Threat Matrix: March 2007

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[Oorang]

Snicker - how do you remember all these posts?!? I need memory pills.

Here's an update on the Morocco internet cafe bombers:

Morocco: Police Arrest Suspects In Casablanca Attack

Casablanca, 13 March - Moroccan police have carried out a number of arrests in connection with a suicide bomb attack on an internet cafe in Casablanca on Sunday night, local daily Le Matin reported on Tuesday quoting security sources. The report did not mention how many people were allegedly arrested but announced upcoming developments in the investigation. Meanwhile authorities identified the suicide attacker as Abdelfettah Raydi, 23, who had been sentenced to five years in jail on charges of aiding Hasan al-Tawusi, one of the 13 suicide bombers in the May 2003 Casablanca attacks in which 32 people were killed.

Raydi had been released from jail earlier this year following a royal pardon. The only victim was the suicide bomber but three other customers were injured in the explosion at the cyber cafe in the neighbourbood of Sidi Moumin.

Police believe the suicide bomber did not intend to detonate his explosives belt at the cafe but the device went off unexpectedly during the argument while his target was far from Sidi Mumin. Raydi was reportedly at the cafe with an accomplice, Youssef Khoudri, who was arrested a few hours after Sunday's explosion, and the police suspect the two were awaiting orders via the internet on which target they were meant to strike.

Most of the 13 bombers responsible for the 2003 Casablanca bomb attacks, in which 32 people were killed, come from Sidi Moumin. Sunday also marked the third anniversary of the Madrid train station attacks in which 191 people lost their lives. Morocco is on a state of high alert after recent explosions and attacks in neighbouring Algeria.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.394561069&par=

[Cindy]

"...how do you remember all these posts?"

Some things are stuck in my memory and KEY WORDS connect my memories with the threads I am following.

[Oorang]

Snicker - how do you remember all these posts?!? I need memory pills.

Never mind, it's to a different thread. I think what I really need is sleep! Sorry for the confusion Cindy.

[Cindy]

ARTICLE SNIPPET:"Police believe the suicide bomber did not intend to detonate his explosives belt at the cafe but the device went off unexpectedly during the argument while his target was far from Sidi Mumin. Raydi was reportedly at the cafe with an accomplice, Youssef Khoudri, who was arrested a few hours after Sunday's explosion, and the police suspect the two were awaiting orders via the internet on which target they were meant to strike."

OPINION - SPECULATION - Of course I wasn't there and I'm not a mind reader, but I tend to agree with the theory of premature detonation.

[Cindy]

No problem.
I understood what you meant, though.

Thank you for your posts Oorang -- always.

Rest well.
Tomorrow is another day and spring is almost here.

I bought bags and bags of various soils today.
I'm ready for planting -- soon.

[Oorang]

I couldn't stand it, I had to get some seeds started in the greenhouse :-)

Interesting strata-sphere blog on suitcase nukes:

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/3485

[Cindy]

(Totally envious-- I have to get a greenhouse.)

Yep, I haven't been to that blog in awhile.
All was interesting.

Got town to the last comment and it points to this article:

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http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070313/61930106.html

"Bochvar institute director sacked over nuclear security breach"
16:27 | 13/ 03/ 2007

MOSCOW, March 13 (RIA Novosti) -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Nuclear Power Agency, said Sergei Kiriyenko dismissed Sergei Vostrikov from his post and appointed Alexander Putilov in his place."


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The spokesperson said unsatisfactory registration procedures and control over nuclear and radioactive substances at the scientific and research institute "resulted from insufficient attention by the administration [to the problem].""

[Cindy]

Correction...Got down to...

[Cindy]

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24787_Religion_of_Peace_Strikes_Again_in_Thailand&only

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
"Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand"


"Myanmar worker beheaded in Thailand’s Muslim south."
PATTANI, Thailand (AFP)

[Oorang]

Old Church To Become A Mosque
13 March 2007

A Church forced to close by its dwindling congregation and spiralling repair bill will now become a mosque. St Matthew's Church closed in 2000 when Church of England leaders were told it needed a £20,000 refurbishment to meet fire safety rules.

But now the building in Boultham Park Road, Lincoln, has been rescued by the city's expanding Muslim community. Lincoln's Islamic Association, which has 1,500 Muslim members in the city and surrounding villages, has needed a new place to worship since outgrowing its mosque in Orchard Street.

Excerpted

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156582&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156408&contentPK=16861646&folderPk=87028&pNodeId=156139

Syria's Terror Networks

SNIP:
Mr. Chizari, one of the major IRGC commanders netted by Coalition Forces in December, was present in Damascus a month prior to his capture where he was meeting with senior Syrian leadership and the Lebanese Hezbollah officials in charge of a specially designated "Force 2800" which focuses on supporting fellow radical Shi'ite groups like the ones responsible for the recent kidnapping and execution of four U.S. soldiers in Karbala.

SNIP:
Imad Mugniyeh, the infamous Hezbollah special operations super-terrorist who still retains a $5 million bounty on his head -- placed by the FBI due to his role in planning the Marine barrack and embassy bombings in Beirut in 1982 -- is also said to attend these meetings. Sources say that Mugniyeh was designated by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah as the head of Force 2800.

http://www.aina.org/news/20070220085359.htm

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800500/posts


"Hamas commander dies in Gaza shootout"
AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/13/07 | Ibrahim Barzak - ap

Posted on 03/13/2007 8:31:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800299/posts


"Senior Hamas official killed in Fatah shooting"
Jerusalem Post ^ | Mar. 13, 2007 | JPOST.COM STAFF

Posted on 03/13/2007 1:24:37 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy

[Cindy]

PING to Oorang's post no. 770.

[Oorang]

Bin Laden Smuggler Arrested; Taliban Fires Missiles in Pakistan
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Taliban fighters in northern Pakistan fired two missiles into the town of Miranshah, according to Pakistan's Pashto Radio. One of the missiles landed close to a military base. No casualties were reported. Following the ousting of the Taliban in 2002, many of the Afghani movement's members have fled to neighboring Pakistan. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said recently that the Taliban and Al-Qa'ida have established a sizeable presence in the northern districts of his country.

A Pakistani citizen was arrested by the Afghani authorities charged with facilitating the entry of Al-Qa'ida leader Osama Bin Laden into Afghanistan, the London-based daily Al-Hayyat reported.

The paper quoted sources in the Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry, who said they were recently informed of the matter by their Afghani counterparts. The Pakistani, Sayyid Akbar, reportedly smuggled Bin Laden into the Nouristan province in eastern Afghanistan and provided him with shelter for an unknown period of time.

The Afghani intelligence services are accusing Akbar of being the liaison officer between Pakistan's intelligence services and Bin Laden. The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry called upon Afghanistan to allow its diplomats in Kabul to meet with the detainee to identify him. Akbar is now being interrogated and is believed to have been a close aide to Bin Laden in the past two years, according to the spokesman for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Karim Rahimi.

Kabul has not specified when Bin Laden was smuggled into the country, but underlined this had taken place in the past few months.

Afghanistan and Pakistan have been trading accusations in the past few months, each claiming Bin Laden was hiding in the neighboring country. The two countries also blame each other for the constant infiltration of terrorists from one side of the border to the other.

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan stretches along 1,510 miles. There is no fence or any other kind of barrier along the border.

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=17023

[Cindy]

Thanks to Calpernia for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800512/posts

"Iran sanctions concern China, Russia(financial sanction on Revolutionary Guard's asset)"
AP ^ | 03/10/07 | ALEXANDRA OLSON

Posted on 03/13/2007 8:57:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Iran sanctions concern China, Russia

By ALEXANDRA OLSON, Associated Press Writer

Fri Mar 9, 10:37 PM ET

[MamaDearest]

I couldn't stand it, I had to get some seeds started in the greenhouse :-)

Enough of THAT! (going green on us.....)

[MamaDearest]

Thank you all for your prayers and kind thoughts. My sister and her daughter are devastated and her daughter lost her home as well. A mother and grandmother losiing a child has to be one of the hardest things to bear on this Earth. This fire sounds exacty the same as what happened to my sister's daughter, but it happened today in Washington State, not the midwest where my sister lives:

Another 8 year old girl perishes in a house fire

I'm praying for these people too.

[MamaDearest]

Oratory Jihad at Cornell University

Hamas’ charter, on the other hand, calls upon Jews to “be obliterated” and for Muslims to “solve the Palestinian question through Jihad.” Yes, both have the popular support of their citizens but to equate them, as Finkelstein did, is suspicious.

Thuggery Jihad

Two US based Islamic websites have called on Muslims to kill the driver of a Georgia registered vehicle displaying an offensive bumper sticker.

[Cindy]

Thanks MamaDearest.
Interesting links.

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27318

"Threatened by the Jihad"
By Steven Emerson
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 14, 2007

[Cindy]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54693

"How money goes from your pocket to terrorists
Initiative urges Americans to ensure their investments not supporting jihadis"
Posted: March 13, 2007
10:39 p.m. Eastern