Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread TWELVE

CNN ^ | 7-2-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

LINK TO THREAD ELEVEN

FBI urges vigilance for July 4

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A constant stream of intelligence indicating that al Qaeda wants to strike the United States this summer or fall has led federal officials to urge increased vigilance during the Independence Day weekend, but there is no specific threat of an attack timed to the holiday.

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

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[Quix]

PhD in clinical psychology. Never finished the licensing gate keeping process after realizing it was that and very hypocritically that. Have never fit the phony aspects of 'professional.'

Have had a full life counseling in centers part time and teaching. I prefer both.

But even part time sort of burned me out the last 10 years or so. Not everyone in pain wants to change enough for the source of the pain to go away. And I tend to play for keeps.

Anyway--the tooth will get taken care of in due course!

Thanks much for your concerns and input.

I agree, I think, in broad scope with your impressions vis a vis the attacks.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Good! But the people in my face-to-face life have! I am misunderstood many times; part of it is how I fail to explain things fully yet succinctly and another part is that some folks I know tend to assume negativities before they think of anything positive.

[Domestic Church]

bookmarking...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Ohhhh. Where are you headed? I wish we had a bunch of el als, too.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Well, you will be Dr. Quix from now on. :)

[Oorang]

The great state of North Carolina. My family has been there since we kicked Britain in the butt and said "this is America!" :-)

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Granny a wire brush is a good idea. I just don't see an end to any of it but nuke'en all. But we cannot do that, really.

They don't seem to improve themselves and are mad at us for not living in the 14th century with them.

Just a very tough fight with good and evil.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

North Carolina, in order of importance:

#1 -- the Tar Heel state

#2 -- the First in Flight state

# infinity cubed -- john edwards' state

[Oorang]

Yes, my great state was tarnished today :-). My Mother despises Edwards. She is a wise woman.

[Cindy]

"She is a wise woman."

Sure sounds like it.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Al-Qaeda threat to Western airlines as American shot dead in Riyadh

DUBAI : A threat bearing the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda and vowing to attack Western airlines may be designed to create fear but inevitably recalled the 9/11 suicide hijackings on a day when gunmen shot dead an American in the Saudi capital.

An Islamist website published a statement on Monday in the name of Al-Qaeda threatening to attack Western aircraft and places frequented by Westerners in the Arabian peninsula.

Tuesday unknown assailants killed an American man in Riyadh in the latest strike in a campaign to drive foreigners out of the kingdom.

"The (residential) compounds, the bases and the means of transportation of the Crusaders, especially Western and US airlines, will be the direct target of our next operations," the statement said.

The menace, which coincides with the start of the holiday season, cannot be ignored.

British Airways was hit by a series of terror alerts early this year, with a flight to Riyadh cancelled twice and one service from London to Washington called off five times amid fears that terrorists might attempt a September 11 style attack.

Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda has been blamed for repeated attacks on compounds housing Westerners and Arabs in Saudi Arabia in the last year in which more than 85 people have been killed.

Suspected Islamist militants on Sunday shot dead an Irish cameraman and gravely wounded a BBC correspondent on the street of a Riyadh slum known as a hotbed of extremism.

British reporter Frank Gardner, 42, was in hospital Tuesday after emergency surgery to remove bullets from his stomach and legs.

A doctor said Monday night that Gardner, an expert on Al-Qaeda, was still unconscious but stable and they were "hopeful about him".

Freelance cameraman Simon Cumbers, 36, died outside the home of a top wanted militant who was shot dead by security forces in the same district last December.

Despite a relentless hunt, presumed Al-Qaeda supporters have escalated attacks across the vast conservative kingdom since April, making a mockery of repeated official pledges, from King Fahd down, to wipe out terrorism:

-- four gunmen killed 22 people including Westerners in a rampage and hostage-taking drama in the eastern oil city of Al-Khobar on May 29 and 30.

-- a German national was shot dead in Riyadh on May 22

-- six died in the April 21 bombing of a security forces building in the capital.

-- six Westerners -- two Americans, two Britons, an Australian and a Canadian -- were killed when gunmen went on a shooting spree at a petrochemical plant in the Red Sea industrial port of Yanbu on May 1.

-- one American serviceman was slightly wounded when shots were fired at vehicles carrying US military personnel on a highway outside Riyadh on June 2.

After the Al-Khobar bloodshed, Australia and Britain led warnings of worse to come, with the Foreign Office in London seeing a threat of an imminent strike and media reporting that intelligence agencies feared a spectacular attack.

Washington had already warned on May 26 that Al-Qaeda was preparing a major strike in the United States in the months before the November presidential election.

The call to arms from Bin Laden, scion of one of Saudi's wealthiest families and mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States which killed nearly 3,000 people, has found a singular echo among the youth of the fiercely Muslim kingdom.

Fifteen of the 19 suicide hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, a fact long denied by many officials in Riyadh. The government and population struggled to come to terms with the scale of the scourge until bombs started going off inside the kingdom a little over a year ago and Saudi launched its own war on terror in earnest.

Al-Qaeda also vowed in the latest statement to continue its "jihad" or holy war and warned Muslims not to tolerate Westerners in the Arab peninsula.

"We reiterate our warning to our Muslim brothers against the presence of the Crusaders including Americans, Westerners and all other infidels in the Arab peninsula," it said.

"The Muslims should isolate them completely," read the statement published on the website (http://www.hostinganime.com/neda2/sout/tag13.jpg).

"We renew our warning to the security services, to the guards at the housing complexes of the Crusaders and at the American bases and all others who are on the side of the Americans and against the mujahedeen and to their agents in the Saudi government."

- AFP

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/89075/1/.html

[drymans wife]

Yes I understand.
So I guess it's the "JOHN JOHN " Team

[HipShot]

Cowboy up!

We may be backed up against the wall with goblins coming at us from several different directions, but I promise you that we'll unload on'm inna hurry.

What's going to happen here is anyone's guess, but one of these boogers is gonna stick his head up too far. It may not be TPTB that takes him out. It may be any american anywhere who does it. That's going to be the rally point for a lot of people, and the wake up call for a lot of sheeple.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Don't feel bad, I have the witchery, schumer, nadler, rangel, the list goes on and on and on...

[HipShot]

Nah, just call them "Little John". There's not even enough personality between them for a regular sized John.

[oceanview]

trains stopped:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1166549/posts

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks for posting this..it ties into something else related that I think is going on here as far as human smuggling of illegal aliens.

[Oorang]

Boy, slow news night, but I'm not complaining!

I was searching islamfinder, cruising different mosque sites and discussion boards to see what I could see.

Found a Islamic center in Richland, WA. What stuck me as so odd (and I'm no expert so it may not be odd) is Richland is right next to Hanford (plutonium development for WWII). Richland is a small town. Actually there are 3 small town all together. There is a small ag college and it is farming all around.

It's mainly Caucasian and Mexican (farm labor), so, what is an Islamic center doing in Richland?

[Oorang]

regular sized John

Big poop and little poop? (Sorry, everyone).

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Good question!