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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

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[freeperfromnj]

Programing Alert:

Author of the Terrorist Connection (a soon to be published book) on Michael Savage radio show now. Talking about the smuggled nuke situation

[Oorang]

Experts Paint Dire Picture of Bioterrorism Threat

By Joe Fiorill
Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON — The knowledge needed to engineer new weapon-usable biological agents is common around the world, and the United States must seek the proper balance between agility of response and countermeasure stockpiling in defending against biological terrorism, experts told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee this morning (see GSN, July 6).

U.S. efforts to defend against known threats, such as the Strategic National Stockpile of countermeasures, have some utility, said Molecular Sciences Institute Director Roger Brent. However, they may represent a “Maginot Line” that terrorists could simply circumvent by using new pathogens, or existing ones not addressed by the stockpile, he told the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attack.

Brent said terrorists faced with a U.S. stockpile of the antibiotic Ciproflaxin, for example, would be certain, if mounting an anthrax attack, to employ a variety of the bacteria that was resistant to Ciproflaxin.

Programs to protect against known threats are not “bad things,” Brent added, but “what’s going to come at you is impossible to predict.”

The threat is underscored by the wide dissemination of biological-engineering knowledge around the globe, Brent said.

“There are now tens of thousands of people who could engineer drug-resistant anthrax,” said the scientist, who as a consultant to the U.S. government has received numerous briefings on U.S. and Soviet biological weapon programs.

George Mason University professor Kenneth Alibek, a top official in the Soviet Union’s biological weapon program before defecting to the United States in 1992, concurred that there is no shortage of knowledge that terrorists could exploit in mounting a biological attack.

“The knowledge is there,” Alibek told the subcommittee. “Whether or not they are developing this, they don’t publish — but they can.”

Massachusetts General Hospital Biodefense and Mass Casualty Care Director Michael Callahan suggested a few potential “chokepoints” at which the United States could seek to monitor or disrupt terrorists’ biological weapon efforts.

Washington could focus on the trade in certain chemicals useful for making pathogens more deadly, he said, or on products and technologies, such as vaccines, that could be used to protect people against biological agents with which they are working.

Brent expressed skepticism about such approaches, stressing that the market for such products is diffuse and worldwide.

“You wish there were more chokepoints,” he said. “I’m not convinced that there are very good chokepoints.”

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_7_13.html#85DAECF6

[Oorang]

Or smoking his jihad pipe :-)

[BurbankKarl]

note, the links dont work...

The people confirmed dead
		Ciaran Cassidy Ciaran Cassidy ate his breakfast, said goodbye to his mother and left home at 8.25am. He walked to Finsbury Park station and caught Piccadilly Line, heading to work in a stationery shop in Chancery Lane. He died in the tube train explosion near King's Cross.
		Jamie Gordon The 30-year-old financial adviser telephoned his office at City Asset Management at 9.42am on Thursday to say he was on a bus from Euston to King's Cross. He died in the explosion. In a statement, his family said: "Jamie touched many people's lives and the response to this tragedy is overwhelming." They also thanked the police family liaison officers.
		Miriam Hyman The 31-year-old spoke to her father on her mobile phone to say she had been evacuated from an underground train at King's Cross. She died in the explosion on the No 30 bus. Her family issued the following statement: "Miriam was a well-loved person with friends going back to infant school. Wewould like to thank all those who prayed for her safe return and everyonewho gave so much time and effort to help us in the search. We ask that we now be left alone to deal with this privately."
		Shahara Islam A devout Muslim, 20-year-old Shahara Islam had a dental appointment before going to work at the Co-operative Bank, and called her uncle at 9.45am that morning. She died in the explosion on the No 30 bus.
		Susan Levy Mrs Levy, 53, of Newgate Street Village, Cuffley, Hertfordshire, died in the tube train explosion near King's Cross and was the first among the dead to be formally identified. She was married to Harry, a London taxi driver, and had two adult sons, Daniel, 25, and James, 23. She left for work in central London on Thursday with James and the two parted at Finsbury Park.
		Jennifer Nicholson The 24-year-old vicar's daughter lived in Reading but had just started a new job in the capital. She died in tube train explosion at Edgware Road.
		Mihaela Otto Known as Michelle, Ms Otto, 47, was travelling from her home in Mill Hill East and was due to arrive at work at 9.30am on Thursday. She died in the tube train explosion near King's Cross.
		Shyanuja Parathasangary A 30-year-old a postal worker from Kensal Rise, north-west London. Ms Parathasangary arrived at Euston Station at 9.08am. She died in the explosion on the No 30 bus.
		Phillip Stuart Russell Mr Russell, 28, phoned work on Thursday and said he was trying to get a bus at Euston. He died in the explosion on the No 30 bus.
		William Wise Mr Wise, 54, was believed to be travelling on a bus from Euston to Kings Cross. He died in the explosion on the No 30 bus.
The people still listed as missing
		James Adams Mr Adams, 32, from Peterborough, phoned home to tell his mother he had arrived at King's Cross. That was the last she heard from him. A devout Christian, he was headed towards the Strand where he works as a mortgage consultant. It was believed he was caught in the blast on the Piccadilly Line between Russell Square and Kings Cross. Culture minister David Lammy, a close friend, said: "I have never heard anyone say a bad word about James. I really hope to God that he's not caught up in this awful evil."
		Lee Baisden An accountant for the London Fire Brigade, Mr Baisden, 34, from Romford, Essex, was believed to be in the Aldgate area of the Circle Line at the time of the blast.
		Phil Beer The 22-year-old hairdresser from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, was on his way to work with best friend Patrick Barnes who was injured in the blast. He later told Mr Beer's older sister Stacy that he heard his friend cry out after the explosion.
		Ania Brandt A Polish cleaner from Wood Green, north London, Ms Brandt, 43, was on the Piccadilly Line travelling towards Hammersmith. She was looking forward to a reunion with her daughter who was flying in from Poland. Her brother Pawel Iskrzynski and family are still hoping for her return.
		Michael 'Stan' Brewster The family of father-of-two Stan Brewster, 52, from Derby, fear he was caught in the blasts. Brother-in-law Dave Wall said: "There is nothing we can do but wait. We've rung round all the hospitals twice. We have spoken to the police but there's nothing they can tell us."
		Benedetta Ciaccia This 30-year-old economics analyst works near the Embankment, central London, but shares a home in Norwich with fiance Fiaz Bhatti. Ms Ciaccia came from Rome to England 10 years ago to work and quickly made friends. 'She has a very bubbly, lively personality,' said Mr Bhatti. 'I would say she is exuberant.' 09.07.05, Norwich Evening News: City woman missing after London blasts 09.07.05, La Repubblica: She was due to get married on Sept 11 (Italian)
		Elizabeth Daplyn The 26-year-old works as an administrator in the neuroradiology department of University College Hospital. She is single and lives in Highgate, north London. Ms Daplyn usually took the Piccadilly line to Russell Square tube station in order to reach her work.
		Richard Ellery Mr Ellery, 21, was due to catch a tube from Liverpool Street to a conference in the centre of London after travelling from Ipswich. He was last in contact with his parents by text message 21 minutes before the first blast and they have not heard from him since. 09.07.05, East Anglian Daily Times: Hunt for missing Richard
		David Foulkes A 22-year-old Guardian trainee from Manchester, Mr Foulkes was on his way to meet a colleague. His family and colleagues in the newspaper's circulation department have continued to text and ring him with no response.
		Karolina Gluck Ms Gluck, from Poland, said goodbye to her boyfriend at 8.30am on Thursday and has not been seen since. The 29-year-old administrative worker was travelling from Finsbury Park tube to Russell Square for work.
		Gamze Gunoral The 24-year-old Turkish student had only arrived in the UK a few weeks ago, after coming to the country in order to improve her English at a school in Hammersmith, west London. A friend of Ms Gunoral, Ozgur Bahceli, said: 'We haven't heard anything from her. We are very, very worried.'
		Giles Hart The family of the missing 55-year-old BT worker from Hornchurch, Essex, has made an urgent plea for information about his whereabouts. In a statement they said: 'Giles Hart was travelling from Hornchurch to the Angel Islington. He never arrived. His wife, daughter, mother and son are desperate for any news of his whereabouts.' The Sun: Dad-of-two Giles missing
		Marie Hartley The 34-year-old mother of two lives in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire and was travelling to London on Thursday to attend a course. Friends fear Ms Hartley may have been caught up in the blast as they have heard nothing from her. ITN: Missing - Marie Hartley
		Slimane Ihab The 24-year-old French-Tunisian student was working as a waiter in Piccadilly Circus. Mr Ihab, a Muslim from Lyon, had been in London only a few weeks. His friend, Xavier Rebergue, said that no one had heard from him since the blast. 'His father is flying in from Paris,' said Mr Rebergue.
		Ojara Ikeagwu The 55-year-old mother of three works as a social worker in Hounslow, west London, a job she is said to love. She is married to a retired doctor, Osborne Ikeagwu. Mrs Ikeagwu's cousin, Chris Agwu, said she would have been in the King's Cross area between 8.30am and 9am but no one had heard from her.
		Neetu Jain Ms Jain was evacuated from the underground at Euston and decided to catch a bus to work."She was right next to Tavistock Square where that bus exploded," said Gous Ali, her boyfriend. "I am going out of my mind with despair."
		Emily Jenkins A trainee midwife from Richmond, west London, Ms Jenkins, 24, was at King's Cross station at 8.45am and joined the tube at Russell Square. Her family are extremely worried about her.
		Adrian Johnson A 37-year-old office worker from Newark, Notts.
		Helen Jones Originally from Lockerbie, Ms Jones was last heard from at 7.30am on Thursday. The 28-year-old accountant has been living in Holloway, north London. Her family accept that she died in the King's Cross blast.
		Mike Matsushita The quietly spoken 37-year-old was brought up in America by a family of Vietnamese refugees. Mr Matsushita left his bank job in New York after 9/11 to live in London. He started working this week as a tour guide and lives with his British girlfriend, Rosie Cowan, in Islington. 11.07.05, NY Daily News: Kin and pal await news of missing New Yorker
		James Mayes The 28-year-old health analyst from London was believed to have travelled through King's Cross.
		Behnaz Mokakka A biomedical officer from Iran, Ms Mokakka, 47, worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She left her home in north London at 8.00am but did not reach work.
		Anat Rosenberg Ms Rosenberg, 37, was on the No 30 bus at Tavistock Square. She had lived in London for 18 years and was nervous about visiting her native Israel because of the risk of suicide bus bombings. Her partner John Falding, 62, last heard from her at around 9.30am when she called him from the bus, just minutes before the explosion. He says he heard "horrendous screams" before the line went dead.
		Christian Small The 28-year-old from Walthamstow in east London is a computer manager with an advertising sales firm. He has not been heard of since he left for work in Holborn, central London. 11.07.05: Still searching for Christian
		Fiona Stevenson A 29-year-old criminal lawyer from Danbury in Essex. Her father Ivan said: "She would have phoned us if there was any way she could. We know from all the hospitals that they have identified all the patients so the chances are very, very small."
		Monika Suchocka The 23-year-old from Poland has been working as a trainee accountant in West Kensington. She shares a flat in Archway, north London, with her friend Kim Philip, who has been searching for her. She rang her company at 8.40am to say she was running late and would be taking a bus. No one has heard from her since. The Sun: Have you seen Monika?
		Carrie Louise Taylor The 24-year-old, from Billericay, Essex, had been on her way to the Royal Society of Arts on the Embankment where she worked. Ms Taylor was last seen by her mother, June, at Liverpool Street station. Her mother said: "I'm so very glad that the last picture I have of her in my head is smiling and waving at me."
		Laura Webb Ms Webb, 29, a personal assistant, would have been around Edgware Road at the time of the blast on her way to work, her brother David said. 08.07.05: BBC: Family's plea over missing woman
		Anthony Fatayi William The 26-year-old, an engineering executive from Hendon, was believed to have been on the No 30 bus.
		Gladys Wundowa Mrs Wundowa, a 50-year-old mother of two, is married to Emmanuel Wundowa, a security guard, and lives in Chadwell Health, Essex. She is a cleaner at University College of London, where she started work at 5am on the day of the attacks.
		Rachelle Chung For Yuen The 27-year-old accountant had moved with her husband to Britain from Mauritius five years ago. Her husband Billy is also an accountant. Her family believes Mrs Chung For Yuen may have been on the Piccadilly line going to her office at Piccadilly Circus at the time of the explosions.

[Velveeta]

Highly Contagious Bovine TB Found in Minn.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071301892.html

U.S. man on ferry had pipe bomb
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=4c7bf6e5-3b50-4f0e-b2a6-19d2524dbe78

Bin Laden Souvenirs
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/9/2005/1369

[Oorang]

New York City Tests Weapons Detection Systems

Officials with New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority are in the trial phases of testing biological or chemical agent detection methods in Grand Central Terminal, the New York Sun reported today (see GSN, July 7).

MTA Deputy Chief of Police Ronald Masciana gave reporters a tour of the three biological systems and lone chemical detector being tested in the terminal.

A 6-foot-tall steel box, collects samples that are checked each day for biological agents. Two other detectors are positioned near train tracks, according to the Sun.

“Keep in mind that all three are being tested now. We kept the first one going because that is the baseline the others grow upon,” Masciana said. “You can’t depend on lab results. You can’t depend on what the vendor indicates is best for you. ... What you want to do is test it real-time and see how it operates.”

Masciana noted that the same biological agent detection systems are being tested at New York’s Pennsylvania Station.

The chemical detection system being tested at Grand Central uses video cameras to focus on an area where an agent has been detected by sensors. This would allow first responders to prepare evacuation routes and determine how many casualties have resulted from an attack.

The cost and for the systems to go online is not yet known, officials said.

Critics charge that New York’s Transportation Authority been slow to spend the $591 million in federal and state funds allocated for security in its 2000-2004 capital plan. Transit Authority officials said that money for biological and chemical detectors would not come out of the $591 million. Instead, the money is set to be spent on closed-circuit television systems and other surveillance devices, according to MTA spokesman Ashok Patel (Jeremy Smerd, New York Sun, July 12).

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_7_12.html#3BE1D576

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks Oorang. These stories get more ominous each day. Savage's guest just said 80% of the mosques in this country are radicalized. Also talking about OBL's plan to kill 4 million Americans, 2 million of them children. Mentions how in 2001 a terrorist was caught crossing the Israeli border with a plutonium device in his backback. He said everything could be verified. Tancredi is going to be holding hearings on the possibility that nukes were smuggled in from Chechnya via Albanians who then got them into the hands of M-13 gang. He paints a frightening scenario.

[Oorang]

Thank you for that post Karl.

[Oorang]

Sounds like Savage's show is a bit chilling. I like how he doesn't beat around the bush, just goes straight to the heart of the matter.

I sure wouldn't mind if Tancredo became President in 2008. Of course I would like to know how he stands on a few other issues, but, I sure like his stance on border control.

[Velveeta]

May they all rest in peace.

[freeperfromnj]

Incredibly sad. I still don't sense any outrage coming out of London.

[Velveeta]

Frightening, indeed!

[Oorang]

North Korea Reportedly Restarts Work on Two Reactors

A North Korean nuclear reactor project could be completed by next year, and any military strike against the installation would result in “all-out war,” senior North Korean officials told a visiting U.S. newspaper columnist (see GSN, July 11).

North Korean Foreign Ministry official Li Gun said the 50-megawatt reactor would be “completed this year or next,” Nicholas Kristof wrote in today’s New York Times.

“To defend our sovereignty and our system ... we cannot but increase our number of nuclear weapons as a deterrent force,” Li Chan Bok, a North Korean army general, told Kristof.

Pyongyang has also resumed building a larger 200-megawatt reactor at another site, officials said. Completion might be two to three years away.

Both projects were halted in 1994. The CIA has estimated that, when operational, they could produce plutonium for 50 nuclear weapons annually (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, July 12).

South Korea is willing to provide electricity to North Korea if Pyongyang pledges to relinquish its nuclear program, Agence France-Presse reported today.

“In order to resolve the nuclear issue, we are willing to transmit power to North Korea if the North agrees on the dismantlement,” said South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young. The offer includes installing power lines in North Korea, according to AFP.

Chung added that he had discussed the plan with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a visit to Washington last month (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, July 12).

Seoul also plans to provide 500,000 tons of rice as well as raw materials for clothing, shoes and soap to North Korea, according to the Associated Press.

Rice said the offer was made in response “to the really miserable humanitarian situation of the North Korea people” and would “not in any way undercut the [nuclear] talks” planned for this month (George Gedda, Associated Press/Baltimore Sun, July 12).

Rice also warned that no progress would be made at the talks unless North Korea was prepared to relinquish its nuclear program, AP reported.

“What we really need is a strategic decision on the part of the North that they are indeed ready to give up their nuclear weapons program,” she said.

“Without that, these talks cannot be successful,” she said.

“We’re ready to negotiate seriously. We are prepared to roll up our sleeves and do everything we can to make these talks a success,” she said (Gedda, Associated Press II/Yahoo!News, July 12).

White House spokesman Scott McClellan denied reports suggesting the Bush administration might offer North Korea new incentives to resolve the standoff

“Five countries put a proposal on the table one year ago, we want to see North Korea come back to the talks with a serious response to that proposal,” McClellan said (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, July 11).

A former South Korean negotiator with Pyongyang said yesterday that North Korea could demand to be treated as a nuclear power once talks resume, the Financial Times reported.

“I think that, inside the talks, they are going to demand that North Korea be treated as one of the nuclear club countries and if they come up with such a demand, the six-party talks can’t move ahead,” said Lee Dong-bok.

“That means North Korea is coming back to the talks not necessarily to resolve the nuclear issue but to earn more time so they can keep muddling along,” Lee said (Anna Fifield, Financial Times, July 12).

South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and Japanese Foreign Ministry official Kenichiro Sasae are expected to meet Thursday in Seoul to plan for the next round of multilateral talks, according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, July 12).

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_7_12.html#A9A92C4B

[freeperfromnj]

He can be a bit over the top at times, but he IS the only one with air time talking about the war on terror. Paul Williams also said that 5,000 sleeper agents are in U.S. in place awaiting activation. Claims they have from 7-12 nukes here and they most likely came in thru Mexico. They plan to set them off simulaneously. Talking about OBL's letter to America. Said it can be found on the net and that it outlines exactly what he intends to do. Cities mentioned are Boston, NYC, DC, Miami and Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

[Rushmore Rocks]

That certainly puts a face on the horror.

Thanks for posting the pictures Any chance the New York Times or CBS/NBC/CNN/ABC will do the same?

[Velveeta]

Terrorists," "murderers" among roles cast for Quantico training

JULY 13--While eating breakfast at a Cracker Barrel in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Anthony Bradley overhears two men--both of whom have "dark complexions and appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent"--discussing a terrorist attack, perhaps a bombing of a Chicago train station. Occasionally conversing in what sounds like Arabic, the swarthy duo speaks excitedly about the Iraq war and the efforts of insurgents who attack U.S. military personnel. One of the men notes, "It is our responsibility to shed blood for Allah."

This is one of dozens of training scenarios presented at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, where future G-men participate in "role player" exercises geared toward preparing them for similar real-life situations. This glimpse into the Academy's secret training playbook is found in a "request for quote" (RFQ) issued last month by FBI administrators. The bureau is seeking bids from firms that can provide at least 60 civilian role players to staff these training scenarios for 12 months (and perhaps for four option years). The role players portray bank robbers, terrorists, murderers, crime victims, and witnesses. They sometimes carry weapons, engage in paintball shootouts with FBI trainees, and should be prepared to be "handcuffed in a variety of positions (i.e., standing, kneeling, prone, walking backwards on their knees)."

On the following pages are excerpts from the bureau's RFQ, submissions for which are due July 18. Along with describing a role player's physical requirements and what kind of weapons are used in training exercises (which often occur at Quantico's Hogan's Alley facility), the 140-page document details scenarios a prospective contractor will have to staff, including episodes involving the delivery of a bomb to the home of a federal judge, more radical Islamists, an assistant pastor who sleeps with underage girls and kills his pregnant wife, and a nuclear power plant employee who has stolen blueprints in anticipation of peddling them to a North Korean intelligence officer. (12 pages)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0713051fbi1.html

more at link

[freeperfromnj]

Text of OBL's letter to America referenced by Paul Williams in Michael Savage's show a few minutes ago

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html

[Oorang]

Thanks much for the update freeperfromnj.

[Cindy]

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004488.html
July 13, 2005
"What do Sa'ad Al-Fagih and Mohammed Al-Massari have in common?"

[CJ Wolf]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1442298/posts

white guy, upset about the gov and Supreme court.