Threat Matrix: May 2007

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U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons
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Omar Khyam, the ringleader of the thwarted London bomb plot who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, showed the potential for disaffected young men to be lured as terrorists, a threat that British officials said they would have to contend with for a generation.

But the 25-year-old Mr. Khyam, a Briton of Pakistani descent, also personifies a larger and more immediate concern: as a British citizen, he could have entered the United States without a visa, like many of an estimated 800,000 other Britons of Pakistani origin.

American officials, citing the number of terror plots in Britain involving Britons with ties to Pakistan, expressed concern over the visa loophole. In recent months, the homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, has opened talks with the government here on how to curb the access of British citizens of Pakistani origin to the United States.

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[Rushmore Rocks]

Could you please “ping” me when you do this? My time on FR lately has been rather limited, and I’m sure I’m missing many important posts.

Thanks in advance.

[jveritas]

No problem, I will do so once I post the translation.

[Cindy]

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

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3396608,00.html

“Qassam lands near Sderot kindergarten”

“Rocket hits neighborhood in southern town, causes damage to private house located near kindergarten; several people suffer from shock, one woman loses consciousness. Military sources say IDF policy in Gaza may change”

Shmulik Hadad
Published: 05.07.07, 07:26 / Israel News

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Qassam rocket fired from the northern Gaza Strip landed Monday morning near a private house in the southern town of Sderot, causing damage to the building.

A number of people suffered from shock, including a woman who lost her consciousness.

A kindergarten is located not far from the landing site. Sderot residents said that the fact that no one was physically hurt was a miracle, as children were making their way to the kindergarten.

The al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, claimed responsibility for firing the rocket. According to the Jihad, they fired a medium-range ‘Quds’ rocket.”

[Cindy]

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

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UPDATE on another school incident:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829477/posts

“UN beefs up security after Gaza attack (attack on school)”
Yahoo News ^ | May 06 2007 | DIAA HADID

Posted on 05/07/2007 3:56:51 AM PDT by knighthawk

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Security was beefed up at the main U.N. compound in Gaza City on Monday, with workers reinforcing the entrance gate and snipers inspecting the roof after a shadowy group of Muslim extremists attacked a U.N.-run school.

Sunday’s incident, which killed one and wounded seven, is part of Gaza’s out-of-control lawlessness that is increasingly aimed at foreigners. Most foreigners have left Gaza, and the latest attack on the U.N. was seen as a major escalation.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah, but security officials said they believe “salafiyeen,” or Muslim fundamentalists, were involved. The group is believed to be behind a string of attacks on Internet cafes and music shops in recent weeks. It is not clear whether they are connected to any political party.”

[Cindy]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55572

“Hezbollah: Rockets fired into Israel directed by Iran
Militia deputy chief says ‘all policies and activities’ coordinated with Tehran”
Posted: May 7, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “JERUSALEM – All of Hezbollah’s policies and activities are coordinated with the leadership of Iran, including the firing of rockets into Israeli population centers for which direct Iranian approval is required, said a senior Hezbollah official in a rare admission.

“Even when it comes to firing rockets on Israeli civilians, when they [Israel] bombed the civilians on our side, even that decision requires an in-principle permission from [the ruling jurisprudent],” said Sheikh Naim Qassem, the deputy chief of Hezbollah, in an Arabic language interview translated yesterday by the Information and Terrorism Center at Israel’s Center for Special Studies.”

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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/t30apr_e07.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)

“News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation
April 16-30, 2007”
(May 3, 2007

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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah_e0407.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
April 29 , 2007

“In an interview granted to an Iranian TV channel, Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hassan Nasrallah’s deputy, stresses that Hezbollah’s policy of terrorist operations against Israel (including suicide bombings and rocket fire) requires jurisprudent permission of the Iranian leadership”

PHOTO CAPTION: “Sheikh Naim Qassem in an interview granted to Iran ‘s Al-Kawthar TV channel: Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel are guided by al-wali al-faqih (the ruling jurisprudent, i.e., Khamenei, the Iranian leader). The ruling jurisprudent is the one who allows and the one who prohibits (photograph: Ehud Yaari’s report, Israeli TV Channel 2, April 16, 2007 ).”

SNIPPET: “Highlights of the interview”

[Cindy]

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

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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016334.php

May 07, 2007

Thailand: Jihadists murder two Buddhist rubber tree tappers
Jihad Against 70-year-old Buddhists.

“Two Buddhists killed, another injured in Yala,” from The Nation, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:

Yala - Two Buddhists were killed and another injured by Muslim insurgents while they were tapping rubber trees in a village in this southern border province Monday morning, police said.

Police said the three were tapping rubber trees in Sagai Village in Tambon Ban Reu of Yala’s Thanto district at 9:29 am when a group of insurgents opened fire at them.

Luem Waewphet, 70, and Sumalee Thampradit, 26, died at the scene.

Sutham Thampradit, 60, was severely injured and rushed to the district hospital.

Posted by Robert at May 7, 2007 09:41 AM

[Cindy]

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

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UPDATE:

blog

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25390_Update-_How_Many_Cars_Torched_(Media_Lies)&only

Monday, May 07, 2007
“Update: How Many Cars Torched? (Media Lies)”

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1829809/posts?page=7#7

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QUOTE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1829809/posts

Iran has 280 tons of stored UF6
presstv ^ | 5/7/07 | press tv

Posted on 05/07/2007 2:38:24 PM PDT by Flavius

An Iranian nuclear official has said Iran possesses 280 tons of a sensitive material that can be used for uranium enrichment.

(Excerpt) Read more at presstv.ir ...

[Cindy]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3396525,00.html

“Al-Qaeda: Hamas betrayed God
Terror group says it cannot ‘keep silent’ over Hamas path ‘which will lead to hell’”

Yaakov Lappin
Published: 05.06.07, 22:33 / Israel News

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hamas has been accused of “betraying its own martyrs and God” during a recent statement issued by al-Qaeda.

A video made by al-Qaeda leader Yahya al-Libi, who is in Afghanistan, was released at the end of April. Ynetnews has obtained the full recording, one of a number of growing scathing verbal attacks on Hamas by al-Qaeda.”

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internet-haganah.org/hmedia/01may07/abuyahya_to_hamas.rm

RECAP - QUOTE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826963/posts?page=53#53

http://www.internet-haganah.com/haganah/internet.html
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/27apr07/27apr07-salafy_forums.html

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More Details:

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/006031.html

02 May 2007
“Abu Yahya al-Libi gives Hamas what for”

SNIPPET: “We admit, we think the shirt and vest are nice.
Someone make a note to dress him in that same outfit when he’s dead
(assuming there’s anything left to dress).

Download your own copy (yes, it’s in Arabic, and no, it’s not subtitled)

Al-Qaeda video urges ‘bombs, fire’ on Israel”

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Previously:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826963/posts?page=18#18

N THE NET...

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP156707

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1567
May 2, 2007 No.1567

“Islamist Websites Monitor No. 93
Islamist Video: Interview with an Al-Qaeda Commander in Afghanistan”

SNIPPET: “On April 28, 2007, Islamist websites posted a 43-minute video featuring an interview with Sheikh Abu Laith Al-Libi, who is introduced in the film as “one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda in Khorasan, [Afghanistan].” The film was produced by Al-Qaeda’s media company Al-Sahab and is accompanied by English subtitles. The following are the main points of the interview.

Abu Laith states that the long-term goal of jihad is to establish Islam throughout the world, while its short-term goal is to rescue the Muslims from the oppression to which they are subject.”

SNIPPET: “The video can be viewed at: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=807019&ak=null “

18 posted on 05/01/2007 10:08:07 PM PDT by Cindy

53 posted on 05/02/2007 1:17:13 PM PDT by Cindy

[Cindy]

www.alfirdaws.org/vb//showthread.php?t=32517
www.alfirdaws.org/vb

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP157407

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1574
May 8, 2007 No.1574

“Islamist Websites Monitor No. 96”

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/27apr07/27apr07-salafy_forums.html

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www.al-boraq.com/banner/s7ab_Ayman_interview1428Coming.gif
www.al-boraq.com

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UPDATE:

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP157507

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1575
May 8, 2007 No.1575

“Al-Qaeda Deputy Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Interview Produced By Al-Sahab Media”

SNIPPET: “On May 5, 2007, Islamist websites posted a video, produced by Al-Qaeda’s media company Al-Sahab, of a 67-minute interview with Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The following is a summary of the interview.

To view the video, go to: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=822400&ak=null .”

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping!

[Cindy]

You’re most welcome.

[Cindy]

The Luxor bomb today turned out not to be terrorism.

Let’s post this article here, though for a memory jogger.

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STEPPING BACK IN TIME...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Aug-27-Sun-2006/news/8912226.html

Aug. 27, 2006
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

“IN DEPTH: THE LONG SHADOW OF 9/11: LOOKING BACK: The 9/11 hijackers”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The intelligence community still is puzzling over why Mohammed Atta and four of his accomplices made several trips to Las Vegas in the months leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Ellen Knowlton, former head of the FBI’s Las Vegas office, said she expects the quest for answers will continue.

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“It was pursued as aggressively as humanly possible,” said Knowlton, who retired from the FBI in February. “It will never be closed until it’s solved.”

In its July 2004 report, the 9/11 Commission wrote of the six different trips, “Beyond Las Vegas’ reputation for welcoming tourists, we have seen no credible evidence explaining why, on this occasion and others, the operatives flew to or met in Las Vegas.”

Adding to the mystery is the fact that all four hijackers who piloted the doomed aircraft spent time near Las Vegas Boulevard.

The lack of definitive answers hasn’t kept current and former law enforcement from theorizing about the visits, the last of which took place less than a month before the attacks.

Former Clark County Sheriff Jerry Keller said he thinks the hijackers were eyeing Las Vegas for a possible future attack involving other al-Qaida members.

“We had to be a collateral target or they wouldn’t have been here,” Keller said.

Grant Ashley, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Las Vegas at the time of the attacks, said he has come to view the visits as “planning summits.”

Ashley, who left the bureau earlier this year to become vice president of security for Harrah’s Entertainment, said the group may have put the finishing touches on the 9/11 plans based on observations they made on first-class flights to Las Vegas.

When the hijackers left Las Vegas, they flew coach to different locations, Ashley said.

Dave Staretz, supervisory special agent for the FBI in Las Vegas, said investigators received more than 3,000 leads concerning the visits and spent weeks canvassing the area around the Strip where the hijackers were known to have been.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829852/posts

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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/05/07/black_deathtype_bacteria_found_in_trash/

Published: May 7, 2007 at 4:04 PM

“Black Death-type bacteria found in trash”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LONDON, May 7 (UPI) — Bacteria from the same family as the Black Death was recently found inside British trash cans that are only emptied once every two weeks.
A health hazards study found among some of the trash cans collected every 14 days, a strain of bacteria eerily similar to that of the one that killed 75 million people during the Middle Ages, The Daily Mail said Monday.

The study found some of the bacteria found in the receptacles were from the exact family from which the yersinia pestis strain originated centuries ago.”

[Velveeta]

I’m actually in Vegas, arrived a few hours after this happened.

The old Luxor discussions was the first thing I thought of as well.

I now have one of those cute phones that I can freep with. How cool is that? LOL

[Cindy]

Really cool.

Have a great time.

[Cindy]

(Note to Lurkers: This trivia/memory jogger has nothing to do with the incident at Luxor today. Fyi.)

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Off Topic...

TRIVIA/MEMORY JOGGER:

The Las Vegas discussion really gets started here and continues through this thread.

STEPPING BACK IN TIME...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1013726/posts?page=3647#3647

and speaking of Luxor, it starts about here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1013726/posts?page=5101#5101

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/
“THE TERRORISM AWARENESS PROJECT”

(Note: Videos included.)

[Cindy]

http://www.tsa.gov/datasecurity/statement.shtm

“Public Statement on Employee Data Security Incident”