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

[kingofhearts]

http://www.oblcrew.net/news/

[kingofhearts]

Sorry url was battle of hearts and minds on msn

[Cindy]

No problem and thank you.

[Cindy]

Thanks to MamaDearest for the update regarding the missionaries in Brazil.
That is so, so sad.

[Cindy]

http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=15586515
"Asylum to be sought in US for 1976 Cubana airline bombing suspect"
Monday, April 4th 2005

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376892/posts

"Body-parts murder has hallmarks of ritual killing (Dublin, Ireland)"
Sunday Business Post ^ | 03 April 2005 | Barry O'Kelly


Posted on 04/03/2005 11:32:42 PM PDT by Murtyo

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376904/posts

"British to lead new hunt for bin Laden"
The Scotsman ^ | 4/4/05 | Tim Ripley

Posted on 04/04/2005 12:26:29 AM PDT by LibWhacker


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Key points
• 5,000 UK troops to leave Iraq for Afghanistan to search for Osama bin Laden
• UK commanders believe Iraqi forces nearly ready to take on security burden
• Scots soldiers expected to spearhead move; forces' composition undecided"

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05040012.htm

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

Sunday, April 3, 2005

CARNAGE AT TAMIL SERVICE IN GERMAN CHURCH

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

GERMANY (ANS) -- A man wielding a sword has killed one person and injured at least three more at a church in Germany, police say, according to a news article posted on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website.

Details are still emerging, and the motive for the attack that took place in the middle of a service in the Protestant church is as yet unclear.

Officers said they found "grisly" scenes after the afternoon attack in the southern city of Stuttgart. One woman is reported to be in a serious condition following the assault.

"Severed limbs were lying all round the church," a police spokeswoman said, adding that one man was arrested.

The BBC reports that Police spokesman Hermann Karpf said that the attack came as members of the local Tamil community were gathered inside the church.

"The suspected perpetrator was arrested. He is believed to be a Tamil, and the service was also a Tamil service," Mr Karpf was quoted as saying.

Police used pepper spray to overpower the man, according to Germany's Spiegel.

About 40 people are believed to have been in the church, most of them thought to be members of the Tamil community who originally come from southern India and Sri Lanka.

The BBC said counseling has been offered to those who witnessed the attack.


** 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.
  

[Cindy]

http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67026,00.html

"Bioterror Victims: Wait to Exhale" 
By Randy Dotinga  |   Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next »
02:00 AM Mar. 30, 2005 PT

[Cindy]

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2005/20050402_427.html

Number of Anti-coalition Attacks Goes Up in Afghanistan
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service



WASHINGTON, April 2, 2005 – The number and severity of attacks against Afghan and coalition forces have increased compared to the winter, a coalition spokeswoman noted April 2.

An increase in discoveries of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan shows “that some in the Taliban or other anti-government insurgents will continue to try to destabilize Afghanistan through violent acts," Navy Lt. Cindy Moore, of Combined Forces Command Afghanistan, told reporters during a press briefing today.

Although some former Taliban have decided to stop fighting, "there is still a threat out there capable of IED, car bomb and small unit attacks," Moore observed.

However, she said, coalition forces will continue to aggressively pursue those seeking to destabilize Afghanistan's government.

Coalition forces depend on the assistance of the people of Afghanistan to help rid their country of old, hidden ordnance or pinpoint enemy bombs and suspected insurgents, Moore said.

The coalition "will continue working with the Afghan National Army and the government of Afghanistan to prevent the loss of innocent lives," Moore vowed. The people of Afghanistan, she continued, "are the most important and vital part of our effort to create a stable environment within Afghanistan for the upcoming elections."

Afghanistan's enemies "still want to see the Taliban stage some kind of comeback. However, the political and economic developments in Afghanistan have made it less attractive for al Qaeda and Taliban,” Moore said.

The future of Afghanistan lies upon a democratic path that the Afghan people have chosen, she said.



Related Site:
Combined Forces Command Afghanistan

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iaiiraq/messages/

http://www.iaiiraq.net/images/first_06.gif
http://www.iaiiraq.net

[bored at work]

Good luck to our minutemen. Stay safe and keep it cool!!!

[Velveeta]

bookmark

[Cindy]

ON THE NET.....

Google Search Term: "Mullah Omar:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mullah+Omar%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

http://taliban-online.info/
admin@taliban-online.info
http://www.the-revival-forum.info
admin@taliban-online.info


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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003908.html
April 04, 2005
"taliban-online.info DBA the-revival-forum.info
Target acquisition is everything."

[Cindy]

UPDATE...

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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/003902.html

April 04, 2005

Islamist terrorists strike Thai airport and department store

Monday April 4, 2005 - BANGKOK, Thailand (AP):
Bomb blasts struck the main airport, a department store and a hotel in Thailand's south, killing at least two people and wounding several dozen, officials said, in attacks that raised concerns that Muslim insurgents are expanding their field of operations.



Several foreigners were among those wounded in the explosions late Sunday in Songkhla province, just north of the three southernmost provinces where an Islamic insurgency has raged since early last year, officials said.


An explosion at Hat Yai airport, the main gateway to Thailand's far south, killed two people, Songkhla Governor Somporn Chaibongyang said.


Another bomb exploded at the Carrefour department store in Hat Yai town, Somporn and other officials said.


Reports about the number of people killed in those blasts varied, with one report on ITV television saying as many as five were killed, three of them at French-owned Carrefour store.


A third blomb exploded in front of a hotel in the city of Songkhla, on the Gulf of Thailand coast not far from Hat Yai, but the governor said he had no reports of casualties from it.
CONTINUE...

Posted by aaron at April 04, 2005 12:50 PM

[MamaDearest]

Ditto!

[all4one]

Hope that your brother-in-law is doing well, and that he gets home soon.

[Cindy]

A Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an AP article via the HERALD SUN: "Raleign, North Carolina - "VIOLENT GANG WITH CONNECTIONS TO EL SALVADOR INFILTRATES N.C." (April 4, 2005) (Read More...)

[all4one]

Great article Cindy....give a whole new meaning to the term "pig breath". Kudos to the scientists who are doing this type of research. Thankfully we have the best and the brightest right here in the U.S. doing amazing scientific study and research.

[Cindy]

Yep.
Science is fascinating.