Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - June 2006

[Cindy]

That is interesting.
THANKS Jellyjam.

You sure are up early.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2006/20060629_5545.html

Mosque Bombing Co-Conspirator Nabbed in May, Officials Reveal

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2006 – A key al Qaeda operative implicated in the February bombing of a prominent Iraqi mosque was captured last month, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad today.
Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie announced yesterday that terrorist Abu Qudama had been seized by Kurdish pershmerga troops after a May 20 firefight north of Baghdad, Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell told reporters at a news briefing.

Abu Qudama, a Tunisian, is an admitted participant of the Feb. 22 bombing of the Golden Dome, a holy Shiite mosque in Samarra, Caldwell said. The bombing set off sectarian violence across Iraq.

The terrorist's capture wasn't announced earlier, Caldwell speculated, because Iraqi and coalition authorities probably wanted more time to extract intelligence.

Abu Qudama is also known as Yousri Fakher Mohammed Ali. His compatriot and the ringleader of the Golden Dome bombing, Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, remains at large.

Lately, al Qaeda has experienced several reversals of fortune in Iraq. Previous al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed June 7 in an air strike by U.S. F-16 jets. Now, U.S. and coalition forces have set their sights on getting Zarqawi's successor, Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

"There is no question that if we can take him down," Caldwell said, "that will just disrupt the organization to the point to where it would be ineffective for a long period of time."

Zarqawi's death, Abu Qudama's capture and other recent setbacks have disrupted al Qaeda's operations in Iraq, Caldwell said.

And, "that has given us to opportunity to find and track down" more al Qaeda terrorists, the general said.

Iraqi and coalition security forces remain focused on pressuring the terrorists, said Caldwell, spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq, noting that 57 foreign terrorists have been killed or captured in Iraq this month.

Caldwell cited the exploits of U.S. 173rd Stryker Brigade soldiers who surprised a group of insurgents last week during an operation near Mosul. The brigade employed an unmanned aerial vehicle, he said, to pinpoint insurgents who'd fired a mortar round at a nearby U.S. base.

The Americans used the Global Positioning System to track the terrorists to their lair and captured nine -- including five Syrians, Caldwell recalled. The GIs also freed a kidnapping victim, the general said, and seized a large cache of enemy ordnance.

Another recent operation conducted by U.S. and Iraqi forces uncovered four large weapons caches hidden in and around a soccer stadium in Ramadi, Caldwell said. Materials used for making improvised explosive devices, anti-personnel mines, and numerous weapons were seized, he said.

"Iraqi and coalition forces are working side by side," Caldwell said, "to eliminate these foreign terrorists who attempt to hijack the development and building of a stable, peaceful Iraq."

[Cindy]

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/CamEdwards/2006/06/30/203225.html

"Day four at the UN gun ban conference"
Jun 30, 2006
by Cam Edwards ( bio | archive | contact )

COLUMN SNIPPET: "It seems to be getting quiet at the United Nations. Oh, the delegates are still speaking, but on Thursday much of the discussion moved behind closed doors. It’s funny, actually. Every anti-gun delegate or activist talks about the need for “transparency” in firearms ownership, but those running the gun summit don’t seem that interested in transparency for what they’re doing."

[Godzilla]

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[LucyT]

The enemy within:

Why Is the New York Times So Wicked?
Human Events ^ | June 30 2006 | Rabbi Aryeh Spero

It is the American ethos that looks to the military, the Judeo-Christian religious ethic, and the historic American way that riles the publisher and cohorts of the New York Times who feel entitled to America’s homage and political servitude.

They crave a new system that will severely diminish the power of the American citizen -- the rugged individual -- and place it in their hands, in their crowd.

They support and call for socialist policies not because they want an equality that would slice their earnings or reduce their high-flying lifestyle to that of the average Joe in Milwaukee.

They desire a dependency and collectivism, since they believe they'll, as in all democratic-socialist entities, be running the bureaucracies that will control our lives.

They will social engineer society, all the while keeping for themselves the wealth, status, and power (above the people) they deem rightfully theirs.

What type of person possesses such arrogance? Elitists, like the New York Times crowd who know they are superior. A crowd that does not accept you as an intellectual, social and political equal.
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Michael Wolff of New York Magazine bragged: “I’m not an American. I’m a New Yorker.”

In other words, they are cosmopolitans of the world, above the plebians in Witchita.
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Additionally, contra-Americanism is their identity, a raison d’etre of this particular community. With all its wealth, power and privilege, it still feels alien to historic America and hopes and works for historic America to be replaced by a different America.

For them, it is not a hobby or pastime but a mission. They will never stop nor be satisfied.
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But don’t they care what the American people think of their disloyal actions? No, you and I are not important to them. All that matters to them are the opinions and the judgment of those in their closely-knit society, their sub-culture.

But don’t they fear the Islamic enemy?

No, for this elitist crowd thinks that the jihadists will embrace them as brothers in their war against “racist America.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658426/posts

[WestCoastGal]

The question I have is who is giving them this information?

[WestCoastGal]

" While police departments from several big cities have representatives working full time with the Department of Homeland Security to glean sensitive information about terror threats, some of these departments say they still are denied access to timely, relevant information about threats and terrorist activity."

Probably because DHS/Chertoff are too busy trying to convince congress to fold on the immigration issue.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

No indication why. It was a crash landing. FD personnel reported OK, helicopter is upside down.

ILL| Chicago| Aircraft Down| 154.130| 39th @ Lake Shore Drive|U/D: Corr address. CFD Helo 681 emergency hard landing. No inj reported.| ILL086| 12:03

[Velveeta]

Heading out of town.

Have a wonderful 4th of July.

Be prepared, be safe!

[Smartass]

Ghost of "Tokyo Rose"

 

Anyone who remembers anything about World War II, or has studied anything  about World War II, will understand and remember that during World War II,  the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces.  The Japanese psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.

 

They gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale. What was that demoralizing message?

It had three main points:

 

1. Your President is lying to you.
2. This war is illegal.
3. You cannot win the war

 

Does this sound familiar?

Is it because of: 

 

Tokyo Hillary Clinton,

Tokyo Harry Reid,

Tokyo Teddy Kennedy 

Tokyo Nancy Pelosi,

Tokyo Dick Durbin,

Tokyo John Kerry,

Tokyo John Murtha,  etc. have all learned from the former enemies of our country

and have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on:

 

Tokyo CNN,

Tokyo ABC,

Tokyo CBS,

Tokyo NBC, and;

Tokyo New York Times

Tokyo Los Angeles Times

Tokyo Washington Post etc., to our troops?

 

The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them.

Come to think of it...Tokyo Rose told the American Troops she was on their side, also.

 

Tokyo Rose was a name given by United States forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of several English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.

 

 

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

The name is usually associated with Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a United States citizen who was in Japan at the start of the war. In 1949, D'Aquino was tried and convicted of treason by the United States government, based on perjured testimony. She was later pardoned by U.S. President Gerald Ford.

 

 

 

 

 

[Cindy]

DITTO that.

[Cindy]

Have a wonderful Independence Day celebration Velveeta.

[Cindy]

http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=837251

June 30th, 2006
"Feds Arrest Alleged Genovese Family Head"
Jun 30th - 12:47pm
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ Associated Press Writer


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MIAMI (AP) - The alleged head of the Genovese crime family's South Florida ring and six others were arrested and charged with extortion, robbery, money laundering and other acts of racketeering spanning more than a decade, prosecutors said Friday.

Renaldi "Ray" Ruggiero, whom federal prosecutors identified as a Genovese capo or captain, appeared in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday along with his co-defendants.

The arrests are the latest blow to New York's most powerful Mafia family. The family's reputed acting boss, Liborio S. "Barney" Bellomo, and 31 others were arrested in February in New York on charges including murder."


ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The group is also accused of laundering money through as many as six companies."

[LucyT]

The enemy within:

N.Y. Times Retaliates Against Cheney, Rumsfeld
newsmax ^ Friday, June 30, 2006 2:59 p.m. EDT

Beware of travel feature stories posing as invitations to terror.

"The New York Times points cranks, radicals, al-Qaida operatives and would-be assassins to the summer homes of [V.P. Dick] Cheney and [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld" writes FrontPage Magazine's David Horowitz,

who sees the June 30 Times feature article as an apparent retaliation for administration "criticism of the Times' disclosure of classified intelligence to America's enemies."

In the "Escapes" section of the June 30 edition, the N.Y. Times printed huge color photos of the vacation residences of Cheney and Rumsfeld, "identifying the small Maryland town where they live, showing their front driveways and, in Rumsfeld's case, actually pointing out the hidden security camera in case any hostile intruders should get careless," Horowitz writes.

Times Travel section writer Peter Kilborn even makes sure enemies of the two men will know such details as where Mrs. Rumsfeld shops in the eastern shore town of St. Michaels, Md. where the two administration officials have weekend retreats.

He even lets the curious know what street the Cheneys and Rumsfelds have to use to get to their own road.

It's all part of the war against President Bush, Horowitz charges.

"Make no mistake about it, there is a war going on in this country,"

Horowitz advises, noting that

the aggressors in this war "are Democrats, liberals and leftists who began a scorched earth campaign against President Bush before the initiation of hostilities in Iraq."

One of the most prevalent weapons in this war, according to Horowitz, is the New York Times.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658602/posts

[Smartass]

SCUTTLED

Why aren't these TRAITORS locked up?

 

[Cindy]

WORTH REPEATING...

THANKS LucyT for posting this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642083/posts?page=1634#1634 and thanks Diogenesis for the ping to this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658602/posts?page=37#37

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/30/151423.shtml?s=ic

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the "Escapes" section of the June 30 edition, the N.Y. Times printed huge color photos of the vacation residences of Cheney and Rumsfeld, "identifying the small Maryland town where they live, showing their front driveways and, in Rumsfeld's case, actually pointing out the hidden security camera in case any hostile intruders should get careless," Horowitz writes."

[MamaDearest]

...the aggressors in this war "are Democrats, liberals and leftists who began a scorched earth campaign against President Bush before the initiation of hostilities in Iraq."

When someone tells me they are a Democrat or a liberal, it's all I really need to know about them.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658630/posts

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

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

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http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/6-29-06GaffneyTestimony.pdf

"SUBMITTED TESTIMONY OF

FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
PRESIDENT AND C.E.O.
THE CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY

BEFORE THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
29 June 2006

‘SADDAM HUSSEIN’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:
JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM’"

[MamaDearest]

Making of a zealot

Snip: His name used to be Daniel Sonier, but that was when he was a troubled Scarborough teenager with dreams of becoming a rap star. Now he is Shaheed. In Arabic, it means martyr. It is the name the 22-year-old of Acadian and aboriginal ancestry adopted when he became a Muslim five years ago.

Since his conversion, he has shed his baggy hip hop garb for a white turban and gown, married a woman from Djibouti and fathered two children. "Those who were around me, who knew me from the past, they see me now, they don't even recognize me," he said. "They call me Daniel, but really, in my heart, I'm Shaheed." An estimated 3,000 people are, like Shaheed, converting to Islam each year in Canada, according to a Canadian Security Intelligence Service report.