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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-One

Posted on 10/01/2005 8:27:27 AM PDT by nwctwx

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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!
Threat Matrix - Daily Terrorism Threat
Threat Matrix: U.S. Terrorism
Home grown Islamists may hit US: FBI chief
Full Story

WASHINGTON -- The United States could be attacked by "home grown" Islamist terror groups, the FBI's chief has warned.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the London Financial Times newspaper in an interview published Thursday that the United States could face attacks from "home-grown terrorism" very similar to the July 7 bombings in London that killed 52 people and wounded another 700, Mueller said.

When asked if the United States could face such attacks from "home-grown groups", Mueller answered emphatically: "Absolutely, it could," the Financial Times said.

Related:
U.S. Officials Warn on Global Reach of al-Qaida
U.S. seeks more cooperation to fight terrorism
FDNY Chaplain Resigns After 9/11 Remarks
Nuclear option escalates jihad threat

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

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2005/10/17/4156.shtml
http://www.kavkazcenter.com

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008571print.html

October 17, 2005

Chechen jihad leader Shamil Basayev claims Nalchik attack

Jihad leader Shamil Basayev, who has made it clear that he is fighting for his "Faith," has announced that 217 warriors of jihad are responsible for the assault in Nalchik last Thursday: "Shamil Basayev: 'Nalchik attacked by 217 Mujahideen,'" from the jihadist Kavkaz Center site, with thanks to Zalbion:


Bismillahi-Rahmani-Rahim! (In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful!)
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, Who made us Muslims and blessed us with Jihad on His Straight Path!

Peace and blessings to Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him), His Family, his disciples and all of those who follow him till the Judgement Day!

And then:

Almighty Allah (SWT) in the Holy Koran says: "Among the Believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah: of them some have died, and some (still) wait: but they have never changed (their determination) in the least." (The Allies, 23)

Alhamdulillah (Praise to God), by the mercy of Allah, Mujahideen of Kabardino-Balkarian sector of the Caucasian Front have carried out large-scale assault operation against the Russian invaders and their henchmen in the city of Nalchik on 13 October, 2005.

217 Mujahideen participated in the assault operation, who at 9:14 a.m. simultaneously stormed 15 military objects of all power structures of KB in territory of city...

During the assault operation more 300 (about 140 killed and more than 160 wounded) kafirs [unbelievers] and minafiqs [hypocrites] were eliminated and wounded, mainly newly arrived Special Forces members. Three halicopters and a few units of military hardware were destroyed, war booty captured.

Exactly after 2 hours at 11:15 a.m. the main units of Mujahideen left the city.

Our casulties – 41 Shaheeds [marytrs], insha Allah [Allah willing].

He concludes these holy musings with "Victory or Paradise!"

Posted at October 17, 2005 06:53 AM


3,141 posted on 10/17/2005 2:30:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: WestCoastGal
the drug manufacturers are only in business to make BIG bucks.

SNIP:Only the U.S. and New Zealand allow advertising of drugs directed at patients. U.S. pharmaceutical companies spent $2.5 billion US in advertising prescription drug products to the public in 2000, says Mintzes. Although this amount is less than 20 per cent of the total advertising budget, it is the fastest-growing budget item, she adds. Retail drug sales in 2000 totalled $145 billion US.

Islamic Thrust for Global Supremacy - Just Say No!

Why then, do we not see stories as such on CNN, ABC, CBS, Nightline, Good Morning America, and the rest? Is it due to lawsuits from people like CAIR who seemingly sue at the drop of a hat? Or is it due to people not wanting to disturb potentially a billion angry Mohammedans who have no problem with wholesale slaughter of anyone outside their religion?

Shell will make billions-dollar investment in Iran's oil industry

He reiterated, ?The Shell will inject billions of dollars into Iran?s industry if the country pays more heed to investment.

US prepares plan to ration flu drug

Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told NPR that the Bush administration is working on a plan to ration Tamiflu, a scarce drug that's currently the only medical weapon against a pandemic flu virus. If a global outbreak occurred anytime soon, the nation's limited supplies of the drug would go first to medical personnel, said Leavitt.

Health minister says Canada prepared for bird flu

Canada has stockpiled enough vaccine to contain an outbreak if the deadly bird flu becomes transmittable from human to human, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said.

Social cleansing of gang members in Guatamala?

...groups of unidentified gunmen arriving in poor neighborhoods and pulling gang members or suspected criminals out of their homes or off the street. Some were never seen again, while the bodies of others turned up wrapped in blankets or sheets of plastic. Most victims have been criminals or members of gangs whose ranks have swollen as the United States increasingly deports Central American immigrants suspected of gang activity.

Old article re biological weapons

A series of field tests took place under the auspices of the Biological Laboratories from 1943 to the mid-1960s:

In one such test, travelers at Washington National Airport were subjected to a harmless bacterium. Traps were placed throughout the facility to capture the bacterium as it flowed in the air. Laboratory personnel, dressed as travelers carrying brief cases, walked the corridors and without detection sprayed the bacterium into the atmosphere.

In the New York Subway, a light bulb filled with the same harmless bacterium was dropped on the tracks. The organism spread throughout the system within 20 minutes. Traps and monitoring devices showed the amount of organism—if it were one of the predictable, dangerous organisms, could have killed thousands of persons. No one was injured or became ill as a result of the test.

In San Francisco, a U.S. Navy ship, equipped with spray devices operated by Fort Detrick personnel, sprayed serratia marcescens, a non-pathogenic microorganism that is easily detected, while the ship plied the San Francisco Bay. It spread more than 30 miles to monitoring stations.

A jet aircraft equipped with spray devices, flew a course near Victoria, Texas, and the harmless particles were monitored in the Florida Keys.

3,142 posted on 10/17/2005 2:33:30 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: jer33 3
Oops...spelling...haven't had my coffee yet.

Are you sure about that?

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

3,143 posted on 10/17/2005 2:50:31 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest
"A jet aircraft equipped with spray devices, flew a course near Victoria, Texas, and the harmless particles were monitored in the Florida Keys."

No matter when that was printed it scares the heck out of me!!


I somehow doubt Canada's claims to have enough vaccine stockpiled for everyone. BTW, there is no vaccine for bird flu and they have already found a resistant strain to Tamiflu. I wonder if Dr's would prescribe Tamiflu to someone who just wanted to have it on hand?

3,144 posted on 10/17/2005 2:53:06 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (I'm not gonna send our cowboy back out there to get hurt. We need him healthy for the next rodeos.)
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To: All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504149/posts


Iraq Al-Qaeda shows execution despite 'Zawahiri
letter'
AFP ^ | October 17 2005

Posted on 10/17/2005 2:24:08 PM PDT by jmc1969

DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Iraq released a video purporting to show
the execution of an Iraqi who worked for US forces, days after
Washington said the group had been told such killings cost the
movement support.

The video was released by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group after US
authorities said they had seized a letter from Al-Qaeda's overall
number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, telling him his campaign of
executions and attacks on Muslims was damaging popular, mainly
Sunni Arab, support for the insurgency.

The undated film, whose authenticity could not be verified, was titled
"Application of Divine Judgement on a Contractor Working for the
Crusaders," in reference to US-led forces in Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


3,145 posted on 10/17/2005 2:54:23 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You say that you have prayed about your problem! Now, shut up and listen to God's answer.)
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To: nw_arizona_granny; Cindy; LucyT; ExSoldier; all4one; Velveeta; Oorang; Calpernia; ...
Christian Ministries in Russia Concerned by Militant Attacks

Monday, Oct. 17, 2005

Christian ministries are concerned that violence will impact their work after militants struck the city of Nalchik, Russia on Thursday

Sergey Rakhuba, the Vice President of Russian Ministries, reported that the local missionary at the ministry center near Nalchik fled immediately after the attack.

"Our children's ministry director for the entire area, Marina, had to flee with her family when the shooting started and she's not back home yet," Rakhuba told Mission Network News (MNN).

As a result, he said, a training seminar for all ministry workers in the region scheduled for the next two weeks was forced to reschedule as well as relocate.

Russian Ministries workers in Nalichik were quick to react to the emergency.

"We know that the city, the entire area is shut down, nothing is functioning,” they reported to Rakhuba, according to MNN. “The main communication places are destroyed, like the telephone tower was destroyed. It's a war."

Russian Ministries also told Open Doors, that the children's ministry director Marina Kudashev and her family were safely evacuated before the Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a citywide lock-down. Meanwhile, they are safe and waiting for word to return home.

The violence in Nalchik erupted early Thursday morning when gunman staged simultaneous attacks against three police stations, the city's airport and the regional headquarters of the Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Latest report from AP revealed that gunfire and explosions in the city have left at least 85 people dead. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the attack.

The devastated city of Nalchik is the capital of the mostly Muslim republic of Kabardino-Balkariya in Russia's volatile Caucasus region. According to AP, Chechen rebels' struggle against Russia has increasingly mixed with the Islamic extremism in the past decade, threatening the entire Caucasus region.

The attacks on Thursday are believed to be an attempt to stir up tensions among a variety of ethnic groups in the Caucasus region as well as native Muslims and the ethnic Russians, who are Christian, AP reported.

The bloodbath in Nalchik was in fact just 75 miles away from the town of Beslan, where Chechen militants attacked a school in September 2004, resulting in the deaths of 331 people, half of them children.

Despite violence, Russian Ministries urges all people to support Russian believers in prayers. It requests to pray for protection on all churches in that unstable region; to pray that training seminars and ministry outreach will continue to move forward and that Christians will be a voice of hope and peace in midst of terror and unrest.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/missions/1814/section/christian.ministries.in.russia.concerned.by.militant.attacks/1.htm
3,146 posted on 10/17/2005 2:54:56 PM PDT by jer33 3
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To: jer33 3

Thanks Jer33 3.


3,147 posted on 10/17/2005 3:03:18 PM PDT by Cindy
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...placemark...


3,148 posted on 10/17/2005 3:03:39 PM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Get Prepared. Stay Prepared. See my FR Homepage for a list of actions and supplies.)
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To: Deetes; NautiNurse; Judith Anne; All

Thanks to Deetes for pointing to this thread.
NOTE: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504152/posts


(Bubonic) Plague found in prairie dog colonies near C-470 in Jeffco (Colorado)
Denver Post ^

Posted on 10/17/2005 2:30:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Jefferson County health officials have confirmed an outbreak of bubonic plague among prairie dog colonies at C-470 and West Quincy Avenue in the Green Mountain area.

There were no reports of human cases in the area, but precautions were advised.

Pet owners also were advised to avoid contact with any species of wild rodents, especially those appearing sick or dead.

The best way to prevent plague is to control the presence of rodents and fleas in and around the home, health officials said.

Dogs and cats should be confined so they cannot prey on infected rodents.

If precautions are taken, the probability of contracting plague is extremely low, health officials said. Jefferson County Environmental Health officials will continue to monitor the situation.

For further information, contact the department at 303-271-5755 or visit www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/info.htm.


3,149 posted on 10/17/2005 3:13:11 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks, Mama. I've given up ice cream, bread except on occasion, refined sugar, and sodas...but I'm still clinging to my coffee. (sigh) And unfortunately, I really enjoy my coffee. You've given me 1,000 reasons to reconsider. Isn't decaf supposed to have even more chemicals?


3,150 posted on 10/17/2005 3:13:41 PM PDT by jer33 3
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To: WestCoastGal
No matter when that was printed it scares the heck out of me!!

I know just what you mean (and this is our own government): witness:

Cities were unwittingly used as laboratories to test aerosolization and dispersal methods; Aspergillus fumigatus, B. subtilis var. globigii, and Serratia marcescens were used as simulants and released during experiments in New York City, San Francisco, and other sites. Concerns regarding potential public health hazards of simulant studies were raised after an outbreak of nosocomial S. marcescens (formerly Chromobacterium prodigiosum) urinary tract infections at Stanford University Hospital between September 1950 and February 1951, following covert experiments using S. marcescens as a simulant in San Francisco.

3,151 posted on 10/17/2005 3:14:17 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: jer33 3
Isn't decaf supposed to have even more chemicals?

I don't know about that, but reading "factoids" cures me from both doing and digesting, depending on the item factoided: (laughing, but not really sure I should be).

3,152 posted on 10/17/2005 3:18:38 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504122/posts


Pakistan: mullah blocks feeding of earthquake
survivors' during Ramadan
BBC ^ | 10/17/05 | OB Jones

Posted on 10/17/2005 1:35:04 PM PDT by voletti

Feeding 1,200 people with no kitchen requires a bit of preparation.
You need to light fires, boil rice and cook meat. It takes several hours.
You have to get going in advance.

But one of the local mullahs did not see it that way and he paid
Mohammed Mustafa a visit.

"What are you doing?" he shouted. "Don't you know it's Ramadan
now? This is just not permitted.

"You can't cook food during the day. It's against Islam. Stop or I'll
burn this place down - your tents, your pots, everything."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


3,153 posted on 10/17/2005 3:24:47 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You say that you have prayed about your problem! Now, shut up and listen to God's answer.)
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To: MamaDearest

I was researching petri dish air sampling today to test my father's home. I had to read the article twice about the testing in the 1950's with balloons filled with S. marcescens released over San Francisco that caused the urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Outrageous!


3,154 posted on 10/17/2005 3:28:38 PM PDT by jer33 3
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To: Cindy
(Bubonic) Plague found in prairie dog colonies near C-470 in Jeffco (Colorado)
Denver Post

time for another prairie dog shooting tournament.

3,155 posted on 10/17/2005 3:43:27 PM PDT by bored at work (The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James)
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To: bored at work

Time to review these movies:

CaddyShack Volume 1 and 2.

/Slight Humor


3,156 posted on 10/17/2005 5:13:01 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: jer33 3
Outrageous!

Sure is. On one hand we had Kruschev gloating "they would bury us," instructions to hide under our school desks if the big one happened (complete with short movie clip), and on the other hand some Americans became human guinea pigs. The main link was "unavailable," but the cache brought it up.

3,157 posted on 10/17/2005 5:39:41 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Donna Lee Nardo
US military interpreter charged as fraud

In an embarrassing security breach, an Arabic interpreter who handled classified material while working for the last two years with U.S. military units in Iraq has been arrested after FBI agents discovered that he had so completely fabricated his identity and background that they are still unsure of his true name and have formally charged him as "FNU LNU" (first name unknown, last name unknown).

3,158 posted on 10/17/2005 5:47:22 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Homemade apple pie -- yummy, my favorite. Dessert at your house from now on! :)


3,159 posted on 10/17/2005 6:04:21 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo
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To: nw_arizona_granny; Cindy

Thanks for the links and the ping! I appreciate it. I'll keep posting those school threat articles when I get ones with merit. (o:


3,160 posted on 10/17/2005 6:05:23 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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