Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

Yes, human trafficking has been going on in a big way even to this day. It is truly appalling.

2,581 posted on 03/04/2004 3:26:10 PM PST by Cindy

The "assumption" that DC will be facing a nuke detonation-not "just" a dirty bomb- and the third assumption (below) are chilling.

"A third assumption is that massive numbers of burn victims, or other serious injuries, from such an explosion will not reach this far north. Those fleeing to Frederick County will be physically able to travel, and will therefore have potential blindness from the explosion or radiation contamination, he said. "

2,582 posted on 03/04/2004 3:29:04 PM PST by jerseygirl

While the Iraqi Sunnis utter no more terrorist attacks in Iraq the mortars keep coming.

Iraqi policemen survey the scene of a mortar attack at a mosque in the town of Mosul, some 390 km (235 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, March 4, 2004. Guerrillas launched at least five mortar rounds on a police station and mosque in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, injuring three people including a police officer, police said. Officers at the station in central Mosul said the attackers fired a volley of rounds, hitting the station, the street in front and an adjacent mosque, before fleeing by car. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen

3 Injured in Attack on Mosul Police Station

Laurie Kassman

04 Mar 2004, 14:14 UTC

Iraqi authorities say at least three people were injured when a police station was attacked in the northern city of Mosul. Meanwhile, in the predominantly Sunni city of Ramadi, hundreds of residents demonstrated to protest Tuesday's attack on Shi'ite worshipers in Baghdad and Karbala.

Authorities have cordoned off the police station in Mosul, and launched a manhunt for the attackers. They say several mortar rounds hit the police station and an adjacent mosque, injuring several people.

A senior coalition official says such attacks are targeting security forces and infrastructure, which are key elements of Iraq's reconstruction.

The official says foreign terrorists who have infiltrated the country are also targeting key political leaders to disrupt their efforts to build a democratic government. Officials also say the suicide attacks Tuesday on Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad and Karbala are aimed at fomenting civil war.

But that campaign appears to have backfired. Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders have called for calm and national unity. And residents of the mostly Sunni town of Ramadi marched in the streets to protest the attacks on Iraqi Shi'ites, and to call for unity. The town has been considered a stronghold of Saddam Hussein loyalists.

2,583 posted on 03/04/2004 3:36:38 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

Arab terrorists have successfully carried out "suicide" attacks on Purim on a number of occasions in the past.

... Purim only begins Saturday night, Israel's security forces will be on high alert...
Full Moon Saturday March 6

2,584 posted on 03/04/2004 4:00:07 PM PST by Selene

2,585 posted on 03/04/2004 4:07:22 PM PST by cibco (Xin Loi... Saddam)

the brother of al-Qaeda's No.2 man, Ayman al-Zawahri had been in an Egyptian prison since 1999, Senator Roberts stated that he could not answer that.

This is now on Fox news.

2,586 posted on 03/04/2004 4:09:06 PM PST by MamaDearest (If you could tell a terrorist, you couldn't tell him much!)

I forgot to post the link on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1090588/posts

2,587 posted on 03/04/2004 4:12:30 PM PST by freeperfromnj

Middle Eastern - want to be left alone...

It would be great if someone on this thread was a private eye or in Homeland Security so they could follow some of these guys around and check up on them.

2,588 posted on 03/04/2004 4:15:37 PM PST by MamaDearest (If you could tell a terrorist, you couldn't tell him much!)

"They wanted to blow it up in the centre of the city,"

They should be allowed to have their wish come true - take them to some deserted location and let that bomb rip that car apart - just like they wanted. Another day innocent lives have been spared thanks to the Iraqi police - great work they did today!

2,589 posted on 03/04/2004 4:23:33 PM PST by MamaDearest (If you could tell a terrorist, you couldn't tell him much!)

Plan to head WEST as fast as possible. All this planning is nerve wracking, yet it must be done, I guess. (heavy sigh)

2,590 posted on 03/04/2004 4:24:37 PM PST by Velveeta

2,591 posted on 03/04/2004 4:25:58 PM PST by Velveeta

Hopefully these criminals are deported if they are not citizens. It didn't say and it makes me wonder. If they are "citizens", then that's a whole 'nother ballgame. If so, do you suppose they'll be law-abiding citizens after incarceration?

2,592 posted on 03/04/2004 4:27:05 PM PST by MamaDearest (If you could tell a terrorist, you couldn't tell him much!)

To: MamaDearest; All

Jill's HomelandSecurityUS.net site has been updated and is definitely worth checking out, if you have the time.

2,593 posted on 03/04/2004 4:45:45 PM PST by jerseygirl

Thanks for the tip about Jill's website. I didn't check it today because for the past week it's been the same old - same old.

2,594 posted on 03/04/2004 4:56:10 PM PST by MamaDearest (If you could tell a terrorist, you couldn't tell him much!)

Powder list update:
I list the incidents and any related reports under the same date, so if you see a location listed twice under a seperate date, it IS a seperate incident.

Feb, 20, 2004

Westlaco,TX
SUSPICIOUS Powder Found in a van at the Cornelius Distribution center in McAllen

PENROSE, Colo.
Suspicious Powder Found In Rural Mailboxes

Putnam county, GA
Post Office Back Open After Suspicious Package Threat

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla
Airport Postal Facility Evacuated

Feb. 21, 2004

Seargentsville, NJ
Suspicious powder found at Sergeantsville main post office

Feb 25, 2004

Norfolk, VA.
SUSPICIOUS powder closes Metro station

Feb. 26, 2004

Dayton, OH.
Suspicious Powder

Prescott, AZ.
POLICE REPORT Receptionist gets white powder scare, HAZMAT responds
Once at the site, you will need to do a search for hazmat to bring up the article, sorry

March 1, 2004

LINTHICUM, Md.
BWI Baggage Handlers Discover White Powder
Fire, Rescue Crews Cordon Off 'Hot Zone' Area

March 2, 2004

Des Moines, IA
Hazmat Responding To Mysterious Powder At CDS

March 3, 2004

Roanoke, Va.
Powder turns out to be cornstarch

Des Moines, IA
Hard Water Scale Causes Hazmat Scare At Capitol

White Powder Found Near State Capitol: UPDATE

Erie, PA.
Erie courthouse, city hall shut down by powder scare

Fears linger after Anthrax mail hoax County, city offices remain closed

March 4, 2004

Miami Fl.
Suspicious powder found at Miami port

Erie, PA.
Women`s Correctional Center Gets White Powder Scare

2,595 posted on 03/04/2004 5:01:25 PM PST by rickylc

I hope Commissioner Lonnie Roberts is correct. Leave it to Portland, Oregon, sharing title of Liberal capital of the West with San Francisco.

2,596 posted on 03/04/2004 5:08:07 PM PST by MamaDearest (If you could tell a terrorist, you couldn't tell him much!)

could someone give me the gist of what's there, I still can't pull it up!

2,597 posted on 03/04/2004 5:20:05 PM PST by knak

She's translating the latest OBL tape. She also has a new graphic- from the jihad forums- depicting various injured people, alternating with what appears to be a mushroom cloud.

2,598 posted on 03/04/2004 5:22:31 PM PST by jerseygirl

Homegrown terrorists that preys on hanicapped child alert

Cameras rolled as couple wanted for child rape in U.S. arrested in Toronto

ANDREW FLYNN

TORONTO (CP) - The police search for an American couple wanted in the sex abuse of a handicapped four-year-old girl ended Thursday in dramatic fashion with the fugitive pair taken into custody as TV cameras rolled.

John Stoneman, 39, and Patricia Kelley, 39, of Kipling, Ohio were arrested after an investigation by teams from the Toronto Police fugitive squad, provincial police and the Canada Border Services Agency. "This is a pretty good day for everybody," said Det. Mike McGivern of the provincial police Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement squad.

"These two committed some pretty horrible crimes down in Ohio."

Kelley, a former homecare nurse, and her boyfriend Stoneman are wanted for terrorizing the severely handicapped child, who is blind and suffers from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, diabetes and seizures.

Police apprehended Kelley at a Toronto restaurant where she was working as a waitress. She then led police to an apartment, where they arrested Stoneman.

A tip on her whereabouts was called in to provincial police just as a film crew from the crime-busting TV show America's Most Wanted was interviewing officers about the case.

"So, while America's Most Wanted is doing some film clips with me of my investigation . . . we get a tip and, I mean, when does that ever happen?" McGivern said in an interview.

The show may use the footage of officers receiving word of the tip and the subsequent capture in a story to be aired Saturday night, McGivern said.

Police were trying to obtain a search warrant Thursday for the couple's west-end apartment and the investigation will involve the child exploitation unit. Further charges could be laid against them, Givens said, though he stressed no evidence has yet been found linking them to a crime in Canada.

If they do face charges in Canada they would likely stay to face them, otherwise they will probably be extradited to the United States, said Givens.

An employee at the restaurant where police arrested Kelley, who was working under the alias Denise Griffin, said staff were shocked when police arrived to arrest her.

"She was very trustable, very faithful and I thought (she and Stoneman were) very loving, caring people - we all thought," said the employee, who asked not to be named.

"I thought it had to be a mistake or something."

He said there had been no problems with Kelley during her part-time employment, begun last fall.

"We run a very peaceful ship and never had any problems in the 30 years we've been here."

Police began looking for the couple in Ontario after a car in which they fled was found at an Orillia pawn shop, about 130 kilometres north of Toronto.

When the owner tried to transfer the vehicle ownership into Canada, police discovered the couple was wanted.

Stoneman and Kelly were originally arrested in the United States after images found in a child porn case in California were linked to an Ohio computer.

Police then found a tape, which allegedly showed the couple with the young girl and a two-way mirror and a camera used to videotape children changing their clothes.

The couple fled after posting bail.

2,599 posted on 03/04/2004 5:24:07 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

I took another look. There is also an AQ statement denying their involvement in the bombing of the Shiites.

Here are some of her topics:

New Osama Message??? (3-4-2004)

A reading in Aql Bin Ladn to an American writer

The newspaper of the American Newsday spread 13 March an article of the writer James Bnkrton by an address in Aql Bin Ladn : a good beginning towards the goals - - the writer formulated it in the form of a letter from Osama Ben Ladin more

Karbala explosions between ( America ) and ( the Al-Qaeda Network )

Asia-bound ships face warning over anti-terror law

Posted By The Jihad Falcon 2-26-2004

Now I that the sheikh talked listen Al-Zawaheri 's by ..And he carried it
Now I that the sheikh talked listen Al-Zawaheri 's by ..

http://www.alsr7.com/upload/files/rm/Al-dwahry.rm

Allah is the greatest the death brigades
The death brigades are coming O America

........
You do not forget me from the invitation
The jihad falcon...

2,600 posted on 03/04/2004 5:30:07 PM PST by jerseygirl

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