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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!

Terrorists could be just getting started
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New York City and Washington. Bali, Indonesia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Istanbul, Turkey; Madrid, Spain. And now London.

When will it end? Where will it all lead?

The experts aren't encouraged. One terrorism researcher sees the prospect of "endless" war. Adds the man who tracked Osama bin Laden for the CIA, "I don't think it's even started yet."

Related:
Terrorists' aim is to end western civilisation, says ex-Mossad head
Understanding the enemy, a different type of war
Al Qaeda answers CIA's hiring call

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

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[Cindy]

Thank you for the links and the names freeperfromnj.

[freeperfromnj]

You're welcome.

[Oorang]

http://news.stcom.net/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=4

http://news.stcom.net/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=8

[Cindy]

Thank you Oorang.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1165.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Thu Aug 04 2005 16:10:35 GMT-0700.

Middle East and North Africa

August 04, 2005


This Public Announcement is being updated to alert Americans to ongoing security concerns in the region, including for seaborne vessels traveling in the southern Red Sea. U.S. citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This Public Announcement supersedes the Public Announcement issued on March 14, 2005, and expires on February 2, 2006.

Credible information has indicated terrorist groups seek to continue attacks against U.S. interests in the Middle East and North Africa. Terrorist actions may include bombings, hijackings, hostage taking, kidnappings and assassinations. While conventional weapons such as explosive devices are a more immediate threat in many areas, use of non-conventional weapons, including chemical or biological agents must be considered a possible threat. Terrorists do not distinguish between official and civilian targets. Increased security at official U.S. facilities has led terrorists and their sympathizers to seek softer targets such as public transportation, residential areas, and public areas where people congregate including restaurants, hotels, clubs, and shopping areas.

The Department of State continues to warn of the possibility for violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests in the region. Anti-American violence could include possible terrorist actions against aviation, ground transportation and maritime interests, specifically in the Middle East, including the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.

The Department is concerned that extremists may be planning to carry out attacks against Westerners and oil workers on the Arabian Peninsula. Armed attacks targeting foreign nationals in Saudi Arabia that resulted in many deaths and injuries, including U.S. citizens, appear to have been preceded by extensive surveillance. Tourist destinations in Egypt that are frequented by Westerners recently have been attacked resulting in many deaths and injuries, including Americans. Extremists may be surveilling Westerners, particularly at hotels, housing areas and rental car facilities. Potential targets may include U.S. contractors, particularly those related to military interests.

Americans considering seaborne travel near the Horn of Africa or in the southern Red Sea should exercise extreme caution, as there have been several incidents of armed attacks and robberies at sea by unknown pirates in the last year. When transiting around the Horn of Africa or in the Red Sea near Yemen, it is strongly recommended that vessels travel in convoys, and maintain good communications contact at all times.

On occasion, the travel of official personnel at embassies and consulates around the world is restricted because of security concerns, and these posts may recommend that private U.S. citizens avoid the same areas if at all possible. Services to U.S. citizens in countries abroad may be affected if employees' movements are restricted. If this happens, U.S. embassies and consulates will make every effort to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens. In case office hours are reduced, U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should telephone the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate before visiting in person.

In addition, U.S. citizens planning to travel to the Middle East or North Africa should consult the Department of State's country-specific Public Announcements, Travel Warnings, Consular Information Sheets, the Worldwide Caution Public Announcement and other information, available on the Consular Affairs Internet website at http://travel.state.gov. Up-to-date information on security conditions can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 in the U.S. and for callers outside the U.S. and Canada a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444.

[WestCoastGal]

I don't mean to make something out of nothing. But I've been watching TV all day away from the computer and it just bugs me that he has that black turban on like he put it on in a hurry. If you look closely his right ear is outside and his left ear is inside the turban.

If I were going to wear that thing it would bug me no end to have it lopsided like that.

Just sharing a thought. Have no idea what meaning that would have except perhaps it's not what he wears normally.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Lurker/place marker

[Cindy]

The latest apparel for head jihadis -- could it be something Pakistani or French?

[nicmarlo]

I've been luking here this afternoon, Oorang....and went to your first link on that post and saw Cheney's face in a mushroom from the bomb....I thought you'd be interested in my posting the translation from French to English of the words by that picture. It's not my translation, it's done via a free program on the internet. (I do not know french, so cannot assure accuracy.)

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**Sixty years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States go back over them politics of après-guerre, not forbidding itself more a first nuclear strike. The « mini-bombes » being able to serve to hit the iran or the Korea of the North would already be deployable.

This item exceptionally is pulled edition of June 3 2005 again Solidarities.

The American government has here and now stopped the urgency plans provident the usage of nuclear weapons in attacks préemptives against at least two countries, the iran and the Korea of the North. The new plan of « global strike » was unveiled in the Washington Post of May 15 by William Arkin, a former analyst of the piece of information of the army. The big lines of its conclusions were confided us rmées by of high representatives of the American piece of information, that establish a link between this new plan and the failure of massive conventional bombardments in Afghanistan and in Iraq, as well as the disastrous occupation of the iraq.

[Rushmore Rocks]

It's not what he normally wears. In his last few shows, he was wearing casual white. For this occassion he is wearing his "dressy black". Must have a reservation at Ruth's Chris.

I think I read somewhere 'upthread' that the last time he wore his "dressy black" was around 9-11.

Scary.

Off topic: Rehnquist back in hospital. Prayers for him.

[Godzilla]

bookmark

[freeperfromnj]

I can't seem to shake that story of the two men arrested at DeGaulle airport. I've been going crazy trying to find a link other than the Mirror. If true, it would be quite the coincidence. Also, about a month ago an Air France plane was turned around because of a passenger on the no-fly list.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=great%20muslimana

I did not know there was a muslimana.com, there appears to be.

On the top of the links, it talks of a visit to DFW, take a
look, also a dfwforums.net and more that is not the airport,
plus birds.

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Visit%20to%20DFW

[Oorang]

Ping to nicmarlo's post #3629.

Nic - Thank you very much for taking the time to run the translation, it came up with very interesting results. The translator you used came up with better results than the Italian translations I was running.

Excerpt from translation:
The « mini-bombes » being able to serve to hit the iran or the Korea of the North would already be deployable.

Even though it seems to be talking about the U.S. striking N. Korean and/or Iran I don't like the sound of the above excerpt. It could be taken two ways.

[Oorang]

You're right, the whole thing doesn't "sit right".

[Cindy]

Hi kingofhearts.

How's your summer going?

Have you been keeping up with the Threat
Matrix threads on FR?

If so, what do make of all these threats?

[nicmarlo]

Yes, it could be taken two ways. I also found the article to which this moslem was quoting of William Arkin, here at this link Of interest is this information within the article concerning our weapons capability.

Not Just A Last Resort?
A Global Strike Plan, With a Nuclear Option

By William Arkin
Sunday, May 15, 2005

* * *

....Lt. Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of the 8th Air Force, told a reporter that his fleet of B-2 and B-52 bombers had changed its way of operating so that it could be ready to carry out such missions. "We're now at the point where we are essentially on alert," Carlson said in an interview with the Shreveport (La.) Times. "We have the capacity to plan and execute global strikes." Carlson said his forces were the U.S. Strategic Command's "focal point for global strike" and could execute an attack "in half a day or less."

* * *

The Air Force's global strike concept was taken over by Stratcom and made into something new. This was partly in response to the realization that the military had no plans for certain situations. The possibility that some nations would acquire the ability to attack the United States directly with a WMD, for example, had clearly fallen between the command structure's cracks. For example, the Pacific Command in Hawaii had loads of war plans on its shelf to respond to a North Korean attack on South Korea, including some with nuclear options. But if North Korea attacked the United States directly -- or, more to the point, if the U.S. intelligence network detected evidence of preparations for such an attack, Pacific Command didn't have a war plan in place. * * *

At Ellis's retirement ceremony in July, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Omaha audience that "the president charged you to 'be ready to strike at any moment's notice in any dark corner of the world' [and] that's exactly what you've done."

As U.S. military forces have gotten bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the attractiveness of global strike planning has increased in the minds of many in the military. Stratcom planners, recognizing that U.S. ground forces are already overcommitted, say that global strike must be able to be implemented "without resort to large numbers of general purpose forces."

[Cindy]

Ditto -- thanks for the translation Nic.

[subsea06]

Re: "...nothing happened in late 2003..."

Don't confuse poor prediction with successful prevention.

sub6

[nicmarlo]

you're welcome; thanks for all your hard work on this thread; I usually lurk periodically....especially when something's going on because I know you all will probably have some interesting/current info.