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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Nine
Yahoo News ^ | 5-30-04 | DONNA ABU-NASR AP

Posted on 05/30/2004 12:05:02 AM PDT by JustPiper

Picture credit: TheCabal

Picture Credit:Calpernia

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

LINK TO THREAD EIGHT

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia - Tens of American, European and other hostages were released Sunday and a gunman believed to be the lead Islamic militant holding them was arrested, a Saudi security official said, adding that two other gunmen were "in the process of being arrested."

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm



TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
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To: Mossad1967

THANKS MUCH.

Do you have a system for quantifying/rating puzzle pieces?


2,081 posted on 06/03/2004 8:38:15 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Velveeta
Thanks!

I checked your profile, that's a great reference.

No problem. I will continue to add to it for more reference points, I already have the grand goal of teaching Arabic after I have mastered it (that'll be the day!). :-p

2,082 posted on 06/03/2004 8:38:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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To: Conservative Renegade

UHHHHHH, OK.

My Morse code is too rusty but I don't think it's that anyway.

Not sure what your point is.

So it is wasted on me.


2,083 posted on 06/03/2004 8:39:28 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Mossad1967

That's certainly a different slant on things, huh? :)

'67, what are your thoughts? Do you think whatever is going to happen is about to happen? (thank God you know what I mean, that sounds so weird)


2,084 posted on 06/03/2004 8:40:25 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: Velveeta
The full moon started last night JUNE 3 4 20 UT

"our bodies are made up of about 80 percent water, which means that just like the oceans we are subjected to the power and influence of the changing moon phases"

2,085 posted on 06/03/2004 8:48:02 PM PDT by Selene
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To: LayoutGuru2

You are so smart. FReepers rock. Thanks for the information.

How do things look on the sites tonight? Are they quiet and do you think that was an activate order?


2,086 posted on 06/03/2004 8:48:07 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: Selene

That scared the fool out of me! I thought we had a new picture for a moment. Groannnnn and LOL.


2,087 posted on 06/03/2004 8:49:27 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: nw_arizona_granny
It is like them, to give a date in the future and hit before or after, while we worry about the dummy date.

Keeps us busy though!

I have to call it a night. Goodnight to you and to all.

2,088 posted on 06/03/2004 8:53:41 PM PDT by Velveeta
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Defeating Terrorists on the Waterfront (serious & informational)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147228/posts

This article by Commander James Pelkofski, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of the USS Deyo (DD-980), was published in the June 2004 Proceedings, a U.S. Naval Institute magazine.)


2,089 posted on 06/03/2004 8:56:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: liberallyconservative

." There are enough monitoring sites around the globe that, if something this devastating were headed our way, there's no way it wouldn't be seen FAR in advance, and there would be no way to "hush it up."


While I generally agree with this statement, Comet Bradfield
was discovered by a guy with a 3" telescope (a very good one) only a few weeks/days before it passed Sol pretty closely.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1119037/posts?page=204

There is a lot of speculation that it was identified by space agencies, but was kept quiet somehow. Not sure why, or that I even believe it, but curious. How could they have missed it(Comet Bradfield)? Something else that is for sure is the arrival of Asteroid Toutatis 9/29/04. It should pass harmlessly and not get that close again for 500 years. But it is real close and this article seems to hint at the margin of error that is involved in these type calculations:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040503.html

Interesting times indeed.



2,090 posted on 06/03/2004 8:57:47 PM PDT by Imperialist
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6/3/04 HAZMAT workers inspect truck in Nacogdoches County, let it go

Suggest reading the article carefully. Something is odd -- a cop got sick from the fumes, but LATER, when the truck was examined, it wasn't leaking. They said it may have been "overflow" -- did the tanker get rid of some of it's hazardous cargo between the time the police stopped it, and when it was stopped the second time?

2,091 posted on 06/03/2004 9:04:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: All
I was surprised to hear about the levee break. The levees never break unless we have had rain. We have had none in weeks. Maybe it was the full moon?

Also this IS NOT good. The water supply to SF and LA will be affected. The salt water will contaminate the fresh water. Massive flooding. Rail line and HWY 4 are not closed yet.

I need some tin foil.

http://www.kxtv.com/headlines.asp

2,092 posted on 06/03/2004 9:06:05 PM PDT by Selene
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To: Letitring

I've been watching many Yahoo! groups and this is only post that caught my attention lately.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nf_9/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OBLCrew/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShaBaB_iN_Re7LaH/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moqawama/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mojahedoon/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Khattab/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jehaad/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jehaaadlast/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/irhab/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iraqoccupation/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/In2islam/
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/EYES_OF_KUWAIT/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eom_and_daleel/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Daleel_Almojahid_1_/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BRAVEMUSLIMS/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArabGroups-Arch/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Almojahid/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al_Morabitoon/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ahlal_sunnah/


2,093 posted on 06/03/2004 9:08:44 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious)
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To: LayoutGuru2

Thank you SO much. I can't yahoo and it really helps when y'all tell me things. I truly appreciate it.


2,094 posted on 06/03/2004 9:14:11 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: LayoutGuru2

Wow. Well, their pictures look just as violent as ever. Not quite as graphic as they once were.


2,095 posted on 06/03/2004 9:21:23 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: All

Jeremy Reynalds
www.joyjunction.org


Yahoo Continues to Host al Qaeda Mouthpiece:
Funds Managed by Fidelity Investments Account for 7 Percent of Yahoo Stock Ownership

 


 With only two members, the new Yahoo sponsored Global Islamic Media Center might at first be considered to be a far cry from the 6,500 members the group used to boast.

 

 However, Global Islamic Media (GIM) still has every indication of being just as much an al Qaeda affiliate as when it had thousands of adherents.

 

 Its messages also point to a new al Qaeda web site, located at www.hostinganime.com/neda2/page/alakat.htm . At press time this site was still on line.

 

 The fact that Yahoo continues to allow this group to stay on line is puzzling. Like any business Yahoo depends on consumer confidence and the public's willingness to buy what it offers. As a Hoover Company Profile noted, "Yahoo generates most of its revenue from banner advertising sales and sponsorship ads, but is diversifying its revenue streams; the company also sells search engine result listings to advertisers, collects subscription fees, and charges for business services such as Yahoo Personals and Yahoo Mail." 

 

 Rotating advertisements for companies that include Verizon Wireless run behind a number of messages ( http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/globalislamicmediacenter/message/77 )

 

 Verizon Wireless did not respond to a request for comment, but in a previous interview concerning placement of Verizon Wireless advertisements on the GIM site, Jim Gerace, a spokesperson for Verizon Wireless, said  "We have to figure out how this happened and I have to do our own diligence. If this is true this is not what we intended to do, and we would protest."

 

 Yahoo has not commented on its continued hosting of the GIM group other than to send out this statement (in response to a previous request for information) 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."

 

 However, GIM remains on Yahoo.

 

 Interestingly, portfolio managers of some funds managed by Fidelity Investments, a huge mutual fund company, have chosen to invest quite substantially in Yahoo.  Money from funds managed by Fidelity Investments (also known as FMR Corporation) according to public filings account for 7.3 percent of Yahoo's common stock ownership (Yahoo co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang own 6.9 percent and 5.6 percent Yahoo common stock respectively).

 

 According to an online description ( http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/40/40150.html ) "FMR Corp. is ‘semper fidelis' (ever faithful) to its core business. The financial services conglomerate, better known as Fidelity Investments, is the world's #1 mutual fund company. Serving some 18 million individual and institutional clients, Fidelity manages nearly 340 funds and has approximately $775 billion of assets under management. Among its notable offerings is the Magellan Fund, which was for many years the US's largest. The founding Johnson family controls most of FMR; Abigail Johnson, CEO Ned's daughter and heir apparent, is the largest single shareholder with about 25%."

 

 A spokesman for Fidelity said the organization does not comment on companies where funds are placed, but added that the choice where to invest is made by portfolio managers. 
 GIM's al Qaeda connection is routinely accepted by many analysts. Paul Eedle, a British investigative reporter who specializes in radical Islam, was interviewed by CNN in March. He commented, "The Global Islamic Media list .... puts out a stream of statements, 30 to 50 a month, explaining the group's strategy and claiming responsibility for its actions, including the Madrid (train) bombings ... "

 

           In his interview with CNN Eedle also referred to a statement published on GIM that referred to the then upcoming train bombings in Spain.  He said, "This was a strategy document published in December by the Global Islamic Media list which described in enormous detail a strategy for driving America out of Iraq by attacking what al Qaeda thinks is the weakest link in the coalition, that is, Spain. So it prefigured the Madrid bombings. I think that shows us just how, even though there are semi- independent cells of al Qaeda around the world, it's the strategy coming from the center, from particularly Ayman al-Zawahri, that is really keeping the whole group on course."

 

       According to Eedle, the Internet has been a wonderful creation for al Qaeda. "The Net creates a virtual meeting place, a glue that holds together al Qaeda, even though its leadership has been holed up in the mountains and is now surrounded."

 

 The Yahoo GIM site is well known for the distinctive parchment type background on all of its messages. Analysis of the sending data of one of the messages showed that the parchment is being stored on the servers of www.jihadunspun.net, a controversial pro-Islamic site that has been run out of Canada by an individual who allegedly converted to the Islamic faith after 9/11.

 

 E-mails to www.jihadunspun.net asking for information about whether the group has a relationship with the administrators of Yahoo's GIM  were not answered.

 

 GIM made use of another Internet service provider to store its distinctive logo. It was housed at  www.bayanit.com/upload/protected/psddd1.jpg, a Sudanese online upload service. The site's U.S. registrant and administrator is listed as being in Peoria, AZ.

 

 A company spokesman – originally from the Sudan –  was not pleased when he learned from a reporter that the GIM logo was being stored on his company's servers. After removing the logo he said, "This is very nasty. I feel bad when I found that these terrorists used this service. I love (America) and want to help it. I (have fought) Islamic fundamentalism since I was in high school. I am a Muslim but not like this. They are criminals."   

 

 


2,096 posted on 06/03/2004 9:24:59 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Goodnight Cindy and everybody. I really appreciate all the hard work. See ya tomorrow.


2,097 posted on 06/03/2004 9:31:00 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: liz44040

China pegs the value of their currency (yuan) to the US dollar about 8.27 to $1, and is the reason for having a large reserve of dollars. So a weak dollar actually makes oil more expensive to China as well, but pegging the yuan to the dollar makes their exports to the USA cheaper.


2,098 posted on 06/03/2004 9:49:13 PM PDT by caa26
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To: LayoutGuru2

What's an IH mirror?


2,099 posted on 06/03/2004 9:56:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (NFL Owners: Grown men don't watch hollywood peep shows with wives and children.)
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To: BurbankKarl

He has more wires than my husband does === and that's incredible. (if you're only counting one room --- grinning...)


2,100 posted on 06/03/2004 10:03:00 PM PDT by Cindy
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