Threat Matrix: November 2007

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U.S. to Offer Turkey Help on PKK

The U.S. is to offer Turkey a package of measures to dissuade Ankara from mounting a large-scale military incursion into Iraq to attack PKK Kurdish guerrillas, who have killed scores of Turkish soldiers in recent weeks.

Ahead of a meeting in Washington on Monday between President George W. Bush and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, U.S. officials said Ankara would have to get concrete American help to combat the PKK, which has bases in northern Iraq from where it frequently launches attacks into Turkey.

“Erdogan has to go back with the belief that for whatever reason, the U.S. is serious” about tackling Turkey’s concerns regarding the PKK, said Matthew Bryza, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. state department responsible for Turkey policy. Full story...

	Turkey Imposes Sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan in Bid to Halt PKK
	Ambassador Ryan Crocker to Turkey: Stay Out of Iraq
	Deaths in Baghdad Hit Yearly Low

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[Velveeta]

Yes, you are astute.

[Cindy]

I knew you would remember.

[Velveeta]

Is this new - or the one from a few weeks ago?

Osama Bin Laden rocks Assam with new video
Luit Neil Don, 05 November 2007, Monday

Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, in his latest video, has mentioned Assam and Kashmir and has called upon the Muslims to wake up and launch the fight for an Islamic state.
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=127509

[Velveeta]

Yes, that was from the “As the Jihadi Martyr Flies” episode of TM.

[Velveeta]

For InshallahShaheed: Rot in Hell you SOB Traitor!!!

In his latest post American traitor Samir Khan—a Muslim living in Charlotte— shows a number of vehicles hit by IEDs in Iraq. He even shows some gruesome photos of corpses which he claims are U.S. soldiers. Please, don’t look unless you want to go ballistic. I’m serious.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190021.php

[Velveeta]

People of America, Israel, and elsewhere, we sincerely apologize
http://kamangir.net/2007/11/04/people-of-america-israel-and-elsewhere-we-sincerely-apologize/

via
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/

[Velveeta]

Conestoga High School Da’wa Field Trip – Visit Planned To Saudi Dominated, Terror Tied Foundation for Islamic Education

November 5, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org -

On November 8, 2007 Conestoga High School students are scheduled to participate in a “mosque visit” to the Foundation for Islamic Education in Villanova, PA. [source, http://pa.cair.com/index.php?Page=upcomingin&Side=ifaith#mosquevisit]

The visit is being arranged by the Council on American Islamic Relations, a Saudi funded front group for Hamas. CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding prosecution, “Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas. Prosecutors applied the label of “unindicted co-conspirator” to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust in connection with a trial planned in Texas next month for five officials of a defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.” [source http://www.nysun.com/article/55778]

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=fie11.05.07.htm

[Cindy]

Not new.

[Cindy]

You’re very welcome P. Galt.

[Velveeta]

Toronto Terror Suspect Goes Free On Bail, Has Most Serious Charge Dropped
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_16476.aspx

[Velveeta]

Thanks for checking. It was the ‘15 min’ videotape reference that confused me.

[Velveeta]

I can’t get to the article, but the little snippet sounds ominous:

Reports of terrorist suspects on island put transportation...

“By Jason Graziadei Nantucket authorities, along with the FBI, are investigating the possibility that two individuals on the FBI’s terrorist watch-list are...

http://www.ack.net/922imfpstory.html

[Velveeta]

and there’s a weird deja vu happening wrt that Nantucket article

[Cindy]

Well, there may be a new version, but I looked around and didn’t see anything new. (Disclaimer: There could be something newer somewhere.)

[Cindy]

I couldn’t get it to load either — may be a subscription error.

Let me see if I can find another link.

[Velveeta]

I must be really tired - or maybe my computer is tired.

I put this into google news:

“watch list” terrorist

then hit return
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&client=news&um=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=wn&q=%22watch+list%22+++terrorist&btnG=Search+News

It says 168 results

then I hit ‘sort by date’ and it all disappears

time for bed

thank goodness you’re back

[Cindy]

Nope, all I could find referred back to that article snippet you posted.

Let’s watch Nantucket.

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

[Cindy]

Smiling...it’s not you...it’s the computers tonight.
Really.

Rest well Velveeta.

[Velveeta]

got it!

Reports of terrorist suspects on island put transportation agencies on alert

By Jason Graziadei
I&M Staff Writer

Nantucket authorities, along with the FBI, are investigating the possibility that two individuals on the FBI’s terrorist watch-list are on Nantucket.

Town and airport officials confirmed yesterday evening that there had been multiple sightings reported of at least one person on the terrorist watch-list at Nantucket Memorial Airport earlier in the day. There were conflicting statements as to whether the person or persons were coming to or leaving the airport. No incidents of suspicious activity were reported.

Ann Davis, the spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), would neither confirm nor deny any details regarding the sightings except to say, “the FBI is investigating.”

Members of the State Police and the Nantucket Police Department were unavailable for comment at press time.

Employees of the various airlines, the Steamship Authority and the Hy-Line were given a photograph of and advised to be on the lookout for a man who appeared to be of Arabic descent, with dark hair, a full beard and glasses.

The photo was not released to the press.

It was not clear what authority had distributed the photo. The employees, however, said that they had been told to keep a look-out for anyone who appeared similar to the picture.

One airport official said it was reported that a woman who was listed on the terrorist-watch list had purchased a plane ticket and received a boarding pass for a Cape Air flight, but did not get on the plane and did not check any baggage.

Cape Air officials also were not available for comment.

[Velveeta]

Good to know.
Google news is acting very strangely indeed.