Threat Matrix: November 2006

[nwctwx]

The Price of Victory
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The "bombshell" revelation from last April's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which was leaked to the New York Times in September, was that the war in Iraq had resulted in more terrorism, not less. As reported by United Press International's Claude Salhani, "Did we really need 16 intelligence agencies to tell us that? Ten minutes of watching the newscast of your choice, from Al-Jazeera to Fox News, would be enough to convince most observers." But the key question is why the war has provoked the global Jihad.

One answer has to be the influence in the Arab world of the America-
hating network Al-Jazeera. The AIM DVD on "Terror Television" shows film footage of captured terrorists saying they came to Iraq to kill Americans because of the words and images on Al-Jazeera.

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[Cindy]

UPDATE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743177/posts

"Friend: Poisoned Ex-Russian Spy on Life Support"
Fox News ^ | November 23, 2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 11/23/2006 1:54:00 PM PST by Zakeet

LONDON

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=russia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=espionage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=spy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=spies

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743183/posts


"Moscow 'steps up spying in UK'"
Financial Times ^ | November 20, 2006 | Stephen Fidler

Posted on 11/23/2006 2:24:57 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

[MamaDearest]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

Ditto that and special thanks for the TM FReepers who are ill and lurking - they know who they are. We keep them in our hearts, minds and prayers.

Grandmother in 1st Hamas suicide in two years

Snip: The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, approaching troops operating to curb daily rocket attacks, the army said.

Electronic jihad's cyber soldiers

Snip: "It is the internet version of jihad: you can telecharge viruses, which will be activated at the planned date ... I downloaded one which was called 'jihad reminder'," said Anne Giudicelli, a French specialist who runs a "terrorism" consultancy monitoring radical Islamic websites.

A recent report from the American Jamestown Foundation -- a group that aims to inform policymakers about countries of strategic and tactical importance that might restrict access to such information -- highlights a so-called electronic jihad website, where the "electronic jihad program 1,5 silver edition virus" is available.

[Cindy]

Update: As heard on the news today, the ex-Russian spy has died.

[Cindy]

Our prayers are with those special Freepers and yes, they know who they are.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1743191/posts?page=30#30

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1743191/posts

"Airline Safety in Post-9/11 America"
The Oregonian ^ | November 23, 2006 | David Reinhard

Posted on 11/23/2006 2:57:07 PM PST by crazyhorse691

[Cindy]

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/11/report_iraqbased_jihadists_see.php
"Report: Iraq-Based Jihadists Seek to Expand War to North Africa"
By Evan Kohlmann
(November 23, 2006)

[Cindy]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53091

"FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
'Hi, my name is Ahmed and I
want to be a suicide bomber'
Recruited attacker for terror group talks to WND
about 'serving Allah by blasting unbelievers to hell'"
Posted: November 24, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JENIN – WND was granted access through the Islamic Jihad terror group to a 23-year old Palestinian man who has volunteered to become a suicide bomber and who the organization says has "great potential" to carry out one of the next attempted suicide attacks against Israeli civilians.

According to Islamic Jihad leaders, the potential bomber interviewed is one of over "hundreds" of young Palestinians in the northern West Bank who passed necessary recruitment stages and is available to attempt to infiltrate Jewish population centers wearing an explosive belt with the goal of blowing up as many Israelis as possible.

The interview took place in a remote building in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, a well-known Islamic Jihad stronghold from which the majority of recent Palestinian suicide bombers have originated."

[Cindy]

http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/11/bastards-got-me-they-wont-get-us-all.html

Thursday, November 23, 2006

"'The bastards got me, they won't get us all'"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The poisoned Russian spy breathed defiance at the Kremlin as the effects of a mystery cocktail pushed him towards his death last night.

“I want to survive, just to show them,” Alexander Litvinenko said in an exclusive interview given just hours before he died.

Too weak to move his limbs and visibly in great pain, the former Russian intelligence officer suggested that he knew he may not win his struggle against the lethal chemicals destroying his vital organs. But he said the campaign for truth would go on with or without him.

“The bastards got me,” he whispered. “But they won’t get everybody.”

Mr Litvinenko, 43, uttered his last defiant words to Andrei Nekrasov, a friend and film-maker, who had visited him in University College Hospital in London every day this week. Last night Mr Nekrasov described the extraordinary scenes in hospital, where one ward looks like a scene from The Godfather."

[Cindy]

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

[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Fri Nov 24 2006 01:06:07 GMT-0800.

Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=mullahkrekar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=krekar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=norway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iraq

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UPDATE...

http://cache.aftenposten.no/multimedia/archive/00296/_M04Krekar2206_jpg_296287h.jpg


http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1541826.ece

"Krekar can be expelled"
(November 22, 2006)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The latest round of legal wrangling between Norwegian authorities and controversial mullah Krekar has ended with another ruling that he can go. On Wednesday Borgarting Court of Appeals ruled that Krekar, the former head of northern Iraq-based Kurdish guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam, can be deported and that he must pay the state's court costs of NOK 290,000 (USD 45,000).

The court rejected Krekar's appeal and upheld the 2005 ruling of the Oslo Court, which found that then Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Erna Solberg was able to expel Krekar on the grounds that he posed a threat to national security."

[Cindy]

http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&scoring=d&q=security+%2B+malls&btnG=Search+News

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http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=74016_0_10_0_C

"Most mall employees unsure what to do in emergency"

By JEREMY ROEBUCK
The Monitor

[Cindy]

Thanks to Irish_Thatcherite for the ping to this thread.
Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742490/posts


Republicans Deny Plot To Murder Adams
The UK Guardian ^ | November 19, 2006 | Henry McDonald

Posted on 11/22/2006 12:30:56 AM PST by mcg2000

Two Republican terror groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement have denied they are involved in any plot to kill Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. The Irish National Liberation Army and the Continuity IRA said this weekend there are no plans to assassinate Sinn Fein leaders. They also condemned any threats to the two Sinn Fein MPs even though they were political enemies.

The INLA and its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party, described claims by Adams that he and Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly were under threat as 'nonsense'.

An INLA spokesman told The Observer that the allegation was 'designed to stifle debate about policing inside Sinn Fein'.

Last Monday the Sinn Fein leadership held a press conference during which Adams claimed they had been warned to step up their personal security due to threats from an alliance of anti-Good Friday Agreement republicans.

This was linked, it was later alleged, to a series of meetings between INLA and other dissident republicans across Northern Ireland to map out a strategy aimed at opposing the St Andrews Agreement. Dissident republicans and a number of activists inside Sinn Fein have been fiercely critical of that part of the St Andrews deal which requires the party to sign an oath pledging support for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

'The INLA would be totally opposed to targeting any republican. As we have learnt bitterly from the past there is nothing worse in republican eyes than Irishmen killing Irishmen,' the INLA spokesman said.

The terror group has emerged from a series of internal feuds dating back to its split with the Official IRA 31 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.guardian.co.uk ...

[all4one]

Thanks SB...you would know! Not too bad...and today...wonderful..beautiful...sunny...and so far I am inside setting up wireless network for husband..and pretty soon friends down the street. I hope you are taking some time to enjoy the great weather and spend time with family and friends.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks. :)

[JustPiper]

Thanks for the ping V!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stand_Up_For_America/message/609

[JustPiper]

While They are Shopping "Black Friday"

I am angry watching the news and the 'insanity' of all those greedy buggers with dollars to waste sit at "Best Buy" to buy their electronic toys while THIS is going on!!!

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Iraqi officials now say 202 people died and 252 were wounded in the attack on Baghdad's Sadr City.

Bombs Kill 22 After Deadly Day in Iraq

Shiites Burn Six Sunni Worshippers Alive

Shoppers leave a Best Buy store with their purchases in Chicago November 24, 2006. Americans shook off their turkey-and-cranberry hangovers and hit the stores early on Friday, anxious to start holiday shopping and take advantage of deals offered by retailers including Gap, Macy's and Best Buy

Mosques torched after worst Iraq bombing

Female bomber, 68, wounds 3 IDF troops

Best Buy slowly figuring out the best buyers are women.'Hi! Welcome to Best Buy! Cute sweater! Banana Republic, right?" No, Best Buy did not pull a Freaky Friday with sales associates from Express. Not yet, anyway. But this rather uncharacteristic greeting, delivered when I entered the store last week, was no accident, either. Best Buy is trying to soften its image. It's easy to understand why: Women now outspend men on electronics

Death toll from Iraq Sadr City bombs up to 202

[JustPiper]

Love to you M'Dear

[Cindy]

EVENT:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743312/posts