Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

[nwctwx]

Unrest in Pakistan Setback for Terror War
(Full Story)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A week of unprecedented urban fighting in the wild tribal belt of North Waziristan has left scores dead and forced thousands to flee their homes, raising the stakes in Pakistan's war on Islamic militancy along the Afghan border.

A jumbled alliance of foreign militants, local tribesmen and Islamic students eager for jihad have stepped up resistance in a region where the army already claims to have wiped out al-Qaida as a viable fighting force.

The unrest, brewing for months, is a setback to the U.S.-led war on terror. Further hampering that effort are deteriorating relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan over Afghan claims that Taliban leader Mullah Omar is hiding in Pakistan and suicide bombers are training here.

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[Cindy]

UPDATE...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4909378.stm

Last Updated: Friday, 14 April 2006, 15:05 GMT 16:05 UK

"Knife attacks on Egypt churches"


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One person has been killed and at least 12 others injured by knife-wielding attackers at three churches in northern Egypt, police have said.
The attacks happened in Coptic Christian churches in Alexandria.

The simultaneous incidents took place during Friday Mass. Police say they have three men in custody.

Witnesses said clashes erupted between Christians and Muslims outside the churches, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Hundreds of Christians had gathered outside the churches in protest at the attacks, the agency said.

According to police reports, two people armed with knives attacked three churches. A third man was prevented from entering another church by security guards.

But the government later said there had been one assailant, who had attacked worshippers in two churches and been stopped from entering a third, AP reported."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Three people died and many were injured in Alexandria in October 2005 after Muslim demonstrators attacked a church which had put on a play seen as offensive to Islam."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=96
Group Profile:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Mothertongue Name: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)



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ON THE NET...
Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615222/posts


FARC guerrillas' link to £70m cocaine haul
Scotsman ^ | 14 Apr 2006 | JEREMY MCDERMOTT

Posted on 04/14/2006 2:23:08 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

MEXICAN authorities yesterday began investigations into the involvement of Colombian guerrillas in the shipment of 5.5 tons of cocaine seized from a commercial aircraft.

The high-purity cocaine, the biggest seizure in recent years, was found amid 128 pieces of luggage on a US passenger airline, Aero Flight, which left Caracas in Venezuela and made an unregistered stop in Ciudad de Carmen, Mexico, where soldiers found the drugs. The cocaine is valued at £70 million.

Santiago Vasconcelos, of the Mexican attorney general's office, said there was evidence that the drugs came from guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who have long-standing agreements with Mexican drug cartels to supply cocaine in exchange for weapons and ammunition. The two pilots, Poot Pérez and Pérez de Gracia, have been arrested before in connections with a drug flight, but managed to escape prosecution. They are unlikely to do so again.

These 5.5 tons make up the first major shipment linked to the FARC since the US attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, issued 50 indictments covering most of the FARC senior command structure, on charges of drug-trafficking.

"We believe these men are responsible for not only manufacturing and exporting devastating amounts of cocaine, but enforcing their criminal regime with violence," Mr Gonzales said.

It is significant that the drugs came via Venezuela, because the Colombian army has long alleged that Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez, is sympathetic to the Marxist rebels.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...


http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3613
"Group Profile:

Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
Aliases: Islamic Community, Islamic Group
Base of Operation: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore"

[nwctwx]

No problem. One of my job requirements is reading the daily newspapers and online articles. Its been nice to be able to really get back into following this stuff on a daily basis.

Iran is definately looking for trouble, no two ways about that.

[JustPiper]

One of my job requirements is reading the daily newspapers and online articles

Wow getting paid for doing this? Where can I apply? I do this day/night ;)

[Cindy]

Thanks to bd476 for the ping to this thread and post:
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REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614944/posts?page=233#233

[Cindy]

UPDATE...

Note: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/04/011035print.html

April 14, 2006

Sami Al-Arian to be deported

Al-Arian update from AP:

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have decided to deport a former University of South Florida professor and long-time Palestinian rights activist after failing to convict him on charges he helped finance terrorist attacks in Israel.
Two lawyers familiar with the case say Sami Al-Arian has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to a lesser charge and be deported.

The lawyers spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been made public by the court.

It isn't clear where Al-Arian will be sent.

Al-Arian has been in jail since a Tampa jury acquitted him in December on eight of the 17 federal charges against him, then deadlocked on the rest...

Posted at April 14, 2006 08:49 PM

[Cindy]

Thanks to nwctwx for this post and thread:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615350/posts

"Heads Up IN/KY/OH (Indianapolis in short term): Tornadic Storms"

Posted on 04/14/2006 6:07:54 PM PDT by nwctwx

[bd476]

Hilton Hotel slams the door on our
wounded soldiers in two weeks.

April 31, 2006 is eviction day for
Fran O'Brien's.

Thank you for the bump, Cindy!

I hope that FormerLib and OkieDoc won't mind my sharing their great examples of the kind of e-mail Hilton might listen to.

* * * * *

My e-mail to Hilton:

I've just heard a horrible rumor that Fran O'Brien's lease for the steakhouse at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC, will not be renewed because of liability concerns about his hosting dinners for wounded service vets in wheelchairs.

Tell me this is not true?

FormerLib's E-mail

* * * * *

MY email to all of the above:

Tell me that you're not really shutting down Fran O'Brien's Restaurant in Washington, DC.

This restaurant should be given a special award for true American Patriotism, instead the restaurant is being closed by the Hilton Hotels.

Okiedoc's E-mail

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Coop just added this info:

Hilton can also be contacted at

1-800-HILTONS,

or at the corporate website:

Hilton Corporate Website.

Here's hipaatwo's

List of Hilton's Phone, Fax and E-mails

[Cindy]

Thank you for shring and caring bd476.

[bd476]

Thank you too, Cindy! You do good work! :-)

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201968.html

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NOTE: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005572.html


14 April 2006
INSECURITY, WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT

The gods of networking, be they still among us or of blessed memory, did not create this Internet of ours to be secure.

They created the Internet to be resilient. And to facilitate the sharing of information and collaboration among researchers working at various remote locations.

The Internet is not a private place any more than your car out on the open road or parked on the street is a private place. Certainly being inside a car can create impressions of privacy and invulnerability, but such impressions bear little or no connection to reality. Nevertheless each of us is free to express ourselves in any way we see fit as we drive down the road. Such freedom of expression does not include, however, freedom from responsibility or accountability for our actions.

For example, one is free to make an obscene gesture at the driver of another car, but one does so on the basis of the following assumptions:

1. The other driver is not armed.

2. The other driver is not having a very bad day.

3. The other driver is not an off-duty or plainclothes police officer.

All three conditions may be true, and one may get away with the offending gesture, but then again, one or more of those conditions may turn out to be false, and the result may be that we end up:

A. Getting ticketed or arrested.

B. Getting beaten up or having our car damaged in retaliation.

C. Getting murdered when the recipient of our gesture reaches into their glove box, pulls out a gun, and shoots us.

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The sympathetic treatment that the "privacy concerns" of jihadists receive in this Washington Post story

Terrorists' Web Chatter Shows Concern About Internet Privacy Groups Advise Members on Anonymity, Avoiding Intercepts

is evidence of the disconnect between the mainstream media on the one hand and the reality of a world beset by global jihadist terrorism on the other.

Each of us goes through life not knowing if at any moment some fool will stand up, yell "Allahu Akbar!!!" and press a button detonating his bomb belt, and that's OK.

We are told we need to understand why jihadis hate us so much, and that fighting back is bad because the poor dears might get offended and kill even more of us.

We are told by turns that nothing can be done about jihadist use of the Internet except to sit and watch as they use the Internet to make their jihad that much more global and deadly, and that the security issues that confront terrorists online are somehow equivalent to the privacy concerns of legitimate users of the Internet.

There is, however, good news, and it is not - as in the American advertisement - that we just saved a bundle on our car insurance. The good news is that there is growing understanding that the Internet has become a battleground, and that the jihadists who use the Internet are not spectators, they are participants, combatants. And not only is understanding of the issue increasing, but so too is action based upon that understanding.

It's high time the jihadis were the ones who suffer the anxiety and uncertainty.

Posted on 14 April 2006 @ 13:03

[nwctwx]

Thanks, was moved to chat... oh well.

[Cindy]

http://haganah.org.il/harchives/005570.html

14 April 2006
"New terror law comes into force"
(bbc.co.uk)


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ON THE NET...
http://www.islamicawakening.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2114&sid=

[JustPiper]

Sami Al-Arian to be deported
SCORE!!!

[JustPiper]

'Big George': The Coming Attack on Iran
Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com
Friday, April 14, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney calls it the "Big George" scenario.

According to the man who helped plan the first air war against Saddam in 1991, U.S. aircraft, armed with conventional bunker-buster bombs, would be more than enough to wipe out Iran's nuclear and missile facilities, and cripple its ability to command and control its military forces.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/4/13/94944.shtml

[Cindy]

OPINION: I wonder what he will be doing once he's deported.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615306/posts


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041406/content/rush_review.guest.html

"United 93: Have We Learned Anything?"
April 14, 2006

[Cindy]

Note: The following video clips (with links to transcripts) are on the current front page of MEMRITV.ORG:
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QUOTE:

http://www.memritv.org

CLIPS FROM AL-MANAR TV AL-QAEDA


#1111 - Iranian Nuclear Physicist Dr. Hassan Ghafuri-Fard: We Will Have 54,000-60,000 Centrifuges within Two Years
Iran ch.3 - 4/12/2006 - 00:01:02


#1109 - Admiral Ali Shamkhani: We Have the Capability to Make Shahab Missiles Like Candy
Iran Ch.2 - 3/21/2006 - 00:02:32


#1108 - Saddam Hussein's Daughter, Raghad: My Father Is More Dear to Me Than My Children
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 4/9/2006 - 00:02:26


#1107 - Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar Defends "Martyrdom-Seeking Operations"
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 4/6/2006 - 00:01:04

[Cindy]

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1107

4/6/2006 Clip No. 1107

"Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar Defends "Martyrdom-Seeking Operations"

Following are excerpts from an interview with Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on April 6, 2006."

TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "Interviewer: How will you deal with the issue of suicide operations against Israeli civilians? Abu Mazen condemns these operations. What will be your position?

Mahmoud Al-Zahar: These are not suicide operations. This is a despicable term used by the Israelis in order to say that these are suicide operations, knowing that suicide is forbidden in Islam. This is just for the sake of clarification. These are martyrdom-seeking operations, approved by all the authorities of the Islamic nation, who consider them to be the highest level of martyrdom."