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!

[Quix]

AND, I GREATLY APPRECIATE

ALL

YOU DO ON SUCH SCORES.

THX BIG

[JustPiper]

So what your saying is:

Don't Drink the Water

Sucking up did Spain no good

Chalabi will get his Comeuppance

And They will Eat their own

[JustPiper]

TIME MAG DETAILS EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE AL-QAEDA ATTACK ON U.S. ‘This is looking more real every day,’ says senior intelligence official
Sun Aug 08 2004 09:59:10 ET

FBI official warned a congressional leader he and others could be targeted in Washington and on trips around U.S.

New York – An FBI official warned a congressional leader that he and other top legislative officials could be targeted by al-Qaeda in Washington or on their trips around the country, TIME has learned. The warning came two days before Ridge issued his nationwide alert.

TIME reveals exclusive new detail of al-Qaeda attack plans, in the cover story/special report “Al-Qaeda in America. Inside the Terrorist Group’s Plot to Attack the U.S. Can We Get to Them Before They Strike?” (on newsstands Monday, Aug. 9).

Assessing the accumulation of evidence of a possible attack inside the U.S., a senior intelligence official tells TIME, “This is looking more like the real deal every day.” TIME also learns that Osama bin Laden may already have ordered up another attack: a top homeland security official tells TIME “We have a number of times picked up information that al-Qaeda wants to attack us before the election, and some of the communications attribute that desire to Osama bin Laden.”

Though surveillance for the al-Qaeda attack plans seized July 24 was mostly done in 2000 and 2001, “there remains plenty of cause for concern,” according to TIME. A surveillance report notes windows behind the six columns in front of the New York Stock Exchange building make it appear “a little fragile.” Operatives specifically discuss using “usual methods” such as a heavy gas truck or oil tanker to attack facilities. Surveillance of helicopter ports and cockpits in New York City suggest al-Qaeda has investigated using them for an airborne attack.

A U.S. law-enforcement official told TIME that a recent Pakistani intelligence report made available to senior U.S. intelligence and security officials offers details of alleged al-Qaeda plans to use speedboats and divers for attacks in New York harbor before the November 2004 elections.

TIME has learned that one seized disc contains an updated photo of the Prudential Building in Newark, New Jersey that was added in January of this year. Operatives noted it might be difficult to drive a truck or van into the Prudential’s underground parking garage. So they proposed acquiring a black limo, gutting all but the front seat and presumably filling the empty portion with explosives, TIME reports. They also discussed using an oil truck to ram through the front entrance. Information on New Jersey Transit passenger rail systems and PATH train timetables suggested al-Qaeda may have been exploring ways to escape after pulling off the attack, TIME reports.

A senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME that the three laptop computers and 51 discs seized in a July 24 raid in Pakistan represent an unprecedented “treasure trove” of information about al-Qaeda’s determination to pull off more acts of catastrophe on U.S. soil. “The discs revealed far more detailed, wide-ranging and current research” than has been made public, a source tells TIME. A senior law-enforcement force tells TIME the FBI is pursuing information from computer files that may lead to al-Qaeda members in the U.S. Perhaps a half-dozen individuals are believed to have been in contact with at least one of three men apprehended in Pakistan.

Developing...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm

[JustPiper]

[JustPiper]

If Dems hate Keyes Christianity what do you think Extremist's feel? Christianity is a threat to many!

Conservative heart, soul make Keyes tick

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/chi-0408080259aug08,1,7832110.story?coll=chi-news-hed&vote13718912=1

From my liberal Chgo Tribune and my City
Is Keyes a good choice to run for Senate?

19.5%
Yes (2080 responses)

80.5%
No (8595 responses)

10675 total responses

[Quix]

I FIERCELY AND STRONGLY AGREE.

AND I'M CONVINCED THAT THE NUMBERS OF THOSE COMPLICIT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

IS MUCH, MUCH

HIGHER THAN EVEN MOST OF THE INFORMED DARE

imagine.

[MamaDearest]

Goodnight Donna Lee. You're correct, doesn't take much to disillusion us from those jocks and other macho types who looked good years ago and now have gone liberal or who are legends in their own minds.

[HipShot]

Thanks for the link, MaMaDearest. I'd make it mandatory reading if I could. :)

http://www.futurist.com/portal/future_trends/david_brin_empowerment.htm

[HipShot]

Whoops. What kind of camera do you use?

BTW, what mosque do u think it looks like?

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Shalom I see where you are coming from now!

[HipShot]

"It perplexes me to no end."

maybe that's the point...

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

You are running the good race:)

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

The winner takes it all.LOL

[nwctwx]

Thanks much MamaDearest, this reminds me to pick up my Arabic book that has been gathering dust all summer... ;-)

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

To: knak
Hey Knak - here is an edited version of the posts:
Sorry i left you off the original To:

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To: JustPiper; All

Translation and analysis


Greetings.

Thanks for sending this. It's a on-peage religious flyer ("A Journey without a Return")

Akin to Christian evangelicals' exhortation.admonition that "your ticket to heaven/paradise awaits you if you read God's book (in this case, al-Quran) and (follow the Sunnah) do good things in this life, etc....."

Drawing in upper left corner is generic Islamic symbolism = curved roof of mosque and flanked by two minaret towers.

Regards,



3,321 posted on 08/08/2004 11:12:22 AM PDT by Bobibutu

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To: Bobibutu


Thanks for this. It's still a sobering translation in light of the use of the airplane drawing and reference to "a journey without a return".


3,323 posted on 08/08/2004 11:22:30 AM PDT by liberallyconservative

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To: liberallyconservative


"It's still a sobering translation in light of the use of the airplane drawing and reference to "a journey without a return"."

I agree. BTW the guy who looked at it has many years in the ME training their police and CI types.


3,324 posted on 08/08/2004 11:28:36 AM PDT by Bobibutu

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To: Bobibutu


Please pass along our "thanks" for offering us this insight.


3,327 posted on 08/08/2004 11:34:31 AM PDT by liberallyconservative

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To: Bobibutu

"curved roof of mosque and flanked by two minaret towers."

Huh?

All of the minarets I have ever seen have been pointed not square

3,329 posted on 08/08/2004 11:44:03 AM PDT by Selene

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To: liberallyconservative; JustPiper; All


Follow-up

Greetings again.

The diagram might suggest an aircraft strike against the Olympics, but the text is overall pretty bland.

That said, however, at this point, I would not discount anything about possible hits against the Olympics.

The security arrangements by the Greek government are shoddy and wobbly. Since, as I understand, the "airspace region" there is tightly controlled and monitored, my bet would be on a vehicle-borne IED (gas truck, fuel tanker bomb and the like) attack against the more-accessible athletes' housing areas, not the stadia and other venues of the events.

Regards,



3,330 posted on 08/08/2004 11:47:37 AM PDT by Bobibutu

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To: Selene


"All of the minarets I have ever seen have been pointed not square"

Yeah - me too.

"Drawing in upper left corner is generic Islamic symbolism = curved roof of mosque and flanked by two minaret towers."

As he said ... it is a "generic Islamic symbolism".

And as this is a religious propaganda flyer it seems to me good marketing on the author of the flyers part. i.e., rule 1. Get prospects attention before delivering your message.

As aircraft and buildings in the same graphic are in the collective consciousness of the majority of the worlds muslims (and ours) - what a great attention grabber. Not to mention the play on words "journey without a return". Great marketing attention getter.

As for his take on the building - I will go with his read - because it was his business as a professional. ";^)


3,333 posted on 08/08/2004 12:04:49 PM PDT by Bobibutu



3,445 posted on 08/08/2004 7:27:49 PM EDT by Bobibutu
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[nwctwx]

Thanks JP, I sometimes trick myself into believing that I know more than I do. That said, over the past 2 years I have learned a lot. I thank everyone at TM for aiding in the process, this place is very important to me. I was just a bit saddened that people would believe I have any ill intent.

I can be faulted for being an academic before being a Christian at times, but I am sure that will change as I get a bit older.

My hat is off to you, and all TM'ers... we are making a difference, I honestly believe that.

[nwctwx]

I use a Canon 10D (Digital SLR) with assorted lenses (it's an awesome camera, I was fortunate to get it as a present last year).

I do not know what mosque it could be, I probably could not differentiate one mosque from another if I tried. ;-)

[nwctwx]

Shalom I see where you are coming from now!

:-)

[HipShot]

That is an AWESOME camera. Congratulations. The best I ever had was a Canon A-80. I want one of the S-1s.

I'll see if I can dig up pix of the "dome of the rock".

[Quix]

YUP.

I STRONGLY AGREE.

However, I have one caution.

God knows and sees all in the hearts of all men much better than we do.

AND

HE SAYS, THAT "HE THAT SEEKS ME, SHALL FIND ME."

I do believe that many Moslems who are in their ignorance doing all they know to seek the TRUE ALMIGHTY GOD ABOVE ALL GODS--that somehow, God will respond redemptively to them.

I personally believe, that God will make Himself and Jesus and Jesus' Blood, Salvation known to them--as He has begun doing, perhaps, through many having dreams and visions of Jesus out of the blue--even when they have never heard of Jesus and have to research who He is--though they know from the dream or vision that He is God.