Threat Matrix: 2009

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Thanks to all for TM coding:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tm/index?tab=articles

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The Taliban’s Continued Foreign Support
By Douglas Farah

Little noticed in the discussion of the Pakistan/Afghanistan Taliban issues are the points raised recently by Gen. David Petraeus about the continued use of charities and other external support for the radical Islamist group.

While there has been considerable attention paid to the revenue generated from opium trafficking in the Taliban’s financial structure, little has been relatively little attention paid to the continuing role of charities in skimming off money that benefits the Taliban and others.

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/05/the_talibans_continued_foreign.php

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Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars

The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html?_r=1&hp

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Al-Qaeda spreads its tentacles

KHOST, Afghanistan - Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network is seizing a greater role behind the scenes in Afghanistan and Pakistan in an effort that could block the Barack Obama administration’s stated goal of denying the terror network sanctuary in South Asia.

A three-month investigation of al-Qaeda’s activities, from Nuristan in the north to Paktika in the southeast, suggests that bin Laden’s terror network - working through Afghan and Pakistani partners - is present in almost every Afghan and Pakistani province along the fluid border areas between the two countries.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KE30Df01.html

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Teacher sacked after ‘making pupils kneel and pray to Allah’ during RE lesson (UK)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189497/Teacher-sacked-making-pupils-kneel-pray-Allah-RE-lesson.html

[LucyT]

Global Incident Map; a Global Display of Terrorism and Other Suspicious Events.

http://www.globalincidentmap.com/map.php

[WestCoastGal]

Liberty Co., FAA to discuss report of object near plane
By MIKE GLENN Copyright 2009 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
June 1, 2009, 11:38PM

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6453529.html

Liberty County Sheriff’s officials are expected to meet with the FAA on Tuesday to discuss what a Continental Express pilot reported as a “missile or rocket” flying near his airplane.

A pilot reported to the Federal Aviation Administration that at about 8:15 p.m. Friday, an object passed within 150 feet beneath the aircraft, sheriff’s officials said.

The aircraft was near the southern edge of the county, flying at about 13,000 feet, officials said.

“The pilot, from what we understand, was former military. He was able to get the coordinates down real quick,” said Cpl. Hugh Bishop with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department.

Sheriff’s deputies searched Friday night for signs of evidence where a missile might have been launched or landed.

“We couldn’t find anything,” Bishop said.

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WOWsers!

Here’s another article:

Missile Possibly Launched in Liberty County

HOUSTON - A missile may have just barely miss hitting a Continental Airlines flight on Friday.

Liberty County sheriff deputies are meeting with the FBI and FAA to discuss this incident.

Sheriff deputies say on Friday a missile may have been launched near Interstate 10 and mount Belview. A continental flight which had just taken off from Bush Intercontinental Airport may have been the target.

“If it was done deliberately, how much more dangerous can you get?” said Chief Deputy Ken DeFoor with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department. He went on to explain, “It was less than a hundred feet from the airplane itself, going underneath the cockpit of the airplane.”....

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/090601_ufo_sightings_liberty_county

[WestCoastGal]

AP: U.S. military officials say a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay died of an apparent suicide.

[LucyT]

Obama : “United States, one of the largest Muslim country in the world”
Figaro ^ | June 01, 2009 | Figaro

“The United States and the western world must learn with better understanding, Islam. Elsewhere, if the number is counted; Moslem Americans, it is seen that the United States is one of the largest Moslem countries of planet,” dares in an interview with Canal, the first granted,

Obama added “What I try to make, is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world can better include/understand how the United States, but more generally the western world, conceives certain difficult problems, such as terrorism or democracy”.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/06/02/01003-20090602ARTFIG00603-les-etats-unis-un-des-plus-grands-pays-musulmans-.php

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263174/posts

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It just sickens me............every day, in every way!!!!

[LucyT]

Yeah...

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Thanks for pinging this, RR:

Al Qaeda deputy criticizes Obama’s Egypt trip

On the eve of President Obama’s highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world, al Qaeda’s second-in-command issued an audio statement saying the president of the United States is not welcome in Egypt.

Ayman al-Zawahiri says President Obama has already made himself an enemy of Muslims.

Obama is traveling to the Middle East in an effort to repair a damaged U.S. image and reset relations with the Islamic world. But the terrorist network’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, said those relations cannot be mended as long as the administration maintains its alliance with Israel.

In a message called “Tyrants of Egypt and America’s agents welcome Obama” that was posted on Islamist Web sites, al-Zawahiri once again lashed out at the United States. Obama’s message to the Muslim world, he said, has already been delivered with his support for “Zionist aggression.”

“The White House declared that Obama will send a message from Egypt to the Islamic world but they forget that his messages were already received when he visited the Western Wall and wore the Jewish yarmulke and when he prayed their prayers,” al-Zawahiri said in the 10-minute audio message.

Al-Zawahiri said Obama had already made himself an enemy of Muslims by sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, ordering bombings in the tribal areas of Pakistan and administering a “bloody campaign against Muslims” in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/02/zawahiri.obama/index.html

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Al Qaeda Eyes Bio Attack Via Mexico Border
The Washington Times ^ | June 02, 2009
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263439/posts

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Thanks to all for coding:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tm/index?tab=articles

Does it seem to everyone else that things are spinning out of control?

[WestCoastGal]

Reuters: Bin Laden tells Americans to prepare to receive the consequences of White House policies

?? That’s all I could find for the moment

I guess bl doesn’t like b0’s ideas??

[WestCoastGal]

AFP: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has issued a new audiotape in which he takes aim at Barack Obama’s policy towards the Islamic world.

[WestCoastGal]

In the tape he says 0bama pressed Pakistan in SWAT crackdown.

[WestCoastGal]

Shortly after Obama arrived Al Jazeera television aired a recording by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in which he said the U.S. president had planted seeds for “revenge and hatred” toward the United States in the Muslim world.

Bin Laden said Obama was continuing in the steps of his predecessor George W. Bush and told Americans to be prepared for the consequences of the White House’s policies.

Obama, whose father was a Muslim and who lived in Indonesia as a boy, is trying to repair a U.S. image badly damaged by Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the treatment of U.S. military detainees.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060300898_pf.html

:) LOL

BOTeleprompter Big Guy landed in Saudi Arabia. Heard Osama tape. Big Guy has no idea what he’s talking about. He never gardened with Bush

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Thanks, Westcoastgal.

Threat Matrix PING

See #853 and #859

Message from Zawahiri yesterday and bin Laden today.

Binnie: "told Americans to be prepared for the consequences of the White House’s policies."

(We've been warned)