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!

[TheLion]

Kings Point is where the US Merchant Marine Academy is located.

[nwctwx]

you're welcome, interesting image..

[nwctwx]

JustPlaying JustPiper. :-D

[nwctwx]

There is a new 'invest' on that system, it will likely become something... it already looks like a Tropical Storm to me.

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home2.cgi?YEAR=2004&MO=Aug&BASIN=ATL&STORM_NAME=96L.INVEST&PROD=track_vis&PHOT=yes&ARCHIVE=active&NAV=tc&DISPLAY=Latest&ACTIVES=04-ATL-04L.DANIELLE,04-EPAC-07E.ESTELLE,04-EPAC-08E.FRANK,04-WPAC-19W.CHABA,04-WPAC-20W.AERE,04-ATL-90L.INVEST,04-ATL-96L.INVEST,04-EPAC-99E.INVEST,&STYLE=tables

Way early still, but models bring it towards the SE coast in about 5-7 days.

[nwctwx]

oops, that's huge link! sorry. ;)

[nwctwx]

I've never fully discounted a rural hit in the next attack. I do wonder how they decide where the money goes though.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

"There is a new 'invest' on that system, it will likely become something... it already looks like a Tropical Storm to me."

I was looking at this one earlier tonight. It has all the ingredients to be something. And I have a trip to NC/VA next Tuesday-Thursday. Might see something!!

[Velveeta]

Omaha Traffic Accident Takes Toxic Turn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197922/posts

[nwctwx]

Airport Security Scandal Exposed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197873/posts

"A STRING of breathtaking security blunders allowed me to clinch a job as an airport baggage handler — and take a fake bomb on a packed holiday jet.

I got my £7-an-hour post at Birmingham International Airport despite providing bogus references, a false home address, incorrect bank details and LYING about my past.

Then, incredibly, I was waved through a staff security checkpoint leading to the plane’s luggage hold — with components for the “device” hidden in my shoe.

Had I been one of Osama Bin Laden’s terrorists, I could have wiped out more than 220 British passengers on the Thomas Cook flight to Majorca — and thousands more on the ground below.

Instead, I can today reveal the catalogue of gaffes which let me on board.

Birmingham International is meant to be on high alert after it was named as one of al-Qaeda’s top UK targets.

Just weeks ago, an alleged plot to bomb it — and three other airports — was foiled by a police swoop. Yet I passed two crucial background checks, despite telling lie after lie.

I got my job as a baggage handler three days after answering a newspaper advert from Aviance, one of the country’s biggest airport recruitment firms.

I was interviewed for just 20 minutes before being taken on. I told questioner Keith Roberts, who joked about my name, that I’d worked for two manufacturing firms for the past six years. "

More at link above...

[nwctwx]

Definately something to watch! A little excitement possible after a boring tropics week. :)

[marsh2]

I live in a very rural area- in fact so rural, it is considered a "frontier" county. Guess where the State of California plans to evacuate urban areas to in case of an urban WMD attack? "Have they given rural areas the resources to receive and handle a possible flood of refugees?"- should be the question, not why are we wasting any money on rural areas. Our entire County has only 43,000 people in 6,600 sq. miles. We would be quickly overwhelmed and under-staffed in an evacuation situation.

[Selene]

Hi Snowy

It smelled of rotting jelly fish, but there were no jellyfish at the beach. Also, there was something to the odor that made me think that it wasn't 'natural'.

FYI and for future reference. Nitogen mustard gas has a fishy, musty smell. Has a delayed action >than twelve hours.

[Selene]

Sounds like they think he may have been a suicide bomber. ???

Maybe he was a nut case recruited by AQ

[nwctwx]

Behold The Face Of Islam?
http://www.americandaily.com/article/824

...excerpt...

“We will return one day unified as one nation with one army and rest assure that those criminal Jews from the criminal state of Israel will have no sanctuary this time."

"Even though Islamic laws give them protection, the sons of those who have been killed may not adhere to that protection. The world is a witness to the fact that, it is the Jews that are hastening to full fill that prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), that the end of time will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them all. Prior to that time anti-Semitism will become a virtue not a stigma! Europe has begun to recognize this as has many patriotic Christian Americans-it is simply a matter of time.” (Excerpt from e-mail received from a Muslim in London, UK, and a writer for Al Jazeerah)

There are over a billion Muslims in the world. Are they all terrorists--of course not. These “moderate Muslims” are the vast majority of Muslims. However, there are many whose hearts are filled with hate. Their minds have been filled with promises of world domination, and paradise is assured for all who kill in Allah’s name. According to Mr. Yamin Zakaria, who is quoted above, the killing of Jews and Christians is not only encouraged, it is demanded by Islamic law. I know of no true God that would demand murder and genocide as the only path to heaven.

Millions of Muslims, who want peace, are willing to accept Israel and do not wish to exterminate millions of humans in Allah’s name also must die. These moderate Muslims have been targeted for death just as the rest of us if they do not accept the terrorist’s interpretation of the Quran.

As clearly stated above by a Muslim, educated in America, living in England, the death of all Jews is carved in stone by Allah. A world dominated by Islam as the supreme power is their destiny. That Islam must be pure. Weak, moderate Muslims are not allowed.

Mr. Zakaria continued: “The US policy makers have stated that the war on “terror will continue for decades. They are incorrect, it will continue for centuries, until true justice is gained. We (Arabs/Muslims) are not like the Japanese, Vietnamese or the Koreans that will simply forget these grotesque crimes. …the relatively humane killing of Nick Berg as compared to those tortured to death in places like Abu Gharib was a reaction not the cause! Similarly, 9/11 was a reaction to the earlier US atrocities in Iraq and by its client state Israel.”

Is the hatred reserved only for the Jews? No. Christians are also on the long list of people to kill.

[nwctwx]

Iran repeats warning against attacking nuclear facilities
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/468723.html

...excerpt...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Insisting its nuclear program is peaceful, Iran again warned that it would retaliate if Israel attacked its controversial nuclear facilities.

"If they would do that, we would react," Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tuesday during a visit to New Zealand.

"We have our defense capability and that certainly keeps others from exercising such a threat," he said. "They know what is our capability and how ... we react."

Kharrazi's comments revisit the war of words that has escalated in recent weeks. It resurfaced as Israeli suspicions grew that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program in the guise of a peaceful nuclear power industry.

But Kharrazi insisted Tuesday that, "Iran has no program to produce nuclear weapons. It is our legitimate right to have nuclear technology for peaceful purposes."

In New Zealand to renew a cooperation agreement between the two nations, Kharrazi has been urged by senior ministers to fully cooperate with International Atomic Energy Agency requests for details of its nuclear program.

[Quix]

Thanks. Took 2-3 jumps but got my sleep in. Had a good first day at school with the psych class.

Blessings to you and yours.

[nwctwx]

Battle near Iraq shrine rages, U.S. planes strike
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NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes, artillery and marines have engaged Shi'ite militiamen in a fierce battle around a shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf in some of the heaviest fighting since the 20-day-old rebellion erupted.

U.S. aircraft and ground artillery launched several strikes on Monday that rocked the area near the Imam Ali mosque, where Mehdi Army fighters of radical Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have holed up in defiance of the U.S.-backed interim government.

An AC-130 gunship, equipped with rapid-fire cannon and howitzers, circled above the southern city while artillery and armoured fighting vehicles struck on the ground.

Smoke and a fiery glow rose above Najaf's Old City within a mile of the shrine, where gunfire echoed through nearby alleys. U.S. tanks kept up their encirclement of the city's heart.

Shrapnel fell in the courtyard of the gold-domed mosque, whose outer walls have already been slightly damaged in fighting that has killed hundreds and driven oil prices to record highs.

News that Iraq's crude exports were back to normal on Monday for the first time in two weeks helped to calm jittery oil markets. Exports had been sharply reduced by sabotage and threats from militants. Oil prices rose to nearly $50 (27.6 pounds) a barrel last week but have since eased.

[Velveeta]

Maybe he was a nut case recruited by AQ

As are they all!

[nwctwx]

Bin Laden 'Bodyguard' Goes Before Guantanamo Tribunal
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Osama bin Laden’s alleged bodyguard and chauffeur today becomes Guantanamo Bay’s first terror suspect brought before a US military commission that allows for secret evidence and no government appeals.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a 34-year-old Yemeni, has said he earned a pittance for his family by driving al-Qaida’s leader before the September 11 attacks, but denies supporting terrorism.

“This process goes against everything that we fought for in the history of the United States,” said Lt Cmdr Charlie Swift, Hamdan’s lawyer who is likely to challenge the government’s classification of Hamdan as an enemy combatant.

Depending upon what Swift has up his sleeve or what surprises the prosecutors hold at the pre-trial hearing today, Hamdan could choose not to enter a plea and his lawyer could ask for more time to prepare. It is also possible Swift will question whether the five-member commission panel’s presiding officer, US Army Col Peter Brownback, has the capacity to judge the proceedings fairly.

The Pentagon, in a charge sheet, alleged Hamdan, also known as Saqr al Jaddawi, was a bodyguard and personal driver for bin Laden between February 1996 and November 24, 2001.

The Pentagon also said he transported weapons to al-Qaida operatives, trained at an al-Qaida camp and drove in convoys that carried bin Laden. It does not say he took part in any specific acts of violence or participated in the operational planning of any attacks.

[nwctwx]

U.S. border is no terrorist corridor — so far (Oh, I feel safer now! -nwctwx)
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Among the thousands of undocumented immigrants streaming into Arizona from Mexico each week, the U.S. Border Patrol has yet to discover a known terrorist.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security likewise have failed to detect a single al-Qaeda operative who infiltrated the United States via its southern boundary.

Yet, counterterrorism experts concede that the threat is real.

Which leaves average folks wondering: Is al-Qaeda knocking on our back door?

That question was raised last week when U.S. news outlets trumpeted FBI alerts about one of Osama bin Laden's suspected lieutenants, Adnan El Shukrijumah. The bulletin to border watchers was based on intelligence that Shukrijumah was seen in Honduras months ago and might travel through Mexico on a U.S. terrorist mission.

FBI spokeswoman Susan Herskovits said the sighting was never confirmed and there is no evidence Shukrijumah had any such plan.

In fact, the intelligence picture is fuzzy all over. No one knows if any terrorists have slipped in from Mexico undetected. Nor can anyone predict whether they will. (Related story: Agents say they lack tools to stop terrorists)

Among law enforcement officials, the consensus seems to be that al-Qaeda has found safer, easier routes into the United States, using forged documents or valid visas.

"These people are meticulous," said Col. Norm Beasley, who oversees counterterrorism efforts with the Arizona Department of Public Safety. "They do not like leaving anything to chance. ... And there is a tremendous effort at the federal level to really watch for those (undocumented immigrants) who are non-Hispanic. ...

"I'm concerned about the Mexican border. But from a pure terrorism issue, I'm more concerned about the Canadian border."

The lightly patrolled northern line has been terrorist-free since 1999, when a U.S. Customs agent stopped Algerian immigrant Ahmed Ressam as he tried to enter Washington state with a carload of explosives. (Ressam, serving a 27-year sentence, admitted al-Qaeda ties in his planned attack on Los Angeles International Airport.)

Andy Adame, a spokesman for the Border Patrol, noted that every captured immigrant is questioned at length, and the Tucson Sector's 2,100 agents are trained to spot non-Mexicans. Those who fall under suspicion are turned over to the FBI for questioning.

al-Qaeda operatives would stand out in northern Mexico so much that even smugglers who transport border crossers would shun them.

"When you talk terrorists, I think the smuggler realizes there are no boundaries," Adame said. "Sitting in Mexico, he's still not safe."

Still, a Border Patrol report on "other-than-Mexican" immigrants detained from October 2003 to July 2004 shows a trickle of illegal crossers from nations with known populations of Islamic terrorists: five from Iraq, 19 from Pakistan, six from Saudi Arabia.

Critics say al-Qaeda insurgents could be among them. However, a review of media reports on the LexisNexis database shows only a few terrorist-related arrests with Mexican implications.

Steve Emerson, a radical-Islam researcher and author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, says Mexico could become a conduit even if it hasn't been to date.

"Is there known evidence of al-Qaeda operatives arrested on the border? I don't think so," he said. "But any point of entry is a potential route for the bad guys."

The issue is particularly hot with Republican politicians and conservative groups seeking to close the door on Hispanic immigration.

But, says Robin Hoover, president of Tucson-based Humane Borders, which sets up water stations to prevent illegal crossers from dying of thirst, "I think it's election-year politics. All we hear is rumor, hearsay. Fear does sell."