Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Nine

Yahoo News ^ | 5-30-04 | DONNA ABU-NASR AP

[WestCoastGal]

"A week ago the red level was introduced in the Lower Normandy area where the weekend's ceremonies will be attended by, among others, President Jacques Chirac, President George W. Bush, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany"

Let's hope France can handle this, I have my doubts.

Thanks for the post, we have several weeks coming up that are critical. Many different events happening.

[Calpernia]

You have freep mail sweetie

U.S.: Padilla Trained to Kill Hundreds

By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla is a trained terrorist who met with top al-Qaida leaders, discussed detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States and accepted an assignment to use natural gas to blow up high-rise apartment buildings, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday.

The disclosure by Deputy Attorney General James Comey, based on interrogations with Padilla and other suspected al-Qaida operatives, came two years after the arrest of the suspected "dirty bomber." It was meant to answer criticism that the government overreached in arresting a U.S. citizen and denying him normal access to the court system.

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[Selene]

6/11, 9/11 upside down and backwards

[Calpernia]

>>>I have never misbehaved here and I'm not starting now

Bullpucky. I saw what you did to the cereal

^-^

[WestCoastGal]

No it was Coco, really!!

;-D

[Letitring]

It will surprise me if France handles it. Amaze me, too. Let's pray our guys can and will protect our President.

[KylaStarr]

Thank you very much Jim Robinson : )

[WestCoastGal]

Lot's of prayers

Goodnight all

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Haven't we been down this tunnel road before?

Tunnels of weapons and images
By Olivier Guitta June 1, 2004


Recently, Israel had to launch a preventive military offensive in Gaza. The goal was to destroy the tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to smuggle arms, explosives, bombs, and very possibly also Katyusha rockets from Egypt into the Gaza Strip. Israel had no choice to act because of the growing threat that terrorists would use their long-range missiles against cities deep inside Israel. The situation in Rafah is very representative of where the peace process is stuck: the physical tunnels, added to the "tunnel of images," are pushing us farther away from any resolution of the conflict.

Since the start of the Second Intifada, or rather Arafat's War, in September 2000, Palestinian terrorists have been building tunnels under civilians' houses in order to smuggle all kind of weaponry. Rafah, a refugee camp administered by the United Nations alongside the Egyptian border, has been the focus point of this activity. Some of the civilians accepted money in exchange for building these tunnels in their houses, some were just relatives of the terrorists while others were forced to accept the digging as fact.


http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3696&enZone=Views&enVersion=0

[Letitring]

Me too. Worn out so I'm saying goodnight.

Everybody play sweet and go hunt terror threats. :)

[Calpernia]

As said in "Horton Hears A Who":

"We are here! We are here! We are here!"

[Letitring]

Tunnels? Oh Lord, don't tell me I'm gonna have to go back in those tunnels. LOL.

Seriously, goodnight everybody. Glad we are back.

[little jeremiah]

placemark.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

This is an excerpt see link for rest...

AL-QAEDA'S Big Mistake
Insight on the News - Washington,DC,USA
Over the last decade, the ruthless terrorists of al-Qaeda have waged one
of the most brilliant political and military campaigns of modern times.
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The weekend attack at Khobar, in which 22 people were killed, produced another Website posting, in which the self-proclaimed al-Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Aziz al-Miqrin, claimed responsibility.

"Our heroic fighters were able, by the grace of God, to raid the locations of the occupying American oil companies ... which are plundering the Muslims' resources," it said. Al-Miqrin also condemned the Saudi government for "supplying the United States with oil for the cheapest prices, according to their master's wish, so that their economy does not collapse."

In another posting, al-Miqrin called on other young jihadis, not affiliated with al-Qaeda, to join the campaign. They need only "create a cell that prepares itself and chooses targets approved by God and then carry out the operation," the statement by al-Miqrin says. He directed them to training lessons on military strikes in the group's Web postings.

Al-Miqrin also praised the Yanbu attack. "The Yanbu cell which this month carried out the daring and successful operation is one of the best examples. They hit the enemy in an important economic facility which had a big effect on world oil prices which continues to this day." (Al-Miqrin may well be right. The Qatari oil minister, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya, told reporters at last week's OPEC meeting in Beirut: "I can say that the equivalent of $8 of a barrel price is the result of the factor of fear.")

This decision to attack the Saudi state through its oil industry may be just the break for which President George Bush and his allies have been hoping. The first result of the attacks by the Brigade of the Two Holy Mosques was to force the Saudi regime itself to come off the fence, begin serious intelligence cooperation and exchange with the Americans, and to mount their own counterinsurgency campaign inside their own country as a matter of self-preservation.

Moreover, America's shrinking and disaffected allies are themselves dependent on imported oil. However reluctant to back the Bush administration, the European leaders that Bush meets this month in his intense burst of diplomacy in Paris, Normandy, Ireland and at the NASTO summit in Istanbul will all be worrying about the oil price, and the stability of oil supplies. If anything can rally the Europeans to a sense of common interest with the Americans, it will be the common concern over oil.

And the Europeans are not the only ones worried. China, which has just replaced Japan as the world's second leading importer of oil (after the United States), is getting desperately concerned. For once, China can perceive a vital common interest with the Americans. This time, al-Qaeda may have gone too far, and given President Bush the opportunity to change the topic from Iraq and to portray the war on terrorism as a matter of economic survival for the civilized world.

If anything can shift the focus of worried governments from American blunderings and the mess in Iraq to the real threat against the Saudi oil supplies, it is the actions of the Brigade of the Two Holy Mosques. This time, even the most pacifist and anti-American Europeans may be able to perceive whose side they are on.

http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/05/28/Commentary/CommentaryalQaedas.Big.Mistake-683844.shtml

[oreolady]

HI,
Lurker here, I appreciate all you efforts to "grab" the news as fast as possible here.
She was a valuable asset.
I surely hope issues regarding SP can rectify themselves, if she would be willing to listen to her REAL freinds pleas to come back to thread and ignore the awful freepmails.
Can anyone please help me with the "placemarks" for saving place in each day's thread?
I am not sure, is it just the normal placing of page into the favorites folder, aka bookmarks?
Any help appreciated, thanks.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

This is really a bad thing infiltrating the military... Lord Dear GOD Please protect our military and adminstration.
Amen

Musharraf's al-Qaeda revelation underlines vulnerability: analysts

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's startling revelation that al-Qaeda-linked extremists infiltrated his military to try to kill him underscore the precariousness of his position, analysts said Monday General Musharraf, who also holds the powerful post of army chief, disclosed on television last week that low-ranking army and airforce technicians were swayed by Islamic extremists to try to assassinate him by blowing up a bridge.

http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/tue/jun1w27.htm

[LikeLight]

Great to have the TM back!

[drymans wife]

GREAT TO SEE WE ARE BACK UP!!!
IVE JUST BEEN LURKING PAST COUPLE OF DAYS WAITING FOR
THINGS TO CHILL.

I will be going home to the Dallas area for a week. I
will check in from time to time.

Stay Safe
Keep Up the Good Work
Good Night

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Every night I just add to favorites where I am at. I always need to go back a bit so I don't lose the feel for the thread.

[oreolady]

thanks, Freepers Rule!!!