Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Me either! I would have thought the Texas internet company had people on board with savvy about their operation....

Thanks.
If you have any updates on this please post it and I'll do the same.

Wilco.

These little news-blurbs are irritating.

The plane was searched. So was anything found? Or will this article just driddle about for a while, and then fade to black?

If the "item" was something of interest; I sure don't know at this point what it was/is.

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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004251.html

June 13, 2005
Jihad on the beach [Portugal]
From our favorite Norwegian Kafr...

Sunday, June 12, 2005
Immigrants in Organized Attack at Portugal Beach
I've heard from several other sources that many of these "youths" were immigrants, something the Burka Broadcasting Corporation of course fails to mention. 500 is a very large number, and almost resembles warfare:

Portugal youths in beach rampage
Some 500 youths, mainly teenagers, have raided a popular beach near Lisbon spreading panic among beachgoers and mugging a large number of people. Carcavelos beach, 15km (10 miles) west of the Portuguese capital, was crowded on Friday because the country was celebrating a national holiday. Policemen in riot gear were confronted by gangs and struggled to restore calm, making four arrests. The attackers are believed to come from some of the capital's poorest suburbs. "Small groups of youngsters aged 12 to 20 assembled and robbed en masse those they found on the beach," a local cafe owner, Helder Gabriel, told AFP news agency. A small number of police officers from the nearby town of Cascais initially tried to disperse the mob, but were forced to call reinforcements because the gangs were refusing to leave the beach.

Posted by aaron at June 13, 2005 11:04 AM

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004259.html
June 13, 2005
"Answer: He's in jail."

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003978.html
April 19, 2005
"PFLP members planned to assasinate Ovadia Yosef
Margot Dudkevitch, THE JERUSALEM POST - Apr. 17, 2005:"

ON THE NET...

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002718.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050608/ids_photos_wl/r3926471993.jpg
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050608/i/r3926471993.jpg?x=380&y=268&sig=WIH2n3bQZROn1IIju2l0VQ--

Thank you LayoutGuru2 for the links:

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http://www.isonly.net/~blue_cats/cgi-bin/upload/source/up1004.zip
http://mkfps.hmc6.net/uploader/source/up1461.zip
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http://gareki.dip.jp/10/5_0791.zip
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http://www.iaiiraq.net/13-6-2005.mpg
http://gorvus.petie.jp/up/source/up0037.zip
http://jadore.jp/~melonda/yukoup/loveyuko/fukuchiyama0006.zip
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On The Net...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khattab
http://www.khattab.cjb.net/
http://www.cybcity.com/mhamed33/jehad.jpg
http://www.cybcity.com/mhamed33/

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22mhamed33%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://trackingalqueda.blogspot.com/2005/05/loads-of-links.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khattab_groups
Layoutguru2: This site has all its messages cleaned out.
It's unknown if it is connected to the other yahoo khattab group

MEMRI.ORG: "JORDAN"
http://www.memri.org

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=709
5/18/2005 Clip No. 709

"The Jordanian Authorities' Ways of Dealing with 'Honor Crimes'"

TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from a report about "honor crimes" in Jordan and the way the Jordanian authorities deal with this phenomenon. Al-Arabiya TV aired this report on May 18, 2005"

MEMRITV.ORG
http://www.memritv.org

CIA expert and best selling author, John Weisman will be discussing the shape of the U.S. intelligence community, and the culture inside the organization.

JOHN WEISMAN is one of the select company of writers whose books have appeared on both the fiction and nonfiction New York Times best-seller lists. John's latest work, Direct Action, will be released by HarperCollins/William Morrow on June 14. His 2004 hit, Jack in the Box, will be released simultaneously as a mass market paperback by Avon books.

Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh called Jack in the Box "The insider’s insider spy novel." The Washington Times said that Weisman’s Jack in the Box “bolsters his growing stature as one of the best in the thriller business.”

Jack in the Box was one of two thrillers selected by National Public Radio book critic Alan Cheuse for his All Things Considered summer reading list. Cheuse called JIB "engrossing," and said "Reading [Jack in the Box] is like eating a meal of desserts. Jack in the Box is lavishly sprinkled with scenes and details of state of the art tradecraft."

Simultaneously with JIB, Morrow released a mass market paperback of John's 2003 hit, SOAR: A Black-Ops Mission. Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said of SOAR: "There are only a few authors who are able to climb inside the culture, mind-set, and passions of the people who conduct covert and special operations. In SOAR, John Weisman reveals why he's the best in the business in writing about it."

John's prior work includes the nine book Rogue Warrior series, with more than two million copies in print. The first, Rogue Warrior, the real-life story of Commander Richard Marcinko and the US Navy's elite counterterrorism unit, SEAL Team Six, spent eight months on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, four weeks at the #1 position. Rogue Warrior was the subject of a Mike Wallace 60 Minutes segment. John subsequently conceived, created, developed, and wrote Rogue Warrior's eight fictional sequels

John's much-acclaimed CIA short story, "There Are Monsterim," written for the 1996 anthology Unusual Suspects, was collected in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Mystery Stories of 1997," edited by Robert W. Parker. His most recent short fiction, "A Day in the Country," was published by Playboy in August, 2002 and selected by Best American Mystery Stories of 2003 as one of the year's most distinguished pieces of short suspense fiction.

In 1989, John wrote Shadow Warrior, the best-selling life story of Felix Rodriguez, the CIA agent who captured Che Guevara. The book was published by Simon and Schuster and was also the subject of a Mike Wallace 60 Minutes segment. Of Shadow Warrior, James Polk wrote in the Washington Post: "John le Carré would love this plot."

From 1989-1991, John was a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Washington Program for Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern University. There, he researched the symbiosis between effective communications policy and the development of a cohesive national drug strategy. Prior to his appointment, he was Washington, DC, Bureau Chief for TV Guide Magazine, a post he held since establishing the bureau in 1977. At TV Guide, John's articles ranged from spot news reporting of such breaking stories as the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and the assassination of Anwar el-Sadat, to lengthy analyses of television news coverage dealing with such varied subjects as undercover narcotics investigations, Soviet disinformation, video technology on the battlefield, and transnational terrorism. He has worked in more than three dozen countries on assignments that included covering wars in Central America and the Middle East. In 1985-1986, John was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations seminars on media and foreign policy.

He is also the author of three well-received novels. His first, Evidence (Viking), dealt with the ethos of reporting, and its psychological toll. The book was called "brilliant" by the New York Times. "[Evidence]," said the Times, "probes the mind of a dedicated newspaperman and a psychological cripple, written in realistic prose, with characters sharply delineated." The book was also a Times Summer Reading Guide selection. The Washington Post called Evidence "an intelligent, penetrating look at what it is like to be an investigative reporter--not only the techniques but the feelings (or non-feelings) and the ethical problems connected with the work."

Evidence was followed by Watchdogs (Viking), and Blood Cries (Viking). Kirkus called Blood Cries "A thought-provoking thriller, well above the standard." The New York Times called the novel "an engaging, provocative, and troubling book."

John was born in New York City. He received his BA in English Literature from Bard College, where he studied writing with Ralph Ellison, Paris Leary, and Anthony Hecht. He has published scores of articles in a wide range of periodicals running the gamut from Rolling Stone to the Columbia Journalism Review, to Soldier of Fortune, where he is currently a roving contributing editor. John also writes the Black Ops column on www.military.com. From 1994-2002 John war-gamed counterterrorist scenarios at Heckler & Koch's International Training Division. John and his wife live with their dogs in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.

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Raped, Kidnapped and Silenced
NY Times ^ | June 14, 2005 | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Posted on 06/13/2005 10:20:27 PM PDT by neverdem

No wonder the Pakistan government can't catch Osama bin Laden. It is too busy harassing, detaining - and now kidnapping - a gang-rape victim for daring to protest and for planning a visit to the United States.

Last fall I wrote about Mukhtaran Bibi, a woman who was sentenced by a tribal council in Pakistan to be gang-raped because of an infraction supposedly committed by her brother. Four men raped Ms. Mukhtaran, then village leaders forced her to walk home nearly naked in front of a jeering crowd of 300.

Ms. Mukhtaran was supposed to have committed suicide. Instead, with the backing of a local Islamic leader, she fought back and testified against her persecutors. Six were convicted.

Then Ms. Mukhtaran, who believed that the best way to overcome such abuses was through better education, used her compensation money to start two schools in her village, one for boys and the other for girls. She went out of her way to enroll the children of her attackers in the schools, showing that she bore no grudges.

Readers of my column sent in more than $133,000 for her. Mercy Corps, a U.S. aid organization, has helped her administer the money, and she has expanded the schools, started a shelter for abused women and bought a van that is used as an ambulance for the area. She has also emerged as a ferocious spokeswoman against honor killings, rapes and acid attacks on women. (If you want to help her, please don't send checks to me but to Mercy Corps, with "Mukhtaran Bibi" in the memo line: 3015 S.W. First, Portland, Ore. 97201.)

A group of Pakistani-Americans invited Ms. Mukhtaran to visit the U.S. starting this Saturday (see www.4anaa.org). Then a few days ago, the Pakistani government went berserk.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

TOWNHALL.com: "TB OR NOT TB?" -Column by Cal Thomas (June 14, 2005) (Read More...)

Thank you Layoutguru2 for the links.

Weird story about the Iranian sites on the Texas internet company. I'm not computer savvy enough to understand how they do this for so long without the host company knowing.

Oh that's not hard to understand at all. You have to consider that most large Internet hosting sites are highly automated - the creation and management of the sites hosted by the provider is done by computer programs, not by employees of the hosting site. The customers only need to provide a credit card or PayPal ID, which is handled completely by machine transaction (untouched by human hands at the hosting site), and the users can then upload anything they want onto their site. The only time a human at the hosting site gets involved is if there's some kind of problem. The employees who run the site write and maintain the programs that do the actual management of individual customer sites, and handle any customer complaints or problems. In general unless the customer contacts the support office, the hosting site doesn't know who they are or what the content of their site is.

Consider that many of these Internet hosting sites have tens or even hundreds of thousands of customers - a few even into the millions. Even a small hosting site might have many hundreds of customers. It's not practical for them to be aware of all of the content hosted by their machines; given the typical price points for Internet hosting services (often under $10/month) there's just no way to pay enough employess as would be required to check out all of the files uploaded by their customers.

You can run search engines to check for key words and use the result of that to do spot checks for something that's obviously illegal, but that's highly imperfect. It may also open you up to legal liability (if you're able to detect some illegal activity, the government may decide that you don't meet "common carrier" status and require you to detect all illegal activity, which is obviously impossible).

Bruce

good morning :)

Newport CW Depot Nerve Agent Spill Contained

A spill of 30 gallons of liquid containing VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Indiana was contained without harming anyone, the Associated Press reported yesterday . . .

why do we even have this stuff?!

This woman needs our prayers.

It turns out, the item was a radio.

A passenger saw the radio in one of the plane's restrooms and told a flight attendant, said Chicago Police spokesman David Banks. The police bomb and arson unit and the FBI inspected the item and determined it was "an older looking Walkman-type radio," Banks said.
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_164223915.html