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.

[WestCoastGal]

I'm wondering why a drop in Murietta which is a smallish place quite a ways from San Diego. Will have to check it out to see what if anything is of interest there other than the wider area picture.

[WestCoastGal]

OK, now that is odd.....reason "put it back in the wrong luggage" come on. A homemade "shank" knife.

This did make me think about the cargo.

Can you get from the cargo hold to the cabin? Like in Executive Decision.

Could someone take this knife out of the bag on the tarmac and give it to someone loading the catering supplies?

[StillProud2BeFree]

My guess is Zarqawi was back over the border in Iran before that tape hit the net.

Just my guess but based on his previous patterns.

[JustPiper]

per FNC coming up in a few moments, the WMD has been confirmed by tests to be Sarin

[Quix]

Thanks.

Much wisdom in your post, imho.

[JustPiper]

And two days of NY testifying before the 911 Commission

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks for that update. No matter how the media tries to spin this -- and regardless of how old the stuff is -- you can't tell me that the terrorists who put that explosive device together didn't know what was in it. It was a deliberate attempt to use chemical weapons against our troops.

[JustPiper]

RIP Felix Unger ;)

[Quix]

At least Rummy likes us (paranoids)!

[nw_arizona_granny]

LOL

Thanks........Well I was working with a 50/50 chance of being right, knew one was in New York.

LOL......are they ignoring Boston? or is it that the dems won't attack the democrats?

The dems are calling for the President to release the emergency gas supplies.......

When Clinton did so, it was said freely that all he had to release was about a 2 day (or about that) supply of gas and that it made no difference what so ever in the shortage.

But it left us without gas on hand for an emergency.

It is my opinion that the President is very wise to refuse to release it, no matter what the price of gas is.

We need an emergency supply.

[JustPiper]

Amnesty International denounces Israel
Group says destruction of Palestinian homes a 'war crime'
05/18/04 11:20 AM, EDT
Israel is guilty of war crimes in its destruction of thousands of Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the human rights group Amnesty International charged in a report Tuesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/18/israel.report.ap/index.html

9/11 commission focus moves to New York
05/18/04 After months of focusing on federal failures, the commission probing the September 11 attacks is looking at whether local missteps led to deaths that might have been avoided at the World Trade Center.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/18/911.commission.ap/index.html


Germany: Algerian terrorist caught
05/18/04
An Algerian terrorist who held 32 Europeans hostage in the Sahara Desert last year has been captured in Chad, the German Federal Prosecutor's office said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/18/saifi.arrest/index.html
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NEW DELHI (AP) Sonia Gandhi has told her party she is declining the prime minister's post.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) New York, London, Madrid, Moscow and Paris have been selected as finalists to host 2012 Olympics.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Nigeria's president has declared a state of emergency and suspended the legislature in a violence-torn Plateau state.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Maybe not, the news said no arrests.

Rush is on and talking about Zarqawi now.

[Velveeta]

Well said.

[JustPiper]

Sean Hannity hosts tribute to troops
Concert event raises money for families of personnel killed, disabled

Posted: May 18, 2004

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38536

[Velveeta]

Please let me know if you find anything. I'm trying to drag myself away from FR long enough to tackle this huge pile of paperwork in front of me.

[Velveeta]

Thanks!

[JustPiper]

Colonel Randall on FNC

3 liters of Sarin
those in immediate vicinty in danger

Japan not weapon grade Sarin, formula not right, not sophisticated dispersal but placed in the air will kill thousands

Zarqawi can find or has stockpiles, worldwide network can transport it

thousands of facilities in US with different chemicals are more a threat then Sarin, hundreds of tons need to be protected, industrial chemicals more of a threat

[Velveeta]

Not sure that they're ignoring Boston. As we speak, traffic jam due to fuel tanker overturned. (Gas prices going up with each overturned tanker?)

Oil Tanker Rollover Closes Beacon Street
Drivers Advised To Seek Alternate Routes

POSTED: 6:56 am EDT May 18, 2004
UPDATED: 12:09 pm EDT May 18, 2004

BROOKLINE, Mass. -- A fuel truck rolled over on Beacon Street near the Brookline, Boston, Newton line at Cleveland Circle Tuesday morning, closing the roadway to commuters as emergency crews worked to clean up the spill.

The driver of the Bigelow company truck was uninjured, and it's unclear what caused the accident near Reservoir Road.(snip)
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3317162/detail.html

[knak]

strange stuff in this one (if you all have not seen it yet?)

At the nervous center of homeland security

excerpt: In Miami, a man tried to board an airplane with a bizarre, handmade contraption, a vacuum cleaner hose taped to tin cans and air filters. Federal agents confiscated the hose, worried that it could be used as a lethal device. The man was stopped from boarding and was being questioned. Meanwhile, a digital photo of the device was being studied by a DHS engineer.

• Customs agents and Border Patrol officers were investigating a "tool" sold overseas -- Broderick would not be more specific -- that they feared could be used as a weapon.

• In a northeastern city that Broderick would not name, police and federal agents were working a tip that several empty suitcases had been left in bus terminals and other areas.

[JustPiper]

Bump