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.

[appalachian_dweller]

Sounds like something is in the works. Thanks folks for the info (worrisome as it may be). Still better to see the threats coming than to turn a blind eye.

Honestly, please keep us informed on the CBOT situation.

[Honestly]

From looking on the internet, the address is listed as 141 West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. I tried to find more at the CBOT site and found a really eerie picture of a man who bears a striking resemblance to UBL at this link: http://www.cbot.com/cbot/building/page/0,3473,540,00.html

[rickylc]

Do they have confirmation it WASN't smallpox?

If this guy was in California at the time of those 5 suspicious semi's, this would be about the right time for incubation of smallpox wouldn't it? From what I saw on the CDC page incubation is 7-17 days.

I would also expect to see a whole lot more cases turning up very soon. Particularly in truckers.

What a way to cripple the country!

Can you imagine what would happen if all truck drivers needed to be quarrentined?

How long ago were those trucks spotted? It seems to me it was about 2 weeks ago, but my sense of time has been really of for a few months, days seem like weeks sometimes.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Remember the Russian Convoy that got hit?

when all the truth is listed, france, russia, germany, n. korea and several other countries are going to have to be faced as a full enemy.

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Open Letter to the President
February 19, 1998

Dear Mr. President,
Many of us were involved in organizing the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf in 1990 to support President Bush's policy of expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Seven years later, Saddam Hussein is still in power in Baghdad. And despite his defeat in the Gulf War, continuing sanctions, and the determined effort of UN inspectors to fetter out and destroy his weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein has been able to develop biological and chemical munitions. To underscore the threat posed by these deadly devices, the Secretaries of State and Defense have said that these weapons could be used against our own people. And you have said that this issue is about "the challenges of the 21st Century."
Iraq's position is unacceptable. While Iraq is not unique in possessing these weapons, it is the only country which has used them -- not just against its enemies, but its own people as well. We must assume that Saddam is prepared to use them again. This poses a danger to our friends, our allies, and to our nation.
It is clear that this danger cannot be eliminated as long as our objective is simply "containment," and the means of achieving it are limited to sanctions and exhortations. As the crisis of recent weeks has demonstrated, these static policies are bound to erode, opening the way to Saddam's eventual return to a position of power and influence in the region. Only a determined program to change the regime in Baghdad will bring the Iraqi crisis to a satisfactory conclusion.
For years, the United States has tried to remove Saddam by encouraging coups and internal conspiracies. These attempts have all failed. Saddam is more wily, brutal and conspiratorial than any likely conspiracy the United States might mobilize against him. Saddam must be overpowered; he will not be brought down by a coup d'etat. But Saddam has an Achilles' heel: lacking popular support, he rules by terror. The same brutality which makes it unlikely that any coups or conspiracies can succeed, makes him hated by his own people and the rank and file of his military. Iraq today is ripe for a broad-based insurrection. We must exploit this opportunity.
Saddam's long record of treaty violations, deception, and violence shows that diplomacy and arms control will not constrain him. In the absence of a broader strategy, even extensive air strikes would be ineffective in dealing with Saddam and eliminating the threat his regime poses. We believe that the problem is not only the specifics of Saddam's actions, but the continued existence of the regime itself.
What is needed now is a comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime. It will not be easy -- and the course of action we favor is not without its problems and perils. But we believe the vital national interests of our country require the United States to:
· Recognize a provisional government of Iraq based on the principles and leaders of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) that is representative of all the peoples of Iraq.
· Restore and enhance the safe haven in northern Iraq to allow the provisional government to extend its authority there and establish a zone in southern Iraq from which Saddam's ground forces would also be excluded.
· Lift sanctions in liberated areas. Sanctions are instruments of war against Saddam's regime, but they should be quickly lifted on those who have freed themselves from it. Also, the oil resources and products of the liberated areas should help fund the provisional government's insurrection and humanitarian relief for the people of liberated Iraq.
· Release frozen Iraqi assets -- which amount to $1.6 billion in the United States and Britain alone -- to the control of the provisional government to fund its insurrection. This could be done gradually and so long as the provisional government continues to promote a democratic Iraq.
· Facilitate broadcasts from U.S. transmitters immediately and establish a Radio Free Iraq.
· Help expand liberated areas of Iraq by assisting the provisional government's offensive against Saddam Hussein's regime logistically and through other means.
· Remove any vestiges of Saddam's claim to "legitimacy" by, among other things, bringing a war crimes indictment against the dictator and his lieutenants and challenging Saddam's credentials to fill the Iraqi seat at the United Nations.
· Launch a systematic air campaign against the pillars of his power -- the Republican Guard divisions which prop him up and the military infrastructure that sustains him.
· Position U.S. ground force equipment in the region so that, as a last resort, we have the capacity to protect and assist the anti-Saddam forces in the northern and southern parts of Iraq.
Once you make it unambiguously clear that we are serious about eliminating the threat posed by Saddam, and are not just engaged in tactical bombing attacks unrelated to a larger strategy designed to topple the regime, we believe that such countries as Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, whose cooperation would be important for the implementation of this strategy, will give us the political and logistical support to succeed.
In the present climate in Washington, some may misunderstand and misinterpret strong American action against Iraq as having ulterior political motives. We believe, on the contrary, that strong American action against Saddam is overwhelmingly in the national interest, that it must be supported, and that it must succeed. Saddam must not become the beneficiary of an American domestic political controversy.
We are confident that were you to launch an initiative along these line, the Congress and the country would see it as a timely and justifiable response to Iraq's continued intransigence. We urge you to provide the leadership necessary to save ourselves and the world from the scourge of Saddam and the weapons of mass destruction that he refuses to relinquish.
Sincerely,

Hon. Stephen Solarz
Former Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
Hon. Richard Perle
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense
Hon. Elliot Abrams
President, Ethics & Public Policy Center; Former Assistant Secretary of State
Richard V. Allen
Former National Security Advisor
Hon. Richard Armitage
President, Armitage Associates, L.C.; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense
Jeffrey T. Bergner
President, Bergner, Bockorny, Clough & Brain; Former Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hon. John Bolton
Senior Vice President, American Enterprise Institute; Former Assistant Secretary of State
Stephen Bryen
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Hon. Richard Burt
Chairman, IEP Advisors, Inc.; Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany; Former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
Hon. Frank Carlucci
Former Secretary of Defense
Hon. Judge William Clark
Former National Security Advisor
Paula J. Dobriansky
Vice President, Director of Washington Office, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Member, National Security Council
Doug Feith
Managing Attorney, Feith & Zell P.C.; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy
Frank Gaffney
Director, Center for Security Policy; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces
Jeffrey Gedmin
Executive Director, New Atlantic Initiative; Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Hon. Fred C. Ikle
Former Undersecretary of Defense
Robert Kagan
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Director, Strategy and Doctrine, RAND Corporation
Sven F. Kraemer
Former Director of Arms Control, National Security Council
William Kristol
Editor, The Weekly Standard
Michael Ledeen
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Former Special Advisor to the Secretary of State
Bernard Lewis
Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies, Princeton University
R. Admiral Frederick L. Lewis
U.S. Navy, Retired
Maj. Gen. Jarvis Lynch
U.S. Marine Corps, Retired
Hon. Robert C. McFarlane
Former National Security Advisor
Joshua Muravchik
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Robert A. Pastor
Former Special Assistant to President Carter for Inter-American Affairs
Martin Peretz
Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic
Roger Robinson
Former Senior Director of International Economic Affairs, National Security Council
Peter Rodman
Director of National Security Programs, Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom; Former Director, Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State
Hon. Peter Rosenblatt
Former Ambassador to the Trust Territories of the Pacific
Hon. Donald Rumsfeld
Former Secretary of Defense
Gary Schmitt
Executive Director, Project for the New American Century; Former Executive Director, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Max Singer
President, The Potomac Organization; Former President, The Hudson Institute
Hon. Helmut Sonnenfeldt
Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution; Former Counsellor, U.S. Department of State
Hon. Caspar Weinberger
Former Secretary of Defense
Leon Wienseltier
Literary Editor, The New Republic
Hon. Paul Wolfowitz
Dean, Johns Hopkins SAIS; Former Undersecretary of Defense
David Wurmser
Director, Middle East Program, AEI; Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Dov S. Zakheim
Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

[Calpernia]

Where oh where did all that money go??


http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/cfsp-00-f-6.htm

NIX TO BLIX: MAN WHO CERTIFIED IRAQ AS NON-NUCLEAR IS UNLIKELY TO FIND -- OR EVEN TO SEEK -- SADDAM'S HIDDEN WEAPONS
Security Council's Choice is Sure Sign of End of 'Containment'
Center for Security Policy
SECURITY FORUM No. 00-F 6
27 January 2000

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President Bill Clinton signed the 1998 act which was supposed to invest $97 million in this project. Apparently only $20,000 has been disbursed to the opposition groups - enough to buy some basic office supplies. The London office of the Iraqi National Congress, the main democratic opposition group, shut down at the end of last year. All this dithering and incompetence has enabled Saddam to replace his bombast after the Gulf War with a credible claim to have rolled back allied achievements then. If anyone still thinks Saddam will be content just with that, they will be deluding themselves

[knak]

Tests Reveal No Smallpox At Kentucky Hospital

A London hospital is back open Wednesday. Test results reveal the patient in question did not have smallpox.

[rickylc]

Hi Calpernia!

Glad to see you back and posting again. I hope your computer troubles have been cleared up!!

I noticed a few post by you that last week or so and just hadn't taken the time yet to welcome you back..

You were missed!!

[Honestly]

Ambulances respond to Chicago Mercantile Exchange
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/051904_ns_mercexchange.html
snip: Trading was not affected but traffic has been rerouted around the area and several streets are closed.

[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks Honestly. I wonder what the fumes were/are?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Please everyone, take time to plant a garden, if only 2 or 3 types of vegies.

Squash dries nicely, so does spinach and swiss chard.

Smallpox or indeed several diseases (isn't one variety of Anthrax, fever and sores?), will stop the trucks, if it is spread among the drivers.

I have worked in 2 different truck stops, the drivers are often pushed for time and running with 5 or 6 log books, they fuel and eat and drive, without time to take a bath or any thing else. and no disrespect is intended, I prefer working with truckers over any other group.

If this is a germ that is spread on door knobs, then there is no stopping it, it will be through out the public in days.

Plant and store food.

[Calpernia]

Keep in mind that we got through thousands of years, without a cell phone (I don't have one).

Spies use signals like the color of the curtains in a window, a chalk mark on a fence, door or even a statue.

How about keep an eye on me, yellow shirt, means tomorrow, green one is as planned, we go as per the plan.

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"Hawking" (in arabic hawk and eagle are the same word)

http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2003/feature_koerner_julaug03.html

Your Cellphone is a Homing Device

Don't want the government to know where you are? Throw away your cell, stop taking the subway, and pay the toll in cash.
By Brendan I. Koerner
IF YOU PURCHASED A NEW CELLPHONE over the past 18 months or so, odds are that one of the features listed in small print on the side of the box was "E911 capable." Or, as in the case of my latest Motorola, "Location technology for piece [sic] of mind." Perhaps you asked the salesman to explain the feature, and he replied that it means that cops can home in on your phone in case of an emergency, a potentially important perk should you ever find your hand pinned beneath an immovable boulder in rural Utah, as Aron Ralston did recently. Assuming he could have gotten a signal, an E911-capable phone might have saved the young backpacker the pain of having to amputate his own arm.

What your salesman probably failed to tell you—and may not even realize—is that an E911-capable phone can give your wireless carrier continual updates on your location. The phone is embedded with a Global Positioning System chip, which can calculate your coordinates to within a few yards by receiving signals from satellites. GPS technology gave U.S. military commanders a vital edge during Gulf War II, and sailors and pilots depend on it as well. In the E911-capable phone, the GPS chip does not wait until it senses danger, springing to life when catastrophe strikes; it's switched on whenever your handset is powered up and is always ready to transmit your location data back to a wireless carrier's computers. Verizon or T-Mobile can figure out which manicurist you visit just as easily as they can pinpoint a stranded motorist on Highway 59.

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THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY HAS A NAME FOR SUCH CUSTOM-TAILORED HAWKING: "location-based services," or LBS. The idea is that GPS chips can be used to locate friends, find the nearest pizzeria, or ensure that Junior is really at the library rather than a keg party. One estimate expects LBS to be a $15 billion market by 2007, a much-needed boost for the flagging telecom sector.

(snip)

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Next point:

http://www.worldsearch.com/electronics/hacking/
(note the URL NAME = hacking)

Hawking Technology H-A16SIP Hi-Gain 6dB Omnidirectional Wireless Antenna

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http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=1521

Wireless hacking threat grows
Posted by Mirko Zorz - LogError
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 2:29 PM CET


The growing popularity of wireless technology is opening corporate networks to hackers as administrators face a trade-off between security and demand for easy access.

Companies are rolling out wireless networks because they are cheaper and more flexible than cable, but the nature of wireless and lack of strong encryption technologies means they are vulnerable to attack.

While warchalking - marking of pavements to indicate a wireless access point, or hotspot - was not yet common here, two types of people were taking note, VeriSign enterprise consultant Richard Miller said.

Some were looking for free wireless access to the internet. But others were seeking useful information on corporate networks they entered.

Pressure to provide wide-ranging access to users meant some wireless networks were operating in default mode - either deliberately or inadvertently.

[rickylc]

That's really really good advice!!

Ive always had at least a small garden, if for no other reason than there's nothin' like homegrown tomatoes!!

[nw_arizona_granny]

Hope this gets sent to every person in broadcasting and news.

We have been warned by the best of our men.

But clinton was busy under his desk...................

Thank you for posting this. Is it possible to send me a copy at my Yahoo address, so I can forward it to others?

Please!

[riri]

My daughter jus had chicken pox about six weeks ago. Yes, you run the fever, aches, etc. about 24 hours before the rash sets in. She was sick one day, felt better the next and later that day the pox started to show up. She had a mild case as she had two immunizations. My son, 3, had only one immunization and never contracted it from her.

If I am not mistaken, chicken pox usually manifests itself as shingles in adults. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[milkncookies]

British embassy in Tehran hit with petrol bombs

Not sure if this was already posted so I'll just provide a link.

[appalachian_dweller]

More about shingles...

http://www.state.sd.us/doh/Pubs/shingles.htm

[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks for the heads up Liz!

Soda can w/ wires sticking out? That is strange. I wonder what's in the can. Please ping me if you hear any more about this. I have to drive right by Dulles every day to and from work.

Thanks again!

[nw_arizona_granny]

If you want to follow the money, then do a quick google search for:

Hilary Clinton muslim supporters

The titles will curl your hair, no need to do more than remind us of why/how they own two luxury homes.

[milkncookies]

I guess we get what we deserve.

What do we offer the world?

"So, how do we advance the cause of female emancipation in the Muslim world?" asks Richard Perle in "An End to Evil." He replies, "We need to remind the women of Islam ceaselessly: Our enemies are the same as theirs; our victory will be theirs as well."

Well, the neoconservative cause "of female emancipation in the Muslim world" was probably set back a bit by the photo shoot of Pfc. Lynndie England and the "Girls Gone Wild" of Abu Ghraib prison. Indeed, the filmed orgies among U.S. military police outside the cells of Iraqi prisoners, the S&M humiliation of Muslim men, the sexual torment of their women raise a question. Exactly what are the "values" the West has to teach the Islamic world?

"This war ... is about – deeply about – sex," declaims neocon Charles Krauthammer. Militant Islam is "threatened by the West because of our twin doctrines of equality and sexual liberation." But whose "twin doctrines" is Krauthammer talking about? The sexual liberation he calls our doctrine belongs to a '60s revolution that devout Christians, Jews and Muslims have been resisting for years.

What does Krauthammer mean by sexual liberation? The right of "tweeners" and teenage girls to dress and behave like Britney Spears? Their right to condoms in junior high? Their right to abortion without parental consent?

If conservatives reject the "equality" preached by Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, NARAL and the National Organization for Women, why seek to impose it on the Islamic world? Why not stand beside Islam, and against Hollywood and Hillary?

In June 2002 at West Point, President Bush said, "Moral truth is the same in every culture, in every time and in every place."

But even John Kerry does not agree with George Bush on the morality of homosexual unions and stem-cell research. On such issues, conservative Americans have more in common with devout Muslims than with liberal Democrats.

The president notwithstanding, Americans no longer agree on what is moral truth. For as someone said a few years back, there is a cultural war going on in this country – a religious war. It is about who we are, what we believe and what we stand for as a people.

What some of us view as the moral descent of a great and Godly republic into imperial decadence, neocons see as their big chance to rule the world.

In Georgia, recently, the president declared to great applause: "I can't tell you how proud I am of our commitment to values. ... That commitment to values is going to be an integral part of our foreign policy as we move forward. These aren't American values, these are universal values. Values that speak universal truths." But what universal values is he talking about? If he intends to impose the values of MTV America on the Muslim world in the name of a "world democratic revolution," he will provoke and incite a war of civilizations America cannot win because Americans do not want to fight it. This may be the neocons' war. It is not our war.

When Bush speaks of freedom as God's gift to humanity, does he mean the First Amendment freedom of Larry Flynt to produce pornography and of Salman Rushdie to publish "The Satanic Verses" – a book considered blasphemous to the Islamic faith? If the Islamic world rejects this notion of freedom, why is it our duty to change their thinking? Why are they wrong?

When the president speaks of freedom, does he mean the First Amendment prohibition against our children reading the Bible and being taught the Ten Commandments in school?

If the president wishes to fight a moral crusade, he should know the enemy is inside the gates. The great moral and cultural threats to our civilization come not from outside America, but from within. We have met the enemy, and he is us. The war for the soul of America is not going to be lost or won in Fallujah.

Unfortunately, Pagan America of 2004 has far less to offer the world in cultural fare than did Christian America of 1954. Many of the movies, books, magazines, TV shows, videos and much of the music we export to the world are as poisonous as the narcotics the Royal Navy forced on the Chinese people in the Opium Wars.

A society that accepts the killing of a third of its babies as women's "emancipation," that considers homosexual marriage to be social progress, that hands out contraceptives to 13-year-old girls at junior high ought to be seeking out a confessional – better yet, an exorcist – rather than striding into a pulpit like Elmer Gantry to lecture mankind on the superiority of "American values." Pat Buchanan