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.

[all4one]

Could this Seismic Mapping that is being done in Wyoming, cause problems with an existing fault?.....

Seismic Mapping Project Proposed (2/16/04)

GREEN RIVER, WY - More seismic mapping - sending shock waves through the ground so equipment can create a picture of rock formations and possible oil and gas deposits - is planned for southwest Wyoming.

GeoTir Corporation is seeking permission from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to do seismic mapping to help find oil and gas reserves in the Salt Wells area about 40 miles south of Rock Springs.

The mapping would be done on about 4,520 acres of federal land, 160 acres of private land and 480 acres of state land, according to a BLM notice filed Feb. 4.

The company is proposing to drill holes and release shock waves with explosives. The holes would be 220 feet apart in lines 1,540 feet apart.

While the drilling equipment and explosives would be brought in by trucks, buggies or helicopter, monitoring equipment would be deployed by helicopter.

The project would occur over about 60 days this summer.
The BLM is accepting public comments on the proposal through March 8.

Comments can be mailed to John MacDonald, BLM Rock Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, WY 82901.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/16/build/wyoming/z-wyoming.inc

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Howard Ranch 3D Mapping Proposed

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/02/22/news/wyoming/50349f4fbe8476a487256e41007984e9.txt
By JEFF GEARINO
Southwest Wyoming bureau

GREEN RIVER -- An independent Louisiana oil and gas company is seeking federal permission to conduct 3D seismic mapping operations in western Wyoming, according to Bureau of Land Management officials.

The project is one of several ongoing, or proposed, 3D geophysical mapping projects in gas-rich southwest Wyoming.

Stone Energy, LLC filed a notice of intent with the BLM seeking permission to conduct the Howard Ranch 3D geophysical project, BLM officials said in a scoping notice.

The project area covers approximately 70 square miles of public, state and private lands located generally north and east of the tiny hamlet of Bonneville. Bonneville lies about three miles north of Shoshoni in Fremont County.....

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Teton Fault Quake Monitors Installed
Associated Press

JACKSON, Wyo. - A network of sensors being installed to monitor earthquakes along the Teton Fault in northwest Wyoming should be completed by the end of August, seismologist Harley Benz said.

The seismic network of seven to eight monitors will help emergency response teams prepare for earthquakes, said Benz, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. The agency that is installing the network of sensors in Jackson Hole.

The new sensors will provide more data about earthquakes than a network of older monitors recently removed by the Bureau of Reclamation. Teton County fought the BLM over removing the monitors but lost......

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/04/build/wyoming/45-quakemonitors.inc

[Calpernia]

Of course you do. They have been the real threat all along. They merely empowered Islam extremists for the false flag.

Want real kicks and giggles? Put reeldb tesla in the google.

[Indie]

This is a record a regualr earthquakes in the last sev months for Yellowstone [Explosions are NOT listed here]

Yellowstone Quakes

[Domestic Church]

""The writing" on the school bathroom wall"

Wasn't that in a school way upstate NY...Lake Champlain area not that far from the Quebec border?

[Calpernia]

You know more about earthquakes than me. You did a homeschool project with it. Therefore you won the nomination.

But Blam is more than welcomed to contribute.

[Calpernia]

I'll do searches for reading later. Right now we have a real problem here.

I'm trying to reach people. And unfortunately too many are knocked off line.

Even Jill's site is down.

[FairOpinion]

Did anybody post this before?

Terror disaster drill strikes Aloha Stadium
March 5, 2004. hawaii.

http://starbulletin.com/2004/03/05/news/story7.html

Sceanrio: "Just after kickoff at the Pro Bowl, terrorists explode a bomb with low-grade radioactive material at Aloha Stadium, prompting a team of National Guard specialists to help civil authorities deal with the damage."

But what I found interesting is this:

"Their mission yesterday was to assess the scope and severity of the terrorist attack by sampling suspected contaminants they found in the stadium and then advise civil authorities on how to deal with them. Toy said his unit also has a mobile lab that can identify 85,000 different chemicals."

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Able to identify 85,000 different chemicals! Impressive.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Kingman is not on the earthquake maps that I have seen, but Bullhead City (35 miles)and Needles (75 miles) are.

The fault line runs from 29 Palms, through Las Vegas. (from my puny memory).

I am maybe 3/4 miles from the Cerbat /Hualapai Mountain range and there is a small fault there, it may be the Bell fault, if not, then I have forgotten the name.

Golden Vally is approximately 18 miles wide on Hwy 68, it runs from the Cerbat Mountains to the Black Mountains and both have a fault line.

My mountain side property was on the fault, I had to turn my bed, as there were so many that it was going across my body and uncomfortable.

The last 2 mornings, there have been long lasting vibrating quakes, lasting long enough to make you lay there and feel them.

When there is a big quake in the 29 Palms area, I feel it here.

I will no longer hang glass fronted pictures at the
head of my bed, as the morning of the big Hector quake, I woke up to the big one swinging back and forth, it didn't take me long to decide that I didn't want it to hit my head when it came off the wall.

Once I was in the above ground parking building at the Flamingo Casino in Laughlin, when a good shaker hit, I have never parked in a multi level garage, since that day.

It is not surprising that the quakes are coming, 4 days ago, I was shaking with cold and now for 2 days it is 70 degrees.

I think that sudden changes in temperature, brings on the quakes, plus last week we had 3 days of rain, off and on.

The unusual weight of the water may also cause the earth's plates to shift.

Anyone can make a guess that is good, as the real truth is not known and it is all "that person's opinion".

[Indie]

We don't guard our lakes at all.

[TexKat]

Nichols' Lawyers: FBI Withheld Documents

By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Terry Nichols' attorneys say more than a dozen FBI documents that raise the possibility of additional accomplices in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing weren't turned over by state prosecutors or the federal government for Nichols' murder trial defense.

The documents, which were cited in a recent series of Associated Press stories, include two 1990s teletypes from then-FBI Director Louis Freeh's office citing possible connections between Timothy McVeigh and a gang of white supremacist bank robbers, the lawyers said.

Nichols, already in federal prison, began trial this month on Oklahoma state murder charges alleging he assisted McVeigh in building the deadly bomb. The judge has said he will dismiss the charges with prejudice — making it very hard for prosecutors to resurrect the case — if Nichols' lawyers can prove documents that could have aided their defense were withheld.

Under a Supreme Court ruling, prosecutors and the government are obligated to turn over to defense lawyers all materials that could help clear a defendant, such as evidence that points to other suspects or casts doubt on prosecution witnesses.

Nichols' attorneys agreed to review the materials cited in the AP story and identify which they could not find among the massive files prosecutors and the government provided them. In all, they identified 13 FBI documents and a handful of other materials.

"To our knowledge, we have not received these documents from the state or federal government," lead Nichols' attorney Brian Hermanson said Wednesday.

In addition, the lawyers said they did not receive any information from prosecutors concerning the FBI's unsuccessful efforts to get permission to interview McVeigh in 2001 to resolve lingering questions before his execution.

The prosecutor, Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane, said, "Everything the federal government has provided to us has either been given or made available to the Nichols' defense team."

FBI officials declined comment, citing the trial and an ongoing internal investigation into issues raised by AP's stories.

McVeigh was executed in 2001. Nichols, 48, is serving a life prison sentence for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which killed 168 people. He was convicted in 1997 on federal charges involving eight federal employees. The state charges, which carry the death penalty, are for the 160 other victims and one victim's fetus.

Last month, the former chief of the FBI's Oklahoma City investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said a small number of documents and evidence cited in the stories had not been sent to him to pursue possible links between McVeigh and the robbers, and he called for the bureau to reopen the investigation.

The FBI agreed, asking its Inspection Division to review some aspects of the nine-year-old case to determine if evidence of possible unpunished accomplices may have been mishandled during the original probe. The judge, however, refused to delay Nichols' trial, and jury selection began last week after prosecutors insisted the defense had all materials that could aid its case.

Nearly all the documents cited by Nichols' attorneys involved FBI efforts to link McVeigh to the Aryan Republican Army bank robbery gang.

At least two gang members and one gang member's ex-girlfriend claimed to have knowledge of the bombing plot, but the FBI dropped the inquiry after the robbers denied their involvement and provided an alibi.

The documents at issue include two 1996 teletypes from Freeh's office. One teletype from January 1996 said McVeigh had been trying to recruit a second conspirator two weeks before the bombing conspiracy when he called a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma that was frequented by the robbery gang.

The teletype also included informant information that McVeigh may have had more regular contacts with someone at the compound.

The second teletype from August 1996 stated two of the bank robbers were present when McVeigh made the call to the Elohim City compound. Defenbaugh said he was unaware of that information, and that the teletype should have been shared with his investigators so they could interview the robbers about what they knew.

FBI officials confirm they found no evidence the August 1996 teletype from Freeh's office was sent to Defenbaugh's team.

Other documents Nichols' attorneys said they did not receive:

_FBI reports showing the bank robbers possessed construction-style blasting caps similar to those McVeigh stole for his bomb and an Arkansas driver's license with the alias name of a gun dealer who was robbed to provide the proceeds for McVeigh's bombing.

_Lab analyses showing the FBI tried unsuccessfully to match photos and fingerprints of McVeigh to evidence from some of the gang's bank robberies to see if the convicted Oklahoma City bomber participated.

_A memo stating a sketch of one of the bank robbers resembled that of a mystery man seen with McVeigh and Nichols eight months before the bombing.

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On the Net:

Related documents are available at http://wid.ap.org/documents/okc.html

[Calpernia]

Try this: http://128.241.143.69/

[FairOpinion]

Truck carrying radioactive material crashes

West Hartford-WTNH, Mar. 10, 2004 Updated 12:12 PM ) _ An on-ramp to I-84 was closed for a few hours this morning after a pick-up truck carrying radioactive material crashed.

The crash happened at Exit 43 eastbound. The white truck overturned and crashed into a red SUV.

Authorities say the material that spilled was a chemical used to treat cancer patients, among other things.

The truck is registered to a Glastonbury company. The driver was taken to the hospital for treatment.

The driver of the SUV was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

The crash happened around 7:30 a.m. The ramp was re-opened around 11:15 am.

[Indie]

We are really keying in on possible toxin either in the environment or something that was man-caused.

THIS is getting scary.

[nw_arizona_granny]

"Morning dew settles low".

So does Terrorism if sprayed from a plane or a high peak.

The BLM uses helicopters to round up Burros, I have seen them and resisted doing anything rash, it is inhumane.

They chase them, until they are too tired to resist.

The Black mountains have thousands of Burros and they want them out, so the Big Horn Sheep can multiply, the hunting permits for the Big Horn sell for thousands of dollars.

The Border Patrol used a Cessna Plane to chase Mexicans until they drop, again I have seen it, when I lived in Wellton in the 1970's.

It was not needed, the men had walked 40 miles or more and the Border Patrol only needed to set on the canal bank and pick them off, as there was no way to cross except by the one bridge.

It could be as simple as an insane pilot with a plane, going out and running the Elk to death, and by doing so leaving more grazing for his livestock.

Or a terrorist, doing the same to scare us.

Or a terrorist, spraying them and the germ hasn't gone to the humans as yet.

There is also the possibility that fumes/gasses from the volcano's are collecting in the low areas and gassing them.

[TexKat]

Britain Frees Ex-Guantanamo Detainees

By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - All four men who were arrested on their return to Britain from U.S. military detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were released Wednesday without charge, police said.

A fifth man had not been arrested when the group arrived at Northolt Royal Air Force Base Tuesday, and he was freed within hours.

A Metropolitan Police statement announced Wednesday night that one of the arrested four had been released. Less than two hours later, a second statement said the remaining three were freed without charge as well.

The men had been identified as Ruhal Ahmed, Jamal al-Harith, Tarek Dergoul, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul.

Jamal al-Harith was the man released Tuesday evening after the four arrested men were taken to a high-security police station in west London.

The four had been arrested under an anti-terrorism law, but their lawyers and relatives insisted they were innocent and should have been freed.

Dergoul was freed first Wednesday night. Max Clifford, spokesman for his family, said he would be taken to a private place to be reunited with his family.

He said Dergoul was in a mentally fragile condition and was having difficulty walking.

"Physically he is not in a very good condition," said Clifford. Clifford said Dergoul had told his family he had been traveling in Afghanistan (news - web sites) when he was captured and was in "the wrong place at the wrong time."

After being detained by U.S. forces, he contacted his family in March 2002 to say he was being held in Kandahar.

When the men were not all immediately released upon their return to Britain, their supporters said they deserved liberty after up to two years of detention without charge or access to lawyers.

"My wife has been crying for the last 18 months and I am angry," Riasoth Ahmed, the father of prisoner Ruhal Ahmed, told reporters outside his home in Tipton, central England. "For 18 months, I have been saying he is not a terrorist. ... They should let him go free."

Police said they were coordinating arrangements for all the freed men to be taken to the place of their choice.

A spokesman for the families of Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul — friends from Tipton who reportedly traveled to Pakistan in 2001 — had said earlier that the three had made brief calls to their relatives after arriving in Britain.

"It was just discussed that they are OK, the families have told them that they are now in the care of British authorities and they don't have anything to worry about ... and just to share the fact that they should cooperate with their solicitors," said the spokesman, who declined to be identified.

None of the suspects have been charged with a crime. The U.S. government says the roughly 640 prisoners held at Guantanamo are there because of suspicions they have links to Afghanistan's fallen Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network. Families of the five returnees have said they were mistakenly caught up in the U.S. war on terrorism.

Four Britons remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, and Britain and the United States will continue discussions on what to do with them. Britain has insisted its nationals at the camp either receive fair trials or be returned home.

Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has emphasized that the returned men had to be handled carefully because they could pose a security risk, but prosecutors, not Blair's ministers, had the decision whether to press charges.

Gareth Peirce, a lawyer for Iqbal and Rasul, criticized British police for their treatment of the detainees, saying officers made her sleep-deprived clients undergo fingerprinting procedures for too long and kept them in cold cells.

"We told the police that they are simply compounding the unlawfulness of the last two years," Peirce said.

Robert Lizar, the lawyer for al-Harith, who was released Tuesday at the air base, said his client wanted the U.S. authorities "to answer for the injustice which he has suffered."

"He has been detained as an innocent person for a period of two years. He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner, he wants the authorities to answer for that," Lizar added.

[rickylc]

According to that list, no quakes larger than 1.9 in the first part of Feb.

[WestCoastGal]

"Once I was in the above ground parking building at the Flamingo Casino in Laughlin, when a good shaker hit, I have never parked in a multi level garage, since that day. "

That is the number one rule when you live in earthquake county. Number 2 is to keep your shoes and handbag handy. Of course then you need all your emergency supplies etc.

I remember Landers (Hector) very well, we were here in the desert when that hit, then Big Bear went an hour later. That was 2 E ticket rides for the price of one. If the San Andreas ever goes, please say a prayer for us because it will be bad.

[nw_arizona_granny]

That was mean, you know not to send me to google, I get lost.

LOL

[Domestic Church]

"So this is why Daleel posted so much about Yellowstone in his old Yahoo Groups that got zapped."

And this points to possible/probable collusion (at least regarding the opportunistic woodpeckering) between the jihadist and high level Russians.

Indie...are there any articles on FR that cover this Woodpecker?

[knak]

I just got here. what's the problem we have?