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Threat Matrix: December 2006
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Posted on 12/01/2006 8:36:14 PM PST by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Fighting Jihad in Cyberspace
-Full Story-

The setting is familiar to anyone who watches the evening news. A large, executive-style desk, a laptop perched on top, a logo in the background and a screen showing shifting images to reinforce the newsreader's message. The only difference is the presenter, who is swathed in an Arab headdress and masked to hide his identity, and the subject of the broadcast, a call for an Islamic state for Iraq and a vow to use Iraq as a launching pad to crush the "Zionists" in Israel.

Welcome to the "Voice of the Caliphate", the latest offering from the Global Islamic Media Front, widely regarded as the mouthpiece of al-Qaeda and the worldwide jihadist movement.

Distributed over the internet, the mock news format is just one of many employed by al-Qaeda's highly sophisticated propaganda arm.

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2481

Forces Capture Suspects; Terrorist Detonate Car Bombs

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2006 – Coalition and Iraqi forces captured suspected terrorists and contraband during operations in Iraq over the past three days, and terrorists continued killing and wounding civilians with car bombs.
-- Iraqi troops and U.S. soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team today captured three men attempting to set up a mortar tube east of al Qasim. Combined forces found a mortar tube, five 81mm rounds, and a mortar bipod and sight. The three suspects are being held for questioning.

-- A car bomb detonated near an Iraqi police escort unit today at an intersection in Karadah. Police forces from an Iraqi 1st National Police Division were escorting buses filled with Iraqis headed to Baghdad International Airport when a car bomb detonated near one of the buses, killing six and wounding 28.

-- Iraqi police raided a power plant facility yesterday in Baghdad’s Jazeera neighborhood and detained 12 suspected terrorists. The suspects are connected with sectarian murders and they are being held for further questioning.

-- Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers of the 501st Infantry Regiment discovered a weapons cache yesterday near the Iraqi Police Station in the southern Baghdad town Hamiyah. The weapons cache included 60mm mortar rounds, 120mm rounds and rockets.

-- Iraqi police found a roadside bomb yesterday morning. Police forces cordoned off the area and an ordnance team detonated the bomb without incident.

--Two car bombs detonated in Baghdad Dec. 18, killing 10 civilians and wounding more than 40. Iraqi National Police responded immediately, cordoning off the area and transporting the wounded to a local hospital.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)


961 posted on 12/20/2006 2:31:40 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2482

Suspects Detained in Afghanistan; Police Center Opens

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2006 – Afghan and coalition forces captured 10 suspected terrorists, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai participated in the National Police Command Center’s opening ceremony this week in Afghanistan.
-- Afghan and coalition forces captured 10 suspected terrorists during a combined operation Dec. 18 near the village of Qazian in Kunar province. The captured suspects are known weapons and explosives transporters. Officials said they are linked to foreign fighter movements in the region and to suicide and improvised explosive device attacks against the combined forces.

-– Karzai attended the Dec. 16 opening ceremony of Afghanistan’s new National Police Command Center in Kabul. The facility is a $3.4 million U.S.-funded project, which establishes a direct link to the five Afghan National Police Regional Command centers. Officials say it will improve government response capability to disasters or counterinsurgency operations.


(Compiled from Combined Forces Command Afghanistan news releases.)

Related Sites:
Combined Forces Command Afghanistan


962 posted on 12/20/2006 2:32:45 PM PST by Cindy
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To: piasa; backhoe; All

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756469/posts


Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents (under a construction trailer)
Associated Press ^ | Dec 20, 2006 | LARRY MARGASAK

Posted on 12/20/2006 2:12:49 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday. The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.

Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he said it was possible he threw them in his office trash.

The report said that when Archives employees first suspected that Berger _ who had been President Clinton's national security adviser _ was removing classified documents from the Archives in the fall of they failed to notify any law enforcement agency.

Berger, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents, was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.

The report said that when Berger was reviewing the classified documents in the Archives building a few blocks from the Capitol, employees saw him bending down and fiddling with something white, which could have been paper, around his ankle.

However, Archives employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger's stature, the report said.

Brachfeld reported that on one visit, Berger took a break to go outside without an escort.

"In total, during this visit, he removed four documents ... .

"Mr. Berger said he placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)."

Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.

Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton, was reviewing National Security Council documents on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Sudan, and related presidential correspondence. The review was to facilitate Berger's impending testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees.


963 posted on 12/20/2006 2:36:43 PM PST by Cindy
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Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents (under a construction trailer)

This infuriates me to no end. I used to work with documents of the same high classification. If I were to do the same, I'd be making little rocks out of big ones at Leavenworth. Yet this jerk gets off essentially scott-free. He should NEVER have access to classified material ever again.

964 posted on 12/20/2006 2:45:18 PM PST by Godzilla (JESUS - The REASON for the SEASON)
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To: Godzilla; MamaDearest; Velveeta; Cindy; nwctwx; all4one; All
I'm behind so my apologies if this has been posted.

Launching tubes for missiles found
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

At least three tubes that are used to launch military-grade missiles were found Tuesday at a moving company on Interstate 65 Service Road West in Mobile, authorities said. No missiles were found, police said, and no one was injured.

Members of the Mobile Police Department's bomb squad were called to Paulk's Moving at 2051 I-65 Service Road West on Tuesday afternoon after employees found a "suspicious package," police spokesman Officer Eric Gallichant said.

At least three tubes used to launch missiles were uncovered in a shipping container at the business, Gallichant said. Authorities were still trying to determine who shipped the tubes to whom, Gallichant said. The investigation was turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/116661011982480.xml&coll=3

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1756508/posts?page=6

965 posted on 12/20/2006 3:55:53 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks MamaD; good to "see" you.


966 posted on 12/20/2006 4:04:56 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Cindy
Thanks you Cindy. Apparently Zawahiri did wake from his nap to rattle his saber again. *sigh*
967 posted on 12/20/2006 4:11:46 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Velveeta

Thanks for the excellent time line Velveeta.


968 posted on 12/20/2006 4:12:38 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: appalachian_dweller

Hello a_d, just last night I was wondering how you were doing and here you are. Good to hear from you.


969 posted on 12/20/2006 4:18:10 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: appalachian_dweller

Welcome back!


970 posted on 12/20/2006 4:32:30 PM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: Godzilla

"This infuriates me to no end."
DITTO.

"He should NEVER have access to classified material ever again."
DITTO.


971 posted on 12/20/2006 7:07:25 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Oorang; Squantos; Jet Jaguar; ExSoldier; Myrddin; copguy; All

I was talking to my husband about your post.
Updates appreciated Oorang.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747324/posts?page=965#965

(Wondering out loud...have the tubes been fired? Where's the missiles?)


972 posted on 12/20/2006 7:18:29 PM PST by Cindy
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To: appalachian_dweller

Hi AD.

Good advice.

Christmas blessings to you.


973 posted on 12/20/2006 7:21:08 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com

QUOTE:

Latest Podcast

December 18, 2006
29:30 minutes | 13.7 Megs [Listen Here]
Global Crisis Watch calls to Buffalo, Chennai and Bangkok and discusses events in Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and Thailand with Niagara University's Dr. Abdiweli Ali, former India intel chief and current Director of the Institute for Topical Studies, B. Raman, and Dr. Zachary Abuza.


---

Listen Here:

http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/gcw/gcw_061218.mp3


974 posted on 12/20/2006 7:28:37 PM PST by Cindy
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http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/20/animal-rights-terrorists-allege-poisoning-of-pom-juice-containers/

"Animal-rights terrorists allege poisoning of Pom juice containers
posted at 3:02 pm on December 20, 2006 by Allahpundit "

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http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20061219-093253-4881r

"Activists take credit for juice poisoning"
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Animal activists claim they have poisoned 487 bottles of POM Wonderful's juice on the U.S. Eastern seaboard to protest animal testing.

A POM Wonderful spokesman told United Press International the company has not confirmed the validity of the claim, but it was contacted by the FBI regarding the issue. The spokesman said the company is preparing a statement on the matter."

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http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/communiques/2006-12-14_pom.htm

Communiqué from the Animal Rights Militia
Date: December 14, 2006
Institution targeted: POM Juice
received anonymously

in a well coordinated action, 487 bottles of pom wonderful juices were tampered with along the Eastern seaboard in stores like wlld oats, d'agostino's and food emporiums. those who drink the contaminated juice won't die like the animals in pom labs, but the diarrhea, vomiting and headaches will hopefully send a strong message that people will no longer allow innocent defenseless animals to be tormented and killed for a health juice and to line the pockets of profiteers who dont have feelings for those weaker than they are.

at pom one week old baby mice are deprived of oxygen and then their brains cut open and rabbits have their arteries severed so they get erectile dysfunction so that pom wonderful can make money off the pain and suffering inflicted on animals inside the pom wonderful labs.

lynda resnik may have thought she designed a wonderful shaped bottle for her pomegranate juice, but the one week old mice and rabbits who scream in pain, don't think its so pom wonderful. if you want to continue selling juice thats made from the blood of suffering animals lynda, we suggest you come up with a better tamper proof seal.

if people who want to hold a sign and shout to get out the truth out about whats happening inside places that confine and inflict pain and cruelty on animals are being thrown in jail and harrassed by the government, we will fight that much harder from the underground where its safer than holding a sign and yelling the truth. thanks to feinstein and inhoff and the stupid animal enterprise terrorist law that violates the principles that this country is supposed to be founded on, more and more activists like us will choose to retreat into the shadows and fight for the animals underground since the government is making it impossible to do the kinds of things that those who came before us did to oppose injustice, oppression and exploitation.

just because animals cant vote , cant hold a sign or cant lobby and give you dirty money, that doesnt mean that you will be allowed to treat them with disrespect, contempt and then kill them.

this century there are people who care about animals and the earth and will say no to the evil and injustice done to animals, no to the companies that put money and greed above compassion and respect for animals and no to a government that allows animals to be subjected to pain, suffering and death because the animals can't pick up a sign and scream out for themselves.

animal rights militia


975 posted on 12/20/2006 8:16:10 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Godzilla

Yeah, sure was hoping he was worm food, but we'd have heard rumblings of that. So now we know for sure.


976 posted on 12/20/2006 8:16:46 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Cindy

You're welcome.
I like checking if there's a pattern to the messages, but I don't see any.


977 posted on 12/20/2006 8:18:23 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: appalachian_dweller

I was thinking of you just yesterday!
Glad to see you posting.


978 posted on 12/20/2006 8:19:48 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Sometimes, if we don't see a pattern immediately; we might later on. Always good to document those things.


979 posted on 12/20/2006 8:21:17 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

You're right, Cindy.
We at TM don't misunderstand or 'misunderestimate' Zawahiri.


980 posted on 12/20/2006 8:22:08 PM PST by Velveeta
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