Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Six

[Oorang]

Thank you!

[Velveeta]

Metra Train Service Disrupted After Derailment (Chicago)
16,000 Commuters Affected By Derailment
http://www.nbc5.com/news/4452093/detail.html

Intelligence Whistleblower Fired After Speaking At Event
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0504-14.htm

NYC's Mayor Asks for Help in Bombing Case
http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=7924

Wood family's appeal 'may be in vain'
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15190586%255E1702,00.html

[Velveeta]

Romania to Host Exercise Simulating a Nuclear Accident
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/05/05/feature-01

[freeperfromnj]

TERROR SUSPECT NABBED AFTER WORKING ON NYC LANDMARK (GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE)

WCBS 88 ^ | 5/5/05 | CBS

Posted on 05/05/2005 8:16:59 AM PDT by areafiftyone

NEW YORK (CBS) A routine traffic stop leads to the arrest of a terror watch list suspect in our area. What's more, CBS 2 has learned 39-year-old Sami Ibrahim Isa Ardel Hadi had a valid I.D. to work as a painter on the George Washington Bridge......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1397251/posts?page=1

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks lots of good info..

bookmark

[freeperfromnj]

Investigators are questioning a foreign national

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4452005/detail.html

[freeperfromnj]

On this day in 1980: SAS rescue ends Iran embassy siege

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2510000/2510873.stm

[Velveeta]

Lots of news today...

Russia Foils Major Terror Plot for VE
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0505/226024.html

[freeperfromnj]

Whoa -- Glad they intercepted that one!

[freeperfromnj]

You know, in giving this a second read I'd say vigilance should be the order of the day. That "little" incident outside the Brittish consulate in NYC could be a warning of what's to come following the election results. Your article indicates that coordinated attacks were to take place following the election, during the celebrations.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks you for posting that, Cindy.

Vel, I ditto your comments about prayers for all TMers and their families and friends in need!

[Myrddin]

If your electronic item is not plugged in, would it still be affected by an EMP?

Yes it will. Electricity is generated when a magnetic field cuts across a conductor. EMP creates an enormous magnetic field. As that field cross the conductive traces and wires of a device, it creates a very large voltage spike. That damages the devices. The Russians built their aircraft with vacuum tube electronics to "harden" them against EMP voltage spikes. The modern semiconductor chips run at very low voltages to avoid arcing between the very closely spaced components. Such devices are VERY sensitive to EMP.

[freeperfromnj]

U.N. Employee Questioned After Blast At British Consulate

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4452005/detail.html

[ghostship]

Russia Foils Major Terror Plot for VE

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=731014

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia May 5, 2005 — Russia's Federal Security service said Thursday it foiled planned terror attacks ahead of Victory in Europe celebrations, discovering a truck packed with more than a ton of explosives and a cache of poisons allegedly intended for chemical attacks.

[Velveeta]

Thanks, Myrddin.

~running around the house wrapping things in foil~

[Velveeta]

I'm still on high alert! :-)

[Velveeta]

A Message from Abu Musab al-Suri to President George W. Bush and His American Nation

A message distributed today amongst jihadist forums, from an al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Suri, titled: “A Message to [President George W.] Bush and His American Nation,” describes the defeat of America.


Written in a poetic style, the message uses disparaging remarks towards U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleeza Rice as a portent of events to befall President Bush and the American people. Al-Suri writes: “We will turn your morning into black night like the face of Condoleeza [Rice]… We will ruin your life like her messed hair; both yours coming or going will be miserable.” The piece describes the planes used in the September 11th attacks as “a package carrying a groom,” and anthropomorphizes death into a “mate.” Further, the message states: “We will destroy your towers when they go high to reach our protector….”


Abu Musab al-Suri, AKA Mustafa Sitmaryan Nassar, or Umar Abd al-Hakim, is an al-Qaeda operative who ran terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and instructs in poison and chemical warfare. On November 18, 2004, the U.S. State Department offered a $5 million for information leading to his arrest. Al-Suri, meaning “The Syrian,” was indicted in Spain in 2003 for allegedly training al-Qaeda sleeper cells for deployment in Spain, Italy, and France and is believed to have masterminded the Madrid train bombings in March 2004.


The authenticity of the author could not be confirmed.

http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications43105&Category=publications&Subcategory=0

[Velveeta]

Nouvelle Video de l'armee Islamique en IRAQ : AUJOURDHUI ET DEMAIN ..OH usa
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http://foma.3g2.org/upload/so/1626.zip

http://foma.3g2.org/upload/so/1627.zip

http://foma.3g2.org/upload/so/1628.zip

http://foma.3g2.org/upload/so/1629.zip

http://www104.sakura.ne.jp/~assphalt/stored/iia5.rar

http://zyandyoko.zive.net/cgi/upload/source/up1687.rar

http://juggler.jp/Rinca/cgi-bin/source4/No_2047.rar
http://www.nothing-kb.jp/~yuzumonizone/cgi/up/source3/No-0098.rar
http://patch.sakura.ne.jp/cgi-bin/up/source3/No_0016.rar
http://reharmonize.net/ragnarok/RoAddr/upload/src/tool091.rar
http://ge.st98.arena.ne.jp/cgi-bin/up/stored/iia5.rar


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[Myrddin]

~running around the house wrapping things in foil~

Is this a tin foil alert :-) My "wrapped" items are limited to a small all band radio, a handheld 2-meter rig and a PDA. I'm going to have a lot of expensive paperweights if we have an EMP event. That is likely to be the least of my problems.

[tmp02]

I may have missed this, but, Does your wrapped items need to be grounded?