Threat Matrix: March 2007

1,061 posted on 03/19/2007 2:45:17 PM PDT by Cindy

To: All; backhoe; piasa

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803411/posts

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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=03&dd=19&nav_category=91&nav_id=40227

"Priština: Wahhabis in Kosovo"
19 March 2007 | 18:08 | Source: Tanjug

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PRIŠTINA -- Albanian media in Kosovo report today the Wahhabis have been active in the province since the early 1990’s."

1,062 posted on 03/19/2007 2:55:45 PM PDT by Cindy

To: All; JohnathanRGalt; abu afak; British chick; Brit_Guy; UK Guy; Eurotwit; backhoe; piasa

1,063 posted on 03/19/2007 3:04:08 PM PDT by Cindy

To: All; jmc1969

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

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Thanks to jmc1969 for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803409/posts

"Iraq on $3 billion weapons buying binge"
The Examiner ^ | March 19 2007 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 03/19/2007 2:35:34 PM PDT by jmc1969

1,064 posted on 03/19/2007 3:09:04 PM PDT by Cindy

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/the_chlorine_gas_attacks_in_ir.php

"The Chlorine Gas Attacks in Iraq and the Specter of Suicide Attacks with CBRN Weapons"
By Assaf Moghadam
(March 19, 2007)

1,065 posted on 03/19/2007 3:11:00 PM PDT by Cindy

To: All; backhoe; piasa

Adding 1 link to post no. 1059:

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/transcript_of_al_qaeda_leader.php

"Transcript of Al Qaeda Leader Bin Attash's Confession to U.S.S. Cole & Embassy Bombings"
By Andrew Cochran
(March 19, 2007)

1,066 posted on 03/19/2007 3:13:41 PM PDT by Cindy

To: Jeff Head; JellyJam; All

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803416/posts

"Former Chinese website editor jailed for subversion"
BBC Monitoring ^ | March 19 2007

Posted on 03/19/2007 3:11:42 PM PDT by knighthawk

1,067 posted on 03/19/2007 3:17:08 PM PDT by Cindy

To: JohnathanRGalt; yonif; ganeshpuri89; backhoe; piasa; All

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

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803417/posts

Gaza Strip: Islamic Jihad member dies in blast
al Bawaba ^ | March 19 2007

Posted on 03/19/2007 3:15:19 PM PDT by knighthawk

A blast ripped through the house of an Islamic Jihad member in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing him and injuring at least nine people, hospital workers and residents said.

The victim, a member of Islamic Jihad's armed wing, was identified as Ala al-Hessi. The blast was reported in the Shati refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. It was reported in a densely populated area, near the United Nation's food distribution warehouse.

Israel has denied any involvement in the incident. "We are not aware of such an incident from an initial check," an Israeli army spokeswoman told Reuters.

Earlier, Israel said one civilian was shot and moderately injured in an attack near the Karni (Mintar) entrance to the Gaza Strip. According to Haaretz, the man was apparently shot by a Palestinian sniper near the gas terminal at crossing. Israeli reports indicated that the man sustained moderate injuries to his thigh and that his wounds are not life-threatening.

1,068 posted on 03/19/2007 3:20:55 PM PDT by Cindy

A bomb-making facility?

1,069 posted on 03/19/2007 3:22:49 PM PDT by Palladin (Surrender is not an option.)

Well, it doesn't seem to be a day care center.

1,070 posted on 03/19/2007 3:24:51 PM PDT by Cindy

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803418/posts

No Intelligent, Rational Person is for War, Except... (from Dr. Laura Schlessinger)
DrLaura.com ^ | March 12, 2007 | Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Posted on 03/19/2007 3:16:01 PM PDT by EveningStar

...No intelligent, rational, decent person is for war. But if my father and your fathers didn’t go off to fight World War II, I would have been incinerated in a German concentration camp oven...

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

1,071 posted on 03/19/2007 3:25:50 PM PDT by Cindy

Seriously, I'll look for updates tonight.

1,072 posted on 03/19/2007 3:26:30 PM PDT by Cindy

Thanks.

In all seriousness, in a community where bomb belts are strapped onto young kids, it could be BOTH a daycare center AND a bomb factory!

1,073 posted on 03/19/2007 3:36:26 PM PDT by Palladin (Surrender is not an option.)

To: Cindy; Oorang; Godzilla; all4one; drymans wife

Muslims have the "right to kill 4 million"

Snip: Muslims have the right to kill 4 million Americans – including 2 million children – based on Islamic teachings, according to an article attributed to an al-Qaida spokesman.

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He warned that "America must prepare itself; it must go on maximum alert; ... because, Allah willing, the blow will come from where they least expect it. …"

The article was translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an independent, non-profit organization that analyzes Mideast media.

Abu Gheith found justification for killing Americans in the Islamic holy book, the Koran, in which "Allah said, 'He who attacked you, attack him as he attacked you,' … ."

"The Americans have still not tasted from our hands what we have tasted from theirs," Abu Gheith wrote. "The [number] killed in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were no more than fair exchange for the ones killed in the Al-'Amiriya shelter in Iraq, and are but a tiny part of the exchange for those killed in Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, the Philippines, Bosnia, Kashmir, Chechnya, and Afghanistan."

1,074 posted on 03/19/2007 4:26:00 PM PDT by MamaDearest

To: MamaDearest; JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; All

Let's see what has been written about/ happened to/or what Abu Ghaith has been up to since 2002.

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http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=%22Abu+Ghaith%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&client=news&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wn&q=%22Abu+Ghaith%22&filter=0

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http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=23416
(March 12, 2007)

http://www.ekhlaas.info/mas/1155918491.gif
http://www.ekhlaas.info/abu-ghaith/13.ram

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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009758

OPINION JOURNAL.com

"Gitmo's Guerrilla Lawyers
How an unscrupulous legal and PR campaign changed the way the world looks at Guantanamo."

BY DEBRA BURLINGAME
Thursday, March 8, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020902294.html

"Al-Qaeda Suspects Color White House Debate Over Iran"

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 10, 2007; Page A01

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Last fall, Bush administration officials asked the CIA to compile a list of those suspects so the White House could publicize their presence. For years, the administration has not revealed their names, in part because it sought to protect its intelligence sources but also because at the time the U.S. government was concealing the identities of suspects it was holding in secret CIA custody.

But the names of some of the men in Iran have become public, including "high-value" targets such as al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith of Kuwait and Saif al-Adel of Egypt. U.S. intelligence officials said they are members of the "al-Qaeda operational management committee." U.S. intelligence officials said there are suspicions, but no proof, that one of them may have been involved from afar in planning an attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 2003. Intelligence officials said bin Laden's son Saad is also being held with the other men in Iran."

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June 19, 2006
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005638.html

"jaishabibaker.net"

SNIPPET: "jaishabibaker.net is the site of the Jaish (Army) Abi Baker. They present as an old-school al-Qaida franchise which, judging from their videos, is active in Iraq. Their brigades have names like "Sulemain Abu Ghaith" and "Osama bin Laden""

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/009289.php
(AFP)

December 04, 2005

"Iran 'clean' of al-Qaeda"

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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/003299.html

06 December 2004
"Al-Qaeda Leadership in Iran
Compiled By: Ryan Mauro"

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/702860/posts?page=16#16

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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=middleeast&ID=SP38802

Special Dispatch Series - No. 388
June 12, 2002 No.388

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "'Why We Fight America': Al-Qa'ida Spokesman Explains September 11 and Declares Intentions to Kill 4 Million Americans with Weapons of Mass Destruction

Al-Qa'ida spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith, originally from Kuwait, recently posted a three-part article titled "In the Shadow of the Lances" on the website of the Center for Islamic Research and Studies, www.alneda.com . Following numerous hacking attempts after the international media reported that the site was linked to Al-Qa'ida, its address was changed to http://66.34.191.223 .

Recently, the site published an article by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy and leader of the Egyptian Jihad organization. However, the Saudi London-based Arabic-daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the article had already appeared in the Al-Mujahiddeen publication.[1] The following are excerpts from Abu Gheith's article:

Part I: Why We Fight the U.S."

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A bit off topic but interesting:

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005928.html

01 March 2007
"Myth, reality and Jihadist Use of the Internet"
Prologue

Recently a prominent American news program asked me for an example of the kind of jihadist websites that were in existence in ancient times. So I (literally) dusted off my archives from 2002, 2003 and 2004, and ultimately selected a .pdf archive of the al-Neda site, operated by deceased al-Qaida ideologue Yussuf al-Ayyeri."

1,075 posted on 03/19/2007 7:12:38 PM PDT by Cindy

If I find out any more, I will post updates.

It is 'just' another white powder incident, but the level of response is interesting.

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_031907WABanacorteswhitepowderKC.2bbdf46c.html

1,076 posted on 03/19/2007 7:28:58 PM PDT by TWhiteBear

Looks like no problem.

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_031907WABanacorteswhitepowderKC.2bbdf46c.html

But there were a lot of people on scene and involved is a short time. I hope the system works when we get to the big one(s).

1,077 posted on 03/19/2007 9:02:09 PM PDT by TWhiteBear

Thanks for all the research about Abu Ghaith - very interesting reading. What do you make of this...

Following numerous hacking attempts after the international media reported that the site was linked to Al-Qa'ida, its address was changed to http://66.34.191.223 .

1,078 posted on 03/19/2007 9:29:14 PM PDT by MamaDearest

Thanks TWhiteBear for the post and follow-up.

ARTICLE SNIPPET from your link 1077:

"After some investigation, it was determined that the package was delivered through internal mail. The powdery substance appeared to have been created when the contents abraded against the inside of the packing materials."

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Looks like the responders had their act together.
Good job.

1,079 posted on 03/19/2007 10:47:42 PM PDT by Cindy

"What do you make of this..."

OPINION: I think that's it's not unusual to have a url change.

Jihad-related web sites change frequently, one goes down, one goes up, one goes down, more goes up...and so it goes.

As for that url that goes back in time. The page does not open for me and that's not surprising (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793738/posts?page=1075#1075 ).

1,080 posted on 03/19/2007 10:58:00 PM PDT by Cindy

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