Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Six

[Smartass]

Thanks LucyT...That one worked great.
I book marked it.

   

[Revel]

They have always been there. Better to teach you children to be smart than to take away there quality of life. And no you can't stop all the bad things from happening. You will have to wait for the return of Christ for that. Making everyone supicious of everyone else, and afraid of everyone else is not the answer. It only leads to a breakdown of compassionate values. Only the preditors should be punished.

[Smartass]

I can't agree with you more.
They can scream till the cows come home, but the
courts have made sex offender web sites very legal.

[Seadog Bytes]

[nwctwx]

Bin Laden 'probably back home in US'

By Mahmood Saberi, Staff Reporter

Dubai: If you ask people where they think Osama Bin Laden was hiding, the answer would inevitably be Afghanistan or Pakistan.

But for some reason, a large number of readers surveyed online believe he is hiding in the United States.

In the Gulf News online survey done on May 7, 30 per cent of the responders said Pakistan was the terrorist's likely hiding place. Only 12 per cent said Afghanistan, while 51 per cent said it was the United States.

To double check whether people on the streets are equally paranoid and think on the same lines, Gulf News caught some unwary shoppers and asked them the question. While some people said they would rather not comment on the subject, a large number also believe he is in the United States, as according to them, Bin Laden was once "created" by America.

A Dubai resident said people think he is in the United States, "because he was working for them before", said Daniella Paderi. "And now he has gone back home." The expatriate said catching Osama was not important. "There are more important things to worry about, as the war in Iraq," she said.

Hassan Ali, an Egyptian expatriate in Abu Dhabi, said Bin Laden was most probably in Texas (home of US President George Bush). "That's where he is running his family business now," he said. "All the media fuss is make-believe. He probably has coffee daily with American officials."

Khalid Ahmad in Abu Dhabi also believes Bin Laden is in America. "I am sure they already know where he is," he said. The response changes when an European or a non-Arab expatriate is asked the same question.

Welma Williams said it is highly unlikely Bin Laden is in the United States. She said the online response was to create a feeling of fear and insecurity among the American people. "He is moving around all the time. He can't be in one place," she said. "Catching him is important. We have to examine the whole school of thought behind the terrorist acts. It is more important to understand why it happened," she said.

One expatriate who did not wish to be identified, said she does not think about such things. "Life has to go on. You can't live in fear all the time," she said.

Andy Sheekey said people thought Bin Laden was in the United States because of paranoia. He also felt it was because of a "complete lack of trust in the judicial system. Cracking down on poverty is probably the major thing that needs to be done (rather than hunting him down)". Asked where in the United States would the terrorist likely be, he said "Washington".

John Churchill Jnr. from England felt people were "misinformed" when they said he was in America. "I can't think why he would be there when he is on their number one wanted list. He would be among his people," he said.

Yasmin Ali, an American, felt Bin Laden was in Pakistan because reports say so. "If he was in the United States, he would be somewhere in the backwaters. People probably wish he was in the United States."

Gary Hansard had no idea why people would think such a thing. "It's important for the Iraqi people that he is caught," he said.

Hussain Al Saeedi, an Egyptian teacher living in Abu Dhabi, said Osama was is in Afghanistan.

Sana Shaikh, a teacher from Pakistan, said he is in Afghanistan while Larry from the Philippines said he was in Pakistan.

Mohammad Junad, a 26-year-old bank employee from India, felt that Bin Laden is most probably dead. "All the videos we see of him are all fake."

[LucyT]

Discriminate in pandemic, magazine suggests
May 12, 2006.

The sick and elderly should be the last to be given a flu vaccine in a pandemic, according to a controversial paper published today in the journal Science.

Healthy teens and young productive adults aged 13 to 40 should get the vaccine ahead of the old and sick, states the commentary, which calls for a radical rethinking of how countries ought to ration the short supply of vaccine in the months after a pandemic breaks out.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1147384212150&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467

[Cindy]

Hi Seadog Bytes.

[Cindy]

Hi Lucy.

I stick with the offiical web sites only when it comes to sex registrants.
Law enforcement registers sex, drug and arson registrants.
All updates have to be put in to their systems.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html

And here's another article on the Cartoon Jihad:
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50179

"Al-Qaida: Destroy
Denmark, France
Escaped member issues video urging
vengeance for Muhammad cartoons"
Posted: May 12, 2006

[Cindy]

"Bin Laden 'probably back home in US'"

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Well nw, anything is possible.

Personally, I speculate that ***PURE SPECULATION***; he probably is in a nice house or apartment in Pakistan or with family members in Iran or heading towards Gaza to meet up with other like-minded folks.

In the USA?

I doubt it; however his height would not be an issue here. There's a lot of tall people in the USA. /end speculation.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crm_285.html

OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006
WWW.USDOJ.GOV
CRM
(202) 514-2007
TDD (202) 514-1888
Former Federal Computer Security Specialist Sentenced for Hacking Department of Education Computer

WASHINGTON – Kenneth Kwak, 34, of Chantilly, Va., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to five months in prison followed by five months of home confinement, based upon Kwak’s conviction for gaining unauthorized access to and obtaining information from a Department of Education computer system, the Department of Justice announced today.

Kwak’s sentence results from his March 2006 guilty plea to one count of intentionally gaining unauthorized access to a government computer and thereby obtaining information. In his plea, Kwak, who had been working in an office responsible for ensuring the security of Department of Education computer systems, admitted that he had placed software on a supervisor's computer which enabled him to access the computer’s storage at will. He later used that access on numerous occasions to view his supervisor’s intra-office and Internet email as well as his other Internet activity and communications; Kwak then shared this information with others in his office.

As part of today’s sentence, Judge Lamberth also ordered Kwak to pay restitution to the U.S. government in the amount of $40,000 and serve a three-year term of supervised release. The five months of home confinement with electronic monitoring was ordered as a special condition of this term of supervised release.

The matter was investigated by the Computer Crime Investigations Division of the Department of Education Inspector General’s Office. The case was prosecuted by Senior Counsel William Yurek, cross-designated as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, with assistance by Trial Attorney Howard Cox, both of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division. The prosecution was part of the “zero-tolerance policy” recently adopted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office regarding intrusions into U.S. government computer systems.

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06-285

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631534/posts


U.S. court suspends Saudi's Guantanamo trial
Reuters ^ | 12 May 2006 | Jane Sutton

Posted on 05/12/2006 10:08:44 PM PDT by ncountylee

MIAMI, May 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday suspended the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal of a Saudi prisoner until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules next month on the tribunals' legality.

The Saudi captive, Ghassan al Sharbi, is one of 10 Guantanamo detainees charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes and the fourth to have his case delayed pending the Supreme Court ruling that is expected in June.

He had been scheduled to appear before a tribunal for pretrial hearings next week at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

In Washington, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that Sharbi could suffer irreparable harm if he appeared before a tribunal that could be deemed illegal within a month.

He said the Justice Department failed to prove its claim that delaying the tribunal "would imperil the war effort."

U.S. President George W. Bush created the military tribunals after the Sept. 11 attacks to try foreign citizens on terrorism charges.

Attorneys for another Guantanamo defendant argued before the Supreme Court in March that the tribunals are unconstitutional because they allow the president, through his military subordinates, to define the crime, choose the prosecutor and judges and set all the rules.

(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631538/posts


India's Ragtag Band of Maoists Takes Root Among Rural Poor
Washington Post ^ | May 13, 2006 | John Lancaster

Posted on 05/12/2006 10:30:28 PM PDT by The Lion Roars

BASTAR FOREST, India -- He's 30 years old, speaks English and is conversant in the language of e-mail and the Internet. Friendly and self-confident, he could be a manager in a call center, or perhaps a software engineer on one of India's gleaming high-tech campuses. But "Comrade M," as he asks to be called, prefers a different line of work: waging war on the Indian state.

Armed with a battered Lee-Enfield rifle that he laughingly describes as "senior to me," the university graduate in an olive-drab uniform with a red star on the breast was one of about 30 Maoist guerrillas encountered recently in this remote forest in east-central India.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.pandemicflu.gov

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Thanks to CallMeJoe for pointing to this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/05/13/indonesia.birdflu/index.html?section=cnn_latest

"Indonesia probes possible bird flu
Four of eight cases investigated were fatal"


Saturday, May 13, 2006; Posted: 1:24 a.m. EDT (05:24 GMT)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "All eight cases were from the same family. Four members of the family have died from what health officials suspect could be bird flu, said WHO spokeswoman Sari Setiogi.

Blood samples have been sent to a WHO lab in Hong Kong for analysis, Setiogi said.

The family lived in a village in the Tanah Karo district in north Sumatra.

Indonesia's death toll from the H5N1 bird flu strain stands at 25 -- the world's second-highest toll after Vietnam, according to reports from The Associated. Press.

[Cindy]

UPDATE...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/05/011393print.html
May 12, 2006
"Four wanted for Dahab blasts surrender to police"

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22190
"Bloody Monday"
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 25, 2006

[Cindy]

Note: The following post (minus the photo of the poster) is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572006/posts


D.C. Anti-Bush Rally Features 'Beheaded Bush' Poster (Graphics)
Saturday, February 4, 2006 | Kristinn

Posted on 02/04/2006 6:44:16 PM PST by kristinn

About 1,000 people gathered in rain-swept Washington, D.C. today at an anti-Bush rally organized by the World Can't Wait, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Held on the grounds of the Washington Monument, the rally capped a week of activities by the group demanding President Bush leave office immediately because of their opposition to the Iraq war and other Bush policies.

The organizers planned for a crowd in the tens of thousands, but as the photos below show, they spent a whole lot of money planning for people who never showed.

One woman who did attend the rally made it all worthwhile them, though. She carried a poster that featured a blood-dripping beheaded President Bush.

1 posted on 02/04/2006 6:44:18 PM PST by kristinn

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631565/posts

"The American Idol Round-up for 5/13/06"
5/13/06

Posted on 05/13/2006 1:24:29 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter

[Cindy]

Note: The following news brief is a quote:
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http://www.india-defence.com/reports/1907

Pakistan sent stinger missiles to Iran by mistake says Intelligence Chief

URL: http://www.india-defence.com/reports/1907
Date: 11/5/2006
Agency: Daily Times, Pakistan
Topics: pakistan iran missile defense

Islamabad: Pakistan did not supply Stinger missiles to Iran and only 35 missiles reached Iran that too by mistake, said Lieutenant General (r) Hameed Gul, the former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence.

Talking to a private TV channel, Gul said the Inter-Services Intelligence had supplied 50 to 70 Stinger missiles to former Afghanistan prime minister Gulbadin Hekamtyar.

He said most of the missiles should have been exhausted because of redundancy in their batteries, and only few of them might still be operational.

“The number of attacks on United States aircraft in Afghanistan by the Taliban shows the militants might have acquired anti-aircraft missiles from elsewhere,” he said.

[Cindy]

Thanks to Clive for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631559/posts

"Zimbabwe on edge as inflation hits 1,000%"
The Scotsman ^ | May 13, 2006 | CRIS CHINAKA

Posted on 05/13/2006 12:58:55 AM PDT by MadIvan

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

MINUTEMAN HQ.com
http://www.minutemanhq.com

MINUTEMAN HQ.com: "BORDER FENCE"
http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/

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ON THE NET...

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051006.2B.newsroundup.27f44a1a.html

"Border sheriffs to form second coalition"

Web Posted: 05/10/2006 12:26 AM CDT



San Antonio Express-News


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LAREDO — The Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, a group that has successfully garnered government funds to boost border security efforts, has expanded its reach.

At a meeting at South Padre Island last week, members voted to form a second coalition of sheriffs from counties stretching from Texas to California."