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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.

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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

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[SlowBoat407]

Pastries. He said pastries, Vel. Dyslexia sets in occasionally.

hee hee

[SlowBoat407]

Nothing on the MSM... yet.

[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks SB. I've been searching too and have seen nothing about it either.

[appalachian_dweller]

Iran 'lets al-Qaeda roam free'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509678/posts


I saw a report on LGF about his too.

[Cindy]

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005228.html
26 October 2005
"Palestinian Islamic Jihad
In action: At least 5 dead, 30 wounded in bombing at Hadera falafel stand"

http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/26oct05-pij-hadera.jpg

INTERNET HAGANAH.US: "PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD SITES"
http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/26oct05-PIJ_sites.html

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3159743,00.html
YNET NEWS: "5 KILLED IN HADERA BLAST"

SNIPPET: "Terror returns to Israel’s cities: Suicide bomber strikes in market in Hadera, north of Tel Aviv and scene of several previous attacks."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Senior Islamic Jihad figure Abu al-Muamen told Ynet the attack came in response to the killing of the group’s West Bank terror leader Louie Sa’adi earlier this week. He said the attack was only an initial response and added his group and other Palestinian organizations are expected to respond with more attacks. However, al-Muamen refused to officially claim responsibility for the attack.

Earlier, Palestinian sources told Ynet the attack was likely the work of Islamic Jihad and came in response to the killing of Sa’adi. However, the sources said another organization may have cooperated with the Islamic Jihad in carrying out the attack.

The Islamic Jihad vowed to “shake up Israel” in retaliation for Sa’adi’s killing.

IDF assessing situation"

[little jeremiah]

Here it is:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509650/posts

Train derails in Liverpool, England

[Cindy]

Yep.
Duly noted.

[SlowBoat407]

Thanks, LJ.

[Cindy]

You're welcome.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509648/posts


Russian 'advisors' arrive in Gaza; train security
forces
Synoeca ^

Posted on 10/26/2005 10:58:09 AM PDT by Alex Marko

10/26/2005 - Russian military officers have arrived in the Gaza strip to
train security forces in hopes of establishing law and order in the
anarchic coastal region.

According to both Russian and Palestinian officials, military advisors
have crossed over the border of Gaza and Egypt to assess the
requirements and assistance needed for security forces and to provide
the Palestinian Authority ammunition and light arms. Initially, the
Russian advisors will focus operations in the Gaza Strip and then move
on to the West Bank.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov confirmed the reports during a
press conference in Paris stating that "Russian Foreign Ministry and
Defence Ministry officials arrived in the Palestinian Territories to assist
in training the security forces, whose capabilities were undermined
during the Intifada". Earlier this year, Russia offered the Palestinian
Authority two upgraded Mi-17 medium transport helicopters and 50
ex-Russian armed forces BRDM-2 4 x 4 armoured scout vehicles which
was denied by the Israeli government. Tel Aviv was surprised to learn
of the entry of the Russians into Gaza without the proper diplomatic
channels used to convey their arrival plans.

Alongside the Russians in Gaza are the Egyptian intelligence officers
trying to avert a possible confrontation between the Palestinian
Authority, Hamas and Hizbollah. Increased Russian participation in the
region has worried the Israeli’s, who also note that Russia has
recently agreed to sell sophisticated rockets and anti-aircraft systems
to Syria.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Doesn't this give you the warm fuzzies?

News Agency: First Iranian Satellite To Be Launched From Russian Cosmodrome 27 Oct

According to a news release from the Iranian Students News Agency in Tehran, the first Iranian satellite is expected to be launched tomorrow from the Russian Cosmodrome.

I wonder what "study of subterranean resources and consequences of unexpected incidents" means!

Just posted the entire press release on my website:

[StillProud2BeFree]

Did y'all catch the statements by the President of Iran earlier today? He called for Israel to be wiped from the map...

[Cindy]

Thanks freeperfromnj.

Updates always appreciated.

[Cindy]

THANKS HipShot.

That's GREAT news.

Thank You Jesus.
Amen.

[Cindy]

DITTO.

[Cindy]

Yep, in a tunnel, 2 minor injuries.

THANKS little jeremiah.
Updates, if any are appreciated.

[freeperfromnj]

Oh man, I've spent all this TM and I didn't realize that you are Laura until now. Duuuhh.

[freeperfromnj]

all this TM = all this time on TM

[nw_arizona_granny]

Note: the first link, didn't that also happen in Calif and Florida?
granny........

TerroristWarning.com Terrorism Headlines 10/26/2005 # 1

National:

[Star Bulletin] HAWAII - Driver rams isle airport terminal [TW Editors Note - Security yelled at the man to stop, when they should probably have been shooting to kill]

"26-year-old man rammed his car through glass doors and drove about 100 yards through the Hawaiian to Aloha airlines baggage claim areas "

http://starbulletin.com/2005/10/24/news/story01.html

[AP] WASHINGTON DC - Man Claiming to Have Suspicious Package Detained by Police Near U.S. Capitol

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/index.htm

[Daily Herald] WASHINGTON - Suspicious Web site listed school events

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/10/21/100loc_bsite001.cfm

[MML] CALIFORNIA - Suspicious Odor Shuts Down Highway 26, Businesses Evacuated

"Three people have been taken to Mark Twain St. Joseph's Hospital in San Andreas"

http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/kvml/1129853510

[Current-Argus] NEW MEXICO - Suspicious looking box prompts an evacuation [false alarm]

"suspicious looking box with the word “explosives” written on its side "

http://www.currentargus.com/artman/publish/article_15307.shtml

[WKOW] WISCONSIN - Handling Suspicious Packages

http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/news/story/p/pkid/22506

[Twin Falls Times-News] IDAHO - Bomb threat halts bus and interstate traffic

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2005/10/21/news_topstory/news_topstory.1.txt

[AlertsUSA] USA - Homeland Security National Situation Updates Via Podcast

"Free weekly audio digest provides a summary of important news and information from across the homeland security spectrum, including threat information, official travel
warnings and advisories, border and transportation security news, public health threats, disaster updates, and other information of broad national significance."

http://www.alertsusa.com/Media/pr10212005.htm

[CBS4 Boston] BOSTON - Police Investigate Suspicious Device In Pumpkin

http://cbs4boston.com/local/local_story_295200830.html

[WSOC TV] NORTH CAROLINA - Pipe Bomb Explodes In Neighborhood Park

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/5162635/detail.html

[KOTV] OKLAHOMA - Two Men Arrested At Security Checkpoint At The Tulsa International Airport

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=92281

[Reuters] CALIFORNIA - Bomb threats hit two California airports

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/October/theworld_October650.xml&section=theworld&col=

[KESQ] CALIFORNIA - Suspicious item found at San Diego airport, sparks evacuation

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4025915&nav=9qrx

[WorldNetDaily.com] OKLAHOMA / UTAH - Oklahoma City FBI surrenders documents to court

"activities at a paramilitary terrorist training camp called Elohim City"

"Utah, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that the FBI Oklahoma City office should not have to make public details that some believe could prove the FBI
had prior knowledge of the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, but somehow failed to stop it"

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46983

[CNN] USA - Watchdog says FBI violated surveillance rules

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/25/2fbi.surveillance/

[Free Lance-Star] VIRGINIA - Occupational hazards FBI team works with dangerous materials to keep the rest of us safe

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/102005/10252005/140001

[Richmond Times-Dispatch] VIRGINIA - Bomb squad disables device at courthouse [Black powder, device]

"package contained wires, a battery, a switch, a light bulb and nails"

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767737116

[WomesWallStreet.com] USA - Part XVII of the ongoing series entitled, "Terror in the Skies, Again?"

http://www.womenswallstreet.com/columns/column.aspx?aid=1003

[U.S. Drug Enforcemen Administration News Release] USA - U.S. Extradites Taliban-Linked Narco-Terrorist

"DEA Administrator on Extradition, “We’ve Made History Today.”

http://www.dea.gov/pubs/pressrel/pr102405.html

[Times Herald] USA - Able Danger warned of attack on USS Cole

http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15445995&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

[Daily Record/Sunday News] PENNSYlVANIA - Morning bomb scare shuts down East Market Street [ Empty suitcase, bank, possible dry run?]

http://ydr.com/story/main/91275/

[US Newswire Press Release] USA - Committee Against Ahmadinejad: Iranian-Americans Deplore Presence of Iran's Intelligence Operatives in U.S., Demand Their Immediate
Expulsion

"The Iranian-Americans are deeply alarmed to learn that a handful of individuals with well-documented links to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have been
allowed to enter the United States"

"The 'Committee against Ahmadinejad' calls on the relevant U.S. agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to immediately locate, apprehend and expel these
individuals working for Iran, the "most active state sponsor of terrorism."

"These individuals are reported to be specifically commissioned by the MOIS to embark on a campaign of espionage, reconnaissance, information gathering and character
assassination against Iranian political refugees and dissidents abroad"

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=55546

International:

[India Daily] COLOMBIA - Al-Queda stealing radioactive material from Colombia?

"Unidentified people stole radioactive material from Colombian state-owned oil company Ecopetrol in rural La Gloria, north of Bogota, Colombia"

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/5153.asp

[Reuters] SPAIN - Bombs explode near law courts in 4 Spanish towns

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25412891.htm

[AAP] INDONESIA - Indonesian forces hunt explosives pair

"netted enough explosives to cause a blast more than a kilometre across"

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=68438

[Times and Star] UNITED KINGDOM - SELLAFIELD TERROR LINK

"investigating claims that detailed plans of the nuclear plant were found in a car linked to one of the London terrorists"

"photographs, slides and detailed information about the type of radioactive material stored at the West Cumbrian station and other sites"

http://www.businessgazette.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=293671

[Xinhua] AFGHANISTAN - Bomb explosion kills security director, bodyguard in Afghanistan

http://english.people.com.cn/200510/21/eng20051021_215805.html

[Xinhua] BANGLADESH - Bangladeshi jails on high alert after JMB bomb threat [Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh ]

"Islamic group has threatened to blow up the Tangail District Jail in seven days if police continue arresting or harassing its activists"

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/21/content_3661444.htm

[Viet Nam News Agency] THAILAND - Thailand beefs up security after bomb blast in Yala

http://www.vnagency.com.vn/NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=33&NEWS_ID=171587

[Turkish Daily News] TURKEY - Bomb blasts in Southeast

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=26405

[AFP] POLAND - Unknown gay group claims behind bomb hoax in Warsaw

"total of 13 fake bombs that had been placed at key sites around the capital"

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=254273&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

[ABC Australia] AUSTRALIA - Airport laser pranksters warned of charges

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1489041.htm

[Nigerian Tribune] NIGERIA - Plane crash: Any terrorist link?

http://www.tribune.com.ng/241005/news04.htm

[Mexidata.info] CARRIBEAN - Al-Qaeda’s Inroads into the Caribbean

http://www.mexidata.info/id652.html

[PakTribune.com] PAKISTAN - Bomb blast leaves 12 troops personnel injured in SWA

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=123601

[PTI] BANGLADESH - Bangla ruling party leader killed in bomb attack

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200510241101.htm

[Times Online] SARAJEVO - Police foil bomb attack in Sarajevo

"One report said that the men were planning to attack the embassy of a European Union country"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1840410,00.html

[icCoventry] UNITED KINGDOM - Road blockaded in bomb alert [Bomb making equipment recovered]

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0125nwarksnews/tm_objectid=16288242&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=road-blockaded-in-bomb-alert-name_page.html

[DozaMe.org] TURKEY - Locals protest the bomb blasts in Yuksekova, Kurds worry of a new Hizbullah

"series of bomb blasts in the city of Yuksekova in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey)"

http://www.kurdishinfo.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3878

[AP] AFGHANISTAN - Militants attack Kabul on two sides, killing eight; bomb cache found

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/051025/w102548.html

[Lebanese Lobby] LEBANON - Many staying home as rash of bombings sparks terror in streets of capital

http://www.lebaneselobby.org/News__index/news%202005/10%2025%2005%20Blasts%20shatter%20Beirut's%20hope%20for%20security.htm

[Reuters] BANGLADESH - Islamists threaten more attacks in Bangladesh

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=80684

[AP] COLOMBIA - Suspected rebels kill seven in Colombia

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Colombia_Violence.html

[Angola Press] GREECE - Police station in Greece destroyed by fire-bombs

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=385579

[Novinite] BULGARIA - Bomb Blast in Sofia

"bomb contained about 200 grams of T.N.T and was triggered by a fuse and a capsule-detonator"

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=54186

[Sangai Express] INDIA - 2 women hurt in Moreh bomb blast

"powerful bomb planted by suspected militants exploded near a transformer of the Electricity Department "

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=5.12.261005.oct05

[The Age] AUSTRALIA / LEBANON - AFP tell of NSW terror suspect concerns

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/AFP-tell-of-NSW-terror-suspect-concerns/2005/10/26/1130239529696.html

[MNA] IRAN - IRGC revises strategy to meet new threats: commander

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=245330

[freeperfromnj]

N.J. Hospitals Prepare For Possible Bird Flu Outbreak

UPDATED: 2:14 pm EDT October 26, 2005

NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey hospitals are making plans to handle an influx of patients in case deadly bird flu reaches the state, but experts say no effort may be sufficient in case of an outbreak.

"We'll definitely have problems. Right now, we're at capacity and winter season is a busy time anyway," David Seaberg, a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, told The Star-Ledger of Newark in Wednesday's editions.

If emergency rooms become filled, some hospitals plan to evaluate patients in courtyards and parking decks, the newspaper reported. Hospitals are also stockpiling an antiviral drug, Tamiflu.

The hospitals must be ready to isolate patients suspected of having the disease, and be ready with extra staff, beds and supplies, Ron Czajkowski, spokesman for the New Jersey Hospital Association, said Wednesday.

The preparations come as the dangerous H5N1 strain appears to be moving west from Asia. Authorities said Wednesday that the bird flu was found in another European nation, Croatia, and China announced that a bird flu outbreak has killed 545 chickens and ducks in a village in central China -- the country's third case of the disease in two weeks.

The strain has devastated poultry populations in Asia and killed 62 people, although it is not easily spread to people. Scientists fear it will mutate into a flu that is both contagious and deadly to people and which would quickly spread around the globe through international travel.

Human-to-human transmission would pose many challenges for hospitals, and not just from those who were sickened.

"You will also have the 'worried well,' who think they have it but are perfectly healthy," Patricia Lafaro, director of infection control for Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, told The Star-Ledger.

New Jersey's 86 acute-care hospitals can apply for state grants to test flu pandemic readiness.

That includes "surge capacity," the ability to quickly accommodate more patients, which requires space, staff and equipment.

"There is a particular problem with pandemic flu because this type of illness requires intensive care beds and mechanical ventilation, and those resources in hospitals are extremely tight," Richard Waldhorn, a professor of medicine at Georgetown University told the newspaper.

Among the facilities seeking grants is Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.

"We have almost 600 patients in the hospital today. We would be able to increase that number by another 300 to 400 if we are experiencing surge," said the hospital's president and CEO, Clifton Lacy, a former state health commissioner.

The hospital has an 18,000-foot courtyard where patients could be placed, while University Hospital in Newark would deploy tents if it ran out of emergency space.

http://www.wnbc.com/health/5181160/detail.html