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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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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.

YOU be the judge and get informed!

Home grown Islamists may hit US: FBI chief
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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.

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[Gucho]

smell reported over the entire city of Manhatten last night. They haven't figured out what it was but it was described as as having a maple scent. [sweet smelling!!]

Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers

By KAREEM FAHIM

Published: October 28, 2005

An unseen, sweet-smelling cloud drifted through parts of Manhattan last night. Arturo Padilla walked through it and declared that it was awesome.

"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos. Or pancakes," he said. "It's pleasant."

he odor had followed Mr. Padilla and his friend along their walk in Lower Manhattan, from a dormitory on Fulton Street, to Pace University on Spruce Street, and back down again, to where they stood now, near a Dunkin' Donuts. Maybe it was from there, he said. But it wasn't.

Mr. Padilla was not alone. Reports of the syrupy cloud poured in from across Manhattan after 9 p.m. Some feared that it was something sinister.

There were so many calls that the city's Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to look into it.

By 11 p. m., the search had turned up nothing harmful, according to tests of the air. Reports continued to come in from as far north as 112th Street shortly before midnight. In Lower Manhattan, where the smell had begun to fade, it was back, stronger than before, by 1 a.m.

"We are continuing to sample the air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing hazardous," said Jarrod Bernstein, an emergency management spokesman. "What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know."

There were conflicting accounts as to its nature. A police officer who had thrown out her French vanilla coffee earlier compared it to that. Two diplomats from the Netherlands disagreed, politely. Rieneke Buisman said it smelled like roasted peanuts. Her friend Joris Geeven said it reminded him of a Dutch cake called peperkoek, though he could not describe that smell.

SWEET SMELLING

[Gucho]

Live Robotic Manhattan Cam

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for linking the article.

I hope it was nothing, but seems odd to me. Particularly with the timing, dates, incidents and threats of late. I'm guessing the PTB have the ability to test for everything possible. [I hope]

[Velveeta]

Maple Sugar Smell Mystery!

Something strange is going on-- last night the whole city smelled like maple syrup! Gothamist has gotten reports from all over Manhattan-- and we smelled the strange, sweet odor as far south as Chambers Street. Gothamist Contribute also has some reports:

The whole city smells like maple syrup and everyone knows it! Tell us why. October 28, 2005 02:38 AM

Same smell is pervading the Greenwich Village / NYU area -- both outdoors and in, I smelled it in my apt earlier and thought a neighbor was making french toast or something but it's clearly something bigger. Maple syrup dirty bomb???
October 28, 2005 02:09 AM

I'm on W. 96th St. and I can smell it, too. I thought there was some food hidden in my room somewhere.
October 28, 2005 01:04 AM

The air smells of maple syrup in the Upper West Side. Anonymous individual sources questioned at street corners around Harlem agree that for some reason it smells very sweet and syrupy. Everyone speculates that a pancake truck or maple syrup factory has caught on fire. Perhaps Gothamist can investigate? (around Columbia Uni area + Harlem area)
October 28, 2005 12:50 AM


Maple syrup dirty bomb? Commence panic! [Related: You Can't Make It Up also noticed the smell!.]

Update: The New York Times doesn't know what it is, either!

Posted by Jake Dobkin

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php

[Gucho]

Bump

[Velveeta]

The Las Vegas bomb story is ominous.

The people in the house were already under "routine" investigation, according to the article.

When there's so little information....it makes you worry.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&q=EXPLOSION+IN+AGSTAFA&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=any

The web links for your search in 4369, is interesting.

It appears to be a place that has been explosive for a lot of years.

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping

[Velveeta]

There you are! :-)

[Calpernia]

I pinged you yesterday stating 'I'm back!'

:)

Admin Mod let me out of the corner.

[Velveeta]

Newark, other airport screeners to bone up on bomb detection


Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport are among those who soon must undergo additional training to help detect bombs hidden in carry-on luggage or under a traveler's clothing.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is making thousands of screeners nationwide complete five hours of training by Nov. 15, The Star-ledger of Newark reported in Friday's editions.

"We're tuning up the work force before the busy holiday season," agency spokeswoman Yolanda Clark told the newspaper. "That usually constitutes a variety of different training."

She said she knows of no specific threat that triggered the agency's Oct. 21 directive.

But just this past week, two California airports received bomb threats, and screeners at San Diego's airport seized a bag that they thought might contain bomb parts, the newspaper reported. All three incidents were later determined to have been unfounded.

Security experts remain concerned about a terrorist smuggling an explosive onto a plane because X-ray machines and metal detectors don't detect such materials. Screeners are required to closely examine the X-ray image of each carry-on bag to look for wires or other devices that might indicate an explosive device.

But heavy passenger loads and the agency's goal of holding down wait times at security checkpoints have complicated that effort. Last year, screeners at Newark missed one in four fake explosives and guns that testers attempted to sneak past checkpoints over a three-month period, the newspaper reported.(snip)

http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=92201

[Velveeta]

LOL, I'm waaaay behind on pings. :-(

[Calpernia]

I know how that feels!

[Velveeta]

Danish arrests linked to Bosnian terror probe; police say attack was 'imminent'


Danish police confirmed Friday that the arrest of four young Muslims suspected of belonging to a network planning a suicide attack in Europe was linked to an investigation in Bosnia.

The four suspects, aged between 16 and 20, were arrested in and around Copenhagen on Thursday and detained in jail as police continued their investigation.

"We had a very short period to investigate but our information indicated that their action was imminent," police spokesman Joern Bro said. He declined to give details, saying only that the network had planned to carry out the suicide attack in Europe.(snip)
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=92196

[nw_arizona_granny]

More tests?

There was another town reported 'strange smells' this week.

On the Las Vegas bomb, when I read the french missile report in #4371, it crossed my mind that it also is carried under the airplane, as the caller said the bomb was.

On the Las Vegas 'white powder', it did close the courthouse for 3 hours yesterday.

It came in an envelope that had "unfriendly language" on the front of it, so was taken to the manager, who then noticed a white powder coming from it.

Of course the powder turned out to be nothing.

per KDWN radio, Hart & Ken - Snoozebusters show on now.

[WestCoastGal]

Ya'll keep me posted today, I'm off to the big city to do some shopping!!

[bored at work]

What a kewl web site! thanks

[Velveeta]

More test?

Probably, possibly. There seem to be scores of reports from all over about mysterious odors.

[Velveeta]

Have a fun day!

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510851/posts

Iranians Rally Against Israel, U.S.
Fox News ^ | October 28, 2005 | AP

Posted on 10/28/2005 5:52:33 AM PDT by stm

TEHRAN, Iran — Tens of thousands of Iranians staged anti-Israel
demonstrations across the country Friday, repeating calls by their
ultraconservative president for the destruction of the Jewish state.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...