Threat Matrix: December 2006

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Fighting Jihad in Cyberspace
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The setting is familiar to anyone who watches the evening news. A large, executive-style desk, a laptop perched on top, a logo in the background and a screen showing shifting images to reinforce the newsreader's message. The only difference is the presenter, who is swathed in an Arab headdress and masked to hide his identity, and the subject of the broadcast, a call for an Islamic state for Iraq and a vow to use Iraq as a launching pad to crush the "Zionists" in Israel.

Welcome to the "Voice of the Caliphate", the latest offering from the Global Islamic Media Front, widely regarded as the mouthpiece of al-Qaeda and the worldwide jihadist movement.

Distributed over the internet, the mock news format is just one of many employed by al-Qaeda's highly sophisticated propaganda arm.

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[Cindy]

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=129&view=item&idx=1201

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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014643.php

January 01, 2007

Jihad Video Encourages Bombings
Blow yourself up for the new year. From Israel Today, with thanks to James:

An Islamic website featured a three-minute video entitled, “Blow Yourself Up.”
The video shows a bomber reading his suicide note, vowing “that you [the Israeli ‘occupiers’] will not live in peace and that martyrdom [operations] will continue until you return to your homes, defeated and humiliated.”

The bomber then blows himself up as images of mangled bodies lay all around. “We have watered the soil with the blood of the martyrs, we have not withheld [our] blood from the soil,” the video reads. It closes with footage of the 9/11 attacks.

Posted by Robert at January 1, 2007 12:26 AM

[Cindy]

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=2&id=34211

(CITY NEWS SERVICE)
(LexisNexis)

"Calif. Police Kill Suspect in Officers' Shooting"
Updated: December 29th, 2006 02:51 PM EDT

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Walters said Gallegos had a pistol with a laser-sight and two extra ammunition magazines in his pocket.

Before yesterday's shootout, Long Beach police and city officials announced a $75,000 reward for information leading to Gallegos' arrest.

Batts called Gallegos a "known thug" with a rap sheet dating back to 1990, when he was arrested for a firearms violation. He has also been arrested for drug offenses, making terrorist threats and assault with a deadly weapon. He has also been deported three times.

Batts said the wounded officers were doing well.

"Their recovery looks good," he said. "Our prayers are with them. They still have a battle to fight. They have some very serious injuries, but they're up, they're talking."

Anyone interested in making a donation to aid the officers and their families can send them to: Widows and Orphans Fund, Long Beach Police Officers Association, 2865 Temple Ave., Long Beach, Calif. 90755."

[Cindy]

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006626.htm

"A New Year's Eve reminder:
Cherish life and love"
By Michelle Malkin · December 31, 2006 10:04 PM

[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, Mon Jan 01 2007 02:57:33 GMT-0800.

Worldwide Caution

October 11, 2006

[Cindy]

Thanks to bd476 for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760858/posts

"Somali PM: Islamic Stronghold Captured"
ABC News & AP ^ | 1 January 2007 | By NASTEEX DAHIR FARAH

Posted on 01/01/2007 3:09:28 AM PST by bd476

[freeperfromnj]

Plane carrying 102 missing in Indonesia

1/1/2007, 7:52 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger plane lost contact with flight controllers Monday as it flew between Indonesia's Java and Sulawesi islands, officials said.

Aviation authorities are unable to contact Adam Air flight KI-574, Gunawan Suherman, Adam Air's chief executive, told The Associated Press.

The missing plane is a Boeing 737-400, carrying six crew and 96 passengers, including 11 children, Indonesia's El-Shinta radio reported.

"We can't say what happened yet, we are still coordinating," Suherman said.

Indonesian Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa confirmed the plane had lost contact, but offered no further details.

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/international-19/1167656358275680.xml&storylist=

[Godzilla]

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[Oorang]

Bomb Found at Erwinville Church (Louisiana)
Jan 1, 2007

West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes says that his deputies made a grizzly discovery late Sunday at a local church. Cazes says that his deputies and the State Police Hazardous Material Unit were called out to the scene of a bomb threat at Erwinville Baptist Church.

Cazes says that when they arrived, they found an Improvised Explosive Device inside a suitcase left at the front door of the church. You may have heard of IEDs in reports from the War in Iraq where they are common, but not in the small community of Erwinville. State Police brought in their bomb robot, which picked up the device and dropped it into a pit. The device was covered with sandbags and detonated.

Bomb experts are looking for more explosives that might be in the area of the church. Cazes tells 9News that the FBI has been called in to work the case. They will continue to investigate Monday.

http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5877520&nav=menu57_4

Bombs found hidden in toys (India)
January 01, 2007

Two suspected Islamic militants had been arrested with explosives hidden inside toys which they planned to blow up at a busy market in New Delhi, Indian police said today.

Samimullah and Ali Mohammad, both from Indian Kashmir, were arrested at a New Delhi railway station on suspicion of belonging to pro-Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, senior police official Karnal Singh said.

Excerpted

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20997042-1702,00.html

Jordan Baathists pledge loyalty to Saddam deputy
Dec. 31, 2006

A previously unknown group of Iraqi Baathists pledged allegiance to Saddam Hussein's fugitive deputy Izzat Ibrahim and named him the "legitimate president of Iraq," a statement issued by the group said Sunday.

SNIP:Ibrahim, Saddam's former deputy and now a fugitive with a US$10 million (€7.59 million) bounty on his head, has not been seen since the fall of Saddam's regime in April 2003. He is believed to be leading Baathists participating in the insurgency that has left thousands of US and allied troops dead.

Excerpted

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467631042&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[Oorang]

Hunt for Saddam's $57bn
January 02, 2007

THE hunt for Saddam's missing billions was stepped up yesterday amid speculation he amassed a $57 billion fortune during his 30-year reign. Much is said to be invested through dummy corporations in Switzerland, Japan and Germany and some is hidden as cash and diamonds in numbered bank accounts in Europe and the Middle East. But Iraqi and US investigators, led by the FBI, US Treasury agents and State Department accountants, have been unable to identify the fake companies or the numbered accounts.

After a brief period of co-operation when he was first captured, the dictator refused to help further.

In a report submitted to the CIA in 2005, former UN arms inspector Charles Duelfer estimated that Saddam had amassed more than $15 billion "through illicit means" between 1990, when UN sanctions were imposed, and 2003. But Iyad Allawi, who was interim prime minister of Iraq in the aftermath of the allied invasion, said the figure was far higher.

He said information suggested Saddam had salted away an astonishing $57 billion through a network of bank accounts around the world. $5.5 billion came from an illegal oil-for-trade deal he signed with Syria between 2000 and 2003.

Excerpted

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20998586-5001021,00.html

'Islam will dominate the world'
January 1, 2007

NAZARETH – Islamic groups held a large militant march down the main streets of Nazareth this weekend, highlighting for some here the plight of Christians in this ancient city where Muslims have become a majority and members of the dwindling Christian population say they suffer regular intimidation.

Nazareth, considered one of the holiest cities for Christians, is described in the New Testament as the childhood home of Jesus. It contains multiple important shrines and churches, including the famous Church of the Basilica of the Annunciation, the site at which many Christians believe the Virgin Mary was visited by the Archangel Gabriel and told that she had been selected as the mother of Jesus.

The Islamic Movement, the main Muslim political party in Nazareth, said it organized yesterday's march to celebrate Eid ul-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, which commemorates the Muslim belief Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael for Allah. Christian and Jewish faith dictates it was Isaac, not Ishmael, whom Abraham almost sacrificed.

Islamic Movement leaders paraded down Nazareth's main thoroughfare brandishing their party's green flag. Young Muslim men in battle gear marched and beat drums as a man on loudspeaker repeatedly exclaimed in Arabic, "Allah is great."

Hundreds of activists strutted screaming Islamist epithets, including "Islam is the only truth" and "Islam shall rule all."

Excerpted

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53574

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1760978/posts

"The Eid Festival Around The World - Graphic Photos"
Sweetness & Light ^ | January 1, 2007 | N/A

Posted on 01/01/2007 11:27:27 AM PST by Sam Hill

[Cindy]

How sad, freeperfromnj.

Thank you very much for the ping.

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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=%22Adam+Air%22&scoring=d

Tiny UPDATE...

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/01/01/indonesian-passenger-jet-sent-distress-signal-before-going-missing/

(VOA)

"Indonesian Passenger Jet Sent Distress Signal Before Going Missing"
January 01, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A passenger plane carrying more than 100 people has disappeared over Indonesia, and rescue teams are searching for it. Chad Bouchard has more in this VOA report from Jakarta.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with Adam Air flight KI 574 shortly after midday. The plane was at an altitude of about 35,000 feet during a scheduled two-hour flight from Java to north Sulawesi island.

There was no sign of the airplane several hours after its arrival time. The jet carried only enough fuel to fly for four hours.

Transportation Ministry Director General of Air Transport Ikhsan Tatang told reporters at a news conference that bad weather conditions could have been a factor.

Tatang says, before leaving, the plane had received weather information for the whole
journey.

Transport officials added that the airplane was sighted over central Sulawesi, and a Singapore satellite also picked up a distress signal in that area.

Emergency crews have been dispatched to look for survivors."

[Cindy]

"Bombs found hidden in toys (India)"

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20997042-1702,00.html

OPINION: The depth of hate the terrorists hold seems to know no bounds -- pure evil.

[Cindy]

Adding to Oorang's post no 1689:

JIHAD WATCH.org (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE): "INDIA: JIHADISTS HIDE BOMBS IN TOYS" (December 31, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org - Search Term: "LASHKAR-E-TAIBA"

SAAG.org - Search Term: "LASHKAR-E-TAIBA"

FreeRepublic.com - Key Word Search: "LASHKAR-E-TAIBA"

[Oorang]

Mexican Government Gives Technological Assistance to Illegals
January 01, 2007

Mexican authorities are giving handheld satellite devices to illegals crossing the US-Mexico border. The project, designed to assist Mexican citizens to illegally cross the border, plans to provide 200,000 of the devices.

The Sunday Telegraph quotes Coordinator for the state commission for migrants in Puebla Jaime Obregon as saying: "Our intention is to save lives. There are lots of people looking to cross and we are working with the US authorities to make sure they do not die on the way."

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/21612.html

Somali Islamists flee towards Kenya and to the hills
01 January 2007

KISMAYU, Somalia - Somalia's Islamists fled towards Kenya or melted into the southern hills on Monday after abandoning their last stronghold to advancing government forces backed by Ethiopian troops, tanks and planes.

Excerpted

http://www.peterboroughnow.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1951762&SectionID=5055

New rules complicate Islamic ritual
January 01, 2007

MINA, Saudi Arabia – The rituals of Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage are enormously complicated, so it helps to have someone to advise how to do them right: thus the long lines Monday at the ``ask a sheik" booths scattered around the holy sites.

Excerpted

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/166944

[Oorang]

Thanks Cindy.

[Oorang]

Adding to post #1695:

Islamist fighters offered amnesty
January 1, 2007

MOGADISHU — Fighters belonging to a militant Islamist movement fled into a rugged, forested corner of Somalia from rapidly advancing government forces Monday, and the prime minister offered amnesty if they surrendered.

Excerpted

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070101.wsomal0101/BNStory/International/home

[Cindy]

You're welcome Oorang.

[Oorang]

Angry Muslims slam Iraq, US for Saddam death
02 January 2007

BAGHDAD : Muslims in their thousands, both inside and outside war-torn Iraq, lashed out on Monday at the country's Shiite leaders as well as the United States for executing Saddam Hussein during one of Islam's holiest periods.

Excerpted

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/250178/1/.html

Timing of Saddam execution risks Arab backlash: analysts
31 December 2006

CAIRO : Images of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being led to the gallows on one of Islam's most important feast days risk further alienating public opinion in an Arab world already bristling at perceived Western insensitivity, analysts warned.

Even the West's leading Middle East allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, publicly spoke out against the choice of the first day of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice to put Saddam to death.

Excerpted

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/249992/1/.html

[Oorang]

AFP Photographer Kidnapped in Gaza
1 January 2007

Sofia. A journalist is reported to have been kidnapped by masked gunmen in the Gaza Strip, Deutsche Welle informs. Palestinian security sources said a photographer working for the French news agency Agence France Presse or AFP was apparently abducted by five armed men outside Gaza City offices.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n102530

Same incident, different source info:

Photographer kidnapped in Gaza

Jaime Razuri was kidnapped as he entered his office in Gaza City [AFP] A photographer from a French news agency has been kidnapped in Gaza, according to witnesses. Agence France-Presse photographer, Jaime Razuri, a 50-year-old Peruvian national, was seized in Gaza on Monday by unknown armed men as he entered the agency's offices in Gaza City, AFP reported two witnesses as saying.

Hamman Al Faghawi, a translator with AFP, said: "We got out of the jeep. I heard the noise of weapons. I turned around and I saw two unmasked men. They pointed their weapons at Jaime and at me." "They told me to shut up and took him away in a Subaru car," he said.

Excerpted

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/34A8E2C1-26F3-4588-B863-2096709183F5.htm