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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!

What's become of bin Laden since he gave us all the slip?
Full Story

Some think he is dead, others that he is hiding because he is scared of being killed.

Whatever the reason for the strange disappearance of Osama bin Laden, not seen alive since his last mocking video statement a year ago, he is no longer the face of the global "jihad" against the West.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi { TM 25,TM 27 }, the Jordanian responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Iraq, has become the hero of the hour on militant Islamist websites.

Related:
Can al-Qaeda Endure Beyond bin Laden?
Two Years Ago: Threat Matrix Begins

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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[nw_arizona_granny]

Jer, that is some list of tanker crashes.

I now tell my family to not drive down the road next to a tanker, it is too dangerous.

It is not surprising that the FBI try so hard to find the stolen tankers.

Thank you for all of your work on the tanker lists.

[freeperfromnj]

Suspect travelers to be screened at Logan for infectious diseases

BOSTON (AP) — The federal government will install a new quarantine station at Logan International Airport to evaluate travelers who may pose a health threat to the region, officials said.......

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-11-03-logan-quarantine_x.htm?csp=34

[nw_arizona_granny]

(She says:) "Islam does not advocate violence, but rather, social
justice."<<<<<<

Right, and I do also.

Who does she think she is kidding?

The liberals of course buy it, hook, line and sinker.

Now, I am sitting here smiling, as this gives me the perfect opening to introduce a new book on the market.

I heard the author twice last night and it sounds interesting, he has done his research, on the famous liberals of America and his aim was to see if they did in real life, as they want you to do.

There were several of great interest and I can imagine there are many that he has not talked about on radio.

Bohanon, gave him an interesting hour, it was a good interview.

Michael Moore is a complete fake, no, that was not a surprise.

The Kennedy's discovered that a trust in Fiji, of 300 to 500 million, cost them less than 1 % in taxes to the U.S.

None of the Soros money is stored in the U.S.

The Book, by Peter Switzer, is:

Do As I Say (not as I do, Liberal Hypocrites (sp?)

[Rutles4Ever]

Rioting Spreads to Twenty Town Around Paris

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France - Rampaging youths shot at police and firefighters Thursday after burning car dealerships and public buses and hurling rocks at commuter trains, as eight days of riots over poor conditions in Paris-area housing projects spread to 20 towns.

Youths ignored an appeal for calm from President Jacques Chirac, whose government worked feverishly to fend off a political crisis amid criticism that it has ignored problems in neighborhoods heavily populated by first- and second-generation North African and Muslim immigrants.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called a string of emergency meetings with Cabinet ministers throughout the day. He told the Senate the government "will not give in" to violence in the troubled suburbs.

"Order and justice will be the final word in our country," Villepin said. "The return to calm and the restoration of public order are the priority — our absolute priority."

The riots started last Thursday after the electrocution deaths of two teenagers who ran from a soccer game and hid in a power station in the northeastern suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois after they saw police enter the area. Youths in the neighborhood said police chased the boys to their death.

French authorities have said that officers were investigating a suspected burglary and not pursuing the boys, a view backed up by an interim report by the national police inspectors office released Thursday.

Investigators said the boys — Mauritania-born Traore Bouna, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, of Tunisia — knew of the dangers of hiding in an electric substation as they sought to evade police. The report also cites two witnesses saying they did not see the boys being chased. A third boy, Muttin Altun, 17, was badly burned.

Separate administrative and judicial investigations into the accidental deaths also were under way.

By Wednesday night, violence triggered by the deaths had spread to at least 20 Paris-region towns, said Jean-Francois Cordet, the top government official for the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of Paris where the violence has been concentrated. He said youths in the region fired four shots at riot police and firefighters but caused no injuries.

Nine people were injured in Seine-Saint-Denis and 315 cars burned across the Paris area, officials said. In the tough northeastern suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, youth gangs set fire to a Renault car dealership and burned at least a dozen cars, a supermarket and a local gymnasium.

Traffic was halted Thursday morning on a suburban commuter line linking Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport after stone-throwing rioters attacked two trains overnight at the Le Blanc-Mesnil station. They forced a conductor from one train and broke windows, the SNCF rail authority said. A passenger was lightly injured by broken glass.

The unrest has highlighted the division between France's big cities and their poor suburbs, with frustration simmering in the housing projects in areas marked by high unemployment, crime and poverty.

The violence also cast doubt on the success of France's model of seeking to integrate its large immigrant community — its Muslim population, at an estimated 5 million, is Western Europe's largest — by playing down differences between ethnic groups. Rather than feeling embraced as full and equal citizens, immigrants and their French-born children complain of police harassment and of being refused jobs, housing and opportunities.

Opposition groups accused the government of letting the situation spiral out of control, either by failing to act quickly enough or letting in too many immigrants over the years.

"We see that the situation in certain neighborhoods is not getting better at all but degenerating," Socialist Party President Jean-Marc Ayrault told LCI television, who said Chirac's conservatives "did not know how to take control."

Right-wing French lawmaker Philippe de Villiers, who has said he wants to "stop the Islamization of France," told RTL radio that the problem stemmed from the "failure of a policy of massive and uncontrolled immigration."

Minister of Social Cohesion Jean-Louis Borloo said the government had to react "firmly" but added that France must also acknowledge its failure to have dealt with anger simmering in poor suburbs for decades.

"We cannot hide the truth: that for 30 years we have not done enough," he told France-2 television.

[Velveeta]

I'll keep looking.

There is this from the Telegraph, not a blog...but...:

"We're not dumb. Sarkozy has declared war on suburban youth," said Karim, 23. "Unless he apologises for the way he has treated us, then he can expect 40 nights of violence," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/03/wfran03.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/03/ixportaltop.html

[LibertyRocks]

20 towns? This in NOT GOOD at all... Prayers for the French Civilians.

[LibertyRocks]

Search Results 11/03/05:

SCHOOL + THREAT:

Galion, OH:
Galion High School evacuated after bomb threat
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum .com 11/02/05
GALION — The Ohio Highway Patrol, along with Galion police, are searching Galion High School after the school received a bomb threat this morning.
The patrol, using two bomb-sniffing dogs from Columbus, has searched the entire school, with the exception of the lockers, which necessitated the need for the dogs. Another dog, from Allen County, is on the way.
Six hundred Galion students were forced to evacuate the school and were relocated to the middle school gymnasium. Fifty students were absent, considered a high total for a good weather day.

Williamstown, KY:
Bomb threat - Purses, backpacks checked at GCHS
Grant County News:
A task force associated with the Federal Bureau of Investigations visited Grant County High School on Tuesday, Nov. 1 and planned a meeting with school personnel on Nov. 2 after a bomb threat was discovered in a bathroom.
A student found the message, which said a bomb would go off on Nov. 1, written on the wall on Oct. 31.

Mesa, AZ:
Student admits posting Internet bomb threat
East Valley Tribune - 11/03/05
A student at Pinnacle High School confessed Tuesday afternoon to posting a threat on a Web site that caused about 50 students to avoid the school, a district official said.
A student notified school officials of the threat late Monday afternoon after seeing a posting on the Web site Myspace.com that read, "People who value their lives shouldn’t show up at school Wednesday," said Judi Willis, spokeswoman for the Paradise Valley Unified School District.

BOMB SEARCH RESULTS:

Thailand:
Blackout after bomb blasts
Bangkok Post News:
The whole of Narathiwat town was hit by a power blackout last night following bomb blasts. The lights went out about 7pm when two home-made bombs, tied to a power pole on the way to the province's power plant, exploded. The pole collapsed, bringing down the power transmission lines.
About the same time, two other bombs went off _ one behind the prison wall and the other near a power pole on Rangae-Mangkhala road in tambon Bang Nak of Muang district.
Another bomb was found in front of a restaurant, but did not explode.
A home-made bomb left in an iron box, weighing about 5kg, wired to a mobile phone, was found in front of Sak Pochana restaurant. It was defused by bomb experts.
Another bomb was found, and later defused, at the entrance of the gas depot of Siam Gas Co on Phetkasem road.
In nearby Yala, Rutlipli Sina, a villager, was shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle on Kadunung-Pakulo road in Raman district.
The Foreign Ministry yesterday brushed aside a call by the Pattani United Liberation Organisation for self-rule in the South, saying the outlawed group simply wanted to use the situation in Thailand to lift its profile.
The organisation warned the situation would become more violent and become a religious war between Islam and Buddhism.

Madrid, Spain:
Bomb explodes in Spain's Basque country, one defused
Reuters.com
MADRID (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in Spain's Basque country early on Thursday, causing no injuries, and a second bomb was defused, Basque police said.
Police suspect armed Basque separatist group ETA of planting the bombs, a police spokesman said.

Jakarta, Indonesia:
Bomb explodes near a church in Ambon, no one wounded: Police
The Jakarta Post:
JAKARTA (AP): A bomb exploded near a church early Thursday in an eastern Indonesian city, but no one was injured, a police chief said.
Lt. Col. Leonidas Braksan said the blast occurred at 3:30 a.m. in Ambon, the capital of the Maluku island chain, where fighting between Muslims and Christians between 1999 and 2001 killed 9,000 people.

SUSPICIOUS DEVICE/PACKAGE:

Memphis, TN:
"Suspicious Package" Found Near Federal Building
WREG.com
MEMPHIS- Memphis police blocked off an area on Front street near the federal building in downtown Memphis this morning after a report of a suspicious package. Police say an employee on the way to work at the federal building spotted a suitcase in the bushes. The Memphis bomb squad was called. They were able to determine the suitcase contained personal property and nothing suspicious. Officers say the suitcase may belong to a homeless person.

Pasadena, TX:
Suspicious Device Found In Pasadena Building
Local Channel 2 Houston
PASADENA, Texas -- Pasadena police are looking for the person who put what appeared to be a homemade bomb in a building.
(...)The device was made out of several water bottles filled with gasoline, officials said.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

New York, NY:
Judge upholds terrorism conviction of Osama bin Laden aide, but criticizes government
From Newsday.com: NEW YORK -- A judge Wednesday refused to order a new trial for an aide to Osama bin Laden in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, though he found "rampant ignorance" by some government investigators had seriously jeopardized its case.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy wrote there were "grave concerns" that Wadih El-Hage should be retried because the U.S. Marshals Service suppressed evidence by failing to turn over taped interviews of a key witness during El-Hage's 2001 conspiracy trial.

Russia:
Putin Says Russia Defends Europe’s Interests While Fighting Terrorism in North Caucasus
Mosnews.com
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Russia was defending not only its own interests while fighting terrorism in the North Caucasus but the Europe’s, too.
Speaking at the press conference in The Hague on Wednesday, Putin quoted by BBC said “if we let terrorists lift their heads up in any region, they will left them up in the other regions, too. We suffer big, often irreplaceable losses,” the Russian president said, “but if we show our weakness only for a minute, those losses will rise many times.”

Singapore:
Singapore's Muslim community rejects those who support terrorism: Dr Yaacob
Channel New Asia:
SINGAPORE : Malay-Muslims in Singapore celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri on Thursday, and many of them began their day with prayers at mosques.
They were joined by the Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, and Malay Members of Parliament.
In his traditional Hari Raya message to the community and all Singaporeans, Dr Yaacob emphasised that the Singapore Muslim community rejected any individual or group that subscribed or supported the terrorist ideology.
And he stressed that whatever the political reasons that their promoters claimed, they would not be allowed to hide under Islam.

London:
Blair loses key cabinet minister, forced to withdraw terrorism...
The Globe and Mail:
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair suffered twin blows to his authority yesterday when a close ally quit government and he was forced to back down on terrorism laws to avoid the first major defeat during eight years in office.
Cabinet minister David Blunkett resigned for the second time in less than a year, just months after Mr. Blair had returned him to government, over accusations he violated a ministerial code of conduct. His resignation prompted a blistering opposition attack on the Prime Minister's judgment.

Jerusalem:
Arab Terrorist Stabs Woman in Jerusalem
IsraelNationalNews.com
(IsraelNN.com) An Arab terrorist stabbed a female Jerusalem teenager several minutes ago in the Liberty Bell Park in the capital. She suffered light to moderate wounds, and police have arrested a suspect who had in his possession a knife with fresh bloodstains.
In the shelling attack on Moshav Netiv Ha'Asara an hour ago, one vehicle was hit and one person was slightly injured. A high-tension wire and a nearby house were damaged, and at least four people were treated for shock. The shelling caused a power blackout in the community.
There were conflicting reports on whether the blasts were from Kassam rockets or mortar shells. One moshav resident was killed in a shelling several weeks ago and attacks have increased in the area, adjacent to the northern Gaza border, since the expulsion of all Jews from Gaza, and the withdrawal of the IDF.

AL QAEDA/AL QAIDA:

Madrid, Spain:
Al Qaeda funding trial resumes
CNN - 11/02/05:
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- The trial of two men charged with financing global al Qaeda activities has resumed in Madrid in a basement courtroom under tight security.
(...)The defendants were identified on Wednesday as Spaniard Enrique Cerda Ibanez, 43, and Pakistani-born Ahmed Rukhsar, 40. Both are businessmen and were arrested in 2003 in Spain.
The prosecution alleges that Cerda sent money to al Qaeda operatives and they also link him to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the court official said.
Sheikh Mohammed, who is in U.S. custody, is considered to be a mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Sheikh Mohammed also is linked to the Djerba, Tunisia synagogue bombing in 2002 that killed 21 people and a suicide bomber. Thirty others were wounded.
(...)The prosecution alleges that Rukhsar, in March 2002, just weeks before the synagogue bombing, transferred 9,500 euros ($11,400 USD) from his account to Muhammad's account. Rukhsar's lawyer, Gerardo Rubio, told CNN that the transfer had indeed occurred, but it was not for terrorist ends.

Islamabad, Pakistan:
Pakistan captures two Al-Qaeda suspects after shooutout - officials
Forbes - 11/03/05:
ISLAMABAD (AFX) - Two Al-Qaeda suspects were seized after a shootout in Pakistan and the authorities are investigating whether one is a Syrian with reported links to the Madrid and London bombings, security officials and a government official said.
Pakistani forces raided a house in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday and arrested two men believed to be Arabs after a gunbattle in which another suspect was killed, one security official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity.
Intelligence agencies are trying to establish if one of the men is wanted Syrian national Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, the government official said.

COLLEGE CAMPUS RELATED:

Univ. of Oklahoma...
Protesters rally on South Oval
From OU Daily:
Students and Normanites protested the treatment of detainees in Iraq.
Compelling and disturbing article regarding a new group on the campus of OU.
Please read it at the paper site or at this FR Thread.

More Coverage:
Protest elicits strong feelings on both sides
The Norman Transcript:
"We wanted to stop and speak up against this corruption by organizing to make something happen," said OU graduate student Dan McRaniels and member of World Can't Wait.
McRaniels said his group organized protests on campuses and communities across the nation Tuesday because it marked the one-year anniversary of the president's reelection.

[ExSoldier]

Also, French blogs are calling for riots in 700 cities tonight. Only a matter of time until we see this happening in our cities.

700 cities? In France? I didn't know they had that many. That's too many for AQ to guard in the eventual surrender. But then again, that's never presented a problem if the Islamist sort in the past....at least since 588A.D.

[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks very much Velveeta!

From your link:
>> Once Ramadan ends on Friday, things will get worse. <<


Chilling.

[Rutles4Ever]

It just seems like a lot of rock throwing and tire-slashing at this point. I don't think they're at a so-called flashpoint, just a growing simmer.

This is the equivalent of Archduke of Ferdinand getting assassinated and starting WWI. I don't believe these riots will go on much longer, but this is setting the table for some easy AQ recruiting. That's the real nightmare.

[appalachian_dweller]

Was a post I saw on another thread. I didn't think they had that many cities either.

Trying to find come hard links to the blogs that are calling for this. I'm not good with searches.

These reports make me thankful that most Americans are armed.

[nw_arizona_granny]

In the upper left corner, is a link to a report of race tensions in Birmingham, England this past (?) weekend, it may be that the call is out to all rioters to act up this week.

This report is one that should be read by all, it is a February 2005 report, on the G-8 plans made in Scotland for the July 2005 meeting, (remember the London bombing of trains and busses)......

There are names and ideas of what is expected.

The report is the same as what we are hearing in Argentina for this weeks meeting.......and the world is having a riot,
again, the communists and muslims are holding hands to kill us.

If they were this worried in Scotland, then I can imagine what is going on in Argentina this week and our President is indeed in danger.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:6zeEdgleOlsJ:www.sundayherald.com/47848+French+bloggers+are+calling+for+country+wide%0D%0A+rioting+to+start+tonight&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet


My computer does not work on blogger links, and I did not check the Groups or News links at the top of the search.

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=French%20bloggers%20are%20calling%20for%20country%20wide%0D%0A%20rioting%20to%20start%20tonight

[ExSoldier]

These reports make me thankful that most Americans are armed.

Key word is most. I guess I'm prepared to write off the northeastern states to better prepare for the campaign of terror to move into a true killing ground in the southern and far western states. Those liberal northeasterners have truly weakened the gene pool in this country anyway.

As an aside, all the folks I've heard whining here in Miami-Dade as a result of Hurricane Wilma have been transplants from the north. It's been eleven days and my neighborhood STILL has no power. But we were ready. Enough food, water, first aid supplies (thanks AD!), gasoline for both vehicles AND the generator, heck it's just been a hot and sticky vacation. I tell these tenderfoot types that back in the days of OLD MIAM-UH the residents were long on the pioneer spirit and short on the nanny-state mentality currently displayed. Heck my father graduated from Miami High in 1924! Did they have Dopler Radar then? Heck no, durn hurricanes just hit without any warning at all. You just had to make do. Which is exactly what we're doing....making do. But we were prepared (THANKS AD!). We're still ready for any other emergency that might suddenly occur.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Another excellent list of the real threats, thank you.

The below is the same site that Kim Komando keeps begging parents to go and check out, to find out what their kids are posting.........

"A student notified school officials of the threat late Monday afternoon
after seeing a posting on the Web site Myspace.com that read,<<<<

It appears that we should all be looking at my space.com,
maybe checking for the different spelling of some terrorist related names.

[Velveeta]

That's a must read article. :-)

(snippet)>>>Husain turned on the television as the second plane hit the Twin Towers. When she heard that the terrorists were likely Muslim, her thoughts moved from the tragedy unfolding on TV to her fellow Muslims. "I thought, What will happen to Muslims in this country? It will never be the same. My whole self changed."<<<

Telling thoughts...very telling.

[LibertyRocks]

IMHO, this is much more than "rock throwing and tire slashing". It was reported that last night shots were fired at the police although no-one was injured...

There has been widespread damage to schools and stores, fires, torching of cars - over 69 reported in one night alone (the 6th night)... Several police stations have been targetted and at least one was briefly overrun.

The other day in an article at CNN a police union rep. stated that it was a "civil war" and requested military backup as his forces were ill-equipped and not trained to deal with the sort of violence they were dealing with.

I hope you are correct about the riots, but they are spreading quickly and I don't see how they are going to contain it quickly at this point...

You can find links to articles posted here at FR via Backhoe's "Is Paris Burning" Roundup thread.

[LucyT]

My niece, whom I'm embarrassed to admit is a news media reporter in San Antonio, mentioned this is the fourth apartment fire in the area during the past few months.

3-Alarm Fire at San Antonio Apt Building
KSAT tv | 11-3-2005 | KSAT tv

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514805/posts

[LibertyRocks]

Can anyone translate the last post that's in Arabic from your infovlad.net link? I think it would be interesting to see what it says.

[LibertyRocks]

You're welcome, and thank you for the compliment. (o:

[nw_arizona_granny]

Did you check for prior FR threads on the San Antonio fires?

I am sure we talked about them on the T.M., I think Indie was posting on them, maybe he lived there.

I hear a lot of apartment house fires in the western news, and there have been several "unknown cause" apt house fires
this year in the San Francisco area, there was one a week or so ago.

Padilla and his ilk, trained to start them.

Thank you for the extra work you do, I am glad you started sharing that work here with us.