark the 35th year of the NPT's establishment. The conference, held every five years, will end at the end of May, shortly before the IAEA governing council meets in Vienna in June to elect a director general. The U.S. has not decided yet whether to support incumbent IAEA Director General, Mohammed ElBaradei for another term.

[tmp02]

I don't know if this has been posted yet:

Pak nuke scientist A Q Khan met Osama: Report

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376543/posts

Sunday, 03 April , 2005, 12:24

New Delhi: Pakistani scientists Abdul Qadeer Khan and Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood had held meetings with Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda leaders, exchanged letters with militant organisations like the Lashkar-e-Toiba and attended their gatherings and rallies, a media report said.

"When the CIA searched (Sultan Bashiruddin) Mehmood’s UTN (Umma Tameere-Nau) office in Kabul, they found large amounts of data on the construction and maintenance of nuclear weapons from the Kahuta laboratories. It also found letters exchanged between the UTN and Islamist extremist organisations including Lashkar-e-Toiba", a report in Pakistani weekly The Friday Times said.

Mehmood, a close confidante of A Q Khan and a former director of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, was arrested on October 23, 2001, at the headquarters of the UTN which he had set up for "humanitarian work in Afghanistan."

Quoting the famed journal Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the article said Khan and Mehmood and other scientists of his organisation "attended Lashkar-e-Toiba gatherings."

[jerseygirl]

Have to head out, but this is definitely NOT good.....

[Cindy]

Well, I was adding on a Christian news feed to one of web pages last night and saw that story. I read it, read it, read it again.

All I can say is, that's incredible.

[Cindy]

I've seen other reports off and on about that subject, but not this specific one.

THANK YOU tmp02 and prayers continuing for you.

[JustPiper]

This is what makes TM the best, firsthand reports, please keep us apprised what your BIL learns and thanks for the heads up!

[JustPiper]

REMEMBERING POPE JOHN PAUL II

1920—2005

By the time it happened, nobody was surprised—everyone knew that it was only a matter of time. But that did not make it any easier for the world to say goodbye to Pope John Paul II

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[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376647/posts?page=51,44

British Airways Flight 0215


Posted on 04/03/2005 12:54:47 PM PDT by NorseWood


This was posted at Cynical Nation:

This hasn't hit the news yet, but my brother-in-law is sitting on a plane in Heathrow Airport as we speak, and there is apparently some action going on. It seems his plane was stormed by agents with machine guns, who seized a Middle Eastern passenger from my brother-in-law's row and removed him from the plane.

[jimbo123]

http://www.cynicalnation.com/archives/2005_04.html#001005

UPDATE: Multiple passengers were removed from the plane by force. My brother-in-law is now off the plane as well, but he has been herded into some special area at Heathrow....