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]

Very busy newsday

Breaking News Alert
WASHINGTON (AP) Bush says Rice testimony will give nation "a complete picture" of events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Breaking News Alert
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Police report blast in hallway of Bolivian Congress. Breaking News Alert
OTTAWA (AP) Key Canadian official warns that lax border screeing lists leave the country open to terrorist infiltration

Breaking News Alert
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) At least 21 killed, including two suicide bombers, in third day of terror-linked violence in Uzbekistan.

Breaking News Alert
LONDON (AP) Police arrest eight men and seize half a ton of ammonium nitrate, an explosive ingredient, in anti-terror raids in and near London.

Breaking News Alert
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) Officials confirm 20 terrorists and three police killed Tuesday in operations in Uzbk capital.

Breaking News Alert
WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court says government does not have to release suicide photos of Clinton White House aide Vince Foster.
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Bomb threat prompts search at 4 airports
03/30/04 02:18 PM, EST
A bomb threat prompted searches Tuesday of four Northwest Airlines planes at airports in Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and Memphis, Tennessee.
FULL STORY
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/30/planes.searched.ap/index.html

Report: U.S. abused Mexico air security
03/30/04 04:16 AM, EST
Stepped-up anti-terrorism measures at Mexico's international airports violated the human rights of passengers and allowed U.S. agents to perform improper passport checks, according to a report released by the National Human Rights Commission.
FULL STORY
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/03/30/bt.us.mexico.security.ap/index.html
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BREAKING FR NEWS :

Uzbek Police Storm Militant Hideout; Up to 23 Dead
Reuters ^ | March 30 2004 | Shamil Baigin
Posted on 03/30/2004 3:35:21 PM CST by Dog

Uzbek Police Storm Militant Hideout; Up to 23 Dead

By Shamil Baigin TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Uzbek special forces stormed a suspected Islamic militants' hideout in a Tashkent suburb on Tuesday, leaving up to 23 people dead after a day-long siege, the Interior Ministry said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108149/posts

Blast Reported in Bolivia Congres
Miami Herald ^ | Mar. 30, 2004 | Associated Press
Posted on 03/30/2004 3:33:42 PM CST by yonif

LA PAZ, Bolivia - A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in the Bolivian congress Tuesday, killing himself and wounding two police officers, police said.

Police Chief. Guido Arandea said the man had made his way to a first-floor section of the building, away from the Congressional chambers. He set of the bomb after security agents clear the area, police said.

Arandea said the two injured officers had tried to talk to the man before he set off the explosives.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108148/posts

Chicago, L.A. towers were next targets
Washington Times ^ | 3/30/04 | Paul Martin
Posted on 03/30/2004 12:12:37 AM CST by kattracks

LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.

Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, according to transcripts of his conversations with interrogators.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107688/posts

Amtrak Train Stopped In Selma, NC [terrorism threat]
WRAL-TV [Raleigh, N.C.] ^ | WRAL.com
Posted on 03/30/2004 11:58:51 AM CST by Constitution Day

Amtrak Train Stopped In Selma
POSTED: 12:16 PM EST March 30, 2004
UPDATED: 12:49 PM EST March 30, 2004

RALEIGH, N.C. -- CBS News' national desk received telephone threats Tuesday against some specific plane flights and scheduled trains.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108009/posts

BREAKING NEWS: POLICE ARREST TERROR SUSPECTS
Sky News ^ | Tuesday March 30, 2004 | Sky News
Posted on 03/30/2004 2:08:42 AM CST by Eurotwit

POLICE ARREST TERROR SUSPECTS

Islamic terror suspects have been arrested and explosives recovered in dawn raids across England.

The arrests were made in Crawley, Luton, Redbridge, Ealing in London and in the Thames Valley.

Martin Brunt, Sky's crime correspondent, said fertiliser or ammonium nitrate had been found at an address.

The same type of material was used in the Bali bombings in October 2002, killing more than 200 people.

More follows . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107731/posts

Philippines foils major terrorist attack: President
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | March 30, 2004 | Reuters
Posted on 03/30/2004 1:04:08 AM CST by yonif

The President of the Philippines says security forces have foiled a Madrid-style attack on civilian targets in Manila.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo says security personnel have arrested four suspected militants and seized a large amount of explosives.

"We have pre-empted a Madrid-level attack on the metropolis by capturing an explosive cache of 36 kilograms of TNT," President Arroyo said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107709/posts

[JustPiper]

Hi DL!
I feel what is going to happen is us here or say Jill gets wind of something on the jihad boards and reports it of course to the alphabets. But they either ignore what we send or don't get it in time. And we on TM go to FNC etc and tell them but "We" knew and show as 'citizens' it could have been averted

[JustPiper]

My cleaning skills have diminished greatly since the inception of TM ;)

[JustPiper]

BTTT!

[JustPiper]

Good to see you Cal ;)

[rickylc]

Thanks then :)

I was wondering the same, if an attack on us is on the way since it appears an attack on London was coming.

With all the things going on in the last week, it appears an attack may already be underway.

There are bomb scares litterally everywhere. We had one here in Toledo last Friday, though it had a silver lining. The atheist scumbag nudow was supposed to speak to the Law School at UT, the bomb scare nixed it.

It's the death by 1000 cuts. If you have 15 or 20 bomb scares/ week for a while it will be draining to resources and people will begin to take them less seriously.

If they hadn't said they were going to announce it ahead of time so we could watch it on TV, I'd be inclined to think all these bomb scares are people just going looney, unrelated to each other. But with them happenning so suddenly and in such numbers, it appears something is up.

[JustPiper]

Anyone ever see the Wash Post article Sunday where they
talked about our military toys need all new revamping? The suggestion of smaller warheads, ingredients that are as powerful as nukes but do not cause the same destruction? I cannot find anything on this,help?

[Hegemony Cricket]

bookmarking

[JustPiper]

{John Gibson giving Sen. Kenny from Canada hell -g-}

WAR ON TERROR
Clarke's colleagues say he's lost credibility
Until just before 9-11 nearly all officials were Clinton holdovers
Posted: March 30, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37790

NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
New evidence of Egyptian nuke program
Inspectors confirm suspicions of secret trade between Cairo, Tripoli
Posted: March 30, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37795


WND BOOKS EXCERPT, Part 1
Border-area war zone
'Illegals' details incidents of Mexican bullets targeting Americans

Posted: March 30, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37794

[jerseygirl]

Just started checking information for today...gulp...

[rickylc]

That is worth noting, hmmmm

Air-Tran out of where?

Was there a description of the false passenger? The guy had to be arrested, wouldn't you think?

[JustPiper]

(March 30, 2004 -- 12:54 PM EDT // link // print)

What if Condi Rice, when she testifies, makes statements in flat contradiction of earlier statements by Richard Clarke? Nothing, it would seem, since the Commission appears to have agreed not to "request additional public testimony from any White House official, including Dr. Rice." That would seem to rule out testimony (at least public testimony) from various aides who might be in a position to say which of the two is being truthful, should such a contradiction arise.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_03_28.php#002779

[JustPiper]

It sure is busy thought if I did my email news as a general happening it would be helpful for a quick catch up

[JustPiper]

Pakistan: Al-Qaida chief not killed
An al-Qaida suspect killed in a Pakistani military operation near the Afghan border was a local operative and not the terror network's intelligence chief, Pakistan's army spokesman said Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4539021/

China Detains 3 Relatives of Victims at Tiananmen
By JOSEPH KAHN

Published: March 30, 2004

BEIJING, March 29 — At least three family members of people gunned down by the Chinese military during the crackdown on dissent in Beijing on June 4, 1989, have been detained, as the authorities seek to prevent protests connected with the 15th anniversary of the massacre, relatives said Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/international/asia/30CHIN.html?th

Senate Panels to Get New Iraq Weapons Report
By DOUGLAS JEHL

Published: March 30, 2004

WASHINGTON, March 29 — The new chief American weapons inspector in Iraq has prepared a classified report on the hunt for illicit weapons there and will brief two Senate committees in closed sessions on Tuesday about his interim findings, Congressional officials say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/politics/30WEAP.html?th

[rickylc]

Gulp! is right

Gives you that queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach doesn't it?

[jerseygirl]

I hope I'm overreacting!

[Indie]

"Those who eat your bread".....those we welcome to our land, our friends, people we give money to, et al. Nobody will stand by us in the end. We will be alone.

[nw_arizona_granny]

the articles about Australia are word for word the same as England.

Thanks, I will vote to keep guns in the home.

[rickylc]

This is why I don't give a rats a$$ about Hamas, Hizbullah, eljihadi et.al. or how Time magazine thinks it may not have been wise to kill Yassin.

Thinking you can negotiate or appease these lunatics is insane, you can only kill them.
The sooner the better.

I'll bet ol' RATisi probably pee'd right down his leg when Israeli warplanes flew over yassin's memorial service where he was speaking yesterday. Israel has to feel a bit like they are playing whack-a-mole as he only pops his head up for a minute and then only with thousands arounds him.

Terrorists try to recruit another child as suicide bomber

Snippet

Palestinian terrorists tried to recruit a 15-year-old as a suicide bomber, at one point locking him in a dark room, but also luring him with clothes, a cell phone and promises of paradise, his family said Tuesday. The story of ninth-grader Tamer Khweirah, who was extricated by an alert older brother, underscored the growing use of children by terrorists and stoked Palestinian debate over what is permissible in the fight with Israel.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Very informative...FYI..Reminds me of a country song "It's a little to late to do the right thing now"

Ex-official links LNG tankers, Al Qaeda
Clarke aide says Hub was entryway
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 3/30/2004

WASHINGTON -- The nation's former deputy counterterrorism czar said yesterday that Al Qaeda operatives trained in Afghanistan came through Boston Harbor on liquid natural gas tankers from Algeria and that officials considered Boston a "logistical hub" for the terror network's activities in New England before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.


Roger Cressey, who was the top aide to former counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, said "more than a dozen" stowaways with Al Qaeda ties had entered the United States in the late 1990s on tankers that made deliveries to the LNG terminal in Everett

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/03/30/ex_official_links_lng_tankers_al_qaeda/