Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

New York Post ^ | February 24, 2004 | By NILES LATHEM

[Revel]

February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding. The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.

[thecabal]

Too bad he had to be the "voice" of CNN. But you gotta love him as the voice of Darth Vader. :)

[thecabal]

I think Americans forget sometimes its up to us to stand up and defend our great country.

Definitely most American have forgotten how to stand up and fight. Our media certainly doesn't help any.

We must live up to our forefathers and all those who sacrificed for generations so we can live here today in freedom.

I agree, but I suspect they are spinning like generators in their graves.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It
--Benjamin Franklin

[Pegita]

Heavenly Father, we return to give You thanks that Your hand of protection has continued to cover our beloved country ... may it remain so, O God, even when all appears to be calm. Let those charged with our security continue to be faithful to their tasks ... let nations continue to be stirred to take actions that will lessen threats ... let us remain vigilant where we are. Thank You that our President remains focused, no matter the political turmoil that surrounds him ... thank You that we continue to go about our daily tasks because our Commander in Chief has committed our faith and our fortunes, that we, and the nations of the world, might live in peace and safety. Greatly are You to be praised, O God ... in the Name of Jesus, Amen ...

[freeperfromnj]

BRITAIN, U.S. TO COMBAT SIMULTANEOUS TERROR THREAT

By Mike Peacock

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and the United States are planning an exercise to combat a simultaneous terror attack in both countries, a scenario ministers says their security services believe is a real possibility.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040307/ts_nm/security_usa_britain_dc

[milkncookies]

Good morning everyone. Here's a small reminder of what we will, sooner or later, have to deal with in South America.....in addition to Haiti, Africa, Middle East, Cuba and here at home.

Venezuela Erupting

While the world's attention is focused on the departure of elected despot President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti, worse problems are brewing to the south. Venezuela's controversial president, Hugo Chavez, is provoking citizen anger by blocking a petition drive for a referendum on his dictatorial rule.(Snip)

Like Fidel Castro, Chavez has made the armed forces the lead agency in Venezuela's government, isolating civilians as well as municipal and departmental (state) officials. While local police live in barrios and may be unwilling to harm their neighbors, the army and national guard are protected by barracks and isolation from civilian contact.

Cuban intelligence and security specialists now reportedly march alongside soldiers, wearing Venezuelan uniforms and tattling on dissenters. They have also helped train so-called "Bolivarian Circles" partisan gangs that spy in neighborhoods, intimidate opponents and enforce political loyalty.

Outside Caracas, his military units allow Colombian FARC guerrillas to camp out and resupply in Venezuelan territory. And he reportedly provides Bolivia's leftist coca union leader Evo Morales with money and advice. Morales was partly responsible for the ouster of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in October 2003.(Snip)

[Calpernia]

Nice job thecabal!!!

NW_AZ I don't think you have Adobe Acrobat right?

here is the HTML version for you to view:

http://access.adobe.com/perl/convertPDF.pl

It is formated nicer in the PDF thecabel created; but I at least wanted you to be able to view it.

[Calpernia]

Archy, I remember seeing an FR post explaining our current situation in South America.

If I remember correctly, you are the one that wrote and post it.

Am I right? Did you post that? Do you have that link?

[TexKat]

Like I said the other day who in the Iraqi Governing Council was holding out of the signing of the interim constitution in order for an attack to be set up and carried out.

A fire can be seen behind the former Presidential Palace within the heavily-fortified area known as the 'Green Zone,' a base for Coalition forces and civilian personnel, after missiles were fired Sunday evening in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Car Bomb, Rockets Explode in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb and at least 10 rockets exploded Sunday night in central Baghdad near the area housing the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition, officials said. Sirens blared for several minutes, and smoke and flames were visible.

The former Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs was on fire, a witness said. The building already was severely damaged by U.S. bombing during the war last year. A U.S. military mess hall sits behind the building.

The rockets struck at about 7:30 p.m. on the northern edge of the Green Zone, which houses the coalition headquarters.

Iraqi police said there were no casualties from the car bomb, which detonated outside the building. There was no immediate word on casualties from the rocket attacks.

Inside the Green Zone, employees at the Baghdad Convention Center, where the U.S. military press office is based, fled into the basement, said Army 1st Sgt. Stephen Valley, a military spokesman.

"Everyone's OK. Everyone's been accounted for," Valley said. "They're all down in the basement."

A U.S. military spokesman confirmed that 10 explosions occurred "in the vicinity of" the convention center, and said officials were investigating.

Shortly after the blasts, a U.S. Army OH-58 Kiowa helicopter, a surveillance aircraft, and an Apache helicopter flew low over the Tigris River, possibly to seek out the heat signature of the rocket launchers. The helicopters use infrared sights to seek out the heat left by the rocket tubes.

The Green Zone was last struck on March 3, when a U.S. Army spokesman confirmed that a rocket hit the area. No one was injured and no damage was reported. On the same day, insurgents fired four mortars at the 4th Infantry Division's base in the northern city of Tikrit, including one that landed near a dining hall during dinner time. No one was hurt.

Last month, the mess hall of the 1st Cavalry Division at Camp Victory on the northeastern side of Baghdad International Airport was hit by mortars. Three soldiers were hurt.

[StillProud2BeFree]

There was a posting made on one of the Jihadi boards shortly after the explosions occured. Here's a translation:

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BEGIN TRANSLATION

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Urgent News! Urgent News!
News of a huge shattering explosion on the American forces in Baghdad
We heard the ringing of 10 huge explosions in Baghdad
The explosion were at at the conference center where the signature of the constitution will be completed tomorrow.
The explosion hit the main building.
(Ahlam) God bless the Mujahadeen of Al Ansar in all their works
(Ahlam) God bless the entire world of Islam
(Ahlam) God bless the great Sheikh Osama Bin Laden

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End Translation

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[Selene]

Bush Gives Mexico's Fox Concession on Borders
Thanks George. We really need more deadly diseases. This will help.



Immigration's Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences

The invasion of illegal aliens pouring over the borders of the United States is taking an ominous turn. They are not alone! Their bodies may carry Hepatitis A, B & C, tuberculosis, leprosy and Chagas Disease. Chagas is a nasty parasitic bug common in Latin America where 18 million people are infected and 50,000 deaths occur annually.

Illegal aliens, by avoiding health screenings at U.S. borders, carry TB, the most serious being MDR, a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis—with a higher death rate than cancer. MDR-TB occurs when Mycobacterium tuberculosis becomes resistant to at least Isoniazid and Rifampin—the two most powerful TB drugs. According to the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002 update, "Ordinary TB requires a six-month regimen of four drugs for cure. MDR-TB requires up to two years of treatment with a complex regimen of much more expensive drugs to which the patient's TB bacteria are susceptible."

Many of these drugs have toxic side effects. A patient with MDR-TB will infect others with MDR-TB--not ordinary TB. "It has been called "Ebola with Wings," in the chilling book: 'TIME BOMB: THE GLOBAL EPIDEMIC OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS', by Lee B. Reighmann, M.D., M.P.H.

According to the New York Academy of Sciences, Update, January, 2002, "TB bacteria readily fly through the air, as when an afflicted person coughs. It's estimated that each victim will infect 10, 20 or more people--in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential 'time bomb' effect."

To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the USA in the past three years. Hansen's Disease (leprosy) is now endemic to the Northeastern United States for the first time ever. Ironically, because of First World personal hygiene and sanitation practiced in America, leprosy affected only 900 people in the previous 40 years. However, illegal alien immigrants from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and up through Mexico have fueled the resurgence into the United States.

Chagas, called the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors the face as a route of infection, comes in acute and chronic forms, which can damage your heart and intestines. This parasite now threatens our blood supply, yet no means to test the blood is currently available. Ironically the public health community has been aware of this danger for years. "Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected, experts say, and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade, 10 to 30 percent of them will die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease, explode," according to a New York Times story, November 18, 2003 by Donald G. McNeil, Jr. Three people received Chagas infected organs in 2001, the first such cases reported in the United States ever! Two of those three died.

Dengue Fever, reports of polio, and now, the first case of malaria in Texas trickle into the United States as the invasion of illegal aliens increases in numbers.

Undiagnosed disease due to uncontrolled illegal immigration is not confined to the Border States. This health care crisis spreads daily across the nation. In 2002, Northern Virginia reported a 17 % increase in tuberculosis cases. Prince William County alone reported a staggering 188 % over the previous year. Health officials link immigrants to this outbreak and credit them with introducing the drug resistant strains. In 2001 Marion County experienced an outbreak of Multi-Drug Resistant TB, which was investigated by the Indiana University School of Medicine. Their findings? Mexican Nationals, i.e., illegal aliens, had flooded into the area causing the outbreak.

In Queens, New York the health department found that 81% of new TB cases in 2001 were "immigrants". The CDC reports that last year one-half of all new TB cases were attributed to foreign born people, who have an eight times higher incidence of TB. "Health officials state the rise of TB is largely a consequence of the migration of people from parts of the world where the disease is common. It is thought that two-thirds of the cases of TB brought into the United States originated in three countries: Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam. Recent outbreaks include Portland, Maine, Del Ray Beach, Florida and Michigan.

In 1999, a health advisory was issued due to a Dengue Fever outbreak along the Mexico (Nuevo Laredo)/ Texas—(Webb County) border. Though not usually fatal, there is a more serious strain called dengue hemorrhagic fever, which CAN kill you.

It gets worse. The U.S. government, which is sworn to protect American citizens, is in reality, aiding and abetting this health care crisis. Quoting a Fox News Report from April 4, 2003, Miguel, an illegal alien who worked construction on a subway renovation project for months, was able to change his status to legal permanent alien. Unfortunately, Miguel was infected with tuberculosis. This did not stop the federal government from issuing Miguel a health waiver under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a waiver that permits him a green card, even though his disease made him inadmissible for the waiver. Miguel is now legally free to move about the country—and is, at this moment.

What does this mean to American citizens? Does it take the immediacy of a SARS or tuberculosis epidemic to force our Congress and president into action? After the fact? After the deaths of dozens or thousands of innocent citizens? What does it require for them to take action as this 'silent invasion' crosses into our country? Our borders are as porous today as they were on 9/11. But this terror is a silent invasion--a deadly, growing, ticking 'Time Bomb'.

It means your children are at risk when attending school or going to the movies. It means that when a classmate from a foreign country sneezes or coughs, your child may be at risk for any number of diseases. If you eat at a fast food restaurant, a person infected with hepatitis could prepare your food. If you need a blood transfusion, the blood could be infected with Chagas Disease.

What can you do? You may visit the principal of your school and insist that every child pass a complete health screening, especially for tuberculosis and hepatitis. You may ask local health inspectors to check restaurants in your community to see that all employees are legal residents or American citizens and have been health screened. For all these undetectable diseases, you may call your senator or representative, 800-648-3516 and demand they secure the U.S. border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration by whatever means you deem necessary, i.e., US troops, National Guardsmen, mass deportations and arrests of employers who hire illegal aliens. Make the punishment worse than their profit.

(Source: MichNews)

[knak]

With all this talk of dog diseases, I thought I'd post this. About 11 years ago, I contracted something, unknown to me what it was but I was Extremely sick. I stayed sick to my stomach (very) for about 3 months, all that went down good was water. I had flu like symptoms the whole time. I saw two different doctors, one told me I had the flu, get rest and drink fluids, the other told me I had contracted a bug in the water, on my trip to Anchorage and gave me one big pill to cure me.

It didn't. After about three months of losing weight, not eating and flu like symptoms I began to develop a fever, it got worse over the next week. So I went to the hospital. I was also about 4 months pregnant, so they did a sonogram. Told me nothing was wrong with me and sent me home. That night I started hemorrhaging (sp?) very badly, didn't go back to the hospital for many hours though.

By the next morning my fever was very high, chills and still bleeding profusely. I went to the hospital again, had a miscarriage and a fever of 107. I had lost all my peripheral vision and my heart rate was 145 laying down. Two doctors were discussing what could be wrong with me and they were talking about some dog disease I had heard of before but can't remember which one to save my life, possibly parvo or distemper because I know of those. All I know is I was SHOCKEd to hear them say that. A little while later I was unconscious and stayed out for two days. I know they didn't say rabies though.

Just thought I'd post this in case you guys know of another one. Whatever got me was terrible. They tried to talk me into a blood transfusion and warned me about the risks involved with that, when I said no thanks, they said I'd have to stay in the hospital longer then to get my blood back up. A week after I went home the doc called me and said that there was something growing in my blood culture. They didn't know what it was either. I never did find out. But apparently I'm ok now. FWIW.

[StillProud2BeFree]

I've posted a copy of the translation of the Osama Bin Laden statement of January 4 2004 on my website at http://www.terrorfacts.com/ubl_342994.asp.

The official translation has been released by FBIS so that is the one that I've posted, not my own.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Oops the link isn't working. Let's try again:

http://www.terrorfacts.com/ubl_342994.asp

[jerseygirl]

Hi! Just started to try to catch up. Any major developments?

[jerseygirl]

Thinking back to some of the jihad sites- they stressed that we would not know for 24 to 48 hours after the bio attack- I wonder which of the germs has that incubation period.

Also, has there been anymore information about Marburg Germany?

[jerseygirl]

Some military were getting rabies shots this week. I don't know why.

Megabumping this one, folks!

[jerseygirl]

Re: Preps. Remember the media supposedly had a meeting, during which they discussed how to handle telling us about the "next" terrorist attack?

I recall Sean wrote in one of his posts, that some of the " .gov and .mil" people feel that too much information about the threats we face is not being shared with us. Hence the leaks- like to him about the 30 nukes and Nest teams searching for them in our cities.

[jerseygirl]

"Among the countries that received the highly enriched uranium, generally with the expectation that it would be returned, were Iran and Pakistan"

Hmmmm- I wonder in what form it would be "returned"... a missile strike?

[jerseygirl]

What a traumatic thing to have to go through! Didn't they ever tell you what it was?

[jerseygirl]

I just saw this post by Sean on the anomalies BB. Now it is becoming clear why there were all those jihad references "the water, the water, the water."

Quote- from Sean Osborne Lomax, posted March 7.
"It seems also that over the course of the past couple of weeks I have found my way smack dab into the middle of one of the major aspects of al-Qaeda's planned attacks against the US and UK.

This involves the use of scuba divers and some very sophisticated North Korean manufactured mines... anti-shipping mines.

I would highly advise anyone reading this to avoid large cruise ships if at all possible. They are specifically identified as major targets of opportunity in a recently captured 180-page Al-Qaeda operation manual. Targets include large cruise liners from US and UK ports (like the Queen Mary 2) as well as aircraft carriers, fuel tankers and off shore oil rigs.

Remember the mysterious oil slick that hit NJ beaches a few weeks ago? And the tanker that mysteriously sank off Virgina on the 29th of Feb. and the Prresident's recent E.O. regarding maritime affairs in the Gulf of Mexico and around Cuba in particular.

The war is very hot and right here in our backyard."

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