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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Nine (Index)

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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!

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.

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

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Threat Matrix Book List		Godzilla's Summaries
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[Velveeta]

Amr El-Maati's brother!

Once a mujahed who took flying lessons, Ahmad El Maati seemed to fit the profile of a terrorist
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050829/ELMAATI29/TPBusiness/TopStories
(snip)
The El Maati family came to Canada when Ahmad was 17. After high school, some university and a number of odd jobs, Mr. El Maati says he decided to follow in his brother Amr's footsteps, setting out in 1991 to join the mujahadeen forces in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet puppet regime in Kabul.

(snip)

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[Velveeta]

The El Maati file


Ahmad El Maati was "one of the main targets" of a counterterrorism investigation that began in 2001 and continues to this day, RCMP Superintendent Mike Cabana testified earlier this month at the Arar inquiry.

Police were curious about Mr. El Maati's flight lessons, the fact he drove a tractor-trailer, a suspicious map once found in his rig, his time in Afghanistan with the mujahedeen, and his fugitive terror-suspect brother.

This led security agents to materialize at his door within hours of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Yet the 40-year-old truck driver, who has never been charged with any crime in Canada, insists he is no terrorist -- even if he has paid a price for the suspicion that he is one.

Breaking years of silence, Mr. El Maati gives explanations for a number of past events:

Afghan training camps: Mr. El Maati admits to training in Afghanistan, but says he only learned how to fire AK-47 rifles, and that his bad knee kept him from doing much of anything. Witnesses have placed him in either the Khalden or Deronta camps, where some mujahedeen have said they took courses including bomb-making and chemical attacks. He denies training there, saying he was at Khost camp.

His brother, the fugitive: Amr El Maati's image can be found on the Federal Bureau of Investigation website. FBI officials describe him as an "armed and dangerous" fugitive.

Amr El Maati's Canadian citizenship papers were found in an al-Qaeda safe house in 2001. But Ahmad El Maati says he hasn't seen his brother in years.

The Khadr connection: Like many other Canadians who have been accused of involvement in terrorism, Ahmad El Maati knew the notorious Ahmed Said Khadr -- the charity worker known in Taliban-era Afghanistan as "al-Kanadi," or "the Canadian." Mr. El Maati says he met Mr. Kahdr once -- at the bakery owned by Mr. Kadhr's father-in-law where Mr. El Maati once worked.

Before being killed in Pakistan in 2003, Mr. Khadr befriended Osama bin Laden and had his Canadian-born children tutored in Afghan training camps.

The strange site map: After returning to Canada in the mid-1990s to work as a truck driver, Mr. El Maati was stopped at the Canadian-U.S. border in August, 2001. U.S. guards pulled a schematic map of Ottawa out of his rig. It marked various government buildings.

For eight hours, guards questioned him, before letting him go.

The map kept coming back to haunt Mr. El Maati. Canadian agents wanted to know about it when they visited him on Sept. 11, 2001. Syrian agents, who, he says, got the copy from the RCMP, beat him as they asked him about it.

Mr. El Maati says that because of the map, the Syrians made him falsely confess to a plot involving targets in Ottawa. Yet he has always said the map was never his and he has recanted the confession. -- Colin Freeze
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050829/ELMAATI29/TPBusiness/TopStories/?pageRequested=4

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472801/posts
"The Daily Terrorist Round-Up 8/29/05 (Some good ones today)"
Posted on 08/29/2005 8:46:39 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter

[Cindy]

How very, very sad Jeff.

[Cindy]

THANKS for the links, granny.

[Cindy]

Ditto and amen.

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http://www.therothshow.com

[Cindy]

It caught my interest, too.

[Cindy]

Thanks Veveeta.
"hamza_laden"

Well, that's interesting.

[Cindy]

JIHAD WATCH.org (SACRAMENTO BEE): "ISLAMIC SCHOOL FUROR IN LODI" (August 29, 2005) (Read More...)

[Cindy]

FrontPageMagazine.com: "GAZA IN ARIZONA" -Column by Debbie Schlussel (August 29, 2005) (Read More...)

[MamaDearest]

***I'm still here ;) ***

And I'm helping insure you continue to post and not just be a lurker again (smiling and glad you're still here!).

[MamaDearest]

~SALVATION ARMY~

Thanks Cindy. Important to note it is not Goodwill helping the Hurricane victims, it is SALVATION ARMY doing the exemplary thing.

[Cindy]

You're welcome.

[lahargis]

A few interesting articles...

"Al-Zarqawi 'rivalling bin Laden'"

http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine&ctrack=1&cset=true

http://bugmenot.com has a login

"Jihad 'does not equate to holy war'"

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/jihad-does-not-equate-to-holy-war/2005/08/28/1125167547236.html

"Is Iran the True Victor of the Iraq War?"

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,370990,00.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

You are welcome!

[MamaDearest]

Islamic Supremicist Manifesto

200 Islamic Extremists forcibly shut down Catholic Chapel

Terror suspect says two could clear him

Balkans major staging area for AQ

Newburgh, NY mosque expects to double in size

New test may spot Mad Cow Disease in your blood

Thousands of elderly patients hit by hospital bug infections

Chinese scientists find possible medicine for SARS

Time for a wake-up call to the Mexican border

Chicago police say white tee shirt is new gang symbol

Pentagon contractor confirms terrorists ID was known

SNIP (unnamed gang): Thirty members of a gang alleged to have distributed drugs and charged with at least five murders in the past year were arrested over the weekend by federal agents, the U.S. attorney announced this afternoon in Rome.

The arrests capped an 18-month investiagtion that encompassed several counties in west Georgia and northeast Alabama. The arrests were made in Cedartown; Rome; Centre, Ala.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Jacksonville, Fla.

[bored at work]

bm

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-8-2005_pg7_57

Lahore.( and 2 other villages)

"200 fall ill from drinking water"

Sounds like the U.S. waterslide illnesses.