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Threat Matrix: November 2007
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Posted on 11/01/2007 8:43:53 PM PDT by nwctwx

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U.S. to Offer Turkey Help on PKK

The U.S. is to offer Turkey a package of measures to dissuade Ankara from mounting a large-scale military incursion into Iraq to attack PKK Kurdish guerrillas, who have killed scores of Turkish soldiers in recent weeks.

Ahead of a meeting in Washington on Monday between President George W. Bush and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, U.S. officials said Ankara would have to get concrete American help to combat the PKK, which has bases in northern Iraq from where it frequently launches attacks into Turkey.

“Erdogan has to go back with the belief that for whatever reason, the U.S. is serious” about tackling Turkey’s concerns regarding the PKK, said Matthew Bryza, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. state department responsible for Turkey policy. Full story...

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To: Cindy

Fantastic work Cindy on yor recap and updates. Even a cursory glance at the titles for each gives details an eye-opening snippet of the relentless work of patriots who are diligently at work protecting us day and night. It also illuminates the determination of those who work tirelessly to obliterate infidels (anyone who isn’t them) from the face of the earth.


141 posted on 11/03/2007 6:52:41 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Thank you MamaDearest.

Generally speaking, the lame-stream-media seemed to not pay too much attention to the HLF trial.


142 posted on 11/03/2007 6:57:09 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MamaDearest; Cindy; Godzilla; Velveeta; nwctwx; callmejoe; All
Second man arrested in UK over 'explosives' terrorism fears
Saturday, November 3, 2007,

LONDON - Police investigating the discovery of "potentially explosive material" at a house in northern England arrested a second suspect under anti-terrorism laws on Saturday. The 31-year-old man was detained in Dundee in the early hours, a Humberside Police spokeswoman said.

Another man, also 31, was arrested on Wednesday after police seized the unidentified material during a house search in the centre of Goole, East Yorkshire. Police sealed off the area around the house during the searches and tests are being carried out on the material. The men, both from Goole, have not been named. They were detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 and are being questioned at a West Yorkshire police station. Police said the house in Goole was searched as part of a separate criminal investigation.

"We would ask people to go about their business as usual," a police spokeswoman said. "However, we would always urge people to remain vigilant." Police stepped up patrols earlier this year after two car bombs were found in central London and a Jeep was rammed into a terminal at Glasgow Airport. The security service MI5 rates the current threat of a terrorist attack as severe, the second-highest level. That means an attack is thought to be "highly likely". p>http://www.christiantoday.com/article/second.man.arrested.in.uk.over.explosives.terrorism.fears/14367.htm

Sweden loses contact with embassy in Pakistan
3rd November 2007

Sweden's foreign office has been unable to contact the its embassy in Pakistan since president Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in the country on Saturday.

The Swedish ambassador in Islamabad, Anna Karin Eneström, was in Dubai as Pakistan is locked in constitutional crisis. "Both she and I have tried to get hold of the deputies at the embassy but we have not succeeded. I don't know if the telephone lines are working properly," said Sofia Karlberg at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign minister Carl Bildt viewed developments in Pakistan as "seriously worrying". "We have not been able to establish contact with the embassy there. It's clearly a serious situation," said Bildt.

Excerpted

http://www.thelocal.se/8995/20071103/

Islamic militants capture 100 more security personnel in Pakistan
Nov 3, 2007

Islamabad - Islamic militants claimed Saturday that they had captured 100 more security personnel, a day after they released 48 captives in Pakistan's north-western valley of Swat. 'We did not want unnecessary bloodshed, and that is why we assured them that they would be allowed to return to their homes safely if they surrender,' said militant spokesman Maulana Sirajuddin. He said the captives would be released before the media later in the day.

The 100 troops, mainly police officers, were under siege since October 26 at a police station and hospital in the Matta area, after clashes erupted there following deployment of additional troops to curb a rebellion by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.

Excerpted

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/news/article_1370861.php/Islamic_militants_capture_100_more_security_personnel_in_Pakistan

143 posted on 11/03/2007 9:36:06 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Oorang

Thanks you for those links and snippets, Oorang.

I couldn’t find the names of those suspects (re Goole), either.

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Additional link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7076475.stm


144 posted on 11/03/2007 10:31:21 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All
RECAP and UPDATES:

US DOJ.gov/usao/nj - Press Release: "ABDULLAHU ADMITS SUPPLYING GUNS AND AMMUNITION TO ILLEGAL ALIENS CHARGED WITH PLANNING ATTACKS ON MILITARY PERSONNEL" (October 31, 2007) (pdf)

Link (pdf)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Mount Laurel, New Jersey - "FEDS: FORT DIX BASE PLOT SUSPECT THREATENS FBI" (June 19, 2007)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): Camden, New Jersey - "6 FORT DIX SUSPECTS ENTER NOT-GUILTY PLEA" (June 15, 2007)

Newark.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Camden - "FIVE INDICTED IN PLOT TO KILL SOLDIERS AT FORT DIX; SIXTH CHARGED WITH AIDING THE POSSESSION OF WEAPONS" (June 5, 2007)

"www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/files/pdffiles/duka0605rel.pdf"

"www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/files/pdffiles/Indictment0605.pdf"

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Mount Laurel, N.J. -"FORT DIX SUSPECT APPLIED FOR POLICE JOBS" (May 23, 2007)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE 'PRO-AMERICAN' TERRORISTS" by Julia Gorin (May 22, 2007)

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (AP, May 17, 2007, Camden, NJ): "SUSPECT DENIED BAIL IN FORT DIX CASE" (May 18, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THE STAR-LEDGER): "FORT DIX JIHAD SUSPECT ASKS FOR QUR'AN" (May 11, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Camden, New Jersey - " FORT DIX SUSPECTS ARE ALL DENIED BAIL" (May 11, 2007)

CNS NEWS.com: "TERROR-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LINK HIGHLIGHTED IN THWARTED NJ PLOT" by Kevin Mooney (May 11, 2007)

CNS NEWS.com: "FBI LACKS EVIDENCE TO CHARGE FOUR OTHER JIHADISTS" by Kevin Mooney (May 10, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (MSNBC): "FORT DIX JIHAD PLOTTERS RECRUITED THROUGH INTERNET" (May 9, 2007)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "INTERNET"

MEMRI.org: "JIHAD AND TERRORISM STUDIES PROJECT"

FOX NEWS.com: "BROTHERS CHARGED IN TERROR PLOT LIVED ILLEGALLY IN U.S. FOR 23 YEARS" (May 9, 2007)

ADNKI.com (AKI): Belgrade - "TERRORISM: U.S. ARMY BASE PLOT 'CONFIRMS EXISTENCE OF WHITE AL QAEDA' BALKAN EXPERTS SAY" (May 9, 2007)

Google - Search Term: "WHITE AL QAEDA"

Google - Search Term: "WHITE AL QAIDA"

CHRONICLES MAGAZINE.org: "KOSOVO BLOWBACK REACHES AMERICA" by Srdja Trifkovic (May 8, 2007)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "BALKIN MUSLIM GRATITUDE" by Julia Gorin (May 9, 2007)

DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "SIX ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO KILL SOLDIERS AT FORT DIX, N.J." by John J. Kruzel (May 8, 2007)

Newark.FBI.GOV - DOJ Press Release: Camden, N.J. - "SIX INDIVIDUALS CHARGED WITH PLOTTING TO MURDER U.S. SOLDIERS AT NEW JERSEY MILITARY BASE" (May 8, 2007)

FBI.gov: "ATTACK FOILED Undercover Probe Busts Terror Plot" (Note: Includes Additional Links) (May 8, 2007)

THE SMOKING GUN.com: "FORT DIX TERROR PLOT FOILED FBI: New Jersey jihadists targeted servicemen at Army base" (May 8, 2007)

145 posted on 11/04/2007 12:49:00 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: txflake; Jet Jaguar; All

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

#

Note: See updates on the thread link listed below.

Thanks to txflake for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920706/posts

“Driveby shooting death (3 Ft. Huachuca soldiers shot at following argument)”
Arizona Daily Star ^ | Kim Matas

Posted on 11/03/2007 10:51:07 PM PDT by SandRat


146 posted on 11/04/2007 12:59:09 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

Off Topic, but interesting.

http://www.officer.com/web/online/Police-Life/Chaplains-Column—How-to-Survive-Critical-Incident-Stress/17$38608

“Chaplain’s Column: How to Survive Critical Incident Stress
Four key measures”

Updated: October 30th, 2007 06:31 PM EDT


147 posted on 11/04/2007 1:01:17 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

UPDATE:

blog:

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003898.html

November 3, 2007
“Spain: 10 Convicted Islamist Terrorists On Hunger Strike”


148 posted on 11/04/2007 1:25:34 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07110017.htm

Saturday, November 3, 2007

“Christian Pastor Flees Palestinian Town After Death Threat”

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

RAMALLAH


149 posted on 11/04/2007 1:21:04 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All

UPDATE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920719/posts

“Pakistan - Former ISI chief Hamid Gul arrested”
The News International (Karachi) ^ | November 4, 2007

Posted on 11/04/2007 1:25:06 AM PST by HAL9000

ISLAMABAD


150 posted on 11/04/2007 1:36:41 AM PST by Cindy
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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48039

Coalition, Iraqi Forces Detain 17 Suspects in Iraq

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 17 suspects during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said.

In a raid yesterday morning, soldiers of the 11th Iraqi Army Division entered the Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighorhood and detained 12 suspects, including two known terrorists who were using the mosque as a base.

The captured individuals are suspected of emplacing improvised explosive devices, kidnapping and murdering Iraqi civilians, and attacking coalition and Iraqi forces across Baghdad. The suspects also are linked to al Qaeda members, military officials said.

Acting on tips provided by local citizens, Iraqi army soldiers requested proper permission to enter the mosque compound. The Iraqi army then came under fire from inside the building. The troops returned fire and wounded one insurgent. Iraqi troops pursued the attackers throughout the mosque compound, eventually detaining the 12 insurgents.

As U.S. soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, secured the perimeter, they also came under small-arms fire and grenade attacks. U.S. troops suffered no injuries during the operation.

Army Lt. Col. Jeff Broadwater, the battalion’s commander, said he and Iraqi Col. Adel, commander of the 11th Iraqi Army Division’s 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, considered all tactical options before requesting permission to conduct the operation due to the mosque’s religious significance.

In other operations, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained five suspected extremists Nov. 2 in the Iraqi capital’s Rashid District.

Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 77th Armored Regiment, raided two homes where tipsters said two terrorists were hiding. Military officials believe the two individuals were involved in weapons trafficking, mounting attacks against coalition forces and murdering translators. Troops captured both suspects.

Later that morning, “Warriors” from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, attached to the 1st Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, captured a man who was identified by two sources as having emplaced improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.

During a patrol a few hours later, the “Warriors” detained a man suspected of attacking Multinational Division Baghdad troops with small arms and IEDs. Fifteen minutes later, while raiding a house in the Doura region of Baghdad, Company C troops detained a suspect who allegedly led IED attacks, military officials said.

The five suspects were taken into custody and are being held for further questioning.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)


151 posted on 11/04/2007 2:51:43 PM PST by Cindy
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152 posted on 11/04/2007 2:54:19 PM PST by Godzilla (Were you born that stupid, or did you have to work at it?)
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CIA Information Sources
Nov.2.2007

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden revealed this week, in defending agency interrogations of terrorists, that more than 70 percent of the intelligence used in a recent national estimate came from questioning captured terrorists.

"The last six years have shown us that the best sources of information on terrorists and their plans are the terrorists themselves," Mr. Hayden said in a speech Tuesday in Chicago. Calling the intelligence "simply irreplaceable," he also noted that the elicited information "is the sole reason we have rendition, detention and interrogation programs." Fewer than 100 of the most hardened captured terrorists have been put through interrogation since 2002. "Of those, less than a third have required any special methods of questioning," Mr. Hayden said.

The CIA director said the National Intelligence Estimate confirmed that the danger of another major al Qaeda attack against the U.S. is real. Al Qaeda aims "to execute a spectacular attack that would cause mass casualties, massive destruction and economic harm," he said. Mr. Hayden noted that the estimate was less certain about one key element of al Qaeda plans: the presence of group operatives inside the U.S. The CIA director's comments are a tacit admission that the agency continues to have a difficult time planting spies inside or close to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071102/NATION/111020088/1008&template=nextpage

Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror
November 4, 2007

It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: “Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn, covered in blood after he was hit by the bullets of the infidels, following in the path of his brother.” The flowery language could not disguise the brutal truth that a Saudi family had lost two sons fighting for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The elder brother, Khaled, had been a deputy commander of a crack jihadist “special forces” unit. After his “glorious” death, Turki took his place. “He was deeply affected by the martyrdom of his brother,” the Knights said. “He became more ambitious and more passionate about defending the land of Islam and dying as a martyr, like his brother.”

Turki’s fervent wish was granted earlier this year, but another Saudi national who travelled to Iraq had second thoughts. He was a graduate from a respectable family of teachers and professors who was recruited in a Saudi Arabian mosque and sent to Iraq with $1,000 in travel expenses and the telephone number of a smuggler who could get him across the Syrian border. In Iraq he was ordered to blow himself up in a tanker on a bridge in Ramadi, but he panicked before he could press the detonator. He was arrested by Iraqi police. In a second lorry, another foreign fighter followed orders and died.

King Abdullah was surprised during his two-day state visit to Britain last week by the barrage of criticism directed at the Saudi kingdom. Officials were in “considerable shock”, one former British diplomat said.

Excerpted

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2801017.ece

153 posted on 11/04/2007 2:54:31 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48040

“Troops Repel Two Ambushes in Afghanistan”
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2007


154 posted on 11/04/2007 2:59:06 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All; backhoe; Jet Jaguar

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018681.php
(JIHAD UNSPUN.com)

November 4, 2007

“Chechen jihadists proclaim Islamic State, declare U.S., U.K., Israel legitimate jihad targets”


155 posted on 11/04/2007 3:15:03 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=saudiarabia

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

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

#

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018680.php
(TIMES ONLINEco.uk.)

November 4, 2007

“Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror: The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers”


156 posted on 11/04/2007 3:18:24 PM PST by Cindy
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/numerous_terrorismrelated_hear.php

“Numerous Terrorism-Related Hearings This Week in U.S. Congress”
By Andrew Cochran
(November 4, 2007)


157 posted on 11/04/2007 3:22:58 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Cindy
Thank you for the links, I got lost in them and learned a lot. Extreamly disturbing to say the least but important to know.

Thanks for all you contribute to keep this thread going!


158 posted on 11/04/2007 3:26:36 PM PST by angelsonmyside
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To: angelsonmyside

Thank you anelsonmyside.

I appreciate you reading the Threat Matrix.

I was off TM for several weeks and a good handful of team
members pitched in.

That’s what the Threat Matrix is — a team effort.


159 posted on 11/04/2007 3:31:14 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All
RECAP:
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "'TERRORIST' IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD" by Sean Colt (November 2, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "FINALLY, A FOCUS ON THE 'NEAR' AND LETHAL ENEMY" by Douglas Farah (October 26, 2007)

160 posted on 11/04/2007 3:35:16 PM PST by Cindy
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