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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Six

Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx

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Afghanistan Calls for Crackdown at Border
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Pakistan needs to do more to crack down on terrorism along the Pakistani-Afghan border, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday.

Rahim Karimi said in the news conference that Afghanistan need greater "cooperation" from both its eastern neighbor and the international community in its battle against Islamic militants.

Coalition and Afghan forces have in recent days been fighting fierce battles against Taliban fighters near the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Soldiers Kill 5 Militants in Afghanistan
Joseph Farah: Real Bad News in Afghanistan
Karzai Urges Coalition Forces to Show Restraint
Zawahri's New Video Calls Muslims to Support Mujahideen
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War Game Will Focus on Situation With Iran
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WASHINGTON — Amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran over the future of Iran's nuclear program, the Pentagon is planning a war game in July so officials can explore options for a crisis involving Iran.

The July 18 exercise at National Defense University's National Strategic Gaming Center will include members of Congress and top officials from military and civilian agencies. It was scheduled in August, before the latest escalation in the conflict, university spokesman Dave Thomas said.

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1 posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:49 PM PDT by nwctwx
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2 posted on 04/18/2006 11:10:10 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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3 posted on 04/18/2006 11:14:29 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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ping to tm #36


4 posted on 04/18/2006 11:14:58 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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THANK YOU very much nw.


5 posted on 04/18/2006 11:15:43 PM PDT by Cindy
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I may have missed a few people if they asked to be on the ping list since the last thread. If you want on or off, don't hesitate to send me a freepmail.


6 posted on 04/18/2006 11:16:21 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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ON THE NET...

http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911news2.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html

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

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memri.org
http://www.memritv.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org


7 posted on 04/18/2006 11:17:13 PM PDT by Cindy
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ON THE NET...

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

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

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1615843/posts

"Russia offers aid to Hamas"
Reuters ^ | April 15, 2006 | n/a

Posted on 04/15/2006 9:08:30 PM PDT by sageb1

SNIPPET: "Russia said it had promised emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, breaking with fellow mediators the EU and the US, which have stopped funding to try to force Hamas to recognise Israel."


8 posted on 04/18/2006 11:22:40 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MadIvan; aussie; MamaDearest; All

Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18859735-29280,00.html

"Lodhi 'planned power grid bombings'"
From: AAP

April 19, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A SYDNEY man plotted to bomb Sydney's electricity grid and various defence sites in "violent jihad", a New South Wales Supreme Court jury has been told.

Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 36, today pleaded not guilty to four counts of preparing to commit a terrorist act between October 3 and 26, 2003.

In reading the indictment against Lodhi, Justice Anthony Whealy said it was alleged he had collected two maps of Australia's electricity grid with the intention of seriously damaging it by detonating an explosive or incendiary device.

He did this with "the intent of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause, namely violent jihad," the indictment says."


9 posted on 04/18/2006 11:25:50 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_eu/terror_recruiting_white_muslims_lh1


ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20142_Terrorists_Recruiting_White_Muslims

Monday, April 17, 2006
"Terrorists Recruiting 'White Muslims'"


10 posted on 04/18/2006 11:33:15 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: DoctorZIn; Jeff Head; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; All

Thanks to Doctor Zin for starting this thread:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617488/posts

"Iranian Alert - April 18, 2006 - Russia and China offer Iran to join their alliance"
Regime Change Iran ^ | 4.18.2006 | DoctorZin

Posted on 04/18/2006 11:08:24 PM PDT by DoctorZIn


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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HD18Ad02.html

Apr 18, 2006

"China, Russia welcome Iran into the fold"
By M K Bhadrakumar

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which maintained it had no plans for expansion, is now changing course. Mongolia, Iran, India and Pakistan, which previously had observer status, will become full members. SCO's decision to welcome Iran into its fold constitutes a political statement. Conceivably, SCO would now proceed to adopt a common position on the Iran nuclear issue at its summit meeting June 15."


11 posted on 04/18/2006 11:41:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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NOTE: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2006/20060417_4840.html


Reports Citing Imminent Attack on Iran Are Wrong, Official Says

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2006 – Recent news reports citing an imminent U.S. military attack against Iran are flat wrong, a senior Defense Department official said here today.
Such reports constitute "wild speculation," DoD spokesman Bryan Whitman told Pentagon reporters, reiterating previous policy remarks President Bush has made on the Iran issue.

The president has chosen diplomacy in concert with the international community as the preferred approach in persuading the Iranian government to jettison its nuclear programs, Whitman said.

Yet, it would be unrealistic, Whitman suggested, for people to believe that DoD doesn't have plans for all types of potential military contingencies, including Iran.

"We plan for all sorts of things," Whitman said.

News reports have said the United States government is planning to attack Iran over its nuclear policies. Iran has so far refused to comply with U. N. entreaties to relinquish its activities to develop atomic fuel.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadienejad announced on April 11 that Iran had produced enriched uranium using 164 centrifuges. Such material can be used in nuclear reactors to produce electricity or to make nuclear weapons.

Bush voiced his displeasure at Iranian efforts to develop nuclear technology during an April 10 speech given at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University here.

"We do not want the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon, (or) the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, or the knowledge as to how to make a nuclear weapon. That's our stated goal," the president said.

Iran is on a U.S. list of countries that sponsor terrorism. The Iranian president has also voiced his belief that Israel, a major U.S. ally, should be destroyed. Senior U.S. officials believe that any nuclear technology the Iranians develop will eventually be used to produce nukes.

The U.N. Security Council put out a March 29 statement declaring that body's "serious concern" about Iran's decision to resume its uranium-enrichment activities.

The Iranian government had ceased to cooperate with International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear regulatory organization. Iranian officials have said their country has a right to possess nuclear technology.

The Iranian government's persistence in further developing its nuclear program "only further isolates the regime from the rest of the world," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters during an April 11 news briefing.


12 posted on 04/18/2006 11:43:52 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: backhoe; All

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/04/19/194211.html

"No tears for terrorists"
Apr 19, 2006
by Michelle Malkin


13 posted on 04/18/2006 11:52:11 PM PDT by Cindy
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The question is, "ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?"
http://www.truthusa.com/AgainstUSorForUS.html


14 posted on 04/18/2006 11:59:03 PM PDT by Cindy
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ON THE NET...

SOFIR.ORG
http://www.sofir.org/

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005571.html
14 April 2006
"The web browser and operating system preferences of the users of the Tajdeed forum"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "From an upcoming report by the Society For Internet Research regarding the users of the Tajdeed forum (tajdeed.org.uk and tajdeedi.co.uk) operated in the UK by the Saudi exile group Party of Islamic Renewal (PIR)"

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http://tajdeed.org.uk
http://tajdeedi.co.uk/

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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369957
Terrorism Focus
"Intelligence War Breaks out on the Jihadi Forums"
By Stephen Ulph

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In mid-March, a further impetus to suspect al-Hesbah was voiced by members of the Tajdeed jihadi forum (http://www.tajdeed.org.uk ), who blamed the site for the arrest of the infamous cyber-mujahid Irhabi007, also known as Younis Tsouli, by British intelligence last October. Irhabi007 had been hunted for two years as an al-Qaeda webmaster and the suspected source of many of the al-Qaeda declarations posted on the net. With his close links to al-Qaeda, his arrest is considered an important event in the struggle against jihadi sites. Members also wondered aloud how the report by the Society for Internet Research (SOFIR), analyzing the readership of the al-Hesbah site, could have been compiled without inside collaboration. Some of these suspicions focused around the fact that al-Hesbah's administrators requested that applicants for registration provide their country of origin, and rejected the applicants' use of proxies to disguise their personal details; these requests are unusual for a jihadi forum. There were also concerns that there was an unusual concentration of a single nationality—Jordanians—on the administration staff and that this surely opened up the possibility of security penetration."

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005568.html
12 April 2006
"Everybody be cool..."


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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005565.html

08 April 2006
"The on-going soap opera formerly known as the al-Hesbah forum"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "We haven't had this much fun since Irhabi007 thought his favorite forum was infested with Polish spies..."

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http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/04/alqaida_in_saud.html
April 07, 2006
"Al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia Denies Being Infiltrated in Purported Internet Sting"

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005557.html
03 April 2006
"al-Hesbah admin(s) arrested?"

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005528.html

18 March 2006
"al-Hesbah posts fake "suspended site" message"

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005516.html
11 March 2006
"Irhabi007 as a case-study in jihadi counter-intelligence efforts"

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005497.html
02 March 2006
"The global distribution of the readers of al-Hesbah forum"


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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005496.html
02 March 2006
The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Three, The Internet (pg. 1)
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005495.html
02 March 2006
The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Three, The Internet (pg. 2)
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005494.html
02 March 2006
The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Three, The Internet (pg. 3)
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005493.html
02 March 2006
The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Three, The Internet (pg. 4)

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005490.html
01 March 2006
"The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Two, The Bust"

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005488.html
28 February 2006
"The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode One, The Name"


15 posted on 04/19/2006 12:18:06 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: nwctwx; appalachian_dweller; ExSoldier; NautiNurse; judithann; All

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/stormwatch/

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http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=760352
April 19th, 2006
"Storm Experts Preach Individual Responsibility"
Apr 18th - 2:22pm

By KRISTEN WYATT
Associated Press Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LAUREL, Md. (AP) - Think you could get by for three days without power, water or leaving the house for food and medicine?

If not, emergency responders in Maryland are looking to change your habits."


16 posted on 04/19/2006 12:26:08 AM PDT by Cindy
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ON THE NET...

http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/top.htm

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ON THE NET...

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-terrorist-group-targeted-japan-linked-power-plant-/2006/04/16/1575854.htm

[April 16, 2006]

"Terrorist group targeted Japan-linked power plant"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(Yomiuri Shimbun, The (Tokyo) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) JAKARTA, Indonesia _ The al-Qaida-linked Jemmah Islamiyah militant network based in Southeastern Asia planned last year to bomb a power plant in the east of Java island that is capitalized by Japanese, British and U.S. companies, according to a source in the Indonesian security authorities.

The source said JI was also investigating whether citizens of the United States and its allies were working at Paiton coal thermal power plant, located about 150 kilometers southeast of Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city.

It is the first time that a terrorist attack planned by JI targeting Japanese-related facilities has been discovered."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The source said the attack was plotted early last year by Noordin Mohamed Top, a JI leader and the mastermind of the suicide bombings on Bali in October that killed 20 people.

The plan is believed to be aimed at throwing the region into confusion by causing a large-scale blackout on Java island. Noordin ordered JI members to stake out the plant, the source said.

Two JI members who were arrested on suspicion of harboring Noordin and are currently on trial told local prosecutors that they were ordered to check whether foreign citizens, including Americans, worked at the plant.

Noordin is believed to have picked the power plant as a target because it is capitalized and operated by foreign companies."


17 posted on 04/19/2006 12:32:08 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: nwctwx

I really like the header layout nw.
Very clean and informative.


18 posted on 04/19/2006 12:38:45 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Note: The following video clips (with links to transcripts) are on the current front page of MEMRITV.org. The clips from Al_Manar TV and Al-Qaeda are links to separate pages.

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QUOTE:

http://www.memritv.org

CLIPS FROM AL-MANAR TV AL-QAEDA


#1113 - Footage of New Iranian Uranium Enrichment Facility
Iran Ch.1 - 4/11/2006 - 00:00:44


#1112 - Sudanese Scholar Hassan Al-Turabi Elaborates on His Revolutionary Fatwa on Muslim Women and Christian Men and Adds: Women Should Cover Chest, Not Face; Women Can Be Imams, Political Leaders; No Punishment for Drinking Alcohol at Home
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 4/10/2006 - 00:08:14


#1110 - Saudi Cleric Sa'd Al-Breik Complains: Whoever Says Anything Good about Hitler is Accused of Anti-Semitism
Iqra TV (Saudi Arabia) - 3/9/2006 - 00:02:02


#1111 - Iranian Nuclear Physicist Dr. Hassan Ghafuri-Fard: We Will Have 54,000-60,000 Centrifuges within Two Years
Iran ch.3 - 4/12/2006 - 00:01:02



19 posted on 04/19/2006 12:42:08 AM PDT by Cindy
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ICC-CCS.ORG: THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php

Snippet - Quote:

Weekly Piracy Report
11-17 April 2006

The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 11 to 17 April 2006.

ALERT

Somalia - NE and Eastern Coast
Forty one incidents have been reported since 15.03.05. Heavily armed pirates are now attacking ships further away from the coast. Ships not making scheduled calls at Somali ports are advised to keep at least 200 nm from the Somali coast.


20 posted on 04/19/2006 12:45:51 AM PDT by Cindy
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