Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Six

[Cindy]

THANKS for the translation still proud2befree at http://www.lauramansfield.com

[all4one]

BUSH: 'In the event of any attack on Israel, the United States will come to Israel's aid'... (5/23/06)

Link to FR Post

[Cindy]

Checking the propaganda blogs:


http://press-release.blogspot.com/

http://albayanat.blogspot.com/

[Cindy]

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370007

Terrorism Focus
Volume 3, Issue 20 (May 23, 2006) | Download PDF Version
"Al-Qaeda Doctrine: The Eventual Need for Semi-Conventional Forces"
By Michael Scheuer
(May 23, 2006)

[Cindy]

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370004

Terrorism Focus

"Killing of Turkish Judge May Inspire Further Attacks by Religious Radicals"
By Chris Zambelis
(May 23, 2006)

[Cindy]

THANK you for pointing to that statement and link all4one.

[Cindy]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060523-6.html

For Immediate Release
May 23, 2006

"Vice President's Remarks at a Rally for Expeditionary Strike Group One"
The USS Bonhomme Richard
San Diego, California



10:42 A.M. PDT

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks, Cal..........I'll check it out. FReeper recommendations are the best.

[Cindy]

OFF TOPIC...

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637113/posts


Woman's Death On Flight (Delta) To Goes Unnoticed (Video)
News 8 (CBS San Diego) ^ | 05-23-06 at 10:53AM (PDT) | Staff

Posted on 05/23/2006 3:04:37 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative

A 78-year-old woman has reached her final destination after dying while on a cross-country flight.

Officials with Delta Airlines said the woman died on a flight to Salt Lake City over the weekend.

According to the flight crew and passengers, no one realized she had passed away until after the plane landed.

Flight attendants said they only realized what had happened once the plane began to empty out.

One EMT at the scene said the woman was dead long enough for rigor mortis to set in.

An autopsy is being performed to determine how the woman died.

[jer33 3]

Thank you for posting the incident in Covington.

[freeperfromnj]

Interesting revelations. I always believed he was part of an organized cell and not some lone nut job.

[freeperfromnj]

CHILLING HERALD SCARE

SUBWAY BOMBER WAS READY TO 'BLOW': FEDS

By ZACH HABERMAN

May 23, 2006 -- A Muslim mole, a paid NYPD informant and a schizophrenic co-conspirator were all paraded into a Brooklyn courtroom to prove one thing - that an alleged Herald Square bomb plotter "was angry and he wanted to blow something up."

That's what Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Harrison told a federal jury deciding the fate of Shahawar Matin Siraj during closing arguments yesterday.

"It's really not that complicated," Harrison said about Siraj's desire to wreak economic havoc on the city by blowing up Manhattan's 34th Street subway station in the summer of 2004.

Siraj was arrested on the eve of the Republican National Convention, which was being held at nearby Madison Square Garden.

Both Harrison and prosecutor Marshall Miller pointed to numerous video and audio recordings that were played during the four-week trial in which Siraj, 23, talks in depth about attacking the city's transit system and other possible targets, including the Verrazano Bridge.

"You heard the defendant carefully, deliberately and matter-of-factly plan bombing attack after bombing attack without fear or remorse," Miller told the jury.

The prosecutor pointed to Siraj's testimony from last week in which he admitted to masterminding the subway-attack plan in order to make him appear smart in the eyes of his accomplices, NYPD informant Osama El Dawoody and former co-defendant James El Shafay - who was diagnosed as schizophrenic after pleading guilty to his role in the plan.

Martin Stolar, Siraj's lawyer, was quick to point out - as he did in his opening statement - his client "is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier," and that he is "very easily pushed around."

Claiming the Islamic bookstore employee to be simple-minded and "desperate for approval," Stolar insisted El Dawoody and his NYPD handlers entrapped his client.

Earlier, Miller had pointed to the testimony of an undercover NYPD detective, identified only as Kamil Pasha, who was plucked from the police academy and sent in to infiltrate the Muslim community in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

The detective, who first met Siraj in late 2002, said the Pakistani immigrant wished al Qaeda would once again attack the United States and discussed his admiration for terror lord Osama bin Laden as "a great planner and a good brother."

"If there are people out there who are ready and willing to bomb the subway system, then law enforcement should be trying to arrest them before the attacks happen," Miller said.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/68970.htm

[Smartass]

Boycott the Dixie Traitors

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Country radio nixes Dixie Chicks

NASHVILLLE, Tenn., May 22 (UPI) -- It appears the war U.S. country radio stations mounted against the politically outspoken Dixie Chicks has not abated in the least.

The band is promoting "Taking the Long Way," its first album since Natalie Maines told a London audience in 2003 she was ashamed to be from the same state as U.S. President George Bush. The comment sparked a radio boycott of the group's music.

Although the album hits stores Tuesday, the first two singles from the album are not getting widespread airplay, Billboard.com reported Monday.

The first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," only peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and the second single, "Everybody Knows," is moving downward after its peak at No. 48.

WKIS FM in Miami reported it pulled "Not Ready to Make Nice" due to listener complaints after only one week.

The program director at KUBL/KKAT in Salt Lake City told Billboard he was angered by its "self-indulgent and selfish lyrics."

Neither the Chicks or their label, Columbia Records, would speak to Billboard for its article.

 

 

[potlatch]

[Smartass]

LOL, that's great Potlatch. They deserve four
flat tires, four times a day.

   
Take that Dixie Chicks

[Smartass]

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net

By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web.

"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said.

"Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."

An equal net

The British scientist developed the web in 1989 as an academic tool to allow scientists to share data. Since then it has exploded into every area of life.

You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for Tim Berners-Lee

However, as it has grown, there have been increasingly diverse opinions on how it should evolve.

The World Wide Web Consortium, of which Sir Tim is the director, believes in an open model.

This is based on the concept of network neutrality, where everyone has the same level of access to the web and that all data moving around the web is treated equally.

This view is backed by companies like Microsoft and Google, who have called for legislation to be introduced to guarantee net neutrality.

The first steps towards this were taken last week when members of the US House of Representatives introduced a net neutrality bill.

Pay model

But telecoms companies in the US do not agree. They would like to implement a two-tier system, where data from companies or institutions that can pay are given priority over those that cannot.

This has particularly become an issue with the transmission of TV shows over the internet, with some broadband providers wanting to charge content providers to carry the data.

The internet community believes this threatens the open model of the internet as broadband providers will become gatekeepers to the web's content.

Providers that can pay will be able to get a commercial advantage over those that cannot.

There is a fear that institutions like universities and charities would also suffer.

The web community is also worried that any charges would be passed on to the consumer.

Optimism

Sir Tim said this was "not the internet model". The "right" model, as exists at the moment, was that any content provider could pay for a connection to the internet and could then put any content on to the web with no discrimination.

Speaking to reporters in Edinburgh at the WWW2006 conference, he argued this was where the great benefit of the internet lay.

"You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for," he said.

A two-tier system would mean that people would only have full access to those portions of the internet that they paid for and that some companies would be given priority over others.

But Sir Tim was optimistic that the internet would resist attempts to fragment.

"I think it is one and will remain as one," he said.

The WWW2006 conference will run until Friday at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh.

 

 

[angcat]

Suspicious recording in Yonkers handed over to terrorist task force
By WILL DAVID
wdavid@lohud.com
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(Original publication: May 23, 2006)


YONKERS — A 34-year-old employee of the Moroccan Consulate and his wife drew the suspicions of two police officers after they spotted the woman videotaping a wooded area near a Consolidated Edison facility and Ridge Hill near the New York State Thruway, police said.

No charges were filed, but state police did confiscate the camera. The driver is a security officer with the Moroccan Consulate, and his wife is unemployed.

Yonkers Police Officers David Cenelli and Ruperto Medina of the 1st Precinct were on the Thruway when they saw the red Honda Prelude parked on the side of the road at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

The officers became suspicious because the 30-year-old woman in the back seat was videotaping a quarter of a mile south of the entrance ramp where the power facility is located.

The officers walked up to the car and asked the driver to turn off his engine. The driver put his keys on the hood of the car and told police his wife is new to the country, and they were taking pictures.

The couple's two children, a 3-year-old boy and 5-year-old daughter, were in the back seat. The officers notified state police, who viewed the videotape along with city police. The couple had tape of the World Trade Center site, the Statue of Liberty, the Intrepid Sea and Air Museum, and the Yonkers site, police said.

State police confiscated the camera, and the Joint Terrorist Task Force was notified.

[MamaDearest]

"Makes you wonder what the military is trying to do over here, or former military," said West."

One possibility: enforcing their perception of Atzlan...

[Smartass]

Thanks for the PING.
Was there any mention made of Consolidated Edison being a nuke power plant?

The others appear to be land marks. Good heads up by the police though.

[milkncookies]

I checked and couldn't find this link posted.

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