Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

Picture Credit:Calpernia

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

LINK TO THREAD SEVEN

BREAKING NEWS

Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.

Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Is your 1,000 days the same as the 1,000 paper cuts that were promised by the terrorists?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Does anyone know why the driver ran off the road? Was he forced off?

If you click "More news" at the end, there is an update on the bridge girder. It was lightly braced and the braces did not hold.

[JustPiper]

RUSSIA - Ukrainian authorities seize radioactive substance, arrest 2 [two Middle Eastern men, 'Red Murcury']

"Security agents in the southern city of Odessa seized 24 pounds of a substance they said was radioactive and identified as "red mercury,"

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/05/17/build/world/56-ukraine-nukes.inc

[SpaceDaily ] RuSSIA - Ukraine discovers nuclear trafficking ring

http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040517163711.9djcrlds.html

CYPRUS / UNITED KINGDOM - Bomb parts' found ahead of UK-bound flight

http://www.itv.com/news/951840.html

[Boston Globe] IRAQ - Head of Iraqi Governing Council killed in suicide attack; bomb containing sarin explodes

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/138/world/Head_of_Iraqi_Governing_Counci:.shtml

THAILAND - Bomb blasts rock 3 Buddhist temples

http://www.iht.com/articles/520140.htm

[New York Post] ISRAEL - ISRAELIS FOIL PLOT TO BOMB KIBBUTZ

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/24244.htm

ECUADOR - Bomb defused in town hosting Miss Universe parade

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/17/content_1473352.htm

UNITED KINGDOM - Anti-Terror Measures Turn Disney World into Fortress

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2937793

ITALY - Bomb found outside Rome McDonald's

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=514525&section=news

SECOND INCENDIARY BOMB DEFUSED

"second incendiary bomb found in front of the Mc Donald restaurant in the Tiburtino district in Rome"

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200405201612-1141-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

GREECE - Small time bomb found near Athens Olympic site

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1085070143534_80479343/?hub=World

[MOSNEWS] RUSSIA - Moscow Man Detained With Bomb

"bomb, according to the source, contained over 200 grams of TNT that, together with two electric detonators, had been placed into a tin container"

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/05/20/bomb.shtml

[nw_arizona_granny]

The thread for the U.S. suicide bombers is:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1139424/posts

[JustPiper]

Scientists say Chicago sinking a millimeter a year
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/052004_ap_ns_sinkingchicago.html

Police investigate car arsons in Humboldt Park (Chgo)

May 20, 2003 — Police search for suspects in a string of fires in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Five cars in all were torched earlier this morning.

The suspects were apparently going around the neighborhood throwing an incendiary device into the parked cars at random.

The cars were parked on the 1700-blocks of North Albany, Troy and Humboldt and on Wabansia near California.

{{most likely gang related}}
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/052004_ns_humboldtpark.html

[JustPiper]

Scientists say Chicago sinking a millimeter a year
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/052004_ap_ns_sinkingchicago.html

Police investigate car arsons in Humboldt Park (Chgo)

May 20, 2003 — Police search for suspects in a string of fires in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Five cars in all were torched earlier this morning.

The suspects were apparently going around the neighborhood throwing an incendiary device into the parked cars at random.

The cars were parked on the 1700-blocks of North Albany, Troy and Humboldt and on Wabansia near California.

{{most likely gang related}}
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/052004_ns_humboldtpark.html

[Velveeta]

Seneviratne does research on public transportation for three urban planning professors at McGill.

Yeah, right. I'd like to know if this was verified by the professors. And if the professors names were Ahmed, Mohammed and Achmed. (God, I hate sounding this hateful and racist)

[WestCoastGal]

I second that, how many hours have we all put into this? It takes a lot of dedication to stick with this through eight threads. Ups and downs, lots of questions, sometimes you get answers sometimes not. A lot of frustration with the media and the politicians and the left.

For the most part we have all stuck together. And the thing I give us the next most credit for is never posting a wisecrack to a serious post!!!!

[JustPiper]

I know I am beginning to get very paranoid on a few levels

[JustPiper]

I know I am beginning to get very paranoid on a few levels

[JustPiper]

IDAHO / TEXAS - Mystery Illness/Parasite Said To Be Afflicting Idahoans Getting Attention

http://www2.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5157&ContentID=x53603&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154

[Indie]

after people were seen carrying out suspected surveillance of commuter lines,

EVRYTIME one of these folks is caught casing places, they are released. So why bother. Besides, the threat of terrorism has been overstated. /sarc

[Velveeta]

I hadn't seen the bomb blast at the 3 Buddhist temples.

Everywhere in the world where there is Islam, there is chaos.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks Cindy, and you deserve so many thanks for your news posts. I can't imagine how you even keep up with it all.

Thank you!!!!

[JustPiper]

Don't forget Dionne Warwick -g-

[Oorang]

7 million daily riders!?!?!?

Having never been to New York, or, anywhere near N.Y., is this accurate?

[nw_arizona_granny]

"stealing trailers to get rid of chemicals"

This is very possible.

In this area, we have the meth makers from Calif. come here and drive around, leaking liguids out of the barrels that can be seen in the trucks, big fancy expensive pickups.

You can follow them for miles, by the liquid trail.

Cops say that it is the left overs from making meth.

In Real Estate, we had to be careful, as they also dump it in the old uninhabited subdivision areas.

I have seen both, myself.

[Velveeta]

It's really been an amazing journey with all of you.

[WestCoastGal]

Have you all heard of the Matrix project?........

Privacy Backers Eye Matrix's Power

NEW YORK, May 20, 2004



Because the system includes information on innocent people as well as known criminals, Matrix has drawn objections from liberal and conservative privacy groups.



(AP) Before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix, a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists — sparking some investigations and arrests.

The "high terrorism factor" scoring system also became a key selling point for the involvement of the database company, Seisint Inc., in the Matrix project.

Public records obtained by The Associated Press from several states show that Justice Department officials cited the scoring technology in appointing Seisint sole contractor on the federally funded, $12 million project.


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/20/110717.shtml

[Velveeta]

I heard about it today on FOX news for the first time. Chuckled when I heard the name "Matrix."