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

[wakingup]

"THE United States today said it remained "deeply concerned" about the continued threat of terrorist attacks against its citizens and interests abroad."


Everyday lately it seems more and more warnings, do you think their trying to tell us something?

[Lucy Lake]

FBI Warns Students About Traveling To Mexico

From the article:

"Thats why travel insurance is always a good idea..."

[JustPiper]

"24" is all on this, on top of it, Bump to Keifer!
Note: See 6:32- 6:44- 6:54 - 6:55- 6:56

6:00 P.M.
Edgar gives Curtis information on Marwan. He works for
McLennan-Forster -- the company who built the Override
device.

6:02 P.M.
Jack decides that he will go check out the McLennan-Forster
headquarters, and he instructs Curtis to take Audrey and Paul
back to CTU. Paul offers to go with Jack because his company
sold the IT system to McLennan-Forster. He knows
programming backdoors into the military files. Jack takes Paul,
and sends Audrey with Curtis.

6:04 P.M.
Driscoll says goodbye to her daughter’s body.

6:05 P.M.
Sarah learns about Maya’s suicide and tells Heller. Driscoll refuses to relinquish her command even though Heller encourages her to go home.

6:06 P.M.
The President calls and congratulates Heller and Driscoll. They
are not sure whether Marwan has other plans besides the
nuclear plant meltdowns.

6:08 P.M.
Marwan sheds the CTU gear and escapes onto a city bus.

6:09 P.M.
In the staff briefing, Edgar pulls up the McLennan-Forster
employment file for Marwan. They theorize that Marwan
entered America with the intent of performing a radical act
against the country. He may have even used the company to
recruit sleeper cells. Driscoll is distracted and walks out of the
meeting. Edgar argues with Tony and Sarah about cutting
Driscoll some slack. Sarah wants to report this to Heller, but
Tony disagrees.

6:10 P.M.
When Audrey arrives at CTU, she gets a call from Jack. He
suggests that she get some rest, but Audrey wants to help her
father. She asks Jack to take care of Paul.

6:11 P.M.
As they drive, Paul tells Jack that he doesn’t resent him but that
he will fight for Audrey.

6:16 P.M.
Tony and Heller discuss the theory that Marwan will launch
another attack with his various cells. Suddenly, Driscoll faints. A
medic takes her to get some food. When she leaves, Heller tells
Tony that Driscoll will need to be relieved of her duty. Tony
offers to fill in because he knows the job. Heller grants him the
position of Interim Director of CTU Los Angeles, but he still
wants District to send a permanent replacement.

6:19 P.M.
Sarah and Curtis learn that Marwan had full security access at
McLennan-Forster. The company also trains clients to use the
weapons they manufacture. Curtis thinks McLennan-Forster will
be reluctant to give out information because this leak will make
them look bad.

6:20 P.M.
McLennan-Forster CEO Gene McLennan is briefed by another
executive, John Reiss, on the terrorist acts Marwan did under
his employment there. McLennan is shocked. The only other
person inside the company who knows about this is the head of
security, Dave Conlon.

6:21 P.M.
Conlon greets Jack and Paul as they arrive at the company
headquarters. Jack demands to meet with McLennan, but
Conlon resists. Jack becomes suspicious.

6:22 P.M.
Reiss convinces McLennan that their company will be brought
down if CTU finds out the facts about Marwan. McLennan is
hesitant to go along with the plan to suppress information, but
Reiss says that they might all face prison if the truth comes out.
He promises that he and Conlon will take care of it.

6:23 P.M.
Conlon takes Jack and Paul into McLennan’s office, and the
executives agree to take their servers offline so that CTU can
check out Marwan’s files.

6:28 P.M.
Heller comforts Driscoll, and she agrees to go home. Audrey
comes in to tell her father that she’s back.

6:31 P.M.
Curtis expresses dismay to Heller that Tony was named
Director of CTU. Curtis felt he should have been given the job.

6:32 P.M.
Reiss leads Jack and Paul to Marwan’s office, as Conlon and
McLennan watch them from a surveillance monitor. Paul
notices that a lot of files were purged from the computer, and
Jack suspects someone deleted them before they got there.
Conlon can view Marwan’s computer screen from his office and
he clears the incriminating documents before Paul is able to
find them on the system. McLennan is nervous. {{{Conlon says
that he may be forced to set off an EMP to bomb their own
system, even if it cripples the company electronically.}}}

6:38 P.M.
Driscoll hands over her files and passcodes to Tony. She
leaves CTU.

6:40 P.M.
Tony addresses the staff and asks for updates from the
investigation. He tells Edgar that Driscoll suggested he be relied
upon.

6:41 P.M.
Curtis asks Edgar to switch his focus to finding Marwan on
satellite rather than searching for information at McLennan-
Forster. Tony intercedes, ordering Edgar to stay on his initial
task. Curtis defends his position, but Tony pulls rank. He
assures Curtis that he only wants to catch Marwan and that he
will be leaving by the end of the day.

6:43 P.M.
Marwan waits in a dark alley as a car pulls up. A man named
Yosik tells him that their people at the air force base are on
schedule.

6:44 P.M.
Paul uses backdoors built by the software designers to rebuild
the deleted files from the empty directories. Conlon is stumped
by this. McLennan frets that they will discover evidence proving
that his company sold arms to terrorists. They are left with no
choice but to use the pulse bomb. Reiss believes that CTU will
suspect that Marwan was behind it. He calls a technician and
orders the EMP activated. It will take ten minutes to charge up.

6:51 P.M.
Sarah notices that their phone taps at McLennan-Forster are
not working because of an increase in amplitude. Edgar tries to
call Jack’s cell, but the recording says he is out of range. All of
the cell and land lines around the company are out, but the
computers have not been affected yet.

6:52 P.M.
Tony types a message to Jack over the system, but when Jack
tries to call CTU he finds that his phones are all down. Paul
opens a socket for Jack to respond to the message, and Tony
tells him that frequencies are out all over the area. Paul
recovers an encrypted file and he prints it out.

6:53 P.M.
Conlon sees that Paul found something incriminating, but he
can’t make out what it is. He runs to Marwan’s office.

6:54 P.M.
Jack discovers that McLennan-Forster was developing an EMP
as a non-lethal weapon for the military. It has just been set off,
and anything with electrical components in the area will be fried.
Jack sends word to Tony, who orders helicopters in the area to
be landed because their electrical systems will be wiped out.

6:55 P.M.
Tony tells Jack that the EMP originated inside McLennan-
Forster in room 12. Jack runs out to find it, ordering Paul to
meet him outside with the hard copy once it finishes printing.
Conlon radios his guards to stop Jack. Conlon arrives in the
office and tells Paul that he noticed he was printing something
because they were searching the system as well. Paul sends
him to the printer, which is empty. Paul runs with the printouts,
and Conlon pulls out his gun and chases after him.

6:56 P.M.
Paul hides in a dark office, and Conlon doesn’t see him. Jack
comes upon the room where the EMP is and knocks out the
three guards keeping watch. Jack takes one of their passcards
and enters the EMP room. He sees a heavy metal door begin to
slowly close the safety chamber housing the EMP bomb. Jack
uses all his strength to try to prevent it from shutting.

6:57 P.M.
Paul hides out by a window, where only the moonlight from
outside illuminates him. He notices the lights from the city
skyline begin to black out.

6:58 P.M.
Jack grabs a flashlight from one of the guards and tries to find
his way out of the building. Meanwhile, Paul makes it to the
front entrance but is stopped by an armed Conlon who
demands the printout.

6:59 P.M.
Edgar gets word that one of CTU’s choppers just crashed. Tony
goes to Heller with an update on the EMP bomb. They are
interrupted by a call notifying them that Driscoll’s replacement
from District just arrived. Tony is shocked to see Michelle
Dessler walk into CTU. Heller asks if Tony knows her. “I used to be married to her,” Tony says.

http://www.fox.com/24/episodes/guide.html

Show News
http://www.tvtome.com/24/index.html#news

[Hegemony Cricket]

bookmark

[JustPiper]

New Show Alert:

THE UNIT (CBS) - Dennis Haysbert ("24") and Michael Irby ("Line of Fire") are the first to land roles in the Shawn Ryan/David Mamet-produced drama pilot, about the elite anti-terrorism force known as Delta Force. Haysbert and Irby will play Michael Blaine and Grey respectively, full details of which weren't specified. The project, which is loosely based on the book "Inside Delta Force" by Eric Haney, is set up at 20th Century Fox Television.

Very little info on the net about this show but they are advertising it on commercials already

[JustPiper]

LOL exactly what I posted, I posted the entire episode too -g- and look at the new show coming on, Fox is good!

[wakingup]

""24" is all on this, on top of it, Bump to Keifer!"

Thank you JP! :)


BTTT!

[Cindy]

ON THE NET (Regarding MEXICO)...

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_2100.html
http://travel.state.gov/family/abduction/country/country_508.html
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_2139.html
http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/country/country_419.html

[JustPiper]

Welcome! I missed the first 45 min myself ;)

Flour sparks terror alert
(Amsterdam)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005111301,00.html

[wakingup]

Delayed for six hours over flour, of course it's better to be safe then sorry, but I bet there were some unhappy passengers.

[JustPiper]

Propane, gas leaks cause 2 evacuations
(Chico,CA)
(Did we know there were TWP?)
http://www.chicoer.com/Stories/0,1413,135~25088~2752619,00.html

Bulgarian Green Leader Threatened With Death
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2005/2005-03-08-03.asp

History of Government Provocations in Russia
http://globalpolitician.com/articles.asp?ID=400

Jim Kouri
DHS Reports Major Successes in 2004
Striking Terrorists Before They Strike US Their Stated Goal
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7176.shtml

[Cindy]

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

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March 9, 2005

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/mc/20050309/tc_mc/hackersbreachlexisnexisgrabinfoon32000people

Technology - MacCentral

"Hackers breach LexisNexis, grab info on 32,000 people"


2 hours, 43 minutes ago
Technology - MacCentral
By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service MacCentral


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Like ChoicePoint, Seisint maintains a massive database of public and private information on individuals, including Social Security numbers, credit histories and criminal records. Seisint made the news in recent years as the data source behind the "Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange," or MATRIX, system, a program to bring together criminal and public records from participating U.S. states.


Bill Shrewsbury, a vice president at Seisint, said that identity thieves used a different approach to breach the company's database than what was used to get ChoicePoint's data, but declined to elaborate."

[wakingup]

Thank you Cindy.

Here is another one.


Credit-card information from customers of more than 100 DSW Shoe Warehouse stores was stolen from a company computer's database over the last three months, a lawyer for the national chain said Tuesday


Credit-card information stolen from DSW Shoe database

[Cindy]

Thank you Wakingup.

[Lucy Lake]

Another snippet:

"ChoicePoint, of Alpharetta, Georgia, has also been the focus of intense scrutiny and criticism since it acknowledged that identity thieves posed as legitimate customers to gain access to the company's database of 19 billion public records.

"Some of the information stolen from ChoicePoint has since been used in about 750 identity theft scams, according to the company."

[Cindy]

Yep.
Interesting.

[Velveeta]

Indeed, but these nut cases are mailing uranium!

[JustPiper]

60 nuclear plants to come on line over next 15 years
http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sectionCode=132&storyCode=2027244

Leaks fuel concern about Spokane train depot
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002200230_fuel08m.html

Soros puke alert:
US terrorism approach 'creates hate'
US billionaire financier George Soros today slammed as dangerous Washington's strategy to fight terrorism, saying it was creating anger and resentment around the world.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12489688-38200,00.html

Iraqis protest terrorism and no one reports it
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0305/0305iraqiprotest.htm

Michigan State Police drop out of anti-terrorism network
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm3097_20050307.htm

Iran should be able to build 25-25 n-bombs
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=82287

[Velveeta]

Don your spy outfit and go over to the airport.

~cough~ How did you know I had a spy outfit?

[wakingup]

I know, scary isn't it? I just can't figure out what point they were trying to make? I guess, Maybe, just to show that they could and next time it could be a lot worse?