Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - August 2006

[nwctwx]

Syria Tells Troops to Be Ready for Battle
(Full Story)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has placed his military on full alert, citing "regional challenges", and vowed to continue supporting the "Palestinian and Lebanese resistance more than ever".

In a speech to mark the Syrian Army national day, Mr Assad said the volatile situation across the Middle East required "vigilance, preparation and readiness" and ordered all units of the armed forces to be on alert.

The comments were interpreted by Israel as a morale booster to the Syrian armed forces and not a call to battle. Israeli intelligence chiefs have assessed that Syria is not in the mood for an open war and is instead content to resupply Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon.

	Iranian Cleric Asks Muslims to Send Weapons to Hezbollah
	Blair Says Syria, Iran Risk Confrontation
	Iran and Syria Beat the Drums of War

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[Velveeta]

Thanks, JP.

>>>>Advanced database necessary to target high-risk passengers still eludes Customs

Shameful that 5 years after 9/11 we don't have a decent database.

[fanfan]

Bush: 'If I were Hezbollah, I'd be claiming victory, too... [They've] got a fantastic propapanda machine'...

[freeperfromnj]

Their story is that they were going back to Texas to sell the phones. Why then did they buy the phones the day before in Wisconsin and end up in Michigan? Don't you think they went quite a bit out of their way traveling east to Michigan when they should have headed south back to Texas from Wisconsin?

[JustPiper]

I know you my friend,have you made any links with any charities or organizations we are familiar with from the past?

[JustPiper]

[JustPiper]

Homeland Security lowers alert level from red to orange

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/nnews/news1.shtml
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Security threats cause temporary shutdown at Detroit airport, evacuation at Dallas airport

"Customs area at a Detroit airport was briefly shut down Saturday after a passenger claimed he had contaminated everyone on a flight with a biological agent"

"Meanwhile, in Dallas, officials evacuated part of a terminal airport because a suitcase was smoking and leaking liquid"

http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=NATIONAL&ID=564786726519046275
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WEST VIRGINIA - Police Find Explosive-Making Chemicals in Morgantown

http://www.wdtv.com/viewstory.html?name=4334556

[JustPiper]

_WEBSTER GROVES-MO: Homemade bomb found at recruiting office

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/91F917A98745FEBC862571C7000BFE54?OpenDocument
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Pa. officials: Call tipline if something is suspicious

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/24738
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Security lapses at Seabrook nuclear plant
NEW HAMPSHIRE

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060811-114547-1439r
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MICHIGAN - Police forward suspicions to FBI

"Reports of strange buying patterns at local Wal-Mart seem to parallel charges filed against men in Ohio, Michigan"

"According to police, about four times this year a group of people who appear to be of Middle-Eastern descent have gone to Wal-Mart trying to purchase multiple pre-paid cell phones, which are not traceable back to the user, and have then displayed strange behavior, such as discarding all packaging and accessories that come with the phones"

http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060812/NEWS01/608120333/1002

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WISCONSIN - Terrorism charges on 80 cell phone purchases includes Wisconsin

"Police stopped the men’s van about 1:30 a.m. and found nearly 1,000 phones, most of which were prepaid TracFones, along with a laptop computer and a bag of receipts, Stevenson said. The receipts were from several locations, including a Wisconsin store"

"men, who are from the Dallas area, were being held on charges of soliciting or providing material support for terrorism and obtaining information of a vulnerable target for the purposes of terrorism"

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060811/APC0101/60811073/1979

[JustPiper]

Sure didn't last hey?

[Cindy]

Thanks JP for the links.

[JustPiper]

FBI Interested in Large Prepaid Cell Phone Purchases
WEST VIRGINIA

"Store clerks in Grafton say people have been coming into their stores and buying several phones at a time"


http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=12819
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FLORIDA - South Florida Muslims worry their mosques will be targeted

~Where have they been for 5 years?!

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cmuslimaug12,0,3795853.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

CALIFORNIA - Mosque windows broken, authorities say not hate crime

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15261478.htm
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MICHIGAN - Plot against bridge?

"Investigators believe those men were targeting the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge"

http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/081306/loc_phones001.shtml

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VIDEO: Shoot-down Procedure for Hijacked Airliners

[With video]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/VIDEO_Shootdown_Procedure_for_Hijacked_Airliners_0811.html#comments

[JustPiper]

Man Steals 13 Propane Tanks In Broad Daylight
Video Captures Man Loading Tanks Onto Truck

DALLAS -- Dallas police are wondering what a thief is planning to do with a truckload of propane gas tanks he stole from an Exxon Mobil station along Lake June Road.

Video captured the man loading filled propane tanks into a truck.

Meanwhile, investigators wonder if the man was just planning a big barbeque, or whether he had something else in mind for the tanks

http://www.nbc5i.com/news/9517815/detail.html
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[JustPiper]

ISRAEL - Men held at PMO after suspicious material found

"Security guards at Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office detected a "suspicious substance" Sunday in the shoes of an Arab man trying to enter the building"

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525862709&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFu
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ISRAEL - Israel Radio: 4,000 Hizbullah rockets hit Israel

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525864026&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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[JustPiper]

TERROR ALERT - UK stopped at least four terror plots since July 7 - Reid

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/08/13/afx2945929.html
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Target Britain: Wave of attacks planned, say investigators
Terrorists in UK still possess huge arsenal of bombs and weapons. Country remains under 'very severe' threat, security sources warn

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1218895.ece
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Italian police arrest 40

In security crackdown after British terror plot thwarted

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2006/08/11/1749110.html

[JustPiper]

Beware the 22nd of August; Iranian mad hatters may be up to something

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/11/beware-the-22nd-of-august-iranian-mad-hatters-may-be-up-to-something/

[JustPiper]

Liquid Bomb Pakistan Link Is False Flag Smoking Gun

Veracity of liquid explosives method also put under dubious doubt

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/130806liquidbomb.htm

[Cindy]

Note: CLICK THE LINKS TO VIEW THE VARIOUS LINKS/COMMENTARY.
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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005694.html
14 August 2006
"Hizballah in Latin America: in Venezuela and online"

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005692.html
"Hizballah web site updates, 12 August 2006"
UPDATE 12 AUGUST 2006

[JustPiper]

I heard today on am radio to vote for anyone who does NOT support Hizzy, good advice! Including Leiberman, I'd love to see him win as an Indy

[nwctwx]

Did Hezbollah "win"? Maybe not.

Have they been defeated? I don't think so.

I'm just confused as to why we are allowed to spend as long as needed cleaning up a terrorist group, but we expect different from Israel.

The stakes are clearly high over there, but this whole thing seems like a sweep it under the rug kind of thing...

[JustPiper]

HOMELAND INSECURITY

U.S. terror group ignored amid raised threat?
Investigator says domestic cells involved in 9-11 still in business

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51506

[freeperfromnj]

Equipment Failure Hits LAX Second Time, Landings Delayed

Monday, August 14, 2006

LOS ANGELES — An instrument landing system that guides arriving planes onto a runway at Los Angeles International Airport failed for the second time in a week Monday, delaying several flights, officials said....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208344,00.html