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Posted on 07/01/2007 2:42:24 PM PDT by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows.

He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said.

But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program, Chertoff said U.S. authorities are concerned about the threat of terrorism, especially in the coming months. "We have had a number of al-Qaida leaders quite publicly talking about how they want to carry out their threats against the West. So, given that and given the history that we have had over past summers, with attacks in Britain, I think we were clearly focused on this as a possibility," he said. Full story...


More United Kingdom Attacks Possible
More US Air Marshals on Flights to Europe
Officials: Car Bomb Plot Bears al Qaida's Trademark


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: Cindy

FOX News.

Recycled UBL tape released?


2,361 posted on 07/30/2007 5:15:45 AM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Rushmore Rocks; callmejoe; Cindy; nwctwx; Oorang; Velveeta; All

I’m not sure if this was what they were referencing . . .

http://www.lauramansfield.com/3.rm

The still images that appeared on the forums yesterday seem to have been clipped from this tape.

It is also not quite clear to me whether this is a previously published tape or dated and unaired footage of previous tapes that may have been edited out and not released before now.

This looks like the 2002(?) tape of UBL and Zawahiri going up and down the mountains in the border regions, but the man walking with UBL in this footage doesn’t look like Zawahiri.

This seems extremely significant in the context of the other UBL tape from a couple weeks ago and the 9/11 anniversary tape last year that both were based on old footage.

http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/default.asp

“. . . Another old Bin Laden tape reposted

Again this weekend, an older Bin Laden tape has been reposted to the jihadist message boards.

The tape can be downloaded from http://www.lauramansfield.com/3.rm

A key question that is being asked by analysts is “Why? Why the repost of the old messages?”

Over the last month, we’ve seen a huge cache of older, and in many case obscure Bin Laden messages appear on jihadist servers and on message boards.

The last time Osama Bin Laden appeared in a video tape was in October 2004. Since that time he has released a number of audio taped messages, but no further videos. His last audio message was in July 2006. . . .”


2,362 posted on 07/30/2007 6:49:41 AM PDT by callmejoe
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To: Oorang; Cindy

Thanks very much for the ping. Great links/research. BTTT!


2,363 posted on 07/30/2007 7:15:37 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: callmejoe

SITE says it is Zawahiri with UBL in the footage. This is just the full tape from 2003 (not 2002) of which only a portion aired on al-Jazeera at the time.

http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications305807&Category=publications&Subcategory=0


2,364 posted on 07/30/2007 7:33:21 AM PDT by callmejoe
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To: callmejoe

Thanks, Joe.

Still...........Why and why now?


2,365 posted on 07/30/2007 7:35:20 AM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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placemark


2,366 posted on 07/30/2007 8:23:52 AM PDT by Godzilla (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: callmejoe

We really need to keep our heads up!


2,367 posted on 07/30/2007 10:03:30 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: Cindy
Coming up on Fox, with Jane Skinner, “Why aren’t we winning the war with the Jihadi’s on the Internet.”

Where is she in her search, can I ask.

I wonder if more people where brought to light here, that they might see what we do.

2,368 posted on 07/30/2007 11:14:19 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: drymans wife

We have paid extra money (in the past) to have Fox News included in our tv package.

However, they have changed over the years to more of an entertainment/magazine/sound bytes/court cases tv. They have not been a primary news source for our family for at least a year or so.

We get our news primarily from the internet.

That’s how I do my research and I always quote the source(s) of each post.


2,369 posted on 07/30/2007 12:54:41 PM PDT by Cindy
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PERSECUTING AND KILLING CHRISTIANS BY THE TALIBAN UPDATE:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017581.php
(REUTERS)

July 30, 2007
“Taliban: Male hostage shot dead”
(REUTERS)

KABUL, Afghanistan

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Previously...

http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?PHPSESSID=580da9c748d1b7189236ea5a25cc41df&topic=408.0

“Kidnapping Christians; Killing 1 Christian”


2,371 posted on 07/30/2007 2:20:05 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: callmejoe; Cindy; nwctwx; All

Do we have a translation of the words spoken here.


2,372 posted on 07/30/2007 2:24:13 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: drymans wife

You can check Laura Mansfield’s site or the SITE Institutes’s site.


2,373 posted on 07/30/2007 2:42:41 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Sorry,
I just went to the video website.


2,374 posted on 07/30/2007 3:06:22 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: AliVeritas; Calpernia; Jet Jaguar; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Y-12&btnG=Search+News

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Thanks to Ali Veritas and Calpernia for the pings to this topic.

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873700/posts

TN: Car Crashes at Nuclear Weapons Plant (driver ran checkpoint, crashed into barrier, fled on foot)
ap on Breitbart.com ^ | 7/30/07 | AP

Posted on 07/30/2007 9:54:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - A driver ran a checkpoint at a nuclear weapons plant early Monday and crashed into a barrier, then fled on foot, authorities said.

Guards at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, a primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium, said the man “appeared to be impaired in some way” when they stopped him around 5 a.m. at a security checkpoint near a rear entrance, spokesman Bill Wilburn said.

They asked him for identification, but the man hit the gas and drove through the checkpoint, then crashed into security barriers a short distance away, Wilburn said.

“When he hit that, he jumped out of the car and ran away. He left the car there with the engine still running,” Wilburn said. He said the guards told him the car had been hot-wired.

Wilburn said no weapons were in the car. “They checked the car very thoroughly before they moved it. They found nothing,” he said.

Oak Ridge police were searching for the driver.

Steve Wyatt, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Oak Ridge, which oversees the Y-12 plant, downplayed the crash, saying it was “next to nothing.” The plant makes and dismantles uranium parts in nuclear warheads.


2,375 posted on 07/30/2007 3:16:22 PM PDT by Cindy
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Fyi Only.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1873865/posts

“Gunman dead after firing shots in hospital”
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 30, 2007 | A.P.

Posted on 07/30/2007 2:49:57 PM PDT by Graybeard58

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “RIDGECREST, Calif. — A 75-year-old man walked into a medical building Monday and started shooting but was killed by a highway patrolman, authorities in this Mojave Desert community said. No other injuries were reported.”


2,376 posted on 07/30/2007 3:23:45 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.recalls.gov

Note: Click on the link below this note to read view the complete summary AND read the entire text of the various recalls. Thanks you.

http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html

RECALLS - SUMMARY - SNIPPET - QUOTE:

July 29, 2007
California Department of Public Health Warns Consumers Not to Eat Fresh Ginger From China

July 27, 2007
California Department of Public Health Announces San Diego Botulism Case

Recall Update: Baxter Healthcare Corp. COLLEAGUE® and FLO-GARD® Volumetric Infusion Pumps

July 26, 2007
Precautionary Recall Alert Issued for Selected Whole Wheat Fresh Bread Products

Recall Update: Thoratec Paracorporeal Ventricular Assist System (PVAD)

Recall Update: Thoratec TLC-II Portable Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Driver

July 21, 2007
FDA Expands Its Nationwide Warning About the Risk of Botulism Poisoning From Certain Castleberry’s Food Products and Dog Food

Castleberry’s Expands Voluntary Recall of Hot Dog Chili Sauce and Canned Meat Products

July 20, 2007
Nissin Foods (USA) Co., Inc. Issues Allergy Alert for Cod and Lobster in Certain Noodle Products

Baxter Healthcare Upgraded COLLEAGUE Triple Channel Volumetric Infusion Pumps Recall

California Department of Public Health Warns Consumers Not to Eat De La Rosa Pulparindo Candy [En Español]

July 18, 2007
Castleberry’s Announces Voluntary Recall of Chili Products

FDA Issues Nationwide Warning to Consumers About Risk of Botulism Poisoning From Hot Dog Chili Sauce Marketed Under a Variety of Brand Names

July 13, 2007
Urgent Voluntarily Nationwide Recall of DentFresh Fluoride Mint Toothpaste 9 oz (255g)

Update on Tainted Veggie Booty Snack Food

Gerber® Announces Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Gerber ORGANIC Rice™ and Gerber ORGANIC Oatmeal™ 8 Ounce Cereals Due to a Potential Choking Hazard

Recall: Bayer Ascensia Contour Blood Glucose Monitoring System

July 10, 2007
Prosperity Resources Int’l. Inc. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Sulfites in Sun Kee Brand Dried Sweet Potato

Karlin Food Products, Inc. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk in ‘Market Basket Complete Pancake & Waffle Mix’

July 6, 2007
Artisan Confections Issues Nationwide Recall of Kumasi Sambirano Dark Chocolate Bars Due to Allergy Risk

July 2, 2007
Wellbaskets.com Is Alerting Customers of the Veggie Booty Voluntary Recall Issued on June 28, 2007 by Robert’s American Gourmet

Robert’s American Gourmet Food, Inc. Conducts a Nationwide Recall of Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks Because of Possible Health Risk

Drug Recall: Invanz (ertapenem sodium) Injection


2,377 posted on 07/30/2007 3:27:03 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46869

“Surge Putting Pressure on Terrorists; Air Power Surges with Ground Troops”

By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2007


2,378 posted on 07/30/2007 3:35:13 PM PDT by Cindy
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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46872

Coalition Raids Kill Five Terrorists in Iraq

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2007 – Coalition forces killed five terrorists and detained 38 suspected terrorists today during operations targeting al Qaeda in Iraq’s Salah Ad Din and Anbar provinces, military officials reported.

As coalition forces approached one of the targeted buildings during a raid in Tarmiyah, they received small-arms fire from within. After ensuring that women and children near the scene were a safe distance from the building, coalition forces reacting in self-defense called in close-air support.

Ground forces assessed that five terrorists were killed in the air strike. The assault forces detained 10 suspected terrorists and destroyed the building, officials said.

Near Karmah today, coalition forces raided four buildings associated with a suspected al Qaeda financier who works with senior al Qaeda leaders in Anbar province. During the operation, the assault force found machine guns, mortar rounds, improvised-explosive-device materials, and military-style assault vests. A coalition air strike destroyed the cache, and the ground forces detained 17 suspected terrorists on site.

South of Samarra, coalition forces detained eight suspected terrorists during a raid today targeting a suspected al Qaeda operative tied to suicide bombers and foreign terrorists. The ground forces uncovered a cache of weapons that included rifles, grenades, mortars, military-style assault vests, body armor, and materials to assist in anti-aircraft strikes. A trained explosives team destroyed the cache on site.

Elsewhere, coalition forces today detained three suspected terrorists during a raid targeting an alleged al Qaeda leader in Bayji.

“Al Qaeda in Iraq and affiliated networks continue to conduct malicious attacks on the Iraqi people,” said Army Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “We will continue to target their leaders and operatives wherever they hide.”

In operations yesterday, Iraqi security forces conducted a series of raids that led to the detention of a suspected al Qaeda cell leader responsible for attacks and facilitating foreign fighters in the Qaim area.

The suspect allegedly ran terrorist activities in Husaybah and was reportedly involved in planning future large-scale attacks against coalition forces in the western Euphrates River Valley, officials said.

With U.S. Special Forces soldiers present as advisors, Iraqi police also detained two primary suspects and three additional people of interest near Husaybah, located on the Euphrates River west of Qaim. Various documents, including multiple identification cards and passports, also were seized during the operation. The second primary suspect is a school teacher believed to be spreading propaganda and recruiting his students to kill members of the Iraqi police and army.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq and Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Arabian Peninsula news releases.)


2,379 posted on 07/30/2007 3:42:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070730.html

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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46875

U.S.-U.K. Leaders Reaffirm Objectives in Terror War

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2007 – The United States and Great Britain share common values and “an obligation … to work for freedom and justice around the world,” President Bush said today in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Camp David, Md., today.

“After all, we’re writing the initial chapters of what I believe is a great ideological struggle between those of us who do believe in freedom and justice and human rights and human dignity and cold-blooded killers who will kill innocent people to achieve their objectives,” Bush said.

Both men said they will continue to work together closely.

Bush thanked Brown for Britain’s continued support in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Success in Afghanistan and Iraq will be an integral part of defeating an enemy and helping people realize the great blessings of liberty as the alternative to an ideology of darkness that spreads its murder to achieve its objectives,” he said.

“Terrorism is not a cause, it is a crime, and it is a crime against humanity” said Brown, on his first visit to the United States as prime minister. “And there should be no safe haven and no hiding place for those who practice terrorist violence or preach terrorist extremism.”

Brown said the British have duties and responsibilities in Iraq to support of the democratically elected government. “Our aim, like the United States, is step by step to move control to the Iraqi … government and to its security forces as progress is made,” he said. “And we’ve moved from combat to overwatch in three of the four provinces for which we, the British, have security responsibility. We intend to move to overwatch in the fourth province, and that decision will be made on the military advice of our commanders on the ground.”

Brown called Afghanistan the front line against terrorism and said the United Kingdom has added to its commitment in the country, providing two more battalions to NATO forces there.

Bush stressed the commonality of purpose between the two leaders on Iraq. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Gordon Brown understands that failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the security of our own countries, that failure in Iraq would embolden extremist movements throughout the Middle East, that failure in Iraq would basically say to … people sitting on the fence around the region that al Qaeda is powerful enough to drive great countries like Great Britain and America out of Iraq before the mission is done,” he said.

The president said Brown understands that failure in Iraq would spread violence across the Middle East, and “that a country like Iran would become emboldened.”

The Western world is in a generation-long battle against al Qaeda-inspired terrorism, and there is no negotiating with terrorists, Brown said. The battle must include military, diplomatic, intelligence, security, policing and ideological terms.

“So we are at one in fighting the battle against terrorism, and that struggle is one that we will fight with determination and with resilience and right across the world,” he said.


2,380 posted on 07/30/2007 3:45:20 PM PDT by Cindy
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