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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Five (Index)

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"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

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U.S. works 'day and night' to rein in al-Qaida
Full Story

WASHINGTON - Prompted by new intelligence indicating Osama bin Laden reached out to the most feared terrorist in Iraq, President Bush charged Thursday that "al-Qaida still hopes to attack us on our own soil."

"Recently, we learned that Osama bin Laden has urged the terrorist Zarqawi to form a group to conduct attacks outside Iraq, including here in the United States," Bush said at the swearing-in of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

The president vowed, "We're working every day and night to dismantle (bin Laden's) network and to bring him to justice."

Related:
Officials: Bin Laden Urges Zarqawi to Hit U.S.
Al-Qaeda's Completed Warning Cycle - Ready to Attack?

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"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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[Velveeta]

Steven Emerson to Testify at Helsinki Commission Russia-Syria Hearing

The U.S. Helsinki Commission will hold a hearing on March 9, from 1 to 3 pm, in 226 Dirksen Senate Office building, on the Russian-Syrian connection and threats to democracy in the Middle East and the greater OSCE region. Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) will preside over the hearing, and Steven Emerson will testify.

Other witnesses will include Dr. Walid Phares of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy; Farid N. Ghadry, President, Reform Party of Syria; Entifadh K. Qanbar, Special Envoy and Spokesperson, United Iraqi Alliance; and Ilan Berman, V.P. for Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council.
http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/03/steven_emerson_.html

[Velveeta]

The U.N. Returns to Mushy Reporting

The United Nations Monitoring Team, designed to support the U.N. Security Council's Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee has made public its second report.

Unfortunately, it shows a marked return toward the vague generalities, endless qualification and toothlessness that characterizes so much of the U.N. (and U.S. government) reporting. It was not always like this. When the Monitoring Group was led by Michael Chandler, (and where our collegue Vic Comras did admirable work) the unit produced comprehensive, educational reports with valid case studies and sometimes-biting critiques of member nations. It also, for that brief time it was operational, had the audacity to name names, and take individual member states to task for such serious lapses as allowing specially designated individuals to move their money around at will, despite international freezing orders. That seems to have been the Group's undoing. After what turned out to be its last report, the U.N. Security Council, responding to member pressure, disbanded the Group and replaced it with a two-person Team. The difference is that the Team, no matter how well intentioned, has neither the resources nor the mandate to do its job. Not that the Group had the resources, but it did a great deal with very little.

Now the cuts in resources and staff are so draconian as to render the Team reports virtually meaningless. It is a major loss, because the Group had access to a wide array of information and intelligence that the U.S. intelligence community and others do not routinely access.

There are a few nuggets tucked away in the report, but almost everything reported is so blindingly obvious even to the uninitiated that it is hard to get through. One thing of interest we find is that, since 9-11, no country has reported stopping anyone on the international travel ban list. This is a stunning indictment of the lack of effectiveness of that list. No one stopped even one person in 3 1/2 years. Wow! A whopping 30 percent of the world's nations have not bothered with the U.N. requirement to submit a series of reports on terrorist activities, a number that is surprising only because 70 percent have actually tried to do something. We learn al Qaeda may be interested in weapons of mass destruction and still has access to money. Shocking! It can all be found here. For the full blog go here.

Posted by Douglas Farah at 04:31 PM | Permalink

http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/03/the_un_returns_.html

[Cindy]

Thanks Velveeta.
I learn something new everyday.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=77982
"Head of Islamic Jihad Taught Middle East Studies at US University"
16:24 Mar 07, '05 / 26 Adar 5765


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speaking of Islamic Jihad -- Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003764.html

March 07, 2005

Hamas and Islamic Jihad deny Syria's expelling their chiefs

www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-07 21:26:46:
GAZA, March 7 (Xinhuanet) -- The Palestinian radical groups Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) denied on Monday that Syria had deported their Damascus-based chiefs.



The denial was made following US media report that Syria had expelled the militant groups' leaders.


Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told reporters, "There is nothingnew in the Syrian attitude toward the movement's leadership that deserves to comment on it."


Abu Zuhri added that the movement's leadership moves freely in the Arab countries and that the movement has no bureau in Syria or in any other countries to be closed.


Meanwhile, sources of Jihad also denied the US report, saying, "This is a mistaken report and faraway from any truth and this is considered a part of the international pressures campaign that is imposed on Syria."


Khaled al-Batch, local leader of Jihad in the Gaza Strip, said he believed that these claims "aim to divide the Palestinians."


The US and Israel accused Damascus-based Islamic Jihad leaders of plotting and ordering the suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv nightclub on Feb.25 which left five Israelis dead and more than 50 others wounded, and Syria was therefore held responsible for the attack. But Damascus denied the charge.
CONTINUE...

Posted by aaron at March 07, 2005 10:39 AM

[neosgirl]

Sure is, still haven't gotten to it myself.

Just found this as a signature in a thread on a jihad forum...poor kid

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/2child.gif

[Cindy]

I can't say what I'm thinking here regarding this graphic.

Thanks neosgirl for pointing to it.
What is the url of the thread/site it came from?

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/2child.gif
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22images5.theimagehosting.com%2F2child.gif%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://ekhlaas.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-4565.html

[neosgirl]

Here's the post it came from, the picture shows up in like post # 4 or 5...

http://ekhlaas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8488

The subject of the thread is

A showing from the media part about the state of our sheikh Abi Mosaab

And here's the first post in the thread:

In the Name of Allah, the Benificent, the Merciful And you do not become weak and you do not become sad and you are the highest if you were believers

The praise is the Lord of the Worlds Allah and Al Akaba of the pious and no aggression except on the oppressors, and the prayer and the greeting on the militants imam our prophet Mohamed and on its family and its friends as a wholes

As for till now :

We praise Allah that rose on what pleases for us the very kind generous sheikh Aba Mosaab that Allah kept and it supported it with its support?

He has planted in us the seed of dogma and monotheism, and it knew generations and raised them on the jihad and the support of the religion ?

And she is watered the seed by the blood of pure Zakiat, then it grew a good plant and gave its fruit to what Talaat on it is the suns of our sheikh Osama that Allah that rose kept and supported it with its support

By a good tree right its origin was stable and its branch is in the sky ?

And our sheikh Abu Mosaab that Allah that rose in the most perfect blessing and a good health kept, it plans for the battles and leads the crowds and befalls his family in Iraq between his brothers and his sons that it raised and taught them

And not one of your brothers were in the media department in a battle from the militants battles then it won the testimony its acceptance Allah and the divine decree that these pictures fall in the unbelievers hands

And he was the Americans 's spreading of the pictures nowadays an evidence about the grave losses that their army and their agents suffer everywhere

And he is to the evidence of their bankruptcy that Allah fought, then on Feraoun 's logic I do not show you except what see, then where the channels correspondents in Iraq, and where are the media coverage in Mosul and Al Anbar and Al Diali and Samarra and Basra and in south of Baghdad Fouallh we defeat them and they do not defeat us, and we invade them and they do not invade us praise be to God and the favor

And we inform you that the Al-Qaeda Network in Mesopotamia is not a single man but many men, from them who met its death and from them who waits ?

And you will hear what he pleases from good news in the next days God Willing rose, as will hear Khattab our sheikh soon God willing that rose

And the Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest ..And to the honour Allah and to its messenger and to the militants Monday 25 / from Muharram the agreeing 1426 7 / 3 / 2005

[kingofhearts]

that picture has been on jihadicastle for awhile,wow its just now making it to other sites?

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22ALOORTHO%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

[neosgirl]

D'OH!! Wrong thread I posted for the picture there, although that thread is pretty interesting itself.

UGH - now where is that...

Ok this is the correct one. It's page three of comments on the new AQ magazine in Iraq.

link:

http://ekhlaas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7964&page=3&pp=15

[Cindy]

Thank you neosgirl.
Appreciate the feedback.

[neosgirl]

KOH,
It probably has been around the other sites for a while too, it's just the first time I've personally seen it....I'm a little slow!

;-)

peace
neosgirl

[kingofhearts]

Sorry my bad, just thought everyone had seen that picture already.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358044/posts

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"Iranian Confirms Underground Nuke Plant"
AP/MSNBC ^ | 03/07/2005 | AP


Posted on 03/07/2005 4:03:26 PM PST by drt1


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "But official says defensive measures don't signal weapons program - NATANZ, Iran - An Iranian official confirmed Monday that a uranium enrichment plant in central Iran is underground as a protection against airstrikes, but insisted that is not a sign the program aims to produce nuclear weapons."

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1357723/posts

"Daily Terrorist Round-up Stories - March 7, 2005 (Beheader of Americans Arrested)"
3/7/05


Posted on 03/07/2005 8:16:15 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/03/005248print.html

March 07, 2005


Hollywood jihad


Russell Crowe: Al-Qaeda target. "Crowe the target," from AAP, with thanks to Romy:

The Oscar winner was first contacted by the FBI in 2001 and warned of the threat...

"That was the first [time] I'd ever heard the phrase al-Qaeda," Crowe said.


"It was about - and here's another little touch of irony - taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilisation plot."


Crowe was protected by the FBI on subsequent film shoots and industry engagements such as the Golden Globe awards.


Crowe told the magazine he never really understood the situation.


"I never fully understood what the f--- was going on," he said.



Like most Americans.
Posted at March 7, 2005 10:15 AM

[kingofhearts]

http://wansan.ddo.jp/up/img/274.mpg



RM
28.6MB

http://uzbk-sh-rm.notlong.com


http://www.itshappening.net/forum/showthread.php?p=37428#post37428

[kingofhearts]

link to icture seems not to work here but, the picture is posted on ih.

[SlowBoat407]

KOH, some of us can't get around to everything, so we count on each other. Thanks for filling in that bit of detail for those of us who are trying to keep up. Every little bit helps.

[neosgirl]

This post about the status of Al-Zarqawi is also found at

http://firdaws.no-ip.biz/forums/showthread.php?t=568