Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

For me I think the most troubling part in the Press
Conferance with Ashcroft and Muehler. Was not so
much the information they released because mose of
here on FP already know, It was their tone of voice.

Muehler especially, to me, seemed almost out of breath.
I think they are extremely and overwelmingly concerned.

Thats what scared me.

I agree....they look resigned.

Of course, the Soros enabled partisan press doesn't help with their lame ass questions. I half expected the 9/11 women to start yelling from the back of the room.

I'm still searching.

I believe the 90% remark was made shortly after the train bombings in Spain.

ARTICLE - UPDATED (Updated May 26, 2004)

Jeremy Reynalds
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Tel: (505) 400-7145
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Was al Qaida Related Media Chief Connected with First World Trade Center Bombing?

     The apparently Canadian based operator of a recently defunct Yahoo group known as Global Islamic Media (GIM) may have ties to Islamic militant Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.

       GIM is believed to be a means of communication for al Qaida members

       Yousef was sentenced in 1998 to 240 years in prison for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and to a life term for plotting to blow up U.S. airliners in Southeast Asia and kill as many as 4,000 Americans (www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-24/reg/september_11_suspect.htm).

       Prior to starting the Global Islamic Media group on Yahoo, Abu Banan operated a site called www.guraba.com.

       A spokesman for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Phil Gibson, said he was unable to confirm whether Banan was a subject of interest to the Canadian government. "Investigations are matters of operational interest and we don't ever talk about them," Gibson said.

       However, an e- mail from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the agency "can't comment on ongoing investigations."

       A spokesman for the FBI's Washington office declined to say if Banan is wanted or a person of interest in the United States.

       The Istanbul office contact for Guraba was listed as an Abdullah Yolcu (http://web.archive.org/web/20030604184344/http://guraba.com/aaboutus.htm ). It is unclear whether Banan was using an alias or Yolcu was a colleague.

           A May 13 1999 article in the Turkish Daily News (http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:LSDLEsp3STIJ:www.turkishdailynews.com/past_scanner/05_13_99/scanner.htm+%22Abdullah+Yolcu%22&hl=en&start=8&ie=UTF-8 ) hinted at some sort of connection between Yolcu and Yusuf.

          The article read, "According to a report prepared by U.S. terrorism experts, radical Islamist militant Remzi Yusuf, who bombed New York's World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, called more than two places in Istanbul more than 10 times prior to the bombing. The mysterious calls were placed from the house Yusuf had been staying at in New York and from a phone in New Jersey. One of these two places is a house in Istanbul's Uskudar district where a man from Kirkuk named Abdullah Yolcu has been staying. The other number belongs to a business place in Istanbul's Aksaray district, an office which Yolcu had later, along with his two Saudi partners, handed over to a textile company named Gureba Tekstil. Yolcu told journalists he did not know who did the World Trade Center bombing and that he did not know the person named Remzi Yusuf. One of these conversations, placed from New Jersey on Jan. 5, 1993, lasted 27 minutes while all the rest were one-minute conversations."

Yousef's real name may be Abdul-Basit Baluchi (www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-24/reg/september_11_suspect.htm). Commenting on Yolcu's claim that he did not know Yousef, a source close to the first World Trade Center bombing speaking on condition of anonymity said, "Just because someone claims not to know him by the name Ramzi Yousef hardly means that someone does not know the person who is actually Abdul Basit."

    That same individual added, "I believe (Yousef lieutenant) Mohammed Salameh (http://specials.ft.com/attackonterrorism/FT3FJ5RJMUC.html ) was living with Yousef throughout the latter's stay in the U.S.; they were both using the phone in each location, and I believe -- although this is just educated speculation -- that Salameh used the phone more often (Salameh was much more out front than Yousef was in dealing with the chemical companies and the storage facility, etc")

    The source wondered if there was any way of knowing if "the Istanbul location was an al-Qaeda hostel for the mujahideen as they made their way through Afghanistan ... possibly ... many people were staying there and that, even though the phone may have been registered in one name, the people on this end were actually talking to someone else when they called."

    While it is difficult to find out much about Banan, he has been making use of the Internet for some time. This appears to be one of his earlier communications. http://web.archive.org/web/20010815184810/www.angelfire.com/al/guraba/guraba.html

    From that page, there was also a link to a Global Islamic site from Montreal; (http://web.archive.org/web/20010828000553/www.angelfire.com/al/guraba/montreal.html ) with a Montreal address and phone number. (7600 Earle Rd. # 1103, Cote St. Luc , Montreal , QC H4w 1N9 Tel: (514) 369-6107). The telephone number is no longer in service.

   A floating button outlined in red on that site invited browsers to "click here," and took them to a page apparently hosted at one time on the servers of Montreal's McGill University. (http://web.archive.org/web/20010923221643/ssmu.mcgill.ca/iss/Chechnya2.html ). There readers found an appeal for Muslims in Chechnya.

    A McGill University spokesman was not immediately certain of the school's current policy on student run sites, but acknowledged that there had obviously been a lot of changes since 9/11.

   Visitors to that same McGill student site (http://web.archive.org/web/20010305214721/ssmu.mcgill.ca/iss/Chechnya1.html ) were invited to donate to among others, the Al Haramain Foundation, some branches of which have been designated by the American government as being supporters of terrorism (www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1183.htm)

      Another charity on the old McGill site for giving was listed as the Global Relief Foundation, which was also accused by federal officials of providing financial assistance to terrorists (www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/28/inv.charilty.lawsuit/) The organization's former president and co-founder, Rabih Sami Haddad, lost his immigration appeal and was removed from the United States (www.ice.gov/text/news/newsrel/articles/removal071503.htm)

   Visitors to the site whose "heart did not move much" were invited to look at http://web.archive.org/web/20011003200735/www.amina.com/war/mines/ ,where they saw pictures of landmine victims in the war between Russia and Chechnya.

   Banan has left many other electronic footprints across the Internet. Abubanan: Global Islamic Media Group (http://web.archive.org/web/20011227153924/groups.yahoo.com/group/abubanan/ ) which was started by him on June 29 2001, had 663 members on Dec. 27 the same year. By Feb. 12 2002 the group's membership had increased to 1,042 (http://web.archive.org/web/20020212034232/groups.yahoo.com/group/abubanan )

   There was also an invitation on www.guraba.com in late 2002 (http://web.archive.org/web/20021211110048/www.guraba.com/AbuBanan.htm ) inviting those interested to join the Yahoo group.

    The www.guraba.com Abu Banan page billed Global Islamic Media as a source that "brings to you the real and true news from trustiest sources."

    The Yahoo hosted Abu Banan Global Islamic Media quickly grew in numbers, and later changed its name to Global Islamic Media. The group listed 6,500 members until it was presumably closed by Yahoo in late April.

   The group achieved recent notoriety in part because in Dec. 2003, Islamic militants discussed the possibility of a terrorist attack designed to affect the Spanish general election.

        In a March 2004 Agence France Press (AFP) story, the news agency reported that Britain's Channel 4 News revealed that a Dec. 10 posting on GIM, which had previously carried statements purporting to be from Al-Qaeda affiliates, suggested that attacks could help bring about a Socialist election victory and the withdrawal of Spain's troops from Iraq.

        According to Channel 4 News, the GIM posting was issued under the name of the Centre for Services to the Mujahideen and read, "The approaching general elections in Spain in March next year must be exploited to the extreme. We think that the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw (from Iraq) because of the public pressure on it. If its forces remain after these blows, the victory of the Socialist party will be almost guaranteed, and the withdrawal of Spanish forces will be on its campaign manifesto."

    After the bombings, which killed 200 people and injured 1,500, Spain's conservative party was defeated. Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who criticized President George W. Bush for the Iraq campaign, has withdrawn Spanish troops.

    In late April the group changed its name to Global Islamic Media Centre and again opened up on Yahoo. Soon after a story aired on CNN about GIM, that group also ceased operating.

   Yahoo has repeatedly refused to answer media inquiries about its hosting of radical Islamic sites, but did send this written statement some weeks ago to a reporter. It was from Mary Osako, Yahoo's Director of Communication. She said that those wishing to use Yahoo Groups "agree to not use the Service to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. When notified of content that may be in violation of our Terms of Service, we are committed to reviewing each report and taking appropriate action, generally within 24 hours."

    Banan has a variety of e- mail addresses that include abubanan@hotmail.com, abobanan@hotmail.com and guraba@hotmail.com. Requests for information to those addresses about his on- line activities were not answered but an e- mail to Banan at bnmnet@yahoo.com, an address given for him as administrative and technical site administrator of guraba.com, was answered with a terse, "I am not Abu Banan. It's wrong e mail!"

    In addition to the possible alias mentioned above, Banan could be using a variety of other names that include Abu Banan Ayad, Abu Banan Ayad Abdul Hamid, Ayad Kerkukly, Ayad Hamid Kirkukly, and Ayad Yolcu AbuBanan Kirkukly

    While www.guraba.com is not currently operational, the name is still reserved and the administrative contact is listed as an Abdullah Banan, with a false address in the United Kingdom. Billing and registrant information for the site is listed as an Abdulaziz Almahyoubi, with an address of "Riyadh, UK 11322 SA."

       (The archival research for this article was provided by TPCK).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084291/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096779/posts

Take the dates of the 70% and 90% remarks and extrapolate.

checkout post #31 (below) from this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142593/posts

My husband works at an Air Force Base and they have seen
Arab men taking pictures of our planes. Some people have been followed home. This has been going on for months. They have also seem them checking out large Apartment complexes, they drive away when they see someone watching them.

Time has come to watch and be very careful!Terrorist are here and they mean to harm us.

31 posted on 05/26/2004 1:42:01 PM EDT by sam I am

The Dearborn connection struck me as well, I googled and nothing sufficient other than a company address. Info. on Evergreen American and parent company...no info. on the other two companies. Evergreen was one of the other names on the truck.

Since its establishment by Dr Yung-Fa Chang on 1 September 1968, Evergreen Marine Corp (EMC) has secured its place in shipping history. Since those early days, it has not only survived, but positively thrived on hard-work and perseverance, until today it boasts a fleet of over 100 container vessels. Both in terms of the magnitude of its fleet and its cargo loading capacity, EMC ranks among the world's leading international shipping companies.

But it was not built overnight. In 1975 when the energy crisis hit the world and the shipping industry slumped, EMC had innovative yet practical ideas about how to shape the future and it boldly launched its containership project. With a newly-built fleet of containerships, it started a full container service for the routes linking the Far East with the US West Coast. EMC's fleet of containerships was the first such fleet for Taiwan.

In 1984, EMC made another pioneering move with the launch of the east-west full container service across the world. Its ships sailed throughout the continents of Asia, Europe and the Americas. This move established Evergreen as second to none in the provision of economical and convenient transportation services for global industries.

With more than 240 service locations, EMC covers more than 80 countries with its shipping network. Evergreen's network includes several east-west routes linking southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, Korea and Japan with the east and west coasts of the US. It also provides services from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean. EMC's containerships link Asia with South Africa and South America and Europe with the east coast of the US and are deployed on a range of intensive sailing routes throughout Asia. They travel to India, the Middle East and the Red Sea, as well as sailing on the north-south route linking Asia with Australia. Evergreen provides a full container service linking the east coast of the US with the east coast of South America and Panama with the west coast of South America. Besides the main routes, regular feeder services in the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent are also provided, shortening delivery times and thereby benefiting cargo owners.

Link to Evergreen Web Site

Thanks for the heads-up.

'Al-Qaida letter' claims Spain bombings Friday 12 March 2004, 4:27 Makka Time, 1:27 GMT

A letter purporting to come from al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the grisly train bombings in Madrid, calling them strikes against "crusaders".

A statement on Thursday attributed to al-Qaida and sent to the London-based daily al-Quds al-Arabi claimed responsibility for Thursday's serial bombings in Madrid that left 192 dead and over 1200 wounded.

The statement also claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a Masonic lodge in Istanbul two days earlier and said a big attack on the United States was "imminent".

"We bring the good news to Muslims of the world that the expected 'Winds of Black Death' strike against America is now in its final stages...90% ready and God willing near," it said.

The statement also cautioined Muslims to stay away from "civilian and military institutions of crusader America and its allies."

That's exactly where I think it is. Didn't have a chance to look through much. You have a good memory. Of particular interest see posts #56, 105. We should also revisit and analyze 19/19/19/23. This was the quote discussed in Zawahiri's tape

Ayman al-Zawahri said: "Bush, strengthen your defenses and your security measures for the Muslim nation which sent you the legion of New York and Washington has determined to send you legion after legion seeking death and paradise."

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Excellent detective work. Thanks!