Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread 5

CNN ^ | March 12, 2004

[thecabal]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- This week's deadly train bombings in Spain will not lead to a rise in the U.S. color-coded terror threat alert system, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said Friday.

"Based on the current intelligence, we have no specific indicators that terrorist groups are considering such an attack in the U.S. in the near term," said department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse.

[JustPiper]

Thanks for clearing that up my friend!
But how 'are' things 'in' Poland right now? What are they saying at home by 'you'?

[TexKat]

Is Powell still in Pakistan?

MSNBC is reporting that no reporters (Pakistani or any) are not allowed in the area of operation.

[JustPiper]

-sigh- more?

[JustPiper]

Zahiri is more of a threat than OBL, who I consider 'ded'

[NothingMan]

my guess is that they are shooting for transcontinental "shock and awe" to mark one year in Iraq

Europe-Mideast-FarEast-America

[JustPiper]

-- Pakistani president tells CNN he believes troops have surrounded al Qaeda fighters protecting "high-value target."

Breaking News Alert
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Several explosions heard in Baghdad, sirens wail in area housing U.S.-led coalition headquarters.

Breaking News Alert
MADRID, Spain (AP) Death toll in Madrid bombing rises to 202, equals toll from Bali attack in October 2002.

[TexKat]

Ayman Al-Zawahiri has a $25 million reward on his rag head.

[Rutles4Ever]

Wouldn't it be something if Bin Laden gave him up?

[JustPiper]

LIVE THREAD:

Musharraf: High value Al-Qaeda target surrounded ^

Posted by dusty99994
On 03/18/2004 11:50:51 AM CST with 258 comments

CNN
Aaron brown did an interview with Musharraf and just reported what he said. Target surrounded by Pakistani troops

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100504/posts

[CJ Wolf]

They should have done this two years ago.

[JustPiper]

LIVE THREAD:


four explosions in Baghdad..Sirens going off in the Green zone ^

Posted by dusty99994
On 03/18/2004 11:56:33 AM CST with 30 comments
CNN

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100510/posts

[TexKat]

Fox News reporting that it is not OBL, Zawahiri. Who ever it is Hamid Mir (Pakistani journalist) said it is non-arab fighters that are surrounded. Chechens.

[CJ Wolf]

Watch out for Mullah Omars motorbike! Get em.

[JustPiper]

Taiwan Voters Weighing How Far to Push China
By JOSEPH KAHN

Published: March 18, 2004

TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 17 — Chen Mingyi, a 25-year-old graduate student here, spent years preparing for annual national examinations in the hope of someday joining the government elite.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/international/asia/18TAIW.html?th

[Rutles4Ever]

Yeah it's uh... ETA

[TexKat]

LOL, you mean OBL has run out of money.

[knak]

I go out to rake my yard come in and all heck is breaking loose!

[JustPiper]

Rise in Hispanics and Asian-Americans Is Predicted
By REUTERS

Published: March 18, 2004

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) — The Hispanic and Asian-American populations in the United States are expected to triple by 2050, when non-Hispanic whites would account for the barest majority, according to a Census Bureau report to be released Thursday.

Hispanic-Americans would make up nearly a quarter of the nation's population at mid-century, the report says.

"This is going to be the workforce that sustains us as a nation, so we can make choices today that are dramatically going to change the outlook 20 or 30 years from now," Sonia Perez of the National Council of La Raza said Wednesday, referring to coming national elections.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/national/18CENS.html?th

[TexKat]

Sean is that you over in Pakistan phoning in reports?

[NothingMan]

only three high-value targets left important enough to generate significant excitement (Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and Omar - - and Omar is a local issue)

No earthly idea if this is yet another unfounded story, or if it has legs, but haven't heard the Pakistanis get excited about much lately.

Reminds me of movies where the good guy and the bad guy are facing each other down with each pointing a gun at the other's forehead.

Madrid should have been much larger. If those trains had managed to get into the stations . . .

Ashdod was like Pi Gilot in 2002 . . . if they had gotten closer to the chemical tanks it would have incinerated everything within a couple kilometers.

They are going for the brass ring.