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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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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.

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[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461030/posts

"The Daily Terrorist Round-Up 8/11/05"
8/11/05

Posted on 08/10/2005 9:04:23 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2005/20050810_2383.html


U.S. Marines, Iraqi Troops Finish 'Quick Strike' Operation

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2005 – Iraqi special operations forces, Iraqi army soldiers and U.S. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 2 concluded Operation Quick Strike today.
American and Iraqi forces had teamed up to sweep the Haditha, Haqliniyah and Barwanah areas in recent few days as a part of a joint operation interdicting foreign and domestic terrorists' presence and networks, and collecting intelligence.

Quick Strike netted 36 suspected terrorists for questioning, officials said.

"This is another operation, similar to those conducted before, that has disrupted the insurgents' ability to operate freely in the western Al Anbar region," said Col. Stephen W. Davis, commanding officer, Regimental Combat Team 2. "The intelligence collected throughout this operation will enable us to better assist the citizens of western Al Anbar in their quest to participate in the upcoming referendum."

Nine car bombs were discovered. Three were identified by a local citizen, and the remaining six were discovered in an assembly garage used for rigging vehicles with explosives for insurgents to attack Iraqi civilians and military targets. And 28 improvised bombs were discovered during the operation. Most were planted as roadside bombs; others were rigged to destroy entire buildings.

(From a 2nd U.S. Marine Division news release.)


Related Site:
Multinational Force Iraq

[Cindy]

An interesting discussion...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461064/posts

[British chick]

Wow, that's interesting. I rate anything from the site institute. I read somewhere else about a threat around August 18th. I'll try to find it. I know it came from someone who had a "friend" in law inforcement.

[British chick]

Actually, I think it was someone here who mentioned a discussion with a friend "in the know", I recall they said they were just out of earshot of their wives! Anyone remember saying this? I may be wrong as I read SO MUCH!

[British chick]

My mistake, it was SlowBoat407 in the last thread talking about a friend "in the know", but that wasn't the incident where a date was mentioned. I'll try and find it, I don't think it was someone on the TM.

[British chick]

O.K I found it. It was on another forum, some info someone was given during a "web chat". Not really reliable but worth filing in the back of my crowded mind!

[British chick]

P.s:- That date was also August 17th.

[British chick]

August 17th 2005 is also "disengagement day" for Israeli settlers in Gaza.

I've got a nice little monologue going here haven't I! This is very sad, I'm talking to myself.

[Cindy]

http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=3028
"San Antonio Man Arrested in Southwest Airlines Bomb Prank"

HOUSTON (AP)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Elias Jeremiah Cervantez, 20, of San Antonio, was charged Monday with making a false bomb threat to an aircraft. He confessed to FBI agents that he wrote the note on a gum wrapper, according to an affidavit signed by special agent Jamaal C. King.

The note read, ''There's a bomb on the plane!'' Another note asked whoever found it to call a phone number and tell them. It was accompanied by a drawing of a happy face.

If convicted, Cervantez faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment.

Cervantez's roommate Josh Michael Gonzales told the Houston Chronicle for its Wednesday editions that it was just a dumb joke and that the two thought, ''If somebody finds that, it's going to be funny.''

U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said investigators tracked down Cervantez after determining the note had been left on the plane during an earlier flight from Odessa to Dallas."

[Cindy]

http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/08/aruba-drug-traffickers-paradise.html

Jim Kouri is Vice President of the
National Association of Chiefs of Police

Thursday, August 11, 2005

"Aruba: A Drug Trafficker's Paradise"
by Jim Kouri, CPP

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Located only 20 miles off the coast of Venezuela, the island paradise of Aruba serves as a transshipment point for illicit drugs—primarily cocaine from South America. Smugglers generally move large loads of cocaine into Aruba on fishing vessels, private yachts, and go-fast boats. They also move drugs out of Aruba inside maritime containerized cargo and airfreight. Drug trafficking organizations continue to exploit Aruba’s air and sea links to the continental United States, South America, Europe, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean nations. Most of the cocaine transiting Aruba is destined for European markets—primarily the Netherlands."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

ICC-CCS.ORG; THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php

[Cindy]

Updated August 11, 2005

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=6&id=25310

"Alabama Man Whose Lawyers Blamed Video Game For Cop Killings Convicted Of Capital Murder"


JAY REEVES
Associated Press

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FAYETTE, Alabama (AP) -- A 20-year-old whose lawyers claimed the video game ''Grand Theft Auto'' and childhood abuse caused him to kill three small-town police officers was convicted of capital murder.

The jury deliberated for just over an hour Tuesday before convicting Devin Moore."

[Cindy]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200508\SPE20050811a.html

"Church Desecration Video Serves as Jihad Fund-Raiser"
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 11, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - A violent video showing the desecration of a church and the murder of a Serbian soldier is one of many "jihad" videos currently making the rounds in Western countries to raise funds for Muslim terrorists, according to counter-terrorism experts interviewed by Cybercast News Service.

The graphic footage, stamped Sept. 16, 1995, was videotaped approximately two months before the Dayton Peace Accords, which brought an end to the civil war in Bosnia."

[Cindy]

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/08/007623print.html

August 10, 2005

Scheme to attack New York subway station with bombs hidden in backpacks

Yes, yes, of course: lone wolf militant Episcopalians, enflamed by their martial ideology, at it again. "'Lone wolf' attackers a security concern," from AP, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named:

NEW YORK (AP) — Slumping in his prison clothes and pallid from a year behind bars, Shahawar Matin Siraj didn't look like much of a threat as he silently endured a routine hearing in federal court this month.
But the 23-year-old Pakistani immigrant stands accused of a scheme to attack a busy New York subway station with bombs hidden in backpacks.

As police seek to secure the nation's largest transit system in the wake of the London Underground bombings, they say they are concerned about angry, isolated men like Siraj as much as organized terror networks like al-Qaida.

"One of the department's ongoing concerns is the emergence of 'lone wolves,'" said Paul Browne, the New York Police Department's chief spokesman.

The first known plot against New York's subways was averted in 1997, police said, when officers acting on a tip burst into Palestinian-born Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer's Brooklyn apartment and shot him in the leg as he reached for a toggle switch on a pipe bomb. He was sentenced to life in prison after testifying he wanted to kill Jews riding the subway in Brooklyn.

Despite initial reports of Hamas ties, Mezer was acting with a single alleged accomplice, who was convicted of an immigration violation and deported after three years in prison.

Siraj was working at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn when he was approached in 2003 by an Egyptian-born police informant. The informant spent months secretly monitoring Siraj and his co-defendant James Elshafay.

As a result, police say they have recordings of the two men and the informant discussing how attacks on three spots — the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and subway stations at Herald Square near Macy's and next to Bloomingdale's on Manhattan's East Side — could damage the economy as part of a holy war against the United States.

And all that time the guy was working in an Islamic bookstore. Just think of all the opportunities he missed to dip into a few of those books and bone up on Islamic peace and tolerance.

What's that? He could have imbibed his jihad ideology from many of the books in the store? The works of Qutb, Maududi, and other key jihad theorists are readily available in Islamic bookstores in America? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?

Posted at August 10, 2005 08:31 PM

[bored at work]

Well ad, I slept on it and, if they raise the age, I'm goin!

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461128/posts


'Al-Qaeda cleric' among ten detained
Times Online, (UK) ^ | August 11, 2005 | Daniel McGrory and Richard Ford

Posted on 08/11/2005 3:23:11 AM PDT by NickatNite2003

Britain's promised crackdown on the "preachers of hate" began this morning as ten foreign nationals were detained. Among them, Times Online has learned, is Abu Qatada, described as al-Qaeda’s spiritual ambassador in Europe.

Abu Qatada, whose is also known as Sheikh Omar Abu Omar, and the other nine foreign nationals are being held by four police forces, working with the Immigration Service. They are in a prison service facility while the Home Office prepares to deport them.

The Home Office has not confirmed that Abu Qatada is among the people detained this morning but Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, said the foreign nationals were being held and would be deported for "reasons of national security".

"In accordance with my powers to deport individuals whose presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good for reasons of national security, the immigration service has today detained ten foreign nationals who I believe pose a threat to national security," said Mr Clarke.

"They will be held in secure prison service accommodation and I shall not disclose their names," he said.

"Following months of diplomatic work we now have got reason to believe that we can get the necessary assurances from the countries to which we will return the deportees so that they will not be subject to torture or ill-treatment," Mr Clarke added.

[Cindy]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20050810.shtml


"It's 'Let's roll,' not 'Let's roll over'"
Ann Coulter

August 10, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Since the London bombings, there has been a palpable feeling in the air here in the U.S. that another terrorist attack is imminent. Maybe not as bad as 9-11, perhaps a train or subway bombing. Or maybe it will be something worse. There were fevered rumors circulating over the last few weeks about massive attacks on New York and Washington scheduled for Aug. 6 and 9, to mark the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But now Aug. 6 and 9 have come and gone. More significantly, 47 months have come and gone since 9-11 without a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The closest thing we had to a major bombing was the new Pauly Shore show on TBS.

Even if the next attack comes tomorrow, it is worth pondering that we've gone 47 months without the savages being able to mount another terrorist attack in a country virtually designed for terrorist attacks, a country where we search the purses of little old ladies so that recent immigrants from Saudi Arabia named "Mohammed" wearing massive backpacks don't get singled out."

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19084
"Schools that Teach Hate"
By David Stolinsky
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 11, 2005

[freeperfromnj]

Wow. Thanks for posting that article. Who knows how many more Shahawar Matin Siraj's are out there waiting for their opportunity. The security at Penn Station this week is definitely unprecedented. There wasn't even this much security right after 9/11.