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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - September 2006

Posted on 09/01/2006 8:57:29 PM PDT by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Five Years Later, We're Still Not Safe
-Full Story-

In the five years since terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Americans have accepted inconvenience, sacrificed personal liberties and paid billions of dollars for a security clampdown that touches virtually every aspect of their lives.

And we're still not safe.

A close examination of the federal government's homeland security effort shows that there have been major accomplishments since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. But it also reveals how vulnerable the nation remains to catastrophe.

Hunt for bin Laden Is Chasing Shadows and Raising Tensions
Homegrown Terror Suspects Raise Concern

New Video Coming from al Zawahri and American al Qa'ida

> Adam Yahiye Gadahn
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; adamgadahn; ahmadinejad; alqaeda; alqaida; azzamalamriki; benedictxvi; binladen; fifthanniversary; globaljihad; islamist; jihad; nieleak; ramadan; september112001; terrorism; threat; threatmatrix; ubl; wot; zawahiri; zawahri
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To: nopardons

Thank you NoPardons.


1,381 posted on 09/21/2006 11:05:44 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

As always, my pleasure. :-)


1,382 posted on 09/21/2006 11:09:26 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Jet Jaguar; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All
ON THE NET...

SHABELLE.net (Note: Includes news in English)

VOAnews.com - Nairobi: "SOMALIA PROBES DEADLY BOMBINGS" by Alisha Ryu (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The United States has accused some senior members of Somalia's Islamist movement, including the group's leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, of having links to al-Qaida and harboring extremists. In recent years, many Somalis have privately blamed several radical members of the Islamic group, who are believed to have received terrorist training in Afghanistan, of carrying out roadside bombings and a series of assassinations of Somali intellectuals, aid workers, and a BBC journalist in Mogadishu.") (September 21, 2006)
BBC NEWS: "BURIAL FOR NUN KILLED IN SOMALIA" (Last Updated September 21, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "MORE JIHAD CAMPS IN SOMALIA" (September 21, 2006)

CNN.com (AP): Mogadishu, Somalia - "ISLAMIC MILITIA TO OPEN 'HOLY WAR' CAMPS IN SOMALIA" (September 19, 2006)

BILL ROGGIO.com: "SUICIDE STRIKES IN SOMALIA The first suicide bomber in Somalia targets transitional president and parliament as Somalia slides further into the hands of the al-Qaeda backed Islamic Courts" (September 18, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS): "SOMALI JIHADISTS OPEN MILITIA CAMP" (August 24, 2006)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "CONVERT FROM ISLAM TO CHRISTIANITY KILLED IN SOMALIA" by Michael Ireland (September 15, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "SOMALIA"

PERSECUTION.org

TKB.org: "SOMALIA"

Travel.State.gov - Consular Information Sheet: "SOMALIA"

GLOBAL CRISIS WATCH.com

1,383 posted on 09/22/2006 1:17:21 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: nwctwx; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; All
INTELLIGENCE.HOUSE.gov: Washington, D.C. - "HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE RELEASES REPORT ON IRANIAN STRATEGIC THREAT" (August 23, 2006)

"intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/IranReport082206v2.pdf"

1,384 posted on 09/22/2006 3:01:26 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: StillProud2BeFree; backhoe; piasa; All

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24536

"Paintballing for Allah"
By Joe Kaufman and Laura Mansfield
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 22, 2006


1,385 posted on 09/22/2006 3:16:24 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: nwctwx; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; All
INTELLIGENCE.house.gov: Washington, D.C. - "HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE RELEASES REPORT ON AL-QAEDA Five Years after 9-11 Al Qaeda, Like-Minded Islamists no Less Committed to Attacking within the U.S." (September 20, 2006) (pdf)

"intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/ExtremistThreat.pdf"

1,386 posted on 09/22/2006 3:20:58 AM PDT by Cindy
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ON THE NET...

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24545
"Rekindling an Ancient Rage"
By Andrew G. Bostom
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 22, 2006

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/09/013235print.html
"JIHAD IS OUR WAY, BUT WHICH WAY IS UP?"
(September 21, 2006)

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22671_Islamic_Scholars-_Fire_the_Pope&only
"ISLAMIC SCHOLARS FIRE THE POPE"
(September 21, 2006)

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http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/21/153302.shtml?s=ic

By the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 3:30 p.m. EDT
"Pakistani Muslim Clerics: The Pope Must Go"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "About 1,000 Muslim clerics and religious scholars meeting Thursday in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of Pope Benedict XVI for making what they called "insulting remarks" against Islam.



Benedict "should be removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths" and "making insulting remarks" against Islam, said a joint statement issued by the clerics and scholars at the end of their one-day convention.



The "pope, and all infidels, should know that no Muslim, under any circumstances, can tolerate an insult to the Prophet (Muhammad). ... If the West does not change its stance regarding Islam, it will face severe consequences," it said.



The meeting was organized by the radical Islamic group Jamaat al-Dawat, which runs schools, colleges and medical clinics. In April, Washington put the group on a list of terrorist organizations for its alleged links with militants fighting in the Indian part of Kashmir."


1,387 posted on 09/22/2006 3:26:50 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: all4one

Appreciate the ping.


1,388 posted on 09/22/2006 4:08:21 AM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo (DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS.)
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To: All

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06090098.htm

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

"Somalia, Iraq, Palestinian Territories: ‘Unreasonable‘ jihad
- urgent request for prayers for deliverence"

By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service


1,389 posted on 09/22/2006 4:08:43 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Jet Jaguar; JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All

ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22681_Jawdropper_of_the_Hour&only

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20060921SpanishUNHizballah01.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060921/481/e0295bd70c984d358f823df501016bad

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060921/capt.e0295bd70c984d358f823df501016bad.mideast_lebanon_hezbollah_bei123.jpg?x=380&y=278&sig=EmRtPN4fvGSRBwmzx.k9GQ--


1,390 posted on 09/22/2006 4:13:37 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

UPDATE:

Norway taped plot to blow up U.S. embassy

By Camilla Bergsli
1 hour, 15 minutes ago

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian prosecutors unveiled on Friday evidence against four men detained on suspicion of plotting to blow up the U.S. and Israeli embassies and of participating in a shooting at the Oslo synagogue last weekend.

Prosecutor Unni Fries told a court the Norwegian secret services had bugged the car of the main suspect and recorded conversations between the men planning the attacks.

"They spoke in detail about how to attack the synagogue and the U.S. and Israeli embassies," Fries said, asking the court to detain all four suspects for four weeks without visitors or other contact with the outside world.

Early on Sunday morning at least 10 shots fired from an automatic weapon hit Oslo's only synagogue. No one was hurt in the shooting, the most serious in a string of attacks in recent months on the Nordic country's small Jewish community.

Police have identified the detainees only as men between the ages of 20 and 30. Defense lawyers, who said their clients were innocent, said one suspect was of Turkish origin, two had Pakistani backgrounds and one was a native Norwegian.

Fries said the main suspect had "expressed extreme Islamist views" and was briefly detained during this summer's World Cup by German police, who found drawings of rockets in his car.

During a trip to Britain in June he was reported to have told his girlfriend over the telephone that he "felt that he had to act," Fries said. She did not say whether prosecutors were linking the suspects with any extremist organization.

The U.S. embassy said in a statement that it was watching developments closely and would cooperate fully with Norwegian authorities.

"We are deeply concerned about the emerging information on these planned terrorist attacks," ambassador Ben Whitney said. "This situation reflects the importance of having the necessary legal tools to prevent terrorism."

The four men could face jail terms of up to 12 years if convicted of conspiring to carry out acts of terror.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/ts_nm/norway_embassy_dc


1,391 posted on 09/22/2006 7:13:32 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Teri0811
"They're not letting anyone in the garages around the area to get their cars until they've inspected them and have given the all clear."

Odd...considering that this was an "electrical" underground fire event. News reports showed unbelievable backups yesterday. Also, on talk radio the interviews with people in the area said that the buildings shook, and one man stated that there were at least 3 explosions...and at one point with the noise and the buildings shaking...he thought that a building had fallen because it was so loud.

1,392 posted on 09/22/2006 8:23:14 AM PDT by all4one (9/11 Never Forget - Never Forgive -- Prayers for the families & our soldiers)
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To: freeperfromnj; Cindy; Velveeta; SlowBoat407; tmp02; Domestic Church; Donna Lee Nardo; ...
BWI Concourses Reopened Following Search (Baltimore/Washington - 9/22/06)

Updated Friday, September 22, 2006 at 9:42 am LINTHICUM, Md. — Canine teams searched two terminals at Baltimore/Washington International Airport this morning after screeners after screeners discovered a firearm in a carry-on at a security checkpoint.

Authorities held onto the package but its owner continued through the checkpoint, prompting Maryland Transportation Authority police to evacuate concourses A and B, said BWI spokesman Jonathan Dean. Those concourses serve one of the airport’s largest carriers, Southwest Airlines, Dean said.

“We simply were acting with all due precaution, the item is being held,” Dean said.

Transportation Security Administration spokesman Christopher White said the bag belonged to a male passenger and that police and security personnel searched without success for a person matching the owner’s description.

The concourses were reopened about 90 minutes after the 6:40 a.m. incident and all passengers were being required to go through screening again, Dean said.

The incident caused more than a dozen morning flight delays, said Cheryl Stewart, an airport spokeswoman.

Link to Article

1,393 posted on 09/22/2006 9:49:30 AM PDT by all4one (9/11 Never Forget - Never Forgive -- Prayers for the families & our soldiers)
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Osama Bin Laden About to Attack the U.S., Says Terrorism Expert

ASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following is a statement by Republican presidential candidate Dr. Hugh Cort:

I work with Dr. Paul Williams, the source for the September 7th World Net Daily article “Al-Qaeda Warns Muslims: Time to get out of U.S.; Afghan terror commander hints at big attack on NY, Washington.”

He is in touch with Hamid Mir; the Fox News Middle East expert who has interviewed bin Laden three times. Hamid Mir did the interview with Abu Dawood, the top Al Qaeda man in Afghanistan, who said all the Muslims need to leave America, especially New York and Washington, because Osama is soon going to attack with his “American Hiroshima” plan where he blows up 7 to 10 American cities with suitcase nukes.

Abu Dawood also told Hamid Mir that bin Laden will come out with a new audiotape in the next 10 days or sooner. Dr. Williams can provide media with the transcript of this interview. (NOTE: Contact Dr. Cort at 205-213-5621 between 2 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time, or leave a message at 205-313-1786 for more information).

Dr. Williams and I have located Adnan Shukrijumah, who the FBI calls “the next Mohammed Atta”, who is the leader of bin Laden’s “American Hiroshima” attacks, in Canada. We met with Canadian intelligence for five hours. They were very helpful. However the FBI has not been helpful. Google the name Ciro Vitolo. We have much more info that is not on the internet. We have also discovered what we believe could be the nerve center for bin Laden’s “American Hiroshima” attacks. Hamid Mir, who has never been wrong to our knowledge, says bin Laden has already smuggled suitcase nukes through the Mexican border into the U.S. and is soon going to blow up 7 to 10 American cities.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s number two man, said in his latest audiotape, essentially “We have warned you repeatedly, we have offered you a truce, we have asked you to convert to Islam, so now we have satisfied all the requirements (of Muslim law or “Honor Code” where you must warn your enemy, and offer him one last chance for a truce and to convert, before you strike him) and now we are justified in attacking you. Your government has hidden from you the full extent of the devastation that is coming. The days are pregnant with events that are about to be born.”

In his audiotape of Jan. 19, bin Laden offered America a truce, then said “The only reason we have not attacked you yet is not because of your security precautions. It is simply because we are not quite through with the preparations. The minute the preparations are through, you will feel the attacks in your own homes.”

Christianne Amanpour in the CNN special on bin Laden that aired a few weeks ago, “In the Footsteps of Bin Laden” made the point that before 9/11 bin Laden got a fatwa saying it was okay to kill civilians. Then he did 9/11. Now, she pointed out, he has gotten a fatwa, or religious order, saying it is OK to kill 10 million Americans with nuclear weapons. Guess what is going to happen next?

These attacks, which Khalid Sheik Mohammed said will be “a nuclear hell storm on America”, are coming soon, perhaps as early as this Saturday, when the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts.

So what can we do at this late date?

The FBI needs to search every mosque in our major cities, but in surprise raids, because, apparently, according to an internet posting by the English Muslim convert Rakan Ben Williams, the bombers have a “failsafe plan” where if one of them gets caught the others are to immediately detonate their nukes.

And we must quickly catch Shukrijumah and his fellow terrorists in Canada before they blow up 7 to 10 American cities (just contact Dr. Paul Williams and myself and we will lead you to them). It is our only chance.

Also, everyone needs to immediately go to the website http://www.ki4u.com where they can order potassium iodide (KI) pills to avoid thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear attack, and on that website they can read the ten-page article “How to Survive a Nuclear Attack” — stay inside your house for three days, after which the radiation decreases to one hundredth of its initial strength, and then it is safe to go outside for short trips, and after 2 weeks you can go out all the time. But if you go outside in the first three days, even just for ten minutes, you will receive a fatal dose of radiation and slowly bleed to death internally over 2-3 weeks. Remember, many more people died from radiation poisoning after Hiroshima than died in the initial blast.

Please help me and Dr. Paul Williams stop these horrible attacks. Please get us some press coverage and some help from our Congressmen and Senators and FBI and CIA and NSA before it’s too late.

God bless you, and God bless America!

P.S. Watch for Osama’s new audiotape, coming out in a few days.

—- Visit http://www.stopdoomsday.com

1,394 posted on 09/22/2006 9:57:56 AM PDT by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: JellyJam

Thanks for that post (I think).


1,395 posted on 09/22/2006 10:09:18 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: all4one

No ID on the owner, of course.


1,396 posted on 09/22/2006 10:09:59 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: freeperfromnj

Pretty eerie, isn't it? I don't feel like going ANYWHERE on Saturday.


1,397 posted on 09/22/2006 10:10:36 AM PDT by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: JellyJam

It's comforting working a few blocks from the White House these days. ;-)


1,398 posted on 09/22/2006 10:14:37 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: nwctwx

I'm sure the president won't be anywhere near it this weekend.


1,399 posted on 09/22/2006 10:17:37 AM PDT by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: MamaDearest; All

7 illegal alien gang members arrested in Aurora
~Tis about 45 min from me, if they want to get rid of 1 + million illegals they need to move closer to where I live

News Briefs
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said his group today possesses more than 20,000 rockets, and that an increased U.N. peacekeeping force will not hurt the guerrillas' arsenal.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has told a huge rally in Beirut that he thanks God for what he called his group's "victory" in a 34-day war with Israel.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) The Palestinian prime minister of Hamas says he will not head a government that recognizes Israel.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Hamas says there won't be a coalition government if it has to recognize Israel.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will meet with representatives of Muslim countries on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) Pakistan's president says a peace treaty with tribes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is not meant to support the Taliban.

PALU, Indonesia (AP) Police say mobs burn cars, attack police posts in Indonesia following executions of Christian militants.


1,400 posted on 09/22/2006 12:10:47 PM PDT by JustPiper (It is not, "Who is she?" but rather "Who does she think she is?")
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