Threat Matrix: February 2007

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How al-Qaida Fared in 2006
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In 2006, agents of al-Qaida, as well as those inspired by its ideology, continued their attacks. Violence in Iraq intensified, and Afghanistan saw its bloodiest year since 2001.

Despite worsening chaos on those fronts, counterterrorist forces arrested and killed high-profile terrorists and kept the West free from attack. But these actions don't appear to have weakened the appeal of al-Qaida's agenda. "Home-grown" militants around the world joined its jihad, as regional fighting heightened perceptions of a global war on Islam.

Here's an assessment of some of the most significant gains and losses for al-Qaida last year: Read more..

	Azzam the American: The Making of an al Qaida Homegrown
	Islamic Cells of Revenge Joins the al Qaida Movement
	Most Dangerous Destinations 2007

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[Velveeta]

I agree, unfortunately he lives to see another day.
But! He cut and ran. That'll leave a mark amongst his followers.

[Velveeta]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Daniel+Aljughaifi%22

Lots of interesting googles.

[Cindy]

Well now, aren't you energetic.

Snow is on the sides of the roads here....I can see the grass on most of the land.

[Velveeta]

LOL, I think I was just feeling good that I was dealing with 10 inches and not 11 feet of snow.

[Cindy]

THANK YOU TWhiteBear.
Updates appreciated.

Schools and malls are most certainly of interest.

[Cindy]

I'm glad you're doing fine.

All that snow during this global warming searson could be construed to be winter...but algore can't see the forest through the trees.

Seriously, glad you're ok.
I fell in a snow drift before and I sure don't like heavy/high snow now.

[TWhiteBear]

And then the MSM, AP in this case, has the 'huevitos'(small huevos) to put out the following story, to whit:
'RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Shots may have been fired in a fight between two groups today at the Metro transit center in Renton. Police spokeswoman Penny Bartley says no one was struck. One person has been detained.'
Our situation appears to be degenerating and this posture(evade, avoid, obfuscate, mumble...etc), by both the MSM and LE high command is starting to erode public confidence in the authorities.

[Cindy]

At the Metro transit center, huh?

I wonder if it was gang bangers.
Updates appreciated.

[Oorang]

Al Qaeda suspect Padilla fit for trial: U.S. doctors
2/13/07

MIAMI - U.S. prison doctors have deemed suspected al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla mentally competent to stand trial on terrorism charges, based in part on a review of military interrogation documents that will be turned over to his lawyers, court records showed on Tuesday.

Excerpted

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070213/pl_nm/usa_padilla_dc

Al-Qaeda's Hand In Istanbul Plot
Turks Met With Bin Laden
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

ISTANBUL -- About a week before Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden sat down to a breakfast meeting in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. His Turkish guests had arrived with a plan for a spectacular terrorist strike, but according to accounts two of the visitors later gave investigators, there was no talk of business over the meal. Instead, bin Laden held forth for an hour about the injustices Muslims were suffering at the hands of Israel and the United States, standard motivational remarks tailored slightly for the occasion: He told the visitors that one of his grandmothers was Turkish.

Afterward, outside the one-story house guarded by high walls and men with Kalashnikov rifles, it was al-Qaeda's military commander who gave the visitors $10,000 in cash and crucial words of guidance.

So began a plot that ended in November 2003 with the staggered detonation of four powerful truck bombs in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city. The attacks, which killed 58 people and wounded 750, may have been the last terrorist strikes specifically authorized by bin Laden. Two months after breakfasting with the Turks, bin Laden was making for his base at Tora Bora as U.S.-led forces attacked across Afghanistan.

Excerpted

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201715.html

[Oorang]

Thanks for the googles Vel.

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I wonder if Muqtada is having a conference with Mughniyeh. Lets hope not.

[Oorang]

At a elementary school no less; most troubling. Thanks for the info.

[Velveeta]

Shall we thank alGore for inventing global warming as well as the internet?

I can see how a big fall would deter you.
Be careful out there.

[Cindy]

LOL...I can't think of anything to thank algore for...oh yes, he's not running for President again -- there's one thing.

Yep, I'm very careful now in the snow.

[Godzilla]

placemark

[Cindy]

Yep...like a candy store.

[Velveeta]

Coast Guard Gear Stolen From Parked Car (FL)
Police: Stolen Items Worth Thousands
http://www.news4jax.com/news/11003094/detail.html


TV show to focus on stolen Medals of Honor
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/ATmostwantedMoH070213/

[Godzilla]

Already posted on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784322/posts

Mookie has flown the coop. Word must be down on the street that he has a target on his back. Most interesting development, suggesting that he has lost his limited support in the gov't.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks for the info. On our frequent business trips to Eastern Europe, we have met many Bosniaks. They were all Muslim........but did not seem to be strict adherents to the faith. They drank alchohol and did not wear what we would consider traditional Muslim garb. They were quite "westernized".

[Cindy]

Ping/fyi to post no. 736.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1777773/posts?page=736#736

[Cindy]

Yep and thanks for that url.

OPINION: Now he's worth nothing to the Iranians in the long run, since he isn't a disrupter in Iraq at this time.