Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Two

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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."

TM Terrorism Handbook	Link to Thread Thirty-One "Code Red Implications: Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word." From Tm'er and Freeper ~MamaDearest~	Tracking the Chatter with TM
TM 'Be on the Lookout'		Survival Preparedness Info.
Threat Matrix Book List		ExSoldier's Invaluable Tips
Arabic Links and Resources		Godzilla's Summaries

Threat Matrix HTML designed by: Ian Livingston

[Velveeta]

Fascinating, Granny.

>>>The Long Arm of Saddam Hussein
FBI officials now believe that the brutal murder of an Iraqi-American family in late May was likely perpetrated by the Iraqi secret police. This would be the first successful assassination attempt carried out by Baghdad inside the United States.<<<

I don't remembering ever hearing about this.

[WestCoastGal]

Yes you're right it is John Negroponte. He was a favorite of mine at the UN.

He took on this job with little fanfare and not much to say. I hope he will let us know a bit about what their plans are.

[Velveeta]

This report describes other Christmas items in the suitcase, in addition to the Christmas lights:

>>>The(y) found an old suitcase filled with a vintage yuletide display of plastic candles and a stained glass window made out of cardboard.<<<
http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4201309&nav=ZolHbyvj

As to the message? I just hope they double check the bridge on Christmas day.

[Velveeta]

Pulling this one out of your list, Granny.
The plane could have been missing since August!


[Daily Bulletin] CALIFORNIA - Airplane stolen at El Monte airport

" theft has been reported to Los Angeles County's Terrorism Early Warning Group"

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3276834

[Velveeta]

You sure honed in on that one. ;-)

[Velveeta]

Do you get the feeling it's going to be a busy week?

[WestCoastGal]

"Powell's nomination was voted out unanimously by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in July, but has yet to receive a vote on the chamber floor. Congressional staff from both parties told United Press International that Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a senior member of several national security-related committees had put a hold on Powell -- an arcane parliamentary procedure through which a single senator can stall any nomination indefinitely.
Neither of Levin's press staff responded to telephone or e-mail requests for comment Sunday afternoon, but other Democratic Senate staffers have told UPI that Levin held up several nominations over the summer because he believes the Senate is being denied information it needs for oversight of the war on terrorism. According to Senate staff, Powell's nomination has stalled over Levin's demand to see a document prepared in 2002 by the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, known as the second Bybee memorandum.

So, when the terrorists attack and someone we know, either friend or family is killed we know who to blame. Mr Levin appears to be at the front of the list for playing politics with all of our lives!!!! The people of Michigan need to rethink his position representing them! Of course the muslims who are plentiful in that state will be happy with his good job in blocking of staff for the Intel Chief!! GRRRRRRRR

[freeperfromnj]

Yes - I do. Over the weekend, I felt a strange sense that something is not right.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005321.html
05 December 2005
"Five killed, 58 wounded in Netanya by Palestinian Islamic Jihad"

http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/05dec05-netanya.jpg
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051205/481/jrl10712051146
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3179585,00.html

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http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/26oct05-PIJ_sites.html
http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/01nov05-pij_service_providers.html
http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003975.html

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http://www.nfc.co.il/archive/001-D-87514-00.html?tag=13-31-45

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US (NFC.co.il):
SNIPPET: "Meanwhile, this news from the US-anointed Palestinian government:
Abbas Approves PA Assistance to Families of Suicide Bombers:

Jonathan D. Halevi (News First Class-Hebrew) - On the very day of a suicide bombing in Netanya, it has been reported that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority gave budgetary approval to assistance for the families of suicide bombers.
Each martyr's family will receive a monthly stipend of at least $250 from the PA.

The budget for families of martyrs, prisoners, and the wounded could reach $100 million a year out of an annual budget of over $1 billion."

[Velveeta]

I know the feeling.

[Velveeta]

Relatives Of Missing Veteran Bicker Over Estate

(AP) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Relatives of a retired government intelligence officer who has been missing for 18 months are bickering over how to handle his estate.

Eugene Fish, 53, left his home near Canon City on June 21, 2004, according to his wife, Lynn. His $4,621-a-month pension, bank accounts and credit cards haven't been used, nor has his passport.

Lynn Fish has estimated her husband had $10,000 to $25,000 in cash on him when he left, authorities said. He is a former Navy intelligence officer, former Nuclear Regulatory Commission worker and former F-105 pilot.

Sheriff Jim Beicker said he still considers it a missing-person case.(snip)

http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_339152256.html

[MamaDearest]

Drone's over New Mexico's border not on radar

Snip: WASHINGTON - President Bush, in El Paso last week, said, "We're going to use drones to help enforce the border in rural Texas and in rural New Mexico and rural Arizona." But it appears New Mexico and Texas have disappeared from the flight plan, at least for a few months.

Two days after Bush's speech on Tuesday, border Chief David Aguilar said the use of drones would shortly be expanded "in the Arizona area of operation," where a Tucson-based aerial drone has helped nab more than 1,000 border-crossers just in the past two months. He ignored a question about using drones over New Mexico. The problem is that, while the patrol might secure the ground along the border, it's the Federal Aviation Administration that rules the skies. Their officials have not approved the use of drones except in restricted airspace that civilian planes are not supposed to enter, such as the airspace over southern Arizona.

In the past, FAA officials have expressed concerns that the radio-controlled drones could crash into passenger planes, either accidentally or if somehow taken over by terrorists. Sen. Pete Domenici has been pushing the administration to use drones on the border for more than two years. The Albuquerque Republican fired off another letter to the heads of the FAA and the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, urging them to "take every step within your power" to resolve the issue.

Domenici said New Mexico State University and the Department of Defense have FAA approval to use Las Cruces International Airport as a base to test aerial drones. On Thursday, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown issued a statement committing the agency to a two-month deadline for a plan. "The FAA is working aggressively with the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security to develop a solution that allows for the broader use of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operations in performing important border security missions," she said.

"We are working through the challenges of coordinating these additional flights while ensuring the safety of nearby civilian aircraft and are optimistic that we will be able to find a way to allow CBP to proceed. We hope to be able to announce a solution within the next two months." Earlier Thursday, Aguilar joined Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to kick off what Chertoff promised will be regular reports on the progress in patrolling the border.

"It's not going to happen overnight, but what will make it work and what makes it achievable is a strategy that blends all the elements of our power to control our border," Chertoff said. The plan includes an increase from 9,500 border agents when Bush took office in 2001 to 12,500 agents by next year. It also involves more detention beds, barriers, ground sensors and drones, Chertoff said.

It does not include a fence along the entire border with Mexico, as some members of Congress have proposed. Chertoff said such a fence would be "phenomenally expensive" and not "particularly effective."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.infovlad.net/?p=324
"Al Qaeda in Iraq 'sear5.doc'"
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/sear5.doc

[Cindy]

http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?id=4414&siteSection=5

Updated: November 29th, 2005 11:30 AM EDT
Home > Airline and Airport Security News
"Hundreds of Sydney Airport Security Passes Lost"
(LexisNexis"


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "HUNDREDS of security cards giving people access to restricted areas at Sydney airport are lost or stolen each year.
Qantas security boss Geoff Askew said yesterday thousands of Aviation Security Identification Cards were issued every year to people who work in restricted areas at Sydney airport, including the airstrip and baggage rooms.

But Australia's largest airline could not account for 384 of the cards, issued by the Department of Transport and Regional Services over the past two years, Mr Askew told federal parliament's public accounts and audit committee in Sydney."

[LucyT]

they have formed a nation of their own in Louisiana

Thanks, granny, for the help. I checked out the links, and found some interesting information.

[Gucho]

"Pallywood In Action: Staged Battle Videos"


Thank you for the news items.

[MamaDearest]

Non-residents get travel warning

Snip: Because of a Department of Homeland Security's 2003 law, any non-citizen of the U.S. can lose their "green card" and be put in deportation proceedings for criminal convictions that happened as far as 20 years ago.

Pimental told a handful of concerned Filipinos that he had a client who had a green card for 15 years. The woman had convictions for shoplifting a packet of Kool-Aid and aspirin. "She went to her own country, came back, and was put in deportation proceedings," Pimental said. "Even something as minor as two shoplifting convictions can put you at risk."

Dangers in leafy greens

Snip: "These 19 outbreaks," Dr Brackett wrote, "account for approximately 409 reported cases of illness and two deaths." The reason his letter targeted California is that investigations traced eight of the outbreaks associated with lettuce and spinach back to growers in Salinas, Calif.

Leafy greens flourish best when generously irrigated and fertilized. Micro-greens in particular germinate most productively under conditions that also encourage the growth of microbes. In the case of organic sprouts and leafy greens, they may also be fertilized with fresh manure.

Even if the water used in irrigation is pure, if the supply used after harvesting to clean and chill a crop is not high-enough quality to sanitize a crop, a consumer using it after purchase without further washing could be at risk of infection.

Raw egg warning after 40 taken ill with salmonella

Snip: "PEHS is investigating a number of groups of people who have experienced gastroenteritis over the past week. All are linked to the same food business," Dr Taylor said yesterday. "While the total number of people affected remains unclear, at least 40 people are known to have contracted gastroenteritis. "Three people are known to have been hospitalised, of whom two remain in hospital in a satisfactory condition."

Dr Taylor said tests had so far shown eight cases of salmonella, but he did not know whether it was the same strain as recent outbreaks. "The food business involved had prepared ready-to-eat foods such as tartare sauce, mayonnaise and an avocado mix, using raw egg as one of the ingredients," he said.

For our safety some profiling must be done

Snip: The latest licking was applied to Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who stumbled into the fray on some artless words about how "some" Arab men from terrorist-producing countries ought to be given more intense scrutiny because, well, that fits the profile of the 9/11 terrorists. That makes sense, or is at least a legitimate issue for debate, without anyone holding his breath and turning red-faced if Kirk doesn't grovel.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said she was "deeply offended" by Kirk's remarks, and I'm deeply offended that she's deeply offended, so she should apologize to me. She was deeply offended in front of a cheering immigrants' rights group, saying that Kirk's kind of thinking led to the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans. No, this kind of thinking might have spared nearly 3,000 people from gruesome deaths from hijacked airplanes.

Muslim killers force EU to retain e-mail info?

Snip: With Muslim murderers global taking over in one place or another, civil persons are trying to put them off. That has left the European Union faced with the possibility of tracking phone and email logs.It could happen. They are trying to locate Islamic killers international in the latter’s communication networks. Therefore, law-abiding citizens will be caught in the web, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

The EU ministers have agreed to set up some sort of plan by which "telecommunications companies (will) retain phone and email logs for at least six months to help investigations into terrorism and other serious crimes." Big Brother, in other words, grows in strength. However, the threat of Islam world rule has forced it on EU leaders to put just that in operation.

That’s how far the Islamic fanatics have pushed the free world. No wonder US President George W. Bush continues to reiterate that the entire world is confronted with the Islamic fanatic enemy. That is why New Iraq is not a foreign problem. The Muslim murdering infiltrators are everywhere.

[Cindy]

You're welcome Gucho.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mohammed+Iqbal+Memon%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

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ON THE NET...

http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=10583
"Iqbal Mirchi wants to follow Salem home"
Josy Joseph
Sunday, November 20, 2005  01:38 IST


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW DELHI: After extortionist Abu Salem, it could be the turn of drug trafficker Mohammed Iqbal Memon alias Iqbal Mirchi alias Iqbal Merchant to return to India.

An intelligence source said Memon approached officials in the Indian high commission in London and expressed a desire to return home provided he is offered a suitable “deal”. The source refused to say what the deal involves.

Memon’s offer could be the result of various factors, the source said. His wife and children cannot travel to England because of restrictions imposed on them. His properties in India — a flat on Juhu Tara Road, Hotel Minaz in Juhu, and three buildings at the Worli Sea Face — were attached by a Mumbai court in 1999.

The most critical factor, however, may be the American noose tightening around his neck. Memon’s name figured in the trial of Hemant Lakhani, the Briton who was jailed early this year for trying to smuggle a shoulder-fired missile-launcher into the US."

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ON THE NET...

http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/november/124615.htm

"Pheeka Mirchi!"
By: Lajwanti D'Souza
November 30, 2005

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534447/posts


Abbas approves aid to terrorists' families
www.jnewswire.com ^ | December 5th, 2005 | Ryan Jones

Posted on 12/05/2005 12:32:59 PM PST by Esther Ruth

JNW HEADLINE NEWS

Abbas approves aid to terrorists' families By Ryan Jones

December 5th, 2005

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has approved financial aid to the families of all “Palestinians” killed in conflict with Israel, the majority of whom died while engaging in acts of violence against men, women, children and soldiers.

The order was signed on the very day a Palestinian Arab blew himself up at a shopping mall in central Israel, slaughtering five people and wounding more than 50. The bomber's family, along with those of every other deceased killer, will now receive at least $250 a month in direct government aid, according to the new law.

That amount of money is more than most lower class “Palestinians” can hope to make working menial jobs. This fact, coupled with a culture that glorifies deceased terrorists as national heroes, has the potential to increase the number of young Palestinian Arabs willing to give their lives to kill Jews.

As reported by Israel's News First Class earlier this year, the PA is also shelling out for the legal defense of “Palestinian” terrorists sitting in Israeli prisons.

Together with the new “Martyrs' Families” law, the PA is now spending $100 million per year, a full one-tenth of its overall $1 billion budget, supporting those who engage in terrorist violence against the Jews of Israel.