Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-One

[JustPiper]

enlighten, another I had not heard

[Cindy]

Yep, I've been following it on:

http://www.clickondetroit.com

[Oorang]

Thanks for that info Myrddin. I don't know much about airplanes. I avoid them whenever I can, always have :-)

SlowBoat, here is a spec sheet:

http://www.risingup.com/planespecs/info/airplane447.shtml

Here is info on all Piper aircraft. There seems to be more than one type of Piper Pawnee 25.

http://www.risingup.com/planespecs/info/listPiper.shtml

[JustPiper]

Bell that doesn't have to be part of a plane, why not part of a missile? The 7474's were AA or UA is that their symbol?

Hull part?

Doesn't look like either airlines to me

[Cindy]

Keep that ankle up and elevated when possible jerseygirl.
Take care of yourself.

[all4one]

Both of these incidents were today, on the East Coast....on I-95:

Shoplifting Tags Force Fort McHenry Tunnel Closure (11/8/04 - Baltimore)

POSTED: 10:16 am EST November 8, 2004 UPDATED: 11:49 am EST November 8, 2004 BALTIMORE -- Interstate 95 at the Fort McHenry Tunnel is slowly reopening after being shut down due to police activity inside the tunnel.

Maryland Transportation Authority spokeswoman Katie Leahan said I-95 is being reopened to traffic in both directions at the tunnel.

She said the interstate was closed as a precaution after a small, suspicious, package was found on a Keith Avenue ramp over the north entrance to the tunnel. The bag contained shoplifting security tags and batteries, which made the bag chirp when it was approached.

She said the Baltimore Police Bomb Squad examined the package and detonated it at the scene with a water cannon.

Link to Article

Suspicious Device Halts Traffic (11/8/04 - Philadelphia)

Nov 8, 2004 2:28 pm US/Eastern PHILADELPHIA (KYW) Police are investigating a suspicious device found in a Winnebaego underneath Interstate 95 in Port Richmond.

The device was found just before 2 p.m. Monday. As a result, both lanes of traffic between Girard Avenue and Allegheny Avenue were closed.

Traffic was diverted while officials determined if the object or van posed any threat. Stay tuned to CBS 3 Eyewitness News for updates.

Link to Article

[JustPiper]

Nor does it match this hull part of the plane at Pentagon

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=american+airlines+hull+&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-img-t&fl=0&x=wrt

[Cindy]

Do you have a better url for this article?

[Oorang]

Hope your ankle gets better soon jg. It's been a while since your injury.

[MamaDearest]

Makes me wonder if they were being used as a practice group for something bigger elsewhere.

[lahargis]

Thanks for that info All4one. I have always thought that these little bomb/package scares are possibly a way they could be testing us to see how we react.

[Mossad1967]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/11/07/2003210044
11/07/04

Osama prompted threat-level review

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , WASHINGTON Sunday, Nov 07, 2004,Page 7 US President George W. Bush's senior counterterrorism advisors held an urgent meeting last Saturday morning to consider elevating the country's terrorism threat level, one day after the broadcast of a videotape by Osama bin Laden, administration officials said on Friday.

At the previously undisclosed meeting, in which senior counterterrorism officials assembled via a White House video conference hookup, Attorney General John Ashcroft and others favored ratcheting up the alert level because of the bin Laden tape, the officials said.

But others disagreed, the officials said. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, FBI Director Robert Mueller and other White House officials expressed reservations or wanted a more detailed analysis of the tape, which contained no explicit threat of an attack against the US. In the end, the idea of raising the threat level was dropped, the officials said.

Even though no action was taken, the meeting reflected how the new bin Laden tape concerned Bush's aides as the presidential campaign moved into its final hours.

In public, Bush was cautious. In a final campaign swing through the Midwest, he responded carefully to bin Laden's message, saying that Americans "would not be intimidated or influenced" by the terrorist leader.

In his cryptic remarks, bin Laden declared that the security of the US rested with the public.

"Your security is not the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Qaeda," he said. "Your security is in your own hands."

Bin Laden's purpose in issuing his recorded statement shortly before the election remains a matter of debate. Some officials say his message showed that bin Laden's network was so depleted that he could launch only a verbal assault at the US. Others believe it was a sign of bin Laden's confidence.


The last paragraph explains the entire situation perfectly.
We just don't know???

[myprecious]

Another small plane crashs into home in Atlanta now on Fox!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Another small plane Atlanta per Fox into a house

[JustPiper]

British missile

Look on the left red/white Atlas ICBM

Then the cruise missile

[Cindy]

The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.nata.aero/pressroom/releases/pressrelease_detail.jsp?NEWS_ID=761

Press Release


TSA Warns of Stolen Airplane


November 5, 2004

TSA officials have asked the aviation industry, particularly airports and aerial applicators, to be on the look out for a stolen airplane.  The plane in question is crop dusting Piper PA-25 Pawnee, tail number XBCYP.  It is registered in Mexico and was stolen on November 1, 2004 from Ejido Queretaro, near Mexicali, Mexico.  TSA explains that there is no indication the theft is connected to terrorist activity, but issued the alert because “members of al-Qa’ida may have planned – or may still be planning – to disperse biological or chemical agents from crop dusting aircraft.”


Anyone seeing this aircraft should immediately contact local law enforcement and the TSA’s General Aviation Hotline at 866-GASECUR (866-427-3287).


To download the complete TSA advisory, including a photo of an airplane similar to the one stolen, click here.


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

Jacqueline E. Rosser
Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs
NATA
jrosser@nata-online.org

Eric Byer
Vice President, Government & Industry Affairs
NATA
ebyer@nata-online.org

[Godzilla]

IntelCenter Intelligence Note OBL Message Attack Correlation - 67 Days

This site is a treasure trove.

[all4one]

With Falluja....Ramadan....Arafat....Osama tapes....Bush back in office (thank God)...we could be in for a busy week.

[myprecious]

Fox report includes details from Atlanta: Piper landed on top of house. Just onside of Peachtree DeKalb airport, leased plane. Witnesses heard distress call on radio that plane was in trouble.

[Cindy]

YEP.

http://www.foxnews.com