Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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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.

[jimbo123]

EOM/Gadahn is probably not in the US but is in Pakistan with his Afghan wife and kid. But he has been aware of Al Qaeda plans and likes to taunt people with his knowledge which comes about as his role as a translator and internet tracker. And EOM's pre-9/11 taunt is in the same character of his followup posts 2 years later:

http://homelandsecurityus.com/0911P.htm

EOM/Gadahn knows about the plans and should be taken seriously, despite the disinformation about his supposed travels to America. He's too valuable to Al Qaeda as a translator in Pakistan, not as a suicide operative.

[all4one]

See post 3351 by olde north church. In his post he used "stotting", a description for animals who are aware of a predator. I made the word into a descriptive noun...which may or may not be a real word.

[all4one]

Thanks for all that you do. May we all be made safer by your gathering and posting of important information. And may God watch over us all at this time.

[milkncookies]

Great link Jimbo. That was exactly what I was referring to. Thanks.

[Labyrinthos]

A local license plate is a red flag. It usually signals a room rental used for drug parties or a transient meth lab.

Wrong: It usually signals a room rental by two people who want to be alone and intimate either because they don't want their spouses to know or they lack the kind of privacy they would like at their place of abode. Either way, its none of the LEOs business.

[all4one]

My personal thought about this incident, is that maybe the woman who was exposed to the Ebola and died knew too much. Maybe she found out about missing viruses, or a specific plan for bio-terror.

[freeperfromnj]

2 SUSPECTED AL-QAEDA AGENTS DROPPED IN FOR MEAL, SAYS DENNY'S MANAGER IN AVON

By Jim Kirksey
Denver Post Staff Writer

The FBI office in Denver has received "numerous" calls about the seven people believed to be associated with al-Qaeda pictured Wednesday in newspapers.

Monique Kelso, spokeswoman for the Denver office, wouldn't characterize the calls as "sightings," but at least one was reported as such.

Samuel Mac, manager of the Denny's in Avon, isn't happy with the response he got from the FBI when he reported that two of them ate at his restaurant Wednesday.

When he called the FBI in Washington, D.C., Mac said the man who answered the telephone said he had to call the Denver office and declined to take down any of the information.

When he called the Denver office, he was shuttled to voice mail because the agents were busy, Mac said. It was five hours before a seemingly uninterested agent called back.

Mac said two men - he subsequently identified them from their photographs as Adnan G. El Shukrijumah and Abderraouf Jdey - came into Denny's, which is just off Interstate 70, about 8 p.m.

One ordered a chicken sandwich and a salad, the other just a salad, Mac said. They were demanding, rude and obnoxious, he said.

They said they were from Iran and were driving from New York to the West Coast.

When the FBI agent called him back, she took a few notes and said she would pass the information along to the field agents, according to Mac.

Kelso said the Denver FBI office has received at least a dozen calls about the pictures. The calls are all taken seriously and "we follow up on every lead," she said.

But she said the FBI has no reason to believe any of the seven are in Colorado or traveling through.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~6439~2177173,00.html

[all4one]

After trying to catch-up on hundreds of threads....just from last evening...I will be signing-off for the long week-end. I pray that everyone is prepared for anything. Have an enjoyable week-end with family and friends. Remember those in our military, past and present who help to keep us free and safe. May God look after them, and everyone here who are keeping the Threat Matrix moving forward.

I will be keeping a keen eye on the occurances along my area of the coastline here in the Northeast. One occurance last week-end that happened and I am just posting, because I thought it may be a little too sensitive. There was increased Coast Guard activity. But the most interesting was a very large red helicopter (similar to one that was mentioned 2,000 posts ago in Arizona). This large red helicopter was flying very low (20 ft.) over the sand dunes on the beach. Anyway now at the end of this week, it has been reported that the Army corps of engineers is looking for WWII ordinance in that area where the helicopter was flying. Not out of the question, since there were outposts in that area during WWII. But, I hope that that is really what they are looking to find.

JustPiper, you posted info. regarding the three children in Baltimore who were beheaded. I pray that they find out who did this horrible crime. In the news it mentioned that an officer who was on the job for 35 years had to leave the scene, because it was too horrible. I have a hypothesis that if this was a random crime, it could possibly be related to terrorism. In the edicts from Osama and his followers, kidnapping and murder are among the things that they encourage among their followers. The gruesomeness of this seems outside the realm of most crimes...almost to link it to what the Islamics did to Nick Berg. I know that it is a streatch of imagination, but I want to make sure that if there are dots to be connected we are aware of odd occurances.

I believe like someone earlier posted on this thread; that there could be a link to terrorism with the recent missing college students. If you do a search on Google for "missing" under the news link on Google. There is a number of missing people and students in the recent months. Many have not been widely reported. The Juliard student in NY and the way she was found, tulip petals, etc....if it isn't a serial killer....it may be from someone connected to terrorism that is trying to send a message. These hypothesis are just from gut and intuitive feelings that I get when I find and hear these stories.

I look forward to trying to catch-up on 1,000+ posts on Tuesday.

[Domestic Church]

Somebody playing with Tesla's toys?

Magnitude 6.2 - NORTHERN IRAN

2004 May 28 12:38:46 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A strong earthquake occurred at 12:38:46 (UTC) on Friday, May 28, 2004. The magnitude 6.2 event has been located in NORTHERN IRAN. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)


Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time Friday, May 28, 2004 at 12:38:46 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
Friday, May 28, 2004 at 5:08:46 PM = local time at epicenter

Location 36.275°N, 51.570°E
Depth 26.1 km (16.2 miles) set by location program Region NORTHERN IRAN
Distances 69 km (43 miles) N (10°) from TEHRAN, Iran
366 km (228 miles) SE (138°) from Lankaran, Azerbaijan
434 km (270 miles) SSW (197°) from Turkmenbasy (Krasnovodsk), Turkmenistan

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usjaan.htm

[freeperfromnj]

Hmmmmm....

[olde north church]

And I wonder if his Al Qaeda friends know about his Jewish heritage.
If these AQ types are "honestly" what they claim to be, actual believers in islam and the qa'ran, they would accept his conversion, Jews and Christians are considered "people of the book".
If they are using islam to cover a terrorist group, it wouldn't matter. Ask Nick Berg.
In they end, it wouldn't matter, they would use him to their own advantage.

[bored at work]

Somebody playing with Tesla's toys?

Possibly, what do you think QUIX?

[Velveeta]

You go girl! Keep them on their toes.

A great big thank you to you and to all the anti-jihad warriors out there.

God Bless!
Vel

[Lucy Lake]

A local license plate is a red flag. It usually signals a room rental used for drug parties or a transient meth lab.

Once when the house was fumigated for termites, we took the cats and stayed in a local motel for a few days. Another time, we had out of town guests, so we stayed in the motel and turned the house over to the guests.

[Velveeta]

You should report that incident.

[freeperfromnj]

The gruesomeness of this seems outside the realm of most crimes...

I agree and also thought the worst. You have a safe weekend and enjoy. Hopefully all will be calm in the homeland. Planning to take a terror break myself (this thread is so addicting that I don't know if I can make it throught the weekend without checking in).

[Bethshaya]

EOM is likely El-Matti, his initials being E.O.M.

[milkncookies]

Navy to Deploy Carrier Groups to Test Rapid Readiness

"A major exercise soon to be underway will have a large part of the Navy fleet deploying out of Norfolk.

WAVY News 10 has learned the Navy is sending seven carrier strike groups out to sea.

The exercise is designed to test the Navy's new rapid deployment readiness.

Several Norfolk-based carrier strike groups will participate. The USS George Washington is already deployed. Two others, the USS Enterprise and USS Harry S Truman will leave soon.

Other carriers involved in the exercise include the USS John F. Kennedy, the USS John S. Stennis, and the USS Ronald Reagan - which left Norfolk on Thursday.

While the Navy won't say where the seven carrier groups are going, the carriers not already deployed are expected to be gone for only one to two months."

Question: Is it standard procedure not to divulge where carriers are going when conducting exercises?

[Labyrinthos]

Where does the "O" in EOM come from?

[bored at work]

We generally think of "terrorism" as acts against cities or countrys. I have to stand back and rethink this. Decapitation of three children! This is terrorism in its rawest form. Terrorism against individuals. . .children no doubt. Our American children! The thought that this might be a new wave against us. . .sorry for the rant. . .