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[nwctwx]

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Nine (Index)

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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.

YOU be the judge and get informed!

Was Bomber's "New York" Shirt A Message?
Full Story

It's hardly a unique fashion statement for a mass transit rider: a Yankees-style cap, and a "New York" sweat shirt.

But the New York Police Department is teaming with British authorities to determine whether those items were worn by suspects in the London terror cases to send a "purposeful message" to the city, according to an NYPD officials.

David Cohen, the NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence, raised the concern earlier this week at a security briefing for business leaders at police headquarters in Lower Manhattan.

Related:
New assessments warn of Qaeda suicide attacks in U.S.
Still Not Ready in The ER | Cell Phone Number: ICE
Where bin Laden is, why he's still alive

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

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[Lucy Lake]

I thought this sentence was interesting, given the amount of influence middle eastern women usually have:

Bandar himself became a focus when his wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, was criticized for providing money indirectly to a Saudi man wanted for questioning by U.S. officials about links to two Sept. 11 hijackers, according to a congressional report.

[Velveeta]

Oh to be a fly on the wall, during some of these "questionings by US officials".

[nw_arizona_granny]

KOA radio, Denver says a 6.8 earthquake off the shore of
Japan and 80 people have been hurt.

[Velveeta]

Six people who died in the crash were alive when the plane crashed, chief Athens coroner Fillipos Koutsaftis said Monday. It remained unclear whether they were conscious, he said.

"We have performed autopsies on six people. Our conclusion is they had circulation and were breathing at the time of death," Koutsaftis said.
http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4300

[nwctwx]

Many Kinds of Mushrooms
Russ Wellen (8/15/05)
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=364

...excerpts... (whole article is worth a read)

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"There used to be so-called laws of war that made it [war] tolerable," Mohatma Gandhi said. But now, with the advent of nuclear weapons, "We understand the naked truth."

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Besides the administration's embrace of tactical nukes as a weapon of preemptive war, most proud owners of nuclear weapons -- and those that look on longingly -- conceive of it as a tool for deterrence or for bartering.
Except, that is, bin Laden and his lieutenants.

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Yossef Bodansky, head of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, confirmed this. "There is no longer much doubt that bin Laden has succeeded in his quest for nuclear suicide bombs [and] has a collection of individuals knowledgeable in activating the bombs."

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Truly the sentiment of a noble mind. However, live by the fatwah, die by the fatwah. Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi says that "in case these nuclear weapons are used against Muslims, it becomes permissible for Muslims to defend themselves using the same weapon. This is based on the words of Allah: 'If ye punish, then punish with the like of that wherewith ye were afflicted.'"

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The author of Imperial Hubris (Potomac, 2004), CIA officer Michael Scheuer of "Anonymous" fame, appeared on Sixty Minutes on November 14, 2004. He spoke of Sheik Nasir bin Hamid al Fahd, who bin Laden depends on, along with his two Salafi Jihadi colleagues, Ali al-Khudayr and Ahmad al-Khaladi, to provide religious support for his strategies and tactics.

In his 25-page fatwah, "A Treatise on the Legal Status of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction against Infidels," al Fahd said that if "the basic [Islamic] rule in killing is to do it in a good manner. . . one kills in a good manner only when one can."
I
n other words, if women, children, and even fellow Muslims are the collateral, he can live with them clattering down around him if it's in the pursuit of jihad.

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Meanwhile, some jihadi statistician took time off from trying to figure out how many infidels fit through the eye of a needle to calculate that ten million Muslims had been killed by American weapons. Thus, al Fahd concluded, taking an equal number of lives in an attack on America is only fair play.

He does, however, qualify this last pronouncement. "We might need other arguments," al Fahd said, "if we wanted to annihilate more than this number of them."

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That's as much a question for not only Islam but the West -- and an opportunity for Thomas Friedman to actually earn his pay. Regarding the London bombings, he wrote in his July 8 New York Times column that, "unlike after 9/11, there is no obvious, easy target to retaliate against."

"The Al Qaeda threat," he continued, "has metastasized and become franchised. It is no longer vertical, something that we can punch in the face. It is now horizontal, flat and widely distributed, operating through the Internet and tiny cells."

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"With an American limited response in a war between nations," Wretchard continues, "the conflict might stop at this point." However, if it's a cell, rather than bin Laden who pulls off the strike, "the absence of someone with whom to negotiate a peace as well as the inclination to stop, the Islamic terrorists will continue to the extent of their capability.

"Even if the terror chiefs could somehow be contacted in this apocalyptic scenario and persuaded to bury the hatchet, the lack of command and control imposed by the cell structure would prevent them from reining in their minions.

"The so-called strengths of Islamic terrorism: fanatical intent; lack of a centralized leadership; absence of a final authority and cellular structure" are also its downfall. Therefore," Wretchard concludes, "the 'rational' American response to the initiation of a terrorist WMD attack would be all-out retaliation from the outset."

[nw_arizona_granny]

Already heard the clinton supporters talking about this on talk radio, they think he is telling the truth.

I don't !!!!!!!!

[Cindy]

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "TERROR PROBER AIMS TO 'CHOKE OFF' ILLICIT CASH" by Jerry Seper (August 15, 2005) (Read More...)

ICE.GOV (Read More...)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464087/posts

"London Bomb Suspects Stood Out as Radicals, Collected Welfare"
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 15, 2005 | Jeffrey Fleishman and Sebastian Rotella

Posted on 08/15/2005 7:46:10 PM PDT by nwrep

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bandar's wife was also giving money to the wife of a terrorist, one of the 9-11 as I recall.

I read something somewhere about his going to leave, don't know where, maybe in google groups.

[nwctwx]

TV Programming Note: Inside 9/11

August 21-22 (9pm ET/PT)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside911/

[Cindy]

Thanks for that programming note Ian.
The other article you pinged me to is interesting, too.

[Velveeta]

Sultan's Surprise Visit To STPRI, Supreme Court
By CT Hj Mahmod

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Supreme Court and Law buildings yesterday morning came under royal scrutiny as His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam made a surprise visit.

His Majesty also showed his concern on the recent hysteria episodes at Sekolah Tinggi Perempuan Raja Isteri (SPTRI) by visiting the all-girl secondary school.

During the royal visit, an unfortunate incident occurred when one of the students was hit by the mysterious hysteria. The monarch was deeply disturbed as he witnessed teachers and the school's administrative staff trying to calm the girl and stabilise the situation. (snip)

http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Aug05/160805/nite02.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

Did you set a Google alert for this?

If 6 were alive when the plane crashed, then they were not frozen, but I did hear on the radio that they were and also think I saw it in print.

For anyone who does not know how to get the the Google alerts, do a search, click on news and at the bottom of the page, there will be a link that says "Do you want an alert on this search". I goofed on some of mine and do not have
them set for both news and web search.

But as I am now at 8, 024 unread emails in my mail box at
Yahoo, am not setting any more alerts.........(I was caught up on January 1, 2005..........LOL

[ExSoldier]

I've got a really REALLY bad feeling about the next two months. The fact that I live in one of the BIG THREE for Jewish population makes it worse. Thanks so much for this ping. Now I'll sleep just fine!

Here's something else: FRONT PAGE

[nwctwx]

US fuel tanker terror warning extended to London
Link

August 15, 2005

LONDON: US intelligence chiefs have warned that al-Qa'ida terrorists are plotting to drive hijacked fuel tankers into petrol stations in London, as well as US cities, in an effort to cause mass casualties some time in the next few weeks.

Details of the latest intelligence warning were leaked to the US media late last week, and published by The Weekend Australian, but no mention was made of the threat to London.

The leaked warning, contained in a bulletin issued by the US Department of Homeland Security last week, says the attacks will aim to create catastrophic damage at about the time of the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

The warning came as it emerged that the British Department of Transport had for the first time issued guidelines ordering tighter security around the British road tanker fleet.

The US warning has been circulated among law enforcement agencies and fuel transport agencies. Although a preamble states that "no other intelligence exists to corroborate this specific threat", the intelligence report is highly specific, saying al-Qa'ida planned to employ various types of fuel trucks as "vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices" in an effort to cause mass casualties before September 19.

The report says the terrorist cells thought to be planning the attack will "execute the plan upon receipt of an order". It goes on to speculate that the recent videotape released by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qa'ida's deputy leader, may have been "the activation signal to the cells".

In the video, Zawahiri warned that attacks would continue in Britain until it pulled out of Iraq.

The report says Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the alleged masterminds of the September 11 attacks, has told US interrogators he had developed plans for targeting petrol stations. This was because of "their apparent vulnerability and the potential destructive force of a fuel-driven explosion".

The new British security guidelines require carriers to be properly identified and transit sites to be made secure.

Australian and Californian authorities are introducing remote-controlled shutdown devices to stop any fuel tanker if it is hijacked. The Singapore Government has just begun putting tracking devices on petrol tankers to monitor their movements.

British officials declined to comment on the warning.

The Sunday Times

[Cindy]

Off Topic...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464151/posts
"Dow Jones soars on stake sale talk"
The Times (U.K.) ^ | August 16, 2005 | Nic Hopkins

Posted on 08/15/2005 10:29:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway

[Cindy]

Thank you nw.

[MamaDearest]

I did see that and noted I've seen Sky Chefs loading food on lotsa airplanes that I've been on. It's almost a Godsend we aren't getting airline food anymore - but we still have to watch out for the "snacks."

It's an omminous warning we don't know who prepares the "convenience" foods we buy, from prepared / precut fruits and veggies, and deli foods to TV dinners and convenience store food where the workers don't smile at you let alone care if they clean the mop in the sink where they wash the dishes.

[MamaDearest]

Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks – if only...

Coulda, woulda, shoulda....

[Cindy]

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE.com: "JUDGE RULES: IF FEDS WON'T ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS, LOCALS MUST NOT" by Mac Johnson (August 15, 2005)

MensNewsDaily.com - Blog: "CONTINUED CONFUSION OVER MATRICULA CONSULAR CARDS" by Jim Kouri, CPP (August 15, 2005)