Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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!

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.

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

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"Christians shorten service in face of threats"
The Jakarta Post ^ | 31 October 2005 | Abdul Khalik

Posted on 10/31/2005 2:59:14 AM PST by Cornpone

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "About 500 members of the HKBP, Gekindo and GPDI churches in the Jati Mulya housing complex in Bekasi, West Java, were forced to cut short their Sunday services after some 200 Muslim residents surrounded them.

Despite some pushing and shoving, and several verbal exchanges, the incident did not end in violence as some 200 police officers were able to separate the groups.

The church members were holding Sunday services on the street because their churches have been blocked off by local Muslims since September. As church members began arriving for services that began at 9 a.m., they found a group of people, many claiming to be members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), waiting for them.

As the Sunday services began with songs and prayers, the waiting crowd began shouting Allahu Akbar..."

OPINION: Maybe I'm just grouchy, but I think the TOMs should be fired. They not only have fallen down on the job; they don't even want to do the job.

If you're "grouchy," you aren't the only one-- the "media" has become an incestuous, noisy echo-chamber... combined with the worst features of push-polling and focus groups.

I'm old enough to remember when most reporters didn't have "journalism" degrees- in fact, some never even went to college. They learned how to write via on the job training, starting as copyboys or stringers-- and they were better investigators for it.

They used to work a beat, like a street cop, and saw real life up close and personal.

Nowadays, they graduate from high school, go to college, and get a job with a big corporation-- much like a hothouse plant, they don't have to see much of reality if they don't care to.

They write, and report, mainly for themselves, and to gain accolades from their peers.

The old "Five W's" of reporting got jettisoned a long time ago.

The New Media- a combination of forums like this one, blogs, and good old talk radio- it eating their lunch, and few of them even realize it, beyond a few snarky articles that reveal their backwardness and ignorance more than anything else.

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Two Hizb commanders killed, ultra bid to set off blast foiled(Indian Army kills terrorists)
outlookindia.com ^ | SRINAGAR, OCT 30 (PTI)

Posted on 10/31/2005 2:58:31 AM PST by Gengis Khan

SRINAGAR, OCT 30 (PTI) Two self-styled commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in separate encounters while ultras shot dead a contractor and made an abortive attempt to set off an explosion at a crowded market in Jammu and Kashmir since last night, a police spokesman said today.

An explosive device planted by militants in a briefcase was recovered by a police party from the main market at Ganderbal on the outskirts of Srinagar this morning, the spokesman said.

He said the timely detection of the explosive foiled ultras' bid to set off a massive blast in the crowded market. Had the device exploded, it could have caused huge casualty, the spokesman added.

In another successful operation, the spokesman said, a self-styled divisional commander of Hizbul Mujahideen Taj Pahalwan was killed in an encounter with security forces at Peer Bali in Surankote area of Poonch district today.

The deceased was the oldest surviving militant in the area, active for last eight to nine years, he said adding, a large quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from him.

Security forces gunned down the area commander of Hizbul Fareed Hussain alias Haris in an encounter at Tandla in Gandoh area of Doda district this morning, the spokesman said.

He said militants shot dead a contractor Mohammad Yousuf Qazi when he was boarding his car at Khimber-Zakoora on the outskirts of Srinagar late last night. Qazi, a resident of New Theed locality of Harwan, was rushed to hospital where he was decleared brought dead, he added.

Residents of New Theed today demonstrated against the killing, blocking traffic on the main road.

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"(Indian) Army launches major operation on Manipur-Assam border"
The Hindu ^ | Oct. 28 2005

Posted on 10/31/2005 3:02:55 AM PST by Gengis Khan

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Jiribam, Oct. 28.(PTI): The Army has launched a major operation to flush out Manipur insurgents near Jiribam, where ultras of Manipur People's Army, the armed wing of major insurgent organisation United National Liberation Front (UNLF), were operating, according to informed sources.

This operation follows an attack on a security camp near this border town in Imphal East district, the official sources said today.

Army personnel of different units surrounded Barak circle area near Jiribam, the sources disclosed.

Sources said MPA insurgents first attacked a security camp on October 22 by using rocket launchers and other highly sophisticated weapons but did not confirm whether the troops suffered any casualty or not.

After the attack, heavy exchange of fire between insurgents and army personnel was reported and the encounter was still on today, the sources said."

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"Red Fort attack: Pakistani sentenced to death (INDIA WoT)"
The Indian Express / PTI ^ | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 1505 hours IST | The Indian Express

Posted on 10/31/2005 3:37:40 AM PST by CarrotAndStick

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "New Delhi, October 31: A Delhi court on awarded death sentence to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, convicted in the December 2000 Red Fort attack case.

Additional sessions judge O P Saini awarded life imprisionment to two key conspirators Nazir Ahmed Qasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Qasid, who were held guilty of waging war against the state along with Ashfaq.

Ashfaq's Indian wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui, who was held guilty of harbouring the main accused, has been given a seven-year jail term.

Accused Bagar Mohsin Baghwala, Sadaqat Ali and Matloob Alam, who were pronounced guilty by the special judge on October 24 along with the other four accused, have also been sentenced to seven-year rigorous imprisonment.

Baghwala and Sadaqat Ali were held guilty of providing shelter to main accused Ashfaq, while Matloob Alam was convicted of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery.

The court also slapped a fine of Rs one lakh each on Ashfaq, Nazir and Farooq and Rs 20,000 each on rest of the accused.

Ashfaq and five other terrorists had sneaked into the17th century Mughal monument around 2100 hours on December 22, 2000 and opened indiscriminate fire, killing two jawans of Rajputana Rifles and a civilian.

While convicting the accused the court said, "it has been established beyond doubt" that the conspiracy to attack the Red Fort was hatched at Farooq and Nazir's house in Srinagar, where Ashfaq had arrived in 1999 along with three other LeT militants.

The three militants Abu Shaad, Abu Bilal and Abu Haider, who had also entered the monument, were earlier killed in separate encounters.

"These facts speak unmistakably and loudly that these people conspired to wage war against the government of India", the judge said.

"The foreign national and his accomplices had entered into the Indian territory with a view to subvert the functioning of the government and destablise the society," the special judge said."

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Sunday, October 30, 2005

INDONESIAN POLICE INCREASE PATROLS AFTER ASSAILANTS BEHEAD INDONESIAN GIRLS; POPE BENEDICT EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES TO SLAIN GIRLS' FAMILIES

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (ANS) -- Reuters news agency reports that Indonesian police have increased patrols in the violence-plagued Poso area of Sulawesi island after assailants in black beheaded three teenage Christian girls at the weekend.

And, at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI offered his deepest sympathies to the families of the 16 to 19-year-old students, who police said were attacked by six machete-wielding men as they walked to school on Saturday (Oct.29).

Reuters says that police official Made Rai said Sunday (Oct. 30) that about 1,000 police, including reinforcements from other parts of the country, were securing the remote regency of Poso, with more than 300 additional officers expected to arrive during the day.

"So far no witness has been questioned and no suspect arrested," Rai told Reuters by telephone from Poso, about 1,500 km (900 miles) northeast of the capital Jakarta. One student survived and had described the attack.

The three headless bodies of the girls, dressed in brown uniforms, were left at the site of the attack. Their heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents.

Television news showed wailing and distraught relatives of the dead students looking at their corpses in coffins.

The girls' bodies, their heads re-attached, were shown in media reports in flowing white gowns, their hands holding bouquets.

A Vatican spokesman called the killings "barbaric" and said in a statement that the Pope would pray for "the return of peace among the people" of the region.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has condemned the killings, which he described as "sadist and inhuman crimes."

According to Reuters, Muslim-Christian clashes in the Poso area killed 2,000 people from 1998 through 2001, when a peace deal was agreed.

The agency says that while the worst violence abated after the deal, there have been sporadic outbreaks since. Bombings in May in the Christian town of Tentena killed 22 people.

Reuters quoted Din Syamsuddin, leader of Indonesia's second-largest Muslim group Muhammadiyah, who earlier warned of more violence in Poso if police do not catch the perpetrators soon.

"Similar murders are likely to occur in the future because there are some parties wishing communal conflict to flare up," Din Syamsuddin was quoted as saying by Indonesia's official news agency Antara.

In an online article carried on CNN's website, Reuters said reports of the killings were on Sunday featured across the front pages of virtually all Indonesian newspapers.

The leading daily Media Indonesia splashed a headline across its front page saying "Barbaric!" and the Muslim-oriented Republika daily devoted its full front page to the incident.

About 85 percent of Indonesia's 220 million people are Muslim. But in some eastern parts, Christian and Muslim populations are about equal. Most Indonesian Muslims are moderates, but there has been an increasingly active militant minority in recent years.

Reuters commented that religious and communal tensions in areas like Poso have been aggravated by a transmigration policy.

"For decades, under this policy, large numbers of mostly Muslim people from Indonesia's most crowded areas like Java have moved to places that had been largely Christian," the Reuters report said.

Reuters explained that, "In addition to religion the newcomers often have cultural and language differences with locals. Politicians and security forces have sometimes been charged with exploiting the differences for their own ends, adding to the potential for violence."
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.

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