Threat Matrix: February 2007

Off Topic...

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Agreed!
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Government Expert Says Al Qaeda Suspect Jose Padilla Mentally Competent for Terror Trial
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254780,00.html

UPDATE:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015425.php
(WSMV.com)

February 26, 2007

"Nashville cabbie: 'Hitler was right'"

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"Covering for Islam"
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 22, 2007

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I like the way the authorities are proceeding with caution.
I know that's extremely inconvenient, but it's the good way
to proceed in an unknown situation.

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"4 jailed Guatemalan police officers die in riot[shot by Mara Salvatrucha gang members]"
Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 26, 2007

Posted on 02/26/2007 5:39:04 PM PST by SwinneySwitch

CUILAPA, GUATEMALA

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Smoke bomb thrown into Jewish kindergarten in Berlin
EJP ^ | Feb. 26, 2007 | Oliver Bradley

Posted on 02/26/2007 7:15:40 PM PST by Alouette

BERLIN (EJP)--- A tragedy was avoided on Sunday after a smoke bomb, thrown through a window of a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin, failed to ignite.

However, the school, located in a northwest neighbourhood of the German capital, was not spared by the spray painting of swastikas, other Nazi symbols and anti-Semitic phrases, such as “Auschwitz,” “Juden Raus” (Jews, get out) and “Sieg Heil”, on its outer walls, as well as on toys that had been lying around in the school’s playground.

A police spokesman said the attack did not cause serious damage or endanger children or staff at the school.

Berlin’s Interior Minister Ehrhart Körting condemned the attack as a "cowardly act" and called it “a particularly brutal one…one that had taken anti-Semitic acts to a new dimension”.

First time

Although individual Jewish children have occasionally been victims of anti-Semitism, it is the first time that an entire school had been targeted in Germany.

So far, no suspects have been found. Police are still investigating when exactly the attack took place and appealed for witnesses.

However, it seems as if it was planned to coincide with the inauguration of a new Torah scroll which took place on Sunday, several kilometres away, at the Chabad Lubavitch synagogue of the Jewish Family and Education Centre which runs the school.

“It was a miracle that the smoke bomb did not get off,” Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal of Chabad Lubavitch in Berlin, said.

The school is located in a villa, in a quiet park of the city’s Charlottenburg district.

Because the location had only been considered as temporary, the property was not secured in the same way that other Jewish buildings.

Instead of round-the-clock police protection, security guards came only in hourly intervals.

Three months after Vienna

The attack happened exactly three months to day after a Croatian national broke into the Lauder Chabad School in Vienna, Austria, and systematically smashed windows and porcelain with a crowbar.

The man, who called himself “Adolf Hitler”, later admitted that he was driven by anti-Semitic sentiments.

Stephan Kramer, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has accused the Berlin State Senate as well as Berlin’s local Jewish community of not having taken the necessary precautions to help divert such an attack.

“In today’s world, we know that such attacks are possible and could strike at any time… It is beyond me how security could have been so lax”.

Kramer was embarrassed that rabbis from around the world that were present at the Torah inauguration ceremony, had to experience first hand what an anti-Semitic act in Germany meant.

Gideon Joffe, who heads Berlin’s Jewish community, called the attack “a natural development resulting from last year’s election of several extreme right wing politicians to Berlin’s local parliament”.

Last summer, Stephan Kramer made public his concerns about the acute threat posed to Jewish sites in Germany.

Although Wolfgang Bosbach, vice president of the ruling Christian Democratic parliamentary group, and Dieter Wiefelspuetz, speaker of the Social Democratic parliamentary group, believed that there was no official indication of an increase in danger for Jewish buildings, Konrad Freiberg, chairman of the police union, predicted the contrary.

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Sri Lanka - U.S. Ambassador "slightly wounded" in rebel attack - Italy's ambassador also injured
AFP via translation | February 27, 2007

Posted on 02/26/2007 9:44:08 PM PST by HAL9000

Sri Lanka: ambassadors Italian and US wounded in a rebellious offensive

COLOMBO - The ambassadors American and Italian in Sri Lanka were wounded Tuesday in an offensive with artillery carried out by rebels tamouls supposed in the east of the island, indicated to AFP the minister human rights Mahinda Samarasinghe.

The ambassador Robert Blake and his Italian counterpart Prio Mariani were touched by glares of shells which struck the landing strip of the air base of Batticaloa at the time when the diplomats left a military helicopter, specified the Samarasinghe minister.

Mr. Mariani was touched with the head, without the gravity of his wounds being known, and was transported to the local hospital with eleven others wounded, indicated the director of the establishment Muruganathan Moorthy.

The American ambassador “is slightly wounded”, added the Samarasinghe minister.

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CHENEY IS OK...EXPLOSION IS AFGHANISTAN...BREAKING

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"Breaking News >> Officials: Blast at Afghan Base Causes Casualties, but Vice President Cheney Is Safe"

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"Iraqi VP Narrowly Escapes Assassination"
Feb 27th - 1:17am
By BRIAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed."

Note to jihadis -- You suck you sorry creeps, and you will lose.
Period.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 06:24 GMT

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Afghan blast during Cheney visit

At least two people have been killed in an explosion outside the main US military base in Afghanistan, during a visit by US Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Many others were injured in the blast, the cause of which is unknown.

Mr Cheney, on an unannounced visit to the region, was staying at the Bagram base, 60km (40 miles) from Kabul.

A US military spokesman said the explosion did not appear to be aimed at the vice-president, who was safely inside the base at the time.

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bttt

Thanks nopardons.

Welcome........ :-)

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February 26, 2007

QUOTE - ARTICLE SNIPPET:

http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/02/bombing_targets_adel.php

"Bombing targets Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's Vice President
Mahdi, Minister of Public Works, lightly wounded after bomb detonates in Public Works ministry"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An explosion at the Ministry of Public Works nearly assassinated Adel Abdul Mahdi, one of Iraq's two Vice Presidents, as well as Riad Ghraib, the Minister of Public Works. Twelve were killed and 42 wounded after a bomb placed in the ceiling of a ministry's conference room. Mahdi and Ghraig were both "lightly wounded" in the explosion, and were treated for "scratches" at U.S. military hospital.

The bombing was an inside job. "The explosion happened when the party arrived at the meeting room," reports the BBC. The bomb would have to have been planted by someone working inside the Ministry of Public Works, and the culprits would have needed to know the schedules of Vice President Mahdi and Minister Ghraib to properly time the attack.

It is unknown if the bomb was set on a timer or 'command detonated' - triggered by someone flipping a switch or using a cell phone. A cell phone activated trigger was very likely used. The bomb was detonated as both ministers were in the conference room, making the likelihood that someone inside the building and near or participating in the conference triggered the detonation."