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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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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!

Terrorists could be just getting started
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New York City and Washington. Bali, Indonesia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Istanbul, Turkey; Madrid, Spain. And now London.

When will it end? Where will it all lead?

The experts aren't encouraged. One terrorism researcher sees the prospect of "endless" war. Adds the man who tracked Osama bin Laden for the CIA, "I don't think it's even started yet."

Related:
Terrorists' aim is to end western civilisation, says ex-Mossad head
Understanding the enemy, a different type of war
Al Qaeda answers CIA's hiring call

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

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[Godzilla]

Wasn't there some speculation a year or so ago that our carriers could be targets? I can't remember what the specifics were.

They are always a prime target. IIRC, there are currently no carriers in the Persian gulf area. Air support coming from land bases.

[freeperfromnj]

Train safe after bomb alert

From correspondents in Paris
August 05, 2005

A FRANKFURT to Paris train was stopped and cleared of passengers in eastern France after a bomb alert but disposal experts later declared it safe, French state-run SNCF railway said today.

Passengers left the train, which was stopped about 4pm local time at Epernay station near Reims after police received a call giving the alert. Bomb disposal experts checked the train and allowed it to depart around 7pm local time, SNCF said.

The bomb alert caused disruptions to trains between Paris and eastern France. Passengers on the Frankfurt-Paris train had been transferred to another train heading for the French capital.

France has been on its second-highest level of security after the July 7 bomb attacks in London which killed at least 56 people, including four bombers.

"Unfortunately we have had a lot of bomb alerts since the London bombings and we have to take them all seriously," the SNCF spokesman said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16159180%255E1702,00.html

[bored at work]

you have mail:)

[Godzilla]

On the tape, a pallid bin Laden says little. Zawahiri is wearing a white galabeya, a black turban, and a vest.

How could I have missed this! He wasn't wearing a vest this time! All the other times I've seen him, he's had a vest on.

[explodingpez]

yeah i didn't see a vest either. And not the regular turban, i'm not sure what the extra length is for but it's definitely not average contrasted with what i see around here and the amount of turbans.

no vest tho 'zilla. (i dont think).

[Godzilla]

no vest tho 'zilla. (i dont think).

I've seen no other picts of him without a vest until now.

[explodingpez]

Add that with the last time we saw Osama, in a golden color themed gown looking also healthy, there is confidence in them it appears. It's Very nerve racking. I am afraid something is on the way, that sounded like a freaking go signal to me and i dont even have the full text or video or anything.

[SlowBoat407]

How could I have missed this! He wasn't wearing a vest this time! All the other times I've seen him, he's had a vest on.

That was the first thing I noticed. He looked very formal, very "priest" like, and it did not sit well with me at all. The piece of turban hanging down on his left side may or may not have significance, but the overall I think the clothes are a very serious indicator. He has ascended in rank in some way, and seems to indicate it by shedding the vest.

[Godzilla]

but the overall I think the clothes are a very serious indicator.

< I agree. Since I have to be away from the computer for most of the rest of today, perhaps there are some here who can do a deeper evaluation of his dress in comparison to past appearances is in order (in addition to the turban).

[Velveeta]

He emphasized that wind shear likely was not a factor in the crash—as has been speculated—because that usually would only affect aircraft in flight. He also doubted lightning played a role.......

Hmmmmm. I'll admit to being very curious about outcome on this one.

[SlowBoat407]

I still think it was those pesky squirrels.

[Velveeta]

Man dressed as pilot arrested
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=47256&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

(Source other than Mirror)

[Velveeta]

Great googles, Ruth.

I fear I'll be lost for hours in cyberspace now....

[Velveeta]

LOL!
Or he could be saying "Osama's ______ is only this big"

[Velveeta]

Anything is possible and they'll try everything possible.

Well, that's true!

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks so much for finding that link. I will be watching this one also (not that I'm wearing tin foil or anything - just checking all the angles). It's just such a strange coincidence. "Middle easter looking" men arrested at airport for posing as pilots just one hour before the Air France plane took off from that very airport? There hasn't been an accident like that on this aircraft in 13 years. What are the odds?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Bookmark.

Trying to get back in the game.

[SlowBoat407]

Trying to get back in the game.

Good luck. Play has become fast and furious. I'm having a hard time keeping up myself.

[freeperfromnj]

Oh.... and don't you just love the way the officials casually brush it off as just some megalomaniac nut case? What planet are these people on anyway?

[Velveeta]

LOL, squirrels or birds?