Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

[nwctwx]

Unrest in Pakistan Setback for Terror War
(Full Story)

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
	Are global events spiraling out of control?
	Zawahri calls for strikes against West

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[backhoe]

Humm... was going to run a search using this underappreciated engine:

http://www.profusion.com/

for "Jamaat al-Muslimeen," but I'm getting timeouts.

Will try later- profusion finds things other miss.

[Cindy]

I couldn't get profusion to load either, backhoe.

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http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=%22Jamaat+al-Muslimeen%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

[backhoe]

Humm... a sample search from

 

1. Articles - Jamaat al Muslimeen

... ULF ONR - Butler Party - PEP - PDP WFP - Tapia - PDP - NJAC TLP - POPPG - Communist Other - Jamaat al Muslimeen - NUFF C4TAP edit Politics Portal The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within ... http://www.auxt.com/articles/Jamaat_al_Muslimeen

The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with a membership of predominantly Afro-Trinidadians. The appeal of its doctrines to the poor and displaced classes of society have seen its membership and popularity increase.

 

8. Kidnappings Send a Chill Through Sunny Trinidad *LINK*

... U.S. intelligence operatives are believed to be watching the militants of Jamaat al Muslimeen for signs that they are linked to global terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda. Abductions targeting the ...

Victims and police point to a home-grown radical Muslim gang that sought to topple the government in 1990 and has since built a lucrative criminal empire. U.S. intelligence operatives are believed to be watching the militants of Jamaat al Muslimeen for signs that they are linked to global terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda.

[Cindy]

Thank you backhoe;

[backhoe]

Websearches are wonderful, wacky, and often-frustrating things... I learned yesterday ( while searching for info on Three Dog Night ) that Wolfman Jack has been deader a lot longer than I thought I remembered. I feel the Winds of Time breathing down my neck...

[Cindy]

Oh my, Wolf Man Jack, awoooh...hey there little red riding hood...sing along now...

Anyway, our family met him shortly before he died.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593690/posts

"Ya'alon: Israel Can Hit Iran Nuke Sites"
Jerusalem Post ^ | 03/10/2006 | Nathan Guttman

Posted on 03/10/2006 2:21:23 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

[backhoe]

Oh my, Wolf Man Jack, awoooh...hey there little red riding hood...sing along now... Anyway, our family met him shortly before he died.

From memory...

"Hey, little Red Ridin' Hood
You sure are lookin' good
You're everything that a big bad wolf could want..."

Very cool that you met him...

[Cindy]

Yep, we won a "sea cruise" in a radio contest and of course, no one in the family had ever been on a "cruise." So, the guys dressed in suits and I dressed in my usual long dress and we went to SF and went on the rock and roll cruise. Really we had a ball, but we were very obviously out of place.

Big Smile...

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=russia


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ON THE NET...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/10/03021.shtml?s=ic

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...

Friday, March 10, 2006 12:28 a.m. EST
"John Bolton: Iran Nukes Threaten Russia"

[Labyrinthos]

Thanks for the ping -- as always.

[angcat]

Good Morning and thank you!

[Velveeta]

Thank you for all your hard work at this busy time in your life.

I love the new look, very easy on the eyes...

[Velveeta]

Kartoo visual meta search

Jamaat al-Muslimeen
http://www.kartoo.com/

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for the new thread, looks great!!

[backhoe]

Thanks- I had forgotten about
http://www.kartoo.com/
The relationships it shows are "interesting..."

[WestCoastGal]

One thing when we transfer to a new thread, you can't reply to the old. Therefore, I'm bringing this over.

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Transcript from yesterdays DHS hearing from Lou Dobbs show.

Snipped~

WIAN (voice over): It's mainly because only 5 percent of the 11 million containers entering our ports each year are physically inspected. Now homeland security officials admit far few containers are scanned for potential nuclear bomb-making materials. Lawmakers are outraged.

REP. JERROLD NADLER (D), NEW YORK: What percentage of all containers are screened by gamma ray technology and by radiation scanners.

JAY AHERN, CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION: One percent.

NADLER: One percent of all containers are screened in a way that would assure us that you no nuclear materials are aboard?

AHERN: That is the correct number today, yes.

NADLER : One percent. And when are we going to get to 100 percent?

AHERN: As we continue to deploy additional resource and technologies in these ports.

NADLER: I asked for a date.

AHERN: A specific timeframe, I don't have that.

NADLER: I think it's absurd. The same department that determined that the Dubai deal is not high risk determines which containers are high risk.

WIAN: At a hearing on foreign operation of U.S. ports and port security, lawmakers of both parties hammered the White House.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't see any sense from the administration that you've changed your tone deafness on this issue of the Dubai Ports, in specific, or the port security in general.

WIAN: Congress is angry that provisions of the 2002 Maritime Security Act are not being enforced, including long-range tracking of commercial ships and secure IDs for port workers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I find it totally unacceptable that the department has allowed this program to be delayed for this long, clearly not giving it any priority.

WIAN: Stewart Baker is the homeland security official who approved the Dubai Ports deal without consulting superiors. Lawmakers asked him about the lack of background checks for port workers, and reports that murders, sex offenders, ID thieves and MS-13 gang members were found working at East Coast ports. Baker blamed local officials and questioned the character of port workers.

STEWART BAKER, ASST. SECRETARY, HOMELAND SECURITY: There are not a lot of former choir boys who sign up to be longshoremen, and the longshoremen are concerned that irrelevant criminal behavior far in the past might be considered disqualifying.

WIAN: Union leaders didn't address that claim but said port workers often uncover security breaches and are told to ignore them by terminal operators.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WIAN: The Department of Homeland Security's response to all this, they admit a lot more work needs to be done. But they say they've made a lot of progress in improving port security since 9/11 -- Lou.

DOBBS: And it's clear that the focus on our port security has only begun. For that, I suppose, we should, Casey Wian, thank Dubai Ports World and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. At least there is that positive from all of this.

[WestCoastGal]

OOPS LINK

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping nwctwx,nice to see you back Quix-missed you.I had no-one to fight and make up with:)

[SlowBoat407]

Thanks Ian! I've been lurking lately, but I'm still here.