Threat Matrix: March 2008

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Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In'

U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq.

They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007.

"Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More

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[nw_arizona_granny]

Former CIA officer and now author Marc Sageman says that the latest jihadis taking up the global call for action more closely resemble criminal gang members than religious fanatics.<<<

He is correct.

Two nights ago, big fights broke out at the same time in San Diego, in the street, men and women.

In approximately 5 minutes on the police scanner, there was an 80, 40, 20 fight, also a 100 and another 20.

They did not say “gang” as is normal, or as the fights that I heard last night were, “party - getting out of control”.

These were downtown.

You would be surprised at what is going on, and never makes the papers.

San Diego is: http://www.scansandiego.net
I listen to the #1 scanner, it covers the largest number of departments.

If you add your city or state to these searches, you will find one near you.......maybe.

I lived in San Diego almost 30 years, so it was easy to get interested in it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=internet+listen+to+police+scanner&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.google.com/search?q=listen+to+police+scanner+on+internet&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

If everyone listened to their town, we would get a better idea of what was really going on in our country.

I consider what I hear going on in San Diego, to be a sample and it is not good, bombs, fires, thefts, rape and gangs.

[Cindy]

EVENT:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983094/posts

[Cindy]

http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/617

“Who Will Stand Against Terrorism?”

by Steven Emerson
IPT News
March 7, 2008

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sweden/
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stockholm/

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

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983115/posts

http://www.thelocal.se/articleImages/10362.jpg

http://www.thelocal.se/10362/20080309/

“Explosion in central Stockholm”
Published: 9 Mar 08 10:09 CET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Neighbours reported to police early on Sunday morning that a large explosion had rocked the area around Surbrunnsgatan 4 in central Stockholm. Twenty windows were blown out as result of the blast.

According to Eva Nilsson at Stockholm police something exploded under a parked car.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”Police wondered if the device had maybe not fully detonated.””

[Cindy]

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=69267

“Woman fires gun in church, crashes car fleeing police”
AP - 3/8/2008 4:40:00 AM

NEWPORT, Tenn. -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Newport Police say 52-year-old Janet Compton walked into a crowded church service on Wednesday evening with a pistol and approached her husband, 53-year-old Michael Compton. They are going through a divorce.

Police say she fired one shot into the floor and pulled the phone line out of the wall, then began to pursue him as he ran out of the church.”

[Cindy]

Event:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983123/posts

[Cindy]

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2008/01641.shtml
(AP)

“Serbian government collapses”

DUSAN STOJANOVIC
March 09, 2008 4:47 AM
BELGRADE, Serbia

[Cindy]

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3964.html

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

This information is current as of today, Mon Mar 10 2008 00:50:36 GMT-0700 (PDT).

SERBIA

February 29, 2008

[Cindy]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080308/EDITORIAL/863820881

“It’s Iran vs. Israel”
WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL
March 8, 2008

EDITORIAL SNIPPET: “Thursday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which eight seminary students were killed by a Palestinian gunman, and the latest fighting between between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, are more than new chapters in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: They are part of a much larger struggle underway between Iran and Israel. As crowds took to the streets of Gaza celebrating the carnage in Jerusalem, Hamas issued a statement declaring that it “blesses” the operation. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s al-Manar television station called the massacre at the yeshiva a “heroic” operation against an “extremist” school.

Iran and Syria have long been the major arms suppliers for Hamas. A senior Israeli military intelligence official said Monday that all of the 20 long-range rockets that had been fired from Gaza into Israel since Feb. 28 were Iranian-made Grads, which have a range of approximately 12.5 miles. Hamas and another Iranian-backed group called the Popular Resistance Committees have said they have upwards of 300 of the missiles in Gaza.”

[Cindy]

taking a lOOk:

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

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iraq/

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran

http://www.memri.org/iran.html

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T90&pid=108&sid=13&preview=

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TAKING A LooK:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nuclear/

http://memritv.org/subject/en/121.htm

[Cindy]

ADDING links to post no. 249:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/6045.htm

adlroom.com
adlroom.com/vdce.o8zbjh8eo9bij.html
adlroom.com/images/docs/000001/n00001499-b.jpg

[Cindy]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3517139,00.html
(REUTERS)

“Female suicide bomber kills Iraq tribal head”
Published: 03.10.08, 10:11

[Cindy]

FACT-BASED OPINION:

Note to Children and Jihadi Wannabes: There is nothing “champion”-like when it comes to jihad. Jihad is evil. It hurts people. It kills people.

I want you to know this because I care about the victims who believe the harmful jihad propaganda posted on the internet.

God loves you.
He doesn’t want you to join jihad.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1zGuuqqXI

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17517&Itemid=1

Last Week’s Iraq Ops Leave 10 Terrorists Killed, 16 Captured
Sunday, 09 March 2008
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON — Ten terrorists were killed and 16 captured in operations across Iraq Friday, military officials reported.

Northeast of Samarra, Coalition forces targeted an alleged al Qaeda in Iraq leader for the Kanan village. In the raid, forces killed eight terrorists, including the wanted individual. Seven suspects were detained.

Also in Samarra, forces captured three suspected terrorists. One of the suspects allegedly is a leader for the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Samarra. Another is believed to be a direct associate of al Qaeda in Iraq senior leadership.

North of Tarmiyah, forces captured an alleged associate of the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Baghdad’s northern belt. The suspect reportedly is responsible for providing information on Coalition operations in the area for use in planning attacks. Two others were detained.

In Baghdad, forces captured another alleged associate of the northern-belt network. The suspect is believed to have direct ties to the senior leader of the network and to terrorists involved in a car-bombing network in Karkh.

Coalition forces captured a suspected Iranian-supported “special groups” facilitator and killed an armed criminal in Baghdad. The target reportedly arranged for criminal militia members to receive training in Iran.

In operations north of Tal Afar, forces killed one suspected terrorist and wounded another. The wounded suspect was detained.

In northeastern Mosul, Coalition forces captured a suspect believed to be the replacement for the former Saudi al Qaeda in Iraq senior leader Abu Yasir al-Saudi, also known as Jar Allah, who was killed by Coalition forces Feb. 27. Three other suspects also were caught. Also, Coalition forces detained three suspects east of Tikrit while looking for an alleged weapons facilitator wanted for smuggling and kidnapping operations.

In other recent Iraq operations, Coalition forces detained Hajji Muhammad Shibl, an alleged top-tier criminal special groups leader, March 5 in the West Rashid district in southwestern Baghdad. Hajji Shibl is wanted as a key financier for criminal special groups who murder Iraqi civilians and security forces, officials said.

Iraqi security forces and “Sons of Iraq,” a citizen’s security group, detained four suspected terrorists March 5 in Baghdad.

Also on March 5, Sons of Iraq led Coalition forces to an al Qaeda in Iraq torture house and prison in northern Zambraniyah, and members of the Sons of Iraq turned two weapons caches over to Soldiers in Arab Jabour in two separate incidents the same day. Forces recovered six 120 mm projectiles, (20) 22 mm anti-aircraft rounds, and 300 heavy machine gun rounds.

Citizens in Arab Jabour unearthed a large weapons cache and turned it over to Soldiers March 5. The cache, loaded in a truck, held (111) 57 mm projectiles and (22) 60 mm projectiles. Each was rigged with detonation cord and packed with homemade explosives.

Also in Arab Jabour, local residents and Sons of Iraq turned over four weapons caches to Soldiers in separate operations March 4. The caches contained five 120 mm projectiles, four liters of homemade explosives, four pressure plates, three propane tanks, one 60 mm mortar and four 57 mm projectiles.

Iraqi Police recovered another large cache in a house south of Iskandariyah on March 4. The cache held (165) 1-pound blocks of C-4 explosive, 19 rocket-propelled grenades, five RPG launchers, a 60 mm mortar tube, (25) 107 mm high-explosive rockets and 23 rocket fuses, (10) 120 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, (84) 60 mm and (60) 81 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, along with six 60 mm mortar fuses.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17522&Itemid=21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080310-01
March 10, 2008

MND-B Soldiers seize weapons cache in Tarmiyah
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized weapons and munitions during ongoing operations in Tarmiyah, located north of Baghdad, March 8.

Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, seized the weapons cache near Joint Security Station Tarmiyah.

The munitions seized included SK5 rockets, PG7 rockets, type-69 rockets, 160 mm mortars, 120 mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, projectiles, Iraqi hand grenades, and various other munitions and weapons.

An explosive ordnance disposal team performed a controlled detonation at the cache site.

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17523&Itemid=21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080310-02
March 10, 2008

MND-B Soldiers detain 3 in Rashid
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers detain three suspected insurgents during operations in the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital March 8.

During the early morning hours, Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, detained the three suspects in West Rashid’s Risalah neighborhood.

One of the men is suspected of numerous indirect fire and improvised-explosive device attacks in the area.

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[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslimbrotherhood/

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=937EE852-FF7C-4B36-B1F5-8BA59B19C8B3

“The Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Grand Jihad’ in Toledo”
By Patrick Poole
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, March 10, 2008

[Cindy]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&scoring=n&q=virtual+jihadi&btnG=Search

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=Wafaa+Bilal&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iraqi-artistmar10,1,7450842.story

“Artist claims ‘censorship’
Chicago-based Bilal’s ‘Virtual Jihadi’ video work shut after less than a day in New York”

By Stevenson Swanson | Tribune correspondent
March 10, 2008

NEW YORK -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A work with complicated origins, “Virtual Jihadi” mimics a video game, allowing a viewer using a keyboard and mouse to control a gun that shoots American soldiers. The object of the “game” is to penetrate a bunker and kill President Bush.

Bilal’s avatar is available to blow himself up next to the president. That aspect of the piece reportedly led to inquiries from the FBI and other federal agencies.”

[Cindy]

https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=80933

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