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]

To anyone in the Midwest area please mail me your contact info for my phone bank

[LayoutGuru2]

If anyone is still around, Doug Hagmann of NEIN is on C2C now talking about the kitty hawk.

I only caught the first few minutes. Did Doug mention that this appears to be a re-post of an older threat?

[JustPiper]

Buzzing Mass of Cicadas Get Ready for East Coast
Tue Mar 30
By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Planning a May wedding in the eastern United States? Take the party indoors to avoid billions of buzzing cicadas set to swarm the area after 17 years of living below ground.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040330/us_nm/science_cicadas_dc_3

[JustPiper]

Snow Reignites Fight Over Job Outsourcing
Tue Mar 30
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary John Snow reignited the political argument over U.S. companies shipping jobs overseas Tuesday with comments that "outsourcing" was an integral part of a global trading system.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20040331/ap_on_el_pr/snow_job_losses

[JustPiper]

I was looking for this info on Wash Post for two days, thanks for posting this DC!

[JustPiper]

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Senator demands hearings
on translator crisis at FBI
Leahy warns al-Qaida wiretaps piling up, asks bureau for full audit of backlogs

Posted: March 31, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37826

[JustPiper]

WND BOOKS EXCERPT, Part 2
An invader's 'hateful stare'
'Illegals' tells harrowing story of man protecting property from aliens

Posted: March 31, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37816

GLOBAL JIHAD
6-year-old wants to be 'martyr'
Dad brought boy to protest dress as suicide bomber

Posted: March 31, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37814

[JustPiper]

So Indie what is the local news saying?

[JustPiper]

Thank you Cindy, me girl, have missed this!

23 - 29 March 2004

The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 23 - 29 March 2004.

Suspicious craft

29.03.2004 at 0204 LT in position: 01:0.1N - 103:31.9E, Indonesia.
An unlit craft approached a research vessel at port quarter. Ship took evasive manoeuvres and craft retreated and regrouped with other boats in the vicinity.

[JustPiper]

Breaking News Alert
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) Thirty people detained in violence in Uzbekistan, ITAR-Tass reports

[JustPiper]

Canadian police charge man under anti-terrorism act
03/31/04 01:52 AM, EST
Launching raids on two sites in Ottawa, officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have arrested and charged a man with terrorism-related crimes spanning the Atlantic Ocean, according to a statement from the RCMP.
FULL STORY

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/31/canada.terror.arrest/index.html

Jeweler pleads guilty in missile sale case
03/30/04 09:33 PM, EST
A New York jeweler and money remitter pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in the transfer of $30,000 used --without his knowledge -- as the down payment on the sale of a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, the U.S. attorney's office said.
FULL STORY

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/30/missile.indictment/index.html


Kabila appeals for calm after alleged coup attempt
03/30/04 06:42 PM, EST
Security forces searched the Congolese capital on Monday for fugitives of an apparent coup attempt against President Joseph Kabila's fragile power-sharing government, struggling to emerge from years of war in the vast Central African nation.
FULL STORY

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/03/30/congo.ap/index.html

U.S. defends treatment of U.S. citizen held as enemy combatant
Supreme Court case will touch on presidential war powers
03/30/04 04:32 PM, EST
Federal courts should not be "second-guessing" the U.S. military's treatment of an American citizen captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan, the Bush administration says.
FULL STORY

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/30/hamdi/index.html

[JustPiper]

Mar. 30, 2004 Insider Report Supplemental from NewsMax.com

Al-Qaida Targeting U.S. Shopping Malls, 'Soft Targets'

U.S. intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is currently targeting “soft targets,” including shopping malls and shopping centers across the United States.

“I can confirm to you they are focusing in on them, they are keying in on them, we know it for a fact,” a high-level CIA source told NewsMax editor Christopher Ruddy this past week in Washington.

The source said that terrorist cells here in the U.S. are clearly looking to make a “spectacular” attack - and shopping malls are one avenue they are considering because, as the source told NewsMax, “they are easy to attack, and you can score high casualties.”

Both the CIA source and another person close to high-ranking U.S. security officials agreed that any attacks made this year would be intended to score political points before the November elections.

These warnings about al-Qaida were made to NewsMax shortly before FBI Director Robert Mueller’s public comments to Congress last week in which he said that al-Qaida may try to strike in an effort to influence the U.S. elections.

Mueller’s remarks clearly underscore the administration’s worry that a small-scale, high-profile attack would demonstrate that the Bush administration has not made the U.S. homeland safer. Also, such an attack might buttress claims by John Kerry and others that the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq has not improved U.S. security.

NewsMax’s second source put it this way: “Whatever they do, it will be planned to help Kerry and hurt Bush.”

He also added that al-Qaida remains “fascinated” by the concept of attacking U.S. commercial aircraft, though new attacks may not mimic the hijackings of Sept. 11.

[JustPiper]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I've ordered this level of cooperation because I consider it necessary to gaining a complete picture of the months and years that preceded the murder of our fellow citizens on Sept. 11."
PRESIDENT BUSH, who will meet with the 9/11 panel and allow his national security adviser to testify in public and under oath.

[JustPiper]

Bush Administration Shows More Support of Free Trade
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

Published: March 31, 2004

WASHINGTON, March 30 - The Bush administration, still sparring with Senator John Kerry over the issue of trade, said the practice of exporting work overseas had little to do with the loss of jobs in the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/business/31trade.html?th

[JustPiper]

ping Honestly!

[JustPiper]

Bump -g- just pinged ya

[JustPiper]

The cause of the fire appeared to be accidental

Key word being 'appeared'

[JustPiper]

Thank you for your immediate contributiong Honestly

[JustPiper]

Bump! I also was in a reverie with the quiet in my neighborhood at this hour, eerie but comforting. But we had a storm the other day and a bolt of thunder hit so low, so hard Gal, in my 50+ years of life, never has it sounded like a bomb. My immediate thoughts went to anyone having to suffer through this as ordinary life and I shook.

[JustPiper]

May the Angels of God fly with your two daughter's to Boston and Italy and to hold little Corley in their care and comfort her and her mother.