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Threat Matrix: August 2007
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Posted on 08/01/2007 10:32:19 PM PDT by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Disaster Looms in Pakistan

Decorum was abandoned as accusations ricocheted between the wood-panelled walls of Pakistan's national assembly on Monday night. "Murderers! Murderers of innocent people!" screamed an MP from a religious party, his yellow turban shaking as he wagged a finger towards the government benches.

Five female parliamentarians, their faces concealed behind black and white burkas, slapped the benches with open palms. Another mullah stood up and started shouting. The speaker strained to maintain order.

Others were less captivated by the debate on last month's siege of the Red Mosque, in which more than 100 people died. One man snoozed at his desk. Across the vast hall others started whispered conversations. And high above them Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a dapper man with a pinched, clean-shaven face, looked on impassively from his giant portrait on the wall. Full story...

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Threat Matrix:
August 2007
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To: nwctwx

LOL, or you could be right and he just hasn’t been able to get to a dentist. ;-)


201 posted on 08/02/2007 8:57:19 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: nwctwx

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/15/1071336873131.html?from=storyrhs

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/15/content_290449.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/pakistan/2003/pakistan-031215-rferl-171433.htm

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/25/1072308632928.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200312/s1016326.htm


202 posted on 08/02/2007 8:59:16 PM PDT by callmejoe
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To: nwctwx

The 4th guy looks familiar, yet not that familiar.
Heh. Glad that’s cleared up.


203 posted on 08/02/2007 8:59:52 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: nwctwx

Nose too big on Dadullah, I think.


204 posted on 08/02/2007 9:01:02 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: nwctwx

He’s on youtube sites, but that is a good photo of him...usually he looks dirtier.


205 posted on 08/02/2007 9:01:29 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

Laser Disorients Sheriff’s Chopper Crew (CA)

Stanislaus County Sheriff Chopper Pilot Blinded by Laser

Last Saturday should have been a routine night patroling the skies over Stanislaus County.

But Officer Jeff Sprueill and his pilot were temporarily stunned by a bright light coming from the ground.

“It was a very bright green laser beam, it almost blinded us for a moment,” said Sprueill.

The pilot took evasive action, turning the aircraft away from the light and dropping altitude to avoid an emergency landing.

Crews on the ground could not locate the source of the bright light.(snip)
http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=31004


206 posted on 08/02/2007 9:23:08 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Cindy; nwctwx; Velveeta; Godzilla; callmejoe; All
Capitol Police Boost Security to Deal With Threat of Pre-Sept. 11 Attack by al-Qaida
Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007

Capitol Police officials have stepped up the department’s security presence on Capitol Hill in response to intelligence indicating the increased possibility of an al-Qaida terrorist attack on Congress sometime between now and Sept. 11.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/19681-1.html

207 posted on 08/02/2007 9:29:40 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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Suspicious speedster questioned by FBI
$51,516 in cash found in car

Safford Police officer Brian Avila found something unusual when performing a vehicle search after pulling over a reckless driver on Tuesday - $51,516 in cash.

Aurangzeb M. Sheikh, 19, of Texas was pulled over by Safford Police after they witnessed him driving his black, 2007 BMW G-6 sportscar recklessly on Highway 70. He also drove south on First Avenue at speeds estimated at 80 mph. Sheikh was given a citation for speeding and performing an unsafe lane change.

According to his report, prior to Sheikh leaving, Avila asked him if he had any illegal items in his vehicle. Sheikh stated he did not and then consented to a vehicle search.

Avila found a marijuana grinder, a marijuana joint, an Islamic Republic of Pakistan international driving permit and $51,516 in cash in a duffle bag on the passenger seat.

“When you find those items in that kind of car with someone so young, it raises eyebrows,” Chief John Griffin said.(snip)
http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2007/08/02/update/thursday/news01.txt


208 posted on 08/02/2007 9:34:53 PM PDT by Velveeta
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CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting
By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, participated in a three-day summit of U.S.-based HAMAS members and supporters in 1993.

Until now, he had been identified only as Nihad LNU (last name unknown) in FBI reports and analyses. The meeting occurred in a Philadelphia hotel in the wake of a White House ceremony formalizing the Oslo Accords, a peace deal with the potential to end the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

CAIR, which touts itself as America’s premier Muslim civil rights organization, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its officials. Omar Ahmad, who founded CAIR with Awad in 1994 and was previously identified as attending the Philadelphia meeting, also was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.(snip)

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/08/cair_executive_director_placed_1.php


209 posted on 08/02/2007 9:37:23 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Oorang

whoa


210 posted on 08/02/2007 9:38:02 PM PDT by Velveeta
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TSA checks IndyGo bus passengers (INDIANA)

Screeners from the Transportation Security Administration checked passengers at two Downtown city bus stops this morning, looking for weapons and suspicious behavior.

David Kane, federal security director for TSA in Indianapolis, called it a “VIPR” operation.

“It’s called Visual Intermodal Prevention Response. We have plainclothes inspectors, blue-gloved uniformed security officers who are checking baggage, the behavior detection officers, and federal air marshals, which are the law enforcement arm of TSA.”

Security stations were set up at bus stops at Capitol Avenue and Market Street, and Ohio and Meridian streets.

Some passengers were patted down or submitted to having bags checked.

TSA said the searches were “by-permission,” meaning patrons could decline to be checked. Those who did would not be turned away, an official said, unless they otherwise appeared to be a security threat.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070802/LOCAL/70802006


211 posted on 08/02/2007 11:16:27 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Oorang

Good idea.

Thank you Oorang.


212 posted on 08/03/2007 12:08:42 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta; RDTF; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All

Age 19.

Thank you Velveeta.

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http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2007/08/02/update/thursday/news01.txt


213 posted on 08/03/2007 12:10:49 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Oorang; JellyJam; All

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200708/NAT20070802a.html

“Congress Moves to Protect US States that Divest from Terror”
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 02, 2007

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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200708/POL20070802a.html

“Members of Congress Invest in Businesses in Terror-Sponsor States”
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 02, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - More than 30 members of Congress, or their spouses, invest in companies that do business in countries that the U.S. government says sponsor terrorists, a Cybercast News Service investigation has established.

Financial disclosure forms show that Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) — one of the leading national security experts in Congress — has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in nine corporations listed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as doing or having done business with a terror-sponsoring state.

Reps. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) and Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) have smaller investments in as many such companies. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) each have more than $1 million in companies that are doing or have done business with one or more of these countries.

The five countries on the U.S. State Department’s list of terror-sponsors are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. (The SEC relies on the State Department’s list.)”


214 posted on 08/03/2007 12:40:30 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7628BF9A-04B5-4DE2-BC7D-958809C5D3DF

“How Best to Attack America?”
By William Hawkins
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/3/2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Osama bin Laden shared Himmler’s low opinion of Americans in 2001, but the reaction to the 9/11 attacks proved Skorzeny right. The United States was shaken from is doldrums and strode across the world like a colossus. That was not the reaction Osama expected, and it must have given him pause.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “With opinion in Congress moving in their direction, it would seem that al-Qaeda would not want to rock the boat. Though some Democrats still talk about “redeployment” to Kuwait or some other place “over the horizon” to preserve an option to rescue a collapsing Iraq, the left-wing core of the party has no more stomach for a renewed fight in Iraq than it did in Vietnam.

If al-Qaeda does mount a major terrorist attack, or campaign of attacks, against the United States homeland, it would be an act of desperation. It would be a sign that the “surge” in Iraq is working, not only in a military sense but in a political sense, as Sunni and Shia tribal leaders are brought into the U.S. strategy of national building. If al-Qaeda is on the run, as many reports from the scene indicate, its leaders may decide to roll the iron dice in an attempt to win in Washington what has been lost in Baghdad. How Americans would interpret such terrorist actions, and react to them, would reveal to the world the state of the nation’s self-confidence and moral strength, the real determinants of effective power in world affairs.”


215 posted on 08/03/2007 1:38:20 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875630/posts

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http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3205&cid=3&sid=74

“Finsbury Park: Inside the British Jihad”
Pratik Chougule - 8/4/2007


216 posted on 08/03/2007 2:03:27 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: All; fanfan; GMMAC; Squantos; Jet Jaguar

RECAP:

http://dcnonl.com/article/id23662

July 19, 2007

“Security
Thieves target radioactive devices
Instruments potential source of ‘dirty bomb’ materials”
VINCE VERSACE
staff writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Construction sites and vehicles have been involved when 76 radioactive devices have gone missing in Canada over the last five years.

Devices such as soil moisture gauges, powered by radioactive material, have gone missing from construction sites, fallen off trucks and been stolen from cars, a recent report compiled by Canadian Press indicates.

Ontario and Quebec each had the most missing radioactive device incidents at 18 each.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is tightening controls on radioactive devices for fear some of the materials could be used to create a so-called dirty bomb. A construction company wishing to use a radioactive site must submit an application to the CNSC to be assessed.”


217 posted on 08/03/2007 2:40:26 AM PDT by Cindy
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EVENT:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875672/posts


218 posted on 08/03/2007 2:54:54 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: All; Oorang

UPDATE:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_520252.html

“More explosives found in Brookline home”

By Tribune-Review
Thursday, August 2, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Richard Regrut, 33, was carrying 12 explosive devices — three of them 6 inches long and the others about 2 inches long — when he was stopped for speeding Monday along McNeilly Road. Regrut, who is charged with a variety of crimes, told police he used the homemade devices to blow up tree stumps.

He also told police he had more of the explosives at his home. Police and the Allegheny County Bomb Squad immediately searched his home on Southcrest Drive and found 32 of the smaller explosives in Regrut’s bedroom, Mt. Lebanon police Lt. Ken Truver said yesterday.”

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Previously...
(Thanks Oorang for posting a link to this article):

“Police: Man Had Homemade Explosives In His Car (Pennsylvania)”
Jul 31, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MOUNT LEBANON - A 33-year-old man is facing charges after police in Mt. Lebanon allegedly found several homemade explosives in his car. Police say they stopped him for speeding but he was unusually nervous. The man allegedly told police he had dynamite.

Five homes were evacuated and the Allegheny County Bomb Squad was called in to check out the car. Police say they found several improvised explosive devices. A few hours later, neighbors were allowed back inside their homes. He will be charged with having prohibited offensive weapons, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe.”
http://kdka.com/topstories/local_story_211222632.html


219 posted on 08/03/2007 3:15:48 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/index.cfm?page=zulkifli&language=english

“Wanted
Zulkifli bin Hir
Up to $5 Million Reward”


220 posted on 08/03/2007 3:41:31 AM PDT by Cindy
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