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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[Oorang]

European officials want mosques profiled
May 13, 2007

VENICE, Italy -- Security officials from Europe's largest countries backed a plan Saturday to profile mosques on the continent and identify radical Islamic clerics who raise the threat of homegrown terrorism.

The project, to be finished by fall, will focus on the roles of imams, their training, their ability to speak in the local language and their sources of funding, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference after a meeting on terrorism. Italian Interior Minister Guiliano Amato said Europe had extensive experience with the "misuse of mosques, which instead of being places of worship, are used for other ends."

He added, "This is bringing about a situation that involves all of our countries and involves the possibility of attacks and developing of networks that use one country to prepare an attack in another."

Excerpted

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070513/NATIONWORLD/705130460/1012/NATIONWORLD

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833001/posts

“Mixed signals-not news that Cheney warned Iran US will prevent their nukes but that he meant it”
Jerusalem Post ^ | 5-13-07

Posted on 05/13/2007 4:01:38 PM PDT by SJackson

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Judging from the headlines, Vice President Dick Cheney did some serious saber-rattling against Iran during his swing through the region last week. On closer examination, it all came down to one short sentence in his speech to soldiers on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, stationed in the Persian Gulf.

“We’ll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region,” Cheney said.

In reality, the news was not so much that Cheney had said this, since presumably this has long been the policy not only of the US government, but of all US candidates for president, regardless of party. The news was the possibility that he meant it, as emphasized by location - 240 kilometers off Iran’s coast - and the audience, the pilots and sailors whose job it might be to enforce such a policy.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833024/posts

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CAfEQRQOI&NR

“DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT BUSH: MANI TURKZADEH”

Added June 21, 2006
From PERSIANWARRIORS

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833010/posts

“Venezuela Accuses U.S. DEA of Being a “Drug Cartel” [Busted]”
Venezuelanalysis.com ^ | May 08, 2007 | Chris Carlson

Posted on 05/13/2007 4:28:58 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty

[Cindy]

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

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833030/posts

Iranian president leads anti-U.S. rally
ap ^ | 5/13/07 | By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 05/13/2007 5:12:46 PM PDT by Flavius

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We are telling you to leave the region. This is for your benefit and the benefit of your nation,” Ahmadinejad shouted to the crowd of thousands at a soccer stadium. “The nations of the region can no longer take you forcing yourself on them. The nations of the region know better how to create peace and security.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

[Cindy]

RECAP...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015989.php

April 09, 2007

“We’re ‘fatwaworthy!’”

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ON THE NET...

radicalmuslim.blogsome.com/2007/04/09/fatwaworthy-in-the-bloggersphere/

opinionated.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/551/

[Cindy]

ARRESTED.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/goldberg.htm

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833068/posts

U.S. ‘Top 10’ fugitive arrested in Montreal
CTV.ca ^ | Sun. May. 13 2007 | Staff

Posted on 05/13/2007 6:58:34 PM PDT by GMMAC

“U.S. ‘Top 10’ fugitive arrested in Montreal”

Updated Sun. May. 13 2007 9:29 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

SNIPPET: “A U.S. fugitive on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list will appear in a Montreal court on Monday charged with immigration violations.

Richard Steve Goldberg, 61, was arrested early Saturday in suburban Montreal by a police tactical team. He is being held under the Immigration and Detention Act.

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/05/13/afx3715289.html

AFX News Limited
“Chevron suspends non-essential activities in Nigeria after kidnaps”
05.13.07, 3:02 PM ET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LAGOS (Thomson Financial) - US oil giant Chevron said it has suspended non-essential activities off Nigeria’s oil-rich southern coast days after four of its workers were seized from a construction vessel.

‘This change in work activity level, mainly in drilling and construction, is a precautionary measure that is being taken as a result of recent security incidents in the region,’ the company said yesterday in a statement.

Almost 40 gunmen on Tuesday attacked the DLB Cheyenne on six small boats and seized four of the company’s US subcontractors.”

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http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_928.html

Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

This information is current as of today, Sun May 13 2007 19:12:43 GMT-0700.

NIGERIA

January 19, 2007

[Cindy]

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

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1833082/posts

http://www.1010wins.com/pages/451613.php?contentType=4&contentId=495437

Posted: Sunday, 13 May 2007 3:57PM

“NJ Quiet on Hospital Sites of Dangerous Infections”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TRENTON, N.J. — Eleven times last year a dangerous infection broke out in a New Jersey hospital, and while the state health department’s policy is to release to the public the names of pathogens and the counties where outbreak happened, it doesn’t release the names of the hospitals, according to a published report.

New Jersey is behind more than a dozen other states _ including neighboring New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, that have required hospitals to make infection rates public. That’s in response to alarm over infections, especially those resistant to antibiotics.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”There was a presumption that these (infections) were an inevitable risk of surgery and hospitalization,’’ she said. “But there’s compelling evidence now that nearly all are preventable.’’

Much of the data New Jersey collects is not made public. However, a state system does rate hospitals based on lab reports of organisms resistant to antibiotics, but uses facility codes to hide the names in documents made public.

The system is also backlogged. The most recent report from 2003 uses data that was compiled in 2001.

Eddy Bresnitz, the state’s epidemiologist, said staffing limitations have created the backlog.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833129/posts

“Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back together”
news@nature.com ^ | 10 May 2007 | Ned Stafford

Posted on 05/13/2007 11:55:40 PM PDT by neverdem

Published online: 10 May 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070508-9
“Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back together
Computer program should re-assemble notes from the East German Stasi.”
Ned Stafford

[Cindy]

Testing...1, 2, 3?

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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=bomb%20%2B%20train&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

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

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13312484/detail.html

“Amtrak Train Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat
Large knife found in suspect’s bag”

POSTED: 2:42 am MDT May 14, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Passengers aboard an Amtrack train headed to Chicago were evacuated after a passenger said he had explosives.

The train was stopped near highway 72 on Blue Mountain Road in Arvada, Sunday night.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The train has been cleared of any explosives and will return to Denver to pick up the evacuated passengers.”

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28281

“Fort Dix: The Backlash that Wasn’t”
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 14, 2007

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070513-111551-8255r.htm

“Padilla jury to hear opening statements”
May 14, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MIAMI (AP) — After months of investigation, legal maneuvering and jury selection, federal prosecutors and attorneys for al Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla finally get to present their cases in a trial expected to last all summer.

Opening statements are scheduled today in the terrorism support trial of Mr. Padilla, a former Chicago gang member and Muslim convert, and two co-defendants.”

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.metimes.com/images/photos/full/20070514-045221-6519.jpg
PHOTO CAPTION: “ARMED AND READY: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to Iranian residents of Dubai May 13, 2007. Ahmadinejad Monday said the people of Iran would ‘defend themselves well’ against any US attack over Tehran’s nuclear program. (REUTERS)”

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070514-045218-9968r

“Ahmadinejad warns of heavy response to any US strike”
AFP

May 14, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ABU DHABI — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Monday that Iran would retaliate with severity to any possible attack by the United States over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.

“They [the Americans] understand that if they should make this mistake, the retaliation of the Iranian people will be severe and they will repent,” he told reporters in Abu Dhabi.”

[Cindy]

Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3399592,00.html

Report: Libyan president suffers stroke

Published: 05.14.07, 10:38 / Israel News

Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi was hospitalized on Sunday after suffering a stroke. Gaddafi’s condition was defined as serious, and he is currently in a coma, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported.

According to the report, Gaddafi’s family members arrived at the hospital to be with him. (Ali Waked)

[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Mon May 14 2007 03:19:07 GMT-0700.

Worldwide Caution

April 10, 2007

[Cindy]

Thanks to a Special Freepmailer for pointing to this article:

http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=68318&cat=1

Monday May 14, 2007
Local
Thursday, May 10, 2007

“Draft bill to grandfather long-term guest workers”

By Liberty Dones
Reporter

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The draft CNMI immigration bill calls for federal control of the guest worker program, with a plan to issue “indefinite non-immigrant CNMI residents visa” to long-term nonresident workers. This visa can allow them to travel to the United States for work and study.

The outline of the draft immigration bill, a copy of which was obtained by the Saipan Tribune, provides the “grandfathering” of long-term guest employees who have been in the CNMI five years prior to the proposed law.

Under the provision, the Secretary of State “shall issue non-immigrant visas to aliens who have lawfully resided in the CNMI and have resided in the CNMI for at least five years prior to the date of enactment of this Act and who apply, during a one-time limited window, to be indefinite non-immigrant CNMI residents.”

This is the same status that citizens of the Freely Associated States enjoy in the U.S. under the Compacts of Free Association.”

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

[Godzilla]

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