Threat Matrix: December 2007

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Calculating the Risks in Pakistan

A small group of U.S. military experts and intelligence officials convened in Washington for a classified war game last year, exploring strategies for securing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal if the country's political institutions and military safeguards began to fall apart.

The secret exercise — conducted without official sponsorship from any government agency, apparently due to the sensitivity of its subject — was one of several such games the U.S. government has conducted in recent years examining various options and scenarios for Pakistan's nuclear weapons: How many troops might be required for a military intervention in Pakistan? Could Pakistani nuclear bunkers be isolated by saturating the surrounding areas with tens of thousands of high-powered mines, dropped from the air and packed with anti-tank and anti-personnel munitions? Or might such a move only worsen the security of Pakistan's arsenal?
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[Oorang]

10 policemen reported kidnapped
December 27, 2007 Thursday Zilhaj 16, 1428

BANNU, Dec 26: Militants are reported to have kidnapped 10 policemen after blowing up a checkpoint of the Haivad police station here on Wednesday evening. Officials and witnesses said that the militants first opened fire with Kalashnikovs on the Mazanga checkpoint and later blew it up with explosives. The kidnapped policemen included an ASI, a head constable and eight constables.

This correspondent made several futile attempts to contact police high-ups to get the names of the missing policemen. Local people said that five young boys, who were returning to the village after playing a volleyball match, were injured in the attack. They were taken to the district headquarters hospital. Talking to journalists in the hospital, the injured boys said that they rushed to the police checkpoint after hearing the sound of firing. As they neared the checkpoint, the explosives went off.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/27/top6.htm

Islamabad put on high alert : Terror threat
December 27, 2007 Thursday Zilhaj 16, 1428

ISLAMABAD - An intelligence report that terrorists may strike in the capital and target politicians and religious leaders has led to a high alert in the city, sources told Dawn.

A senior officer of the Islamabad administration said the city police and the administration had received a letter from the interior ministry that suicide attacks could take place in Islamabad. According to the letter, terrorists can target some high profile politicians and religious leaders.

The officer said security had been tightened in and around the capital city and the high alert would stay till the Jan 8 general election. Three wings of Rangers and personnel of the Elite Force, Punjab Constabulary and the city police had been deployed at sensitive places in Islamabad to avert any sabotage activity, he added.

Excerpted

http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/27/nat1.htm

Youth with dynamite held near rally venue (Pakistan)
PESHAWAR - A young man, allegedly carrying dynamite, was arrested here on Wednesday from outside the Arbab Niaz Stadium where Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto addressed a public meeting.

Reliable sources said the 19-year-old suspect, who identified himself as Raham Islam of Matani, had dynamite strapped to his body and he was trying to enter the stadium when he was stopped by security personnel. The suspect said that he had come here from a wedding party and could not find time to dispose of the explosive material.

Excerpted

http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/27/top8.htm

[Cindy]

“...oxyacetylene...”

Thanks Oorang.

I’ll add the murder of the Christmas Eve picnickers to the “holiday” jihad link set.

[Oorang]

Thanks Cindy.

[Cindy]

You’re welcome.

[Cindy]

Adding youth with dynamite strapped to his body who just came from a wedding party to:

http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=360.0
“Weddings”

http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=810.0
“Pakistan”

[MamaDearest]

Mosque call outrages Oxford

MUSLIM leaders have sparked outrage with plans to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over the roof-tops of one of Britain’s most historic cities. Elders at Oxford Central Mosque want to blast it out three times a day.

Islamic terrorists with Bosnian passports blacklisted by US

A number of Islamic terrorists with passport, residence or temporal residence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have been added to the US terror blacklist, the Banja Luka's daily Fokus said.

Fokus daily quotes data from the US' specially designated global terrorist list, published in mid-December.

Focus says it's quite strange that the US government had repeatedly blacklisted names of deceased individuals such as Momir Talic and Slobodan Milosevic, or individuals already convicted by war crimes tribunal in The Hague, such as Biljana Plavsic.

The latest blacklist, however, does not include Veljko Kadievic and the most wanted war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944626/posts

Arrest made in western Mass. flag burnings
Associated Press ^ | December 26, 2007
Posted on 12/26/2007 10:17:58 PM PST by george76

Northampton police have arrested a man in connection with a string of flag burnings around western Massachusetts.

A typewritten note left at the home and signed by the “American Patriot Liberation Front” claimed the United States was oppressing millions of people around the world.

Similar incidents were reported in Palmer, Greenfield and Amherst.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...

[Cindy]

Thanks for a Special Freepmailer for pointing to this article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/26/wmoscow126.xml

“Second suspicious death at Russian bank”
By Will Stewart in Moscow
Last Updated: 1:51am GMT 26/12/2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The second suspicious death at top Russian bank VTB within a month is provoking new concern about a return to a culture of lawlessness and contract killings in Moscow’s business world.

The body of Alexander Funin, 43, with a bullet wound to the head, was found in the bathroom of his apartment in south-western Moscow.

As with a killing earlier this month, police quickly ruled out murder, before apparently allowing sufficient time for detailed investigations.

Such quick “conclusions” are themselves fuelling suspicions in Moscow about a cover-up of a new wave of contract killings in banks.”

[Cindy]

RECAP AND UPDATES:

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: Orissa, India - "ONE KILLED AS CHURCHES, HOUSES ARE BURNED IN ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE" by James Varghese (December 26, 2007)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): New Delhi - "HINDU EXTREMISTS BURN 8 CHURCHES" by Matthew Rosenberg (December 27, 2007)

BBC NEWS: Bhubaneshwar - "INDIAN CHURCHES COME UNDER ATTACK" (Last updated December 26, 2007, 08:50 GMT)

[Cindy]

Note: Photos included.

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hi_231207e.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
December 23 , 2007

“The Hate Industry: children and adolescents in the Gaza Strip kiss the corpses of terrorist-operative martyrs (shaheeds). It is part of the indoctrination to hate Israel and of the shaheed cult popular in Palestinian Authority-administered territories.”

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_261207e.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
December 26, 2007

“Nablus continues the focus for terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria: in October the Israeli security forces detained a Hamas terrorist squad which carried out a series of shooting attacks in Samaria.”

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=100901C8-3723-4D8E-9670-DBEF02462301

“Justice for Zacarias Moussaoui”
By John Rosenthal
Policy Review | Thursday, December 27, 2007

(ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But the most fundamental lesson to be learned from Moussaoui’s testimony is one that ought to have been perfectly obvious even without it: The 9/11 attacks were precisely attacks. They were not banal crimes actuated by banal criminal motives, as the trying of Moussaoui before an ordinary civilian jurisdiction would suggest. They were acts of war undertaken with the express purpose of inflicting damage upon a designated enemy: the United States.”)

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16060&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071227-01
December 27, 2007

Iraqi Police, U.S. Special Operations Forces detain 2 suspected extremists in Ramadi
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BALAD, Iraq – Iraqi Police and U.S. Special Operations Forces detained two suspected extremists during operations Dec. 24 and 25 in the city of Ramadi. The operations were part of a series to capture individuals believed to be involved in the capture of U.S. Soldiers earlier this year.

The operations were based on intelligence reports linking the two suspects to the May 12 abduction of three U.S. Soldiers following an ambush attack near Mahmudiyah. Reporting indicates that the two suspects have ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq.

One of the suspected terrorists is believed to have facilitated the kidnapping and is reported to have used his residence to aid in the hiding and transport of the captured Soldiers.

During a previous operation, a U.S. weapon belonging to one of the abducted Soldiers was recovered at a residence of the second suspect.

Both suspects are allegedly involved in terrorist cells responsible for several improvised explosive device and mortar attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as the kidnapping and murder of Iraqi citizens and members of the Iraqi Security Forces.

Four other individuals were detained for further questioning during the operations.

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[Cindy]

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16061&Itemid=128

Press Release A071227c
December 27, 2007

“Coalition forces disrupt al-Qaeda networks in Diyala; 12 killed, 37 detained”

BAGHDAD, Iraq

[Cindy]

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16062&Itemid=128

Press Release A071227b
December 27, 2007

“Coalition forces target al-Qaeda assassination and facilitation networks, 19 detained”

BAGHDAD, Iraq

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944663/posts?page=2#2

To: HAL9000
AP News Alert
4 minutes ago
Police say the bombing outside a rally for Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was a suicide attack, aide says Bhutto is unharmed.

AP News Alert
10 minutes ago

An explosion near a rally for Benazir Bhutto causes multiple casualties.

2 posted on 12/27/2007 4:29:12 AM PST by HAL9000 (Fred Thompson/Mike Huckabee 2008)

[Cindy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7161405.stm

Last Updated: Thursday, 27 December 2007, 12:21 GMT

“Four dead in Pakistan poll rally”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least four people have been killed ahead of an election rally that Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was preparing to attend.

Members of Mr Sharif’s PML-N party say they came under attack from supporters of the rival PML-Q party which backs President Pervez Musharraf.

The shooting took place near Pakistan’s main garrison town, Rawalpindi.

Correspondents say it is the worst election-related violence ahead of polls due on 8 January.

The elections are for national and provincial assemblies. They come weeks after President Pervez Musharraf resigned as head of the army and was sworn in for another term as president, this time as a civilian.”

[Cindy]

About 40 injured or more...according to some breaking news release and Bhutto is dead.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1160646

“Pakistan’s Bhutto Killed by Bombing”
December 27, 2007 - 8:30am

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.”