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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!

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

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[Velveeta]

A Brief Message to the Muslims in Syria
By SITE Institute
November 3, 2005


A message recently issued to a jihadist forum, titled: “A Brief Message to the Muslims in al-Sham (Syria),” warns of an impending dismantling of the Syrian regime by the “Zionist/Crusader alliance,” and alerts Syrian Muslims to ally within the “Global Islamic Front.” According to the author, regardless of any appeasement or collaborations with the “idiot monster,” the Syrian regime will be struck as the alliance seeks to create a schism within Muslims in Syria, allegedly inventing their role in the al-Hariri assassination and “infiltration of mujahideen to Iraq”.

Further, to confront this situation, the author advocates the unification of Muslims under the flag of “international jihad.”


http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications115305&Category=publications&Subcategory=0

[nw_arizona_granny]

CSIS: terror cell busted
Bomb expert among four Algerians in Toronto

Stewart Bell
National Post

Thursday, November 03, 2005

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=aa8696a1-5a53-40ca-868a-3c8f6009581c

TORONTO - Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a
suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an
al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned.

The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants who had lived in
Canada for as long as six years and were alleged members of a radical
Islamic terror faction called the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

The central figure of the Toronto-area cell was a former al-Qaeda
training camp instructor who studied bomb-making at Osama bin Laden's Al
Farooq and Khaldun training camps in eastern Afghanistan.

The group was watched by intelligence officers before being broken
apart in an inter-agency operation involving the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service, Canada Border Services Agency and police.

A senior CSIS counterterrorism official, Larry Brooks, announced the
dismantling of the cell at a closed-door national security workshop held
this week at a hotel north of Toronto.

Mr. Brooks told workshop delegates that three members of the group were
deported this summer and the key figure left Canada voluntarily in
March, 2004, after he was confronted by investigators.

The investigation was described as ongoing.

The group was unrelated to Canada's most notorious Algerian terror
network, the Groupe Fateh Kamel in Montreal, whose most infamous member,
Ahmed Ressam, tried to blow up Los Angeles airport in 1999.

But there were parallels between the Montreal and Toronto groups,
notably that the members of both were failed Algerian refugee claimants who
had learned how to manufacture explosives at the Khaldun training camp.

The case "is a prime example of inter-agency co-operation," Mr. Brooks
told delegates. CSIS was the lead agency in the investigation, but
police and immigration enforcement officers from the CBSA in the Niagara
region were also involved at various stages.

"CSIS's mandate is to collect, analyze and report threat-related
intelligence to government. This means that effectively, our intelligence is
shared with a variety of domestic and international security
intelligence and law enforcement partners," Barbara Campion, the CSIS
spokeswoman, said yesterday.

"CSIS does not discuss details of specific cases," she added.

But on Monday, Mr. Brooks, the chief of counterterrorism for the
Toronto region, gave an outline of the case to delegates at the National
Security Workshop 2005, a federal initiative that brought together security
officials and representatives of Ontario industries involved in
critical infrastructure, such as telephone, hydro and transit.

Mr. Brooks did not name the alleged terror-cell members, but during his
presentation he showed several photographs, including what appeared to
be surveillance photos taken in a parking lot.

A recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies
in Washington, D.C., claimed 600 of the estimated 3,000 foreign fighters
in Iraq are Algerians, making them the largest contingent, ahead of
even Saudis.

The Salafist group, better known as the GSPC (short for Groupe
Salafiste pour la Predication et le Combat), is the leading Algerian terrorist
group. It is a breakaway faction of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group
and is aligned with bin Laden and al-Qaeda's Iraq leader, Abu Mussab
Zarqawi.

The federal Cabinet added the GSPC to Canada's list of banned terrorist
groups in November, 2002. "The GSPC is a radical Sunni Muslim group
seeking to establish an Islamist government in Algeria," Public Safety and
Emergency Preparedness Canada said in a background report.

"The GSPC has adopted a policy that violence should be targeted on
security or military targets, foreigners, intellectuals and administrative
staff. The GSPC is believed to have been active outside Algeria. The
group has been affiliated to Osama bin Laden and groups financed by him."

The ringleader of the Toronto cell was an Algerian-born member of the
GSPC who entered Canada on Aug. 8, 1998, using a forged Saudi passport
and made a refugee claim that was ultimately turned down.

Initially, CSIS began preparing a national security certificate that
was to be used to deport him, but instead authorities subjected him to
"confrontation interviews," a counterterrorism tactic that is sometimes
used to make suspected terrorists know they are being closely watched.

The explosives expert left on his own shortly afterward on March 7,
2004, and the three others were later arrested and deported to U.S. border
crossings because they had entered Canada from the United States.

The operation is the latest indication that trained terrorists, some of
whom are versed in bomb-making methods and have links to bin Laden and
his al-Qaeda network, have been living in Canada.

"We know that terrorists are in our own backyard," Inspector Jamie
Jagoe, the officer in charge of the RCMP Integrated National Security
Enforcement Team for Ontario, which co-hosted the workshop, told delegates.

During his presentation, Insp. Jagoe showed slides of several suspected
terrorists who had lived in Canada, including Amer El-Maati, Abderraouf
Jdey, Mahmoud Jaballah, Mohamed Mahjoub, Ressam, Mohammed Jabarah,
Abdul Rahman Jabarah and Ahmed Said Khadr.

While few terrorists in Canada aside from Ressam have built bombs here,
he said they are "involved in other aspects of terrorism" such as
fundraising, recruiting, propaganda and arms trading. "All of these
contribute to the cause as much as someone building a bomb in their basement."

The terrorist presence in Canada must be taken seriously because both
bin Laden and an al-Qaeda targeting manual have listed the country as
one of a handful of nations that should be attacked, Insp. Jagoe said.

[Velveeta]

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of the Secretary


National Infrastructure Protection Plan

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure
Protection, Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to inform the public and
interested security partners that the draft National Infrastructure
Protection Plan (NIPP) Base Plan is available for review and comment.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for developing
this comprehensive, integrated national plan for the protection of the
Nation's critical infrastructure and key resources under the authority
of Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7 (HSPD-7), Critical
Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection.

ADDRESSES: If you would like to review the draft NIPP Base Plan and
provide comments, please submit a request to DHS via one of the
following methods:
E-mail to: NIPP@dhs.gov mailto:NIPP@dhs.gov.
Mail: NIPP Program Management Office, Department of
Homeland Security, Preparedness Directorate/IP/IPD, Mail Stop 8560,
Washington, DC 20528-8560.
Please include your name, organization, mailing address, and e-mail
address when submitting your request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Infrastructure Protection
Plan: Charles Davis, NIPP Program Management Office, Preparedness
Directorate/IP/IPD, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC
20528, 703-235-5338 or Charles.H.Davis@dhs.gov mailto:Charles.H.Davis@dhs.gov.

DATES: The draft National Infrastructure Protection Plan will become
available on November 2, 2005. All requests for copies must be made
within 15 days of this notice. Comments on the document should be
submitted to DHS by December 5, 2005.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Protecting critical infrastructures and key
resources from attack is vital to the Nation. Through HSPD-7, the
President directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to produce a
comprehensive, integrated national plan for the protection of critical
infrastructures and key resources. On February 9, 2005, DHS released an
interim version of the NIPP Base Plan. Since that time, DHS has been
working to revise the NIPP

[[Page 66841]]

Base Plan to provide further detail regarding the framework for
protecting the Nation's infrastructure and setting the direction for
implementing a coordinated, national effort. At this time, DHS is
seeking comments from the public on the draft NIPP Base Plan. Anyone
interested in reviewing the draft NIPP Base Plan can obtain a copy by
forwarding a request to DHS following the steps described under
Addresses above. All such requests must be received within 15 days of
the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
Following receipt of your request for review, DHS will forward a copy
of the draft NIPP Base Plan along with instructions on how to submit
comments.

Bob Stephan,
Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection.
[FR Doc. 05-21984 Filed 11-2-05; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410-10-P

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[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=international%20jihad

Bloodthirsty bunch of enemies:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&q=muslim+international+jihad&spell=1

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=muslim%20international%20jehad

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=unification%20of%20Muslims%20under%20the%20flag%20of%0D%0A%20%93international%20jihad.%94%20

***take a look at this one:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&q=muslims+plan+world+jihad+in+2005&spell=1

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=muslims%20plan%20world%20jehad%20in%202005

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[Velveeta]

ABLE DANGER UPDATE: DIA Undeterred in Moving Against Col. Shaffer; Warning to Whistle Blowers to Just Shut Up
http://tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com/

[freeperfromnj]

I would consider this to be a big story. I have seen no coverage of it other than here.

[freeperfromnj]

Update (sounds like the French authorities are in serious denial):

French unrest spreads outside Paris

Staff and agencies
Friday November 4, 2005

A disabled person was badly burned in an attack on a city bus and more than four hundred cars were torched during an eighth night of rioting in Paris suburbs.

Government officials cited a falling number of direct clashes with police to claim that the situation was becoming calmer, but the violence also spread out of the capital's immediate vicinity.

Reports of unrest surfaced in Rouen in Normandy, Dijon in Burgundy and the Mediterranean port of Marseille. A bus depot was set on fire to the west of Paris in the town of Trappes, near Versailles, destroying 27 buses.

An amateur video aired on television showed them all in a row and in flames.

Gerard Gaudron, mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, one of the worst-hit suburbs, insisted "the peak is now behind us" but in the low-income estates on the edge of Paris the mayhem continued.

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the department between central Paris and Charles de Gaulle airport, arson attacks destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings. Two commuter trains to the airport also came under attack........

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1634739,00.html

[Velveeta]

Links to keep us busy for a lifetime!

[Velveeta]

OMG

>>>A 56-year-old handicapped woman was set on fire during the riots and is currently in hospital with severe burns, state prosecutors said on Friday.

The woman was on a bus in the northern suburb of Sevran when youths threw a Molotov cocktail on board late on Wednesday. All the other passengers quickly evacuated, but she was unable to get off.

According to prosecutors, one youth doused the woman with petrol before others threw a flaming rag on the vehicle.<<<

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1829132,00.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

November 4, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News

(UK) Two charged under terror act with conspiracy to murder
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/04/uterror.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/04/ixportaltop.html
Two men held under the Terrorism Act last month have been charged with
conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.

Al Qaeda in Iraq threatens to attack foreign missions
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/November/focusoniraq_November18.xml&section=focusoniraq

(Iraq) Insurgents strike police as Shiites mark holiday
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9895306/

French riots spread beyond Paris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4405620.stm
Youths burned buildings and more than 500 vehicles in the eighth
consecutive night of rioting.

(TSA) Government to Relax Airport-Security Rules
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113098163878586973-W8JGCTCM3S__C9fEABiLN4pZ0kE_20051110.html?mod=mktw
The federal government is preparing new rules that would allow
travelers to bring items such as sharp knives and scissors onto airplanes,
rolling back post-9/11 prohibitions that slow security lines and that many
aviation experts say are no longer needed to protect aircraft.

Clerics still preaching hatred of West (Australia)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17123135%255E601,00.html
Clerics in Sydney and Melbourne still preaching hatred against West,
urging followers in Arabic to support terrorists attacking Australian
soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

(Netherlands) Shot fired at window of Rita Verdonk's ministerial office
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=25050&name=Shot+fired+at+window+of+Rita+Verdonk%27s+ministerial+office
Verdonk wore a bullet-proof vest when she attended a commemoration for
filmmaker Theo van Gogh on Wednesday

(Canada) CSIS: terror cell busted
Bomb expert among four Algerians in Toronto
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=aa8696a1-5a53-40ca-868a-3c8f6009581c

Blasts rock disputed area on Lebanon-Israel border
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-03T155834Z_01_SIB357482_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEBANON-ISRAEL.xml&archived=False

Terror suspect on bail tied to Metro bomb plot (Philippines)
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=55419
"A terror suspect out on bail with the alleged help of a broadcast
journalist is planning new bomb attacks in Metro Manila"

Appeals Court Hears Cases on Patriot Act
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_re_us/patriot_act_records;_ylt=AjUn0ibzAHFLWv_W0gZk_Tis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg-

Insurgents Will Keep Fighting Until Elections, General Says
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2005/20051103_3231.html
DOD press release: "In the run-up to the Iraqi referendum, insurgent
attacks averaged 90 a day. In the past week, that number dropped to about
81 per day..."

TSA plans national 'registered traveler' program
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/11/03/passenger.screening.ap/index.html

(Italy) Berlusconi 'threatened by bomber'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/03/berlusconi.bomber.reut/index.html
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said a suicide bomber was
plotting to blow him up in a soccer stadium, and he accused his
domestic political opponents of exposing Italy to terror attacks.

[freeperfromnj]

It's a real horror story all right. The fact that the authorites couldn't stop that from happening gives us an idea as to the severity of what's really going on there.

[appalachian_dweller]

Something just crossed my mind....

One of the rioters in Denmark stated that these riots were planned in advance. The riots in Paris were reportedly sparked by the electrocution of the two guys running from the cops.

Which is it? Spontaneous or planned?

The reports I've seen so far indicate that last night was the worst yet and the riots continue to spread.

Looks more like an insurrection than a riot. Multiple cities in multiple countries.

Something needs to be done around Iran. The Iranian president is encouraging further violence.

[LibertyRocks]

Thanks for the kind thoughts and prayers. So far so good today I think. No headache at least, and I don't feel feverish this morning... Crossing my fingers that whatever it was has passed. (o:

[Velveeta]

I think it was planned, but the electrocution ended up bringing them out en masse.

If you look back to last week, the protests were even encouraged from the US:

Bay Area Sikhs protest French ban on turbans in schools
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4044508&nav=9qrx

[freeperfromnj]

Breaking

Fire in Petronas Towers

SkyNews ^ | 11.4.05

Posted on 11/04/2005 9:17:16 AM PST by mhking

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515706/posts

[GOPJ]

Looks more like an insurrection than a riot. Multiple cities in multiple countries.

I think you're right.

[Calpernia]

I posted a pdf file from a college server that had riot plans.

StillProud had also done translations on riot type plans around the same timeframe.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were some planned initiatives.

[LucyT]

Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Global Virus. The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading.
NRO ^ | November 4, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson

"...the world — if it is to save its present liberal system of free trade, safe travel, easy and unfettered communications, and growing commitment to constitutional government —

"must begin seeing radical Islamism as a universal pathology rather than reactions to regional grievances, if it is ever to destroy it materially and refute it ideologically."

"...in large part four nations stand in the way of eradicating much of the global spread of jihadism -

"and it is no accident that either oil or nuclear weapons have won a global free pass for three of them. -

"And it is no accident that we don’t have a means to wean ourselves off Middle East oil

"or as yet stop Iran from becoming the second Islamic nuclear nation."

"...when the American public is still bickering over WMDs rather than relieved that the culprit for the first World Trade Center bombing can no longer find official welcome in Baghdad;

"- or when our pundits seem more worried about Halliburton than the changes in nuclear attitudes in Libya and Pakistan;

"- or when the media mostly ignores a greater percentage of voters turning out

"for a free national election in the heart of the ancient caliphate

"than during most election years in the United States —

"something has gone terribly, tragically wrong here at home."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515551/posts

[LucyT]

Deadly bomb technology enters Iraq from Iran-general
Reuters ^ | 04 Nov 2005 | Charles Aldinger

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sophisticated technology and explosives to make improvised bombs killing U.S. and other troops in Iraq are apparently

entering the country virtually unhindered from Iran, a senior British general said on Friday.
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The Pentagon said more than half of all U.S. casualties in Iraq stem from homemade bombs, which are often buried along a road or hidden inside debris or even animal carcasses and usually detonated by remote control or with a timer. The Pentagon said on Friday that 2,035 U.S. soldiers had been killed and nearly 15,500 more wounded in a war that started in March 2003.

"I think we're not completely certain where the manufacture takes place," said Dutton of the devices.

"We know where the technological know-how comes from and we suspect where the parts come from," he said. "Where they are actually put together is something that we're working on."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515748/posts