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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[JustPiper]

GM Place scene of HazMat scare - 7 quarantined
Mar, 14 2006 - 12:30 AM


VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - Vancouver Police are investigating a suspicious envelope that set off a level-three hazmat scare at GM Place yesterday.

http://www.cknw.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428109912&rem=32952&red=80110923aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm

[JustPiper]

A Mystery Malady in Chechnya
The official diagnosis for 93 violently ill victims, mostly children, is the stress of chronic fear. Parents and some doctors have doubts.

SHELKOVSKAYA, Russia — It started just after the midafternoon recess. As they lined up to return to class, Zareta Chimiyeva saw a girl in front of her collapse and begin convulsing wildly. Only a few minutes later, Zareta was at her desk when she smelled "a bad smell," and started feeling ill.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-sickness10mar10,1,6583819.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

[JustPiper]

AUSTRALIA - White powder scare [Multiple incidents]

ANOTHER Friday in Nambour and another white powder scare continued to test the readiness of emergency services.
The same pawnbrokers that received a letter with a suspicious substance inside the previous week, again received mail that forced the shutdown of Price Street for more than two hours on Friday.

And the Friday night before that, a Housing Commission unit block in the Nambour CBD was cordoned off by emergency services after a threatening letter containing a white powder was found in the top of a letterbox.

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3675910&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection

[JustPiper]

Iran - secret visits by visits


http://www.meepas.com/Iran_secret_militant_visits.htm

[JustPiper]

4 FBI officers quiz Malabar suspects

By NALINEE SEELAL


Five members of a Malabar family arrested on Saturday during a search of their home for explosives. were quizzed yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Two of the five were identified as having links with a Muslim organisation. Yesterday, four FBI officers who are in Trinidad to assist with investigations into the four bombings last year, went to the office of the Criminal Investigations unit and spent several hours interviewing the suspects.

http://www.newsday.co.tt/stories.php?article_id=33957

[JustPiper]

FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq, March 14


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM429836.htm

[JustPiper]

Per FNC

A battalion is being pulled from Kuwait to go into Iraq in time for Shura

[JustPiper]

Vicente Fox Says New Deep-Water Find in Mexico May Eventually Yield 10 Billion Barrels of Oil

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - President Vicente Fox climbed aboard a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to formally announce a new deep-water oil discovery he said could eventually yield 10 billion barrels of crude oil.

An exploratory well dubbed Noxal 1 was drilled at a depth of 3,070 feet (935 meters) below the water, and is seeking a depth of 13,125 feet (4,000 meters). Perforation of the well, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Coatzacoalcos on the coast of Veracruz state, began in December.

NOTE:
Can anyone tell me why Fox can drill in the Gulf, answering to no one but the administration cannot drill in Alaska, etc without wacko environmentalists, liberals screaming?!

http://www.moneysense.ca/news/company_news/shownews.jsp?content=D8GBKSR00_ap

[JustPiper]

Report: Iranian youth defy ayatollah Protesters burn images of Tehran's clerical leaders

Iranian young people staged anti-government protests in Tehran and other cities across the country today, using the annual Persian "fire festival" celebration to burn effigies and pictures of the country's leaders and set cars ablaze belonging to the State Security Forces, according to the London-based independent news agency Iran Focus.

[JustPiper]

Goodbye Dubai
~J. Farah

There is much hand-wringing over the collapse of the Dubai port deal.

There is much gnashing of teeth in Washington.

There is much finger-pointing going on – much blame being spread.

President Bush says he's troubled by the political storm that reversed the deal: "I'm concerned about a broader message this issue could send to our friends and allies around the world, particularly in the Middle East."

Then, of course, it stands to reason he should have thought this process through a little better. The political storm is of his own making. It was predictable – if only he didn't have a tin political ear, he should have realized the American people might not take this lying down. If only he had a realistic and pragmatic understanding of the kinds of people he is crawling into bed with in the Middle East, he might have made the right decision in the first place.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49254

[JustPiper]

Hillary's top donor: She's getting away with fraud!

It's been five and a half years since I filed an Federal Elections Commission complaint, and a civil fraud and coercion suit against Hillary Clinton for hiding more than $1.2 million in contributions I made to her 2000 Senate campaign.

On Jan. 26, 2006, the FEC forced her campaign to publicly admit that she took more than three quarters of a million dollars from me and hid it in a series of false FEC reports. The Supreme Court of California upheld my landmark civil fraud suit against a senator and president for conspiracy and fraud, and denied Hillary's motion to dismiss her from the suit.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49249

[JustPiper]

Bush acknowledges American media revolution
~Kinsolving

Almost daily, there come reports and evidence of an American media revolution.

That long-time liberal combo of The Old Big Three – ABC, CBS, and NBC, which were once watched by 90 percent of all homes with television – have seen their audiences shrink by more than 50 percent of that one-time dominance.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49259

[JustPiper]

Hezbollah, al-Aqsa and Islamic Jihad Coordinating Attacks
Israel in the Crosshairs: Palestinian Terror Groups to Greet Israeli Elections with Carnage Via Iranian Funds, Arms and Training

http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/03/hezbollah-alaqsa-and-islamic-j/

[JustPiper]

Chemical blast blows roof off plant
No injuries reported; 130 workers, 20 residents evacuated
{North Phoenix}

About 250 pounds of an ammonia-based chemical exploded into a large fireball and gas cloud about 11 a.m. Monday in north Phoenix, blowing the roof off of a plant that makes devices for military aircraft ejection seats, fire officials said.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0314explosion0314.html

[Velveeta]

6,000 terror watch list hits inside U.S.

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's Terrorist Screening Center says there have been about 6,000 "encounters" inside the United States between law enforcement or other officials and people on the center's terrorist watch list since it was set up on Dec. 1, 2003.

Donna Bucella, the center's director, told reporters in Washington Tuesday that "about 6,000 individuals who are known or suspected international terrorists have been encountered within the United States."

She said that about 40-50 percent of the encounters were "repeats" -- i.e. the same person encountered more than once -- but declined to give the total number of individuals involved.
(snip)
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060314-060537-2577r

[JustPiper]

6,000 "encounters" inside the United States

And this is what they are admitting to...imagine...

[JustPiper]

Sudafed Deemed A Threat To Homeland Security

You better not have a runny nose or watery eyes or you might run afoul of the Patriot Act.

According to USA Today, provisions are being added to this legislation, infamous for troubling libertarians from both ends of the political spectrum, that will limit the amount of pseudoephedrine an individual can purchase and require the purchaser to produce a photo ID in order to complete the transaction.

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27264077.shtml

[JustPiper]

A Backlash in Phoenix over Immigration from Mexico

Phoenix has become the biggest gathering point and distribution hub for people migrating to the United States from Mexico.

But unlike other large cities of the Southwest, Phoenix has little history in assimilating large numbers of Hispanics. The result has been an anti-immigrant backlash.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5260526

[JustPiper]

Google's Al-Qaeda Link

Google's recent decision to censor Chinese users' search results at the behest of the Chi-com government thugs raised the hackles of many. Now comes news that Orkut, a popular internet service owned by Google, is being used by Al-Qaeda sympathizers to rally support for Osama bin Laden and recruit terrorists.

"We know for sure that al-Qaeda is trying to recruit as many as possible from the Western societies, not people who look like Arabs," says Rita Katz of the SITE Institute, a group that tracks terrorists' online activities. "This is a good place to be if you want to recruit people like that."

http://www.trimmail.com/news/elsewhere/data/1142274781.58/

[Cindy]

Yep, Italy, the elections are April 9, 2006.

JAMESTOWN.org - Terrorism Monitor: " ITALY: THE THREAT TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS" by Federico Bordonaro (February 23, 2006) (Read More...)