Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirteen

WND ^ | 7-11-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

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HOMELAND INSECURITY

Backup electrical systems failed to kick in

A mysterious power failure at Logan Airport that delayed dozens of flights for more than five hours has still not been explained – six days later.

Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.

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

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[ExSoldier]

I hope your assessment on gold is wrong. About three years ago, I bought some investment grade numismatic coins. Pre 1933 uncirculated $10 Gold Liberty coins. I spent about 5 grand then. Since that time, my broker has notified me that their value has gone up about 80%.

[jerseygirl]

I thought it looked like a wolf!

[jerseygirl]

yes.

canteen: holds water

[jerseygirl]

I worked there part time last summer

[jerseygirl]

I don't- but earlier on this thread, someone posted some AQ rants about doing their upcoming hittings on Fridays. (I guess an alternative to the mosque)

[StillProud2BeFree]

No I don't - a copy would be awesome

[chimpuat]

i think the 'canteen' thing is just a translation issue, not literally referring to anything that holds water. looking at it in context, i interpreted it to mean restaurants, diners, taverns, nightclubs, etc. i think if they meant reservoir or any other body of water, they would have just stated it that way.

[HipShot]

Your wish, and all that.

[Bethshaya]

bookmark

[jerseygirl]

PENNSYLVANIA - FOOD POISONING - More Infections Reported; Sheetz Supplier Investigated


Oh my--I hope that PA trucking company I was telling you about was not the supplier---or a similar one

[jerseygirl]

Collins said the plane reportedly had some chemical spill but it was not yet known what type or quantity was involved.


crop duster----let's hope it was legit and not bio

[jerseygirl]

These could possibly run in excess of 20 KT. That would be pretty bad.


No wonder we- and the Russians- are mobilized for war.

[Revel]

Fourth Saudi Militant Surrenders


Friday July 16, 2004 3:16 PM

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A wanted militant turned himself in to Saudi diplomats in Syria in response to a royal amnesty offer that expires soon, Saudi newspapers reported Friday.

Ibrahim al-Sadeq al-Qaidy had fought alongside Islamic extremists in Afghanistan and Bosnia, but had more recently been in hiding in Syria, the newspapers reported. It was not clear Friday what charges he faced and whether he was back in his homeland or was at the Saudi Embassy in Damascus.

Saudi and Syrian officials were not immediately available for comment Friday.

Following a series of suicide bombings, gunbattles and kidnappings blamed on al-Qaida members or sympathizers, King Fahd issued an amnesty offer, saying his government would not seek the death penalty against militants who turned themselves in. At the same time, security forces have stepped up efforts to capture those who don't give up.

Al-Qaidy was the fourth to respond. The most prominent of the four, Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harby, returned home Tuesday after surrendering in Iran. Al-Harby was a confidant of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, a Saudi-born dissident who portrays the United States as the enemy of Islam and the Saudi royal family as too close to America.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4317712,00.html

[jerseygirl]

However, since this is their "spectacular" hitting- wouldn't they want the biggest bang for the buck? Isn't there a reservoir in the West (and underground water) which supplies almost all of Southern California's water supply?

[Judith Anne]

place bump

[jerseygirl]

Just think of the possibilities AQ could have in tossing some toxins in here:

Earth Cracking in Wilcox (AZ)

Posted on 07/16/2004 8:36:31 AM PDT by uglybiker


Earth Cracking in Wilcox


Mark Stine KOLD News 13 Reporter
Posted: 7-15-04


"We got probably 10 cars a day on this road, but today we've had close to 100," Robert Rubal said. 100 cars to see a crack. It's causing quite a commotion in Wilcox.


"I heard like a car crash, I looked outside couldn't see nothing and couldn't hear nothing." Little did Robert Rubal know, the earth was opening up right in front of his home.


"This is an earth fissure from groundwater pumping," Ray Harris said. Harris is with the Arizona Geological Survey, he said there are many other earth fissures around Wilcox.


"The water actually supports the sand and gravel a little bit. If you take that support out, that causes some tension because part of the basin is subsiding and the other is not," Harris told KOLD News 13. And the biggest area of difference is where the crack appears.


Cracks are pretty common around Wilcox. They could've formed decades ago, but with the Monsoon rains rushing through the wash and rushing into the crack, they unzipped the earth. "This unzipped overnight, which is the most common form for these to develop at the surface, they weren't here yesterday and they're here today," Harris said."

[Revel]

Pulled this off from IH:

Army Chief Says War Looks Grim
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 16, 2004

The incoming commander of the Fort Gillem-based unit in East Point responsible for training Army Reserve and National Guard units for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan painted a grim picture Thursday of the war on terrorism.

Major Gen. Russel Honore said that "in the global war on terrorism there is no near end." He made the remarks as he assumed command of the 1st U.S. Army in ceremonies at Fort McPherson.

Honore, a 33-year veteran of the Army, takes over from Lt. Gen. Joseph Inge, who will become deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Honore's assessment was echoed by Gen. Dan McNeill, commander of Forces Command at Fort McPherson, which oversees the 1st Army.

"We are likely to be a nation at war for some time to come," McNeill said.

Neither Inge, who commanded the 1st Army for 2 1/2 years, nor Honore addressed the investigations into the training received by the 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown, Md., as it prepared for duty in Iraq.

Soldiers from the Army Reserve unit have been charged with abusing Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

"That issue is still under investigation and it would not be appropriate for me to comment on it," Inge said in an interview after the ceremony.

Investigators are trying to determine whether the unit was appropriately trained for the job it was given before being sent overseas.

With more than a half dozen of the unit's soldiers facing courts-martial for their roles in the scandal, Army officials have been tight-lipped about the investigations.

Inge said that more than 160,000 National Guard and Reserve soldiers have been mobilized and trained for duty since Sept. 11, 2001. An additional 50,000 will be called to serve before the end of the year, he added.

The 1st Army's job, said Inge, "is to prepare soldiers to go to war."

Honore said the job has special meaning to him because his son Michael, a sergeant in the Louisiana National Guard, is training at Fort Hood, Texas, for deployment to Iraq later this year.

"I take this personal that we prepare every son and daughter to go fight," he said.

[Judith Anne]

Has anyone read this article, posted on FR yet?

"Something big [and bad] is coming, says CIA Director"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172404/posts

I'm headed over there to read it now.

[Labyrinthos]

Like I said in my post, a lot depends upon when you by and sell. If you brought at the 1980 high and sold today, you would have lost well over 50% of your investment. If you brough at the low in 2000 and sold today you would have made about a 46% return on the principle investment, although the actual return would be lower after deducting the super high commissions normally charge by commodity brokers.

[jerseygirl]

Shall do- and I sure hope they give us an inkling of timing!

MEANWHILE- IF YOU GET A CHANCE READ THIS BY NYQUIST:

Re: Plausible deny-ability

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"Below are answers I gave to questions relating to my column yesterday on the subject of the al Qaeda nukes:

If / when they detonate nuclear weapons on American soil, don't you think the surviving public will be so outraged that they will insist on reciprocating on a scale without measure?

JRN answer: Many will be outraged, but the dominant emotion will be fear. The realization that we cannot defend ourselves against such a threat, that we don't really know who is attacking us, that the U.S. government has failed, that our intelligence is blind, that the our way of living is incompatible with the reality of WMDs, will unleash revolutionary chaos and the "political machine" in our country will be forced to answer the great questions of the day in favor of the right or left (one way or the other). A continuing slide into the hedonistic live-and-let-live philosophy will not be possible because the question of national orientation and national unity will force itself on everyone's consciousness. The struggle for what that unity will signify will begin immediately. Furthermore, any retaliation against the Muslim world would be a diplomatic mistake fatal to America's chances. Not only a mistake, but we would be striking the wrong people. My own suspicion is that Russia will be the direct author of the grey terror WMD attacks if and when they happen (as they will choose the day and the hour according to their larger strategic plans and WW3 readiness). I don't think al Qaeda has nuclear weapons. I don't think the Russians would ever let them have such weapons unless the persons holding them were Russian agents. I could be wrong about this, but a Russian defector expressed the same view to me nearly six years ago -- and it has intrigued me ever since.

It is my suspicion, following 9/11, that we are being tricked by a diversionary series of attacks or threats, and part of the trick is observable in the length of time taken to inculcate the idea that a WMD attack will come from al Qaeda when it comes. Here is a question you need to ask: Why didn't bin Laden use nuclear weapons on us in 2001? Answer: It was first necessary to saturate us with the idea that Muslim terrorists had such weapons, that they were capable of using them, that they planned to use them after smuggling such weapons out of Russia. THE ONLY REASON TO WAIT to use weapons smuggled in the late 1990s is psychological! We are being conditioned to expect a Muslim WMD attack! But ask yourself: Is al Qaeda is a real world power? And if it isn't, who made it one? If Saddam Hussein could not get his hands on a nuclear weapon, with all his billions in resources, how could bin Laden get twenty such weapons? Answer: it is a fiction meant to divert us from our real enemy. What is the one thing we learned from the Iraq War, that our enemy is constantly reminding us of? America cannot track WMDs! This lesson has not been lost on the Kremlin. Their whole strategy is predicated on this lesson, and now Russia can advance its strategy with the knowledge that we don't have the courage to admit our own ignorance.

If there is an underlying current of sympathizers within those Middle Eastern governments, shouldn't they also be aware that they may soon follow in having nuclear weapons detonated on their soil?

People animated by insane hatred are not rational. While most normal people would prefer peace, abnormal people often prefer war and destruction.


I'd think they'd desperately try to rid themselves of it on the presumption that if the US gets nuked, most of Islam will be nuked in turn. It's hard to think they'd all have a death wish. I would try to find the criminals but I am using a western mindset, not eastern.

Most of Islam would not be nuked. This is not how U.S. policy-makers will respond. We would not nuke Egypt, the largest Arab country (by population). We would not nuke Indonesia, the largest Muslim country (by population). Anyone who thinks we would go off like a raging bull and start nuking countries because of their religious affiliation has not grasped the elements of American political thought under late capitalism.
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