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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!

Was Bomber's "New York" Shirt A Message?
Full Story

It's hardly a unique fashion statement for a mass transit rider: a Yankees-style cap, and a "New York" sweat shirt.

But the New York Police Department is teaming with British authorities to determine whether those items were worn by suspects in the London terror cases to send a "purposeful message" to the city, according to an NYPD officials.

David Cohen, the NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence, raised the concern earlier this week at a security briefing for business leaders at police headquarters in Lower Manhattan.

Related:
New assessments warn of Qaeda suicide attacks in U.S.
Still Not Ready in The ER | Cell Phone Number: ICE
Where bin Laden is, why he's still alive

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

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[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I found this and it sticks in my mind, from 2002, and I have to wonder if the Mafia is the russian mafia?
granny
= = = = = = =HUGS TO YOU
Yes it is the Russian Mafia! You don't want me to go into my boring rant about the oligarchs of every nation/Russian mafia/fake Jews/new world order elites/puppet masters/mover and shakers of the world? LOL

After the cold war these crooks took over Russia economy. Putin is now offering them jobs in government to try and get some of the wealth back, yeah right they are just going to steal more.

They have conquered Russian so they moved over to Israel and you see the daily mess they are in.

I really think what is happening in Israel is going to happen in the US at some point.

I think this same bunch are the one's that are suppling and instructing the terrorist.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is my tin foil moment for the day~~~~~~~ LOL

This is an old article but good information I wonder if this reporter is still alive? Short list of deaths at end.

The Times (UK)
June 7, 2003
Russia's hired guns strike fear into elite
From Robin Shepherd in Moscow

JUST before 9.15am yesterday Igor Klimov called his wife from outside his central Moscow home because he had forgotten his glasses in his rush to get to work. Moments later Mrs Klimov opened the door to find her husband lying in a pool of blood. The 42-year-old head of Russia’s leading defence manufacturing companies had been shot dead by camouflaged contract killers using a silenced pistol. Two bullets in the chest made Mr Klimov the seventh prominent victim of Russia’s mafia hit squads in less than a month.

There are scores of contract killings of businessmen in Russia every year, but few ever result in convictions. The problem has become so serious that this week Russia’s nine leading businessmen’s organisations wrote to the Government demanding action.

“People taking an active position in life, whose efforts keep the nation going, are the most likely to die at the hands of hired killers,” they said in a joint letter. The group pledged funding to the state prosecutors office to help them to track down the killers.

The motive for Mr Klimov’s killing was, as ever in such cases, unclear. Since February he had been acting head of Almaz-Antei, a company that makes anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons and that was formed by the merging of more than 40 smaller companies last year. It was to have appointed a permanent chief executive officer on June 26 and Mr Klimov was a candidate. Police are also working on the theory that the attackers may have been after the kind of sensitive information that the head of an arms manufacturer, and former foreign intelligence officer, could be expected to have in his possession. Witnesses said there had been a struggle for Mr Klimov’s briefcase.

A police spokesman said: “We know that there were two men involved both in grey-and-white camouflage. One was blond-haired but balding and of medium build. The revolver with a silencer was found at the scene.”

Contract killings in Russia are now so common that experts can identify trends pinpointing the most likely time of day for an attack - the morning - and the most common location - near the victim’s home.

“In the morning your target has just woken up and is probably rushing out to work as is everybody else,” said Alexy Nicholayevich of the Russian Academy of Bodyguards.

“Secondly the home is one of those points a person will always return to. You can be sure to find him there. Sometimes they also get them in the evening when they’re returning home tired after a hard day’s work.”

Each killing strikes a blow at President Putin’s campaign to move away from the “Wild East” days of the 1990s when organised criminals fought for turf in major cities across Russia. Mr Putin’s efforts are aimed at more than simply cleaning up Russia’s image. Economists cite organised crime as a major barrier to the development of small and medium-sized businesses — the bulwark of a modern economy. If the standard practice of market competition is resolved by gunfire, they say, entrepreneurs will be reluctant to develop their businesses.

It is not merely a problem for the business community.

In April, Sergei Yushenkov, a senior figure in the opposition Liberal Russia Party, was gunned down outside his home in Moscow. Another Liberal Russia politician, Vladimir Golovlyov, was shot dead while walking his dog last August.

Killer month

May 14: Mikhail Sinelnikov, captain of St Petersburg Sea Port, shot outside his home in the city

May 25: Kostya Mogila (Kostya the Grave), head of St Petersburg Mafia, machine-gunned with two companions in his car in central Moscow

May 27: Sergei Pereverzev, furniture import boss, shot in Moscow hospital bed

May 28: Viktor Tarabanovsky, security chief at Reemtsma Russo-German tobacco factory, stabbed in the back outside his home in Volgograd

May 28: Farit Gazimov, Yukos oil terminal general director, shot outside his home in the Irkutsk region

June 3: Alfred Lerner, theatre and business centre director, shot outside his home in Moscow

June 6: Igor Trunov, head of Almaz Antey, shot outside his home in Moscow

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7214-12.cfm

[Cindy]

Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://sun.yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_18483.php

"Law enforcement faces mayhem along border"

BY PAIGE LAUREN DEINER AND JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, Sun Staff Writers
Aug 15, 2005, 8:43 pm

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Traffickers of people and drugs have become progressively more violent, said Michael Gramley, Yuma sector Border Patrol public relations officer.

And last weekend was no exception.

Yuma-area Border Patrol agents and San Luis, Ariz., police were shot at, hit with rocks and nearly rammed with a vehicle during a weekend of violence and mayhem.

An agent was injured Sunday at about 10:30 p.m. when he was struck in the back of the head with a rock. Agents were attempting to apprehend a group of 17 suspected illegal aliens near the San Luis, Ariz., sewer plant, according to the Border Patrol."

[Cindy]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612980.html
Last update - 12:57 16/08/2005

"Neveh Dekalim settlers clash with police forces"

By Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Meron Rapaport, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hundreds of security personnel entered the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neveh Dekalim on Tuesday morning, using force to allow the entry of shipping containers into the settlement for the use of evacuees. Police arrested at least 20 youths who attempted to prevent the entry of the containers.

Hundreds of youths blocked the main street of the settlement with burning tired and large garbage containers in which they had set fires.

Officers from the Yasam special patrol unit were carrying out arrests and removing the youths to a distance of some 300 meters outside the settlement's main gate."

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ON THE NET...

IDF.IL
http://www.idf.il

[Cindy]

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

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Note: The following text is an exact quote (minus the photos):

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05080059.htm

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com


Monday, August 15, 2005

EIGHT CHURCHES IN WEST JAVA CLOSED DURING WORSHIP SERVICES

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

WEST JAVA, INDONESIA (ANS) -- The Christian human rights group, Jubilee Campaign, has stated that sources in Indonesia have informed them that the campaign by a radical Islamic group to close down Christian churches in the province of West Java has escalated in recent days.

A spokesperson for the group said, “Members of the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI), an organization of Muslim clerics that receives 5 billion Rupees (nearly US$600,000) in support from the government of Indonesia, entered eight churches during worship services on Sunday, August 14, and ordered the churches closed. Sunday's incident brings to 35 the number of West Java churches shut down since the MUI issued a series of eleven fatwas, or religious rulings, at the end of July.

“Among other things, the fatwas condemned religious teachings influenced by pluralism, liberalism and secularism as ‘against Islam,’ directed Muslims to consider Islam to be the one true religion and all other faiths to be wrong, forbade marriages between Muslims and adherents of other religions and denounced Muslims who prayed with persons from other traditions. Many observers see a connection between the issuing of the fatwas and the increase in church closures.”

The spokesperson went on to say, “It is also noteworthy that both the announcement of the fatwas and the escalation in the church-closing campaign have taken place since the beginning of the trial of three Indonesian women on charges of enticing Muslim children to convert to Christianity. As we reported last month, three Christian women who ran an after-school program called ‘Cheerful Sunday’ in the Indramayu district of West Java were arrested in May and put on trial at the end of June. (Pictured: The three women face their accusers).

“Their trial, which convenes for only two hours every Thursday, has been marred by loud and boisterous protests by radical Islamic elements both outside and inside the courtroom. The protestors have coached witnesses, called for the execution of the defendants and sought to intimidate the judges, openly threatening them if they fail to bring a guilty verdict. A European observer of the court proceedings on August 11, who was herself handled roughly and doused with water by the protestors as she entered the courtroom, said that she saw no way for the women to receive a fair trial under the circumstances. (Pictured: Muslim protesters calling for the conviction of the three women).

“The court case is widely seen in the Indonesian Christian community as a test case which, if it results in a guilty verdict, will set a dangerous precedent. It is the first case to be tried under the Child Protection Act of 2003. If the three women are found guilty, any Christian working with Muslim children in any capacity anywhere in Indonesia could be liable to charges of Christianization. Others, however, see the case as a mere smokescreen to draw attention away from the real agenda of the MUI: the closing of Christian churches and the imposition of Sharia law.” (Pictured: The defendants (bottom right) make their way through the crowd into the courtroom).

Jubilee Campaign says that Sunday's church closings were the boldest step yet by the MUI. “According to Colonel Andy Krisna, a retired police officer from Jakarta, local police, accompanied by a sizeable number of Islamic militants from the Front for the Defense of Islam (FDI), an arm of the MUI, barged into eight churches in Cimahi, West Java, interrupting the worship services. In each case, they marched to the front of the church, forced the pastor to sign a letter agreeing to the closure and made the members leave the premises. The churches affected included an Anglican, a Presbyterian, an Adventist, an Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal and three other Protestant congregations. Two days earlier, the MUI closed down a Tabernacle of David Church and a Christian-run Kindergarten in Turwakarta, and the previous week they targeted eight churches in Cileunyi for closure,” said the spokesperson.

“The justification for the closures, Krisna said, was that the churches did not have permits. A 1979 joint edict from the Indonesian government established regulations for the construction of religious buildings and prohibited religious meetings outside of approved buildings. The MUI has been invoking this Combined Ministerial Edict, or SKB, in its recent drive to close churches. In a bitterly ironic twist, however, the churches have not been able to obtain permits because of the activity of the MUI.

“According to Indonesian church leaders, in order to get a building permit, churches must get the approval of their neighbors. In many cases, the Muslims in the community have no objections to the construction of a church, but when the permit requests are forwarded to the MUI, members of that organization visit the community members who signed the petition granting permission for church construction. In a Mafia-like move, MUI representatives tell the community leaders that the safety of their own homes and shops could not be guaranteed should the church building be burned down. This tactic is quite persuasive, and in most cases the community members withdraw their permission for the church to construct a building. Krisna and other observers believe that the closure of the churches is part of a broader campaign by the MUI to institute Sharia law in West Java and that the SKB is their preferred instrument for accomplishing that goal.

“The power the MUI wields in West Java, and throughout Indonesia, is enormous. They receive five billion Rupia (nearly $600,000) in annual support from the government in Jakarta, and their influence is pervasive. When former Indonesian President Gus Dur recently wrote a letter to the police of Hargeulis, Indramayu, West Java, to protest the miscarriage of justice in the case of the three women, the response came not from the police but from the local MUI.”

Jubilee Campaign says that it decries the contamination of justice in the Indramayu case and the closing of churches.

Of the court case, Jubilee Director Ann Buwalda said, "This legal precedent [in the event of a guilty verdict] will affect any religious minority and create chaos and discord nationwide for any Christian who happens to give out treats to children in a Christian neighborhood and a Muslim child happens to be among the recipients. It will erode the fabric of civility in the society, since any generosity can be construed as an 'enticement' and lead to the jailing and conviction of the Christian giver."

Buwalda further stated, "The prosecution of the three women has emboldened the Islamists. A guilty verdict threatens freedom of assembly and freedom of religion and even the act of being nice to someone of another religious faith."

She declared that the Indonesian government needs to be pressured to refuse further funding to the MUI as long as they pursue policies that restrict the human and civil rights of religious minorities.

The group has asked Christians around the world to continue to pray for the three women--Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun. They have been in prison since May 16, and the trial will run at least until the end of August. If they are convicted, they face sentences of up to three years. Furthermore, we have received reports that some of the prison guards have been sexually harassing the women, offering them better treatment in exchange for sexual favors.

Also pray for strength and fortitude for the beleaguered Christian minority in West Java, as they suffer uncertainty and fear in the face of persecution.
Click here to see a video from the trial of the three women.

For more information, e-mail the group at jubilee@jubileecampaign.org or go to their website which is www.jubileecampaign.org.
Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). Wooding is the co-host of the weekly radio show, "Window on the World" and was, for ten years a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com.
danjuma1@aol.com.

** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

[ExSoldier]

This thing about the fuel trucks. IIRC, the extent of the explosion depends entirely upon the mix and ratio of fuel to air at the moment of detonation. Too much or too little and you get a BIG fire, but no blast wave, etc. Certainly not something to cause thousands of deaths! I think if we see any of these, it's just a lead-in to the main event....

If these offal drooling mooselimbs actually succeed in the American Hiroshima it will be such an embarrassment that we allowed such a tiny faction to virtually wipe us out as world players and off the top tier of power that we should collectively hang out heads in shame. I wonder if we'll ever make it back to a status quo ante?

[all4one]

"Neveh Dekalim settlers clash with police forces"

Good Morning Cindy. I have been watching this clash this morning on a local PBS station that carries the BBC. It is such a heartbreaking moment to see the Jewish police carry off the Jewish people in Neveh Dekalim. They are young and old. It is startling to see that the police have large container trucks for their transportation of these protestors. It reminds me so much of the pictures of the train cars that Hitler used for his transportation of the Jews. Once I had that image in my mind, I actually had to change the channel. Just a gut wretching thought for these Jewish people. And just about 200 yards away were about a thousand Hamas who were "celebrating". This all just makes for a very tenuous situation. The Jewish people and the police who are removing them are in my prayers.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Your exploding trucks, are they accidents or ?

there are not as a rule that many trucks exploding, wrecks yes, one or two a day in every large city.

[all4one]

Italy Arrests 141 in Terror Swoop - Works to Deport 701 (8/15/05)

Mon Aug 15, 2005 03:14 PM ET

By Rachel Sanderson ROME (Reuters) - Italy has arrested 141 people in a security swoop following the bombings in London and Egypt last month and remains at high risk from an attack by Islamic militants, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Italy, the subject of several Internet threats from purported Islamic militant groups, said it had begun expulsion procedures against 701 people.

"The latest evaluations ... confirm an ongoing high risk of a terrorist attack on our country," the ministry said in a statement after a parliamentary meeting on the findings from a series of nation-wide raids in recent days.

Italy has not been attacked by Islamic militants on its home soil, but after bombings in July in London and the Egyptian resort of Sharm-el-Sheik most Italians fear it is only a matter of time before they are hit.

Italy, like Britain a close ally of the United States, has sent 3,000 troops to Iraq. Officials have boosted security on Italy's transport system.

Nearly 33,000 people had been questioned in recent days as part of the nation-wide investigation that involved all branches of Italy's security and police forces, the ministry said...

Link to Full Article

[nw_arizona_granny]

Dynamite found in curbing at construction site
12/08/2005

(SPRINGFIELD, Ma) - Interstate 91 was shut down for about 20 minutes
yesterday afternoon after construction workers discovered a stick of
dynamite protruding from a granite slab left under the highway at West
Columbus Avenue near State Street.

Traffic along West Columbus Avenue and northbound and southbound
lanes of I-91 came to a halt while members of the city Arson and Bomb
Squad removed the slab containing the explosive.

Squad members Lt. John Friberg and Brian Strout donned protective
suits and secured the slab onto the arm of a crane, which gently lifted
it into the bed of a Water Department dump truck. The bed was filled
with sand.

The dump truck was driven to Bondi's Island in West Springfield so the
dynamite could be detonated, said Fire Department spokesman Neil
Hawley.

The highway and West Columbus Avenue were reopened at 4 p.m.

The dynamite apparently was brought to Springfield inside the slab
from a quarry in Georgia, Hawley said.

It could not be determined if a blasting cap, which could trigger an
explosion, was attached, he said. All the bomb squad could see was a
piece of dynamite and some wires sticking out of the slab.

It was also not clear how long the slab had been piled under the
highway.

Police were called to the scene shortly after 2 p.m. The bomb squad
arrived about 20 minutes later.

The granite slab with the dynamite was lying in a pile with other slabs
just under the highway overpass at West Columbus Avenue and State
Street, near the entrance to Riverfront Park.

It was discovered by city Water Department workers who parked their
truck next to the pile.

Water Department employee Joseph Connor said he noticed the wires
sticking out from a hole in the slab and went to take a closer look.

Connor, who said he used to drill holes for dynamite demolition at a
previous job, said he recognized it as a single stick with a blasting cap
attached.

"It must have come from the quarry like that," he said. "If they cut it
with a saw or hit the cap, it could explode."

Connor said he tried to warn a fork truck driver who was about to start
moving slabs from the pile, but the driver did not believe him.

After that he ran to find a supervisor, who took him seriously, he said.

"If he hit it (with the fork truck) and it exploded, we'd be dead," he
said.

By PATRICK JOHNSON
pjohnson@repub.com

http://www.aggregateresearch.com/article.asp?id=6934

[nw_arizona_granny]

OBL in one of his old photo's had remote control trucks on each side of
him.<<<

I can see them being used, a little anthrax powder would not be that heavy, 5 miles would give you plenty of room to escape and think of all the people in a 5 mile area of a city.

What are you doing up so late?

LOL,

Hugs,
Ma

[nw_arizona_granny]

But.....they say Russia is so peaceful and modern.

That is a lot of killing, even for today.

Thanks for posting it.

[nw_arizona_granny]

5 am ABC radio news, airliner down near Venezuela, or a Vene. Airline, flight from Panama to Martinitque (sp?).

152 on board, have not found wreckage, they are searching.

[nw_arizona_granny]

The Venezuela crash thread, the first 40 or so posts have a lot of info on the Greece crash, 20 bodies not frozen, Pilot and a passenger still not found, no recording in the voice box.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464210/posts

[nw_arizona_granny]

Good morning.

Italy is on the ball, they do not intend to be caught asleep.

Hope they are not sending the exiles here.

[Velveeta]

Oh my.

[WestCoastGal]

They will probably just deport them now. (the new way of doing away with a problem without dealing with it, thank you Britain) like the Lodi Imam and his bunch.

Free to plan terror from a different longitide and latitude.

Pretty soon there will be so many deported terrorists in Pakistan we will have to go in there like Iraq to finally take care of the problem.

[Velveeta]

No, I didn't set a google alert. :-)

Looks now as if more than just 6 were alive, breathing, with hearts beating at the time of impact.

One commentator on the news yesterday had a good point:

If the plane had been frozen, the F-16 pilots could not have seen into the windows, since the windows would have been frosted over.

[Founding Father]

FP: Why wouldn’t the Bush administration secure our borders? What are the advantages of leaving them unsecured? Is it too politically incorrect to secure them?

Farah: I've asked this question myself over and over. It is the most frequently asked question I hear from my radio audience and from the thousands of emails I receive from readers. President Bush candidly said it was a matter of cheap labor a few months ago. I believe that is dead wrong. I don't believe there is anything cheap about this labor. It is bankrupting our health-care system. It is taking jobs away from law-abiding American citizens. It is raising crime rates and it is threatening our national security.

No, I believe there is another more sinister reason. There is a master plan for global governance being plotted in meetings of groups like the Council on Foreign Relations. You can read its reports. And, I believe this open-borders policy is a direct result of those plans, which have been secretly adopted by our highest leaders, including President Bush.

From the Front Page article

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18986

For the CFR report referred to, go here

http://www.cfr.org/pdf/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf

[Velveeta]

Yep, frightening times we're living in, Mamadearest.

[Velveeta]

U.S., others hold anti-terrorist nuclear exercise
The United States and a dozen other nations launched maritime exercises Monday aimed at stopping weapons of mass destruction shipments.
http://www.pei.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/08/15/nuclear_anti-terrorist_exercise20050815.html

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Yikes. Interesting timing.