Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

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Unrest in Pakistan Setback for Terror War
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A week of unprecedented urban fighting in the wild tribal belt of North Waziristan has left scores dead and forced thousands to flee their homes, raising the stakes in Pakistan's war on Islamic militancy along the Afghan border.

A jumbled alliance of foreign militants, local tribesmen and Islamic students eager for jihad have stepped up resistance in a region where the army already claims to have wiped out al-Qaida as a viable fighting force.

The unrest, brewing for months, is a setback to the U.S.-led war on terror. Further hampering that effort are deteriorating relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan over Afghan claims that Taliban leader Mullah Omar is hiding in Pakistan and suicide bombers are training here.

	Growing strength of Pakistani Taliban worries U.S. officials
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[JustPiper]

Could I get anymore angry than right now?

Rick Biesada, head of The Chicago Minuteman Project, under attack by open-borders thugs.

Biesada taken to an ambulance by police

***UPDATE is here***

http://freedomfolks.blogspot.com/

Home loans for illegal aliens?! The American dream of home ownership, complete with the white picket fence, is alive and well for those who break our laws and break down our fences to get in-by Michelle Malkin

[FairOpinion]

"Yesterday's Street Fighter is Today's UN Representative..."


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Thanks for the ping, Cindy.
And how many others that have not been publicly unmasked yet....?

[Cindy]

OPINION: Your guess is as good as mine.
My guess is that there is probably more, but you have to overturn a lot of rocks to find them.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the additional links JP.

[JustPiper]

Here's another Cindy, Courtesy of Drudge

Members of the Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement and the Chicago Minuteman Project tangle with counterprotesters Saturday morning outside Bank Calumet in Munster. Federation and Minuteman members were protesting the bank offering home loans to undocumented immigrants. A fight broke out between several members of each group, prompting police to separate the two groups of marchers.

Immigration protest erupts in fisticuffs

PROTEST: Slurs, hot tempers highlight countering demonstrations at Bank Calumet

MUNSTER I Blaring car horns, racist slurs and angry fisticuffs punctuated a volatile encounter of protesters and counter-protesters Saturday morning outside Bank Calumet.

"God bless America! Stay out of our business!" yelled members of the locally based Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement.

"Go home (expletive) Nazi racists!" yelled members of an opposing group of circling counterprotesters.

[JustPiper]

~Snips

FAIR Urges Senate to Pass an Immigration Enforcement Bill Without Illegal Alien Amnesty or Guest Worker Provision

FAIR strongly opposes the bill offered by Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA.), as well as similar ones introduced by Senators John McCain (R-AZ.) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA.), and Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kyl (R-AZ).

Even though deliberations in the Judiciary Committee were stalled over the last two weeks, it is widely expected that a ‘back room’ compromise has been reached that will be approved by the Judiciary Committee on Monday,” said FAIR’s President Dan Stein.

Sen. Frist’s bill offers little more in combating the illegal immigration crisis than the others.

FAIR strongly supports legislation that allows the United States to protect its borders and jobs of American workers.

“What the American public wants is very clear,” observed Stein. “They want the immigration laws of this country enforced and they do not want to see millions of people who broke the law rewarded.

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_release3242006

[Cindy]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=92998

"Sydney bomb plot link to race riots, murderer"
Monday March 27, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A woman charged at the weekend with plotting to bomb Sydney was a convert to Islam who planned the attack at the behest of a jailed murderer angered over anti-Muslim race riots here late last year.

Jill Courtney, 26, was arrested at her suburban Sydney home on Friday in a swoop by Federal and local police operating under anti-terrorism laws.

She was charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosives to be placed in or near a public place.

The court granted a request by Courtney's lawyer that the woman be assessed by a psychiatrist.

Police were not required to detail the allegations against Courtney during a brief court hearing yesterday, but Sunday newspapers quoted police sources saying they believed she was acting out of love for a jailed murderer, Hassan Kalache."

[FairOpinion]

It's the cockroach theory, for every one you see, there are at least a hundred you don't see.

But it's good that at least some of them are unmasked.

[Cindy]

Yep.

[Cindy]

Thanks to bd476 for the ping to this thread:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603764/posts

"The Paper Trail [Saddam/terrorism/WMD]"
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | March 27, 2006 | By LAURIE MYLROIE

Posted on 03/26/2006 9:57:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603773/posts?page=15#15

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603773/posts

"Popping Off: Why does the 'rave' aspect keep coming up? "
Seattle P-I ^ | 3/26/06 | D. PARVAZ

Posted on 03/26/2006 10:29:20 PM PST by BurbankKarl

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603777/posts


Mexican police find six men handcuffed, shot to death
Associated Press/Dallas Morning News ^ | 3/27/06 | n/a

Posted on 03/26/2006 11:02:01 PM PST by txroadkill

GENERAL BRAVO, Mexico – The bodies of six men – blindfolded, handcuffed and shot to death – were found Sunday packed inside a pickup truck on the side of a highway leading to the Texas border.

Authorities discovered the victims in General Bravo, a town about 55 miles from Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, said Camerino Ortiz, a spokesman for police in General Bravo.

Ortiz said one of those killed was in the cabin and the rest were stashed in the back of the truck. All had their eyes taped with bandages and were handcuffed with their feet tied.

Marcelo Garza, director of investigations for Nuevo Leon state, where General Bravo is located, said investigators found a message inside the truck. It said: "This is a message for those in the Gulf Cartel, traitorous pals."

Authorities say violence in Nuevo Laredo and across northeast Mexico has been on the rise since March 2003, when reputed Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas was arrested during a shootout in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

Investigators believe another gang leader, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has been fighting smugglers loyal to Cardenas to gain access to drug smuggling routes in Nuevo Laredo and other border cities.

So far this year, 60 people have been slain in Nuevo Laredo, home to about 300,000.

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

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603778/posts

"Chavez says to greet "gringo" invaders with arrows"
Reuters ^ | Mar 27, 2006

Posted on 03/26/2006 11:11:06 PM PST by proud_yank

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he would have a nasty welcome waiting for U.S. forces he insists are preparing to invade his country -- arrows laced with Indian poison.

The left-wing former soldier, who has ordered his military to train civilian reserves for a guerrilla war, including the use of bows and arrows, often accuses Washington of planning to invade to control Venezuela's vast oil reserves.

U.S. officials dismiss his assassination and invasion charges as populist rhetoric meant to mobilise supporters before presidential elections in December."

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603715/posts

"Russia's Special Relationship With Iran's Mullahs"
global politician ^ | 3/27/2006 | Natalya Hmelik

Posted on 03/26/2006 7:31:50 PM PST by Flavius

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2006/20060326_4623.html


Iraqi Special Ops Forces Conduct Baghdad Raid

American Forces Press Service

BAGHDAD, March 26, 2006 – Iraqi special operations forces conducted a twilight raid today in the Adhamiyah neighborhood in northeast Baghdad to disrupt a terrorist cell responsible for attacks on Iraqi security and coalition forces and kidnapping Iraqi civilians in the local area.
As elements of the 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade entered their objective, they came under fire. In the ensuing exchange of fire, the Iraqi forces killed 16 insurgents. As they secured their objective, they detained 15 more individuals.

Also, one individual being held hostage by the insurgents was freed. That person, a non-Westerner, whose identity was not made public, was being debriefed and repatriated,.

While searching the objective, the Iraqi special operations forces also discovered a cache with materials used to make improvised explosive devices and other weapons and ammunition. The materials were destroyed at the scene.

U.S. special operations forces were on scene to advise only. No Iraqi or U.S. forces were killed during this operation. One Iraqi soldier received a wound that is not life threatening.

This intelligence-focused, precision operation was conducted during twilight hours to ensure no civilians were in the area and to minimize the possibility of collateral damage.

No mosques were entered or damaged during this operation.

(Based on a Multinational Force Iraq news release.)

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2006/20060326_4619.html


Soldiers Discover Weapons Caches in Iraq

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2006 – U.S. soldiers discovered four weapons caches in separate operations throughout Iraq March 24 through today, military officials in Iraq reported.

Soldiers from Multinational Division Baghdad's 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, discovered a large weapons cache while conducting a search today. The cache contained mortar rounds and fuses.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, found a weapons cache March 25 while conducting a patrol southeast of Iskandariyah. The cache consisted of hand grenades, grenade fuses, non-electric blasting caps, a partial timer, 122 mm artillery rounds, accelerant rods, artillery propellant, propaganda rounds filled with leaflets and ammo cans of unidentified content.
Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, Multinational Division Baghdad, discovered two weapons caches while conducting a routine route reconnaissance patrol in southern Baghdad March 24. The caches consisted of various mortar rounds.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.clandestineradio.com/gcw/gcw_060327.mp3?PHPSESSID=92abe0cdbd8f77f13fe75167d77890ab
(March 27, 2006)

http://www.clandestineradio.com/gcw/gcw_060320.mp3?PHPSESSID=92abe0cdbd8f77f13fe75167d77890ab
(March 20, 2006)

http://www.clandestineradio.com/gcw/gcw_060313.mp3?PHPSESSID=116225af1e350db4dee4c47532d63fd5
(March 13, 2006)

[Cindy]

http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/03/congress_to_exa.html

March 25, 2006

"Congress to Examine Nuclear Terrorism, Terrorist Financing, and Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat"

[Cindy]

http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/03/china-increases-espionage-within.html

Sunday, March 26, 2006
"China increases espionage within Russia and abroad"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(UPI)- Russia's Federal Security Service or FSB, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, has arrested Russian scientist Oleg Korobeinikov and charged him with disclosing classified information.

Interfax news agency reported Wednesday 23 that Korobeinikov has given a written pledge to the FSB not to leave the area and is currently being interrogated by the FSB.

Korobeinikov heads a laboratory of combustion kinetics at the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion in the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The FSB would not comment on the case.

Korobeinikov is well-known in Russia and abroad and is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has published over 170 articles and monographs.

Analysts speculate that the recipient of the data was either the United States or China.

The Korobeinikov case is the latest in a series of prominent espionage cases brought by the FSB against prominent Russian researchers in the last few years."

[Cindy]

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=703233

March 27th, 2006
"Blast on Philippine Island Leaves 9 Dead"
Mar 27th - 12:39am
By TERESA CEROJANO Associated Press Writer


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MANILA, Philippines (AP) - An explosion at a grocery store on a violent southern island where U.S. troops recently conducted joint counterterrorism exercises killed at least nine people Monday, police said.



The explosion, which left about a dozen people injured, took place in downtown Jolo on Jolo island, about 590 miles southeast of Manila, said police Senior Superintendent Ahirun Ajirim.


He said it was not immediately clear what caused the explosion on the island, a stronghold of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf rebels. Initial reports indicated the explosive device was stashed in a bag that was left by someone at a ground-floor baggage counter, he said.


Philippine police and U.S. troops who took part in recent counterterrorism exercises arrived in the area shortly after the explosion.


In February, when the exercises began, a bombing at a karaoke bar killed one person and wounded 28 near Jolo's army headquarters. The incident was blamed on Abu Sayyaf."