Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

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

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"LNG tankers open ports to terrorist attack, officials say"

By Greg Hellman
Published: Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Boston politicians and representatives from Fall River advocated for increased port security at the Statehouse Tuesday morning in a joint meeting on homeland security, calling for increase defenses against both terrorist attacks and potentially catastrophic accidents posed by incoming tankers and other energy facilities.

Legislators and other state officials expressed support for a bill that would further regulate natural gas import terminals, a critical concern of the State Committee on Homeland Security."

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005888print.html

April 25, 2005

24 jihadists seized in Algeria

You can reduce the number of the Tiny Minority of Extremists Who Misunderstand Islam in Algeria by 24. "24 suspected terrorists seized in Algeria," from UPI, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:

Algiers, Algeria, Apr. 25 (UPI) -- Algerian security forces arrested 24 terror suspects and the army had surrounded up 20 Islamic gunmen in the mountains, it was reported Monday. Security forces in Algiers arrested four Tunisians who allegedly planned to join the Islamic fundamentalist Salafi Group for Daawa and Fighting, which is largely responsible for terrorist activities in Algeria, the newspaper al-Khabar reported.
"The Tunisian terrorists were uncovered after they were betrayed by an Islamic gunman who was in charge of transporting them to one of the Salafi group's hideouts in remote mountains," a source told the newspaper.

Posted at April 25, 2005 04:16 PM

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Monday, April 25, 2005

HINDUS ATTACK JESUS FILM CREW IN NORTHERN INDIA

By Mark Ellis
Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

LUCKNOW, INDIA (ANS) -- A showing of the Jesus Film in northern India was broken up by at least 35 Hindu extremists who attacked the film crew and caused viewers to flee the scene.

“When the film showing was going on, around 35-40 men attacked them, tearing up the screen and beating up people,” said George Ninan, a South Asia director for Campus Crusade for Christ. In recent years, militant groups have arisen that trumpet a Hindu “race” and culture, urging that Hinduism be recognized as the official state religion. They attack both Muslims and Christians because they are said to follow a ‘foreign’ religion.

The film team—one of 900 operating in different parts of India—was led by Karan Bahadur, who suffered the brunt of the attack. “He could not escape and was badly beaten and became unconscious,” Ninan said. Bahadur was taken captive, tortured, and questioned in detail about his family and work.

The following night he was taken to some railroad tracks nearby and told to run for his life. Nursing wounds from the beating, he ran as far as his strength allowed, then hid himself in bushes that lined the track.

The next morning Bahadur jumped aboard a slow-moving freight train, then eventually made his way by truck to Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.

When the film crew complained to local police, they refused to register a complaint. However, police did recover some of the film equipment, which was thrown into a school compound. The generator used to supply power for the equipment is still missing.

“Praise God there was no serious injury to our staff and that we could get the projector back and the film,” Ninan said. “Ninan, on staff with Campus Crusade since 1971, prays daily for the gospel to break through in India.

Uttar Pradesh state in northern India is home to 167 million people. Less than one percent knows Jesus Christ.

In 1997, Father Thomas, a Jesuit priest from Belgium, was killed by Hindu nationalists disguised as police officers. The same year, another priest was severely beaten and paraded naked through the streets by militants—all within view of the police, according to Freedom House in Washington D.C.

Two years later, an Australian missionary and his two sons were burned to death in their van by Hindu extremists. Over 100 incidents of violence have been documented against Christians since 1998, including the rape of four nuns and one nun shot in the face. Many Christians were injured, killed or left homeless by such attacks.

George Ninan, the Crusade director, remains hopeful about India, despite its unusual obstacles to the Christian faith. “Most of the ministries are seeing results,” he says. “Please continue to pray for their protection.”
Mark Ellis is a Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service. He is also an assistant pastor in Laguna Beach, CA. Contact Ellis at marsalis@fea.net
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Times Sq. taxicab horror

11 are injured as driver 'flies down the block'

BY ADAM LISBERG, TONY SCLAFANI and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Firefighters swarm cab during rescue effort to remove driver, who witnesses say went on a horror ride through Times Square.

A cabbie took a pregnant woman on a Times Square terror ride yesterday, leaving behind a trail of crushed cars and 11 broken and bloodied bodies, police said.

"This cab driver was flying down the block, hitting everybody he could see," said Martin Rodriguez, 50, a construction-site security guard who witnessed the 10:30 a.m. mayhem.

Among the three critically injured was passenger Maria Stein, 8-1/2 months pregnant with her first child.

Stein had just gotten into Syed Zia's cab after visiting her obstetrician's Times Square office, her relatives said.

Her wild ride started when Zia, 54, allegedly rear-ended a station wagon that had stopped for a pedestrian crossing 42nd St. at Eighth Ave., cops said.

The collision pushed the station wagon over the pedestrian, Rubin Abayez.

Abayez, 66, who weighs about 300 pounds, was wedged under the wagon. He was later listed in critical condition at St. Luke's Hospital with a ruptured spleen and a fractured pelvis.

"He [Zia] could have stopped right there, but he kept going," said witness Anthony Martin, 49, of Manhattan.

Zia allegedly backed his cab up, hit the gas and continued west on 42nd St., witnesses said.

About midblock, the cabbie sideswiped a parked Chevy Impala with a city sanitation worker sitting inside.

"He sideswiped [my] car then went across and hit the back of [a] bus. He was going full speed," said the sanitation worker, who requested anonymity.

Witnesses said the hazardous hack was going 60 mph when his cab slammed into the rear of a white minibus carrying four passengers, including Lucy Cornelio, 18, of Paterson, N.J.

"The glass shattered and then I was on the floor. I was bleeding from the head," Cornelio said.

The crash caused the minibus to swerve into oncoming eastbound traffic, where it clipped another minibus, police said.

Meanwhile, Zia's cab went into a 180-degree spin, causing a chain-reaction pileup of four yellow cabs waiting for the red light to change at Ninth Ave.

When the crumpled cab finally came to a spinning stop after its 20-second-or-so spree, Rodriguez ran over to find the driver pinned in the front seat, and the pregnant passenger bloodied and dazed in the back.

"She had a big gash on her forehead," Rodriguez said of Stein, 32, of East Rutherford, N.J. "I carried her out of the cab. She didn't say anything. She was dazed."

Stein, a Colombian immigrant who is an executive for UBS bank in New Jersey, was listed in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital. Relatives said her due date for the baby, expected to be a girl, is May 13.

"She was coming out of her doctor's office when this happened," said Stein's mother-in-law, Pilar Stein, of Coral Gables, Fla. "She only comes into the city for the doctors."

"She's a very devout Catholic," Stein continued. "So we are praying the Lord will keep her under his care and that everything goes well for her baby."

Firefighters had to rip the roof off the taxi to free Zia, who suffered two broken legs, a broken arm, a lacerated liver and pancreas and cuts to his face, cops said. He was in critical condition at St. Luke's.

Several others suffered less serious injuries, including the bus passengers. All were treated at Bellevue, police said.

While witnesses said it appeared Zia was trying to flee, cops were inspecting his cab for any malfunctions that could have triggered the destruction. No charges were immediately filed.

Zia, a Pakistani immigrant, has been a city cabbie since 1991. He has had three moving violations since 2002, but was in no immediate jeopardy of losing his license, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said.

"He's never been in an accident," one of Zia's daughters said when contacted at her family's Corona, Queens, home. "He's a very responsible person. He has six children. He's the best father there could ever be."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/303670p-259904c.html

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