Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

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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.

[Velveeta]

FOFL, stub your toe. Cracked me up!

[mfccinsd]

I don't know if it's been posted where the link came from, but these folding tricks have been all over the internet since 9/11. They were even shown on TV for awhile...haven't seen them around as much, but I know they've still been circulating via e-mail periodically.

Not sure that this answers your questions really but........that's all the input I can give.

[null and void]

How about: "When will you recognized that islam is NOT "a religion of peace"????

[freeperfromnj]

UKRAINE SAYS IT SEIZED 'RED MERCURY'

UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES SAY THEY SEIZED RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE, ARRESTED TWO MIDDLE EASTERN MEN

The Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine May 17, 2004 — Ukrainian security officers have arrested two Middle Eastern men whom they said possessed a substance that has been touted by sellers as an ingredient in nuclear weapons and dismissed by others as a hoax.

Security agents in the southern city of Odessa seized 24 pounds of a substance they said was radioactive and identified as "red mercury," a State Security Service spokesman said Monday on condition of anonymity. He said they arrested two men from a Middle Eastern country.

"Foreign citizens were looking for an opportunity to purchase a quantity of radioactive material in Ukraine and to sell it in the Middle East," said the spokesman, who would not say what country the men were from or where the material came from. He said the arrests were made several weeks ago.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, black marketeers have been peddling substances they call red mercury, apparently passing it off to buyers as a highly radioactive compound that purportedly was developed in Soviet nuclear facilities and could be used in powerful weapons.

Samples that have turned up in Europe have proved to be bogus, however, and many scientists and law enforcement officials say the substance does not exist or is far less potentially dangerous than it has been made out to be.

Still, the Ukrainian statement appeared likely to add to concerns that terrorists have been seeking to acquire radioactive substances in the former Soviet Union.

Western governments and the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, have repeatedly warned that several former Soviet republics including Ukraine have become a marketplace for radioactive materials.

This month, Ukrainian authorities arrested several people they said were involved in an attempt to purchase cesium-137, a highly radioactive material seen as a likely ingredient in a "dirty bomb." Earlier this year, they arrested a man trying to take one pound of uranium into neighboring Hungary.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040517_1036.html

[Velveeta]

Taiwan is certainly one issue to watch closely.

[NothingMan]

much appreciated

The message on the Berg video was unusually personal (both in means and message) and its meaning significant.

This morning's decapitation is the follow-up to the video and I would imagine there is concern over a replication of the 9/09/01 assassination preceding an attempted decapitation 48-72 hours later.

[Velveeta]

LOL, it should work unless after manipulation of the currency you find "Hillary '08".

[NothingMan]

Thanks.

I've seen the trick before too, but since I don't frequent the jihadi forums, I have no way of knowing whether this comes up from time to time, or if there was a surge of this "speculation" right after 9/11 and then it pretty much died down until today.

I don't like seeing violent images involving DC at this particular moment. (not that any moment is good)

[Velveeta]

I wonder if Odessa is anywhere near the recent arms depot explosion?

[WestCoastGal]

Don't forget the story as related by Mansoor Ijaz several months ago re: the convoy of trucks from Iran coming into Iraq with warheads etc.

[Velveeta]

Right. That was even mentioned on FOX this morning.

I saw Mansoor this weekend on FOX and he was talking about the funding for the attacks. He still feels the funding is by Iran.

(Iran....who by the way, is awfully chummy with Russia these days)

[knak]

Had not seen that one thanks. We are on our break now and I just found this story. You all seen it yet?

Ukraine Says It Seized 'Red Mercury'

[StillProud2BeFree]

I don't know about Hilary 08 but I can fold it to read NEIN

Trying now to see if it will fold into Threat Matrix.

Wondering how in the heck I'm going to explain what I'm doign to my boss! LOL

[knak]

nevermind, just saw it!

[judicial meanz]

bookmark

[Velveeta]

That's fabulous! I love it.

Tell your boss your on an origami break. Calms the nerves, especially when combined with lavender oil.

[Quix]

I can recognize some strategic wisdom in the President avoiding saying this.

But I do think that somehow, even some part of the administration or at least some leading 'experts' could say that much louder, clearer and on more news shows.

[Quix]

And, perhaps the President could say something like:

YOU SAY ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE.

PROVE IT.

SHOW US. You have abundantly shown us the opposite.

If it really is a religion of peace, then you should do much better at policing the radicals out of your midst. Otherwise, either your religion is a sham or your practice of it is a sham with regard to being a religion of peace.