Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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The Threat Matrix

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!

LNG ship attack a potential disaster
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WASHINGTON - A terrorist attack on a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas could cause massive damage a third of a mile away and could send a vapor cloud billowing more than 1.5 miles, government scientists say.

With the the nation clamoring for more natural gas, policy-makers are trying to figure out how to safely import large quantities of liquefied natural gas or LNG.

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To: BurbankKarl; All

1,441 posted on 01/04/2005 11:26:55 PM PST by Cindy

To: backhoe; Old Sarge; All

1,442 posted on 01/04/2005 11:56:53 PM PST by Cindy

To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Thank you, I had missed this report.

Would love to know what he told the Feds.

1,443 posted on 01/05/2005 12:06:27 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050104-085751-6990r.htm

"Osama's ballot box phobia"
Commentary By Claude Salhani
January 5, 2005

1,444 posted on 01/05/2005 12:14:13 AM PST by Cindy

1,445 posted on 01/05/2005 12:34:04 AM PST by Cindy

To: Godzilla; backhoe; piasa; All

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/December/04_crm_808.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2004
WWW.USDOJ.GOV

CRM
(202) 514-2008
TDD (202) 514-1888

HIGH-RANKING MEMBER OF COLOMBIAN FARC NARCO-TERRORIST ORGANIZATION EXTRADITED TO U.S. ON TERRORISM, DRUG CHARGES

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General John Ashcroft, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein of the District of Columbia, FBI Director Robert Mueller and DEA Administrator Karen Tandy announced today that a high-ranking member of the designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, has been extradited to the United States to face terrorism and drug charges.

Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a/k/a Simon Trinidad, arrived from Colombia earlier today in the Washington metropolitan area. He had an initial appearance before Magistrate Judge John Facciola at U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.

Trinidad was named in two separate indictments returned by grand juries in Washington, D.C., unsealed today, charging him with narcotics trafficking, in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sections 952, 959 and 963, and hostage taking and providing material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sections 1203a and 2339A.

Trinidad allegedly served in the “Estado Mayor Central,” the senior strategic planning group of the FARC, a drug trafficking organization which has also been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department since 1997.

The terrorism indictment, returned May 13, 2004, charges Trinidad with conspiring with the FARC and others to take hostage Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, three Americans who were kidnapped in February 2003 when their U.S. airplane crashed in the Colombian jungle. The three hostages remain in FARC custody today. The indictment charges that the FARC demanded the government of Colombia carve out of its sovereign territory a new demilitarized zone, which would be used as a new base of operations for the FARC - as well as the release of hundreds of FARC terrorists currently being held by the Colombian government - as a condition for the release of the three American hostages. The indictment charges that Trinidad was named in an April 27, 2003 FARC communique as one of three senior commanders to represent the FARC in presenting its demands for release of hostages held by the terrorist organization, including the three Americans. The indictment further alleges that as part of the hostage-taking conspiracy, the FARC and its conspirators murdered two other occupants of the airplane, American citizen Thomas Janis and Colombian national Sergeant Luis Alcides Cruz.

The indictment also charges Trinidad with providing material support and resources to terrorists, namely FARC, knowing and intending that his support would be used in preparation for or in carrying out the hostage-taking conspiracy.

The narcotics indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on March 2, 2004, charges that Trinidad and another high-level member of the FARC, Jorge Briceno Suarez, a/k/a Mono Jojoy, controlled and directed FARC drug trafficking activities by “issuing orders regarding the acquisition, transportation and sale of cocaine by various fronts of the FARC and the movement of drug money. The indictment alleges that Trinidad managed and controlled money for the FARC that was used by the organization to conduct cocaine trafficking activities. The indictment alleges that Trinidad announced to local coca growers the price the FARC would pay them for each kilogram of cocaine base, and advised them that the quality of their cocaine base was “inferior” and “needed to be improved.” The indictment further alleges that Trinidad met with and received money from or supplied money to other FARC drug traffickers, that he attended drug-trafficking meetings, and that he spoke of sending cocaine to the United States.

The narcotics indictment seeks the forfeiture of all FARC assets derived from the alleged violations, and the terrorism indictment seeks forfeiture of all FARC assets, foreign and domestic, as provided in the USA PATRIOT Act.

“The Trinidad case highlights the convergence of two of the top priorities of the Department of Justice: the prevention of terrorism and the reduction of the flow of illegal and deadly narcotics into this country,” said Attorney General John Ashcroft. “I thank Colombian President Uribe for his contribution and commitment to the apprehension of fugitives who harm the United States - a commitment demonstrated by the fact that Colombia has extradited 90 high-level narcotics traffickers, terrorists and other criminals to the United States this year alone.”

“The FARC is a dangerous organization of terrorists, drug traffickers, kidnappers and murderers,” said Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray. “Our indictments and extradition requests should send a clear message to all who participate in or support their deplorable and criminal acts: We will work with other nations to see that you are brought to justice in a U.S. court of law.”

U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein stated, “Today's announcement demonstrates our determination to prosecute all involved in the February 2003 murder and kidnapping of American citizens and their Colombian companion. Our agents and prosecutors will not rest until justice is done, in honor of the two victims who were murdered and on behalf of those who remain in FARC custody today.”

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said, “Today’s extradition demonstrates that the U.S. government, along with our international law enforcement partners, will pursue terrorists and terrorist groups in whatever criminal guise they take, be it narco-terrorists, extortionists or kidnappers.”

“Simon Trinidad’s extradition is a victory for the people of Colombia and America,” said DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy. “He is a high-ranking operative of the FARC who allegedly terrorized his fellow citizens and directed the production, transportation and sale of cocaine into the United States as well as the movement of drug money. Today, we answer Trinidad’s crime and violence with the only consequence traffickers fear: extradition to the United States.”

The FARC has been charged with terrorism and drug-related crimes in several previous indictments. The indictments allege that the FARC is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating in and from Colombia, that is trying to overthrow the Colombian government by force. The FARC seeks to oppose by force, violence and other criminal activity the nations, governments and individuals who do not share its views. Since at least the early 1960s, the FARC has been violently anti-American and has worked against the interests of the United States, saying in March 1998 that all U.S. officials are legitimate military targets. In addition to narcotics trafficking, the FARC targets through extortion, kidnapping and murder U.S. citizens who work in, visit or do business in Colombia and neighboring countries.

The terrorism investigation was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Miami Field Office and is being prosecuted by the Counterterrorism Section of the Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia. The narcotics investigation was led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, working with the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Criminal Division. This case is being prosecuted by NDDS and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Trinidad's extradition was assisted by the Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs.

The charges contained in the indictments are merely allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless convicted in a court of law.

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04-808

1,446 posted on 01/05/2005 1:05:52 AM PST by Cindy

Somewhat off topic but since DU decided to comment on the cause of the tsunami...

Disaster's Cause?
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
By Brit Hume
The latest from the Political Grapevine:

Disaster's Cause?

A Muslim cleric on Saudi TV insists he knows what caused the deadly tsunami in South Asia — Christians. Saudi Cleric Muhammed Al-Manajjid says, "[Christmas and other Christian holidays] are accompanied by forbidden things, by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing ... and revelry. ... [So] At the height of immorality, Allah took vengeance on these criminals."

He did not explain why the vengeance was taken on largely non-Christian nations.

Back in the U.S., meanwhile, a writer on the Web site Democratic Underground (search) said President Bush and the war in Iraq could be to blame. The writer, quoted by The New York Times, says,
"You know, we've exploded many millions of tons of ordnance upon this poor planet. All that 'shock and awe' stuff ... Perhaps the earth was just reacting to something that man has done to injure it."

1,447 posted on 01/05/2005 1:08:31 AM PST by Teri0811

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1,448 posted on 01/05/2005 1:19:07 AM PST by Cindy

1,449 posted on 01/05/2005 1:21:15 AM PST by Cindy

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/11929628p-12816726c.html

"Sketch released of kidnapping suspect"

By Mareva Brown -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 4:16 pm PST Tuesday, January 4, 2005

http://www.sacbee.com/ips_rich_content/915-0104sketch.jpg

1,450 posted on 01/05/2005 1:30:54 AM PST by Cindy

(the men are described as)

dark-skinned men between 200
and 240 pounds and
approximately 5-foot-10-inches
tall. They may be Pacific
Islanders, according to witness
descriptions to detectives.<<<<<

Is this the new description of a terrorist?

Now that people have seen the people of the S. Wave disaster?

My first thought was: Padilla.

Of Oklahoma City Bombing. The missing man, that does not
exist.

And Padilla, in jail in the east for planning to bomb and do other terrorist type acts on us.

1,451 posted on 01/05/2005 1:45:57 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)

Hi Mamadearest, A very Happy New Year to you!

It's nice to know i haven't been the only one with the PC problems. I think you are right, the systems don't like all of this jihadi hunting

I'll get to some freepmail later :)

*BIG YAWN* and good morning TM'ers!

-skeggs

1,452 posted on 01/05/2005 2:05:34 AM PST by skeggsaw

Good morning Skeggs.
Up a bit early today are you?

1,453 posted on 01/05/2005 2:16:44 AM PST by Cindy

1,454 posted on 01/05/2005 2:17:24 AM PST by Cindy

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1,455 posted on 01/05/2005 2:21:32 AM PST by Cindy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314330/posts

"Playwright's writings of despair in Muslim world elicit threats"
Journal Now ^ | Paris January 1, 2005 | Elizabeth Bryant

Posted on 01/05/2005 2:09:13 AM PST by miltonim

1,456 posted on 01/05/2005 2:38:11 AM PST by Cindy

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200501\FOR20050104c.html

"Israeli Group Biggest Civilian Aid Contributor to Sri Lanka"
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
January 04, 2005

1,457 posted on 01/05/2005 2:41:16 AM PST by Cindy

1,458 posted on 01/05/2005 2:49:51 AM PST by Cindy

RE: Blaming the laser on his daughter

do you think this man could simply be a scapegoat that was arrested to give out generic responses to the media to calm the nerves of the inquiring minds?

-skeggs

1,459 posted on 01/05/2005 2:52:42 AM PST by skeggsaw

Good morning Cindy. Yeah it's a bit early, but do you ever get that feeling in the middle of the night where sleep is finished, and it's time to get to the PC, ASAP?

Surely you do, can I make you some sugarless tea?

=skeggs

1,460 posted on 01/05/2005 2:54:12 AM PST by skeggsaw

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