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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Seven
The Washington Times ^ | 4-26-04 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 04/26/2004 3:35:38 PM PDT by JustPiper

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Laboratory guard post near classified facilities in what U.S. officials think was an intelligence mission, The Washington Times has learned.


(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: homelandsecurity; plethoriaofinfo; terrorthreats; threatmatrix
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To: Indie

fill up your tank alert


http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/may/05_17_1.html

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Al Qaida was said to be preparing for another major attack in Saudi Arabia.

Western diplomatic sources said embassies and foreign companies have been warned of the prospect of another major Al Qaida strike in the kingdom. The sources said the Al Qaida network in Saudi Arabia has been encouraged by the flight of Westerners from the kingdom in wake of previous insurgency strikes.

"The most likely prospect is an attack on a Western compound or office," a diplomatic source said. "It's a tried-and-true method and it causes the most panic among the expatriate community."

On Saturday, a gun battle took place outside a Western housing compound on the edge of Riyad. Reports of the shooting were sketchy with witnesses asserting that four gunmen were captured. Nobody from the compound was injured, and later the Interior Ministry denied that an attack had taken place.



4,941 posted on 05/16/2004 3:00:04 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: JustPiper

I think this is a good idea, sick but people need to see this.


4,942 posted on 05/16/2004 3:48:40 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: KylaStarr

Surely this is a lie.


4,943 posted on 05/16/2004 3:56:59 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: BurbankKarl

I just spent $45 to get barely 3/4 of a tank of regular gas two days ago. It makes me mad every time I go to the gas station. Not to mention the lady next to me was talking on her cell phone. Did you see what happened to that guy in NY whose cell phone rang and made a spark which caught the vapors as well as him on fire?



Appeal to the Governator

The rising cost of gas prompted UCAN to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a fuel emergency. In a letter dated May 10, Executive Director Michael Shames recommended several steps the state government could take to provide some relief to consumers.

For starters, he urged the suspension of the sale of 89 octane gasoline in the state. Eliminating this grade of gasoline would free up the equivalent of nearly 200 million gallons of storage at terminals and stations around the state, based upon industry observer estimates, Shames wrote.

His second recommendation was for the state to deploy California Public Utilities Commission electricity inspectors as "refinery cops" to conduct spot checks on refineries that are undergoing planned or unplanned operation outages and prevent the "economic perversion" of the 2001 electricity crisis.

Shames also wants the state to impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that are "opportunistically gouging" their customers.

http://www.sandiego.com/sdbusiness.jsp?id=296


4,944 posted on 05/16/2004 3:57:24 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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To: All

Peggy Noonan:

Here's the point: Bad things are coming, and we all know it. But most of us can't afford to buy a farm in the Hudson River Valley. Most of us can't afford to buy the safety of being far, far away on a lake in the mists. Many of us are stuck living near Port Newark.

What are we to do? This is the great domestic policy question of our time. Why doesn't our government provide us all with the means to survive an expected nuclear, biological or chemical attack? Why doesn't our government provide us with what I think of as a "get out of Dodge" kit--a protective suit, a regulation gas mask, information on which direction to walk in, or rather run in, and how soon, after Port Newark, or Times Square, or the Sears Tower, or the Shrine Auditorium, is hit? Why aren't they doing this?


http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134704/posts


4,945 posted on 05/16/2004 4:04:14 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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To: WestCoastGal

If I hadn't clicked the links, I wouldn't believe it was a real article.

Sounds like she has been reading FR perhaps??


4,946 posted on 05/16/2004 4:17:46 PM PDT by Indie (We don't need no steenkin' experts!)
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To: JustPiper

Disgusting and that's putting it mildly...


4,947 posted on 05/16/2004 4:43:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

I wish it were. However..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12674-2004May9.html

same article. I keep hoping to awaken from this nightmare.


4,948 posted on 05/16/2004 5:03:37 PM PDT by KylaStarr
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To: Indie
"People are becoming spiritually dead.

"strong delusion; love of many will grow cold; lovers of themselves" etc...."

And then there's this "deconstruction" of faith...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1136142/posts
4,949 posted on 05/16/2004 5:16:36 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG..there are signs...remember Esperenza)
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To: WestCoastGal
Why doesn't our government provide us all with the means to survive an expected nuclear, biological or chemical attack? Why doesn't our government provide us with what I think of as a "get out of Dodge" kit--a protective suit, a regulation gas mask, information on which direction to walk in, or rather run in, and how soon, after Port Newark, or Times Square, or the Sears Tower, or the Shrine Auditorium, is hit? Why aren't they doing this?

Simple answer. Money doesn't grow on trees. It is earned by productive people and confiscated from them by the government via taxation. The list of "do good" programs is already impossibly large and the burden is falling on fewer taxpayers as the baby boomers retire. The socialist programs are going to collapse. There is no pot of gold to pay for government silver bullets.

4,950 posted on 05/16/2004 5:26:07 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

I agree, Myrddin. If the government told us exactly what they know about the terrorist threats, people would demand that 100% of the shipping containers be searched, that the borders be closed, that everyone be given protective gear, that everyone be provided with underground shelters, etc, etc, etc. There is not enough money in the world to protect us. That is the BOTTOM LINE. It can't be done. PERIOD. We have to face it. The survival of our nation, as we now know it, is at stake. We are going to be hurt BIG TIME, and many people will die, but I honestly think that we will come out stronger and better. I gotta believe that. I do... Keep the faith, my friend... TMGrasshoppers


4,951 posted on 05/16/2004 5:37:04 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("Put down that fiddle and DO SOMETHING!")
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To: Domestic Church

Thanks Much! Books on the way. Looks like I will have to move these to the top of the stack.


4,952 posted on 05/16/2004 6:05:29 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: Myrddin
10% chance of playing real life asteroids?!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136740/posts
4,953 posted on 05/16/2004 6:14:13 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG..)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT; Domestic Church

It does sound like a great book! May be ordering myself..


4,954 posted on 05/16/2004 6:23:37 PM PDT by Indie (We don't need no steenkin' experts!)
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To: toomanygrasshoppers
The bottom line is WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO SAVE US? We are a problem that has to be exterminated.

We are the workers and taxpayers that built this country and our parents. Whom believe in an honest days work and care for what we work for.

We are the ones that believe in the Constitution of The United States that establisted this great country. Which is THE stumbling block that stops a take over now. Which is also why the Supreme Court is infected as we see today.

We are the religious right with strong belief's in the one true GOD. Whom also is not going to have a One World Anything.

All of the above are reasons to let the illegals enter our country at will. People they can control who will serve there agenda. And let them live there elites lifestyle without much fuss.

Rant Over!
4,955 posted on 05/16/2004 6:25:51 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: Domestic Church
10% chance of playing real life asteroids?!

Buy copies of Armageddon and "Deep Impact". You can be entertained and avoid wasting further time worrying about whether the movie fantasy could actually be implemented. The probability of a strike during out lifetime is small. The probability of mounting the movie fantasy approaches nil. We have more immediate concerns with Islamic terrorists sawing off the heads of U.S. citizens.

4,956 posted on 05/16/2004 6:29:27 PM PDT by Myrddin
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FOREIGN MERCENARIES FIGHTING AGAINST U.S. TROOPS AND FRIENDLY IRAQIS: Top Iraqi Security Official Says Governing Council Members Met Foreign Prisoners, Including Turks, Syrians and Moroccans, Who Said They Were Paid to Conduct Attacks Against Coalition Troops and Iraqis – AFP From the AFP article linked to below: Iraqi security adviser: jailed foreigners admitted being paid for attacks Apr 26 2004

BAGHDAD (AFP) — The top Iraqi security official said Governing Council members met foreign prisoners, including Turks, Syrians and Moroccans, who said they were paid to conduct attacks against coalition troops and Iraqis.

"They confessed in clear Arabic that they have come to Iraq to carry out attacks and terrorist operations," Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, newly appointed national security advisor, told reporters.

He said their targets included Iraqi police, the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and government officials.

They also confessed "to being apprehended while carrying out attacks or planning to carry out attacks," according to Rubaie.

He called the foreign prisoners "terror mercenaries", saying they "numbered a few hundred" out of the 4,700 detainees at Abu Gharib prison, west of the capital.

The delegation confronted the foreigners about whether "their beliefs in jihad (holy war) and Islam justified killing children as happened in Basra recently," Rubaie said.

He said the foreigners were "shamed by this and their arguments were defeated."

The foreign prisoners also said they were being treated well by US troops and that "top-notch medical services were being provided to them."

Rubaie said the foreigners should be separated from other prisoners including Iraqi insurgents and loyalists of ousted president Saddam Hussein because "they might influence them with their jihadist thinking." He said that the delegation will hold a press conference Tuesday to give further details about its visit to Abu Gharib. The US-led coalition has long said that foreign terrorists, slipping mainly through the borders with Iran and Syria, were carrying out attacks in Iraq and fighting in the flashpoint Sunni town of Fallujah,west of the capital. A series of suicide car bomb attacks in Basra last week which killed 74 and wounded about 100, mostly policemen and children, have been blamed on the Al-Qaeda terror network.

LINK

4,957 posted on 05/16/2004 6:34:37 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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The weapons came in on a ship from a European port, but the haul originated in the Middle East, sources say.

Weapons trawl


By Ciaran McGuigan

16 May 2004
A MAJOR weapons shipment bound for the LVF was spirited away from Belfast harbour onboard a fishing boat.

The loyalist paramilitary gang kept its huge weapons haul out of the hands of police, by off-loading five crates of guns and explosives before the cargo ship docked at Belfast.

The arsenal was picked up by a fishing vessel, and taken up the Co Down coast.

It was eventually brought on shore at Groomsport, and moved to the LVF's leaders in Antrim, mid-Ulster and north Down, sources told Sunday Life.

Last month, police and Army spent four days examining a cargo at Gotto Wharf, in Belfast harbour, after receiving a tip-off about the shipment.

http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=521899


4,958 posted on 05/16/2004 6:56:56 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: WestCoastGal; All

You guys have GOT to read "Memorial Day" by Vince Flynn!!

I've mentioned it before on this thread. Great TM material!

Every thing we have talked about and so much more. Even Rush Limbaugh is touting it.


4,959 posted on 05/16/2004 6:57:11 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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I think we are entering some critical times, before the elections.

Terrorists hope to sway U.S. vote, Aznar (Spain ex-PM)warns
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136805/posts

I think Aznar is correct, I just hope the American voters will be smarter than those in Spain, who allowed themselves to be intimidated by the terrorists and give in to them, which doesn't make them any safer, just the opposite.


4,960 posted on 05/16/2004 7:30:32 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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