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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Thirty-Two (Index)

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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

[MamaDearest]

Glad you're feeling better LR!

Radical Islam blamed for French rioting

SNIP:Much of the chaos, analysts said, is tied to the lack of Muslim integration into European society – whether by design or by choice. In France and Denmark alike, many cities dominated by Islamic faithful have been deemed too dangerous for police and are, effectively, "no-go zones."

Much of the chaos, analysts said, is tied to the lack of Muslim integration into European society – whether by design or by choice. In France and Denmark alike, many cities dominated by Islamic faithful have been deemed too dangerous for police and are, effectively, "no-go zones."

Muslim gravestones descecrated - tension in Birmingham UK

SNIP:In late October, riots had broken out involving Asian and Afro-Caribbean youths, sparked by a claim that a 14-year-old black girl had been raped. Reports say the West Midlands Police are at the scene collecting the leaflets and taking statements from those who found them. Between 35 and 45 gravestones have reportedly been desecrated.

US urging Muslims to register before air travel

SNIP:Washington, November 5: The head of Civil Rights for the US Department of Homeland Security is urging Muslim air travellers to register with the Federal government before flying to reduce the chances they might be stopped at an airport because their name is on or similar to names on an anti-terrorism watch list.

Longwood Florida under boil water order

SNIP:Longwood issued a boil-water notice late Thursday for a large area of the city's southeast section. Officials said water may be infected by fecal coliforms and E. coli bacteria, indicating it was contaminated with human or animal waste.

[Cindy]

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Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring
The Washington Times ^ | 11/05/05 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 11/05/2005 12:19:06 AM PST by conservative in nyc

Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.

U.S. intelligence and security officials said the case remains under investigation but that it could prove to be among the most damaging spy cases since the 1985 one of John A. Walker Jr., who passed Navy communication codes to Moscow for 22 years.

The Los Angeles spy ring has operated since 1990 and has funneled technology and military secrets to China in the form of documents and computer disks, officials close to the case said.

The ring was led by Chi Mak and his wife, Rebecca Laiwah Chiu, along with Mr. Chi's brother, Tai Wang Mak, and his wife, Fuk Heung Li, officials said.

Key compromises uncovered so far include sensitive data on Aegis battle management systems that are the core of U.S. Navy destroyers and cruisers.

China covertly obtained the Aegis technology and earlier this year deployed its first Aegis warship, code-named Magic Shield, intelligence officials have said.

The Chinese also obtained sensitive data on U.S. submarines, including classified details related to the new Virginia-class attack submarines.

Officials said based on a preliminary assessment, China now will be able to track U.S. submarines, a compromise that potentially could be devastating if the United States enters a conflict with China in defending Taiwan

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

[Cindy]

News from Norway...

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1149180.ece
First published: 04 Nov 2005, 10:22???
"Push to find missing immigrants"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police say they will now step up efforts to find illegal immigrants. In the past four years over 20,000 persons have left Norwegian asylum reception centers and vanished."
Related stories:

[Cindy]

stepping back to October 15, 2005:

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "TEMPER TANTRUM OF THE DAY AWARD" (October 15, 2005)

INFOVLAD.net: "NEXT TARGET - DENMARK?" (October 15, 2005)

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[Cindy]

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47229
"Hamas, Islamic Jihad
seek new sanctuary
Terrorist groups fearful Syria might expel them to placate the West"
Posted: November 4, 2005
10:05 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM

[Cindy]

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Al-Qaeda suspects killed in blast
The Australian ^ | 5 Nov 05

Posted on 11/05/2005 3:11:06 AM PST by Fair Go

Al-Qaeda suspects killed in blast From correspondents in Miranshah 05nov05

SIX foreign Al-Qaeda suspects including a woman were killed when a bomb they were making exploded in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border Saturday, the military said.

"It seems the explosion occurred when these people were busy making an improvised explosive device for terrorist activity," chief military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP, quoting local administration officials. Residents said the blast happened early today in a house near Mir Ali, about 20 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in the rugged tribal zone of North Waziristan.

Sultan said six people were killed, one of whom was female, and they were all believed to be foreigners although their exact nationalities were still being investigated.

The blast during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr came days after security forces killed an Arab Al-Qaeda suspect and seized another in a shootout in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.

Hundreds of insurgents with suspected links to Al-Qaeda sneaked into Pakistan across the porous border from Afghanistan after US-led forces ousted the hardline Taliban regime there in late 2001.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Hmmm makes you wonder. Remember last year when Senator Mark Dayton shut down his office?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6243845/

It was an extreme possibility on a menu of unknowns that had less-threatening options. All 535 members of Congress continued to work as usual until this week, when Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) shut his offices, sent his staff home and cautioned people against visiting Capitol Hill.

[freeperfromnj]

They are always quick to reassure us that there is no credible terror threat. Meanwhile......these are the guys who actually CARRIED OUT the London subway bombings. I don't know if you read the whole article. This from page 2:

........Mughal was charged with 10 offenses, including conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause an explosion, conspiracy to obtain money by deception, fundraising and possession of articles for terrorist purposes.

One of the charges alleges that police found a DVD in Mughal's bedroom titled "Martyrdom Operations Vest." He is also charged with possessing a piece of paper with information about a recipe for rocket propellant and guidance on causing an explosion.

Police also allegedly found a piece of paper in his home with the Arabic phrase: "Welcome to Jihad."......

[StillProud2BeFree]

I can't help but remember Achille Lauro when I read this:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/11/05/somalia.pirates/index.html

Cruise liner fends off pirate attack

By CNNRadio's Matt Cherry and Amanda Moyer
Saturday, November 5, 2005; Posted: 4:41 a.m. EST (09:41 GMT)

(CNN) -- A luxury cruise line will re-evaluate whether to offer future cruises off the coast of Somalia after pirates attempted to attack one of its ships early Saturday.

The modern-day pirates were in two small boats and carrying machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade when they attempted the attack on Seabourn Cruise Lines' "Spirit" about 5:35 a.m. local time Saturday, Deborah Natansohn, president of the cruise line, told CNNRadio.

The ship was carrying 150 passengers and a crew of about 160.

The ship, she said, immediately instituted its emergency response system. "The occupants of those boats did not succeed in boarding the ship and eventually turned away ... our captain and crew did a terrific job taking responsive action."

Passenger Mike Rogers of Vancouver, Canada, said the pirates were shooting and sending rockets at the boat.

"The captain tried to run one of the boats over, but they were small boats, about 25 feet long," he told CNNRadio affiliate CKNW in Vancouver.

"Each one had four or five people on it, and (the captain) said he was going to do anything to keep them from getting on board."

The captain, however, did not hit the alarm button to alert passengers of the emergency, Rogers said.

"He announced it over the speakers, because he was scared people would run up on deck, and he didn't want people on deck because they would have been shot."

The cruise ship eventually outran the pirates' boats, Natansohn said. One person suffered minor injuries, she said, but did not elaborate.

"There's some minor damage done to the ship," Rogers said. "There's no water right now, for instance, in some places, and I believe one of the grenades actually went off in one of the cabins, but everyone on board is fine."

The boat is now en route to the Seychelles Islands, Natansohn said.

On Thursday, the United Nations' World Food Programme warned that hijackings off the coast of Somalia were restricting the delivery of needed food assistance to the country.

"The southern Somali coastline is one of the most dangerous in the world," the WFP said on its Web site.

"In recent months, WFP's operations in Somalia have been sabotaged by the hijackings of two vessels carrying relief food. Ship owners are now demanding armed escorts to travel in these waters."

Natansohn said efforts were underway Saturday to locate the pirates. "We have notified U.S., Canadian and Australian authorities, because most of our passengers come from those three countries, as well as local authorities in Africa."

"Seabourn 'Spirit' has offered itineraries in that part of the world before, but we'll obviously be looking at the incident to determine what to do in the future," she said.

Rogers said, "we're always looking for adventure, but this is probably a little more than we would normally look for."

[Godzilla]

Cruise liner fends off pirate attack

Given that so many attacks have been posted here as well as increased warnings, I'm wondering WHO is going to step up to the plate and swat these guys or are the ships going to try to stay further and further away?

[Selene]

A disabled person was badly burned in an attack on a city bus

The Guardian is covering up this atrocity...actual event: 55 year old woman dowsed with gasoline and set on fire.

[EternalHope]

Officials said based on a preliminary assessment, China now will be able to track U.S. submarines, a compromise that potentially could be devastating if the United States enters a conflict with China in defending Taiwan.

This is HUGE.

This is an intelligence disaster. It should be front page news in every paper. But it won't. Instead, we'll keep hearing about the trivial/pathetic Valerie Plame/Wilson.

[Domestic Church]

More Syrian/Russian intrigue:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516337/posts

[Selene]

Twin Towers Construction
http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=13956
The structure will be Sacramento's tallest building and will dominate the Capital Mall

Sacramento City Council Calls for U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=14028
In the resolution, the council cited several reasons why it is advocating withdrawal, including … "grave harm to the people of Sacramento, especially its low-income residents and communities of color."

The potential release of a Lodi man accused of ties to terrorism is being delayed
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051105/NEWS01/511050330/1001/NEWS01
A loan on one of the properties pledged for his release is reducing the home's value as collateral.

[LibertyRocks]

Thank you for the links, and the kind words. (o:

[LibertyRocks]

Thanks for the link. I appreciate it. (o:

[LibertyRocks]

Search Results 11/05/05:

SCHOOL + THREAT:

Temecula, CA:
Bomb threat locks down school
Valley News - 11/05/05
[This is the full 1 paragraph article - LR]
Temecula Valley High School was briefly put on lockdown due to a bomb threat. Officers with the Hazardous Devices Team check out the object found on Margarita Road Wednesday afternoon. The team used a robot to safely clear the device; about 2:30 p.m., it was pronounced “disrupted and rendered safe” by Hazardous Device Team member Earl M. Quintana. Upon further investiagion[sic], the object was found to be a hydraulic accumulator.

Kenmore, WA:
Threat locks down Inglemoor High School
Seattle Times - 11/05/05
Inglemoor High School in Kenmore was under a modified lockdown Friday after school officials learned of a vague threat indicating there would be a shooting at the school.
(...)They first learned of the threat about 6 p.m. Thursday, said Susan Stoltzfus, director of communications for the Northshore School District. The school, which has about 1,900 students, was searched, but nothing was found.
(...)The threat appeared on an Internet site often used by students and was "very nonspecific," said Stoltzfus, but it indicated there would be a shooting at the school the next day, an apparent reference to Friday.
Officials learned of the threat in a roundabout way, Stoltzfus said, with one student posting a report of the threat and then talking to a friend who was a neighbor of an assistant principal.

Grove City, PA:
Grove City High School Receives Fifth Bomb Threat
WXPI & Pittsburgh.com - 11/04/05
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- In just a month, five bomb scares have had students at Grove City High School missing out on class time.
On Thursday, another threat was found written on a school wall.
(...)Bomb threats were discovered Oct. 6, 11, and 24 on restroom walls.
Grove City said police are investigating, but no one has been arrested.

Williamstown, KY:
Bomb threat - Purses, backpacks checked at GCHS
Grant County News - 11/05/05
[It's good to see the FBI offering these schools assistance, IMHO. - LR]
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.
(...)A bomb-sniffing dog from the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport searched the school on Monday afternoon.
Howe said nothing was discovered.
Students entering Grant County High School on Tuesday, Nov. 1, had their purses and backpacks searched by school administrators.
Police officers from the Grant County Sheriff's Office and the Kentucky State Police assisted with the search.
(...)The FBI, according to Grant County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Chuck Dills, contacted the sheriff's department on Tuesday and offered assistance.
"They (the FBI) contacted us that they had received information about a bomb threat and they told us they were available if we needed them," he said. "We've accepted their offer to ensure the safety of students at the high school."
Howe confirmed that some FBI personnel offered services to the school district.
"At this point, they've offered their services simply because this was a threat on the general school population," she said. "They may assist with the interviewing process, along with school personnel."

Moses Lake, WA:
Sheriff's Office responds to bomb threat
Columbia Basin Herald - 11/04/05
No bomb found, Head Start program canceled Thursday
MOSES LAKE --The Grant County Sheriff's Office and Grant County Fire District No. 5 responded to a bomb threat Thursday morning at the Head Start program on East Craig Street in Moses Lake.
A 911 call was made early Thursday morning before the Head Start program began after a teacher in the building received a phone call from what sounded like a male caller.
The caller advised the teacher of a bomb he said was to be inside her classroom.
(...)The statement also reported that an explosive detecting dog from the Grand Coulee Police Department arrived on scene an hour after law enforcement responded to the incident.
The dog found no sign of an explosives device and the school was cleared and staff allowed access back into the building.
Denise Schmidt, home based services coordinator with Family Services of Grant County, who is also housed in the same building as Head Start, said it is still unknown as to who made the call.

Palatka, FL:
PHS gets bomb threat: Search on for suspect
Palatka Daily News - 11/05/05
PALATKA — An unidentified phone call of a bomb threat at Palatka High School on Thursday morning has fueled a search for a suspect by the Palatka Police Department and school officials.
Friday morning, after an announcement over the public address system at the school of a cash reward for information, Palatka Assistant Principal Rick Surrency received a phone call from a possible information source. Surrency said past history forces the school and law enforcement to take each threat very seriously
(...)Palatka Assistant Chief of Police James Griffith said the cost of responding to such a threat is also why the penalty is very high if prosecuted and convicted. “Most times it is a third-degree felony,” Griffith said. “If convicted, that carries at least a five-year prison term. It is serious stuff.”.

Richmond, VA:
Binford Middle School evacuated due to 'suspicious package'
NBC Ch.12 - 11/04/05
Students at Binford Middle School were cleared out of class Friday afternoon when a suspicious package was spotted across the street from their school.
Richmond Police actually shut down the entire 17-block of Floyd Avenue while the bomb squad inspected the suitcase. When they opened it up, all they found were clothes.

BOMB SEARCH RESULTS:

Scottsboro, AL
Police find pipe bomb during drug raid
WAFF48News - 11/04/05
(...)Components of a homemade pipe bomb were discovered Wednesday night while police were conducting "Operation Meltdown".
"I've seen them before and this is one of the most well-made ones," says Major Ralph Dawe with the Scottsboro Police Department.
While serving 52 warrants, all related to the possession of a controlled substance, Scottsboro Police stumbled onto a rare but serious situation.
(...)Federal authorities are examining the apparent pipe bomb and are trying to determine why he had the materials to build such a device.
(...)The man's name is being withheld pending an investigation by the US Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and Scottsboro Police.

Marshalltown, IA
Bomb threat turns out to be false alarm
Times Republican - Date Unknown
A bomb threat was reported at the Iowa Veterans Home Friday afternoon, less than two hours before Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, was to appear at a grand opening for a new medical clinic.
Local law enforcement said, however, the bomb threat and Grassley's visit did not appear to be related.
"It appears to be totally coincidental," said Marshalltown Police Chief Lon Walker
(...)The caller told a switchboard operator at the Iowa Veterans Home (IVH) that a bomb would go off in the cemetery at 12:52 p.m. That area was not part of IVH where senator was scheduled to be.
(...)Dustin Vande Hoef, a staffer in Grassley's office, said the threat did not cause enough alarm to consider changing the senator's schedule, as far as he knew. The senator made his visit as planned.
Walker said the investigation into the matter is closed, unless new leads arise.

Dublin, Ireland
Northern Irish meeting abandoned after bomb scare
Reuters UK - 11/05/05
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Down Royal race course in Northern Ireland was evacuated and racing abandoned on Saturday following a bomb threat, police said.
"Police have evacuated Down Royal race course ... following a telephoned bomb warning," a spokeswoman said. "We have no further details at this time."

Belgium:
Scouts cause Leuven bomb scare
[From News Briefs Section - LR]
Expatica - 11/04/05
The suspicious package found on Thursday at the Leuven train station was part of scouting game. Scout leaders have contacted police will pay all costs. The station was evacuated for just under an hour after the package was found near the signal house. A worker with rail operator NMBS-SNCB found the package and alerted police. Train traffic was halted as the bomb disposal squad destroyed the package.

Davenport, IA:
Man charged in phony bomb case
WQAD-TV Ch. 8 - 11/05/05
DAVENPORT, Iowa A man is accused of placing fake bombs on railroad tracks in downtown Davenport.
Hunter Sims Junior is charged with felony counts of false reports. This week, authorities discovered two suspicious devices he allegedly placed on tracks.

Thailand:
Insurgents Continue Mayhem
The Nation - 11/05/05
Fresh violence in the South broke out yesterday as insurgents planted bombs, stole state-issued guns and shot volunteers.
In Pattani’s Yarang district a 15-kilogram bomb was primed to blow up the house of an assistant village headman, but heavy rains prevented the device from going off.
(...)They defused the bomb and discovered it contained 15kg of fertiliser mixed with two-centimetre metal pieces, electrical wires, nine-volt batteries and a mobile phone.
Investigating officers believe the bomb was planted at the house on Thursday night in the hope of drawing bomb squads before it blew up.
In the province’s Thung Yang Daeng district, 10 insurgents riding six motorcycles raided five village defence volunteers’ homes and made made off with five shotguns after threatening their wives and children to make them hand over the guns.
The five village defence volunteers were attending prayers at a local mosque when the raiders drove up.
(...)In Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat, a volunteer ranger was critically wounded by two gunmen yesterday afternoon . (...)Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will meet Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon at a Bangkok hotel today to discuss the violence in the deep South during a brief stopover on his official visit to Japan, the United States and France.
Saleh chaired the June 30 meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), with which Thailand recently engaged in a war of words over a statement by its secretary-general, Dr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, about the ongoing violence in the predominantly Muslim region and the flight of 131 Thai Muslims to Malaysia.

SUSPICIOUS POWDER:

Sarasota Springs, NY
Part of Wilton Mall evacuated
Ch. 9 Capital News - 11/04/05
[No report on what the powder was although it appeared to be deteriorating cloth. -LR]
(...)Three stores in the mall were closed down and evacuated after a suspicious white powder was found on some clothing. Emergency and HAZMAT crews sealed off the stores and took the substance and the clothing with the powder and sent it to Albany to be tested.
Assistant Fire Chief of the Maple Avenue Fire Department, John King said, "One of the customers picked up clothes and it fell off the clothes and it was deteriorating some of the clothes."

(ANOTHER REPORT...)
Mall stores evacuated after suspicious substance found
Newsday - 11/05/05
(...)A customer was trying on a shirt at the Wilton Mall in Saratoga Springs when she found white powder on it. The substance was deteriorating the clothes and the woman's mouth and eyes became irritated, police said.
(...)Emergency and hazardous material crews evacuated the store, Rue 21, and two other stores.(...)
(...)Police have not determined the substance. An investigation is ongoing.

SUSPICIOUS DEVICE/PACKAGE:

Universal City, CA:
Suspicious Subway Package Leaves Thousands Stranded
LA Times - 11/04/05
[The whole article talks about the stranded commuters - nothing about the package reported. - LR]
A suspicious package at a subway stop in Universal City on Thursday temporarily stranded as many as 20,000 evening rush-hour passengers, many of them headed for the newly opened Orange Line bus service into the San Fernando Valley.

SUSPICIOUS FIRES:

Beckham Co., OK:
Blaze blackens Beckham County
The Oklahoman - 11/04/05
[Video Report available - LR]
A Beckham County wildfire scorched miles of prairie and farmland and threatened homes Thursday afternoon, as another fire burned areas of Rogers County.
The Beckham County fire broke out about 1:30 p.m. Thursday about four miles west of Erick, Sheriff Scott Jay said. Flames left a swath of destruction seven miles long and two miles wide, destroying one home and several barns and abandoned farm houses, Jay said.
(...)The fire is considered suspicious because there were multiple starting points. Wylie said it’s possible it started from a motorist throwing flammable materials out a window.
Anyone with information can call the Northwest Rogers County Fire Protection District at (918) 443-2471.

Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Mob attacks rescue workers at fire scene
Edinburgh News - 11/04/05
POLICE and fire crews were pelted with bricks and fireworks during a mob attack in Londonderry.
Up to 50 youths turned on the authorities as they dealt with a car set alight in the city's Shantallow district.
Officers moved in last night after being alerted to a suspicious vehicle being driven in the area. They stopped the car only for it to be set on fire by a crowd at Ardnamoyle Park.

Tallahassee, FL
Fire razes Hindu temple in US
PlanetGuru - 11/05/05
New York, Nov 5 (IANS) A Hindu temple in Florida in the US was destroyed in a devastating fire amid weeklong celebrations of the Diwali festival.
The Gujarati Samaj temple on Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee was razed early Thursday. It was the only place of worship in Leon County for about 110 families from India.
(...)"It looked like a burning box," Teague said. "It was so intense that much of the evidence must have been destroyed. We are all devastated here at not being able to save a house of worship."

Khartoum, Sudan
Lutheran Church torched in Khartoum suburb
Sudan Tribune - 11/03/05
Nov 1, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — Two weeks after a Lutheran church was torched by unknown arsonists in a Khartoum suburb, Sudan’s newly installed “government of national unity” still has not responded to church leaders requesting an investigation into the attack.
Most of the simple church structure - a traditional construction of bamboo reeds, wooden poles and mud with a straw roof - was “completely burned” shortly after midday on October 18, the Rev. Yousif El-Denger Z. Kodi told Compass by telephone from Khartoum.
(...)Since the fire had been started in broad daylight, Lutheran church leaders inquired around the neighborhood whether any suspicious persons had been seen near the church site before it was set on fire.
“But when we asked people, they were too afraid to say anything,” Rev. Kodi said.
(...)The cleric said the only political official to visit the burned church so far had been Philip Magowck, general secretary of the SPLM for the Omdurman region. Rev. Kodi has received no comment since the visit from the SPLM representative.
Nor has there been any communication from the Khartoum governor, Dr. Abdelhalim Motahfi, the official responsible for security and police investigations in the capital.
The landmark peace agreement signed between the government of Sudan and the SPLM in January declares freedom of religion a basic right, guaranteeing “to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground,” including religion.
Religious tensions fueled by the imposition of Muslim law over the overwhelmingly Christian south by Sudan’s Islamic government in the north had played a key role in the last 21 years of civil war, which claimed at least 2 million lives and displaced another 4 million people.

EXPLOSION/EXPLOSIVE:

Grozny, Chechnya
Serviceman injured in mine explosion in Chechnya
ITAR-TASS - 11/05/05
GROZNY, November 5 (Itar-Tass) - A mine explosion injured a serviceman of the Interior Ministry troops in Chechnya's Itum Kale district.
It occurred during a search and reconnaissance operation near the highland village of Bugaroi on Friday, a Chechen police officer told Itar-Tass on Saturday.

Bilbao, Spain:
ETA suspected of latest bomb explosion
TVNZ.com - 11/04/05
[Appears that two bombs exploded - one on Thurs. and one early Fri. morning - LR]
A bomb exploded early on Friday next to the headquarters of Spain's ruling Socialist Party in Bilbao in the Basque Country, police said.
"There was a small explosion at 1:10 in the morning (1:10 pm NZ time)," a Basque police spokesman said.
The device, which police said might have been made from a canister of camping gas or a bottle of inflammable liquid, caused no injuries and damaged only the building's window blinds, he added.
(...)Police suspect ETA was behind a bomb that exploded early on Thursday in the Basque seaside town of Zarautz, causing slight damage but no injuries.
ETA, classed as a terrorist organisation by Spain, the European Union and the United States, has killed nearly 850 people since 1968 in its campaign for an independent Basque state carved out of northern Spain and south-western France.

Mosaki, North Waziristan, Pakistan:
Eight killed in Pakistan blast
Times of India - 11/05/05
PESHAWAR: Suspected militants set off a blast while making bombs at their compound in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday killing at least eight people, including a woman and three children, army officials said.
The explosion occurred in the tribal village of Mosaki, about 20 km east of Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region, army spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said.
Several male foreigners were among those killed, but Sultan said he did not have their identities or nationalities, and it was not immediately clear if top Taliban or al-Qaida suspects were among them.
The suspects set off the blast while making detonators for improvised bombs at their mud-walled compound, Sultan said.(...)

AL QAEDA/AL QAIDA:

Al Qaeda in Iraq warns foreign diplomats to leave
Boston.com - 11/05/05 - EXCERPT:
BAGHDAD -- The country's most feared terrorist group warned foreign diplomats yesterday to flee Iraq after announcing it will kill two kidnapped Moroccan Embassy employees. Insurgents killed 11 Iraqi security troops and an American soldier in separate attacks.
The warning came in a statement posted on an Islamist website in the name of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which also claimed responsibility for the July kidnap-slaying of two envoys from Algeria and one from Egypt, as well as the abduction and beheading of many foreign hostages.
On Thursday, another Internet statement attributed to the group said the two Moroccans had been condemned to death. There was no indication yesterday that they had been killed.

Rabat, Morocco
Al Qaeda hostages to be martyrs if killed - Morocco's scholars
Reuters South Africa - 11/05/05
RABAT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda members in Iraq will suffer the "horrors of hell" if they kill two Moroccan hostages and the victims will die as martyrs, Morocco's influential Islamic scholars organisation said on Saturday.
On Thursday, al Qaeda said it had put the two Moroccan embassy employees on trial and sentenced them to death because of Morocco's support for the U.S.-backed Baghdad government. The two men were seized late last month.
"The two Moroccans would be considered martyrs if this iniquitous verdict were to be carried out as they were carrying out a duty assigned to them by their nation and legitimate state," said the powerful Islamic body which groups thousands of mosque preachers and Islamic scholars and thinkers.
The umbrella organisation, known as the High Council of the Ulema (Islamic scholars) and the Councils of Ulema in the Moroccan Kingdom, called the Iraqi al Qaeda hostage-takers "aggressor apostates".
"Killing the two Moroccan nationals would be considered as the assassination of all Moroccans," it said in a statement, basing its argument on the Koran.
It added that the al Qaeda members who are holding the two men captives "will suffer opprobrium on the land and the horrors of hell in heaven".

COLLEGE CAMPUS RELATED:

Eastern New Mexico University
ENMU science building evacuated due to bomb scare
PORTALES — An Eastern New Mexico University chemistry student was arrested by Portales police at his home Wednesday night, hours after officials evacuated an ENMU science building following a bomb scare.
No injuries were reported, but law enforcement officials said explosive chemicals were removed from the building.
Joshua Gilpin, 28, an ENMU graduate student, is charged with possessing an explosive incendiary device, tampering with evidence and larceny, officials said.
He was in the Roosevelt County Detention Center on Wednesday night. Bond was set at $25,000 cash only. (...)University officials said a professor spotted four suspicious packages in Roosevelt Hall and notified police about 9 a.m. Wednesday.
(...)Ordnance disposal experts from Cannon Air Force Base were called to the scene and recovered the packages. The Cannon team x-rayed and opened the cans, according to court records.
An agent from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives confirmed that three chemicals found would make an explosive device: sulfur, potassium nitrate and red phosphorus, court records show.

PARIS RIOTS:

Paris Riots Spread To More French Cities
KOCO Ch.5 - 11/05/05
AUBERVILLIERS, France -- Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, as youths torched an ambulance and stoned medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person. Authorities arrested more than 200 people, an unprecedented sweep since the beginning of the unrest.
Bands of youths also burned a nursery school, warehouses and more than 750 cars overnight as the violence that spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France. The U.S. warned Americans against taking trains to the airport through the affected areas.
(...)Fires and other incidents were reported in the northern city of Lille, in Toulouse, in the southwest, Rouen, in the west and elsewhere on the second night of unrest in areas beyond metropolitan Paris. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue in Pierrefitte, northwest of Paris, where electricity went out after a burning car damaged an electrical pole.
(...)The Interior Ministry operations center reported 754 vehicles burned throughout France from Friday night to Saturday morning - three-quarters of them in the Paris area.
Arrests were also up sharply, with 203 people detained overnight, the center said. By comparison, Interior Ministry Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday that police had made 143 arrests during the whole first week of unrest.
(...)The persistence of the violence prompted the American and Russian governments to advise citizens visiting Paris to avoid the suburbs, where authorities were struggling to gain control of the worst rioting in at least a decade.

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Amber Alert Issued In Cleveland County
KOCO Channel 5 - 11/04/05
An Amber Alert has been issued in Cleveland County for a toddler reportedly taken by her mother Friday morning.
Authorities said November Loper, who is almost 3 years old, lives in the custody of her grandmother. Police said the girl's mother, Misty Loper, took the girl from the grandmother's home on Spring Creek Drive and was taken away by two men in a white pickup truck with Oklahoma license plate number 678-PUA.

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[FairOpinion]

This is terrific,that you post these summaries.

Could you please ping me to your summary posts, because I may miss them, when I don't have time to read through all the posts.

Here are a couple of other articles of interest:

Senate bill calls for secretive new bioterrorism research center
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516399/posts


And another interesting one:


How they spotted terror suspects in Australia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1515353/posts

The latter one is of interest, because sometimes I read people here are wondering whether or not they should report suspicious, but also relatively innocous activities. This points out that the reporting of such events lead the Australian police to discover the terrorist plots, very interesting read.

[Cindy]

Speaking of Sweden...

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005257.html
05 November 2005
"Speaking of the next generation of jihadi terrorists..."

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[appalachian_dweller]

I heard a blurb on WTOP about the Capitol threat, mostly local officials playing it down. Once again, TM keeps me better informed than the media. THANKS FOLKS!!

Went down to a gun show at the Richmond Raceway. Was looking for 7.62x51mm FMJ (NATO specs) ammo. Ended up buying a Sig Sauer P220. I've been wanting one for years. Picked up 200 rounds of 230gr GoldDot JHP +P as well.

I continue to weapon up. My next toy is going to be either a Remington 870 12 guage or a Armalite AR-15 (to augment my AR-10A2).

Oh and I also picked up a couple more speed loaders for the S&W 686.