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Posted on 08/10/2004 12:58:27 AM PDT by 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 Sixteen |
With the nation on high alert for al-Qaida terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security is putting its border officers through "etiquette" classes to soften their image and make them less threatening to arriving foreign immigrants, WorldNetDaily has learned. |
"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! |
Oh my. I'm just not quite sure what to say about that grizzfan.
Do you think that Iran seriously thinks that people would believe that they were trying to help the U.S. though? I can't imagine, with all of the hate they spew towards us, why they think we (or anyone) would believe they acted in our best interest.
Thanks for the link.
Now we know why they make women cover up. The men can't stand the competition.
This leaves one speechless.
Yes, I know it happens.
I dealt with the children of parents who walked off and left them, as a foster parent.
The Iranians (correction - - the Iranian *regime*)is acting confident because they want us to believe, and may believe themselves, that they have not only a first-strike capability but a retaliatory one as well.
The reason the Israelis are distributing the radiation pills around the Negev (Dimona and any land-based Jericho missiles) and not in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is that Dimona is the logical "pre-emptive"/first-strike target for the Iranians (or the initial retaliatory target in the event of Israeli and/or American actions against the sites at Bushehr, Natanz, Arak, etc.). They said so themselves. They probably figure an initial nuclear counter-force strike will play better with world opinion than direct targeting of Tel Aviv.
Most people do not realize that Saddam targeted Dimona in 1991. This is an old script. He was making the same calculations.
The Iranian regime is making a strategic miscalculation that they can deter a retaliatory escalation to their aggression if they confine the initial targeting to military related sites (Israeli and American military concentrations and infrastructure in the region). They also seem to believe they can deter a retaliatory escalation by the infiltration of WMD-armed "special forces" into the continental U.S. If we threaten massive retaliation against Iran, they can credibly threaten multiple responses here.
They are acting confident because they perceive their own capabilities to be vastly greater than we do (or than they actually are). If the North Koreans, Pakistanis, and a ragtag bunch of relatively unprofessional irregulars called "al Qaeda" can develop or get their hands on nuclear devices, why on earth do we not think the Iranians did not also do so long ago?
And if North Korea has had the capability to launch against the western continental U.S. for going on a decade (despite how much we want to downplay it). And the North Korean missile program is, in effect, a joint venture with Iran, as it has also been for a decade - - with much of the testing taking place in Iran rather than North Korea, why do we think that their missile capability is limited to the Shihab-3? Could Shihab-4 and Shihab-5 be much more advanced than any suspect?
If North Korea has had the Taepo-dong 2 all these years and possibly even tested the engine in Iran (with dozens if not hundreds of North Korean scientists stationed there), I guarantee you Iran has the weapon. It has probably never been flight tested (except in 1998 when the North Koreans hit either Alaska or right off the coast of Hawaii - - pick your "fish story" - - with a dummy warhead). But it does not have to be an accurate, militarily effective weapon to be a useful terror weapon.
You want a surprise attack? You don't need al Qaeda to sneak a nuke across the border (or someone more dangerous like Hezbollah or Iranian special forces). A long-range Taepo-dong-2 launched from the area around Tabriz could theoretically reach the eastern seaboard.
An ICBM launched from the east is just as credible a threat to NYC and DC as the morons trying to cross the border. Activating Ft. Greeley is fine and dandy. We need to be just as concerned about having an intercept capability on the east side as well.
They are betting we won't risk taking this to the next level if they go against Israel and/or Iraq and/or our bases in the region because they feel they can hold our own major population centers hostage by infiltration or missile strike (including DPRK capabilities in a possible two-front war).
They also probably hope to achieve their objectives (as warped as the thinking may be) by deterring our nuclear retaliatory escalation through their long-range missile and terrorist-delivered WMD threats, paralyze us at home with these attacks leading up to a divisive election, force a bloody and violent regional stalemate with bio and chem (which they also have in abundance), and play for time by trying to shut Hormuz and trying to strangle the world economy with over $100/barrel oil hoping either we will cry uncle or the rest of the world will try to force us to cry uncle as the global economy collapses and the WMD-induced casualties amass exponentially on the battlefield and on the homefronts.
If they fail to deter a retaliation, then they hope the use of WMD (nuclear) by either the Israelis or ourselves, or both, even in retaliation to their first-use, will be sufficient to incite the entire region to descend on Jerusalem in a "holy war" (which no one except a few fanatics want at the moment). The theocratic faction that seized back power earlier this year in Tehran is irrational and fanatical. They are old and frightened men. And they will sacrifice their people in the name of their ideology.
And the Iranian people, most of whom are under 30, are about the only people (besides Israel) in the region that loves America. Remember the spontaneous 9/11 candlelight vigils? The mullahs in Tehran are using their people as human shields hoping to deter retaliation. And if that fails, using the corpses of their own people to incite jihad.
It is a huge miscalculation, but there is a method behind their madness.
This is what their "prepositioning" is all about(surveillance and infiltration).
Perhaps there are still brave Iranians in positions of power in the government, military and security services, and even the clergy, who quietly see that this course, set by the aging criminal clerics who oppress them, is one of national suicide. Not just national suicide - - international suicide. If Israel is hit, it will respond disproportionately. A holocaust will not be confined to Israel as the mullahs (the bad ones) want. The holocaust will engulf the entire region, including them.
And maybe the oppressed silent majority of quietly brave and good Iranians will take action to undermine and stop these madmen. They are the ones who will have to stop the lunatics who seek to let loose upon mankind this nuclear jinn that has been bottled up.
Before it is too late for all of us.
I will miss you JP.
No idea whether that particular story is true, but it could easily have happened that way. Most Iranians detest that regime, even some in the military and security structures. Underneath the surface, many in positions of power and influence oppose the regime of which they are a part.
Who knows? Maybe there is an operation underway against an American target not in Central Asia, but here at home. And it is not an assassination, but a WMD attack. In that case, our lives could depend on the courage and conscience of Iranians like those in that story. The dictatorial thugs in clerical robes are the ones seeking to drag us all into a war, not the average Iranian - - not even the average Iranian soldier, official, or yes, even the avaerage cleric. That is why the hardline, terrorist regime has to *provoke* a war - - because no one *wants* one.
We live or die based on knowing who the enemy is.
And who the enemy is not.
Honestly, I think there is good and bad in everything and everyone; including Iran.
In the last several days, the Persian Journal has only been available sporadically. Most frequently there is a message stating that the server isn't available. An investigation of the situation shows that Iran has blacked out a lot of news in the last two weeks. This may not be news in the Iranian scheme of things, but the Persian Journal was always available before.
Headline on Drudge, linked to yahoo:
Iran warns of preemptive strike to prevent attack on nuclear sites
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&u=/afp/20040818/wl_afp/iran_nuclear_us_israel_040818201404&printer=1
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But I know you have work to do...
I have to e-mail that on to my folks who are vacationing in Florida right now. LOL!
Criminy.
OMG, I just jumped out of all my skin.
Thought we were being *bombed*.
Called the police.
Seems when we were out of town over July 4th, the fireworks show was postponed until tonight.
(Guess I didn't get the memo)
Back after I change my underthings and start smoking or drinking or somethin'.
As Nully says: KeeeRyst!
LOL! Hope you are feeling more at ease now, Vel.
Look how mean and unfeeling and hateful us New York state residents are:
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DMV Launches Massive Crackdown On Drivers Without Valid Social Security Number
AUGUST 19TH, 2004
Keeping a closer eye on just who gets state and federal I.D. cards was something the 9/11 Commission highlighted in their final report. Now the state DMV is rearing a massive crackdown on drivers without valid social security numbers a crackdown that worries many illegal immigrants.
It's a state law that has been in place since 1995. But thanks to new technology and increasing attention on identification fraud following 9/11, the state Department of Motor Vehicles is vowing to make sure for the first time that no New York driver renews their license without a real social security number.
"As we learned from 9/11, 18 of the 19 hijackers held valid driving licenses from other states, many of which were obtained through fraudulent means," said New York State DMV Commissioner Raymond Martinez. "These license documents issued in states where requirement were less stringent than those here in New York, allowed hijackers to board planes and execute acts of terrorism against our nation."
As a result of the new effort, up to 300,000 New Yorkers may lose their right to drive many of them illegal immigrants without social security numbers.
Inside and outside a State Assembly hearing, immigrant advocates Thursday charged the crackdown unfairly targets immigrant families, who need to be able to drive in order to work.
"I believe we can find a middle ground to all this," said Fernando Mateo of Hispanics Across America. "But to take the license off of so many hard working immigrants is going to detrimental to not only the economy of the state, but to a lot of families."
But some of those who lost loved ones on 9/11 say it's not about discrimination but about keeping the country safe.
"It is common-sense security," said Al Regenhard who lost his son on 9/11. "The driver's license is a valued document. We use it everyday for business transactions, in the bank. We rent cars with the driver's license; we get on planes with it, and it should be at least honest."
The DMV agrees.
"There is no way to tell whether someone provided us with false information because of good intentions or bad intensions, however, in the interest of public security and traffic safety the rules must be applied to all," said Martinez.
So far, only several hundred licenses have been revoked, but starting in November, the state plans to start suspending several thousand a day.
Janine Ramirez
http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=42610#
I posted that one here, because I was suspicious. (What else is new?)
Why would an American woman (from Houston) leave her children in Africa and go to Iraq with military contractors?
Yeah, OK for the money. Or was it?
What is the mother's name? Who is the father?
Where is the father?
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