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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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[Cindy]

Note: The following videos (with links to transcripts) are playing on the current front page of memritv.org. The following text is an exact quote:
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Reactions to London Bombing


#800 - Egyptian Professor Abd Al-Sabour Shahin: Muslims Had Nothing to Do with 9/11 Attack on the Empire State Building
Saudi TV Ch.1 - 8/8/2005 - 00:03:15


#799 - Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Calls to Get Rid of Islamic Regimes
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - 8/4/2005 - 00:01:11


#798 - Lebanese Terrorist-Turned-Researcher Anis Al-Naqqash in Support of Terror Attacks in London, the US, and Arab Countries: "Islam Is One of the Greatest Advocates of Violence, When Violence Is Warranted"
Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) - 8/3/2005 - 00:07:28


#792 - Western Al-Qaeda Terrorists Promise to Slit the Throats of Americans and Jews in a New Film Showing Military Activities in Afghanistan
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 8/5/2005 - 00:02:58

[penguino]

It's in north central Italy, north of Bologna, south of Milan.

[SlowBoat407]

>Free associating:

Chemical plant burning in Romulus

Romulus = "founder of Rome"

There's that ancient name 'thing' again.

Detroit was on the hit list, so was Rome...<


Paris, TX?
New London, CT?
Athens, GA?
Naples, FL?

The list goes on...

[Mata6858]

You have mail please read

[Velveeta]

>>>Clinton Admin. Knew of 9/11 Hijackers<<<

And the moral of the story is...even if you shove the documents down your pants, the truth will come out.

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[Velveeta]

>>>Several European maps have shown up on jihadi sites, here's one near the Via Hiroshima in Reggio Emilia, Italy.<<<

Makes you go hmmmmmmmm.
Good find, Penguino.

[Velveeta]

>>>I see your reasoning, but for some reason, I can't get a feel for it.<<<<

I don't have a feel for it either.
Was just noting, thinking out loud.

(I see conspiracies.....everywhere. LOL)

[Velveeta]

>>The list goes on...<<<

And on...

;-)

[Mata6858]

you have mail

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

bookmark to try and keep up.

[bored at work]

Romulus = mining planet in Star Trek

[Founding Father]

Hey Gillman,

Welcome to "Building a North American Community," as proposed by the CFR and agreed to by the Pres.

http://www.cfr.org/pdf/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf

[Velveeta]

BART enlists riders' 'eyes and ears'

Revamped anti-terrorism campaign asks passengers to serve as 'Bomb Detectors'
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/ci_2928641

[Velveeta]

[Velveeta]

NATO to send plane to protect Pope in Germany


BRUSSELS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - NATO will send an AWACS surveillance aircraft to help protect Pope Benedict during his visit to Germany this month, an alliance official said on Wednesday.

"At the request of the German government, NATO has agreed to provide security support for the Pope's visit to Cologne by providing the AWACS aircraft," the official said.

The Pope plans to attend an event to celebrate World Youth Day in the German city from Aug. 18 to Aug. 21. (snip)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10140256.htm

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

This is the most defeating thing I have ever seen.

I wish there was a way to get everyone to read that report, but practically nobody will look.

Recently, I've utterly lost respect for some long time Freepers who have pointedly refused to look at it and flamed me with the tinfoil hat crap.

Makes me wish this was a big hall and we were live so I could belt some of them.

Out in the general forum, FReepers are flaming each other over this candidate or that, but the fact appears to be that they are all chosen by this Council.

It will not matter if we have Rice or Hillary, Cheney or Kerry, it will all go the same way.

Even if there was a strong patriotic third party run, it will only tip the game in favor of the worst of the two chosen ones.

Want to get sick?
Check out this site.

http://www.geocities.com/benribqqq/

Don't take too long, I can't imagine he'll be in business long.

I'm reminded of that old sci-fi staring Rowdy Roddy Piper, THEY LIVE.

Those of us who've found the sunglasses can see the aliens i n our midst, but everyone else thinks we're insane.

[ExSoldier]

New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Los Angeles

Okay, I would dispute Seattle as a primary target. For what? Microsoft? Don't think so. Even Boeing is no longer there. The military assets are either constantly deployed forward (1st SF Group and the 2nd Ranger have their HQ's nearby but no in Seattle, but they're never at home anyway. Bremerton Shipyard is mostly for mothballed ships. The port of Seattle does business with Asia, but nothing like the activity at the Ports in South Florida do with South America. I could see a device being brought into the country thru Seattle, but not the city of granola crunchers being the target.

Certainly the other cities you mention are potential targets and would wreak a lot of devastation. But notice they are all coastal or border cities and they are LARGE cities. Yes they offer the biggest body count for the BANG but I think that to truly strike terror into the Heartland there must be significant damage to the interior of the country. What the RATs refer to as fly-over country. Small town America is the very backbone of our nation. There is a lot of vital infrastructure there, which, come to think of it, I won't mention in detail in case there are Jihadi lurkers....

[freeperfromnj]

LONDON FINANCIAL AREA MAY BE TERROR TARGET

8/10/2005, 11:11 a.m. ET
By MICHAEL McDONOUGH
The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A terrorist strike against London's financial district is inevitable and would-be attackers already have surveyed the area for possible targets, the area's chief of police said Wednesday.

But James Hart, commissioner of the City of London police, said there was no specific intelligence about a forthcoming attack and that officers had succeeded in disrupting some hostile surveillance activities in the district.

"We are vulnerable, there are people out there who wish us harm and we should be aware of that," Hart told The Associated Press. "If you hit the financial center of the United Kingdom, it's a high-profile thing to do."

Asked if it was a question of when the district would be struck, rather than if, Hart replied: "Yes, I don't doubt that at all."

London's financial quarter houses hundreds of banks, insurance companies, law firms and other institutions — including the London Stock Exchange and the Bank of England.

Aldgate subway station, one of the targets of the July 7 suicide bombings that killed 56 people including the four attackers, lies on the eastern edge of the City of London, a dense network of narrow streets dotted with skyscrapers.

The tiny district has its own police force — distinct from the Metropolitan Police that operates in the rest of the capital — and officers increased security there in the 1990s after a string of IRA bombs.

Hart said police had "no specific intelligence to direct toward an attack on the City," as the district is known. But he added: "We are always vulnerable as a financial center, as we have been for the last three decades."

Hart also said "most successful terrorist operatives pre-survey their targets." Asked if this had happened in the City, he answered: "It has already occurred" but added that officers had disrupted "hostile surveillance."

He refused to say whether officers had arrested anyone as a result of these operations or to give further details.

Hart said his officers also were involved in training people working in the City — including company security guards and receptionists — to look for the signs of people behaving suspiciously.

The commissioner, who first spoke of the threat in comments published in Wednesday's Financial Times, said it was misleading to discuss any particular groups that might be planning an attack. "There is a range of people who wish us harm and we should continually be aware that individuals acting by themselves and perhaps people with affiliates would like to prosecute terror attacks in somewhere as prominent as the City of London."

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/war/index.ssf?/base/international-14/112368311630600.xml&storylist=njterror

[freeperfromnj]

The alleged al-Qaeda operative who was arrested in Pakistan on Sunday had in his laptop, maps of cities in Italy and Germany

Lately, it seems like there are many cells and many plans in the works.