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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.

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Expert: Al-Qaida Has Presence In South Florida
Full Story

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- Despite the massive federal, state and local law enforcement effort to stop terrorists from entering the United States, there is no strong evidence of how well it is working.

Many experts are concerned that there are plenty of terrorists or sympathizers already in the country who have been here for years. Some are even citizens.

The Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were the first wave and now the increasing number of arrests seems to signal a second wave of terrorism in South Florida.

Related:
Court is told of 2 U.S. citizens' alleged Al Qaeda plot
Map: Islamic Terrorist Network in America (2003)

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[Cindy]

That's a good question Seadog.

Ususally I find (like I did the President's speech on his web site) the speech transcripts (and sometimes video releases) on the goverment web sites AFTER the speech or testimony.

I don't know what the alphabet main-stream media does.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This just posted:

Illegal Aliens with Hazmat CDLs Arrested

[nw_arizona_granny]

he rat line
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
Published June 27, 2005

http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050626-113508-4677r.htm

On September 12, 2001, commanders from Iran's Revolutionary Guards
gathered in Tehran. General Mohammad Ahayi began his speech with a
verse from the Koran: "Whosoever battles with Allah, Allah will do battle
with him."
General Ayahi then turned to his fellow commanders. Did you see how
we (banging his fist into his chest) brought them down? How we brought
America to its knees?
Colonel B, a Revolutionary Guards officer, was in the audience.
Just the year before, he had been assigned to a terrorist training camp
northeast of Tehran, and had seen with his own eyes the Lebanese,
Libyans, Azeris, Chechens, Iraqis, and others who had come to Iran to learn
the disciplines of murder.
He turned to a friend, the intelligence director of the Qods
battalion, the Revolutionary Guards' overseas action arm responsible for
terrorist attacks and assassinations. Did we have anything to do with this
event?, he asked.
His friend smiled and admonished him with a shake of his finger.
Don't dig into details. Leave it alone. You don't want to know more.
How come I wasn't told about any of this before?, Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz asked.
The date was October 26, 2001. Mr. Wolfowitz had just learned from
a Defense Intelligence Agency briefer about the al Qaeda "rat line"
that operated between Afghanistan and Europe, with the full knowledge and
cooperation of the Iranian government. Once they crossed the border
into Iran, al Qaeda operatives were welcomed at special camps outside the
eastern Iranian city of Mashad, then given fresh travel documents so
they could travel on to Europe and America without arousing suspicion,
the briefer said. The level of cooperation between Iran and al Qaeda was
stunning, and went against everything Mr. Wolfowitz thought he knew.
The briefer mumbled some excuse to Mr. Wolfowitz's question. But
the real reason was that DIA higher-ups had forbidden the analysts from
presenting the briefing to Mr. Wolfowitz earlier because it contradicted
"the Concept" -- the intelligence community's firm belief that Iran had
no operational ties to al Qaeda and had gotten out of the terror game
with President Mohammad Khatami's election in 1997. It also violated the
doctrine that had become a matter of faith among Middle East analysts
and "experts" on Islam that there could be no cooperation between the
Shia and Sunni fundamentalists.
Whenever intelligence personnel or journalists turned up evidence
that al Qaeda was working with Iran, those analysts made sure the
reports were discredited. Bucking the conventional wisdom was an invitation
to ridicule, as the briefer's colleagues at the DIA's tiny Iran unit at
Bolling Air Force Base knew well. They had gotten approval to brief Mr.
Wolfowitz only because he had explicitly tasked the DIA to examine the
possibility of Iran/al Qaeda ties -- a possibility their political
bosses at the DIA's policy support office in the Pentagon had discounted
long ago.
Al Qaeda had been working with Iran since at least 1992, when
Iranian general Mohammad Bagr Zolqadr was running a Revolutionary Guard
training camp in the Sudan, the briefer said. Zolqadr's ties to Osama bin
Laden had been brokered by Ayman al-Zawahri -- the Egyptian terrorist
known as "the Doctor."
Zawahri and his Egyptian Islamic Jihad group provided the muscle
men for al Qaeda, giving bin Laden access to a virtually unlimited pool
of manpower. Zawahri was the man with the Iran contacts. Throughout the
1990s, he traveled repeatedly to Iran as the guest of Minister of
Intelligence and Security Ali Fallahian and the head of foreign terrorist
operations, Ahmad Vahidi. Vahidi was the commander of the Qods Force and
the man who supervised the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing.
In the months before Sept. 11, Egyptian Islamic Jihad commanders
transited in large numbers through Mashad en route to Afghanistan to join
bin Laden's ranks, the briefer said. They had solid reporting and hard
evidence from human sources and from national technical means
confirming the rat line.
Bin Laden preferred the Iranian route because he believed that U.S.
intelligence officials were monitoring Pakistani airports and were
responsible for the arrest of several of his top operatives during the last
six years.
Seven to ten days before the Sept. 11 attacks, Iran suddenly closed
the Mashad rat line to the Egyptian jihadis, the briefer said. Some
sources believe it was because the Iranians knew a major terrorist attack
was about to occur and didn't want to give the United States cause for
military retaliation against Iran.
The latest piece of the puzzle was still being evaluated, he said.
Just one week ago, the DIA had reports that the notorious terrorist
Imad Mugniyeh had come to Mashad with HosseinMosleh,Vahidi's deputy.
According to one source, the two met with Iraqi intelligence chief Taher
Jalil Haboosh.

Kenneth R. Timmerman is author of "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming
Nuclear Showdown with Iran," from which this is excerpted.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Prayers and best wishes for fighting the Big C....every day is valuable.

[Cindy]

Thanks to Ernest at the Beach for the ping to this thread:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1433543/posts


"Illegal Aliens with Hazmat CDLs Arrested"
Layover.com ^ | Jun. 27, 2005 | Fleet Owner

Posted on 06/29/2005 7:01:30 PM PDT by madfly

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Dept. of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Custom's Enforcement (ICE) officials reported arresting an illegal alien who was driving gasoline trucks for Exxon in Maryland, as well as six illegal aliens in Illinois who had also been issued state commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) with hazardous materials endorsements.

The gasoline truck driver, a Pakistan national identified as Mansoor Hassan, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Baltimore on six counts of making false statements about his citizenship to work for different gas companies. (?date) In 1996, Hasaan had been ordered by an Immigration Judge to voluntarily leave the U.S. He defied the order and instead obtained a fraudulent CDL in Maryland, according to ICE officials."

[Cindy]

Well, I have to fix dinner, but in light of the dimwits' ignorant and dangerous whining, I will repeat this post. Thank you all for understanding.

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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050628-090918-8454r.htm



June 29, 2005
Editorials/Op-Ed
Front Page > Editorials/Op-Ed Page

"For 5 months 'I stayed in the box'"
By James H. Warner
June 29, 2005

OP-ED SNIPPET: "As a Marine Corps officer, I spent five years and five months in a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam. I believe this gives me a benchmark against which to measure the treatment which Sen. Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, complained of at the Camp of Detention for Islamo-fascists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The senator's argument is silly. If he believes what he has said his judgment is so poor that his countrymen, assuming, of course, that he considers us his countrymen, have no reason not to dismiss him as a witless boob. On the other hand, if he does not believe what he said, the other members of the Senate may wish to consider censure."

[Domestic Church]

"The date was October 26, 2001. Mr. Wolfowitz had just learned from a Defense Intelligence Agency briefer about the al Qaeda "rat line" that operated between Afghanistan and Europe, with the full knowledge and cooperation of the Iranian government.


And I guess there are rat lines across the Atlantic still functioning. There are moments when I can't help but wonder why we have let Iran's power exist in such a political malignancy post 9/11...they are due for a major shake, rattle and roll that sets them back a few centuries.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Thanks Much!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Fox just said it was the 3rd plane that flew into the
airspace today.
= = = = = = = = = = =

This just isn't right, they better start blowing the things out of the air. If you live in America and are so stupid, not to know, NOT to fly near DC, you sure don't need to be flying a plane.

I know that is a terrible thing to say, sorry!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

RITFLOL

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Is this sick or what...

260 Russian prisoners self-mutilate

MOSCOW: Some 260 inmates mutilated themselves at a prison in western Russia in protest against conditions at the facility, Russian officials said on Tuesday, while human rights campaigners put the number of inmates involved as high as 700.

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2005-daily/29-06-2005/world/w3.htm

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

This is out of hand...

Settlers clash with Palestinians, IDF at "outpost" in Shirat Hayam
By israelinsider staff and partners June 29, 2005


Jewish settlers clashed with Palestinians, with both sides throwing rocks, at a makeshift outpost on the outskirts of Shirat Hayam, a Jewish settlement in Gaza, while Israeli soldiers fired into the air to separate the two sides, the army said.

The clash broke out shortly after Israeli soldiers forcibly removed about 20 settlers who had holed up in the outpost -- an abandoned home. Settlers and Palestinians threw stones at one another, wounding at least three people, witnesses said.

Earlier, dozens of settlers exchanged blows with soldiers who were sent to evict them from the outpost. Soldiers restrained the activists and dragged several through the sand into a waiting army vehicle. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The settlers established the outpost earlier this week after Israeli troops demolished 11 nearby buildings. Authorities had feared that opponents of Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip would use the buildings as centers of resistance during the evacuation, set to begin in mid-August.

Police arrested at least eight people, officials said.

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/5912.htm

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Did you know this? This is the kind of hold the Russian Mafia has on Israel.

Israel resumes financing of Russian classes in schools
10:39

TEL AVIV, June 29 (RIA Novosti, Ratmir Orestov) - Israel's Ministry of Education reneged on its decision to stop financing Russian classes in Israeli schools under public pressure inspired by Chairman of the Democratic Choice party Roman Bronfman.

http://en.rian.ru/society/20050629/40802534.html

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

MS-13 gang member behind bars
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 Updated: 09:32 AM
BROWNSVILLE – Police arrest an alleged member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang.

BROWNSVILLE – A member of the violent Central American Mara Salvatrucha gang was off the streets Tuesday, police said.

Brownsville police arrested Mario Martinez, a confirmed MS-13 gang member who lives in Brownsville.


http://www.newschannel5.tv/2005/6/28/3341/Mara-Salvatrucha-gang-member-behind-bars

[crabbie]

EATB...many thanks!

You've got that one right...every morning when I open my eyes I say "Thank you, Lord for the blessing of another day of good health!"

I really appreciate your prayers and good wishes. I have alot of fight in me, and with the Grace of God, plan to outlive my family members who are still going strong at 87 and 85. I am 56!

Thanks again, crabbie

[nwctwx]

Thanks to both of you. It's a relatively quick procedure I think (Lithotripsy). Local anesthesia, so all should go fine. Will be nice to get rid of the darn things tho. ;-)

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

[NYT Flashback] A Much-Shunned Terrorist Is Said to Find Haven in Iraq
The New York Times Archives | Jan 27, 1999 | James Risen


Posted on 06/30/2005 12:01:00 AM EDT by nwrep


Abu Nidal, one of the world's most infamous terrorists, moved to Baghdad late last year and obtained the protection of President Saddam Hussein, according to intelligence reports received by United States and Middle Eastern government officials. The reports have raised questions about whether Iraq is pushing to establish a terrorism network, American and Middle Eastern officials say.

Abu Nidal, a brutal survivor of the Middle East's terrorist wars dating to the 1970's, had been living in Cairo for more than a year, according to Middle Eastern government officials who say they have information from inside his organization. While intelligence information about terrorist groups is hard to corroborate, American intelligence officials say they consider these Middle Eastern officials to be highly reliable. But counterterrorism experts in the Middle East say Abu Nidal remains a significant threat. One official who has watched Abu Nidal for years said, ''Osama bin Laden is a student by comparison.''

Although Abu Nidal's organization is a shadow of the terrorist machine that staged airport killings in the mid-1980's and raids on Arab, Jewish and other targets, since he moved to Egypt he has been directing attacks on Islamic radicals at war with the Egyptian Government, the Middle Eastern officials said.

United States intelligence officials said he has been hard-pressed financially and has been seeking a new government sponsor since Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, looking for ways to persuade the United Nations to lift economic sanctions, backed away from him in the early 1990's.

Abu Nidal's move to Iraq, which he was forced to leave 15 years ago because of his ties to Syria, suggests that he may have renewed a relationship with President Hussein. ''He could become a more significant threat again if he finds more effective state sponsorship,'' an American intelligence official said.

Abu Nidal still has 200 to 300 followers in his organization, and President Hussein lacks such hard-earned expertise at terrorism.

Officials caution that there is no evidence that Abu Nidal is planning to conduct terrorism on Iraq's behalf. In recent years he has not attacked American targets and thus has become a lower priority for American officials, who have focused instead on Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile who officials say ordered the bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433610/posts

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Interesting stuff...

Bin Laden and Iraq (What the Media Said in the 90's)
FrontPage Magazine ^ | July 14, 2003 | Anonymous


Posted on 06/29/2005 4:19:20 PM EDT by Peach


Bin Laden and Iraq FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | July 14, 2003 | Anonymous

Posted on 07/15/2003 8:43:03 PM EDT by Mia T

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433343/postsbb

[Cindy]

Yep, you will be fine shortly.
Prayers continue.

[crabbie]

Ian, take care of yourself and prayers sent your way.