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 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

[MamaDearest]

The other passengers reportedly cheered when authorities removed the suspected illegal immigrants.

And I'm cheering as well! Guess just about anyone can board a plane. Hats off to Southwest Airlines if they had anything to do with the apprehension of these illegal passengers!

[MamaDearest]

If the majority of folk in this country see fit to do nothing about what's REALLY happening, then we get what we deserve.

It's not "if," but WHEN! It's disgusting that tentatively massive loss of life will occur when evident dangers are ignored and "politics" prevents serious attention to the citizenship of airline mechanics and nuclear power plant workers (among other industries) in this time of grave danger to our nation. It's as if 9/11 means nothing to those who have the power to protect these high value terrorist targets. I'd like to shake some sense into them, but then I'd be the one they considered dangerous!

[MamaDearest]

Hi texpat72! Good to see you here. I'm further behind than you if that makes you feel better!

[MamaDearest]

Mexican officials detained six Iraqis at checkpoints near the California border over the past week as they apparently were preparing to enter the United States...

I'm sure they were just coming to see the scenery (you know, the nuke plants, refineries, water treatment plants...)

[MamaDearest]

I preferred the old-fashioned wedding with 1 husband. That's quite enough.

One husband is quite enough for me too (laughing)!

[MamaDearest]

Bush spokesman mum on Tancredo

Of course they are! Polar opposites when it comes to handling illegals. Tom is one candidate I would feel excited about and proud to vote for!

[Cindy]

smiling...

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Thanks for your first hand report. Now we will hear this is just a drill!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

This made them very desirable to hire over us Americans. We refused to be taken advantage thus unemployed from the fields.>

And the kicker is they have moved our factories to Mexico and India. Our kids will end up doing these jobs they say there are going to do. Our little town has lost 3 factories that moved to Mexico. This is a rural area and these were the highest paying jobs here.

[MamaDearest]

Hope your visit with family was a good one.

Yes it was! Saw three elk, countless deer and a bunch of wild turkeys (not the bottled kind). It was a needed break from everyday life!

[MamaDearest]

Thank you a_d. God and family - the perfect companions. I feel sorry for those who treat family members poorly. I have been lax in the past about family ties, but realize how important they are in the grand scheme of things. You can't make people love you (including family members), but you can pray for them if you or they don't see eye to eye.

[Bethshaya]

I preferred the old-fashioned wedding with 1 husband. That's quite enough.

One husband is quite enough for me too (laughing)!



I would take 2 Cabana boys with one of those Mai Tai's with the little umbrella's and back rub in trade for mine though. (Only kidding)

[MamaDearest]

Our little town has lost 3 factories that moved to Mexico.

Maquiladoras are the name of the game for our CEOs and major companies. I shake my head in wonderment that pharmaceutical companies (or non-brand name companies under name-brand corporate thumbs) can manufacture drugs all over the world and then they cry wolf when the mere suggestion of buying drugs from other countries is brought up! They want it both ways and our government meekly complies.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005585print.html

April 03, 2005


JI planning another Bali-scale terrorist attack, says paper


More caliphate dreams in Indonesia, and more mayhem plotted in service of those dreams. From The Star, with thanks to Nicolei:

JAKARTA: Planning is well under way for a terrorist attack in Indonesia this year that could be as devastating as the 2002 Bali bombings, according to a document obtained by The Straits Times.

The document is a letter from a Sumatran-based operative of the Jemaah Islamiah which tells of militants being trained for suicide bombings in the capital.


It was written to the network's top bomb maker Azahari Husin, a Malaysian who has been on the run after plotting three of Indonesia's worst terrorist strikes.


A leading Indonesian security official and terrorism expert believes the note is authentic.


Dated Nov 26, 2004, the seven-page letter is written in pidgin Arabic, which is used by religious clerics in boarding schools here.

Ansyaad Mbai, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official who studied the letter, said: "It is a credible document and corroborates some of our findings in the field that there will be another bombing."


They chose a letter to communicate because the Internet and telephones in the region are being monitored closely, a fact acknowledged in the document itself.


The letter also names Palembang and Padang in Sumatra as hiding places for "the tools" of a future terrorist operation.


Ansyaad, who heads the counter-terrorism desk in the Co-ordinating Ministry for Politics and Security, estimated that there were up to 30 JI members involved.


"Indonesia is facing an imminent Bali-style attack from these radicals," he said. "The cells might be splintered but they are still being held together by a common jihadist ideological platform to build an Islamic Caliphate in the region."...

Posted at April 3, 2005 07:28 AM

[MamaDearest]

I would take 2 Cabana boys with one of those Mai Tai's with the little umbrella's and back rub in trade for mine though. (Only kidding)

(Smiling)!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

when the mere suggestion of buying drugs from other countries is brought up! They want it both ways and our government meekly complies.

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Sometimes I think doctors and drug company's are in together. Insurance company's and the government, then lawyers come in to rape and pillage ALL.

[Godzilla]

With almost constant construction work at our nation's airports, a covered missile wouldn't be that noticeable.

The small surface to air (SAM) scenario is one that has our gov't terror analysts sweating bullets IMHO. There are hundreds if not thousands of SA-7, 13, Singers and Redeye shoulder launched SAMs unaccounted for. Terrorists have had limited success in Iraq with them as well as some have been shot a commercial aircraft in Africa (where I don't remember). And you are correct, the number of places that are accessable to use these little buggers is almost unlimited.

[MamaDearest]

Bloodbath at church in Germany

Pakistan nuke scientists met with OBL

Oil could spike to $105 per barrel

1981 attack on Pope planned by Soviet KGB

Bomb smoldering trash cans in NY don't work

Police locate 31 stolen weapons

[MamaDearest]

And you are correct, the number of places that are accessable to use these little buggers is almost unlimited.

How many airports do you know of where people can pull up to fences or in dirt lots adjacent to airports or cargo areas and wait and watch for planes to take off and land? There are virtually no "no parking or stopping" signs, barriers or watchful eyes where they should be.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.satp.org
http://www.saag.org

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http://www.saag.org/papers14/paper1312.html

Paper no. 1312
30. 03. 2005
"MINI SUBMARINE-A VESSEL OF CHOICE WITH DRUG CARTELS AND TERRORISTS" 
Guest Column-by Dr Vijay Sakhuja


ARTCILE SNIPPET: "What was perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the find was that Russian-language manuals with Spanish translations were recovered. In 1997, Colombian gangs had been suspected of trying to buy a diesel-powered Russian submarine. Highly professional Russian engineers may have also been helping to build the submarine.


Similarly, the LTTE attempts to build a mini submarine in Phuket, Thailand were uncovered. In April 2000, Christie Reginald Lawrence, a Sri Lankan born Norwegian citizen, was caught by the police, while building a mini submarine with a Norwegian Engine at the Sea Craft Company a shipyard jointly owned by Lawrence, a Thai and an American national."