Threat Matrix: July 2007

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US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows.

He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said.

But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program, Chertoff said U.S. authorities are concerned about the threat of terrorism, especially in the coming months. "We have had a number of al-Qaida leaders quite publicly talking about how they want to carry out their threats against the West. So, given that and given the history that we have had over past summers, with attacks in Britain, I think we were clearly focused on this as a possibility," he said. Full story...

	More United Kingdom Attacks Possible
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To: backhoe; piasa; All

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1,381 posted on 07/14/2007 2:57:56 PM PDT by Cindy

I always expected that the fight between good and evil would by it’s nature include many gray areas, but I was wrong.

1,382 posted on 07/14/2007 3:22:35 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)

If I remember rightly OBL said we would not see him again until the next attack. I am thinking that this is signaling a go for a multi prong attack.

1,383 posted on 07/14/2007 3:43:46 PM PDT by Mata6858 (We the people of the US in order for a perfect union)

To: backhoe; JohnathanRGalt; All

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1,384 posted on 07/14/2007 3:53:38 PM PDT by Cindy

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1,385 posted on 07/14/2007 4:09:51 PM PDT by Cindy

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12853&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070715-01
July 15, 2007

Troops uncover cache, capture 13 suspects
2nd IBCT, 2nd Inf. Div. Public Affairs

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq — Multi-National Division – Baghdad uncovered a weapons cache and captured 13 suspected insurgents during raids in eastern Baghdad July 13.

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, based out of Fort Riley, Kan., detained five suspects and recovered two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, three grenades and one improvised explosive device in an operation in the New Baghdad District of the Iraqi capital.

In a separate raid, Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, a Fort Carson, Colo.-based unit detained eight suspected insurgents in the Zafarniya District. They also recovered circuit boards, wires, timers, soldering tools and nine million Iraqi dinar during the raid.

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1,386 posted on 07/14/2007 4:19:30 PM PDT by Cindy

To the Jihadi’s, it dozen’t really matter weather he is dead or alive, it is all about perception and to a call. That could be a call to action.

1,387 posted on 07/14/2007 4:28:40 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)

Not to mention, after there failed attempts in the UK, they want nothing but success here in the U.S. They have learned their errors and we can anticipate, they want nothing but catastrophic success here.

1,388 posted on 07/14/2007 4:40:49 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)

To: drymans wife

Yes, the jihadis are focused — on jihad.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859319/posts?page=1367#1367

1,389 posted on 07/14/2007 4:46:11 PM PDT by Cindy

I am with you, freeper sister Cindy.

What amazes me is all the people we get lurking and not wanting to post because they think we have our freakin “tinfoil hat’s” on.

Only when things get bad do they believe we are on to something here.

I will not condem and will welcome all freepers that they might see what we do.

They are almost like the average American and that’s what is sad.

1,390 posted on 07/14/2007 4:57:27 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)

I have not been with “Threat Matrix’ from the beginning, and sometimes that makes me sad. Only because I see the dedication of the people on this thread. Absolutely, throwing out personal conflicts and opinions, based on one sole purpose to find that freak in Jihadi that want’s to bring us down.

1,391 posted on 07/14/2007 5:02:58 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)

Not sure if this one's been posted ...

Feds work to raise terror readiness

1,392 posted on 07/14/2007 5:04:18 PM PDT by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")

Sorry, JJ I am feeling preclempsed.

1,393 posted on 07/14/2007 5:10:51 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)

One needs to go through the threads on 9/11 and see the passion , pain and defiance in our friends, only to see the importance of this.

1,394 posted on 07/14/2007 5:14:12 PM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea told the United States it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State Department said Saturday, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country’s pledge to disarm.
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If confirmed by a U.N. inspection team headed to the Yongbyon reactor, the shutdown would be the North’s first step in nearly five years toward de-nuclearization.

“We welcome this development and look forward to the verification and monitoring of this shutdown by the International Atomic Energy Agency team,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement.

After tortuous negotiations and delays — during which the North argued its nuclear program was needed for self-defense — the reclusive regime said earlier this month that once it received the oil shipment, it would consider halting its reactor.

The 10-member IAEA team arrived in the North Korean capital Saturday afternoon. Team chief Adel Tolba said the inspectors would stay in North Korea as long as needed to complete their work at the Yongbyon plutonium-producing reactor, located about 60 miles northeast of Pyongyang.

“We are going directly to the nuclear site at Yongbyon,” Tolba told broadcaster APTN outside the airport.

Footage showed dozens of cardboard boxes being loaded onto the back of two trucks. It was not immediately clear what they contained but Tolba earlier said he and his colleagues were bringing 2,200 pounds of equipment for use during the trip.

North Korea did not give a timetable for the shutdown, but top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said earlier it would happen within days.

“I think it’s a matter of today, tomorrow, maybe Monday,” Hill told reporters Saturday in the Japanese resort town of Hakone, south of Tokyo.

Hill also said he expected the North to submit a list of its nuclear facilities within months, as was agreed upon in a February disarmament deal.

“We expect the comprehensive list in a matter of several weeks, possibly several months,” Hill said.

But he warned that the process was not likely to go smoothly. “I wish I could say we won’t have any more problems, but experience tells me otherwise,” Hill said.

After the IAEA team installs monitoring equipment, some experts will remain at Yongbyon to ensure the reactor stays shuttered, said a diplomat familiar with North Korea’s file at the IAEA.

“The IAEA plans to have a permanent presence there, with some experts remaining at the site continuously,” said the diplomat, who requested anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity.

Saturday’s delivery of 6,200 tons of heavy fuel oil was the first of 50,000 tons promised to the North in exchange for shutting down its reactor. Pyongyang will eventually get 1 million tons of oil and other financial and political concessions in the deal with the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia.

The South Korean tanker No. 9 Han Chang arrived at the North’s northeastern port of Sonbong, and the oil was being unloaded, a Unification Ministry official said. The South Korean official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media.

The six-party agreement eased a standoff that began in October 2002, when the U.S. said North Korean officials had admitted having a secret uranium enrichment program. Washington said that violated a 1994 agreement for the North’s disarmament, and a month later halted oil shipments under that deal.

The North reacted by expelling IAEA monitors, withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and restarting the reactor.

North Korea has since occasionally shut down the reactor to remove fuel rods and extract plutonium. It is believed to have harvested enough for at least a dozen bombs.

The government set off an underground nuclear test explosion in October, leading to intensified international efforts to negotiate an end to its arms program. The North was likely to term the shutdown simply a suspension of operations — which could be easily reversed.

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