Threat Matrix: 2009

Cheney warns of new attacks

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.

And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand.

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said.

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Lasers target planes landing at Casper airport (Wyoming)

CASPER — A pair of Canadian business jets were hit with high-powered green lasers as they approached Casper-Natrona County International Airport during separate events in August, according to federal officials, who declined to comment on the record.

Attacking an aircraft is a federal offense punishable by a fine of $250,000 and/or 20 years in prison. While there are no other known incidents in Wyoming, a 29-year old man from Roseville, Calif., was arrested in August and indicted for shining a green laser at a Southwest Airlines jet and a highway patrol helicopter.......continues...

http://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/article.asp?id=102196

1,201 posted on 09/22/2009 12:10:29 PM PDT by Velveeta

Are you sure it’s passed? The calendar that I was looking at states that islamic new year is 12/18/2009.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760942.html

I think ramadan ended yesterday.

1,202 posted on 09/22/2009 12:15:13 PM PDT by Velveeta

Najibullah Zazi

“Former Queens coffee-cart vendor and alleged al Qaeda bomb-maker Najibullah Zazi”

1,203 posted on 09/22/2009 12:26:12 PM PDT by Velveeta

The NYC Long Island Rail Road in is increasing police presence at key locations because of terror threat, according local media reports.

1,204 posted on 09/22/2009 12:28:44 PM PDT by WestCoastGal

Can you believe that! I heard it on the radio this morning. I guess we weren’t so far off the mark monitoring the fruit vendor after all.

1,205 posted on 09/22/2009 1:03:23 PM PDT by jersey117

To: WestCoastGal

Absolutely. This morning the big guns and the big dogs were at all of the entrances at Penn Station. It’s a very busy station. You have LI Railroad, NJ transit, Amtrak and 4 subway lines, and thousands of pedestrians running through on a daily basis.

1,206 posted on 09/22/2009 1:05:18 PM PDT by jersey117

I just wonder how many of those cart people there are? How easy would it be to steer the cart to it’s location and disappear - then boom!

1,207 posted on 09/22/2009 1:21:09 PM PDT by WestCoastGal

To: WestCoastGal; All

Any word on a new bin Laden tape? Thought I heard it on FOX News, but perhaps I am on edge and hearing strange voices.

1,208 posted on 09/22/2009 1:36:38 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks

To: Rushmore Rocks

Just informed on another thread that it was a Zawahiri/Gadahn tape.

1,209 posted on 09/22/2009 2:52:18 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks

To: Uncle Ike; Cindy; Velveeta; Oorang; WestCoastGal; LucyT; Godzilla

Reuters link now up on Drudge.

106 minute Arabic language tape......_”The West....the Dark Tunnel”.

1,210 posted on 09/22/2009 2:59:30 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks

Sorry, meant to ping you to.

1,211 posted on 09/22/2009 3:01:40 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks

To: Rushmore Rocks

My AQ has really been putting out the messages lately. SITE states this is similar to other messages. Still needs closer review.

1,212 posted on 09/22/2009 3:04:18 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)

To: Rushmore Rocks

” 106 minute Arabic language tape “

Are we sure that it isn’t just another Obama ‘Healthcare’ speech??? They all seem to be that long - or at least it feels that way....

Thanx for the ping, RR

1,213 posted on 09/22/2009 3:04:21 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)

To: Rushmore Rocks

Thank you for the ping RR.

1,214 posted on 09/22/2009 3:07:18 PM PDT by Cindy

To: Rushmore Rocks

Ahh goat boy makes an appearance.

I would like to see him captured and hanged for treason like in the old days.

1,215 posted on 09/22/2009 3:21:03 PM PDT by WestCoastGal

To: WestCoastGal

There’s been a noticeable increase in security precautions in Chicago as well. I guess everyone got the “memo”.

1,216 posted on 09/22/2009 3:25:27 PM PDT by Velveeta

I thought of you right away when I read that.
We’re coming full circle after all these years.

1,217 posted on 09/22/2009 3:26:35 PM PDT by Velveeta

To: Rushmore Rocks; callmejoe; All

Thanks, RR.

Al Qaeda releases new 9/11 video showing Zawahri

Al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri appeared on Tuesday in an apparent new video marking the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, according to the SITE Institute, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service.
Zawahri appeared in the 106-minute Arabic-language video, entitled “The West ... and The Dark Tunnel,” SITE said....
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58L5TX20090922?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

1,218 posted on 09/22/2009 3:29:38 PM PDT by Velveeta

Al Qaeda Releases New Video Predicting Obama’s Fall

Al Qaeda released a 106-minute Arabic language video Tuesday titled “The West... and The Dark Tunnel” featuring Al Qaeda’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri predicting the downfall of Barack Obama.

During the documentary-style video to mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, Al Qaeda leaders comment on events in the past year such as the U.S. presidential elections, the global financial meltdown, and the latest on jihadist movements around the world.

“America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used,” said Zawahri in the message.

“God willing, your end will be at the hands of the Muslim nation, so that the world and history will be free of your crimes and lies,” he said addressing Obama at the end of the two-part video.

In addition to Zawahiri, other Al Qaeda leaders speaking in the video include Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Attiya Allah, Abu Yahya al-Libi, and Adam Gadahn........

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554020,00.html

1,219 posted on 09/22/2009 3:39:37 PM PDT by Velveeta

Did they just pull “Dark Tunnel” out of the air or is there a clue there?

Considering the vermin just arrested plotting against subways I’m wondering.

1,220 posted on 09/22/2009 3:54:20 PM PDT by WestCoastGal

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