Threat Matrix: January 2007

"Well I hope this is causing "raised eyebrows"."

Yep, and hopefully a little more than that.

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

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Thanks to a Special Freepmailer for pointing to this article and thanks to J Aguilar for your efforts on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767175/posts

"3/11: ETA Used Hexogen in the Bombing of Barajas Airport."
Libertad Digital ^ | 13 January 2007 | Libertad Digital (transl. J Aguilar)

Posted on 01/13/2007 12:34:32 PM PST by J Aguilar

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1031819

"Man Suspected of Decapitating Daughter"
Jan 13th - 1:22pm

MIKE BAKER Associated Press Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A mother found her 4-year-old daughter decapitated in her home, and the child's father was arrested early
Saturday in Washington."

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1031892

"Police: Three Men Arrested in Connection with Home Invasions"
Jan 13th - 12:31pm
WASHINGTON

Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3351832,00.html

Ramallah: Palestinians throw Molotov cocktails at bus
Published: 01.13.07, 23:10

Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli bus Saturday west of Ramallah. No injuries or damages were reported.

IDF forces began scanning the area. (Efrat Weiss)

Russia sees Muslim population boom
Jan.13.2007

Low domestic birth rates and rising immigration from the former Soviet republics have produced an explosive growth in Russia's Muslim community. At the same time Russia's overall population is in crisis. Short life spans and low birth rates among ethnic Russians mean the population is declining by 700,000 people a year.

The return of long-denied religious freedoms in Russia has seen Islam flourish. As a result, many ethnic Russians fear their country is losing its national identity. There are around 25 million Muslims in Russia today, a rise of 40 per cent since 1989. By 2020, with the continued growth rate, Muslims will account for one-fifth of the entire population.

Excerpted

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8C5F608-FA29-4BB3-A7CA-A6F05B98BE23.htm

Strong rise in number of Germans converting to Islam
Jan 13, 2007

There has been a surge in the number of Germans converting to Islam, the weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday cited an Interior Ministry-sponsored study. Around 4,000 Germans converted to Islam between July 2004 and June 2005 which is four times as many as in the prior space of time, said the study which was conducted by the Islam-Archive Central Institute, based in the western town of Soest.

The head of the German Islam think-tank, Salim Abdullah pointed out that that most of those who converted to Islam, have been women and well-educated.

Excerpted

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-20/0701139478163715.htm

Letter threatening church schools has Islamic undertone
1/13/07

Prague- The anonymous letter threatening with an explosion in church schools in Prague on Thursday, implies an Islamic undertone as if someone wanted to take revenge on Christians for suppressing Muslims, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today, referring to well-informed police sources.

Police experts, who requested anonymity, assess the letter's author as either a psychopath, an absolutely unscrupulous joker or a really outraged Muslim, the paper says.

Asked about a distinctive Islamic undertone in the letter, Interior Minister Ivan Langer (Civic Democrats, ODS) refused to comment on these speculations. Police received the threatening letter on Thursday. Next day, policemen were searching the schools, but no explosives were found.

Detectives are investigating the case on suspicion of attempted terrorist attack. Other parts of the Integrated Rescue System participated in the security measures. The civilian counter-intelligence service (BIS) was also on alert over a possible danger, MfD says

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=230758

ON THE NET...

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (YNETNEWS.com - 01/12/2007): "REPORT: MOROCCO SENTENCES BELGIAN ON TERRORISM CHARGES" (January 13, 2007)

INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com (AKI): Madrid - "MIDDLE EAST: IRAQ-TRAINED JIHADISTS RETURNING TO SPAIN, REPORT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police believe the 11 Ceuta suspects are related to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), which is thought to have been involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings - in which 191 people died - and the 2003 suicide attacks on Casablanca that killed 45.")

TKB.org - Group Profile: "MOROCCAN ISLAMIC COMBAT GROUP"

JIHAD WATCH - Search Term: "MOROCCO"

BILL ROGGIO.com - THE FOURTH RAIL - blog: "MOROCCO"

adding to post no. 767:

stepping back in time...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY - JS-2668: "Treasury Designates Three Individuals Linked to Al Qaida Terror Cell in Italy" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated three individuals residing in Italy pursuant to Executive Order 13224 for providing financial and/or material support to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, a group tied to al Qaida. "Today's action targets individuals operating an al Qaida-linked terrorist cell in Italy that recruited combatants, raised funds for terrorist activities and even planned terrorist attacks," said Stuart Levey, the Treasury's Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). "We will continue to stand with Italy and our other allies around the world to attack the financing of terrorism." Ahmed El Bouhali, Faycal Boughanemi and Abdelkader Laagoub are members of a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organization established in Cremona, Italy in 1998 with the aim of committing terrorist attacks in Italy and other countries, including Morocco and Tunisia. Information available to the U.S. Government shows the Cremona organization has contacts with al Qaida and Ansar Al Islam cells operating in Italy and abroad. Additionally, the group has ties to the extremist organization, Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which was designated by the United States on November 22, 2002 under E.O. 13224. Mourad Trabelsi and Noureddine Drissi are members of the Cremona terrorist cell and have been designated by the United States. Notably Trabelsi headed the group until April 2003, when both he and Drissi were arrested. Investigations by Italian authorities have produced evidence that the Cremona terrorist organization recruited volunteers for paramilitary training, collected funds for terrorism, and planned terrorist attacks.") (August 1, 2005)

TKB.org - Terrorist Group Profile: "MOROCCAN ISLAMIC COMBATANT GROUP" - "GROUPE ISLAMIQUE COMBATTANT MORROCAIN (GICM)"

JAMESTOWN.org - Terrorism Monitor: 'THE ORIGINS OF MILITANCY AND SALAFISM IN MOROCCO" (June 17, 2005)

"www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1383919/posts?page=3272#3272 (Post. no. 3272)"

UK preacher in secret web call for jihad
January 14, 2007

ONE of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers to go on jihad, or holy war, in Somalia. Anjem Choudary, former spokesman of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, has posted a statement on a jihadist internet forum telling followers they must join the “divine call of jihad” in the African state. His call in the password-protected site came days before America mounted air raids on suspected Al-Qaeda units in southern Somalia and news emerged that seven British passport holders had been captured in Somalia by Ethiopian troops.

This weekend the Ethiopian embassy in London said its forces had five Britons in custody, although it has failed to provide any documentary evidence. The Britons are said to have been fighting against the interim Somali government alongside the Union of Islamic Courts, an Al-Qaeda-linked movement.

Choudary is a well-known figure on the forum called Followers of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’aah Muntada (Followers of the Prophet and His Companions). The site, which has about 700 members, is visited by some of Britain’s most notorious Muslim extremists, members of groups such as Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun and banned after the London bombings on July 7, 2005. Applicants have to be recommended by a member.

Choudary, who uses the pseudonym Abou Luqman, declares in the forum: “The Ethiopians, with . . . support (from the Christian crusader regimes) and backed by illegitimate Israel (Zionists), have violated the blood of Muslims in Somalia. By committing such an act of terrorism the Muslims in Somalia and nearby lands have responded to the divine call of jihad.” He then reminds followers of their duty to fight jihad: “The obligation of supporting jihad all over the world is fard ayn (an individual obligation) . . . This honourable act must be carried out according to your own capabilities because our beloved prophet Muhammad said strike the mushrik (infidels) with your wealth, hands and tongue.”

The forum has videos and images produced by Al-Qaeda that call on Muslims to join the jihad. Images of corpses of Ethiopian soldiers are captioned “dead kuffar (infidel) bodies”. Forum members routinely quote the last wills of Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the London bombers. There are also videos by Omar Bakri, the founder of Al-Muhajiroun who has been banned from Britain. In these, he claims to have lectured in Beeston, Leeds, the home town of three of the bombers. Forum members also analyse British news. In one posting, George Galloway, the Respect MP, is ridiculed for criticising Omar Brooks, the Muslim extremist who heckled John Reid, the home secretary, in east London. One posting says: “What a dog this Galloway guy is . . . (he) can go to hell.”

The website was set up a year ago by Mizanur Rahman, 24, a web designer from north London found guilty of inciting murder at a protest last year outside the Danish embassy against the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad by a Danish magazine. Intelligence agencies fear Muslim extremists from Europe may be going to Somalia, a haven for Al-Qaeda in Africa, to fight jihad.

In October six western nationals, including a Briton, were arrested in Yemen, accused of being part of a cell that tried to smuggle weapons into Somalia. Rasheed Laskar, 34, was held for more than a month but has since been released without charge and returned to Britain with his wife and four children.

Laskar, a Muslim convert from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, is to be interviewed by MI5 agents. He said this weekend: “The Yemenis did not tell me what I was arrested for. They beat me and tortured me.”

When The Sunday Times contacted Choudary he refused to confirm whether he was Luqman or if he knew of the website. He put the phone down. Choudary, 39, a trained lawyer from Ilford, east London, has in the past called for the execution of Pope Benedict. Patrick Mercer, Tory spokesman for homeland security, said: “Choudary must be closed down. It’s appalling that the Home Office has not done anything against this man so far.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2546266,00.html

RECAP:

JIHAD WATCH.org (IndiaDaily): "ISLAMIC TERRORISTS USING GOOGLE MAP AND GPS SYSTEMS TO LOCATE, TRACK AND MONITOR INDIA'S IT AND CALL CENTER OUTSOURCING HUBS" (January 8, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (IANS): "JIHADIST CAUGHT ASSESSING SECURITY AT TECH FIRMS IN BANGALORE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It was then that he was given a satellite phone and asked to wait for instructions, police said. 'Bilal was asked to visit the offices of Wipro and Infosys as well as the Bangalore airport to find out security arrangements at these places and to report back. The mode of communication between Bilal and his superiors was through the sat phone and e-mail,' Rao said.") (January 7, 2007)

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

Corrected post:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006690.htm

"Insurgents found with Google Earth maps"
By See-Dubya · January 13, 2007 05:23 PM

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1767311/posts?page=11#11
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1767311/posts?page=12#12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1767311/posts?page=13#13

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/www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=229306&n=12

Thanks to La Ench for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1767311/posts
"Ahmadinejad tours Latin America"
IRIB ^ | 1/13/2006

Posted on 01/13/2007 7:33:54 PM PST by BigFinn

correction Thanks to La Enchiladita for the ping to the AllMyJihad does Latin America thread.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/cysticercosis/factsht_cysticercosis.htm

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53761

"Rare brain worms
latest border disease
Fatal disease found in developing countries
with poor hygiene habits hits South Texas"

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_002_2007_Release/index.asp

"Colorado Firm Recalls Sausage Products For Possible Listeria Contamination"

Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-002-2007 HEALTH RISK: HIGH

Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Tara Balsley

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2007

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http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_001_2007_Release/index.asp

"Louisiana Firm Recalls Head Cheese Products For Possible Listeria Contamination"

Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-001-2007 HEALTH RISK: HIGH

Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Amanda Eamich

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2007

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761584/posts?page=718#718

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/13/221143.shtml?s=lh
(AP)
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007 10:07 p.m. EST
"Chavez, Ahmadinejad Plan Anti-U.S. Fund"

ON THE NET..

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

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Hizballah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Hizbullah

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http://michaeltotten.com/

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001359.html
"'So This is Our Victory'"
(January 9, 2007)

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/Khomeini%20South%20Lebanon%20December.jpg
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/Shrapnel%20Holes%20in%20Billboard.jpg

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, Sun Jan 14 2007 02:29:07 GMT-0800.

Worldwide Caution

October 11, 2006

PERSECUTION
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