Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Nine

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

Very scary stuff.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Remember the New Mexico police helicopter that was shut down the other day? (By unknown shooter)..........

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1460320/posts

[Cindy]

Thanks granny.
I appreciated the updated articles there on that thread.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461838/posts

"The Daily Terrorist Round-Up 8/12/05 (The good stuff from Iraq and Afghanistan)"

Posted on 08/11/2005 11:51:02 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter

[nw_arizona_granny]

You are welcome.

This type of report bothers me, the Flight for Life flies over my house, direct path to the hospital.

[Cindy]

Another version of the warning:
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http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=553210

"FBI Warns Police of Possible Terror Attack"
Updated: Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 - 11:27 PM

By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://readcgi.s7.xrea.com/404/583.jpg
http://readcgi.s7.xrea.com/404/582.jpg
http://readcgi.s7.xrea.com/404/581.jpg
http://readcgi.s7.xrea.com/404/580.jpg

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.muslm.net/vb/index.php
http://islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=76670
http://islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/HAMAS.jpg


http://www.muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?s=6096b1d06816ea655be60699121ec1c3&t=135529
http://www.muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?s=6096b1d06816ea655be60699121ec1c3&t=135529&page=2&pp=20
http://www.eyelash.ws/upload/pic/8833.gif
http://hammam910.jeeran.com/moslim-9.gif
http://www.palestinianforum.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1752&stc=1
http://www.palestinianforum.net/forum
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/alqa3edah/Q_OBL_copy.gif

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22alqa3edah%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22alqa3edah%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=alqa3edah&kgs=1&kls=0
http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=web&q=alqa3edah

[Cindy]

Note: The following text snippet (minus the photos,graphics) is an exact quote:
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http://www.infovlad.net

Jihadi Files Update - August 2005
August 12th, 2005 at 6:20 pm (General)
August 12


- The original filename as “Old Man”. Click the image to download.

http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0812200502.wmv
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0812200503.wmv
- IED.
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0812200504.rm
- The original filename as “ramadi_imc.rm”.
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0812200505.rm

August 11

http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0811200501.rm
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0811200502.wmv
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0811200502.wmv

August 10

http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0810500201.wmv
- IED (Al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq)
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0810200502.wmv
- IED (Ansar Alsunnah)
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0810200503.rm
- Released by self-proclaimed “Ansar Alsunnah”. The caption reads:

“Demostration of the high explosives device, that we will use in the name of Allah!
This was recorded somewhere in Skene/Sweden…
ALLAHU AKBAR!! GOD IS GREATEST!!
More demonstration videos will be released…”

Hoax like the carbomb training video in last month?
http://www.infovlad.net/?p=226 (July 18th entry)
- Also, see a comment by MjukisPolisen (thanks)

[Cindy]

Note: The following video clips (with links to transcripts) are on the current front page of memritv.org:

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http://www.memritv.org

Reactions to London Bombing


#805 - Chief Iranian Negotiator on the Nuclear Issue Hosein Musavian: The Negotiations with Europe Bought Us Time to Complete the Esfahan UCF Project and the Work on the Centrifuges in Natanz
Iran Ch.2 - 8/4/2005 - 00:04:50


#804 - Movie Reveals Al-Qaeda's Fighting Techniques in Afghanistan (New Footage)
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 8/9/2005 - 00:03:59


#803 - London Islamist Hani Al-Siba'i: Killing Civilians Is Prohibited; MEMRI Are Liars
ANB TV (London) - 7/31/2005 - 00:01:23


#802 - English-Speaking Al-Qaeda Terrorist: Oh People of the West.... It IsTime for Us to Be Equals - As You Kill Us, You Will be Killed (Fuller Version)
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 8/9/2005 - 00:01:24

[Cindy]

Note: The following topics are covered in August 2005 at MEMRI.ORG: "JIHAD AND TERRORISM STUDIES PROJECT." This is an exact quote:
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http://www.memri.org/jihad.html

Special Dispatch Series - No. 954 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, August 11, 2005
Interview on Saudi Government TV With Prominent Egyptian Professor: Muslims Had Nothing to Do with 9/11; Dirty Zionist Hands Behind It

Special Dispatch Series - No. 953 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, August 9, 2005
British and French Al-Qaeda Terrorists Promise to Slit the Throats of Americans and Jews in a New Film Showing Military Activities in Afghanistan from Al-Arabiya

Special Dispatch Series - No. 951 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, August 7, 2005
‘Kaide’ (‘Al-Qaeda’) Magazine Published Openly in Turkey

Special Dispatch Series - No. 950 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, August 4, 2005
Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri on Al-Jazeera: ‘Oh Americans, What You Have Seen in New York and Washington, and the Casualties You Witness in Afghanistan and in Iraq… Are Nothing but the Casualties of the Initial Clashes’

Special Dispatch Series - No. 948 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, August 3, 2005
British MP George Galloway in Syria: Foreigners Are Raping Two Beautiful Arab Daughters - Jerusalem and Baghdad

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19110
"Symposium: Through the Eyes of a Suicide Bomber"
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 12, 2005

[all4one]

"As Grandpa Ira was prone to say 35 years ago "every ____ time they shoot off a space ship, the weather goes wacky".

That statement reminds me of my dearly departed father-in-law...he would say it everytime there was a launch.

[Cindy]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050811-115249-9462r.htm
"Special operations forces eye terrorists"
By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 12, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U.S. Special Operations Command has drafted a war plan that sets up procedures for how its commandos will work with other regional commands across the globe to hunt for senior Islamic terrorists.

The complex plan from SoCom in Tampa, Fla., has been in the works since summer 2002, when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed a secret directive authorizing it. His memo directed SoCom to come up with a plan for dispatching special operations forces on quick notice to virtually any spot in the world to kill or capture terrorists."

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461876/posts


"U.S. report warns of China sub threat"
chicago tribune ^ | Michael Kilian Washington Bureau | Michael Kilian Washington Bureau

Posted on 08/12/2005 3:46:20 AM PDT by Flavius

[backhoe]

The complex plan from SoCom in Tampa, Fla., has been in the works since summer 2002, when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed a secret directive authorizing it. His memo directed SoCom to come up with a plan for dispatching special operations forces on quick notice to virtually any spot in the world to kill or capture terrorists.

Very cool.

Death from above... always have liked Rummy.

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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August 11, 2005

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05080049.htm

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com


Thursday, August 11, 2005

FORUM 18 REPORTER DETAINED AT TASHKENT AIRPORT IN UZBEKISTAN

By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

UZBEKISTAN (ANS) -- A reporter for an international news service was detained by Uzbek authorities upon his arrival at Tashkent Airport.

Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uz.html).

Igor Rotar, Forum 18's Central Asia Correspondent, has been held by Uzbek authorities, who, Forum 18 reported, are not allowing him to contact anyone. Rotar was also initially asked, the news service reported, to buy his own deportation ticket.

An observer who Forum 18 said saw Rotar from a distance about two hours after he was initially detained, described him as being at that time, physically unhurt but nonetheless shaken and disturbed.

The Uzbek authorities are refusing to make any comment on the detention, but Forum 18reported that reliable sources have indicated detention was ordered “for political reasons at the highest levels.” It was reportedly carried out by the country’s Immigration Service and Border Guards, on the instructions of the National Security Service secret police.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and other international diplomats are following Rotar's detention closely, Forum 18 reported. He is a Russian citizen and the Russian Embassy in Tashkent is aware of the case.

Forum 18 reported that the Uzbek authorities have been attempting to stifle independent media outlets, demonstrated by their “harassment” of the Western non-governmental organization “Internews” (www.internews.org/articles/2005/20050809_eurasianet_uzbek.htm).

According to Forum 18, “Igor Rotar has earned widespread praise for his consistently informed reporting of the religious freedom situation in Uzbekistan.”

His most recent article is available at www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=626
For a personal commentary by a Muslim scholar, advocating religious freedom for all faiths as the best antidote to Islamic religious extremism in Uzbekistan, see www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=338

For more background, see Forum 18's Uzbekistan religious freedom survey at www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=546
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction . He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married with five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jgreynalds@aol.com. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A black and white JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

[Cindy]

http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/08/are-there-enough-first-responders.html

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

Friday, August 12, 2005

"Are There Enough First Responders?"
by Jim Kouri, CPP

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "America's first line of defense in any terrorist attack is the "first responder" community -- local police, firefighters, and emergency medical professionals. Properly trained and equipped first responders have the greatest potential to save lives and limit casualties after a terrorist attack. Currently, capabilities for responding to a terrorist attack vary widely across the country. Many areas have little or no capability to respond to terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction. Even the best prepared states and localities do not possess adequate resources to respond to the full range of terrorist threats we face.

There are over 1 million firefighters in the United States, of which approximately 750,000 are volunteers. Local police departments have an estimated 556,000 full-time employees including about 436,000 sworn enforcement personnel. Sheriffs' offices reported about 291,000 full-time employees, including about 186,000 sworn personnel. There are over 155,000 nationally registered emergency medical technicians(EMT).

Terrorists can strike anytime, anywhere. Crop dusters, power generating plants, dams and reservoirs, crops, livestock, trains and highways are among the resources that could be targets. Homeland security in the heartland is just as important as homeland security in America's largest cities."

[backhoe]

Re: first responders?

While I am no longer in the wrecker business, I still get professional publications, and wrecker operators have been bumped up into that category, with all the attendant hassles- traffic direction devices ( gnome hats & light bars ), training in containing spills, etc.

Although it was not mandated back when I was in the trade, I always had extra tools and equipment for first aid, firefighting, and forcing open wrecks.

There is probably a bigger group of "irregulars" like I belonged to, than you would suspect at first glance.

[appalachian_dweller]

Here's another link for some good preparedness info. Worth the read. Please folks, check it out and take appropriate actions NOW - before the next attacks.

http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm