Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

I have been getting emails from a good friend in Paris (actually she was one of our exchange students). She lives in Paris and her boyfriend is a journalism student. It sounds pretty bad.

She stressed was how bizarre it is - some parts of the city are untouched and seem to be totally oblivious to the threat. Other parts of the city are no mans land after dark.

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"How Long Before Europe Falls?"
GOPUSA ^ | November 7, 2005 | Barbara Stock

Posted on 11/07/2005 11:36:04 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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Sorry if any of these are duplicate posts... I see many have been busy posting a lot of good links today! (o:

News Excerpts from Search Results 11/07/05:

SCHOOL + THREAT:

Upper Marlboro, MD
School Locked Down As Police Search For Man With Gun
WBAL-TV Ch. 11 - 11/07/05
[Person tried to enter school, but doors were locked. - LR]
Prince George's County police are searching around an Upper Marlboro elementary school for a man with a gun.
A police spokesman said an officer on routine patrol saw a man with a mask and a long gun walking near the school Monday morning. The man reportedly fled to Arrowhead Elementary School at 2300 Sansbury Road.

More RE:Maryland School Lock-down
Man With Gun Spotted Near Upper Marlboro School
Washington Post - 11/07/05
Lt. Terence Sheppard of the Prince George's County police said that about 11 a.m. a police officer on routine patrol spotted a man wearing a mask and carrying a long gun, like a rifle, near the Arrowhead Elementary School at 2300 Sansbury Road. The man ran toward the school and tried to get in, but the door was locked. He then ran into a nearby wooded area.
About 80 law enforcement officers from the county police and sheriff's departments were searching the two-square-mile woods, Sheppard said.

Florida:
C. Fla. girl charged in making bomb threat
WKMG - 11/07/05
A 16-year-old girl in Ocala, Fla., was charged this weekend with making bomb threats that prompted authorities to evacuate a school building, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner WKMG Local 6 News.
(...)Investigators said Millman told them she wrote the note because she heard one of her friends was arrested at a school dance.

San Antonio, TX:
Web Site Threat Empties Warren High School
KSAT-TV Ch. 12 - 11/07/05
A threat posted on a Web site that turned out to be a hoax prompted 85 percent of the Warren High School student body to leave class Monday.
At least one student, maybe more, had been identified as the source of the threats, said North Side Independent School District spokesman Pascual Gonzalez.
(...)The prank, posted on myspace.com, indicated that students were going to bring guns on campus to open fire on the student body, Gonzalez said.
After school administrators first learned of the threat Sunday afternoon, they notified campus police, which had extra officers patrolling campus Monday morning. Teachers were also asked to arrive early to school.

BOMB SEARCH RESULTS:

Livingston Co., MI
Local Bomb Scare
WLNS-TV Ch. 6 - 11/07/05
Four juveniles in Livingston County stumbled across something that could have been deadly. Livingston County deputies were called to a home in Oceola Township to inspect what was described as a homemade bomb.
After inspecting it, deputies believed the object to be a possible improvised explosive device. The Michigan State bomb squad was called in, but they determined the device was safe.

Pak 'needed an atom bomb': Dutch N-accused
ExpressIndia123 - 11/06/05
Amsterdam, (Netherlands), November 7: A Dutch businessman accused of improperly shipping sensitive nuclear technology to Pakistan believed the Islamic country "needed an atom bomb" to preserve balance of power in Asia, he said in an interview.
Henk Slebos, 62, is accused of shipping dual-use technology to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme who has acknowledged selling secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

Iran denies bomb parts coming from its borders
LONDON, November 7 (IranMania) - Iran denied claims made by a senior British commander that bomb parts and explosives that can pierce armor have crossed into Iraq from neighbouring Iran.
"The British are saying it since they are not able to fulfill their obligations. They are saying it to cover up their shortcomings. They have not come up with any evidence," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
Three days ago, British Army Major General J.B. Dutton, commander of the multinational division in southeastern Iraq, said expertise on new bomb-making techniques had crossed Iraq's border from Iran.
Among the deadly new weapons are "explosively formed projectiles" that are shaped to blow a slug of hot copper through the armor on military vehicles, he said.
However, Dutton added that coalition forces were still trying to establish where the bombs were manufactured.

Co. Antrim, Ireland:
Family escapes pipe bomb attack
A family escaped injury today after a pipe bomb attack at their Co Antrim home.
(...)Police said a woman, her 22-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter were in the house when it was targeted shortly before 1.30am.
(...) Detectives have yet to establish a motive for the attack.

Kandahar:
Governor survives suicide bomb
News24.com - 11/07/05
Kandahar - A suicide bomber tried to kill the governor of a volatile southern Afghan province on Monday by blowing up an explosives-filled vehicle as he was going to work, officials said.
A man who said he was a spokesperson for loyalists of the Taliban government ousted in 2001 claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the hardliners, who are waging an insurgency.
(...)Intelligence officers were trying to get as much information as possible from the man "before he dies," including his nationality, Wali said.
"He's an elderly man with a shaved face and big moustache," Wali said.
(...)Monday's attack was the second claimed by the Taliban since the three-day Eid al-Fitr festival, the most important event on the Muslim calendar, ended on Saturday.
The Taliban also said they had killed a policeman at the weekend in an attack on a police post in Ghazni province.
The militants' fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, used Eid to call on Afghans to join his fighters in a jihad, or holy war, against the "invader Americans" - the US forces who have been in the country since they helped to topple the Taliban.

Baghdad, Iraq:
Suicide car bomb kills nine
News.com.au - 11/07/05
A SUICIDE car bomber killed nine people, including six Iraqi policemen, in the southern Dora district of Baghdad overnight, police said.
A further 10 people were wounded in the attack which targeted a police patrol in the area which is known as a turbulent district of the city.
The attack came a few hours after mortar bombs killed four people and wounded six more near a university in the east of the capital.

Tampa, FL:
Prosecutor: Tampa professor was terrorist group crime boss
Newsday - 11/07/05
A former college professor acted for years as one of the top "crime bosses" for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an organized, murderous gang that operated much like the Mafia, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday.
Although Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants standing trial here the past five months are not charged with directly killing anyone, they conspired to facilitate terrorist attacks and are every bit as guilty under federal law as the suicide bombers and others who carried them out, prosecutor Cherie Krigsman said in her closing arguments.

SUSPICIOUS DEVICE/PACKAGE:

Loveland, CO
Suspicious Package At Loveland Airport
CBS Ch. 4, Denver - Nov. 7, 2005
[Plane delayed. - LR]
The Loveland Police Bomb Squad detonated a suspicious package found at the Ft. Collins/Loveland Airport.
Shortly before noon on Sunday, an unattended briefcase was found leaning against a light pole near the terminal.
(...)Nothing of any concern was found inside.

SUSPICIOUS FIRES:

Charlotte, NC
Firefighters Suspicious Of Repeat Fires
WSOC-TV Ch. 9 - 11/06/05
On Sunday night Charlotte firefighters responded to a warehouse fire for the second time this week.
This happened at a warehouse on Hovis Road in northwest Charlotte shortly after eight o'clock.
(...) A fire broke out at this same warehouse on Thursday night.
(...) Firefighters are investigating the cause of these fires.

[For a change of pace... -LR]
New Haven, CT
Kittens found inside 'suspicious' package
WTNH-TV Ch.8/9 - 11/07/05
The noise heard from inside a suspicious package outside the hospital of St. Raphael wasn't the ticking of a time bomb. It was the sound of animals.
Police cordoned off part of the hospital near the Chapel Street entrance when the suspicious plastic tub was spotted outside.
Hospital officials moved operations away from that area of the hospital as a precaution, but when the package was opened police found kittens inside.
It's not known who left the package there.

Littleton, NH
"Suspicious" Briefcase Prompts Evacuation At Busy Wal-Mart
Caledonian Record - 11/07/05
A forgotten briefcase, belonging to an unidentified local realtor, caused an hours-long evacuation of customers and personnel at Wal-Mart late Saturday afternoon.
(...)State police supervisor Al Rule explained that a member of the bomb squad responded to Wal-Mart, secured the area, and used a portable X-ray machine to determine the briefcase to be harmless. Papers were found inside.
(...)Littleton Police Chief Cam Brown, the lone member of the Littleton Police Department allowed to speak with media, did not return phone calls on Sunday.

EXPLOSION/EXPLOSIVE:

Explosion in ChCh phone box
NewstalkZB - 11/07/05
Part of St Albans in Christchurch was cordoned off last night after an explosion in a phone box.
Police say a device in the box on the corner of Edgeware Road and Barbados Street was set off around six thirty.
(...) They have described the explosive as an improvised device.

Riverina, New South Wales:
Explosion may have sparked fatal unit fire
ABC Riverina NSW - 11/07/05
An explosion is believed to have sparked a fire that killed two elderly women in a small Riverina town, in the south-west of New South Wales, over the weekend.
The bodies of the women aged 72 and 94 were found in the burnt out remains of a unit in the small town of Ganmain, north-west of Wagga Wagga.
Chris Kelly from Wagga Police says the younger woman had been visiting her friend to take her to church.
"All I can say at this stage is that members of the community were alerted by a loud explosion coming from the units," Mr Kelly said.

Waskom, TX:
Pipeline Explosion Lights Up East Texas Sky
KLSA-TV Ch. 12 - 11/07/05
The Harrison County Sheriff's Office says Sunday night a pipeline leaking natural gas exploded after a car drove over that leak, which was part of the Texas Gas Gathering Company.
Two people in that car were injured and taken to LSU Hospital.
The explosion shook homes and businesses just north of Waskom Texas at around 7:30 Sunday night.(...)

London:
Two men charged with car bomb plot
Gulf Times (Qatar) - 11/07/05
Two men were yesterday charged with plotting a car bomb attack in London.
Waseem Mughal and Younis Tsouli, both 22, are accused of 18 offences including conspiracy to murder. One charge reveals how police found a video clip on the hard drive of a computer with instructions on how to make a car bomb.
Another reveals that a suspect allegedly had a recipe for rocket propellant and “guidance on causing an explosion” scribbled on a piece of paper in his home.
Another piece of paper in one of the men’s bedrooms had the words “Hospital = attack” on it, though it is believed this could be code rather than meaning the target was a hospital.

Campbell Co., KY:
Authorities are probing explosion at school
Federal explosives agents and county arson investigators were expected back at Campbell County High School today where officials say an explosion Sunday evening appears to have been intentionally triggered in a soda machine outside the school lunch room.
The Kentucky Symphony was rehearsing in the high school auditorium about 8:30 p.m. when Director J.R. Cassidy said they heard the explosion and assumed it was either some sort of sound system problem or an engine backfiring.
"We were rehearsing - playing 'Star Wars' actually, and all the sudden there was this big boom," Cassidy said.
(...) Campbell County Police Lt. Dave Fickenscher said arson investigators and agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are back on the scene today trying to determine how the relatively substantial explosion was triggered and by whom.
(...) It remains unclear today who called authorities to report the explosion. Cassidy said none of the symphony members did so since they assumed nothing was out of the ordinary and had not even evacuated the building following the explosion. Cassidy said no one else was in the high school at the time. He said the high school choir director had let the group into practice early Sunday evening.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

Rome, Italy:
TERRORISM: ITALY DOWNPLAYS AL-QAEDA CHRISTMAS THREAT
ADNKRONOS International - 11/07/05
Rome, 7 Nov. (AKI) - A new message threatening Italy with attacks involving surface-to-air missiles or poisonous substances has appeared on Islamic internet forums linked to the al-Qaeda terror network. The threat is made under the name of Sayf al-Adel, one of al-Qaeda's main leaders, who disappeared after the US invasion of Afghanistan and who, experts believe, is currently in hiding or in prison in Iran. However, Italian interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu played down the threat, saying there was no cause for excessive alarm.
Both the title and the content of the message make reference to a news story reported a couple of weeks ago, about rumours that Osama bin Laden had been killed in the earthquake which struck Pakistani Kashmir last month.
The message suggests that Italy or another European country is due to be attacked around Christmas and that such an attack will be immediately followed by a message from Osama bin Laden. It has been almost a year since the last audio message attributed to the al-Qaeda leader appeared, and more than a year since he made his last video message.

Torn between tolerance, terrorism
Register Guard - Opinion, By Frida Ghitis - Nov. 6, 2005
(...) Over the centuries, the Netherlands has come to see itself as the world's champion of tolerance, much as America considers itself the world headquarters of individual freedom.
That proud self-image, however, has abruptly given way to an angst-filled identity crisis leaving the Dutch struggling to figure out how to deal with the very real risk of terrorism, wondering how to persuade Muslim immigrants to embrace their tradition of tolerance.
The Netherlands is a country torn between its efforts to preserve a cherished identity and the need to protect itself from murderous fanatics. That's an experience familiar to practically every democracy faced with a terrorist threat. But nowhere I've been is the tension between security and tolerance as plainly visible as it is here. What the Dutch are discovering is that protecting their way of life may require undermining some of the very values they are trying to protect.(...)

Senators Question Terrorism Inquiries
FBI Use of Patriot Act Is Weighed Against Rights of Individuals in U.S.
Washington Post - 11/07/05
Lawmakers expressed concern yesterday that the FBI was aggressively pushing the powers of the anti-terrorist USA Patriot Act to retrieve private phone and financial records of ordinary people.
"It appears to me that this is, if not abused, being close to abused," said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), who is a member of the Judiciary Committee.
Under the Patriot Act, the FBI issues more than 30,000 national security letters allowing the investigations each year, a hundred-fold increase over historic norms, The Washington Post reported yesterday, quoting unnamed government sources.

Tehran, Iran:
Terrorism will continue unless justice is observed - FM
IRNA - 11/07/05
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday said that terorism will continue for as long as justice is not observed in international relations and regardless of how many terrorists or innoncent people are killed.
His remarks were heard during the 13th Int'l Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus dubbed `Regional Developments: Interaction and Encounter of Strategies'.
There will be no end to terrorist acts for as long as there is no single approach to fighting violence and terror, he added.
"Terrorism, trade in illicit drugs and meddling by trans-regional powers are the main threats to our region," Mottaki said.

Manila, Phillipines:
Terrorist, wanted for attack on Rose Hill couple, caught in Philippines
The Witchita Eagle - 11/07/05
Security forces on Saturday captured a Philippine Muslim extremist group's leader, who also was wanted by the United States for attacks against two Rose Hill missionaries and other Americans, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced.
In a statement on government television, Arroyo congratulated police and soldiers for catching Radulan Sahiron, describing him as "a very notorious leader" of the Abu Sayyaf militant group.
The one-armed Sahiron, Abu Sayyaf's chief of staff, was on a U.S. list of wanted terrorists. Authorities have linked him to several kidnappings, including the 2001 raid of the Philippine resort of Dos Palmas where they seized Rose Hill missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, tourist Guillermo Sobero of Corona, Calif., and 17 Filipino tourists and workers.

Denpasar, Bali:
Australian Warning of Possible Terrorist Attack May Be True
Antara News - 11/07/05
Australia`s warning of terrorist attacks in Indonesia after the Jimbaran and Kuta bombings in Bali may be true, Bali Regional Police Chief Inspector General Made Mangku Pastika said here on Monday.
"I think (the warning) could be true. I myself once reminded the Bali people of the possibility," Pastika said.
A number of mass media have carried reports that Australia had issued a warning on possible terrorist attacks in Indonesia ahead of the the new year.
It was reported the terrorists might attack their targets anytime and anywhere, including places much visited by tourists.
The police chief said the attacks could also take place again in Bali as the province was Indonesia`s most popular tourist resort.

AL QAEDA/AL QAIDA:

SAUDIS PREPARE TO LEAD AL QAIDA IN IRAQ
Middle East News - 11/07/05
[This is a paid news service - an excerpt of their teaser is below - full subscription necessary to read full article - LR]
BAGHDAD [MENL] -- Saudi nationals appear to be taking over the Al Qaida network in Iraq.
U.S. officials said military intelligence has detected the flow of Saudi financing and senior operatives to Al Qaida in the Al Anbar province. They said Saudis have financed leading Al Qaida operatives in the Faluja area.

COLLEGE CAMPUS RELATED:

Univ. of Oklahoma:
Custodians asked to contact OU
OU Daily - 11/07/05 “They'll find a reason to fire people who speak up,” Cody Dobbs told The Daily last week.
Dobbs, a former OU custodian, was talking about the pressure he has seen university officials put on custodial employees who voice complaints regarding OU and its administration.
It just so happens, however, that Dobbs probably speaks for the majority of non-teaching employees at OU.
(...) The Daily itself can attest to the rampant bureaucracy in place to control media communication.
And while we understand it is necessary to have a solid public affairs system at a university, suspicious behavior such as that e-mail fuels claims that OU works a little too hard to suppress information that might make it look bad.
(...) It is our opinion that this is nothing new, nor uncommon. And we ask that anyone who personally has experienced similar situations contact us.[The Daily can be reached at (405) 325-3666 or by e-mail at dailyopinion@ou.edu]

FRThread:
Under Scrutiny - Members of the collective report several encounters with the FBI
Thanks to FReeper Velveeta for posting the original link! Article contains more information about the questioning of people at the 3rd Space library and the Greenbriar Collective - Chris Boyce is a co-founder of the library which is located off-campus.

PARIS RIOTS

FreeRepublic Thread:
French to Impose Curfews, Deploy Forces
The Oklahoman/AP - 11/07/05
One death reported as violence spreads to 274 French towns. Similar violence reported in Germany and Belgium.

Ditto.

Paris police fear rioters' heavy arms (French fear muslim guns and grenades)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517415/posts

France better get a handle on this.

Yep.
The situation in Europe (not just France) does interest me.

Jihad coming to a city near you

SNIP:Pay attention to what is happening in France, for we are seeing the first leg of a long journey.

Al Quaeda woos recruits with nuclear bomb website

SNIP:Al-Qaeda woos recruits with nuclear bomb website

AN Al-Qaeda website containing detailed instructions in Arabic on how to make nuclear, “dirty” and biological bombs has attracted more than 57,000 hits and hundreds of readers’ inquiries. Terrorism experts are warning that the site could be boosting the organisation’s appeal to would-be assassins in Britain and abroad.

The manual, posted on October 6 on a forum titled Al-Firdaws, or Paradise, contains 80 pages of instructions and pictures of kitchen bomb-making techniques. It is divided into nine lessons under the overall heading The Nuclear Bomb of Jihad and the Way to Enrich Uranium, and is dedicated as a “gift to the commander of the jihad fighters, Sheikh Osama Bin Laden, for the purpose of jihad for the sake of Allah”.

As well as describing how to make a nuclear bomb from enriched uranium — impossible for the layman — the manual explains how to make simple bombs that can blow up anything from electrical generators to petrol stations.

Thanks to LibertyRocks for pointing to this article:
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http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=57904
"Pak 'needed an atom bomb': Dutch N-accused"

Agencies
Posted online: Monday, November 07, 2005 at 1241 hours IST

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Amsterdam, (Netherlands), November 7: A Dutch businessman accused of improperly shipping sensitive nuclear technology to Pakistan believed the Islamic country "needed an atom bomb" to preserve balance of power in Asia, he said in an interview.

Henk Slebos, 62, is accused of shipping dual-use technology to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme who has acknowledged selling secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea."

AL-ARIAN TRIAL UPDATE...

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47273

GLOBAL JIHAD
"Prosecutors: Professor 'crime boss' for terrorists
Florida wraps up case against Al-Arian, teacher charged with facilitating attacks"
Posted: November 7, 2005
5:00 p.m. Eastern

"Early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war "

Mark Steyn

Crime boss ... now that's the perfect description for him.

That a good read fanan.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517586/posts

Article snippet:

"Oh, dear. Who's not "being serious" here? In Normandy, it's not just the cheese that's soft and runny."

Yep.

So it seems...well, we'll see what the verdict is.

Oh, dear. Who's not "being serious" here? In Normandy, it's not just the cheese that's soft and runny."

LOL!

I lurk on this thread regularly, and I appreciate everything you do. You, and everyone who posts to this thread.

Watching each others back I guess.
Thanks.
:-)

Canada to study reactions to terror

SNIP:Will people panic and overreact? Will they ignore authorities or undermine their efforts? Will they abandon jobs and evacuate cities or stay home? Will they exploit the situation and break the law or pitch in and help?

Artificial tears warning

SNIP:Health Canada is warning consumers not to use Lot 51436 of the product Genteal Artificial Tears 25 ml due to possible contamination with bacteria. A recall of the affected lot has been initiated by the distributor, Novartis.

Professor says danger lurks for Canada

SNIP:The poverty and isolation felt by some in Canada's immigrant communities could one day explode into riots like those in Paris, one expert warns.

"It's like having a Third World situation in the middle of a First World country," said John Furedy, a University of Toronto psychology professor. "I can't predict when this will occur, but Canada is moving towards the Parisian system."

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01 November 2005
"Mr. Shaheed has a bad day at the office"

Thank you fanfan. I used to lurk just like you, but when you delve into the "real news" (the news we don't hear on TV, radio or in the newspapers), you end up at TM. As you can see, we quickly make mincemeat of slanted articles or articles giving us only portions of the story. Welcome out from your lurking mode!

Thanks Fanfan.
We all appreciate your compliments.
As I always say here, "It's TEAM work."

I have never posted an article or started a thread. I just pop in every now and then with a comment or two. I still feel welcome here. This is the best thread on FreeRepublic. IMHO. All opinions and thoughts are welcome here........and so are you.