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!

[Brad’s Gramma]

JP? 13 is ONLY a number....it can't hurt ya.

And now that I've stirred up a hornet's nest......I'm leaving for a couple hours.

[JustPiper]

Posting article which I don't like to do, but Mercury is a sub:

Admission reported in theft of explosives

MORE ARRESTS POSSIBLE IN CASE

By Thaai Walker

Mercury News

The man charged with stealing 200 pounds of high explosives from a San Mateo County munitions depot admitted to federal agents that he participated in the heist, according to an affidavit filed Friday.

But authorities indicated others may have helped Michael Alexander Allan in the theft of dangerous explosives from a bunker shared by the San Mateo County sheriff, San Francisco police and FBI. More arrests may be coming, said Marti McKee, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The eight-page affidavit details how the scheme unraveled, but authorities still have not revealed a motive. A friend of Allan's told investigators he had changed the locks on two storage lockers she rents at the Jackson Street Mini Storage in Hayward.

On July 4, the woman, who is not named in the affidavit, saw Allan and a man identified only as ``Dean'' moving things into the lockers. She had known Allan for 10 years and let him store his property there; he had no permanent home and had been in and out of prison on parole violations for the past several years.

When she saw a newspaper story Wednesday about the stolen explosives, she got suspicious and asked Allan to meet her that night at the Food Maxx parking lot, near Home Depot in Union City.

Police will not say whether the woman tipped them off. But when the woman and Allan returned to a van he had been driving with some of the stolen items inside, officers moved in, according to the affidavit.

Investigators found the majority of the stolen explosives in the Hayward lockers. On Thursday, according to the affidavit, Allan told investigators about another storage locker on San Leandro Boulevard about a mile from Network Associates Coliseum, where they found more of the stolen material.

``We now believe we've got them all,'' McKee said.

Agents had found the bulk of the contraband -- which included 30 to 35 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, 800 to 900 blasting caps, 114 pounds of binary explosives -- earlier in the week.

Authorities say they have ruled out terrorism, but have not explained a motive for the heist.

Allan, 46, has three prior felony convictions for auto theft and burglary, according to the affidavit. Family members said he had long been troubled by drug and alcohol problems.

Sporting a goatee and dressed in a white jail suit, Allan made a brief appearance in an Oakland federal courtroom Friday, speaking only to inform the judge he needed his glasses to read the charges.

He faces two felony counts: possession of stolen explosive materials that have been shipped or transported in interstate commerce and being an ex-convict in possession of explosives. Some of the munitions stolen from the bunker had been manufactured in Louisiana, according to the affidavit.

Each charge carries a 10-year maximum sentence and a $250,000 fine, although authorities said Friday that more charges may be forthcoming. Investigators also said there may be additional arrests but refused to talk about potential suspects.

Allan did not enter a plea on Friday. He remains in federal custody and is scheduled to return to court on Wednesday for a bail hearing.

Allan's lawyer, assistant U.S. public defender Joyce Leavitt, and federal prosecutor Doug Sprague both refused to comment.

Authorities have said that the location of the bunker near Crystal Springs reservoir was a well-kept secret, but the storage facilities were actually visible from a nature trail that opened last August, said Joe Naras, land and resource manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The commission owns the land.

``You can see them, but they're pretty nondescript,'' he said of the explosives bunkers.

The trail is fenced off, except during guided nature tours three days a week, but not on weekends. That is when authorities believe the heist occurred. In the 11 months since officials cut the ribbon on the trail, the tours have drawn a total of 2,169 participants, according to a log on the public utility commission's Web site.

Sgt. Michael Peck, leader of San Mateo County's bomb squad, said he did not think it would be possible for someone walking the trail to realize what was in the steel storage containers, since they were unmarked.

[WestCoastGal]

I know someone who would like to see me in that getup.

I'll Never tell...

LOL

[JustPiper]

Gore fined $90,000 for storage violations
By SETH MULLER
Sun Staff Reporter
07/10/2004

The state's environmental regulating agency slapped the city's largest private employer with a $90,000 fine for improper hazardous waste storage.

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=90370

[WestCoastGal]

I wish everyone would do that.

It's frightening to know that so many people will be caught unaware and unprepared!!

I guess we better tighten our seat belts........

[JellyJam]

hey, every little bit helps. :-)

[JustPiper]

PALESTINIAN Mosques Turn Into Summer Schools
Islam Online - UK
... CITY, July 10 (IslamOnline.net) - As Palestinian students emerge from an exhausting school year, worsened by a grisly Israeli occupation, mosques almost turn ...
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-07/10/article05.shtml

MUSLIM ANGER OVER FANATICS

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=64387&command=displayContent&sourceNode=63914&contentPK=10570289

[Quix]

THANKS!

SYMPATHIES over your congress critter!

[JellyJam]

AP now says: The video of the threat to kill three Pakistani hostages was old footage. The original threat was made three weeks ago.

[JustPiper]

What are we fighting for?

DESPITE Terror Risk, Washington Is Unlikely to Press Reform of CIA ...
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

... 10 — Despite a scorching Senate report that describes a profound breakdown of the American intelligence system at a time of increasing terror threats, both ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/international/middleeast/11INTE.html

A Must Read:

A terrifying tale of terror right here, right now
Jakarta Post - Indonesia

The profundity of Maria Ressa's account of the inner workings of al-Qaeda and their terror partners in Southeast Asia, particularly Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) in ...
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20040711.G01&irec=7

DUTCH security raised over terror attack fears
Reuters - London,England,UK

... Reuters) - Dutch authorities have stepped up security at key locations after receiving information that radical Muslims may be planning terror attacks, the ...
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=544836&section=news

Local Whackos:

FBI warns eco-terror on the rise
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

By Matt Canham. Acts of destruction tied to extreme animal rights and environmental groups have escalated recently, from spray-paint ...
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jul/07102004/utah/182348.asp

[WestCoastGal]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police arrested two suspected Sudanese members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network at Brussels' main airport late Friday, Belgium's VTM commercial television reported Saturday. A Belgian federal police spokesman said two arrests had been made, but was unable to give further details.

"I can confirm that there have been two arrests in Zaventem (airport). I don't know about their nationality or any supposed terrorist ties," spokesman Jan van Ransbeeck said, adding that he believed the arrests were made early Saturday.

VTM said the two had flown in from Athens, Greece, and were traveling on forged passports.

The television network, quoting no sources, said the police found photographs of militants involved in suicide operations in the suspects' luggage and a mobile phone number referring to bin Laden.

Earlier Saturday the Netherlands said it was increasing security at key locations after receiving information that radical Islamists might be planning terror attacks.

Belgium seized 15 suspected Islamist militants last month as part of pan-European raids following the Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people in March.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168928/posts

[JustPiper]

Headlines:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Video on Al-Jazeera shows Filipino hostage begging his government to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Philippines government says it will withdraw its troops from Iraq when their mandate ends in August.

[JustPiper]

See my new tagline ;)

[British chick]

Hi JP,
The Trafford Centre is a couple of miles from Picadilly. Trafford is a suburb of Manchester.

The Centre is a huge Victorian style mall with marble and glass domes. It cost a fortune to build.

A few years back (pre 9/11) there was a rumor that the IRA were going to attack it at Christmas. It spread as a story of someone who was shopping there helping an Irish person with their flat tire and then being warned not to come back around the Holidays. Visitor numbers dropped by a half and they announced on the news that the story wasn't true to try and encourage people back.

[JustPiper]

Bump!

[Quix]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[JustPiper]

I saw this all in my dream aboard a double decker, btw I've never been there so what I saw was alarming and am asking the geography to acclimate myself from the dream

[WestCoastGal]

What did happen to BJ?

Coco didn't do anything..

;-(

[nw_arizona_granny]

Why is it that only the dishonest sites manage to continue?

Those that are serving a purpose have a real struggle.

I saw the damage done to the Kosovo Churches and it is
alarming.

the thoughts of it is coming to us next is always there, when the muslims manage to shut down yet, another Christian.

rant over........