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!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I am so glad you reposted that here. Things are getting interesting once again.

[all4one]

Well, here is a little bit more info....but the article is still "Not Available" when I clicked on the link.

RV Loaded With Fireworks Found Near White HouseM

WJLA, DC - 22 hours ago

... near the White House. Inside, they found a large cache of illegal fireworks, a shotgun, and a half pound of marijuana. The RV was ...

Google "Fireworks" Search

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Pakistan nabs top Al-Qaeda duo(More arrests)
News 24 ^ | Aug 12 2004 | NA

Posted on 08/12/2004 11:46:10 AM EDT by Dog

Islamabad - Two top al-Qaeda suspects, a Pakistani linked to attempts on President Pervez Musharraf's life and an Uzbek national, have been captured in Pakistan, said an intelligence official on Thursday.

They are the latest in a gallery of suspected top operatives of Osama bin Laden's terror network caught in the world's second most-populous Muslim nation since mid-July.

Both men were close to al-Qaeda's "top leadership", the official said, without naming bin Laden or his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who are believed to be both hiding in mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier.

The Pakistani, identified only as Mohsin, was nabbed in the southern port city of Karachi on Monday, said the official, who has been closely involved in the high-profile crackdown and who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"He is one of the important characters in the Musharraf (attempted assassination) case," he said, referring to two bids on Musharraf's life last December.

The Uzbek man, known as Mansoor, was arrested in northwest Peshawar city, also on Monday.

Assaults on al-Qaeda hideouts

Believed to be a key al-Qaeda operative, Mansoor had been hiding in the northwest tribal belt along the Afghan border until Pakistani army assaults sent him fleeing, said the official.

"He is... one of the people active in organising and providing the Uzbek people for fighting against the army in Wana and also for acts of terrorism," he added.

Wana, the main city in the tribal district of south Waziristan, was the scene of intensive assaults by the Pakistani army earlier this year against al-Qaeda hideouts.

The latest arrests bring to 23 the number of suspected al-Qaeda operatives captured since mid-July in Pakistan's biggest crackdown on the network to date.

Also arrested this week was a Turkish man believed to be a top al-Qaeda terror planner.

Yilmaz Mehmat, alias Khalid, was arrested in eastern city of Lahore on Sunday.

Last month's captures of Tanzanian terror suspect Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, charged by the United States in connection with the 1998 east Africa US embassy bombings, and Pakistani computer whizz Naeem Noor Khan led to the uncovering of a worldwide al-Qaeda wing plotting fresh terror strikes in Britain, the US and Pakistan.

Key financial institutions

Interrogations of the pair and examination of their e-mail records and computer files also led to the arrests of top al-Qaeda suspects in Britain, including alleged kingpin Abu Eisa al Hindi.

Attacks were planned to disrupt US November presidential elections, according to interrogators' accounts of Khan and Ghailani's revelations.

Khan's computer contained detailed surveillance records of key financial institutions in Newark, New York and Washington, triggering terror alerts in the three cities.

The trio arrested this week - Mohsin, Khalid and Mansoor - had been working closely with Khan and Ghailani, said the intelligence official.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190198/posts

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"...they found a large cache of illegal fireworks, a shotgun, and a half pound of marijuana..."

Mandatory items for all road trips, no? Seriously, it sounds like someone was readying to have a party. I wonder what they were planning on celebrating?

[null and void]

I think the USPTO doesn't require that a trademark be valuable, fit, kind, or sweet smelling.

At least patents need to be novel, useful and inobvious.

Maybe we should trademark the Threat Matrix

TM™...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Ohhhhhhhhh. I am disappointed. I was expecting a witty reply from you about "it." You know, the "shebeast."

[JellyJam]

Thank you! Fortunately, our house isn't in a mandatory evacuation zone. We're going to have to wait this one out - and hope for the best.

My eager kindergartner will probably get upset when he learns there's no school tomorrow. This is his first week of school and he's having a blast.

[Velveeta]

Along the same lines as your RV post:

(Idaho) Police looking for stolen Winnebago
http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-aug1104-winnebago_stolen.69cbfcb8.html

[Velveeta]

Hmmmm. Has anyone seen Mansoor Ijaz lately??? LOL!

[swarthyguy]

BUMP to you both.

Looks like GO has been given.

Notice all the security types with their hair on fire walking in and out of govt buildings?

[Jill St Claire]

Thanks Tmp02, but I won't be here much....I am far too busy!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

After a talk in 115-degree heat at the Mojave National Preserve in Baker, Calif., John Kerry athletically returned to his bus Wednesday.

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My comment: athletically??????? John Effen Kerry athletically......????? The media sure is helping build the ketchup boy up. BTW, I heard Candy Crowley call him "John Kennedy" this morning on cnn. I heard it and she said it and then corrected herself with a big silly smile.

[Jill St Claire]

No Velveeta, but thank you....the Feds are helping. The best that anyone can do for me is be prepared and stay safe! Take care.

[Jill St Claire]

Thanks, but I have never gone anywhere, always looked, just did not post.

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

No, the Parthenon is a temple, very rectangular. Amphitheaters are round or semi-circular. I believe the Roman Colleseum is an example very grand amphitheater. (Scrounging my brain for details from ancient history).

[all4one]

Velveeta....nice connecting of the dots. I was thinking that the RV in DC could easily be traced to the owner....unless it was rented....or stolen.

[Velveeta]

He really is such a dork!

[Velveeta]

Well, I'll be hoping that they catch this bugger.

[all4one]

Just another of those odd stories...

'Seal Bomb' Scare Brings FBI to Golden Gate Bridge

Reaction to 'non-event' just another sign of the paranoid times

By Sean Holstege, STAFF WRITER An overzealous fisherman under the Golden Gate Bridge has drawn the watchful eye of the FBI and the attention of the governor.

On Tuesday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard, the California Highway Patrol and FBI were alerted to reports of loud explosions under the landmark bridge, first at 8:30 a.m. and again two hours later.

It turned out the explosions came from "seal bombs" -- large, M-80-style firecrackers that some fishermen use to scare away seals from their catch. An M-80 has the destructive force of an eighth of a stick of dynamite. The seal bombs apparently worked, because the FBI got law enforcement reports that seals were seen "swimming away like hell." Unfortunately for the owner of a 16-foot Boston Whaler-type vessel, what's powerful enough to scare seals is also powerful enough to attract counter-terrorism officials from as far away as Nevada.

The CHP sent air patrols over the area in response to reports from the Joint Terrorism Task Force of "an explosive device in the water off the bridge," while the Coast Guard cleared the scene by boat and reported "it was nothing," as Coast Guard officials later described it.......

Link to Full Article

[Velveeta]

You can sure pack an RV full of "fireworks". I also don't think they'd attract as much attention pulling up in front of any tourist type facility. I was just thinking about how I never really give them a second thought.

Until now...