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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He said: “It appeared to be an ambush. There were three blasts of improvised explosive devices, followed by an exchange of fire.””
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6899367.stm
Last Updated: Sunday, 15 July 2007, 06:20 GMT 07:20 UK
“Pakistan troops die in new attack”
ARTICLE SNIPPET:” At least 10 Pakistani soldiers have been killed by militants in the country’s north-west, the second deadly attack in as many days.
The attacks follow a week-long army siege of radicals in the Red Mosque in Islamabad that left 102 people dead and sparked fears of militant reprisals.
Sunday’s attack on a convoy in the Swat area of North West Frontier Province involved bomb blasts and gunfire.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber killed 24 soldiers in nearby North Waziristan.
Musharraf pledge
Another 40 troops were injured in Sunday’s attack near the town of Matta, local police said.
The area is well-known as a stronghold of pro-Taleban militants, they said.
An intelligence official told Reuters news agency: “The death toll could go higher.”
He said: “It appeared to be an ambush. There were three blasts of improvised explosive devices, followed by an exchange of fire.””
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3425471,00.html
Iranian, Syrian presidents to meet Thursday
Published: 07.15.07, 11:13 / Israel News
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will meet his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad in Damascus on Thursday, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported Sunday.
Ahmadinejad will congratulate Assad on his election for a second term. The two leaders will discuss the latest developments in the Middle East. (Dudi Cohen)
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1189050
“Fairfax County Warns of Police Impersonator”
July 14, 2007 - 1:52pm
Evan Haning, WTOP Radio
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - There may be as many as three recent cases of police impersonation in Fairfax County.
Descriptions of the drivers and the vehicles vary, but unmarked cars with blue emergency lights were used each time. In two of the cases, the suspected impersonator wore casual clothes, while the third time the suspect wore a blue-gray uniform and a badge, but no patches on the sleeves.”
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_922.html
Travel Warning
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Washington, DC 20520
This information is current as of today, Sun Jul 15 2007 03:07:13 GMT-0700.
ISRAEL, THE WEST BANK AND GAZA
July 13, 2007
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3072.html
Travel Warning
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This information is current as of today, Sun Jul 15 2007 03:07:41 GMT-0700.
LEBANON
June 14, 2007
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
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This information is current as of today, Sun Jul 15 2007 03:09:34 GMT-0700.
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In one of rakan ben williams original posts when they issued the first set of demands, wasn’t the operation called order #8? I remember reading that.
yknow waking up to this obl tape, very uneasy. i’ve gone through many threads and comments and have a question.
has this certain piece of tape been posted before? a lot out there are saying it’s from old material as in same tape but different time of day more or less.
i’m not sure at all because i haven’t seen 1.4th of it. he does look aged, i don’t think i’ve ever seen video from this timeframe or same day but correct me if i’m wrong.
but just my opinion: he’s talking to a bunch of ppl finishing training or something, seems like one of their graduation speeches more or less and i use that term loosely.
but let’s think in the jihad world, they are seeing a new piece of osama (again correct me if i’m wrong) and the message is pretty short. do you think this is the signal? especially with the 3 lines over again like the zawahri tape?
i am uneasy about this one. the tape may be dated but it’s still ‘new’ material.
just stay safe guys, there are many posts on here on what to get for saftey, batteries, medication, water, canned foods, i am a pessimist when it comes ot them but this has been too much at once. chertoff may have a bad feeling in his gut for a reason he won’t tell us. i mean somebodys line is tapped, they must know something.
sorry for ranting but to me, although it’s brief and not brand new and shining from a lot of posts i think they have been just waiting to see him.
just take care all i’m notmuch of a poster, Cindy and the rest of most o fyou do quite the job with collecting the information but stay safe. get your essentials just incase. we’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop for 5-6 years now. i dont want to be an alarmist but grab some supplies and stay safe!!!!!
from the heart. just damn!
“US armed forces in Iraq uncovered a field containing 50 Iranian-made rocket launchers, all aimed at a US army base, Israel Radio reported.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866058/posts
Please forgive me if this has been posted already, I am still playing catch up. I know better than to leave this thread for any length of time. There are so many that are very deligant in keeping us informed and if I miss more than a few days it’s hard to catch up.
“Abu Bakr” (”the second of the two” in the verses surrounding the cave quoted in one of Zawahiri’s tapes this week) according to the 9-11 Commission Report, is also the name of a senior Al Qaeda leader who was at the center of a much larger attack planned as a follow-on to 9-11.
If 9-11-2001 began with Bojinka (1995) and, according to the August 2001 PDB in an earlier link, the summer threat in 2001 in the days before 9-11 had been growing for years with the the African Embassy bombings in 1998 at the Millenium plot in 1999/2000.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/
Then it stands to reason that if the “dots”connecting together the 9-11 operation were scattered over six years, then it is entirely likely that the “dots” connecting together the coming attack are scattered over the six years since 9-11 (which is why TM “veterans” from 2003-2006 might remember seeing some things now that are familiar from years ago).
Looking only to developments in recent days, weeks, and months can be myopic. When new information emerges, it has to be compared not only to threats from the past few weeks or the past few months, but to have any chance at putting the picture together, compared to threats/plots going back over several years.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/615cglnt.asp?pg=2
” . . . Tenet also discloses new intelligence about the activities of the al Qaeda leadership living under what he calls “loose house arrest” in Iran:
From the end of 2002 to the spring of 2003, we received a stream of reliable reporting that the senior al-Qa’ida leadership in Saudi Arabia was negotiating for the purchase of three Russian nuclear devices. Saudi al-Qa’ida chief Abu Bakr related the offer directly to the al-Qa’ida leadership in Iran, where Sayf al-Adl and Abdel al-Aziz al-Masri (described as al-Qa’ida’s “nuclear chief” by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) were reportedly being held under a loose form of house arrest by the Iranian regime. The al-Qa’ida leadership had obviously learned much from their ventures into the nuclear market in the early 1990s. Sayf al-Adl told Abu Bakr that no price was too high to pay if they could get their hands on such weapons. However, he cautioned Abu Bakr that al-Qa’ida had been stung by scams in the past and that Pakistani specialists should be brought to Saudi Arabia to inspect the merchandise prior to purchase.”
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/abu_bakr_al-azdi.htm
Abu Bakr al-Azdi
Al-Qaeda Senior Operative
Narrative and Notes
Reliable
On June 26, 2003, he turned himself in at the home of Saudi deputy interior minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayaf in Riyadh.
He was initially assigned to take part in 9-11 but was held in reserve by Osama bin Laden for another, larger operation.1
Possible
He may have set out from Saudi Arabia for Chechnya but was diverted to Afghanistan for training.1
Sources
1 The 9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004, Footnotes.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Notes.htm
107. Intelligence report, interrogation of Khallad,Apr. 5, 2004; Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, Mar. 20, 2004. The candidate operatives were . . .
3. Ali Abd al Rahman al Faqasi al Ghamdi. (aka Abu Bakr al Azdi) He reportedly was to have been part of the planes operation but was held in reserve by Bin Ladin for a later, even larger operation. Like other muscle hijackers, he reportedly set out for Chechnya but diverted to Afghanistan. See Intelligence reports, interrogations of Abu Bakr al Azdi, July 23, 2003; Sept. 25, 2003; Intelligence report, interrogation of Khallad, Nov. 6, 2003.
Taking with a heaping shovel of salt until there are other reports. However, they haven’t run one of these stories in quite a while. (Ironic that the first TM thread started with a Debka story that still remains very relevant.)
In any case, if true, it is another possible explanation for the surge in these tapes . . .
DEBKAfile Exclusive:
Pakistani forces backed by US special units are closing in on al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman Zawahiri and possibly also Osama bin Laden
July 15, 2007, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our counter-terror sources report exclusively that a frantic effort by al Qaeda and Taliban to head off the pursuit set afoot the bloody battle in Islamabad’s Red Mosque, the attempts to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf’s plane and the suicide attacks on Pakistani military convoys, which cost 68 lives Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15.
Until the middle of last week, Zuwahiri sheltered with the local Pashtun tribes in Bannu, a town in the northwest Pakistan tribal federation of North Waziristan. The approach of Pakistani and US intelligence and special forces caused him to switch hiding places and move to Tank or Tang, a town 120 km south of Bannu.
On Saturday, two soldiers were injured by a bomb explosion in that town, having just missed their quarry.
Musharraf meanwhile decided last week to storm the Red Mosque on a tip-off from his own Inter-Service Intelligence that two of Zawahiri’s closest lieutenants, Majid Hassan al-Tawil and Mohammad Othman, were inside.
They were reported to be preparing a mega-attack in Islamabad and other important Pakistani towns to disrupt the combined Pakistani-US operation to capture their master.
At that point, Pakistani intelligence turned up a lead to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden himself.
The Pakistani army imposed a blackout on the identities of the victims of the Red Mosque battle, estimated at around 100 dead, and the detainees captured there. Even the names of the women and children claimed to have been held hostage were not disclosed. DEBKAfile’s sources report that Pakistan intelligence, which had hoped to capture the two al Qaeda operatives alive, has not found them. They are still trying to establish if they were among the dead or managed to escape.
An oblique reference to the operation came from the US president’s national security adviser Stephen Hadley Sunday night, July 15, when he spoke on ABC television about the US fully backing a Pakistani military crackdown on hotbeds of al Qaeda and Taliban activity. ”It has not worked the way he wanted. It has not worked the way we wanted it,” he said.
According to our sources, the intense pursuit continues despite the setbacks which Hadley suggested.
The Pakistan military death toll climbed Sunday when pro-Taliban Islamists killed at least 31 in two attacks in North Waziristan. Two suicide bombers and a roadside device hit a 40-vehicle police-army convoy near the Afghan border killing 14 soldiers. In another incident, 17 police officers and new recruits died when a bomber detonated explosives at a police HQ in the town of Dera Ismail Khan.
DEBKAfile’s sources disclose that the US Senate’s decision to double the bounty for bin Laden’s capture, killing or information leading to his death or capture to $50 million, was recommended by President George W. Bush after he received an urgent message from Musharraf. The Pakistani president reported his people had picked up the trail of bin Laden’s trail in their pursuit of his deputy, but the tribal chiefs with knowledge of where the elusive al Qaeda leader was hiding were holding out for an exorbitant sum for their collaboration.
He said that Pakistani intelligence had also laid out a large sum for the information about Zawahiri’s two aides’ arrival in the Red Mosque.
His former sanctuary of Bannu is situated 150 km as the crow flies from the South Afghan town of Gardiz which is a hub of al Qaeda-Taliban activity. The connection between the two towns is a twisting road of 400 km through Parachinar in Pashtun tribal land. According to DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, al Qaeda and Taliban leaders do not travel from place to place by road or vehicle but on horseback by night piloted by local guides.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/vp20011114.html
Interview of the Vice President
by CBS’s 60 Minutes II
November 14, 2001
Vice President Cheney on 60 Minutes II
. . . Gloria Borger: Has the likelihood of a new terror attack in this country increased or decreased, would you say, in the last couple of weeks?
Vice President Cheney: The threat level has clearly gone up in recent weeks because of reporting we’ve received that led us to believe that in fact there was the likelihood of an additional attack. You never can be certain. If nothing then happens after the threat level’s gone up, it may be that your original reporting was inaccurate. It may also be that as you raise the threat level and everybody went up on sort of all-alert kind of status that we discouraged the attack or that we did something to disrupt it or to throw off the timing and they had to back off and regroup. That happens sometimes, too. But there’s no question that the threat level is still pretty significant, especially if we come to the end of the road here for bin Laden and Afghanistan and we’re successful in wrapping him up.
That, in and of itself, could be a signal that would trigger some kind of a revenge attack, if you will, by people loyal to bin Laden. So it doesn’t end, necessarily with him. In the end, we can’t wrap it up unless we do get him. The best defense against a terrorist attack is to go destroy the terrorist. And then we’re doing that.
But there’s still going to be some period of time here, even after we complete operations in Afghanistan. And the terrorist threat is worldwide. He’s got cells all over the world. And even if we sort of chop off the head, if you will, we may still find that the al Qaeda organization is there. It’s in place. Somebody else rises to lead it and that we continue to have to deal with that threat.
Gloria Borger: So a couple of things, you’re saying that if we kill Osama bin Laden, we have to expect retaliation?
Vice President Cheney: It could happen. I don’t know. I can’t predict. But that’s certainly a possibility. . .
*Red* Mosque . . . *Red* flashing banner . . . *Red* ink
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22080495-2703,00.html
Al-Qa’ida ‘directed mosque siege’
Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent | July 16, 2007 (excerpted)
AL-QA’IDA was behind last week’s uprising at Islamabad’s Red Mosque, according to secret Pakistani government documents revealed as thousands of troops were deployed across the country yesterday.
The troop reinforcements came after a series of deadly suicide bomb attacks left scores of soldiers dead and maimed in revenge attacks by Islamic militants for last week’s mosque bloodbath.
In the latest attack, at least 16 Pakistani security officers were killed yesterday in a series of bomb blasts and an exchange of fire with Islamist militants, officials said, adding that the death toll could go higher.
The blasts hit as a convoy of police and paramilitary troops passed through the town of Matta near the hilly Swat area, a well-known Taliban stronghold.
The attacks accompanied heightening outrage among militants over the storming of the mosque and intensifying speculation about the number of women and children who died.
They coincided with leaked reports from the Government claiming that documents recovered from the mosque and the neighbouring madrassas prove conclusively that al-Qa’ida - and specifically Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri - directed the uprising, maintaining close contact with Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who died in the battle.
Intelligence officials also claimed al-Qa’ida had sent foreign fighters to assist in the rebellion, with Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema saying yesterday the bodies of at least 10 such Chechens and Arabs had been recovered. But as the Government counted the cost of the suicide attacks and anti-government protests swept several cities over the storming of the mosque, it was the controversy over the real death toll that spelled trouble ahead for President Pervez Musharraf.
General Hamid Gul, a powerful former head of the ISI spying agency who is now one of the President’s most trenchant critics, said yesterday the emerging accounts of women and children who were killed could lead to the military ruler’s downfall. “The Government is trying to hide the number of young girls killed,” he said. “As the truth comes out that young girls were gassed and burnt, riddled with bullets and killed, it’ll be bad for Musharraf.” . . .
A repost from The Sunday Morning talk show thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866186/posts?page=335#335
This week let’s take a serious look at IRAN here:
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=148
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866304/posts
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http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13446
Sunday, July 15, 2007 by Staff Writer
“Iran locked on to 600 targets in Israel”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Iran has marked 600 targets for its long-range missiles inside Israel, the Qatari newspaper Al Watan reported on Sunday.
According to the report, Iran is threatening to hit the Jewish state with a massive missile strike if either Israel or the US attack the Islamic Republic or its allies in Syria.”
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Now, let’s have a few laughs here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865741/posts
(YNETNEWS.com): “IRANIANS ARREST 14 SQUIRRELS FOR SPYING”
Looking at all the threats (past, present, future)
that come to our attention...
Cindy
THE THREAT MATRIX @ FreeRepublic.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=threatmatrix
335 posted on 07/15/2007 1:11:30 PM PDT by Cindy
still USING WOMEN AND CHILDREN....
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017383.php
(SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)
July 15, 2007
“Taliban targets women and schoolgirls”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017382.php
(AFP)
July 15, 2007
“Jihadists continue to use human shields”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017386.php
(AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)
July 15, 2007
“Thai police investigate jihadist presence at Islamic school”
still BRAINWASHING, INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN TO HATE...
(Note: Includes Video)
blog:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26264_Video-_Killer_Bee_Replaces_Death_Cult_Mickey&only
(MEMRITV.ORG)
“Video: Killer Bee Replaces Death Cult Mickey”
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/july07/event071307.htm
“SPECIAL EVENT INTELLIGENCE
Inside Our Game Plan”
07/13/07
http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/sc071107.htm
“MASSIVE CENTRAL VALLEY AND BAY AREA NUESTRA FAMILIA GROUP DISMANTLED”
(July 11, 2007
SACRAMENTO
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/July/07_civ_500.html
“Security Firm to Pay U.S. $18 Million to Resolve Allegations that Firm Failed to Provide Qualified Guards for Army Bases”
(July 13, 2007)
WASHINGTON
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/July/07_nsd_498.html
“Justice Department and FBI Unveil Measures to Enhance National Security Oversight”
(July 13, 2007)
WASHINGTON –
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