Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Fifteen

CNN ^ | 07/25/04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Credit: The Cabal

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the Judge and get informed.


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

Group linked to al Qaeda warns of 'columns of car bombs'

Australia and Italy have received warnings through a statement purportedly from militants linked to al Qaeda that demanded those countries withdraw troops from Iraq.

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



Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

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[knak]

don't know if these have been posted:

Art Using Box Cutter Removed From Airport

DENVER - Two pieces of art, including a suitcase with a handle made from a box cutter, were removed from Denver International Airport after employees complained.

The art was part of an exhibit called "The Luggage Project" in which artists from around the world were asked to turn suitcases into art.

The other piece removed from the airport was a suitcase with an attached bumper sticker reading "Blood for oil. Billionaires for Bush," a reference to a satirical group critical of President Bush.

Madeleine Hatz, who created the second suitcase, said she was trying to link the spilling of blood and oil. She complained that she was being censored.

"Art is controversial, and we have a right to freedom of speech," she said.

Aviation co-manager Vicki Braunagel said she removed the pieces July 9, the same day the 43-piece, glass-enclosed exhibit opened on a walkway that comes before the security screening area.

Six employees complained, and Braunagel said the art was "inappropriate." The terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks took control of the flights after threatening passengers with box cutters.

Woman Injured in SF Airport Carjacking

SAN FRNACISCO -- A woman was injured Friday after a man allegedly stole her car from San Francisco International Airport's United Airlines employee portion of the long-term parking lot, an airport duty manager said.

The duty manager received a call around 2:30 p.m. reporting the incident, although an exact time of the carjacking is not available at this time.

The airport police ordered a countywide roadblock to catch the man, described as armed, a San Mateo Police Department spokesman said.

The woman was being transported to an area hospital, said airport duty manager Dennis Neves.

[nwctwx]

They're too stupid to plan as many attacks as we've had threats. Those who make idle threats just expose their own weakness.

I'm not sure I would characterize them as 'too stupid' to plan as many attacks as there are threats. We have to remember that most of their plans take several years to complete fully. I think we are getting a lot of threats, at least through the alphabets, that are only pieces of the larger picture. Each arrest we make sets their threats back at least a few months, if not years. We have greatly hurt their ability to plan, if nothing else.

It is highly likely that a number of the direct threats we hear from them are partly psyops. Even so, it often takes a while for threats to come to fruition. UBL declared war on us in 1998 and did not strike at the US homeland until 2001. It's quite possible that threats we have heard in the past several months/years are still in the offing. It all goes back to their patience, they have too much of it.

I'm yet to be convinced about certain groups such as Abu Hafs al Masri Brigades. That 'group' seems to issue a fair amount of idle threats, I would probably put more credence in them if they had not claimed responsibility for the blackout last summer. I guess it's possible that they did do it, but if they did, no one in the US is willing to say it.

[MamaDearest]

Agreed, and they also want to bolster the airlines themselves who have gone through financial trauma with many people still harboring the fear of flying since 9/11. What they overlook is that Homeland Security appears "out of the loop" with what the passengers report and without trust for the agency that is formed to protect us (along with the meaningless color codes). People need to be alarmed and concerned - not placated and treated like there is no terrorism threat at all.

[Labyrinthos]

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January. In Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January.

If you count the number of babies butchered by abortionists, the number of murders in Detroit for the month of January is probably in the thousands.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Four Palestinian makeshift rockets land in southern Israel at different times without causing any casualties.


JERUSALEM - Four Palestinian makeshift rockets landed in southern Israel at different times Friday, an Israeli army spokesman said, adding there were no casualties.





Palestinian rockets hit southern Israel


Four Palestinian makeshift rockets land in southern Israel at different times without causing any casualties.


JERUSALEM - Four Palestinian makeshift rockets landed in southern Israel at different times Friday, an Israeli army spokesman said, adding there were no casualties.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=10812

[MamaDearest]

Your connections are good ones Honestly. That's why I made the post. A secondary thought - where was any mention of self-sufficiency?

Russian Oil Companies Hard to Persecute This is from a cached site, it seems the original is "no longer availabe."

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

He said She said..

The Palestinian Legislative Council’s (PLC) chairmanship warned on Monday of the gravity of the extremist Jewish threats to attack the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a statement issued by the PLC pointed out.

The statement held the Israeli government fully responsible for any harm the Mosque might be exposed to as well as the consequences for such a ‘terrorist action’.
PNA Minister of Work, Ghassan Al Khatib, told reporters that "the Palestinians look seriously at such threats," adding that President Yasser Arafat was deeply concerned at the issue.

[MamaDearest]

I'm sure Greece is a beautiful place. My oldest son has always wanted to visit there. By what I've read and seen on TM, IMHO they are far from ready for the Olympics. Power and telephone outages (10 HOURS in Athens) is clearly a sign that caution and prayers are needed in protecting the athletes of the world who will be participating.

[yellowhammer]

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[Rushmore Rocks]

I fear that we will never know the "when, where, what, or how" they will attack............all we know is the "why".

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

W Africa agrees on polio fight
30/07/2004 08:54 - (SA)


Officials in a heavily Muslim northern Nigerian state recently announced plans to lift an 11-month ban on polio inoculations that sparked an outbreak across previously polio-free African nations and jeopardised a UN-backed plan to vanquish the illness worldwide by 2005.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1565612,00.html

[WestCoastGal]

BUMP

What?? Screws don't just unscrew themselves and fall in a plastic bag!!

[Godzilla]

I think it is is a fair assumption to believe that where there are warnings, there will be a strike... if it is not broken up, but coming up with a specific number of threats before they come to pass is impossible.

I'm glad to hear the concurrence. This is something that has been floating around. Time to rule it out as once and for all as an indicator for an attack window.

[callmejoe]

". . .wouldn't the nukes already be in place (before 911) and be triggered by this time?"

We cannot be perfect 100% of the time. Neither can they. But it is only a matter of time. In any sport, even the worst player/team can manage to score a few points against the best player/team. It is inevitable. And this is not a game. They are expending their lives trying to achieve this.

I would venture to say there was a full court press as long as a decade ago to stop them from falling into their hands and they eventually managed to get where they are today anyway. When you play defense, you can delay, but you cannot defeat. Where there is a will, there is a way.

In 1995, the government/military predicted that a WMD attack on US soil within the decade was probable if not inevitable. We have been extraordinarily successful thus far. 9/11 was a tragedy, but fortunately, we have been able to make it this far without having a WMD-event to compare it to. Remember, the sarin attack in Tokyo, the OKC bombing and the aborted nerve gas attack in CA all happened within a few weeks. That was 1995. The "loose nukes" were an issue even before that. We are overdue - - way overdue.

We can delay them only so long. That is why the only solution is their total destruction. But as an earlier post indicated, they seek this - - mass, global incitement via WMD. They seek global provocation to bring down on them total jihad. Mass martyrdom is what they seek, for us and them. We cannot play their game. They aren't hjacking planes, they are hijacking nations, and we have to help the "passengers" take them down. Shooting down the planes (and the passengers) should be a last resort. There will be no going back after that. For what we now measure as martyrs in the thousands will be numbered in the millions.

These guys are Jim Jones passing around the Kool Aid or David Koresh pouring the gas all over the compound. They aren't just trying to set America on fire. They are trying to set the world on fire. And they'll kill their own innocents as willingly as they kill ours - - if it will inspire the fire of jihad in the hearts of millions . . .

This is the game.

"If AQ is trying to acquire nukes currently, it would be close to impossible with everyone giving info to the US?"

No. Very few people would be aware of the details of the operation. (It would be limited to a single cell I would assume) And that cell will be airtight. And enough precautions have probably been made to account for alternative sites/times/etc.

There is really no way to perfectly defend against this. You might be able to have an 80% or a 90% defense. But never 100%.

We have to go into the countries that harbor them and destroy them without destroying the countries. Kill the terrorists without killing the hostages.

Regime change.

[Godzilla]

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[Rushmore Rocks]

Yes, that was I who told about my husband's trip back from Greece.

In brief, he sat next to a man who was in charge of a portion of the U.S. security detail for the Olympics. His main concern was water access. Apparently monitoring devices were implaced in the Saronic Gulf (?).....the government complained about them, said the cruise ships and cargo ships would ignore the buoys, or tear them out and the monitoring devices would be useless. This man was also concerned about electricity continuity, cell phone and internet disruption, and many other concerns. (some of which we have witnessed already)

This agent said they were having a really big problem with the Greece government.

Bottom line.......they won't be ready.

[ExSoldier]

Isn't Reston the place where the book HOTZONE took place? An outbreak of Ebola specific to monkey's at a research lab or something?

[Cindy]

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/3597483/detail.html

"Burnham Leaves Philippines After Testifying"

"Philippine President Praises Burnham's Courage, Determination"

POSTED: 12:23 pm CDT July 30, 2004
UPDATED: 12:44 pm CDT July 30, 2004

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MANILA, Philippines -- An American missionary who returned to the Philippines to testify against the Muslim rebel captors who held her and her slain husband for more than a year said Friday she hoped her effort would help rid the country of terrorism.



Escorted by FBI agents, Gracia Burnham, 45, left Manila on a U.S.-bound flight a day after recounting in a court how her captors from the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group used to shackle her husband Martin before he was killed in a bloody June 2002 military rescue operation."

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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/FlashNewsStory.aspx?FlashOID=18930

Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:16 AM

"Arroyo thanks Gracia Burnham"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Malacañang on Friday thanked American missionary Gracia Burnham who testified against her suspected former captors in an emotional return to the country.


"I admire Gracia Burnham’s courage and faith and her determination to bring terrorists to justice," Arroyo said in a statement.


The President added: "The trial of the Abu Sayyaf who abducted her and her husband is living proof of our determined fight against terror in partnership with all nations and peoples. Her testimony also upholds the integrity and uncommon valor of our Armed Forces, and I thank her for her concern for our people’s peace and security.""


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GRACIABURNHAM.org - "THE MARTIN AND GRACIA BURNHAM FOUNDATION"
http://www.graciaburnham.org/default2.asp

GRACIA BURNHAM.org
http://www.graciaburnham.org

BOOK: "IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES" by Gracia Burnham
http://www.ntmbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.shop&shopAction=itemDetail&catalogID=96&categoryID=1&myInventoryID=13

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Note: This is an archive I have been updating on FR. - Cindy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/696120/posts

*** Philippines: Report - Abu Sayyaf hostage Martin Burnham killed, Gracia rescued ***
AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | June 7, 2002


Posted on 06/07/2002 1:32:47 AM PDT by HAL9000


Killed Burnham, its wounded but released wife

Friday June 07, 2002 - 8h27 GMT

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ZAMBOANGA (the Philippines), June 7 (AFP) - the American hostage Martin Burhnam was killed while his wife, blessée, were released at the time of an operation of help carried out by the army philippine Friday, indicated a General Filipino to the AFP.

The General was not able to specify the gravity of the wounds of Gracia Burnham."

[HipShot]

I'm an opensource koolaid drinker, that's for sure!

[ExSoldier]

I have NO what either one of you are talking about. I'm fairly "impaired" when it comes to stuff like that. Here on FR I'm proud when I can get a link to work (still haven't mastered pics or fonts or things that "move" across the screen) or my bold and italics straight.