Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Sixteen

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[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."

Link to Thread Fifteen

Police Secure Businesses on Terror Alert
NEW YORK - Police searched trucks, blocked streets and posted machine-gun toting officers outside financial landmarks Monday, a day after the government's chilling warning that terrorists might target the buildings with bombs.

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
-- Jewish proverb

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




"What good are the color codes at all if we are suddenly hit with a bio or chem attack? There would be no warning and the danger would be instant."

"Code Red Implications
Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word."
by MamaDearest

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[HipShot]

EMP is a real threat from Ivan or the Chicoms. I'm not sure what the question is, but if it's related to a terrorist threat, forget it. If they had the delivery systems to deploy EMP I'm sure they would go for the kill shot instead.

[texasbluebell]

Yes, several lines going on.

The press conf. with Pataki: no connection between the Albany operation and the raised alert last weekend.

Another press conf. at 1:30, think they said Ridge? Not sure. Half-listening earlier.

[texasbluebell]

Well now. I wonder.

[freeperfromnj]

Here's an update on the Albany story - incluces info on the assassination plot you mentioned earlier.

Feds Raid Upstate Mosque, Arrest 2 In Missile Scheme

UPDATED: 12:17 pm EDT August 5, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., were arrested on charges stemming from an alleged plot to purchase a shoulder-fired missile that would be used to assassinate the Pakistani ambassador in New York, according to court papers filed Thursday......

http://www.wnbc.com/news/3618857/detail.html

[texasbluebell]

Yes, ROP, right.

I just came across an earlier post on this thread, not sure who posted it now, in the 300s.

Something about a school in VA for the children of Saudi diplomats, which is teaching that the Christian and Jewish religions are not true religions.

This has just got to stop. Right here in our country. Today!

[WestCoastGal]

Sounds like a great way to start the morning flutters!!

Handsome men in black yep, and red & yellow are our favs as well. lol (inside joke)

On a serious note I pray that they have the strength and training to protect our President. They probably have more stress on them these days than any other time in our history.

AFOne just landed there!!!!!!

[knak]

tinfoil time: I have to wonder if they are heat seeking then could someone say get into the white house, start a fire or something and then somewhere across the street, someone shoots a heat seeking missile toward the fire? Is that plausible? Or does it have to have an extreme heat source like a jet engine?

[WestCoastGal]

MANPADS are heat seeking shoulder fired missiles.

[freeperfromnj]

Terror Arrests Shock Albany Neighborhood

Aug 5, 2004 12:21 pm US/Eastern

(1010 WINS) (ALBANY) Two mosque leaders arrested on terror-related charges were described by relatives and friends as peaceful family men who came to this country for freedom and opportunity.

Yassin Aref, 34, the imam of Masjid As-Salam mosque, and 49-year-old Mohammed Hossain, a mosque co-founder, were arrested at their homes early Thursday morning. Law enforcement officials say the two were involved in an alleged plot to purchase a shoulder-fired missile that would be used to assassinate the Pakistani ambassador in New York, according to court papers filed Thursday.

"It's totally wrong and totally false and totally a lie," said Hossain's wife, Mossamat. Between tears, she said her husband is a businessman, not a terrorist.

Hossain, a father of five children, came from Bangladesh in 1985. After years of washing dishes and other kitchen work, he bought the Little Italy pizzeria in 1994, according to a profile published in the Times-Union of Albany this summer. The pizzeria and the mosque are in a modest section of the city filled with row houses and storefronts.

"I'm proud to be an American," he told the newspaper. "When I was in high school in Bangladesh, I looked at a map of America and I dreamed of coming to this great land."

Aref is a native of Kurdistan and came to the United States three years ago from Syria, where he was a student, according to his wife, Zuhor Jalal. Aref drives an ambulette besides his duties at the mosque.

"We come for freedom and job," Jalal said.

The arrests put upstate New York in the terrorism spotlight again, following the September 2002 arrests of six men from Lackawanna. The so-called Lackawanna Six were accused of attending a terror training camp run by al-Qaida. They pleaded guilty to supporting a terrorist organization.

At a news conference Thursday morning a few miles from the mosque, Gov. George Pataki said: "The fact is, there are terrorists among us who want to engage in acts to attack us again."

Agents raided each home separately after midnight. Mossamat said more than six agents stormed her home just as her husband got back from New York City to buy a plane ticket to Bangladesh for her mother.

Both wives said they had to wake their children and take them out while their homes were searched. And both women said they were confused why their husbands were taken away.

The three-year-old storefront mosque serves several hundred members, many who come for daily prayers. Members on Thursday morning saw several of the mosque's doors smashed open and federal agents on hand blocking access.

"I have all the keys," said trustee Rashid Abdul Haqq Hamzah. "If they had asked, I would have opened up all the doors."

Hamzah and other mosque members described their imam as a gentle man.

"He's a peaceful man that teaches us about Islam," Hamzah said. "The only reason we were created was to worship God, not to blow things up, not to buy things for terrorists."

Hamzah said mosque members knew for almost a month that someone was "stalking" them and had contacted Albany police, not knowing they were federal agents. He blamed the overnight raids on politics.

"I think George Bush is having problems in the election," he said.

"It is politically motivated."

[knak]

Gov't to end public nuclear updates

WASHINGTON -- The government will no longer reveal security gaps discovered at nuclear power plants, hoping to prevent terrorists from using the information, regulators said Wednesday.

more at link

[freeperfromnj]

LOL - peaceful, missile seeking muslims running a pizzeria. You really can't make this stuff up.

[swarthyguy]

Yeah, but how was their pepperoni pizza? Did they have one?

Kinda relevant in light of the Florida company banning pork on its premises!

[Indie]

IN our city Emergency Management meetings, the commander always maintained..rightly so..that Bio weapons were the ones to fear, not nukes or chemical.

After reading this, it's easy to see why.

Excellent article grizz!

[flutters]

Sounds like a great way to start the morning flutters!!

It was perfect. I haven't seen a crew like that in a long long time. I'm at ease knowing these guys are protecting our Pres. Keep them in your prayers.

AFOne just landed there!!!!!!

I watched it out my office window. W is making his way to the temple now. FReepers are there to cheer him on. I wish I could be with'em. :(

[thecabal]

"I think George Bush is having problems in the election," he said.

"It is politically motivated."

Ah, they are learning well from the Dhimmicrats.

[Rutles4Ever]

I'll never forget the time I found a 15 kT nuclear warhead in my mailbox.

[freeperfromnj]

Hold the pepperoni - I'll try the falafel topping to go.

[Godzilla]

DEATH BE UPON YOU! You Amerikkkan never never set foot on the holy lands of Islam ever again

IF out of the wild blue sky EOM is correct, we wouldn't be able to set foot in arab lands until the radioactivity went down.