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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[JustPiper]

MOSQUES:
Do all have your Mosqueteer Ears?

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE:
MOSQUES hosting electoral registration
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Yesterday, sermons at local mosques had an earthier, but no less urgent message: Get out and vote. About eight mosques from Olympia ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/184399_muslimvote31.html

THE Giving Problem: Terror links pose dilemma for devout Muslims
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... as the nation's largest Muslim charity, funneled $12.4 million to Hamas,a Palestinian group that the US government has designated as a terror organization. ...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/072904dnediislam.95187.htm

TAKE A HINT DC:

JEWISH groups: Raze mosques, rebuild Temple
Al-Jazeera - Qatar
The al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock Mosques have come under several attacks since 1967 as Jewish groups prepared for construction of the Third Temple.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/58087655-FE76-4764-9598-A952E08FEFC8.htm

RADICAL Islam grows among Iraq's Sunnis
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... No longer constrained or exiled by a repressive regime, they are preaching jihad at key mosques and pushing to make Iraq an Islamic state. ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0728/p01s04-woiq.html

[Indie]

Thank God the entire gas station didn't blow!

They were pretty well flooding the roof of that gas station. Another case of "cause under investigation" and the driver is uninjured. The station was run by ME types [what else is new right?] and the last time I was in was the day before the tanker blew and the guy was counting money and uncharacteristically curt.

I know..tinfoil time..LOL.

I'd hate for that tank farm where they fill up to ever blow...4 miles and visible from my balcony.

Thanks for all the well wishes and welcomes everybody.

[JustPiper]

GENERAL TERROR IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU:

CAN WE GET A BIG AWWWWWWWW:

US Arabs feel squeezed by tighter security
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... Arab-Americans and other Muslims to ask them about their travels and whom ... Four years ago, Arab-Americans voted overwhelmingly for President Bush, who told them ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0730/p02s02-usgn.html

TERROR WAR TAKEDOWN
Yahoo News - USA
... that - despite what you might have heard from the folks up in Boston this week - America and its allies are making real progress in the War on Terror. ...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=106&ncid=742&e=4&u=/nypost/20040731/cm_nypost/terrorwartakedown

FIRST hearing held for terror detainee; 600 await their turn
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
By Anne Gearan. WASHINGTON - For the first time in the nearly three years since the Sept. 11 attacks, a prisoner picked up as a potential ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/9289488.htm

UN sanctions had little effect on Hussein, cronies
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... On a separate tour of a medical warehouse west of Baghdad, doctors found vast storage facilities filled with pharmaceuticals. "It ...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/080104dnintsanctions.d4c8f.html

ALL local security is national security
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Unfortunately, there is no way to ensure that a similar level of security will be implemented at the thousands of other explosive storage facilities
that dot ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/30/EDGBA7V7KJ1.DTL

ISOLATED incidents are adding up
Natick Tab - Framingham,MA,USA
... later, an explosion ripped loose a manhole cover on Rte. ... for the wires below the manhole, called it ... Other isolated incidents involving NStar's system include a ...
http://www2.townonline.com/natick/opinion/view.bg?articleid=57278

[Cindy]

You're quite welcome Velveeta.

[JustPiper]

THIS N' THAT TERROR:

PAKISTAN claims first crack at terror suspect
CTV - Canada
... is complete. Top government officials said the arrest showed Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network was crumbling. A Pakistani ...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1091222411965_86631611?hub=World

PAKISTAN caught in terror tit-for-tat
Asia Times Online - Hong Kong
... They support the Iraqi insurgency and oppose the House of Saud for supporting the US-led "war on terror". Both Pakistan and Saudi ...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FG31Df04.html

INTERPOL Urges More US Coordination on Terror
Reuters - USA
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is not coordinating enough with police forces ...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5831816

DETAINEES in France admit links to terror
Miami Herald (subscription) - Miami,FL,USA
... Kanouni, 27, who also has Moroccan nationality, spent time in Germany in the 1990s and is suspected of contacts with a terror cell based in Frankfurt, Germany. ...
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/9268004.htm

INTO the belly of the GOP beast
Boston Phoenix - Boston,MA,USA
... the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Boston, the Hendersons' travels bring them ... flat TVs that run the same video loop of President Bush in action ...
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04013027.asp

HOW to Lose the War on Terror: a CIA bin Laden expert's lament
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
... only as "Anonymous," he is the author of the new book Imperial Hubris -a scathing look at the way the United States has conducted the War on Terror thus far. ...
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=2173

US: The Institute for Genomic Research; Genomic Powerhouse ...
UN Observer
... As with other institutions, such as Rockefeller University, the Department of Homeland Security's Plum Island, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Lab, if ...
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=1828&blz=1

NOTEWORTHY:

MICHAEL Moore Looms Large at Democratic Convention
Muslim American Society - Falls Church,VA,USA
... intently concentrating on the speeches by former president Bill Clinton and others as they tore into Bush. Moore was scheduled to speak at a "Take Back ...
http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1461

[Cindy]

That's interesting Velveeta.
Thank you.

[JustPiper]

TERROR LAST CHAPTER:

ANOTHER HMMMMM:

POLICE find 27 locks cut on storage sheds
Lahontan Valley News - Fallon,NV,USA
The sheriff said a 9 pm fire at Maine Street Self Storage in unit 13 led to the discovery of damaged locks at storage facilities throughout the county. ...
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040728/News/107280006

WEAKNESS Invites Terror, Cheney Tells Democrats
Reuters - USA
... Cheney said the United States had the right to attack foes before it was attacked and described the invasion of Iraq in terms of the wider US-led war on terror ...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5790078

US Hands Over 4 French Terror Suspects
ABC News - USA
... the release was a result of "the cooperation we've enjoyed with France on this matter and we look forward to continued close partnership in the war on terror.". ...
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040727_1145.html

OVER THERE:
MELBOURNE terror investigation confirmed
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says the Australian Federal Police are investigating an alleged terrorist cell in Melbourne. Melbourne's ...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/27/1090693943643.html

JUST BECAUSE:

KERRY'S stepsons serve up political comedy alongside breakfast
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... rebuttals to Democratic rhetoric against President Bush. ... delegation Monday, comparing Bush's foreign policy ... out of the literary classic Gulliver's Travels. ...
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_3066591,00.html

[JustPiper]

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

MINNESOTA and terrorists -- is there an attraction?
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
... who court documents allege wired money through a ... where there's been an unusual connection to radical ... question that Minnesota could be attractive to terrorists. ...
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/07/30_stawickie_minnterror/

US Lifted Libyan Sanctions Despite Plot on Saudi Leader
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... to three criminal counts in connection with his ... past contacts with suspected terrorists during his naturalization proceedings, and hiding money he raised ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/31/politics/31plea.html

THE Holy War Foundation
Frontpagemag.com - USA
... The InfoCom connection is crucial to understanding relations ... Money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is also ... T]he facts are clear, the terrorists benefit from ...
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14435

'GRACIA contradicted herself'
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines
... clear that there was a military-Abu Sayyaf connection. ... and her determination to bring terrorists to justice ... Nacorda alleged that money had changed hands during ...
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200407310401.htm

THE Dark Horses
Austin Chronicle - Austin,TX,USA
... I'm tired of the government giving money to the ... You make a personal connection with enough people, you make ... and we should have wiped that nest of terrorists out ...
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-07-30/pols_feature.html

US says Islamic charity aided terror group
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... the community. Younis said he believes the Bush administration is using his friend to appear strong in the war on terror. "We think ...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040727-2201-terror-staff.html

AND THE GOOD NEWS IS:

FOUR detainees freed by US face French anti-terror laws
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
By Elaine Sciolino. PARIS - Four French citizens held without trial for more than two years at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/9260802.htm

ARRESTS Tie Charity Group to Palestinian Terrorists
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... Law enforcement officials said there was no connection between the ... that the group had given money to Hamas ... with providing material support to terrorists in the ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/politics/28terror.html

US Charity Charged With Funding Hamas
ABC News - USA
... to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy, money laundering and ... a Hamas official denied a connection to Holy ... to al-Qaida and other terrorists worldwide. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040727_1540.html

US Charges Texas-Based Muslim Charity with Conspiracy and Terror ...
Voice of America - Washington,DC,USA
The US Justice Department has charged a Texas-based Muslim charity and seven of its senior members with conspiracy and supporting terrorists.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=D9C9F5FF-923F-4DAD-8088BD23553034BA

[L`enn]

Just a thought, could the be a sixth target they are not telling us about as a set-up like cheese in a mousetrap?

[JustPiper]

BORDER DISINTEGRATION:

ILLEGALS

BUSH undocumented worker stance only hurts California
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
... is the oft- stated desire of President Bush to give ... ever taken by a sitting president should prompt a ... Word travels quickly among those thinking of coming to ...
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~11851~2304906,00.html

[Cindy]

URL please?

Thank you.

[JustPiper]

HEADLINES ONLY:

GENEVA (AP) Ministers at the World Trade Organization have approved a framework agreement for global trade.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A militant group that claims al-Qaida links says it tried to kill the Pakistani prime minister-designate

UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution threatening economic consequences for Sudan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Police say Pakistan's Prime Minister designate Shaukat Aziz has survived assassination attempt.

AMERICAN AMONG THREE FOREIGNERS TAKEN HOSTAGE BY PALESTINIAN GUNMEN
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CAN I GET YET ANOTHER AWWWWW:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Organizer says Iraqi national conference has been postponed for two weeks.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Saudi officials discuss possibility of sending Muslim force to Iraq.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesian police say they will not charge militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) A Jordanian company says it will withdraw from Iraq to free its hostage workers.
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cnn BRIEFS:

Report: Ridge may resign after election
07/30/04
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, who sought to reassure Americans amid frightening warnings about possible terror plots, has told colleagues he probably will resign after the election because of his personal finances and stress of his job,
officials told The Associated Press.

Study: Fear shapes voters' views
Responses to candidates differ after thinking about tragedy
07/30/04
President George W. Bush may be tapping into solid human psychology when he invokes the September 11 attacks while
campaigning for the next election, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

FBI: Ghailani 'friend of al Qaeda'
Wanted in U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa
07/29/04
Baby-faced and slightly built, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani didn't present a physical threat, but his knowledge of explosives and commitment to radical Islam made the Zanzibari one of the most sought-after accused terrorists in the world.

The State of Our Defenses
07/29/04
The U.S. has spent tens of billions over the past three years to bolster domestic security. But in critical areas, the homeland remains at risk

Halting the Next 9/11
The commission report proposes reforms. But will they be implemented?
07/29/04
On Sept. 11, declared the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks in its 567-page report, the "United States became a nation transformed."

Woman with altered passport detained
07/28/04
Authorities have detained a woman who had six pages ripped from her passport and are investigating whether she has ties to terrorist organizations, government officials said Wednesday.

U.S. indicts Muslim charity on terror charges
Ashcroft to outline case against Texas group, individuals
07/27/04
U.S. authorities planned to announce Tuesday charges against a Texas-based Muslim charity and seven individuals on charges related to financing terrorism, law enforcement sources said.

[JustPiper]

YEAH,YEAH Dats the ticket ;)

[JellyJam]

I was curious about that, too. Notice how those buildings in D.C. are AWFULLY close to the White House.

[JustPiper]

So we're talking total of appox. 11,000 people?

[JellyJam]

MICHAEL Moore Looms Large at Democratic Convention

boy, does he ever!! :-)

[JustPiper]

Added to list thank you!

[JustPiper]

Well she won't be westcoast anymore so:

Keith'sTexasGal?

Congratulations to you both CoCo and Keith!
You found love on a two-way Freeper street! Yeah!!!

[JustPiper]

Besides the WOT, knowing there are very many lurker's is what keeps us going

[JellyJam]

11,000 people ... plus those unnumbered in the Citigroup and NY Stock Exchange buildings.