Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Six

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Six (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!

Details show extent of terror plot against U.S.
Full Story

We now know more about an alleged attack that triggered an increased national threat level last summer.

That's when U.S. officials said they had uncovered a plot targeting financial institutions. The plot involved bombs, banks and British nationals.

The detail was startling, the targets enormous. They included financial buildings in Washington, New York and New Jersey.

Related:
Trio charged for terror plot in US
Threat Matrix #15 (August 31, 2004) :: Big Apple Terror?

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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[MamaDearest]

Missing hearing from some of you. Hope most of you are at least still lurking :-)

US warns China to overhaul currency

LA gang violence crosses the line

[Oorang]

RE: Islamic scholars - SNIP: "But the decree does not apply to bombings in Kashmir or Palestine."

Hmmm, they get to pick and choose. How handy.

Thanks for all the excellent links. I wish the lady who wrote "Overlooked immigration points" would sit down and have a heart to heart with Pres. Bush.

[Oorang]

Canadian Forces Retool for WMD, Terrorism Threats

Disagreement on Testing Delays CDC Investigation (Tularemia)

.S. Seeks to Improve Hazardous Rail Shipment Information Flow, Researches Structure of Tankers

[Oorang]

Militant wanted for plotting chemical attck killed in Grozny

17.05.2005, 12.16

GROZNY, May 17 (Itar-Tass) -- In Grozny’s Oktyabrsky district FSB security service commandos have liquidated three militants, including one wanted for plotting a terrorist attack with the use of chemical warfare agents, Alash Daudov.

The spokesman for the regional counter-terrorist operation headquarters, Major-General Ilya Shaballkin has said the killed militant carried documents, passport and driving license issued in the name of one Mumad Aliyev, year of birth 1962.

He also had instructions on how to plant and trigger explosive devices, as well as maps of Nazran, Grozny and Nalchik with circle marks around crucial facilities, such as railway stations and water reservoirs.

The identities of the two other militants are yet to be established.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=2039919&PageNum=0

[Oorang]

Afghan, US forces arrest at least 15 suspected Taliban in mountain caves, officials say KABUL, Afghanistan, May 17

Afghan and U.S. troops arrested at least 15 suspected Taliban after surrounding a group of caves in the mountains of an insurgency-plagued province, Afghan officials said Tuesday.

Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zaher Azimi said Afghan and American troops battled the rebels in Deh Rawood district of Uruzgan province for an hour before they surrendered, though an Army general said there was no shooting.

Azimi said 17 suspects were detained, but Gen. Muslim Hamid said 15 were taken into custody

http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/17/welcome.htm#10

[Cindy]

You got a point.

[Cindy]

I tried 5 search engines and multiple ways of searching -- zip, zero, nada, absolutely nothing.

[Oorang]

KARACHI: MQM accuses JI of resorting to terrorism

KARACHI, May 16: Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday charged Jamaat-i-Islami and its student wing, Islami Jamiat-i-Tulba, of allegedly resorting to acts of terrorism in the city and urged the president and prime minister to take notice of the conspiracy to destroy peace of the city.

This was stated by the in charge of MQM coordination committee, Mr Anwar Alam at a news conference at Nine-Zero. He was accompanied by Ms Nasreen Jaleel, Mr Wasay Jaleel and others.

Mr Alam narrated an incident which according to him took place in Baldia education office around noon on Monday. He alleged that some hoodlums mounted an attack on the sub-unit office of the MQM and ransacked it.

He said that soon about 30 activists of IJT came to the office in a bus of Government College for Technology and started beating up four workers of the MQM who were connected with labour division and education.

After beating them ruthlessly they took away Aftab Ahmad, Afaq Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad and Ghafoor to the GCT and subjected them to alleged torture. As a result of that torture, he said, Afaq Ahmad’s leg was broken while others sustained many injuries.

After beating them, the IJT activists dumped the MQM workers in bushes behind the GCT where they gained consciousness after three hours, Mr Alam said, adding that after being rescued they were now being given medical treatment.

Mr Alam recalled a recent meeting in Governor House in which Jamat-i-Islami’s naib amir Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, IJT representatives and representatives of MQM and APMSO had agreed on a code of ethics for maintaining peace in educational institutions and for avoiding any clash between student wings of the two political parties.

Mr Alam said MQM had done its best to keep its part of the bargain and for that it was even removing its own wall chalking. But he regretted the JI and its student wing had gone on a rampage and their armed activists kidnapped MQM’s labour division’s workers at gun point and subjected them to torture.

He said that the true face of the JI, which had accused MQM of running torture cells, had been exposed by this incident.

He was of the view that such activities were part of the conspiracy to postpone local government elections. He claimed that JI would not succeed in its “conspiracy”.

http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/17/local12.htm

[Oorang]

UK terror suspect Babar Ahmad facing extradition to U.S.- recruited Jihad fighters via websites -linked to NJ Imam Mazen Mokhtar

[JellyJam]

Bin Laden may again prove his presence, Pakistani journalist says

[Oorang]

Al-Qaeda-linked suspect is linguist

PESHAWAR (Online): The accused Shehzad, who was apprehended from Shabqadar area on Monday for having links with Al-Qaeda, after quizzing by intelligence agencies had revealed that he was highly educated and fluent in three foreign languages.

One Mujahid, who extended shelter to the accused Shehzad told that he (Shehzad) was friend of his cousin who met the accused during a Tableeghi congregation.

He said that Shehzad had stayed in Gandhab area of Mohmand Agency for one year and later shifted to Shabqadar. Shehzad is reported to be highly educated and is fluent in Arabic, English and Persian languages and skilled in computer.

http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/top.asp#

[Velveeta]

I looked too. Strange that there was not one word.

[Cindy]

Just read the article you pointed to Jellyjam.

OPINION (based on cybersurfing only and no hard facts involved with this opinion):

Al-Zawahiri - alive.
Mullah Omar - alive (and negotiating?)
Zarqawi (with a bunch of akas on the spelling of his name): alive, but injured and possibly paranoid -- evil to the end.
bin Laden - His propaganda is still alive. He may or may not be alive -- hard to tell.

[Velveeta]

Liquidation is good. :-)

[Velveeta]

I wonder if the spelling of the name is incorrect???

[JellyJam]

I agree on all four. (I think both sides, ours and al-Qaida, perpetuate the bin Laden myth to benefit each other's cause.)

[Oorang]

Thanks for the link JellyJam.

[JellyJam]

My pleasure ... once another video arrives, we'll have to be the lookout again.

[Oorang]

Abdul Qadeer Khan helped Iran, N. Korea
May 17, 2005

Investigators now believe Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, was responsible for uranium enrichment equipment going to Iran and North Korea.

Pakistani and international investigators also found Libya paid Khan $100 million for atomic warhead designs and plans for a complete bomb factory, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

However, still undetermined is whether Khan could have run his network without the knowledge of Pakistani military and political leaders.

Neither Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf nor his predecessors fully investigated Khan despite years of allegations from U.S. officials and international media," investigators told the Times. They said they had believed Kahn was accumulating enormous wealth and had made an unauthorized trip to Dubai where he met with "dubious characters" violating Pakistani rules.

"The military knew that Khan's orders came from the very top and that it was state policy to get the bomb, by hook or by crook," said a former senior Pakistani military officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He delivered what we all thought was impossible, and that was what mattered."

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_6913.shtml

[Cindy]

Could be.
I changed to variations too and still nothing.