Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Five

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Five (Index)

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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!

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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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Threat Matrix "TM'er" Tips	Link to Thread Twenty-Four "Code Red Implications: Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word." From Tm'er and Freeper ~MamaDearest~
TM Code of Conduct		ExSoldier's Invaluable Tips
TM's 'Be on the Lookout'		Godzilla's Summaries
Threat Matrix Book List		Tracking the Chatter with TM

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1375697/posts?q=1&&page=336#336

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

No, shorter rather than tall. They are not farm-like silos. I've never really looked for or noticed stairs but I'd say their more like a stack of coasters than a Pringles can.

Anyway, I've wondered several times what they were. Best wishes.

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

"they're" not "their"

[ExSoldier]

more like a stack of coasters than a Pringles can.

Sounds like a petroleum tank farm. You might discreetly ask around. See if you can figure out what the security is in and around the area and report back here. Don't get yourself arrested! But I'm betting that security is minimal. If that's the case, you might send an inquiry to the Governor of your state and see what the situation is. Maybe a BCC to the State Level DHS. That's what I'd do.

[Smartass]

Yup, most things are forgivable.   However, "Hanoi Jane" falls into never will be forgiven, or forgotten.   She can bath, scrub, and claim to come clean all she wants, it just won't work.   Most, if not all vets would love to just...spit on her.

[Cindy]

I understand.

Everyone is forgivable via Jesus Christ.
She'll has to take the forgiveness issue
up with God.

[Domestic Church]

Bookmarking for Zzzzz.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

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

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

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375905/posts


"French Wine Rebels Employ Brut Force and Dynamite"
The Scotsman ^ | April 2, 2005 | Susan Bell


Posted on 04/01/2005 8:43:39 PM PST by quidnunc


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Paris – Dissident wine producers in the Languedoc region of France have raised the stakes in their struggle with the French government, using dynamite in attacks against official buildings in the cities of Montpellier, Carcassonne and Nimes.

A shadowy group calling itself the Comité Regional d’Action Viticoles (CRAV) used the explosives in protest at the diminishing market for their wines and at the government’s offer of aid, considered insufficient to ease the industry’s crisis."

[Cindy]

Good night DC.
Get some rest.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375664/posts

"From Small Beginnings: The Road to Genocide"
Foundation for Economic Education ^ | August 1997 | James A. Maccaro


Posted on 04/01/2005 12:14:07 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Dr. Leo Alexander, a prominent American psychiatrist, was the chief U.S. medical consultant at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials that judged Nazi leaders following World War II. One question in particular perplexed him: Why was the German medical profession unable to effectively resist the Nazis?

As he searched in German archives, Dr. Alexander was puzzled by the lack of documentation of resistance by doctors. He assumed that German physicians, as scientists devoted to relieving human suffering, were appalled by the Nazis. He knew of the high regard the German public had for doctors, who were typically among the leading citizens of their communities, and expected to find many examples of doctors who used their prestige to resist the Nazis. Yet he found no such evidence. In shocking contrast, Dr. Alexander discovered that the German medical profession fully cooperated with the Nazis and, indeed, was responsible for some of the most disturbing outrages of the Nazi regime.

Dr. Alexander was forced by the facts to change the focus of his research to an examination of the process by which the German medical profession came under the total domination of Hitler’s government. He set forth his findings in the July 14, 1949, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. In this remarkable study, Medical Science Under Dictatorship, Dr. Alexander described how the German medical profession, in the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, sleepwalked to the collectivist-authoritarian way of life."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15281_Mommy_Theres_a_Terrorist_Under_My_Bed&only=yes

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=79397

[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2005/20050401_423.html

Operations Yield More Suspects, Weapons Caches in Iraq
American Forces Press Service



WASHINGTON, April 1, 2005 – Iraqi security forces and multinational forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), detained 26 suspected insurgents during operations in northern Iraq March 30 and 31, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported today.

During two operations in Mosul March 30, Iraqi army troops from the 101st Battalion, 21st Brigade, detained 10 individuals suspected of insurgent activity. Officials said five suspects were captured during a cordon-and-search operation and five others at a traffic checkpoint.

Multinational Force soldiers detained another 10 suspects during a March 31 raid southwest of Mosul, and soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, detained five individuals suspected of insurgent activity during two cordon-and-search operations south of Mosul.

In addition, officials said Iraqi policemen and U.S. soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, detained one suspect during a March 31 cordon-and-search operation in Tal Afar.

All suspects are in custody, and no injuries to Multinational Force Iraq troops were reported during the incidents.

Meanwhile, U.S. Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Force Service Support Group, responded to 15 separate weapons cache sites approximately 12 kilometers southeast of Camp Fallujah March 29.

A weapons cache discovered by members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion included machine guns, night-vision goggles, bomb fuses, primers, detonators, mortars and mortar rounds, high-explosive warheads, propellant sticks, batteries, and other explosives and materials used to build improvised explosive devices.

Officials said all items containing explosives were destroyed on scene, and the Marines confiscated pictures of ordnance, a map of the area, notebooks on weapons, and personal journals, which will be analyzed for intelligence purposes.

“We destroy explosive components in order to get rid of the enemy's improvised-explosive-device supplies, and we gather intelligence on the device to potentially lead us to the bomber as well as determine his capabilities and how close he is getting to us,” said Chief Warrant Officer Steven R. Lucas, platoon commander for explosive ordnance disposal.

“Our ultimate goal is to make it harder for them to target us, mitigating explosive threats and hazards towards servicemembers and civilians,” Lucas said.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)

[Cindy]

US-CERT.GOV
http://www.us-cert.gov

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http://news.com.com/Want+to+prevent+ID+theft+Get+back+to+basics/2010-7355_3-5649397.html?tag=nefd.ac
"Want to prevent ID theft? Get back to basics"
April 1, 2005, 4:00 AM PT
By Jon Oltsik


http://news.com.com/Critical+flaws+in+IE+and+Outlook+discovered/2100-1002_3-5650238.html?tag=nefd.top
"Critical flaws in IE and Outlook discovered"
Published: April 1, 2005, 11:35 AM PST
By Dawn Kawamoto
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

[Myrddin]

Here is an aerial shot of the tank farm you described. It certainly looks like a petroleum storage facility.

[Myrddin]

This shot shows the 4 lane service facility for filling tanker trucks from the tank farm.

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

Yep, that's it.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375966/posts

"Daily Terrorist Roundup Stories - April 2,2005 (Arrests in six countries)"
4/2/05


Posted on 04/01/2005 11:41:42 PM PST by Straight Vermonter

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org


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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com

Friday, April 1, 2005

WYCLIFFE MOURNS THE DEATHS OF TWO MISSIONARY COLLEAGUES

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

GUYANA (ANS) -- Two Wycliffe Bible Translators missionaries have been found dead outside their burned out home in southern Guyana near the border with Brazil.

Wycliffe received word Thursday morning (March 31) of the deaths of Rich 42, and Charlene, 58, Hicks who have worked with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in the Wapishana language project since 1994, according to information passed on to ASSIST News Service (ANS).

"On Wednesday evening, March 30, the couple was found dead outside their burned home in southern Guyana near the Brazilian border. The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown reported that the details surrounding their deaths are inconclusive at this point, but that local officials are investigating the incident as a double homicide," says a statement released by Wycliffe.

Wycliffe said that Charlene grew up in a missionary family in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas. Rich, a Canadian, grew up in South Africa where his parents were involved in missions work. After Rich finished college he worked in cabbage and sauerkraut production in Nova Scotia. Char finished college and began to teach, eventually teaching missionary children in Mexico and in other schools around the world.

After further education in Saskatchewan and an extended visit to Guatemala, Rich began linguistics training in Dallas where he met Char in January 1990.

The couple was married in March 1992. Two years later they went to Guyana to help with language development and translation of the Scriptures into the Wapishana language. The couple did not have any children.


** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.


** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05040002.htm

[Cindy]

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200504\FOR20050401f.html

"'Bad Omen,' As Hamas, Islamic Jihad Join PLO"
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 01, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The Palestinian Authority may become more radicalized if Chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to cooperate with terror groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad without disarming them, officials and analysts here said.

Abbas, the chairman of both the PA and the PLO, invited Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join the Palestine Liberation Organization this week -- an invitation accepted by both groups."



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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003888.html

March 31, 2005
Palestinian Terrorists Step Up Arms Smuggling

Margot Dudkevitch (Jerusalem Post):
Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas have intensified their efforts to smuggle weapons from Egypt to cells operating in the territories, with the increasing involvement of Negev Bedouin, according to an internal Shin Bet document.



Between July 2004 and February 2005, 180 anti-tank rockets, five anti-aircraft missiles, 600 kilograms of explosives, 3,000 rifles, 400 handguns, and 400,000 rounds of ammunition were smuggled from Egypt into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
CONTINUE...

Posted by aaron at March 31, 2005 11:55 AM