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.

[Indie]

And thank you for yours! :) ~squeeze~

[Domestic Church]

"I finally figured it out. Daleel is Farrakhan"

ROFLOL!!!!!!! We need bumper stickers!

[Cindy]

Thanks Cal...

Just an aside, I don't know any family, friends, or acqaintances who are on anti-depressants and that's not a slur on anyone --- that's just the way it is in my world.

[Cindy]

Night Calpernia.

[Domestic Church]

Yeah, somebody has to get Drudge to headline the Khatami IAEA mystery event and Khatami's need to ring up Putin before it happens...if enough spotlights are on this it might be averted.

[tubavil]

No links. Personal observations, one of many.

It's a "barber shop" (Crescent Cuts). Crescent, get it?

They have curtains that completly shut out any observation from the storefront and storeside. They have remained shut for weeks.

Long a hive of radical muslim terrorists, including the upstairs which contains an empty room (mosque) and various squalid 'apartments', there has been little or no activity for weeks. The whole immediate area is a muslim terrorist's best friend...quiet backstreet entrance with an unmarked passage through to the main drag, Rainier Ave...Homes you wouldn't keep your dog in with Orange cabs parked out front...etc.

...or so I'm told ;-)

[flowergirl]

Ok. Now this is strange. I noticed 3 days last week, it was Sat. Mar.6, Sun.March 7 and Monday...when I looked in the sky each of those days there where large jettrail X's covering the southern half of the sky...3 days in a row. Now I live in the country outside a large town, or small city. there are no big aiports nearby. The closest base is in Shreveport,90 miles away. the X's started at opposite sides on the ground level. If that makes sens e. Also I saw another
"we can be afraid or we can be ready" billboard this week It was in Longview Tx. The other one was in Tyler. Maybe if my fellow freepers would post where they have seen these billboards? Maybe we could figure out where the gov. thinks are higher risk areas for terror strike. Just Piper said
they haven't seen any of these ready.gov. billboards in Chicago. Is this a good idea??

[Indie]

15 years ago, purchasing books from Paladin Press et al about the same subject as is posted on ready.gov by our authorities, would have you branded by those same authorities as a " fundamentalist survivalist gun hoarding white racist militia extremist Nazi skinhead." Turns out the "survivalists" were not so "extreme" after all, but rather well ahead of their time. S/W talk shows were where conservative mainstream radio talk shows are now 15 years ago. All of what is happening was "predicted" by prognosticators just as common as us here on FR only they used S/W radio to put the word out instead of the net or AM.
Things tend to come full circle it seems.

/just a late nite musing to myself

[LayoutGuru2]

LG, Revel just called you a gurl!

I am a Dad with two six year old girls. They often call me 'Mommy' since I've been playing Mr. Mom the last four months - My job was outsourced to India back in November. I'll have to post a pic some day.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I hereby cast my vote to OUTLAW ALL BATHROOMS!!!!!!!!

They are Evil and are a gift from the devil.

CLEAN - CLEAN - CLEAN, and if you are lucky enough to have two people in the house, there is the "Raised Seat" battle.

Plant more bushes, I prefer rose and lilac.

Remove bathroom, use it for storage.

Choose a bush, go behind bush.

No more hours spent in cleaning the **** thing.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Sounds like you have now met the Chemtrails.

A google search should show you more of them, I have no idea where I saw them, as it wasn't what I was looking for.

There are as many opinions on what they are, as they are people. I don't think that I have a firm opinion.

Some say it is for weather control, I simply do not know.

I am not able to leave my house, so don't know about the billboards.

As I have family who think I am nuts when I talk about being prepared, to me the boards are a good idea.

It appears that no matter where you live, you are in real danger. The largest being the lack of food supplies.

I bought mine at waltonfeed.com, (not associated with them).

If you contact them they will help you find a closer supply, as they are Christians, they do have trucks that go to the east coast.

If you choose to attempt finding a dehydrated food supply, the main requirement that I had was it be one that the Mormons used, as they stay well supplied and choose the best.

I use my food supply every day, when my stove worked.

Follow the billboards on water and other supplies.

One of the most important supplies and most overlooked, is medicine, if anyone "Must" have a medicine, you should have a supply on hand.

25 years ago Safeway trucks went on strike, at that time Safeway was the only large store Kingman had. In 3 or 4 days, there was simply no food on the shelves.

Have at least a full months supply and aim for a years supply.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Good morning.

Freep mail time.

[judicial meanz]

I read some other boasts on Homeland Security US and Homeland Security.net that parallel the Spain letter.

Cant remember the exact text, too early in the am.

[freeperfromnj]

Yen Declines After Newspaper Reports Al-Qaeda May Target Japan

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- The yen fell against the dollar in London after the Sankei newspaper said on its Web site a letter claiming to be from al-Qaeda taking responsibility for yesterday's bomb attacks in Spain mentions Japan as a possible terror target.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=apAtAqwIBnHk&refer=home

[kinghorse]

Steve Quayle is the worst form of opportunist. Madrid train explodes so he re-writes his nostradamisms to fit the new facts. Can you say theater of the obvious. He has about as much clarity of the operational intentions on Al Qaeda as does my Spaniel.

[Velveeta]

bookmark

[StillProud2BeFree]

There were LOTS of indicators from Al Qaeda that a major international attack was imminent. That was obvious since the 2 Zawahiri tapes, followed by the complete release of the Bin Laden tape, and then the delay in Voice of Jihad. History has documented that major international attacks follow communiques from Al Qaeda leadership. That's documented - and although there are a few exceptions, it is also pretty clear that attacks were intended but were disrupted in some way.

The Bin Laden tape had the following paragraph in it. In retrospect it is clear that he activated the attack - at the time, buried in 46 minutes of talk, it was difficult to recognize. There is at least 1 other activation message in that tape, probably 2, that I have been able to identify.

In the tape he talks about the Spanish ruler being held accountable. At one glance the message appears complimentary; the doublespeak doesn't come through in the translation very well; it's more apparant in the original Arabic. It is quite clear that he plans to hold the Spanish accountable for their actions. The Madrid attack was retaliation against Spain for its part in the invasion of Iraq.

Take a look at this excerpt from Bin Laden's tape of late December/early January that was only partially released at the time, but was released in its entirety last week:

Thus, the situation of all Arab countries suffers from great deterioration in all walks of life, in religious and worldly matters. It is enough to know that the economy of all Arab countries is weaker than the economy of one country that had once been part of our [Islamic] world when we used to truly adhere to Islam. That country is the lost Andalusia. Spain is an infidel country, but its economy is stronger than our economy because the ruler there is accountable. In our countries, there is no accountability or punishment but there is only obedience to the rulers and prayers of long life for them.

[JustPiper]

The interesting thing I heard on FNC this am is the group is an offshoot of AlQ and is the SAME group who claimed responsibility for the London and US blackouts! Hmmmmm...pretty good when you consider the US claimed the blackout was NOT terrorism!

[JustPiper]

Investigation of Bombings in Madrid Yields Conflicting Clues
By TIM GOLDEN and DON VAN NATTA Jr.

Published: March 12, 2004

The flood of conflicting evidence and clues that emerged from the carnage of the Madrid bombings yesterday pointed in two very different directions, leaving counterterrorism officials in a country painfully familiar with terrorist violence struggling to identify a culprit.

Just hours after the bombings, the Spanish authorities blamed the Basque separatist group known as ETA. Hours later, the same officials announced the discovery of new evidence they said left open the possibility that Islamic militants had been involved.

"Could it have been Islamic fundamentalists?" one senior Spanish antiterrorism official asked last night. "It could have been. Spain is clearly a target of Al Qaeda; Osama bin Laden has said so himself."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/international/europe/12TERR.html?th