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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]

That is very interesting~?~

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Piper, am sending warm thoughts.

Miss you hurry back.

Big Hugs
j

[nw_arizona_granny]

rom: ProMED Source: AP via Newsday [edited] -------------------------------------------------------------- The number of [cases of] reported gastrointestinal illnesses possibly spread by a state-run waterpark has now grown to nearly 2000, according to the State Health Department on Friday. Health officials reported 1738 cases across 20 counties in western and central New York, up from 746 reported illnesses Thursday. Seneca Lake Park's popular Sprayground has been closed for the remainder of the summer as a result. ------------------------------------------------------------- So far, 13 cases in 4 different counties have been confirmed as cryptosporidiosis, a common waterborne disease. That's an increase from 5 confirmed cases Thursday. Crypto, as it is known, is very contagious and can cause symptoms including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and fever that can last for weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------- The Health Department initially shut down the Sprayground temporarily Tuesday after receiving more than 100 reported cases of illness dating back to early July 2005. Once the public was notified of the outbreak, the number of reported illnesses then jumped to more than 700 overnight. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tests conducted by the Health Department have found the presence of cryptosporidium in 2 storage tanks that supply water for the spray park, officials said Friday. Additional water samples from the Seneca Lake State Park beach showed no health concerns with the water quality, and the beach remains open. ------------------------------------------------------------- To prevent the further spread of illness, the Health Department advises the thorough washing of hands after using the toilet, changing diapers or coming in contact with fecal matter in any way. Swimmers should also avoid swallowing water, especially in ponds, lakes and rivers, officials said. Additionally, people experiencing gastrointestinal disease and who work in food services, or with children or the sick should stay home from work until they have recovered. Sick children should be kept home from daycare. The disease usually goes away without treatment in healthy individuals. [Byline: By Jessica M. Pasko, AP]

[nw_arizona_granny]

Note~~~~~~~~~THE NEW MADRID FAULT SYSTEM EXTENDS 120
MILES SOUTHWARD from the area of Charleston, Missouri, and Cairo,
Illinois, through New Madrid and Caruthersville, following Interstate
55 to Blytheville and on down to Marked Tree, Arkansas. It crosses
five state lines and cuts across the Mississippi River in three places
and the Ohio River in two places.<<<<<<<<

I have to ask:

Is the clintooon liebary in danger?

LOL

Anything is possible, they are all talking like mad men,
reminds me of a bunch of drunks, wanting to start a fight on a boring saturday night.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Note: the last line......granny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ate: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:00:19 -0400 (EDT) From: ProMED Source: Reuters AlertNet, 20 Aug 2005 [edited] -------------------------------------------------------------- India's encephalitis death toll rises to 110 ------------------------------------------ The death toll in an encephalitis outbreak in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh rose to 110 on Saturday with 20 more deaths reported in the past 36 hours, a health official said. ------------------------------------------------------------ Most of the dead were children and more than 170 people were in hospital, many of them in critical condition. ------------------------------------------------------------ "Encephalitis is a perennial problem during the rainy season, but the situation appears to be quite alarming this time," said K.P. Kushwaha, a health official in Gorakhpur town, worst hit by the outbreak. ------------------------------------------------------------ Encephalitis, an acute form of brain fever, is caused by a virus spread by mosquitoes and proliferates in water-logged parts of India during the monsoon season. Last year, about 50 people died of the disease in Uttar Pradesh. India has suffered serious flooding during this year's monsoon season, which runs from June to September. ------------------------------------------------------------ In Mumbai (also known as Bombay) and adjacent areas, 210 people have died of diseases such as leptospirosis, gastroenteritis and malaria after the worst floods in history hit the region 3 weeks ago. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- ProMED-mail [The authorities have not yet identified the etiology of the current outbreak of encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh State. The term 'Japanese encephalitis' is used tentatively, only until the true cause is identified. Obviously, the extraordinarily high death tolls indicate that encephalitis this monsoon season seems to be unusually severe. The fact that there have been 64 new deaths in the 3 days since the previous report dated 17 Aug 2005 (see also: 20050818.2421) is alarming indeed. Again, ProMED-mail would greatly appreciate any further information concerning the so-called perennial problem referred to in the Reuters report. - Mod.RY]

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Thanks and Welcome home!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Is the clintooon liebary in danger?

LOL

RITFLOL I don't know but in the madness we could make a road trip. ONLY JOKEING!

[MamaDearest]

Dr Yaqub Zaki, 60, the deputy leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain (MPGB), said that he would be “happy” if bombers were to target Downing Street.

The MPGB promotes itself as the moderate voice of Britain’s Islamic community.

Moderate, hmmmmm, good thing he's not a rabid fanatic! Kinda makes you wonder what the "low" voice Islamics really have on their mind. This guy just upped the distrust level of ME/Islamic types into the stratosphere.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Islamic clerics debate jihad and terrorism

Aug. 21, 2005 at 7:35AM

United Press International

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20050821-071400-3411r.htm

Islamic scholars Sunday began a two-day conference in the Egyptian Red
Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik to discuss the difference between jihad
and terrorism.
Sheikh Mohammad Tantawi, the head of the Cairo-based al-Azhar,
the world's highest Sunni religious authority, told clerics at the
opening of the meeting the difference between jihad and terrorism "is like
the difference between the earth and the sky."
He said that jihad (struggle) "is defending religion, while
terrorism is aggression and sedition...It is treason of which Islam is
innocent."
The conference was convened in Sharm el-Sheik to challenge a
series of bomb blasts in the resort city last July that killed nearly 90
people and injured more than 100 others.
Egypt's Islamic Affairs minister, Mahmoud Zakzouk complained that
some Muslims were seeking to "destroy the Islamic entity" by resorting
to violence.
He said the suicide bombers were "not martyrs but they are
committing crimes against themselves, against God, against others and
humanity."
Zakzouk described legitimate jihad as a "defensive war against
aggression and it can take place through finance, education and ideas,
not necessarily through fighting, because Islam did not come to declare
war on the world."

[MamaDearest]

'Steve, we're going to need another 9-11.'"

It's not only the FBI with that mentality...unfortunately for us!

[bored at work]

reported gastrointestinal illnesses possibly spread by a state-run waterpark has now grown to nearly 2000

thats alot of "trots" . . . poor peeps

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Hamas Vows to Destroy all Of Israel
arutz ^ | 08/21/05 | a7


Posted on 08/21/2005 2:37:08 PM EDT by ElisabethInCincy


I saw this and almost passed it by because its such old news...... At The bottom of the article is posters hamas is hanging around gaza.... They really popped out to me as a christian ..... Pay close attention to them......

Well as we know what psalm 83 says.. Here is a great article........ http://www.harpazo.net/Psalm83.html

Could someone so kind post the posters on here from arutz......

Is this psalm 83 coming alive before our very eyes ?

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467774/posts

[MamaDearest]

Why not? We trained them in our Colleges, how to be the best.

We're still training them in our colleges....

Islamic radicals on campus

[MamaDearest]

Pakistan soldier hanged for coup attempt

Sarin attack by AQ on British Parliament thwarted

Canadian workers face hi-tech screening

[jerseygirl]

No- he received this permission from a young Egyptian cleric several years ago.

[jerseygirl]

Travelling around the net, I had come across eom referencing something about we will see 3 stars in the sky the night before the "big hit".

I keep looking at that map of the torn USA with cities missing and find...3 stars

Also there is of course reference to "anniversary" and we will see the light of (1000's?) of suns.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Note: This communist plan is a terrorist attack on America, I find it to read the same as the jihadii muslim attacks do.
granny
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Another insult to America's heritage at Freedom Center

How International Freedom Center
risks fostering anti-U.S. sentiment

New York Daily News Exclusive

August 21, 2005

By DOUGLAS FEIDEN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/339258p-289735c.html

A global network of human rights museums is urging the International
Freedom Center to downplay America in its exhibits and programs at Ground
Zero, the Daily News has learned.

The outrageous request is the latest controversy to torment the Freedom
Center, whose leaders have tried to dispel the perception that it would
be a home for America bashers.

"Don't feature America first," the IFC has been advised by the
consortium of 14 "museums of conscience" that quietly has been consulting with
the Freedom Center for the past two years over plans for the hallowed
site. "Think internationally, where America is one of the many nations
of the world."

Those words rang hollow with some 9/11 family members.

"I can't think of a greater insult than to invite museums from other
countries of the world to come and exploit what should be America's
memorial," said Jack Lynch, who helped carry the body of his firefighter son
Michael, 30, out of the rubble.

"If you're going to explore slavery, the Holocaust or women's rights,
you should do it at Chelsea Piers or on the East River waterfront -
anywhere but Ground Zero," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles,
51, was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

"After all, it was not slavery that caused the terrorists to attack
us," said Burlingame, who has led the fight to bar the IFC.

Under fire from 9/11 family members and Gov. Pataki, the IFC on July 6
pronounced itself proudly patriotic, vowed never to "blame America" and
said it would celebrate the nation's "leading role in the global fight
for freedom."

In April, however, the Freedom Center said on its Web site and
newsletter that it had "drawn inspiration" and received "important practical
advice" from the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of
Conscience.

"We have many, many advisers who have given us lots of advice," Richard
Tofel, Freedom Center president, said last week. "Some of it we've
taken and some of it we haven't - that's the nature of advice."

He said the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and the
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington had most inspired the IFC's vision,
and that the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Illinois was
also offering extensive advice.

The firefighters union already has demanded the Freedom Center be
booted from Ground Zero, and state officials have given it until Sept. 23 to
satisfy the objections of family members.

Located in nine countries on five continents, the coalition museums
chronicle apartheid in South Africa, slavery in Senegal, torture in
Argentina, racism in the South and internment of Japanese-Americans in
California, along with other historical horrors.

"No one in the civilized world would ever defend what happened on
9/11," said Sarwar Ali, the coalition's chairman and a trustee of the
Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh.

"But what happened after 9/11 - with restrictions placed on human
rights and the cycle of revenge and the allegations of human rights abuses
in prisons - must also be explored," Ali said in a call from London.

Coalition members gathered for their annual conference at a Holocaust
site in the Czech Republic in July 2004 - and assailed the United States
for "reasserting its power in an arrogant way," the conference report
shows.

Among its suggestions for the place where the United States was
attacked and nearly 3,000 innocents massacred: "The Freedom Center must signal
its openness to contrary ideas."

Philip Kunhardt, the Freedom Center's editorial director, was in
attendance at a session called Bringing Conscience to Ground Zero and was
given this advice:

-- "Help distinguish between American people and the U.S. government in
exhibits ..."

-- "Use reports from human rights organizations to examine contemporary
abuse of rights."

-- "Involve the United Nations, UNESCO and other international bodies."

-- "Use the museum as a venue for international meetings, where all
views are welcomed and considered."

At the conference, the coalition also leveled barbs at the IFC: "The
Freedom Center is a caricature of the typical American response to
everything [telling every story from an American viewpoint]."

Members of the coalition also expressed these concerns:

-- "It seems that whatever Americans want, Americans get!" the
conference report states. "Is the definition of the 'struggle for freedom'
simply defined by the victors, or also by those engaged in ongoing
struggles? Will Americans really create a balanced vision of freedom?"

-- "The WTC was attacked because it was a symbol of power and
influence. In building the Freedom Tower, the U.S. reasserts its power in an
arrogant way: Does this mean the U.S. will not only build the biggest
building, but also define freedom for the world?"

-- "Many nonsecular Muslims may be very skeptical about the intent of
this museum (e.g. the average Bangladeshi condemns the Sept. 11 attacks,
yet at the same time feels his/her human rights have been violated by
the U.S.)."

Kunhardt, an ordained Episcopal minister and the writer of the PBS
series "Freedom: A History of Us," mostly listened. He agreed with some
things that were said, disagreeing with others, an observer said. He
didn't return calls.

Tofel said preliminary plans call for an exchange of exhibits with some
coalition museums.

"It is hoped and expected that temporary exhibits at the IFC will
originate at, or travel to, some of the Historic Site Museums of Conscience
- and perhaps vice versa," he said in an E-mail.

Originally published on August 21, 2005

[jerseygirl]

Sadly, it seems to me that they are looking at how we will handle the aftermath of the nuke dets rather than preventing their occurrance. I had read somewhere that there were too many nukes- 35-40 and not enough time to locate them all.

So I am wondering if the decision has been made to focus on response.

I also wonder who we might be threatening in case nukes do go off in CONUS....

Also read AQ won't target nuke plants as they will function as some kind of "force multiplier" for the nukes already exploded? Wasn't sure what that meant.


Looking at the map- and from where we live we can see NYC skyline- it appears to me that New Hampshire or Vermont might be the safest states we could get to from this area....

[MamaDearest]

Detroit area boy builds nuclear reactor in his backyard

Roots of terrorism in Saudi Arabia

West casts wider net vs. terror

[FairOpinion]

Man Finds Smallpox Vaccine At Yard Sale

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467789/posts

When he shook the package, which bore a label from Connaught Laboratories in Willowdale, Ontario, and an expiration date of 1973, it was evident that something was inside, he said.

"Usually something like this is under tight control, and I think it's very unusual that it popped up in a box of tarps," Knickle said.

Northern Health Authority officials retrieved the still-sealed vial.