Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Nine

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

the closer we are to being "outta here."
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I know I am excited!

[Lucy Lake]

Reports: Attempt made to save Cypriot jet
(Excerpted)

"There have been several apparently conflicting reports and a number of statements that just don't add up,
--
"..quoting anonymous defense ministry officials, have said the F-16 pilots also saw someone in the cockpit - probably a man - take control of the plane as it flew in a gradually descending holding pattern,

"That person then banked the plane away from Athens...For those maneuvers to happen, someone who knew how to work the airplane had to have been in control..."

"Obviously, he didn't want to contact the tower," he said. "It's happened before."

"On Oct. 31, 1999, the pilot of an EgyptAir flight from New York to Cairo apparently directed the plane into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, a crash that killed 217 people.

"Many aviation experts believe a suicidal pilot also caused the Dec. 19, 1997 crash of a Singapore SilkAir Boeing 737-300 near the Indonesian city of Palembang, killing all 104 aboard. The Indonesian government concluded they didn't know what caused the crash."

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/world/12408291.htm

[MamaDearest]

but I know he didn't try to set any dates

Setting dates only helps the evil-doers believe they are making us antsy and on edge. As Cindy says over and over, they'll do it when they have the best opportunity.*

Not setting dates in the book makes a more believeable and thought provoking book.

*New moons, Full moons, Crescent moons nothwithstanding

[MamaDearest]

the fact that the home of the Prophet is to make way for a parking lot,

I suppose they'll blame the American songwriter: "they paved paradise and put in a parking lot...."

[Revel]

"While driving into work this morning, the Emergency Alert System tones started sounding on the radio without any prior messages that this was a test. Was expecting to hear of a destroyed city or two (or 3 or 4), but there was no announcement and a song started playing as if nothing had happened. I guess it was a mistake."


That is standard practice where I live. There are never any messages stating "This is a test" anymore". Of course the radio station DJ's seem to have no idea these tests are even happening because they will be talking as if nothing happened after the test is over. You will catch them in mid sentence. In these days someone in the government can push one button and be talking over every radio station in the US. Or least that would be my guess. Radio stations have no control over this anymore.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465688/posts

"Saudi forces clash with gunmen in Riyadh-Arabiya TV"
Reuters | August 18, 2005

Posted on 08/17/2005 11:47:48 PM PDT by HAL9000

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2005/20050817_2464.html


Joint Chiefs Chairman Says Expectations Not Lowered in Iraq

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2005 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today dismissed rhetoric that the United States has lowered its expectations in Iraq.
Speaking with Matt Lauer in Baghdad, Iraq, on NBC's "Today" program, Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers blamed the rhetoric on people hoping to expose a rift between military leaders in Iraq and officials in Washington.

Emphasizing that plans in Iraq are "on track," the United States' top military officer said those who say otherwise are "are trying to find some divide between the military leadership over here and the folks back in Washington and so forth."

"I can guarantee you there is none," Myers said.

The chairman acknowledged that not every initial expectation came to pass in Iraq. "Before all this started, we had academic experts from all over the world explain to us what we were going to find after major combat," he said. "Sometimes they were right (and) we found what they said. And other times we didn't find what they predicted."

He attributed that to the nature of the conflict. "This is a different kind of war," he said, "and it's the nature (of it) that this enemy keeps adapting."

Still, the general said, progress has gone forward in Iraq by every measure. "In every sphere, whether it's security, whether it's economic progress or political progress, you know, we're pretty much proceeding along the plan to an end state where you have a self-reliant Iraq that has a constitution, that has an election under that constitution," he said.

The progress shows that despite continued violence, terrorists have been unable to stop the march toward achieving the goals of a new Iraq, Myers said, nor will they succeed in doing so.

"Nobody's taken us off that path," he said. "The insurgency that we fight day in and day out, as challenging as it is, can't sway us off that path. They cannot be victorious."

Myers said the American troops in Iraq are a big part of the reason he's optimistic about success. They know their mission and they want to accomplish it, he said, in part because of the Iraqi people they've come to know.

"They didn't know them before they came," he said. "Now they know them, and they understand that people all around the world have the same aspirations. They want a better life for their children and their grandchildren. They're going to try to help make that happen."

Myers also noted that Iraqis continue to step up for their country. "I think, as you talk to Iraqis, you see their courage in stepping forward," he said. "Whether it's the political sphere or in the security sphere, they step forward and they're wanting to put their lives on the line for this new Iraq."

Again, the chairman disputed any notion that expectations have been lowered. "I was in Crawford (Texas) last week with the president, with the secretary of defense, with the secretary of state," he said. "We all know where we're going. I know what they expect of the United States military, and we're executing those plans, and there's not lowered expectations.

"There are very high expectations" that progress will continue through a constitutional referendum and national elections, Myers said. He said he also expects "that the Iraqi people will have a chance for hope and freedom that they haven't had for decades."


Biography:
Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS" (View Posters. Read More...)

FBI.gov - War On Terrorism: "SEEKING INFORMATION" (View Posters. Read More...)

[Cindy]

http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=555014

"Gang Vigilance Stressed as Kids Head Back-to-School"
Updated: Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005 - 8:31 PM

By Kate Ryan
WTOP Radio

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=ms13

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http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3734977&nav=BsmgdS0L

"Border Patrol keeps eye out for MS-13"

Border Patrol keeps eye out for MS-13 - Part II
Border Patrol keeps eye out for MS-13
Border Issues more>>


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CORPUS CHRISTI - They're known as Mara Salvatrucha the MS-13 gang. They started in Honduras, but now they're here in Texas and becoming more violent. 6 News spent the day with U.S. Border Patrol in Falfurrias and with a look at the crackdown on the MS-13.

This is one of the most violent, most vicious street gangs in America today. They're in 33 states, but you know how a lot of them get to this country, from Mexico through South Texas.

AEveryday, the Border Patrol is on the lookout for these gang members. They're identified by their tattoos and so far, the increased crackdown on these thugs here is working. In the McAllen sector, Border Patrol agents have captured 42 of these thugs this year alone.

"They do have a history of using the South Texas area as a corridor to travel to large interior cities in the U.S.," said U.S. Border Patrol officer Roy Cervantes. In February, the national leader of the group was arrested in Falfurrias, identified by all those tattoos."

[nw_arizona_granny]

Well, it does make the September 19th date stand out.

If OBL was going to Iraq, we would not know of it a month, or more before he arrived.

My guess, is that this was released, to help with recruitment of the jihadis.

If you are dumb enough to wear a bomb and blow yourself up, then you would be dumb enough to think that death at the side of OBL is even greater glory.

the other choice, is that it has nothing to do with Iraq, but indeed has an entirely different location.

Where is the opposite point of Iraq???

Looks like Los Angeles and Tennessee to my funny eyes, I cannot see my globe well enough to tell which country is on the opposite side of it, so looked at the wall map.

As for the date, that too will be the opposite.

9-11-05 is 16 or 25, 9-11-2005 is 18 or 27, still in the later part of the month.

Would it be that the other areas are to be hit first, (the time lag) and that Iraq is to be really hit in the second
half?

Iraq, after the other hits have been done, thinking that we
will loose heart and be too weak?

I am sure that they do not know what happens if they make the "south" so mad that they rise up and rebell 1862 style,
a civil war would be good, would clean the air and maybe get rid of some of the hate-America creeps.

Ok, I played with it and will go with my first thought, it is a recruitment drive.

Denver KOA radio said that the rally to support Cindy in
Texas, was paid for my Move-On.org, at least they admitted it, which surprised me to hear.

[nw_arizona_granny]

What makes this demolition worse is the fact that the home of the
Prophet is to make way for a parking lot, <<<<<<

Ohhhh, goody, they also have the Emminent Domain Law,
how very modern of them.

Democracy at work.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17093_A_Bomb_Grows_in_Brooklyn
Wednesday, august 17, 2005

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1465686/posts

"An Open Letter to FR from Iraq"
91b ^ | August 18, 2005 | 91b

Posted on 08/17/2005 11:39:47 PM PDT by 91B

[nw_arizona_granny]

Did they ever find the pilots body?

This has several interesting Egypt Air crash articles, I have read them before.

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=crash%20of%20Egypt%20Airliner%20flight%20990

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=1997%20crash%20of%20a%20Singapore%20SilkAir%20Boeing%20737-300%20near%20the%20Indonesian

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for the MS-13 links and info........

Not a lot different than the al Qaeda gang.

[Cindy]

You're welcome.

As I've always said, "Jihadis are just (media) glorified gang bangers."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124245484874
Aug. 18, 2005 3:04  | Updated Aug. 18, 2005 10:25
"Forces forcibly evacuate Midreshet Kfar Darom"
By MATTHEW GUTMAN, YAAKOV KATZ AND JERUSALEM POST STAFF

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

Russian Propaganda and a Discussion of Nerves (My Title):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1465711/posts

[Cindy]

UPDATE...

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05080069.htm
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
"HELP STILL NEEDED FOR VICTIMS OF BESLAN SCHOOL HOSTAGE CRISIS"
By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service