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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!

Expert: Al-Qaida Has Presence In South Florida
Full Story

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- Despite the massive federal, state and local law enforcement effort to stop terrorists from entering the United States, there is no strong evidence of how well it is working.

Many experts are concerned that there are plenty of terrorists or sympathizers already in the country who have been here for years. Some are even citizens.

The Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were the first wave and now the increasing number of arrests seems to signal a second wave of terrorism in South Florida.

Related:
Court is told of 2 U.S. citizens' alleged Al Qaeda plot
Map: Islamic Terrorist Network in America (2003)

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[Cindy]

Sad laugh...Mexico is our unofficial 51st state and Mexico has California pretty well covered with ILLEGAL immigrants.

Now Canada, on the other hand, they are going to push hard for whatever they can get. I thought that CNS article was very interesting.

[Cindy]

The following text snippet is from infovlad.net:
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http://www.infovlad.net

Posted on June 24

http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0624200501.rmvb
- The original filename is “House.rmvb” .

Posted on June 23

http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0623200501.wmv
- The full, unedited footage is here. (Thanks doubletap!)

http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0623200502.rmvb
- The original filename is “Revenge.rmvb”.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

This is an old article 2000....

~~~~~~~Keep in mind we don't know for sure these guys are Jew's because it is so easy to fake doc. and get citzenship of Isreal.~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~This guy was trained by veterans of the Afghanistan war and the ringleader of the "Russian" Mafiya in South Florida.~~~~~~~~~



Russian Jews like Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg commit crimes world-wide under the guise of the 'Russian Mafia', when in fact they are an organized crime ring made up of Russian Jews.

It is a gross injustice to label the Russian people for the crimes of one of its minorities while that minority uses the anti-Semitism label against anyone identifying them as criminals. The article below identifies this 'Russian mobster'.
The World's Most Dangerous Gangster
Another Ukrainian Jew Makes Good

Robert Friedman

The New Yorker, April 10, 2000

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"I swear, I can't believe John Gotti got life in jail. How can you kill your own history?" — Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg

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The first Ukrainian Jew in recent times that was documented on the Ukrainian Archive for making it into into the big time was Semion Mogilevich, described by Robert I. Friedman in his Village Voice article as The World's Most Dangerous Gangster.

In the excerpts below from the New Yorker of 10 Apr 00 (still on sale at newsstands as the present excerpts are being posted), Robert I. Friedman describes another Ukrainian Jew who made it into the big time — Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg, until recently the ringleader of the "Russian" Mafiya in South Florida.


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The "Russian" Mafiya threatens the USA:

Meanwhile in the United States, the activities of the Russian mob were alarming a great many law-enforcement agencies. In 1994, Louis J. Freeh, the director of the F.B.I., said that the Russian Mafiya posed "a significant direct threat to the United States." In a few years, the Russians had supplanted the Cubans as one of the top crime groups in South Florida.

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it is difficult to extradite Israeli nationals.

In an incident observed by the F.B.I. and the D.E.A. from surveillance cars across the street from Porky's, Fainberg chased a girlfriend out of the club and decked her. On another occasion, he allegedly beat a girlfriend's head against the door of his Mercedes until the car was covered with blood; and he regularly abused his common-law wife, a frail young woman named Faina Tannenbaum, whom he had brought with him from New York. When the police arrived at their home in response to 911 calls, she would quiver in fear, and was sometimes found huddled inside a locked car with her daughter.

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Israel being the land of opportunity, Ludwig Fainberg will be rich again — but using sex slaves from where?

The Russian mob in South Florida today is the hub of a sophisticated and ruthless operation. But Ludwig Fainberg is no longer a member. At the conclusion of my conversation with him in prison in September, he said ruefully, "America's built on Mafia! All over the world, when you ask 'What do you know about America?' they say, 'Mafia, "Godfather," Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky!' I swear, I can't believe John Gotti got life in jail. How can you kill your own history?"

http://americandefenseleague.com/mafia2.htm

[MamaDearest]

IBM plans to hire 14,000 Indian workers

2nd Case of Mad Cow Disease confirmed in US

Wildlife smuggling a US border problem

Israel to seal off Gaza with underwater wall

[MamaDearest]

Oops sorry for that burp!

[Cindy]

I did one of those yesterday, internet hiccups online.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OBLCrew/

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430175/posts


"IRA admits killing of teenage girl in 1973"
Reuters UK ^ | Fri Jun 24, 2005 |

Posted on 06/24/2005 5:14:00 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18523

"The Age of the She-Bomber"
By Micah Halpern
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 24, 2005

[Cindy]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002346679_spyplane25.html

Friday, June 24, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

"Pilot of downed spy plane ID'd"
The Associated Press

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Russian Mobsters Consort with Terrorists, Slave Traders

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Women and girls forced to work as prostitutes are blackmailed by the threat that traffickers will tell their families. Trafficked children are dependent on their traffickers for food, shelter and other basic necessities.

Traffickers also play on victims’ fears that authorities in a strange country will prosecute or deport them if they ask for help. A major purveyor of these de facto slaves is the Russian organized crime syndicate. Brutal, cunning and ruthless, these 21st Century mobsters present a new threat to US national security.

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In the decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has become the target of a new global crime threat from criminal organizations and criminal activities that have poured forth over the borders of Russia and other former Soviet republics such as Ukraine.

The nature and variety of the crimes being committed seem unlimited -- trafficking in women and children, drugs, arms trafficking, stolen automobiles, and money laundering are among the most prevalent. The spillover is particularly troubling to Europe because of its geographical proximity to Russia, and to Israel, because of its large numbers of Russian immigrants. But no area of the world seems immune to this menace, especially not the United States.

America is the land of opportunity for unloading criminal goods and laundering dirty money. For that reason--and because, unfortunately, much of the examination of Russian organized crime (the so-called "Russian Mafia") to date has been rather hyperbolic and sketchy -- many in law enforcement believe it is important to step back and take an objective look at this growing phenomenon.

As in the United States, there is no universally accepted definition of organized crime in Russia, in major part because Russian law provides no legal definition of organized crime. Analysis of criminological sources, however, enables one to identify some of its basic characteristics. These include organizational features that make Russian organized crime unique in the degree to which it is embedded in the post-Soviet political system. At the same time, however, it has certain features in common with such other well-known varieties of organized crime as the Italian Mafia. The latter has a complicated history that includes both cooperation and conflict with the Italian state. Much more than was ever the case with the Italian Mafia, however, Russian organized crime is uniquely a descendant of the Soviet state.

http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=22289

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Operation reveals organised crime network in Spain

Yesterday Spanish police arrested 28 people suspected of belonging to the Russian mafia. 400 police agents were involved in "Operation Wasp". 800 bank accounts were frozen as a result of the investigations leading to yesterday's arrests in what Spain's Interior Minister described as Europe's biggest police operation carried out yet against organised crime

http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2005/06/operation-reveals-organised-crime.htm

[Velveeta]

That's interesting, DC!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Long but worth reading...

Mob rule
Cover story
Misha Glenny
Monday 6th June 2005



The west may believe it is building a safer world by opening up markets, imposing sanctions and intervening in conflicts. In reality it is creating a gangsters' paradise, writes Misha Glenny

In 1995, at the UN General Assembly's 50th-anniversary bash, the then American president, Bill Clinton, unveiled his fears about the dark side of globalisation. Organised crime and terror, he suggested, stood side by side as the twin Darth Vaders of the post-cold-war world. Since 9/11, however, terror has become unchallenged as the number one fear of Britain and the US, while organised crime has become much less of a concern. This shift in priorities is convenient for all involved, given that terror courts publicity relentlessly and organised crime shuns it. Trebles all round. Yet our obsession with terror distracts us from the much bigger impact that organised crime has on our lives.

The hostility towards further expansion of the EU - central to France's No vote in the referendum on the constitution - is at least in part a reflection of a widespread belief that embracing the Balkans and Turkey into the Union will further consolidate the power of organised crime syndicates. Supporters of Balkan membership point out that organised crime feeds on the discrepancy in wealth between western and south-eastern Europe, and that the strong borders between the two regions merely multiply criminal profits. Recent research into the use of gangsterism in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans suggests that the west contributed significantly, if unwittingly, to the phenomenon in the early 1990s. And once organised crime has begun the process known as "state capture", through which it influences policy, it is very difficult to reverse the process.

The "shadow economy" has always played a critical role in both armed conflict and violent state formation. But since the 1980s shadow activity has increased fourfold as a proportion of the global economy. According to estimates collated from the World Bank, the IMF and academic research, shadow transactions accounted for between $6.5trn (£3.6trn) and $9trn (£6trn) in 2001, which is between 20 and 25 per cent of global GDP (bearing in mind that this includes you and me if we diddle the Inland Revenue).

This unprecedented growth was ensured by two major events: the collapse of communism in 1989-90 and, immediately before that, the American- and British-led push to deregulate international financial markets. In the chaotic, overnight switch from communism to capitalism in Russia (for which Boris Yeltsin must take ultimate political responsibility), huge amounts of the country's assets were turned into cash and exported assiduously by the oligarchs and organised crime syndicates.

The oligarchs have never drawn the same degree of opprobrium as the gangsters who emerged with them throughout the for- mer Soviet Union in the early 1990s. And yet if it weren't for the mafia protection rackets, the free market would never have got off the ground in Russia, and the oligarchs were absolutely dependent on gangster capitalism as they strove to rip off billions from the state with indecent but necessary haste. Neither the KGB nor the interior ministry had any experience or notion of policing the contract law that was essential to what became the most jaw-dropping example of primitive capital accumulation in history. The gangs that made Moscow such a spectacularly violent and romantic place ten years ago were simply privatised law-enforcement agencies exploiting a gap in the market - "violent entrepreneurs", in the words of Vadim Volkov, a sociologist who has interviewed and studied mobsters over several years.

Capitalism is what the west wanted in Russia, and it got capitalism in one of its purest forms. In institutional terms, there was no difference between the oil empires built by Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Roman Abramovich and those enterprises (such as the Solntsevskaya and Tambovskaya gangs) that moved beyond the protection racket business into drugs and prostitution. "There was a general ideological climate whereby the state should withdraw," says Volkov, "and so there was no effort to exercise any economic governance. Everything was legal and illegal at the same time. Every economic activity was legitimate."

Thanks to financial deregulation, domestic and international banks alike were suddenly able to transfer vast sums across borders without governments having any hope of tracking them. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was the great pioneer of mega money-laundering. And before long, financial institutions built on air and cunning were springing up throughout the former communist bloc and hooking up with existing dodgy operations in offshore havens such as Cyprus, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Their primary function was to assist Russia's new entrepreneurial class in stripping assets, turning these into dollars and then getting them the hell out of Russia. In principle, they were merely following the lead of the western corporations. Russia's new rich lost no time in signing up to the free movement of capital around the globe.



With only partial access to western markets, the new entrepreneurs of eastern Europe and elsewhere sought out and supplied the demand in sectors in which western entrepreneurs were reluctant to operate: drugs, untaxed cigarettes, prostitution and arms. In their relationship to the market, the mobs are model globalisers.

In the early 1990s, the former Dutch island colony of Aruba in the Caribbean became the favoured meeting point of mobsters from Colombia, Russia, Spain, Nigeria and, later, from the Balkans, too. After the destruction of the MedellIn and Cali cartels, followed by Plan Colombia (America's war on the coca plant), the leading players in the cocaine industry decided it was time for a shake-up. The Colombians wanted to outsource more of their distribution and even their processing work (the paste-into-powder stage was the point of production most vulnerable to raids ordered by the American and Colombian governments).

The result is expanded west European markets, along with significant growth in the emerging markets - notably Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. For producers and distributors, the possibility of being busted is a business risk worth taking, given the potential profits. As Lev Timofeev, an economist who has specialised in analysing Russia's emerging drug market, has pointed out, "The annual turnover in the narcotics industry in Russia is between $8bn and $9bn. The annual Russian state budget is $20bn." And drugs are just one branch of organised crime's military-industrial complex.

War has been a particularly fruitful engine of growth for the emerging mafias in eastern Europe and, more recently, in Africa. The areas that slid into armed conflict during the 1990s played a pivotal role in allowing dirty cash to be reintegrated into the regional economy, either as capital for new criminal ventures or as legitimate clean money in the form of anything from Ferraris to entire football clubs (reputation-laundering is as big a business as money-laundering).

It was not until I researched a single incident from the Yugoslav war ten years ago that it dawned on me what was going on. Nationalism, ethnic hatred and religious fanaticism were mere blinds, serving to obscure the real cause of these wars - money and human greed. At the end of May 1995, the Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic seized several thousand peacekeepers in retaliation for the UN-mandated bombing of Serb positions around Sarajevo. For the television cameras, some of the hostages were chained to strategic military targets as human shields. The fragile peace deal being negotiated by the Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic with the Americans was heading for the crash barrier. Overshadowed a month later by the massacre at Srebrenica, it was a huge crisis that threatened a major conflict between Serbia and the west.

Milosevic sent his chief of security, Jovica Stanisic, to sort out the mess. Stanisic had witnessed more than his fair share of dirt during the war, and if anyone could cajole the Bosnian Serbs into releasing the hostages, Stanisic was your man. But not even he was prepared for what greeted him when he reached their headquarters.



Karadzic and his deputy were taking receipt of bags of cash from the government of Greece - $20m in used notes, funded unknowingly by Greek taxpayers in exchange for the hostages. Stanisic blew a gasket, telling Greek ministers more or less to bugger off, and warning the Bosnian Serb leadership of dire retribution from Belgrade if the deal went ahead. He succeeded (and was later thanked and congratulated by the British and American intelligence services for his troubles).

Some say that Stanisic's work was a Pyrrhic victory. A month after he secured the release of the hostages, the Bosnian Serb leaders, still smarting from the loss of their megabucks, launched the unspeakable attack on Srebrenica. But Stanisic's discovery unmasked the essential character of the Bosnian Serbs - small-time gangsters who, by an accident of history, were making money hand over fist as tens of thousands were dying. Indeed, the dying was crucial to their criminal enterprise.

Such opportunistic behaviour by paramilitary leaders and their political masters was given an astonishing boost by one of the dumbest western strategies in the early post-cold-war years - the imposition of UN sanctions on the rump Yugoslavia in May 1992. These turned south-eastern Europe into a gangsters' paradise. The arms embargo on Bosnia and Croatia a year earlier had already led to the establishment of criminalised channels for the import of weaponry to the two republics. But where the Croats and Bosnians were short of guns, the Serbs badly needed oil. And because the economies of the surrounding countries were both in free fall and historically dependent on Serbia as a transit route and a market, every single neighbouring state was compelled to deepen its relationship with the mob and continue trading in defiance of the embargo. Before long, criminals were providing Serbia with everything - huge lakes of petrol, mountains of cigarettes and anything else it needed. An extraordinary pan-Balkan mafia was born.

In public, the criminal bosses from the various republics were denouncing their national enemies as demons bent on genocide and extermination. But in private, the Croatian, Bosnian, Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian money men and mobsters were thick as thieves. They bought, sold and exchanged all manner of commodities, knowing that the high levels of personal trust between them were much stronger than the transitory bonds of hysterical nationalism. They helped foment this latter ideology among ordinary folk to mask their own venality.

All recent military interventions by the west (with the partial exception of East Timor) have proved a real boost for organised crime. The lessons from Yugoslavia (not to mention Plan Colombia) were crystal clear by 2001. And yet, in its rush to establish a military presence in Afghanistan following 9/11, the US created the conditions in which the producers and distributors of heroin were able to enjoy a renaissance. The pledge to eradicate the evil of heroin from Britain's inner cities was perhaps Tony Blair's most naive policy in his second term: production has increased by more than 1,000 per cent since 2001. The producers have been offered no serious alternative to the cultivation of opium, and coalition forces have no significant ability to police the opium-growing areas. To his credit, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has admitted that the government's attempts to throttle opium production since the fall of the Taliban have had the opposite effect.

Rolling back the advance of states and territories once they have been captured by criminal interests is always immensely difficult, as the only solid alternative is a system of functioning democratic institutions that, even in the best environment, takes decades to create. But it is almost impossible to do so in an age of globalisation in which not even a power as mighty as the US has the capacity to police even a tenth of this shadow activity. There are signs that the penny is slowly dropping. Both the US and Britain have established new offices whose job is to develop strategies for post-conflict situations. Relatively well-resourced, they are learning from think-tanks working in development and security politics around the world. The fundamental lesson that their operatives have already learned is that intervention will always lead to a serious long-term deterioration in security, leaving room for the rise of the mob. Unless, that is, political and developmental strategies are in place to absorb the terrible impact of military action.

Misha Glenny is writing a book about transnational organised crime


This article first appeared in the New Statesman. For the latest in current and cultural affairs subscribe to the New Statesman print edition.

[MamaDearest]

Extra credit question: why doesn't the FBI just look at the name on the credit card of who's been paying for all that bandwidth?

Your post is right on target Johnathan and needs to be asked. Answers by the FBI are unlikely and probably not forthcoming anytime soon, let alone action on the ISP or the person(s) paying for the bandwidth (terrorist rights and all that....)

[MamaDearest]

a little french talk (in English) this morning...ON THE NET:

Nauseating illiterate inbred french talk!

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

"dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Government___Politics/By_Country_or_Region/Countries/Afghanistan/Taliban_Islamic_Movement_of_Afghanistan?show_groups"

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "TALIBAN ONLINE? Right here: http://tonline.5gigs.com/mpn/index.php") (June 24, 2005)

"MuslimThai.com/TALIBANonline/text/TALIBAN" (Link 404/not found.)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "THE-REVIVAL-FORUM.INFO Better known as Taliban Online" (June 20, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "TALIBAN ONLINE UPDATE (April 22, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "TALIBAN ONLINE UPDATE" (April 14, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "TALIBAN-ONLINE.INFO ONLINE AGAIN" (http://to.elementfx.com/mpn/index.php) (April 11, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "TALIBAN ONLINE.INFO dba THE-REVIVAL-FORUM.INFO" (April 4, 2005)

ON THE NET... Post no. 3181: "www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356876/posts?page=3181#3181"

[Cindy]

Well, yeah.

[Cindy]

Worth a repeat....

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

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http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200506\FOR20050622c.html

"Pastors Who 'Vilified' Islam Would Choose Jail Over Apology"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 22, 2005