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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

Posted on 03/09/2006 10:08:04 PM PST by nwctwx

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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
Are global events spiraling out of control?
Zawahri calls for strikes against West
Thread Thirty-Five
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gwot; islamists; jihad; terror; terrorism; threat; threatmatrix
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To: nwctwx

kerplunk for later read


561 posted on 03/14/2006 1:38:10 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596285/posts


"Hindu Radicals Wage Severe Persecution Campaign Against Hopegivers"
Agape Press ^ | 03.14.06 | Allie Martin and Jenni Parker

Posted on 03/14/2006 2:12:59 PM PST by Coleus


562 posted on 03/14/2006 2:16:17 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Godzilla
Interesting view. I am a tad ignorant about Mr Farah and am researching about him more to evaluate the accuracy of his information in the past.

Please do let me know what you find out.

563 posted on 03/14/2006 2:27:38 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Cindy

That reminds me, Cindy.
There were some other important elections coming up too.
I'll be darned if I can remember where.
Italy, perhaps?


564 posted on 03/14/2006 2:30:17 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta; JustPiper
Mr. Farah relationship to Farah of WND is still unknown to me. He does contribute to the Counter Terrorism blog. He brings an interesting background. His bio from the website:

Douglas Farah is currently a consultant and freelance writer on terror finance and national security matters. He wrote Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror based on his most recent reporting experiences in West Africa. He previously worked as a senior fellow at the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, studying armed groups and intelligence reform. The book is considered the premier book on the subject and is now cited as one of the best books written on al Qaeda’s funding mechanisms.

For two decades, Mr. Farah was a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Washington Post, UPI, and other publications. From 1985 to 2000, he covered Latin American issues for the UPI, Washington Post, and other media outlets, and was one of the leading correspondents in the Western Hemisphere on the development of drug cartels and organized crime. He chronicled the rise and fall of the Medellin and Cali drug cartels; the move by Colombian drug traffickers into heroin; and the growing alliance between Colombian and Mexican drug mafias. Mr. Farah also covered the emergence of Russian organized crime groups in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the growth of Mexican drug cartels within the United States and drug-related banks in the Caribbean. He also covered the 1994 U.S. occupation of Haiti, the rise of HIV/AIDS across the region, and he traveled more than a dozen times to Cuba to write about the changing revolution on that island. His work brought him numerous awards for reporting, including the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence, and the Maria Moor Cabot Prize by Columbia University for outstanding coverage of Latin America.

In 2000, Mr. Farah was named West Africa bureau chief for The Washington Post. He traveled and wrote extensively about the brutal civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He also wrote about the interlocking networks of agents, under the protection of governments across the region, which profited from those conflicts and the diamonds-for-weapons trade. In November 2001 Farah broke the story of al Qaeda's ties to those diamond and weapons networks. Later that month Mr. Farah and his family were evacuated from West Africa because of threats against his life, resulting from the diamond stories. He continued to travel there and elsewhere around the world to report on the financial network of bin Laden, from which he wrote Blood From Stones.

565 posted on 03/14/2006 2:33:30 PM PST by Godzilla (Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.)
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To: Velveeta
There were some other important elections coming up too

Italy, in April

566 posted on 03/14/2006 2:34:20 PM PST by Godzilla (Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.)
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To: MamaDearest
Dumping of adult diapers contaminated with radioactive waste

I'm sure Boston isn't the only city with this problem, what do liberals care about dirty adult diapers? Heck, what do they care about the elderly or infirm that need them?

DP World has said those operations are worth roughly $700 million.

As far as DP goes, I am so sick of all the pandering that my hair is falling out!

567 posted on 03/14/2006 2:35:11 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: JustPiper
Roger and Barbara Jackson, of Rhinelander, Wis., were checking out of the hotel around 2:45 p.m. "It seems to be all the people who were working in the kitchen dining room area," who were overcome by some fumes, said Barbara Jackson. "Somebody got our luggage in a hurry."

Excuse me?

This brainiac was worried about her luggage. Doh!

568 posted on 03/14/2006 2:36:50 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: MamaDearest; Oorang

more on the Lodi Case:

Al-Qaeda deputy lived in California

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/AlQaeda-deputy-lived-in-California/2006/03/14/1142098448566.html


569 posted on 03/14/2006 2:37:04 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Godzilla
This claim is highly unsubstantiated

Aren't those usually the best souce?

570 posted on 03/14/2006 2:38:13 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Godzilla
I'm waiting for the MSM to publish it on page 50 of their 49 page newspaper

IF they publish it at all!

571 posted on 03/14/2006 2:39:39 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Cindy
turning greed to fear

Well, they should be scared they are running out of suicide bombers in Iraq!

572 posted on 03/14/2006 2:42:36 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: MamaDearest
the one where they were "fair and balanced."

Well, we have to realise our internet news is the only one to trust!

573 posted on 03/14/2006 2:44:46 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Godzilla

http://www.douglasfarah.com/

still trying to find out too ;)


574 posted on 03/14/2006 2:48:43 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Godzilla

Jamie Farr (born on July 1, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio), birth name Jameel Joseph Farah,

LOL!


575 posted on 03/14/2006 2:50:51 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Godzilla

It is interesting.
He's got a long history of knowledge in and around the conflict areas.

Here's a search on him from namebase.org
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_FARAH_DOUGLAS_


576 posted on 03/14/2006 3:07:32 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Godzilla

Thanks.
I should have printed out your summary to keep in front of me. LOL


577 posted on 03/14/2006 3:08:33 PM PST by Velveeta
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I didn't know until this article that Zawahiri had been in Lodi, but it makes sense.

It's been known for a long time that he was in California.

Here's an interesting older article on him:

THE MAN BEHIND BIN LADEN
by LAWRENCE WRIGHT
How an Egyptian doctor became a master of terror.
Issue of 2002-09-16
Posted 2002-09-09
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/020916fa_fact2


578 posted on 03/14/2006 3:11:31 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta
THE MAN BEHIND BIN LADEN

1993 - fundraising in the silicon valley 1996 - expelled from egypt and arrested in russia (chechnya). 1998 - Not much info on travels. However, is identified as an associate of OBL and seen with him in Afghanistan. By this stage he was a marked man and would find it extremely unlikely that he'd come to America in '98-'99. But if he did, backwater Lodi would be a good place to hide among the supportive moslem population.

579 posted on 03/14/2006 3:22:45 PM PST by Godzilla (Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.)
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To: Godzilla

I agree with you, but he did have plenty of IDs.
It'd be interesting to know how much scrutiny members of the Red Crescent Society garnered when traveling here in 98 or 99.


580 posted on 03/14/2006 3:39:55 PM PST by Velveeta
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