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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.

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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[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2005/20050829_2561.html

Force Freedom Forces Detain 17 Terror Suspects

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2005 – Multinational forces from Task Force Freedom detained 17 suspected terrorists in Iraq on Aug. 28, U.S. military officials reported today.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, detained six individuals suspected of terrorist activity and seized weapons from a vehicle during separate operations in southern Mosul.

Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, detained four individuals suspected of terrorist activity during a cordon-and-search operation in northern Mosul.

Soldiers from the same unit seized another weapons cache in western Mosul consisting of a one 60 mm mortar, several rifles including AK-47s assault rifled, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, RPGs, RPG fuel rods, a box of grenades and ammunition.

Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, detained two individuals suspected of terrorist activity and seized a cache of homemade bomb-making materials during a raid in northern Mosul.

Troops confiscated the caches for future destruction.

Soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, detained five individuals suspected of terrorist activity during separate operations, four of them in Tal Afar.

Suspects were in custody, with no MNF injuries reported.

Also, coalition aircraft flew 48 close-air support and armed reconnaissance sorties Aug. 28 for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

U.S. Air Force F-16s and a Predator and Royal Air Force GR-4s provided close-air support to coalition troops in the vicinities of Al Qaim and Baghdad.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and U.S. Central Command Air Forces Forward Public Affairs news releases.)


Related Site:
Multinational Force Iraq

[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473261/posts


U.S. says air strikes kill Iraq al Qaeda fighters (40 Dead)
Wired.com | 8/30/05

Posted on 08/30/2005 2:56:05 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter

FNC is reporting that Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Islam and 40 other fighters were killed in an airstrike near the Syrian border. This is the second big airstrike in this area in the last week.

Wired news has a small story.

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[Velveeta]

Good catch.

Interesting google regarding belly of the beast = che guevara:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Che%20Guevara%22%20%20%22belly%20of%20the%20beast%22&scoring=d&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gw

[Velveeta]

Glad you're OK, Exsoldier!

[Velveeta]

Had you ever received an e-mail from EOM before?

[Velveeta]

Buildings at Purdue University evacuated

Southeast part of West Lafayette campus
August 30, 2005 — A part of Purdue University in Indiana was evacuated Tuesday morning because of a suspicious vehicle on campus.
Purdue police say the southeast area of campus West Lafayette is under mandatory evacuation because of a car with chemicals in it. The bomb squad is on the scene investigating.

The evacuated buildings are Freehafer Hall, Wade Utility Plant, South Campus Court and Lynn Hall of Veterinary Medicine. A few apartment buildings in the area were also evacuated as a precaution.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/083005_ns_local_purdue.html

[nwctwx]

Reports that oil may top 100/barrel now..

Unprecedented relief effort headed to the LA/MS/AL area.

The worst fears seem to be coming true, it's a truly horrible thing that has happened. I am very worried that al Qaida will take advantage of the situation at this point.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/aug/30/yehey/top_stories/20050830top4.html

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Abu Sayyaf expects fresh funds
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon

THE al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf expects fresh funds from overseas to be brought
into the country by a Saudi posing as a humanitarian aid worker, according to
government reports and police officials.

The money the Arab is bringing in is for suicide bombings, possibly in Metro Manila,
even though suicide missions have failed here, according to a classified
government report issued in April.

The report was based on messages exchanged by an Indonesian, Dulmatin, and a
Jemaah Islamiah leader who escorts operatives for training in the Southern
Philippines. Dulmatin, or Pitono, is believed to be involved in the Bali bombings
that killed about 200 people; he is now in southern Maguindanao province under
the protection of the Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani.

A police official, speaking on condition on anonymity, said the Saudi is a frequent
visitor to the Philippines.

The Saudi, who the official would not identify, travels to the country at least twice
a year to inspect livelihood and other projects funded by his group, a legitimate
charitable institution.

“He inspects projects so he can go around Mindanao,” the official said.

Muslim charitable organizations have been used as a legal cover to allow
terrorists to enter and travel around the Philippines, particularly the southern
region of Mindanao, without coming under suspicion.

The strategy was perfected in the early 1990s by Moham­mad al-Khaliffa, the
brother-in-law of the al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, who put up several
charitable institutions that engaged in legitimate welfare activities like out-reach
programs to depressed Muslim communities, medical missions and scholarships for
Muslim youth.

A portion of the donations collected by these groups is then transferred to the
fundamentalist group of their choice to fund their bombing missions.

Another method of chan­neling funds is through the courier services that deliver
money orders door to door and is popular among overseas Filipino workers who
remit money to their families in the Philippines.

“But it’s not as easy [to receive funds from abroad] as before because we’ve
identified and frozen the bank accounts they use to receive the money,” the
official said.

The official acknowledged that the Saudi might have traveled to the Philippines
earlier this year. The report says the Saudi was in Indonesia around April.

“He’s legitimate. His organization is legitimate. But we can get him through the
paper trail,” the official said, adding that the police are coordinating with foreign
counterparts to bust the Saudi’s operations.

[nwctwx]

Biloxi fears hundreds dead after Katrina

BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Hundreds may have been killed by Hurricane Katrina in the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Biloxi after being trapped in their homes when a 30-foot (9 meter) storm surge came ashore, a spokesman for the city said on Tuesday.

"It's going to be in the hundreds," Vincent Creel told Reuters. "Camille was 200, and we're looking at a lot more than that," he said, referring to Hurricane Camille, which hit the area in 1969 and destroyed swaths of Mississippi and Louisiana.

http://olympics.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-30T181136Z_01_SCH065511_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-WEATHER-KATRINA-DEATHS-DC.XML

[nw_arizona_granny]

From Vel's Belly of the beast search, another Penquin, this is the publisher, but look at the first link that was highlighted.

Is it possible that OBL is in the belly of a U.S. Prison Ship?
granny
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http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:_y2v2yj0D4IJ:us.penguingroup.com/nf/Browse/BrowseStdPage/0,,12342_10_PubDate_text_PS0,00.html+%22Che+Guevara%22++%22belly+of+the+beast%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Belly of the Beast

A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the
Infamous WWII Japanese Hells
Judith Pearson
$13.00|add to cart
Book: Paperback | 5.47 x 7.95in | 304 pages | ISBN 0451204441 | Oct
2001 | NAL
More...

[nw_arizona_granny]

This group has come up before, they are a research group and often have interesting posts, asking questions that you think there is no answer to. This answer spells it out, the 'belly of the beast' could be a call to the fighters and could be 'in a prison'. http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:fGy-RTd-hR8J:listserv.dom.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe%3FA2%3Dind0303%26L%3Dstumpers-l%26D%3D0%26O%3DD%26P%3D97040+%22Che+Guevara%22++%22belly+of+the+beast%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Reply-To: Jon George Sender: Difficult library reference questions list From: @ifls.lib.wi.us> Subject: FW: ? "In the Belly of the Beast" (Quotation Query #282) further Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" -----Original Message----- From: [mailto:@ifls.lib.wi.us] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:57 AM To: 'Fred Shapiro' Subject: RE: ? "In the Belly of the Beast" (Quotation Query #282) further After my prev. reply I remembered that the Che Guevara quote is usually rendered as "in the heart of the beast." Supposedly spoken in 1964, "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all--you live in the heart of the beast." As Abbott was influenced by Marxist readings, he might have extended the metaphor to refer to prisons as "the belly." Regardless, "in the belly of the beast" is currently used on the Left to refer to both prisoners and the wider context of revolutionaries in America. It's interesting that some Christians use the phrase the same way. One tangential source that suggests itself is Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," part II of which repeatedly identifies America with Moloch, the biblical idol children were sacrificed to. According to some accounts, idols of Moloch are hollow and have a fire burning within. In some descriptions the children were left to burn in Moloch's heated arms, but in others they were "swallowed" by Moloch and thus burned to death in its belly. Jon > -----Original Message----- > From: Difficult library reference questions list > [mailto:STUMPERS-L@LISTSERV.DOM.EDU] On Behalf Of Fred > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 6:51 AM > To: STUMPERS-L@LISTSERV.DOM.EDU > Subject: ? "In the Belly of the Beast" (Quotation Query #282) > > > In 1981 Jack Abbott published a book entitled "In the Belly > of the Beast." Was this the origin of that phrase? Is it a > Biblical reference? Any enlightenment would be appreciated? (I tried to remove names --granny) >

[Cindy]

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004892.html
August 30, 2005
"Islamist forum of the day: goafalaladyn.com"

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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004508.html
July 15, 2005
"Who likes to read the works of Al-Suri?"

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ON THE NET...

http://www.goafalaladyn.com/vb/

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There was just a product recall due to B. cepacia contamination. I seem to have deleted my info about it accidentally, though. grrrr.

[Cindy]

SOFIR.org - SOCIETY FOR INTERNET RESEARCH: "ZARQAWI'S STRATEGY IN IRAQ - IS THERE A 'NEW AL-QAEDA?'" by Reuven Paz (August 29, 2005) (html)

The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) Herzliya, Israel www.e-prism.org, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, THE PROJECT FOR THE RESEARCH OF ISLAMIST MOVEMENTS (PRISM) OCCASIONAL PAPERS Volume 3 (2005), Number 5 (August 2005), Director and Editor: Reuven Paz: "'Zarqawi's Strategy in Iraq' -- Is there a "New Al-Qaeda?"" (August 29, 2005) (pdf)

[Cindy]

Thanks nw for that update.
We are praying for all the people affected by the hurricans.
Personally, we have contacted a church to offer them assistance.

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ON THE NET...

http://www.weather.com
http://www.foxnews.com

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/

[Cindy]

sp=hurricanes

I'm going to get my E key fixed eventually.

[Cindy]

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URGENT: Latest photos of New Orleans flooding
Yahoo News Photos ^ | 8/30/05

Posted on 08/30/2005 12:46:00 PM PDT by Wolfstar

The morning's collection of flooding conditions in New Orleans. There were few fresh photos of other devastated areas available in the short time I had available to collect these. Will try to update this thread later.

These photos are being posted especially for the benefit of FReepers and others who may have relatives or friends in the area, and who may not be able to get images any other way.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.islam/browse_thread/thread/6ae6753bfeec601c/306256ed1fa3ea4d?lnk=st&q=%22Che+Guevara%22++%22belly+of+the+beast%22&rnum=15&hl=en#306256ed1fa3ea4d

"Jihadii's in the Hood"

This 2003 report is long and involved, covers many of the gangs before the MS13 gangs became the gang of the day.

Includes info on a '5' gang and several music details.

Worth reading, today I can't do heavy reading, so have had to settle for a good scan of it.

Gadafi (sp?) paid millions to our gangs, to be terrorists.

[nw_arizona_granny]

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Interview with
Notorious
Fundamentalist
Omar Bakri

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Interview with Notorious Fundamentalist Omar
Bakri
http://aawsat.com/english/news
.asp?id=1464&section=3
30/08/2005

By Sanaa al Jack
Islamic fundamentalist Omar Bakri
Muhammmad recently contacted
Asharq al-Awsat expressing a desire to be
interviewed. Due to what
Bakri described as security reasons the
interview was conducted by
phone. Bakri also reveled that due to the
accusation in the media,
Syrian authorities are demanding to see him.
In this regard, Bakri
offered to submit to Syrian questioning
provided this is done in
Lebanon and in the presence of the Lebanese
Public Security.

Bakri said that some of the Muslims in Britain
betrayed some of
their brothers and handed them over to be
killed and their betrayal
boomeranged. He held them responsible for
the odd fatwas they
issued because of their cooperation with
British intelligence. He
also held clergymen in Lebanon and Syria
responsible for such
fatwas but he declined to reveal names. He
said that he wanted to
talk to the press based on the advice of
Lebanese Mufti Sheikh
Muhammad Rashid Qabbani.

Bakri condemned the killing of innocent people
but he refused to
specify who is innocent. He called for opening
"the gate of jihad
in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq to liberate
the land from the
British and the Americans." He denied that he
worked for British
intelligence, saying that had he done so they
would have been
pleased with him. The following is the text of
the telephone
interview with Bakri:

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http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.islam/browse_thread/thread/1a15d77ec790a623/6cc64568e8973df3?hl=en#6cc64568e8973df3