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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Five

Posted on 03/05/2005 5:06:15 PM PST by nwctwx

Edited on 03/29/2005 8:49:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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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!
Threat Matrix - Daily Terrorism Threat

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


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



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To: appalachian_dweller

Nothing to see here. Move along. We now resume our regularly scheduled michael jackson programming.....hey, look what martha is up to now....

The FACT that all this is happening and the gov't STILL insists that nothing is going on AND the sheeple are buying it is making me ill.

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

Keep your powder dry folks.

/rant off




Hey A_D.

I totally agree with you here. In my world, i believe i'm surrounded by the biggest population of monkeys. I've been bringing this matter to peoples attention for a few years now and it's simply dismissed. The American Idol outcomes are what makes them tick.

We're closing in on a year since the europe stage was almost in effect. I'm not sure what is going on but i do recall reading some piece of chatter where they were saying something along the lines of "As time goes on, their fingers release on the trigger and we become better" .. As in, more participants? Instruments being calibrated and tweaked to a finer degree? The level of surprise due to the unexpectedness factor? All of the above?

I'm just pissed off that nobody sees eye to eye with me, and laugh at this threat. I think it's mainly due to the fact that these fockers are within the system, and invisible. Does the average monkey see a clip of a newly osama speech and simply think "That cave dweller is incapable of hitting us, hes in a cave! look at him, hes in a cave!" . Sorry for the repeat, but thats the way i see them percieving the WHOLE 20seconds of airtime that a videotaped message gets on the MSM.

First it was schiavo 24/7, now it's MJ and the pope. HELLO!!??!?!?! WHatever happened to larry kings round table talks with terrorism experts, the indepth analysis of what is really happening right now. What is going to effect us more, the outcome of MJ touching kids where they pee? Or a dirty/radiological/nuke (Take your pick, they've all been laid out on the table) decimating a city and killing thousands.

It makes me sick. Thankfully enough, this is the one place where I see eye to eye with others, people that realize the enormity of this threat and well, theres the rant i had to get off my chest. Even this new minutemen project, HI I AM A PLAN IN EFFECT 10YEARS TOO LATE! Have fun catching the freaking taco bell dog!

Peece everyone,

-skeggs.


3,381 posted on 04/05/2005 12:01:28 PM PDT by skeggsaw
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To: Cindy

Hi Cindy. Nice to see you, how's the hot chocolate? :)

-skeggs


3,382 posted on 04/05/2005 12:02:47 PM PDT by skeggsaw
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School closed after suspicious package found

COLONIE, N.Y. -- A high school in suburban Albany was abruptly closed and students sent home late Monday morning after a suspicious package was found in a teachers' lounge.

Officials ordered Colonie High School in lockdown shortly after 11:30 a.m. Soon afterward, students were put on buses and sent home.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny-brf--school-lockdo0404apr04,0,724453.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Author says nuclear terrorism is possible, yet preventable

http://www.thecurrentonline.com/news/2005/04/04/News/Author.Says.Nuclear.Terrorism.Is.Possible.Yet.Preventable-911699.shtml

TEXAS - Cyanide And Fire [ Jewelry store fire, cyanide pellets present ]

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/4345618/detail.html


3,383 posted on 04/05/2005 12:02:58 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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To: Cindy; All

Violent gang with connections to El Salvador infiltrates N.C.

(RALEIGH) - A dangerous gang that the FBI has labeled as a top priority has shown up in the Triangle area.

The FBI formed a task force to target Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, and dismantling the gang has become a top priority.

http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=66801&SecID=2
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MEGA FIX
Berger deal suggests darker plot

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43641


The Berger wrist slap: A dangerous precedent

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43643


3,384 posted on 04/05/2005 12:04:56 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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To: Quix; DAVEY CROCKETT; All

USA / PALESTINE - Koran scholar: US will cease to exist in 2007

"predicts that the US will be hit by a tsunami larger than that which recently struck southeast Asia."

Page 1 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1111980180248
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Note from:

[TerroristWarning.com Editors Note: We did a quick bit of research to see what it would take for terrorists to cause a devastating tsunami to hit the our Atlantic coast.
A mega-tsunami, with 330 foot tall waves in some locations, is already predicted to hit our eastern coast sometime within the next 150 years if the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts, on the island of La Palma off the West African Coast.
An eruption could cause a huge chunk ( 60 kilometers ) of Earth to fall into the ocean causing the super tsunami to head west towards the USA as well as Britain, Spain, Portugal, and France.
Scientists have predicted the tsunami could cause up to 100 million deaths and trillions of dollars in damage.
It is theoretically possibly to cause this to happen earlier by strategically placing a nuclear device in the right location on the island, and it would be far more effective than just detonating a device in a major U.S. city...
The question is whether Islamic extremists will attempt to make their own 'prohecy' come true and whether anything will be done to stop them.]


3,385 posted on 04/05/2005 12:07:02 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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To: JustPiper; Cindy

Clarifying my comment on post no. 3379:

Adding on the phrase "At this point in time"

I have no opinion except to say, at this point in time, if the scene was maintained and evidence preserved; there was no cover-up.


3,386 posted on 04/05/2005 12:08:02 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: skeggsaw

Nothing yet...

Coffee soon.


3,387 posted on 04/05/2005 12:08:54 PM PDT by Cindy
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Mega-Tsunami Threatens To Devastate U.S. Coastline
8-31-01
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/09/010903091755.htm


Canary Islands Volcano may trigger Monster Tsunami
http://www.cdnn.info/article/tsunami/tsunami.html


3,388 posted on 04/05/2005 12:10:17 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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Security tightens ahead of pope's funeral

More than six-thousand extra police have been deployed. They include snipers, bomb-disposal experts and motorcycle escorts. About 15-hundred officers will be assigned to the foreign dignitaries, including President Bush.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3165251


3,389 posted on 04/05/2005 12:12:04 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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UNITED KINGDOM - Poison gas cloud alert as blaze wrecks factory

A QUESTION mark is hanging over the future of one North Lincolnshire's biggest employers following a massive blaze that reduced a food factory to rubble and engulfed nearby towns and cities in a cloud of dangerous toxic gas.

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=989635


3,390 posted on 04/05/2005 12:13:06 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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LONDON (AP) Tony Blair says Britain will hold national elections on May 5.


3,391 posted on 04/05/2005 12:14:52 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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To: JustPiper
{I feel it will be a French Pope}

Only if the Church wants to surrender...

3,392 posted on 04/05/2005 12:15:52 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: MamaDearest

Yikes! Thanks for the link MamaD.


3,393 posted on 04/05/2005 12:28:53 PM PDT by Oorang ( OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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To: little jeremiah
What happened with your friend illustrates the core of the issue, IMO. I haven't posted to any of the Terri threads as I found the entire situation too upsetting, weakness on my part I suppose. Who are we (humans) to decide to pull the plug on someone's life? I just can't fathom such.

Having been close to death's door myself, with the doctors saying I'm not going to make it, and then a full recovery, well, it does change your outlook. How they could allow the murder of Terri I will never understand or accept.

3,394 posted on 04/05/2005 12:45:46 PM PDT by Oorang ( OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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To: Cindy; Brad's Gramma; lainie

Had a pair of these fly over my place in Burbank last night at 1230am toward Downtown LA....they werent following the usual I-5 route, which gave the LAX controllers fits. I think they were headed to San Diego. Sure shook up the place! The callsigns was VR64 and VR73, the Gunbearers, which are back from Tsunami relief.

3,395 posted on 04/05/2005 12:48:07 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (The Mainstream Media is neither.)
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To: JustPiper

Ahhh, the old "move along, nothing to see here". I feel better.


3,396 posted on 04/05/2005 12:51:07 PM PDT by Oorang ( OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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U.S. to Tighten Border Controls, Require Passports
Americans Visiting Canada, Mexico, Panama, Bermuda Will Need Passports to Return
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP

WASHINGTON (April 5) - Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday.
Similarly, Canadians will also have to present a passport to enter the United States, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Canadians have been the only foreigners allowed to enter the United States with just a driver's license.

An announcement, expected later Tuesday at the State Department, will specify that a passport or another valid travel document will have to be shown by U.S. citizens, the officials said.

Until now, Americans returning home from Canada have needed only to show a driver's license or other government-issued photo identification card.

Americans returning from Mexico, Panama or Bermuda currently need only a government-issued photo identification card plus proof of U.S. citizenship like an original birth or naturalization certificate, according to the State Department's Web site.

The new rules, to be phased in by Jan. 1, 2008, were called for in intelligence legislation approved last year by Congress.
Safeguarding U.S. borders are a top concern of U.S. intelligence and security officials. The concern increased after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon.

The travel industry has raised concerns that the changes might hamper tourism, one official said.

The announcement follows a three-way summit last month that President Bush held with Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada and President Vicente Fox of Mexico.

Speaking at Baylor University at Waco, Tex., Bush said border controls with Mexico had to be tightened to make sure that terrorists, drug runners, gun runners and smugglers do not enter the United States.

Besides a passport, re-entering Americans could use another approved travel document like frequent travel cards, which are issued to some people who travel often between the U.S. and Mexico. These cards typically are used to avoid long border-crossing lines.

But in most cases, only passports will do, another U.S. official said.

The new system will deal first with the Caribbean, then Mexico and Canada. It will start at airports and subsequently spread to land crossings, said an official speaking on condition of anonymity.

U.S. inspectors will bear less of a burden with the changes because they won't have to sift through different kinds of travel documents, the officials said.

(Associated Press reporters George Gedda and Lara Jakes Jordan contributed to this report.)

Source: AOL News


3,397 posted on 04/05/2005 12:53:37 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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Sky-Watchers Await Solar Eclipse on Friday
(Day of Funeral)
By ALICIA CHANG, AP

Sky-watchers from the South Pacific to the Americas will witness the first solar eclipse of 2005 on Friday when the moon blots out part of the sun.

It will be a partial eclipse rather than a total one, in which the Earth is cast into darkness. But it will be the last partial solar eclipse visible from the continental United States until May 20, 2012.

Solar eclipses occur when the Earth, sun and moon line up in such a way that the moon casts a shadow over Earth.

Friday's eclipse will last from a few minutes to over an hour, depending on one's location. In much of the continental United States, people will see what looks like the moon taking a bite out of the sun, with the bite bigger over the South.

In Central America and the northern portion of South America, the sun will be reduced to a narrow ring of fire.

Astronomers warned people not to stare directly at the sun without eye protection.

''It's neat to see the moon take a bite of the sun,'' said Tom Fleming, an astronomer at the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona in Tucson. ''Each eclipse is different because I remember who I was with and where I was when I was watching it.''

The path of the eclipse will stretch about 8,800 miles through a corridor beginning near New Zealand and extending across the Americas.

In the United States, people living north of a line extending from southernmost California to central New Jersey will see no dimming of the sun at all.

The maximum eclipse visible from the continental United States will be in Miami, where nearly half of the sun's diameter will be covered at 6:20 p.m. EDT.

For a while, the sun will be blotted out completely as the eclipse moves across the open Pacific, but it will be visible only to people at sea.

The next solar eclipse will be Oct. 3, crossing the Iberian Peninsula to Africa.


Source: AOL News


3,398 posted on 04/05/2005 12:58:33 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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To: JustPiper

Thanks for this post JP...and if you read about the ACLU in Arizona...you will find detailed info. on how they were very vigilent with Anti-Bush protestors....making sure that these protestors were protected and not harmed. Just a sickening example of their Anti-American agenda.


3,399 posted on 04/05/2005 12:59:33 PM PDT by all4one (We have reached an age of "disposable people"....when food and water are considered "life support".)
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To: JustPiper; MamaDearest; All
Auditor slams security policy
By JOHN WARD

Lax passport controls need tightening: auditor says
Fraser: No federal plans for emergencies
Diamond, natural gas projects at risk : audit

Auditor General Sheila Fraser. (CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand) OTTAWA (CP) - Three and a half years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, airport screeners are letting fake bombs and guns get through security and the Public Safety Department still doesn't know who would be in charge in a disaster, Auditor General Sheila Fraser said Tuesday.

In her latest report, Fraser said there are still major gaps in emergency planning and air security. "There are some serious weaknesses that are left, areas that need to be looked at," she said. Fraser has pointed out similar problems in past reports.

"Last year, I said Sept. 11, 2001 changed our perception of how safe we are and led to higher expectations for our security," she said. "The government still has work to do to meet those expectations."

Among other things, she found that training to prepare police, firefighters and medical personnel to deal with chemical, biological or nuclear disasters is woefully behind. The government estimated it needed to train 6,000 people, but only about 200 are up to scratch.

She said Transport Canada doesn't know how well airport security systems work.

Excerpted

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/04/05/983571-cp.html

3,400 posted on 04/05/2005 1:02:33 PM PDT by Oorang ( OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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