Threat Matrix: April 2007

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[Cindy]

Thanks to a Special Emailer for this article:

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55226

“Virginia quashed bill allowing handguns on campuses
Tech spokesman celebrated 2006 defeat because it would help make campus safe”
Posted: April 16, 2007
3:15 p.m. Eastern

By Art Moore
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

[Cindy]

Thank you Ali Veritas and all updates appreciated.

[Cindy]

I heard a caller to a national radio show mention the “maroon hat.”

[Velveeta]

Any insights about the hat?

Well, this is getting curioser.

The “person of Interest” in the first shooting is not dead. He is “cooperating” with police.

There were 2 shooters. ?

[Velveeta]

Chicago Sun-Times Exclusive:

“Gunman may have been in US on Visa”
http://www.suntimes.com/index.html

Gunman kills 32 at Virginia Tech before being killed
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article)

April 16, 2007

BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist
Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa.

The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said.

Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus’ security response, the source said. (snip)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article

[Jet Jaguar]

Now up on FR by a newby poster.

link

http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/

FWIW

[Cindy]

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To: All; Cindy
this thread is too long so just in case this isn’t posted (and apologies if it already is)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.articleprint

The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said.

3,362 posted on 04/16/2007 6:08:35 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)

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“Governor just declared a state of emergency in Virginia..CNN Why do that?”

Here’s my guess....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258012,00.html

BEIJING — Lawmakers from China’s restive western Muslim region said Friday that 18 suspects killed in a raid on an alleged terror camp in January had links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Shi Dagang, a lawmaker from the Xinjiang region, also confirmed that 18 people from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, died in the raid and 17 others were arrested.

“They had close connections to Al Qaeda,” Shi said at a news conference during China’s annual legislative session.

“There terrorists were trained by the Taliban in Afghanistan and sent to China by them,” Shi said, adding that more than 1,500 semi-assembled grenades were seized in the raid east of China’s border with Kyrgyzstan.

3,339 posted on 04/16/2007 6:05:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You’ll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)

[drymans wife]

Shep on Fox is saying that they are investigating to see if there are any terrorist connection.

[Cindy]

stepping back in time (a little bit):

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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000711.html

January 10, 2007

China: Muslim Terror Raid Finds International Ties

nytimes.com - 2007/01/10/:

The police found links to international terrorist groups in a raid on a suspected terrorist camp in the far western Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region last week, the Foreign Ministry said. The police said the secret camp, near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, was run by the Chinese Uighur Muslim separatist group known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. They said 18 suspects were killed and 17 others arrested. “There is a large amount of evidence that shows, including evidence we got from this raid, that the E.T.I.M. is associated with international terrorist forces,” said the ministry’s spokesman, Liu Jianchao. He also said that it “planned, organized and carried out a series of violent terrorist activities in China.” He gave no details. China has said before that the group has links to Al Qaeda.
Posted on 10 January 2007 @ 13:27 GMT

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Note: This includes photos and graphics.

http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005776.html

11 November 2006

“Springtime for Turkestan”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “There appears to be something new afoot in al-Qaida, and it all points towards Turkestan on the one hand, and leadership elements of al-Qaida on the other.

Here are the data points.”

[dragnet2]

Interesting find.

[Cindy]

Thank you dragnet2.

[Cindy]

Thanks to a Special Emailer for pointing to this article:

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55220

“Shanghai student eyed in Virginia Tech probe
Officials investigating slaughter of 32 say man arrived in August from China”
Posted: April 16, 2007
1:38 p.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Virginia Tech campus

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Authorities investigating the killing of 32 people at Virginia Tech today, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, are targeting a Chinese man who arrived in the U.S. last year on a student visa, a source told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Investigators have not linked the 24-year-old to any terrorist group, the paper said.

The man, with a visa issued in Shanghai, arrived Aug. 7 in San Francisco on United Airlines. Three reported bomb threats on the campus last week might have been attempts by him to test the campus’ security response, the source told the Sun-Times.

The gunman found dead today by authorities from apparently self-inflicted wounds was described by an injured student to MSNBC as a college-aged Asian with a maroon hat and black leather jacket.

Officials said at a news conference this afternoon there were two separate shooting incidents on the Virginia campus, hours apart, but it is still unclear whether they were related. The first 9-1-1 call came at 7:15 a.m. from a residence hall where two people reportedly had been shot.”

[drymans wife]

More on Mr Wanu

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=wanusmaximus

[Cindy]

Thank you very much, drymans wife.

[Cindy]

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http://newsru.com/crime/12apr2007/muzh.html

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http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003698.html

April 16, 2007

Azerbaijan: Angry Islamo Hubby Gives Wife the Axe

A divorce hearing in a court in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, had a very Islamic conclusion. There were some problems dividing up the property, and the whole process apparently offended the husband’s Islamic views of women as inferior.

While still in the courtroom, the enraged husband took out an axe that he had brought with him, and chopped up his wife. According to press reports, guards were unable to detain him in time. (Ok, so just how big was this court room? 200 meters long?)

Azerbaijan is a rare example of a country within the so-called Muslim world that remains secular. But Iran has been sending Islamic cultists to the country for over 15 years to preach Islam’s message of hate, and some towns in the country are already decidedly pro-Iranian and anti-government.

[Cindy]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=32813

“Gates Visits Jordan to Thank Ally, Discuss Regional Concerns”

By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service

PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “AMMAN, Jordan, April 16, 2007 – Iran and Iraq are set to be lead topics in discussions Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is slated to have with Jordanian leaders during a visit here.”

[drymans wife]

Check out the newest post

http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/

[Cindy]

Ok.

[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=32818

Forces Detain Militants, Capture Weapons Cache in Afghanistan

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2007 – Coalition and Afghan forces nabbed eight enemy combatants and found a weapons cache during operations in Afghanistan over the past two days.

Afghan and coalition forces captured four militants during an early morning raid today in the Barmal district of Paktika province. The detainees maintained a safe house for extremists responsible for attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, military officials said.

In another raid this morning, Afghan and coalition forces captured four militants in the Nahr Surkh district of Helmand province. Military officials said the targeted individuals have ties to a high-ranking Taliban leader.

Afghan border police and coalition forces seized a weapons cache yesterday in the Sherzad district of Nangarhar province after being tipped off by Afghan civilians.

The cache, containing 14 rocket-propelled-grenade rounds, five 82 mm mortar rounds, grenades and bomb-making materials, was hidden in a compound in Tutu village. Military officials believe materials that came from the cache were used in several recent improvised explosive device attacks in Sherzad and Khogyani districts.

Over the past two weeks, multiple weapons caches have been recovered from the Bati Kot, Shinwar, Achin, Khogyani, and Sherad districts of Nangarhar province.

“Afghan tribal leaders have called upon their people to turn in all weapons and munitions not used for personal protection,” said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman. “Afghans are taking responsibility for their safety and security by reporting the locations of weapons caches.”

(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)

[Oorang]

Suspicious Vehicle Closes A1A At Air Force Base (Florida)
April 16, 2007

PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- A suspicious vehicle forced authorities to shut down SR-A1A in front of Patrick Air Force Base on Monday afternoon, causing a major traffic nightmare for thousands of drivers.

Traffic was backed up for miles into Cocoa Beach as A1A remained closed for two hours on Monday afternoon. It was the second similar incident in less than a month. Drivers were lined up for miles along A1A, a road that, for a time, went nowhere. Authorities with Patrick Air Force Base and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office shut down the highway in front of the military installation after a security forces K-9 unit alerted officers to a vehicle during a random inspection at a cargo gate. Authorities said they had to shut down the highway out of concern for everyone's safety. Most drivers turned around to take the 25-mile detour through Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island.

Others, like Lou Tarifa, decided to try and wait it out. "That's a long ways to go around and gas is expensive, my friend. So I'll sit a little while and see what happens and, if I gotta go, I'll just go on," he said. Caught in the detour were several school buses from Cocoa Beach Junior Senior High School and Freedom Seven Elementary. School district officials said the schools were trying to notify parents of their children's delay getting home.

It was the second time in a month that the highway was shut down after an Air Force K-9 unit alerted to a suspicious vehicle. The last time, nothing was found. The highway was also shut down for months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Air Force Base has not said what it found in the suspicious vehicle.

http://www.wftv.com/news/12193603/detail.html

Bomb threat forced 2 UT buildings to evacuate (Tennessee)
April 16, 2007

KNOXVILLE -- Two buildings were evacuated for a few hours at the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville Monday after a bomb threat was received. The call came in to the UT switchboard at 2:30 p.m. Officers evacuated the Humanities building and the McClung Tower until about 5:00 p.m. because they were the targets of the threat. Bomb sniffing dogs were called in to examine the scene but found no evidence of any bombs.

6 News does not usually report bomb threats but is making an exception due to the deadly shooting rampage on the Virginia Tech campus. Police say there have been bomb threats on the Virginia Tech campus over the past two weeks, but authorities say they have not determined a link to the shootings. "It's already been responded to, and in lieu of today's incident in Virginia, we want to be extremely cautious," said UT Police Chief August Washington. A criminal investigation of the UT incident continues.

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=6377107