Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread SEVENTEEN

World Net Daily ^ | 8-10-04 | Paul Sperry

[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!

[jerseygirl]

Gastrointestinal illness (some 69 needed ER care) occurred at the Omni Hotel in Philly a day after Bush spoke there last January. As far as I know, the disease was never identified...

[jerseygirl]

This also fits. If we are going to a COG "exercise" over the RNC, that is another hint of a very intense and credible threat- not only to NYC but elsewhere. For this attack is supposed to be AQ's "spectacular" one and they are losing members and face as time goes on...

[British chick]

I think this information from British intelligence is amongst the most important we've heard. They don't put this stuff out all the time.

[cmsgop]

, " and the _____fell off", they lost one passenger plane in the ocean off California,

That was Aloha Air I believe in the late eighties. The stuck jackscrew was flight 261 Alaska that went down killing 88 off of PT Mugu,CA.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I disagree with your statement.

Details are only "useless", until someone needs them.

Your ancient cities, are worming their way into my mind, it does in a strange way, make sense.

We now need to see a list, or a map. (our next Kitty Hawk, that keeps showing up, for no reasons.)

I was never laughing at you, OK, so, maybe a little smile.

But I knew you would plant the ___things in my mind, sooner or later.

"Velveeta - the expert Brainwasher"

[nwctwx]

Attack on US 90% Ready
Fox News - March 11, 2004

...excerpt...

CAIRO, Egypt - An Arabic newspaper said Thursday it had received a claim of responsibility for the Madrid train bombings issued in the name of Al Qaeda. The claim also said that a major attack against America was "90 percent ready."

The five-page e-mail claim, signed by the shadowy Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri (search), was received at Al-Quds al-Arabi's London offices. It said the brigade's "death squad" had penetrated "one of the pillars of the crusade alliance, Spain," and carried out what it called Operation Death Trains.

"This is part of settling old accounts with Spain, the crusader, and America's ally in its war against Islam," the claim said.

Referring to Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, the statement asked: "Aznar, where is America? Who will protect you, Britain, Japan, Italy and others from us?"

The newspaper faxed the claim to The Associated Press office in Cairo.

The statement warned the United States that a major strike is approaching.

"We announce the good news for the Muslims in the world that the strike of the black wind of death, the expected strike against America, is now at its final stage -- 90 percent ready -- and it is coming soon, by God's will," the claim said.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I also saw that Arab conference on September 11th.

[nwctwx]

Until I hear of some more arrests, I am very concerned about the next few weeks...

[nwctwx]

I agree... things have continued to build since this was released in the beginning of the month and the specific operatives of interest still appear to be on the loose.

[jerseygirl]

On TB 2000 there is a thread on the public forum about Tony Blair declining to visit US during this time frame to receive a medal. I am wondering if fear- not politics- might be the motivation.

[judicial meanz]

Thats a great point.

If we were reduced in power from the world stage, this could happen.

That may be the whole reason behind striking the US first, then gaining steam in the Middle East.

No matter what they did, however, they couldnt reduce our strategic triad capability, and thats what counts. We could salvo them at any time, and they know it.

[jerseygirl]

Only a few minutes left before they close this library. I found this at Above Top Secret, from a NewsMax article:


Where Uncle Sam Goes If Holocaust Comes To Town
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com

Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001

President Bush’s Sept. 11 hopscotching in Air Force One from Florida to Air Force bases in Louisiana and Nebraska before returning to Washington seemed frenetic but was, in fact, part of a fixed plan to safeguard the chief executive and succeed in a vital mission of the Continuity of Government Program (COG).

If the president had been sitting in the Oval Office at the time of the attacks rather than visiting a school in Sarasota, he would still have been whisked aboard Air Force One for an indefinite period of time – a fact apparently not considered by critics of his itinerary that day.

According to rigid operating procedures of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the first line of defense for the president is not the fallout shelter beneath the East Wing of the White House, but a flying command post even more sophisticated than Air Force One and judged safer than any point on the ground.

A key presidential side trip of Sept. 11 was to Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., home to the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC), where one of four converted 747-200s (code named "Kneecap”) sat ready for takeoff with a full battle staff aboard. Known informally as "the doomsday planes,” the official moniker of the flying NAOCs is "Night Watch.”

With in-flight refueling, each of these planes can remain airborne for as long as three days before needing to return to the deck for a change of oil in the engines.

If the terrorist attacks had continued, national command and control would have left the skies and been grounded somewhere in a chain of secret and not-so-secret shelters for the president, other government leaders and critical personnel.

The "Federal Relocation Arc” is a system of perhaps a hundred shelters for the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government agencies that sweeps through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

For instance, the Pentagon’s safe house is located at a site called Raven Rock in Maryland. This sprawling 716-acre installation lies 650 feet below the surface. The staffers (about 350) go to work via portals in the mountainside.

Amenities include shopping, a barbershop, medical clinic, dining, fitness facilities and a chapel.

Even large defense contractors, such as McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, and AT&T, are said to have their own subterranean facilities.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of terror as an ill-defined enemy’s new weapon of choice, doomsday planners are reassessing crisis scenarios. Old relocation centers are under review. Some will be closed, with others converted to other uses.

As an example, the Federal Reserve Board had its relocation site in Culpeper, Va., until it was mothballed in July 1992.

The 43,000-square-foot radiation-proof bunker was reported stocked with enough freeze-dried food to last 30 days. The new relocation site for the board appropriately remains a mystery.

As far as anyone will say, Mount Weather, code-named "High Point,” is still the key facility in the sheltering arc. This is where the president, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court justices may be relocated in the event of a national emergency. High Point is a 61,000-square-foot mountain bunker near Berryville, Va. It has been around since the 1950s and is certainly no longer secret.

On Sept. 11, after departing from Louisiana’s Barksdale A.F.B, the Secret Service urged that the president be flown immediately – not to Mount Weather – but to Colorado Springs, where the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) underground bunker is located.

If Mount Weather, indeed, is no longer the jewel in the Federal Relocation Arc's crown, it would be tough to duplicate. One of the first of nearly 100 Federal Relocation Centers, it took years to complete and is more an underground city than an emergency bunker.

According to the Napa Sentinel, an underground installation with a COG function is under construction near the Oakville Grade in Napa County, Calif.

Mysterious helicopter flights go in and out of the area.

The Sentinel says "the secret government site is replacing other installations and combining them into one underground center.”

In any event, the real issue is how to get key personnel out of Washington and to these places of safety. The Marine helicopters of the presidential squadron at nearby Quantico, Va., cannot ferry them all.

U.S. Patent No. 3,693,731 details an apparatus for tunneling by melting. In part it describes "a machine and method for drilling bore holes and tunnels by melting in which a housing is provided for supporting a heat source and a heated end portion and in which the necessary melting heat is delivered to the walls of the end portion at a rate sufficient to melt rock and during operation of which the molten material may be disposed adjacent the boring zone in cracks in the rock and as a vitreous wall lining of the tunnel so formed.”

In an allied development, MIT engineers Robert Salter and Frank P. Davidson tout their "Planetran” concept for moving people rapidly through very long tunnels.

Planetran, according to Salter, is an "ultra-speed, electro-magnetically propelled and levitated transportation system.”

Such a system, say the engineers, could rocket passengers through bored tunnels across the United States in less than an hour "in a quiet, economical, fuel-conservative, and nonpolluting manner.”

Congress already races around in electric carts through tunnels from one Washington office building to another. A system such as Planetran may one day shuttle government leaders in underground safety to locations in the nearby Federal Relocation Arc.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Alaska air had several planes in trouble and not more than about 3 years ago.

One crashed in the ocean, off California and it was a Mexico flight.

They had so many mechanical problems that they almost went bankrupt.

[jerseygirl]

Re: weather balloon found in PA- was this ever truly identified?


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Strange object from sky turns out to be a weather balloon
8/14/2004, 12:02 p.m. ET


The Associated Press

CRALEY, Pa. (AP) — A plastic foam box with attached wires and antennae caused a brief stir after it was spotted on the side of a road in York County, but officials quickly determined that it was part of a weather balloon that had fallen from the sky.


A motorist in Lower Windsor Township called police Friday to alert them about the strange looking device.

Officer Jim Thomas located the box, complete with wires and a battery pack duct-taped to it. When he got close to it, he heard it humming.

"In this day and age, you never can be too sure," he said. "We weren't going to take any chances."

Police shut down the road and contacted Penn State's Hazardous Device Disposal Team. A bomb expert confirmed that the device was a weather balloon — a device that measures meteorological conditions at high altitudes, with the help of a helium balloon.

Markings on the box indicated it was from Colorado, Thomas said.

"It sounds like one of our instruments," Sam Oltmans, a research physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.

The balloon also might have come from Beltsville, Md., where members of NOAA and the National Aeronautical Space Administration have been sending up weather balloons every few days for an air quality monitoring project.

It is possible for weather balloons to drift, but they rarely end up on land, said Tom Tesauro of Scientific Sales, a New Jersey business that sells weather balloons.

"They go way up, into the upper atmosphere," he said. "They keep going until they get caught up in the jet stream, until they land, usually in the ocean."

Thomas said his department plans to return the weather balloon to Oltmans in Colorado. A $30 reward for finding the weather balloon will be given to the local fire company, Thomas said.

[jerseygirl]

"The balloon also might have come from Beltsville, Md., where members of NOAA and the National Aeronautical Space Administration have been sending up weather balloons every few days for an air quality monitoring project."

Have to get off computer, but this sounds unresolved unless it has been updated since this article.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Not surprising that the balloons can land, look at the ones from Japan.

also keep in mind that the ocean currents do the same, it is said that Castro has the currents figured out to send things floating to the coasts of the U.S.

As with bottles that have germs in them, from one report that was found.

[ExSoldier]

they couldnt reduce our strategic triad capability, and thats what counts.

HipShot, here's an interesting question. If the White House got nuked and the command authority were eliminated, would our nuke forces have the ability to strike back? What if the targets were other than those preprogrammed into the guidance systems?

We could salvo them at any time, and they know it.

Yeah, but salvo who? Assuming the AQ force structure remains the same and we get hit in the next couple of weeks with a major attack, who do we strike back against? I mean we have all spoken fairly warmly of the notion of turning Mecca and Medina into Oil Under Glass but how likely is that possibility?

[cmsgop]

One crashed in the ocean, off California and it was a Mexico flight.

Yeah, that was Alaska Air Flt 261. Alaska was found guilty by the Feds for fraudulent record keeping. As far as I know, they were never close to being Bankrupt, in fact they are making profits and growing everyday. I can't remember any other Alaska plane problems though,except for the plane crash in Alaska 20 years ago.

[cmsgop]

Here is a pic from Aloha Airlines Flt 243 that you were referring to earlier.

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/aloha243/photo.shtml

[nw_arizona_granny]

I am sorry, I should have googled it, before I posted.

a general google search for:

Alaskan airline plane crash california

Without rereading the reports, (no time)

Flight 261
On January 31, 2000
an MD-80 series plane
Down off the coast of Oxnard.

The MD-80, might be where I got my flight 80.

Time goes so fast for me, that a year means little.