Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - August 2006

[nwctwx]

Syria Tells Troops to Be Ready for Battle
(Full Story)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has placed his military on full alert, citing "regional challenges", and vowed to continue supporting the "Palestinian and Lebanese resistance more than ever".

In a speech to mark the Syrian Army national day, Mr Assad said the volatile situation across the Middle East required "vigilance, preparation and readiness" and ordered all units of the armed forces to be on alert.

The comments were interpreted by Israel as a morale booster to the Syrian armed forces and not a call to battle. Israeli intelligence chiefs have assessed that Syria is not in the mood for an open war and is instead content to resupply Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon.

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[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

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

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

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=1893#1893

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51645
"Terror leader: Fox News files 'lying reports'
Group representing al-Qaida tells WND abduction of reporters to punish America"
Posted: August 23, 2006
10:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TEL AVIV -- Fox News is controlled by Jews and Zionists, files "lying reports" from the Middle East and treats all Muslims as terrorists, the leader of a terror group that claims it represents the interests of al-Qaida in Gaza told WorldNetDaily in an interview today.

"Fox News is one more proof that all the media organizations in America are controlled by the Zionist lobby and the Jews. The journalistic policy of Fox is too pro-Israel. We are all terrorists in the eyes of Fox. It never tries to give an accurate image of what is happening on the ground. They show what is the opposite when it comes to Muslims," said Abu Mohammed, leader of the Palestine Army of Islam.

The Palestine Army of Islam is one of three terror groups that claimed responsibility in June for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The group is a splinter of the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of terror organizations operating in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.



Abu Mohammed said although his group works with the Committees, it formed its own organization because the Committees was "not Muslim enough." He said his group is the closest Palestinian organization ideologically to al-Qaida.

The Committees itself is accused of orchestrating attacks along with groups affiliated with al-Qaida and has in the past carried out anti-American attacks. Israel says the Committees was responsible for the bombing of a U.S. convoy in Gaza in 2003 in which three American government contractors were killed.

After nearly two weeks of silence, an unknown Palestinian terror organization took credit today for kidnapping Fox News journalist Steve Centanni and his cameraman, Olaf Wiig.

The Holy Jihad Battalion says they have the two Fox News employees. Analysts are speculating the group is a front for al-Qaida."

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689038/posts
"Relearning Lessons in the War on Terror"
realclearpolitics ^ | August 24, 2006 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 08/23/2006 9:26:51 PM PDT by ncountylee

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyDNcLLtEMw
(Added to YouTube.com on July 17, 2006)

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http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1398737.ece


First published: 25 Jul 2006, 11:07

AFTENPOSTEN
English frontpage
Norwegian frontpage
NEWS

"Expelling Krekar can take years"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Deporting the controversial former Kurdish guerrilla leader mullah Krekar can take anywhere from several months to many years, says Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) researcher Henrik Thune."

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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=507844&category=REGION&newsdate=8/12/2006

"Federal case in sting trial detailed
Documents show former wife of accused man is ready to testify about an anti-Semitic statement"
By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff writer
First published: Saturday, August 12, 2006


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALBANY -- The ex-wife of a city pizza owner charged in an FBI counterterrorism sting is ready to testify next month that he once told her he hates Jews, according to court papers filed by federal prosecutors.
The woman, who split from Mohammed Mosharref Hossain in 1992, also claims he married her to obtain a green card and then divorced her once he was naturalized, documents said.

Hundreds of pages of information now part of the record in U.S. District Court in Albany offer more insight into the federal case against Hossain and Yassin Muhiddin Aref, a Kurdish refugee and mosque leader who moved to Albany with his family in 1999."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Aref has been denied bail five times.

Federal authorities describe the mosque leader as a religious scholar with strong links to some of the world's most notorious terrorists, including Mullah Krekar, founder of a violent Iraqi terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaida.

Defense lawyers said the case against Hossain is "guilt by association." They hope to ban the testimony of two witnesses who are experts on missiles and the formation and structure of Islamist groups, their ideology and members."

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=1903#1903

ADDING A LINK to post no. 1903:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=Krekar

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689075/posts

"Concern Mounts as Bacteria Resistant to Antibiotics Disperse Widely"
NY Times' Terrorist Tip Sheet ^ | August 22, 2006 | KATE MURPHY

Posted on 08/24/2006 12:31:16 AM PDT by neverdem

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

http://www.memri.org/bin/search/search.cgi?nocpp=1&p%3Ats_udav=0&sort-method=3&Match=0&Terms=Somalia&Realm=All

http://www.tkb.org/Category.jsp?catID=8478&contentType=0&sortBy=0&sortOrder=0&x=47&y=10

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=Somalia

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/08/012839print.html
August 24, 2006

"Somali jihadists open militia camp"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hello Mother... Hello Fathah... Greetings from Camp... Jihad fi sabil Allah.

Somali Jihad Update from the Hizballah News Agency, aka Reuters:

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's powerful Islamist movement opened a militia training camp on Wednesday with trainers from Eritrea, Afghanistan and Pakistan, witnesses said.

The presence of foreign trainers points to what many fear is a growing internationalization of a crisis that has split the Horn of Africa nation and threatened the slim authority of its interim government.

The Islamists' hardline leader, Shiekh Hassan Dahir Aweys, attended the opening of the camp for more than 600 Islamist militiamen at Hiilweyne, north of Mogadishu.

"You will study military tactics, because you will defend your country with Islamic morality," Aweys told the recruits.

Witnesses identified foreign trainers from Eritrea, Pakistan and Afghanistan at the camp."

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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370113
TERRORISM FOCUS

"Somalia's Islamists Attempt to Rein in Pirates"
By Sunguta West
August 22, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Piracy in Somalia is a lucrative business, centered in drugs, weapons and human smuggling, primarily across the Gulf of Aden and back."

[Cindy]

KGUN.com: "CLOWN ROBBERS STRIKE AGAIN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Another hold up in Tucson.") (August 23, 2006) (Read More...)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=1866#1866


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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/15344027.htm
Posted on Wed, Aug. 23, 2006

"Passenger describes scene aboard diverted plane"
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
JIM GEHRZ, Minneapolis Star Tribune

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Among the 149 passengers aboard Northwest Flight NO0042 was Tim Nelson, the tipster who first alerted the FBI to al Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui's odd behavior at a Minneapolis area flight school five years ago.

WASHINGTON - A Northwest Airlines plane flying from Amsterdam to India was escorted back to the airport by Dutch F-16 fighter jets Wednesday, and police arrested 12 passengers whose behavior had aroused the crew's suspicion.


Coincidentally, among the 149 passengers aboard Northwest Flight NO0042 was the tipster who first alerted the FBI to al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui's odd behavior at a Minneapolis-area flight school five years ago."

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UPDATE...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210242,00.html
AP

"Prosecutors Take Case of 12 Men Arrested on Northwest Flight"
Thursday, August 24, 2006

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands —

[Cindy]

Regarding IRAN:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1689051/posts?page=16#16

[Cindy]

RING, RING, RING...THIS CALL'S FOR YOU!....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689093/posts

"Call Gave Away Suspected Cell"
The Saudi Gazette ^ | 8/24/06 | Staff

Posted on 08/24/2006 2:46:44 AM PDT by PrinceOfCups

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689091/posts

"Badly-Built Neighborhoods Being Used as Terror Dens"
Arab News ^ | 8/24/06 | Staff

Posted on 08/24/2006 2:33:23 AM PDT by PrinceOfCups

JEDDAH, 24 August 2006

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

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Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688992/posts


Iranian foot-dragging may compel Israel to 'go it alone'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525933028&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull ^

Posted on 08/23/2006 7:13:17 PM PDT by tobyprissy

ug. 24, 2006 0:30 | Updated Aug. 24, 2006 3:31 Iranian foot-dragging may compel Israel to 'go it alone' By HERB KEINON [Print this Article] [EMail this Article] [Subscribe] [SMS Alerts] [JPost Toolbar] [JPost ePaper]

Israel is carefully watching the world's reaction to Iran's continued refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, with some high-level officials arguing it is now clear that when it comes to stopping Iran, Israel "may have to go it alone," The Jerusalem Post has learned.

One senior source said on Tuesday that Iran "flipped the world the bird" by not responding positively to the Western incentive plan to stop uranium enrichment. He expressed frustration that the Russians and Chinese were already saying that Iran's offer of a "new formula" and willingness to enter "serious negotiations" was an opening to keep on talking.

"The Iranians know the world will do nothing," he said. "This is similar to the world's attempts to appease Hitler in the 1930s - they are trying to feed the beast."

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

[texpat72]

I was listening to the G. Gordon Liddy show yesterday, and he was talking about yet another airline incident. He stated that for some reason, it isn't being reported in the MSM, only on his show.

[Velveeta]

You're right - it's enough.

[Velveeta]

>>>In his new book "Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges,"

Another one I'd like to read.
Excellent links, Mamdearest.

[Velveeta]

Should be an interesting trial.

[Velveeta]

Among the 149 passengers aboard Northwest Flight NO0042 was Tim Nelson, the tipster who first alerted the FBI to al Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui's odd behavior at a Minneapolis area flight school five years ago.

WOW!

[Velveeta]

Do you recall the incident Liddy described?

[Mia T]

clinton terror failure (click):

WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN"
(DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?)
by Mia t, 2.15.06

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"You cannot explain to me why we have not captured or killed the tallest man in Afghanistan."

hear hillary clinton

"You know... the job which we should have done ¹... which should have been our primary focus, to find [you know] bin Laden and eliminate al Qaeda."

hear hillary clinton
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006
Chitchat with Jane Pauley
San Francisco, CA

"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.

We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].

At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.³

So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

hear bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

 

hen the damning tape surfaced, focus was naturally on bill clinton's (oops!) admission.

No one paid much attention to what may turn out to be even more incriminating: clinton's curious explanation of the missile strike at Kandahur that took out a phalanxlike formation of... empty tents... and allowed bin Laden (and the Mideast Muslim ego) to escape unscathed.

Ever notice how a crook volunteers way too much information when he's trying to explain away his crimes? This is especially true when the crook thinks you're an idiot and he's a genius.

"When I bombed his training camp and tried to kill him and his high command in 1998 after the African -Embassy bombings, some people criticized me for doing it. We just barely missed him by a couple of hours. I think whoever told us he was going to be there told somebody who told him that our missiles might be there. I think we were ratted out."

bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

I agree. We were ratted out. bill clinton could not afford to capture or kill bin Laden. This information courtesy of none other than Madeleine Albright.

clinton's reaction--or should I say non-reaction-- to the USS Cole bombing in 2000--an unambiguous act of war--validates Albright's assertion.

clinton's refusal to take bin Laden in 1996--validates Albright's assertion.

That clinton summarily ignored and urged all of us to ignore the first attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, the 1993 WTC bombing--ignore the first major Islamofascist terrorist attack on the continental United States!!--validates Albright's assertion.

The fact that "our national mourner," bill "I feel your pain" clinton, never even visited the site--he was only 15 minutes away mere days after the WTC bombing--validates Albright's assertion like nothing else.

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[texpat72]

Yes, a flammable liquid in a drink bottle was discovered hidden behind a coffee maker in the galley. It was found right before landing, and would have spilled if it hadn't been discovered. I think he said it wasn't there at the beginning of the flight. I may be wrong, but I could have sworn he said UAL flight 94, which creeped me out.