Threat Matrix: January 2007

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Fighting Jihad: Strategic Thinking Needed
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The United States of America has some of the smartest leaders in government, military, and business in the world. Yet the American government has failed to collectively use this formidable brain-power 5+ years after the attack by Jihadists on the American homeland to develop a truly strategic plan to fight the global threat of Jihad and Islamist extremism. In one of the most complex wars in American history, rather than starting with holistic, big-picture thinking towards the challenges and prioritizing resources and actions accordingly, America has spent much of the past five years after 9/11 in reactive and bureaucratic churning.

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[Oorang]

Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot the "excerpted". Trying to do more than one thing at once again *sigh*. I'll check my other posts to see what should be labeled "excerpted" that wasn't.

[ExSoldier]

My guess is that this was a mockup similar to what I saw in a museum in Los Alamos years ago. They had a display of the two WWII devices known as Fat Man and Little Boy. I actually got to sit astride one and have my pic taken on it. Felt like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. It's nothing more than a shell made of pig iron. Nothing magical or deadly. Get the same effect from a 55gal oil drum. It really is scrap. Probably it was one of the same sort of shells I saw sitting on the grounds of the museum. I'll bet being exposed to the elements, they got rusty and started to decay. Wouldn't be too good if little Johnny caught Tetanus after getting cut on a piece of rusty jagged metal from a display. If it was something stolen from a LAB at Los Alamos I'd be really worried. But swiped from a scrap yard? Naaaaaw

[Oorang]

Thanks ExS. I appreciate your input.

[Oorang]

A Case of Missing Identity
By Mike Cutler January 17, 2007

Over 1,000 TSA uniforms and ID cards have been “lost” at airports across America. FSM Contributing Editor Mike Cutler asks why no one in Washington seems to think this is a problem.

Excerpted

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=609379&PHPSESSID=964701c73279083d6bddfc4d9a5c3d12

Saudi Arabia's Export Of Radical Islam - Part Three
Adrian Morgan
Date: January 18, 2007

Even though in both America and Britain there are loud cries of denial from Muslim leaders, FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan recounts how an undercover reporter has unveiled the consistent Saudi-exported hate-mongering and incitement in British mosques. You think this doesn't happen in American mosques? Think again.

Excerpted

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=615881&PHPSESSID=964701c73279083d6bddfc4d9a5c3d12

[Cindy]

"Wouldn't be too good if little Johnny caught Tetanus after getting cut on a piece of rusty jagged metal from a display"

Thanks ExSoldier.

[Cindy]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2732

"Saudi King, Gates Discuss Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan"

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 17, 2007

[Cindy]

Various Links Regarding the Internet ON THE NET...

http://www.cyberangels.org/stalking.html
CyberAngels.org: "Responding to CyberStalking"

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http://www.ic3.gov/preventiontips.aspx
Internet Crime Complaint Center:
"Internet Crime Prevention Tips"

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http://www.us-cert.gov
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team


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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=internet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=internetcafes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=internetcafe

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769849/posts

"Bird Flu Takes Flight"
Time ^ | 1-18-2007 | Tim Kindseth

Posted on 01/18/2007 5:01:58 PM PST by blam

[Cindy]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/warwithin.overview/index.html

"Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads"
POSTED: 1850 GMT (0250 HKT), January 18, 2007
DUBLIN, Ireland

[Oorang]

NIH grant to develop rapid outpatient device to detect bird flu and bioterror agents
Jan.18.2007

Awarded to the Medical College of Wisconsin The new integrated device the researchers are developing may allow cost effective, point-of-care diagnosis of these agents within one to two hours, according to principal investigator Kelly Henrickson, M.D., professor of pediatrics and microbiology at the Medical College. Dr. Henrickson is also a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

Dr. Henrickson previously developed the Hexaplex diagnostic test, using specialized reagents and genetic data for rapid, accurate simultaneous detection of the seven most common lower respiratory viruses, including several varieties of influenza. This technology is the basis for an array of products for physicians worldwide to rapidly detect the microbes responsible for a variety of illnesses such as aseptic meningitis, chicken pox, chronic cough syndrome, encephalitis, herpes, influenza, pneumonia, SARS, shingles, and West Nile virus.

"Our laboratory has pioneered a flexible, rapid, sensitive and specific method of simultaneously detecting multiple pathogens," says Dr. Henrickson. "We have recently developed two BioTplex assays that detect many (15) category 'A' bioterrorism agents. However, new amplified DNA detection and nucleic acid purification methods beyond those used in the Hexaplex diagnostic test allow for the development of a single 'point-of-care' device that may enhance the speed, flexibility, throughput, and cost effectiveness of multiplex assays."

Infectious agents identified to pose the greatest potential threat (Category "A" agents) include Variola major (smallpox), Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), Yersinia pestis (plague), Clostridium botulinum toxin (botulism), Francisella tularensis (tularaemia), and a group of RNA viruses that cause hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs).

Another agent of grave concern is avian flu. Additional concern exists over bird-to-human spread of avian flu and the potential adaptation for human-to-human spread. Terrorists could take advantage of avian flu's flexibility and engineer more virulent strains, capable of causing worldwide pandemics. Current diagnostic assays are directed to the common human isolates of influenza A, but no assay is available to detect all of the avian varieties of influenza A, according to Dr. Henrickson.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/mcow-ngt011807.php

[Oorang]

Al-Qaida claims responsibility for ambush in Baghdad
2007-01-19

Al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq claimed responsibility on Thursday for ambushing a three-vehicle convoy in western Baghdad on Wednesday during which three foreigners and an Iraqi were killed.

The insurgents posted a statement on a website regularly used by Al-Qaida in Iraq, saying that in an attack with light and medium weapons and RPG rockets in the Yarmouk area in Baghdad on Jan. 17 ... two vehicles belonging to Israel's Mossad were destroyed and a third one severely damaged.

The authenticity of the statement could not be verified.

Excerpted

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/19/content_5624610.htm

Bush renews freeze on bin Laden assets
1/18/07

President George W. Bush renewed for one year an asset freeze on terrorist chief Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network as well as groups like Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.

Excerpted

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070119/pl_afp/usattacksbushfunds

Fighting in Jolo Kills 13; Arroyo Vows to Wipe Out Terror (Philippines)

ZAMBOANGA CITY, 19 January 2007 — At least 13 Abu Sayyaf militants and soldiers were killed in fierce fighting that erupted yesterday in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, where security forces were battling the Al-Qaeda-linked terror group, officials said.

Officials said two Abu Sayyaf gunmen were also captured by soldiers in the hinterland village of Timpook in Patikul town, where a gunbattle broke out shortly before noon.

“Troops killed at least 10 enemies and captured two others, but three of our soldiers also died in the fighting in Patikul town. The fighting is still raging in the area,” army Maj. Eugene Batara, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command, told Arab News.

Excerpted

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=91114&d=19&m=1&y=2007

[Cindy]

Thanks to RDTF for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769907/posts

"'Black Hawk' General In Covert Ops With Warlord's Son"
New York Post ^ | January 15, 2006 | Niles Latham

Posted on 01/18/2007 6:25:07 PM PST by RDTF

[RDTF]

of course I still can't get used to typing 2007 - which is the correct year.

[Cindy]

smiling...and of course I'm still used to reading 2006 so I didn't even notice.

[Oorang]

Arrest of madrassa head: Woman asks Peshawar High Court to find her husband
Friday, January 19, 2007

PESHAWAR: The wife of Qari Subhanullah the head of Madrassa Iqra Rozatul Atfal, on Thursday challenged, at the Peshawar High Court (PHC), her husband’s arrest by intelligence agencies and local police officials for his alleged links with the Al Qaeda.

Ayesha of Gulbahar, who filed a habeas corpus petition through Advocate Khurshid Ahmad Shahan under Article 199 of the Constitution, said that her husband, Qari Subhanullah, 40, was a religious scholar and ran a madrassa in Gulbahar area of the city.

She said that intelligence agencies personnel, local Crime Investigation Department (CID) officials and army commandos raided her house at midnight on January 14, 2007 and arrested her husband. “During the raid, agencies officials told us that Subhanullah was wanted for his alleged links with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban,” she added.

Excerpted

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\01\19\story_19-1-2007_pg7_47

[Oorang]

ATLAS OF WORLD RELIGIONS - Islam

The Islamic World
About 1.3 billion people consider themselves followers of Islam, the world's second largest - and fastest-growing - religion after Christianity. In recent years, it has gained influence chiefly in Africa and the central Asian countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Excerpted

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,460253,00.html

[Oorang]

Indonesian businessmen pleads guilty in plot to ship weapons
January 18, 2007

DETROIT An Indonesian businessmen pleaded guilty in a plot federal authorities say aimed to buy hundreds of handguns, machine guns, Sidewinder missiles and aviation radar equipment for export to Indonesia.

Under a plea agreement, 41-year-old Hadianto Djoko Djuliarso of Jakarta faces up to seven years and three months in prison for conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act and money laundering.

Djuliarso is the last of four businessmen to plead guilty in the case. A sentencing date hasn't been set. Djuliarso and the three others were arrested in April after meeting in Hawaii.

http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=5959345&nav=menu25_2

FBI launches email alerts service
18th January 2007

In a bid to improve public safety and law enforcement partnerships, the FBI recently launched a service that sends out email alerts to subscribers when new and important information is posted on its website.

Excerpted

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=74C647CF-E011-4A42-9357-D43FB5A3EA5E

[Cindy]

Off Topic - Vanity

I always read my email and my freepmail and I do respond to most of it.

Anyway, I received this interesting email from a gentleman who has been "reading your internet material for several years, which includes your personal website and the information you post at freerepublic.com."

He then went on to describe what he thinks he knows about me.

Later in the letter he states, "I am familiar with the internet postings of the people in your network."

The letter has other interesting items in it, but let me address the "your network" statement for you lurkers.

I am not with any network, group or organization.

I am a wife, mother and housewife.

I am not a scholar.
I am not an expert.
I hold no degrees whatsoever.

September 11, 2001 happened and I developed my already pretty good research skills.

.Gov, .Mil and other .leos and .alphabets are always welcome to contact me.

Fyi.

All members of FreeRepublic.com have profile pages.
I obviously have one too, for anyway who really wants to check out my interests.

May God continue to bless all the Freepers, TMers and lurkers.

[Oorang]

UPDATE (with more info):

7 Weapons Stolen From FBI Vehicle
Friday, January 19, 2007

Seven weapons, including two submachine guns, were stolen last weekend from an FBI agent's vehicle in Southwest Washington, the agency said yesterday.

Also taken were ammunition, a police radio, bullet-resistant vests, body armor and photography equipment, the FBI said.

The theft triggered an intensive search for the property and whoever took it. The FBI decided yesterday to seek the public's help by offering a $25,000 reward.

Excerpted

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011801209.html

[Oorang]

Interesting blog views on the Mullah Omar story:

Bombshell: Spokesman says Mullah Omar being sheltered by Pakistani intel
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/17/bombshell-spokesman-says-mullah-omar-being-sheltered-by-pakistani-intel/

A Guest Of The ISI
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008943.php