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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!

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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[Domestic Church]

"...and on his family and accompanied him ['ajme'yn]
and in acne: <<<<< "

Smallpox?

[Domestic Church]

Medline alcohol-free mouthwash was used in every hospital I've worked or been in as a patient.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200508291231.html

The Sahel is Osama's New Playground

The Nation (Nairobi)
OPINION
August 30, 2005
Posted to the web August 29, 2005

By Jackson Mbuvi
Nairobi

According to recent media and intelligence reports, terrorists are on
the march in the Sahel region.

That is certainly bad news for Kenya. Sahel is our second door
neighbour. Where terrorism is concerned, we already have enough
troubles with our first-door neighbour, Somalia.

So what is up in the Sahel? In June, terrorists ambushed an army
patrol in Mauritania and massacred 15 soldiers. The culprits readily
identified themselves with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group.
Indeed, they received immediate congratulatory messages on the
Internet from far-flung affiliates of the al-Qaeda.

Among the most noticeable of the messages was one from the
Iraq-based al-Zarqawi Jihad organisation whose leader is Osama's
right-hand man.

It will also be recalled that when London was attacked by terrorists
early last month, media houses in both US and the UK reported that
four months to the attack, a key Western intelligence agency had
alerted authorities in London that terrorists in a Morocco hide-out
were planning an attack on London.

Ideal terrorist hiding place

Following the attack on the Mauritania army, the July 6 issue of
Morocco's leading tabloid, The Liberation, reported that the al Qaeda
had a grand objective to establish terrorist bases in the Sahel similar
to those existing in Afghanistan before the Taliban regime was
dismantled two years ago.

The Sahel terrain is as torturous as the Afghan caves and mountains
when it comes to policing, making it an ideal hiding place for
terrorists.

Quoting intelligence sources in Casablanca, The Liberation newspaper
reported that Mauritanian security had seized documents from a local
Islamic fundamentalist group that contained detailed instructions for
staging attacks on targets within Sahel and beyond.

It contained a list of key leaders targeted for assassination, starting
with Mauritanian prime minister Sghair Ould M'bareck.

The most lethal fundamentalist group in the Sahel, and which
networks well with Osama, is the Algeria-based Salafist Group for
Preaching and Combat (SGPC).

The group, with estimated 300 active combatants is on hot-line
communication with Osama. SGPC has also owned up to over a dozen
terrorist attacks in the Sahel and beyond.

In June, Mauritania Defence minister Baba Ould Sidi said at a press
conference that SGSP had planned the ambush on the army patrol that
killed 15 soldiers.

And in March, Chadian troops had a showdown with the group's militia
near the Algerian border, in which five people were killed.

According to another Morocco tabloid, L'Opinion, recent events in the
region are enough prove that "the SGPS and al Qaeda are set to turn
Sahel desert to an oasis for international terrorism."

Some good news, however, is that countries in Sahel are not sitting
and watching the merchants of death take over the Sahara.

Early last year, they came up with a joint programme aimed at
equipping their military with new techniques to combat infiltration by
al-Qaeda cells.

And this year, they have unveiled a much broader programme dubbed
the Trans-Sahara Combat Initiative.

The new programme has a two-phase military training operation
code-named "Operation Flintlock". The first phase began in early June
with the arrival of special trainers from the US anti-terrorism force.

It involved training in infantry combat tactics. The beneficiaries in that
category were Mauritania, Mali and Niger.

The second phase focused on border patrol exercises and involved
military personnel from Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria and Senegal.

Through annual training exercise, "Operation Flintlock" will equip
participants with the expertise to limit hostile penetration of porous
borders in remote terrains. In addition, it will help sabotage militants'
recruiting campaigns. Intelligent reports say the SGPC and the
al-Qaeda are busy interesting youths in the Sahel to join their
"cause".

Closer home, our immediate neighbours, Uganda and the Sudan, are
not taking the terrorist threat in the Sahel lightly.

According to the pan-Arab daily, AI-Sharq al Awsat, Sudan, situated
on the eastern edge of the Sahel, and formerly branded a pro-terrorist
state is now showing increasing willingness to participate in the global
fight against terrorism.

In June, authorities in Khartoum gave investigators "crucial dossier"
on al-Qaeda activists, including that of their "high priest", Osama,
who lived in the Sudan in the better part of 1990s.

Uganda not sleeping on the job

The change of heart by Sudanese authorities has not been taken
kindly all round. In a scathing attack broadcast on the al-Jazeera
satellite television on June I7, a spokesman for Osama, one Ayman
al-Zawahiri, denounced Khartoum for assisting "our arch-enemies"
and threatened that "somebody will have to pay a very high price for
it".

Nor is Uganda sleeping on the job. Recently the country made a major
score in fighting terrorists when it installed a sophisticated border
security control system. The high-tech equipment is meant to detect,
track down and apprehend potential terrorist attackers.

With the installation of the facility, Uganda becomes part of the global
Terrorist Interdiction Programme (TIP) aimed at containing the ability
of terrorists to move freely across territorial borders.

(I did edit this to meet copyright)........

[nw_arizona_granny]

"...and on his family and accompanied him ['ajme'yn]
and in acne: <<<<< "

Smallpox?<<<

Smallpox or anthrax.

Acne: isn't that sometimes used as the peak or top of the goal?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Medline alcohol-free mouthwash was used in every hospital I've
worked or been in as a patient.<<<<<

When WHO publishes it, then I consider they are concerned about the subject.

To think of how it got contaminated is too easy to imagine.

All this contaminated products is a new thing, 50 years ago,
we didn't hear of it, well yes, on the rare incident, when
some nut did something to the supply.

But not this everyday, with rare diseases.

Do they only hire "Typhoid Mary" in the plants?

20 to 25 years ago, when all the hamburger started getting seeded with diseases, I asked how and why.

At times, WHO will flat out state that they think it is
terrorism.

[Domestic Church]

Acne usually is a teenager's pimple breakout which can look a tiny bit like smallpox (but not enough to be misdiagnosed by a physician) when it's really, really bad. I think you mean acme.

[Cindy]

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004893.html
August 30, 2005
"almanar.com.lb: same site, different name"

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ON THE NET...

http://www.almanar.com.lb
http://manartv.com.lb
http://manartv.com

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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003491.html
January 20, 2005
"Hizballah"

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004111.html
May 10, 2005
"From Doncaster to Dallas: Hizballah's Al Manar TV Website"

[nw_arizona_granny]

Teleprotation- the weapon of the Future!
(this is the end of the article)........

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/29/MNGA0EENPC1.DTL

Victor J. Stenger, a professor emeritus of physics and
astronomy at the University of Hawaii, said: "I didn't
realize that President Bush's faith- based initiatives have
reached so far as Air Force research projects ... . None of
the three forms of teleportation of large objects discussed
in this (Davis) report are anywhere near being practical in
the foreseeable future and (are) probably ultimately
impractical, as a trained physicist can see by just plugging
in a few numbers."

As for the Chinese psychic research, Stenger said the
articles on the "Chinese experiments ... . have not been
translated into English and so (have) not yet (been)
subjected to critical reviews by the scientific community at
large."

Likewise, Michio Kaku, a noted physicist and author at City
University of New York, said "the only way to use
(teleportation) as a secret weapon is to allow our enemies
to bankrupt themselves thinking they can produce a
teleportation machine."

"The Air Force is to be applauded for investigating
technologies that may have value for national security,"
Kaku added. "But wormholes, negative energies, warped
space-time, etc., require futuristic technologies centuries
to millions of years ahead of ours. The only thing going
down the wormhole is taxpayers' money."

E-mail Keay Davidson at kdavidson@sfchronicle.com.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/08/29/afx2194362.html


AFX News Limited
Reports bin Laden wounded untrue; 'no
proof' - US military, NATO
08.29.2005, 06:08 AM

KABUL (AFX) - The US military and NATO peacekeeping forces have
dismissed reports carried on Islamic websites that Osama bin
Laden had been injured in western Afghanistan.

US spokesman Colonel James Yonts said that his military has
checked claims that the Al-Qaeda leader had been wounded by
Spanish troops based in the western province of Herat.

'When we looked into that report -- you know any allegation such
as this, we take it very seriously -- we found no proof,' US
spokesman Colonel James Yonts told reporters in Kabul.

The claim first surfaced on Aug 24 in a story on Italian news
website Adnkronos International.

It quoted two messages carried by 'various Islamic websites,' the
first of which said bin Laden had been wounded in a clash with the
Spaniards, while the second gave details including that the injury
was to his left leg.

In May, Islamic websites stated that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
Al-Qaeda's pointman in Iraq, had been wounded. An audio
message confirming the injury was later attributed to Zarqawi
himself.

The NATO-led peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan, which have
hundreds of Spanish troops based in Herat, also ruled out that any
of its troops had injured bin Laden, who has a 50 mln usd US
bounty on his head.

'I'm afraid that was just a rumor. No truth in it,' NATO spokesman in
Kabul Major Andy Elmes said.

A Spanish helicopter crashed near Herat on Aug 16, killing all 17
Spanish peacekeepers aboard. Madrid has said there were no
signs of an attack.

Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks on the
United States, has evaded capture for almost four years since
US-led forces invaded Afghanistan to hunt him down and topple his
backers, the Taliban regime.

However, Yonts said that the 19,000-strong US-led coalition will
continue to hunt for the Saudi-born Al-Qaeda leader, who is widely
believed to be hiding along the rugged Afghanistan-Pakistan
border.

'We want nothing more than to bring that man to justice, there is
no doubt about that, and we're doing everything inside
Afghanistan, and through the help of the border central Asian
states as well, looking for that individual,' Yonts said.

sak/dk/mc/swp

[Oorang]

So very sorry to hear about your cousins in Slidell (prayers are up).

I would highly recommend you post your request for info on the ongoing Katrina thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473615/posts

I have been following that thread, as much as time has allowed, for the past few days. Folks there are very helpful and some folks from Louisiana have been posting.

The "lead person", so to speak, for the thread is NautiNurse. Hope that helps, I really think that's your best bet for info via FR.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I think you mean acme.<<<<<<<

Laughing at myself, but then you already know that I can't spell.......LOL

You are correct, and we are back to smallpox.

[nw_arizona_granny]

When you take your acne and put it with the extra prayer to the 'God of the scientists', then one can give some thought to having a real worry.

I don't like to see acne so close to the word 'scientist'.

[Cindy]

http://www.foxnews.com

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Note: The following post is an exact quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473839/posts


BREAKING: X2 LOOTERS SHOOT NOPD PRECINCT UP ARMED WITH AK-47'S. CRIMINALS RETREATED TO FRENCH QTR
FOX News ^ | 30 AUG O5 | DCBRYAN1

Posted on 08/30/2005 8:32:35 PM PDT by DCBryan1

GRETA just broke in with the story that two (2) men had ambushed and initiated a gunfight at a New Orleans police sub station....Officers returned fire and subjects retreated back to French QTR.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Louisiana; Click to Add Topic
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[Cindy]

This is on the banner on the front of FoxNews.com right now:

"Gunmen With AK-47s Fire at New Orleans Police Station"
http://www.foxnews.com

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1473850/posts
"The War on Terror: Year Five"
The Weekly Standard ^ | 8/29/05 | Jeffrey Bell & Frank Cannon
Posted on 08/30/2005 8:55:12 PM PDT by Valin

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2005/083005agwildfire.htm

Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at
the Operation Wildfire Press Conference
Washington, D.C.
August 30, 2005–1:45 pm

Good afternoon.

Last week, men and women from state, local, and federal law enforcement completed Operation Wildfire — a massive, coordinated, nationwide operation to fight the deadly scourge of methamphetamine.

I am pleased to be here today – joined by Karen Tandy, Administrator of the DEA, and McGregor Scott, chairman of the U.S. Attorneys Methamphetamine Working Group – to discuss the results of this operation.

Before doing so, I want to tell the story of a one-year-old infant named Chelton, because behind the numbers today are individual stories of those we are trying to help.

As many of you know, meth is highly addictive. It is easy and cheap to produce. And for too many children in too many communities, meth leads to victimization, abuse, and neglect.

Chelton’s parents were meth cookers. One day his father was cooking meth and spilled a coffee pot filled with fuel onto a Coleman burner. The flame ignited a flash fire. The house was filled with the toxic chemicals for meth cooking, so Chelton’s parents grabbed his five-year-old brother and ran out of the home.

As fire quickly spread, Chelton was asleep upstairs. His parents soon realized Chelton was still in the house. The father got a ladder and managed to rescue the boy from the second story.

But Chelton had already been severely burned over 30 percent of his body, and he had sustained serious internal injuries. For several months Chelton struggled to live, but he eventually died of his injuries.

His parents did not bother to attend Chelton’s funeral or burial. Instead, they became fugitives.

For the meth-cooking, meth-using parents, the little boy’s death meant little. When law enforcement located Chelton’s fugitive parents, the mother and father were stocking up on the precursor chemicals to build a new meth lab.

For our brave men and women in law enforcement, the tragic story of meth isn’t limited to the addiction and decline of meth users or the greed of meth cookers. It is the story of young lives lost and dreams and potential destroyed.

As a father of young children and as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, I am concerned about the scourge of meth. And Federal law enforcement and our U.S. Attorneys, in conjunction with our state and local partners, have been working valiantly to combat this problem. Over the last three years alone, law enforcement has seized, on average, 45 small toxic meth labs or dumpsites each day across America.

In Operation Wildfire, the Drug Enforcement Administration led a combined law enforcement effort that attacked meth in 200 cities across the United States.

As a result of Wildfire, we arrested 427 people. We seized 208 pounds of methamphetamine. We took 524 pounds of precursor chemicals off the street. That’s more than 200,000 tablets of pseudoephedrine, 158 kilograms of pseudoephedrine powder, and more than 220,860 tablets of ephedrine – enough to provide 284,000 people with a hit of meth.

In each of these busts, in every one of these cities, the men and women of law enforcement put their lives—and their hearts —on the line. As the sad story of Chelton shows, it is impossible to overstate the importance of Operation Wildfire or to fully quantify what it means in terms of lives saved and children protected.

It was only two weeks ago that Director John Walters of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt; and I traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to discuss this Administration’s nationwide plan for attacking meth.

At the Department of Justice we are focused primarily on enforcement and today, we’re seeing the results of that law enforcement strategy.

Earlier this year, Administrator Tandy declared meth a top priority for the DEA’s Mobile Enforcement Teams. The DEA commits more than $145 million per year to combat meth.

The U.S. Attorneys Methamphetamine Working Group has been working to develop effective strategies with members of Congress and state and local officials.

As part of our ongoing and expanding efforts, yesterday I spoke again with Mexico’s attorney general, Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, about working more closely to stem the tide of meth coming from Mexico.

We are making more arrests, there are more prosecutions. But our enforcement success depends on our local, state, and international friends and allies. I want to thank all the men and women of law enforcement who took part in Operation Wildfire.

At the Department of Justice, we understand that the cause of justice is only as strong as the bonds within the justice community. And as we strengthen those bonds we do so knowing we strengthen the hope and opportunity in America.

Thank you.

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[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473854/posts

"Illegal alien accused of triple homicide"
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | August 30, 2005 | WND

Posted on 08/30/2005 9:00:28 PM PDT by Minutemen

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An illegal alien previously arrested on a domestic dispute but not deported is accused of shooting dead three men outside a bar in Altoona, Pa., after telling police he had been experiencing blackouts.

Miguell A. Padilla, 25, called police after the shooting and said he "believed he had hurt somebody but had been having blackouts," the Blair Country district attorney said yesterday.

He was caught shortly after Sunday's shooting and charged with three counts each of criminal homicide, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, as well as one count of illegal possession of a handgun. He was ordered held without bail.

Police and city officials in Altoona believe the case may be the first-ever triple homicide in the central Pennsylvania town of 50,000, located about 85 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The shooting occurred just before 2 a.m. Sunday after Padilla and two companions tried to enter the bar in the United Veterans Association Club in downtown Altoona, a 69-year-old institution known as a regular site for wedding receptions and reunions.

After Padilla was told the bar was members-only – a sign saying just that was posted in the window – he got into an argument, first, with the club's doorman, Frederick Rickabaugh, 58, and then with the club's owner, Alfred Mignogna, 61, both of Altoona. Padilla returned to his car, came back with a handgun and shot Rickabaugh and then Mignogna, police said.

Another shot hit Stephen Heiss, 28, a bar patron and state prison guard, who was entering the club with a female friend when he saw Padilla shooting and pushed his friend out of the way.

Mignogna, a longtime Altoona High School math teacher who also owned another bar in town, died at the scene. Rickabaugh and Heiss died later at Altoona Regional Health Systems hospital."

[MamaDearest]

the company would never knowingly sell its product for use in any terrorist or criminal activity

That may be true Granny. The "company" would knowingly not sell its product to terrorists, but what about HIM? He's speaking Clintonese.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Did you see this address for contacting people, from the New Orleans thread.
~~~~~~~~
www.gulfcoastnews.com New Database just given on Greta
where people can register and post who they're looking for and
people who are ok can register.

[Cindy]

JIHAD WATCH.org: "MPAC, CAIR, ISNA FEEL EXCLUDED FROM THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TERRORISM" (August 30, 2005) (Read More...)