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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[Oorang]

Bomb explodes outside bank
March 16, 2006

A bomb has exploded outside a branch of British-based HSBC bank in Diyarbakir, south east Turkey, injuring one person, security officials said.

Excerpted

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18484958-23109,00.html

Banned Muslim scholar asks again for permission to enter U.S.
Mar 15, 6:07 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Muslim scholar suing the U.S. government over its refusal to give him a travel visa asked a court Wednesday to allow him to enter the country temporarily while the case is awaiting trial.

Excerpted

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_MUSLIM_SCHOLAR_VISA_BAOL-?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=MIDEAST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Oorang]

Long but interesting read:

A View from the Eye of the Storm -Suicide bombings.lies, money, and criminality as terrorist arsenal

[Oorang]

Well that's interesting, thanks Lucy.

[Domestic Church]

"It's strange that not a single duck has yet died in America - they are all dying in Russia and European countries. This makes one seriously wonder why," Zyuganov said at a press
conference at the Interfax main office on Tuesday."

Me thinks he doth protesteth too much...(as in he who smelt it dealt it!)

[LucyT]

From the article:

"What is behind the suicide murders? Money, power and cold-blooded murderous incitement, nothing else. It has nothing to do with true fanatic religious beliefs. No Moslem preacher has ever blown himself up.

"No son of an Arab politician or religious leader has ever blown himself.

"No relative of anyone influential has done it. Wouldn't you expect some of the religious leaders to do it themselves, or to talk their sons into doing it, if this is truly a supreme act of religious fervor? Aren't they interested in the benefits of going to Heaven?

"Instead, they send outcast women, naive children, retarded people and young incited hotheads. They promise them the delights, mostly sexual, of the next world, and pay their families handsomely after the supreme act is performed and enough innocent people are dead.

"Suicide murders also have nothing to do with poverty and despair.

"The poorest region in the world, by far, is Africa. It never happens there."

[Oorang]

http://www.lg4j.com/

http://www.tibyan.blogspot.com/

http://gimfupload.2ya.com/

http://almagribi.blogspot.com/2006/03/blog-post_07.html

[Oorang]

Makes you wonder what kind of tea he's been drinking, doesn't it.

[Selene]

This is interesting

Prosecutors Say Lodi Terror Suspect Carried Jihadist Prayer
http://www.sacunion.com/pages/sacramento/articles/7990

"enemy territory"

[LucyT]

[Here's an excellent article, too bad we can't excerpt. Scroll down a ways for the good stuff, after the comment about the speechless Emirate; then it goes on to explain an important lesson.]

Ports deal collapse: A lesson for the world
By Youssef M. Ibrahim

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-03-14-portslessons_x.htm

[Cindy]

Thank you for the links Oorang.

[Selene]

More Lodi...
At midpoint, terror trial against Lodi men reveals murky picture
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2006/03/14/terrorism/3_trial_060314.txt
"Security consultant Howard Safir, a former New York City police commissioner, called the Hayat case an important prosecution despite the lack of hard evidence of a confirmed terrorist plot.

"We can't minimize the fact that al-Qaida was trying to set up cells in the United States," said Safir, who also held posts with the U.S. Marshall's Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration. "I think al-Qaida is like the Statue of Liberty: 'Send me your hungry, your poor ... ' They'll take anybody and see if they're useful."

... According to trial transcripts, he was awaiting orders to attack targets that included hospitals, banks and grocery stores.

When an FBI agent asked him to explain why food stores were possibilities, Hayat responded, "I think just to hurt people," according to a transcript of the interrogation.

...Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, those who the government believes to be top terrorists often are never charged but rather are kept overseas for interrogation.

"The rationale has been their value is intelligence, and the aim is to prevent future attacks, rather than conviction and punishment," said George Harris, one of the attorneys who represented John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was captured during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

Traditional prosecutions are often reserved for alleged lower-level operatives who have little information to reveal in open settings that might damage the nation's intelligence-gathering.

In such cases, physical evidence can be sparse, especially if the government acts to disrupt attacks before they can occur.

Photographs or other hard evidence from inside a training camp are unlikely, making interrogations and confessions the most likely evidence jurors may see, said security consultant Oliver "Buck" Revel, who headed the FBI's counterterrorism division for more than a decade.

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597250/posts


Marriage Hell: Till bombs do us part (how to go after your spouse)
Times of India ^ | 03/15/06

Posted on 03/15/2006 10:00:59 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Marriage Hell: Till bombs do us part

[ Wednesday, March 15, 2006 09:47:42 pm REUTERS ]

A Mexican couple is recovering separately after a marital spat got out of control and saw them firing guns, throwing knives and hurling homemade bombs at each other, the Mexican daily Milenio reported this week.

In scenes reminiscent of the hit romantic comedy Mr and Mrs Smith, which starred Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Juan Espinosa and his wife Irma Contreras fought until their house blew up in a homemade gasoline bomb explosion, Milenio said.

Police called to the home in the town of Oxkutzcab arrested Espinosa. Contreras was taken to hospital with third-degree burns. A local police official confirmed the report, but didn’t provide further information. In the violence-filled movie about the fictional Smiths, Pitt and Jolie play married assassins ordered to kill each other.

Espinosa said he was glad his wife had suffered burns, while Contreras said she was only sorry that she had not “hacked off his manhood’’.

[Cindy]

http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005520.html
15 March 2006
"Let's Go 4 Jihad!!"
"Two new sites for al-Qaida's As-Sahab Media Group:"

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ON THE NET...

http://www.lg4j.com
http://www.jihad-media.com

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597119/posts

"Nation of Islam officials respond to Illinois controversy--We are tired of the enemy's tricks"
Final Call ^ | Mar 15, 2006, | Dora Muhammad

Posted on 03/15/2006 5:06:38 PM PST by SJackson

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hamas.html

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ON THE NET...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395612129&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Mar. 15, 2006 22:38 | Updated Mar. 16, 2006 0:18
"Hamas denies running kids' suicide Web site"
By ORLY HALPERN

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597108/posts?page=9#9

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597108/posts


"Russia warns against isolating Hamas"
RIAN ^ | 15/ 03/ 2006

Posted on 03/15/2006 4:52:53 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) -


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Russia hosted a Hamas delegation in Moscow earlier this year, triggering an angry reaction in some quarters in Israel and the West. Unlike many Western countries, Russia does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization."

[Cindy]

JAMESTOWN.org - Terrorism Monitor: "JAPAN: A TARGET FOR AL-QAEDA?" by Guido Olimpio (March 9, 2006) (Read More...)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597271/posts

"4 Die in Suspected Group Suicide in Japan"
http://www.comcast.net/ ^ | 3 16 06 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/15/2006 11:41:00 PM PST by freepatriot32

TOKYO


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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594029/posts

"Nine People Dead in Japan Mass-Suicides"
http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2006/03/10/342606.html&cvq ^ | 3 10 06 | KOZO MIZOGUCHI,

Posted on 03/10/2006 11:30:40 AM PST by freepatriot32

TOKYO

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

TRAVEL.STATE.GOV - CONSULAR INFORMATION SHEET: "JAPAN"
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1148.html

[Cindy]

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/15/160041.shtml?s=ic
AP

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

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 3:57 p.m. EST
"Sec. of State Rice Warns of Terrorist 'Ring of Fire'"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Islamic militants would turn Southeast Asia into "a ring of fire" unless they are actively confronted, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Wednesday, just hours before she was to touch down in Australia."