Threat Matrix: November 2007

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[nwctwx]

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...

	Turkey Imposes Sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan in Bid to Halt PKK
	Ambassador Ryan Crocker to Turkey: Stay Out of Iraq
	Deaths in Baghdad Hit Yearly Low

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[MamaDearest]

“RAMSEY CLARK OFFERS REASSURANCE REGARDING THE CONDITION OF THE BLIND SHEIK

Isn’t that nice of him...”

Two words: Hillary Clinton.

Eight words: Are we able to take more of same?

[Cindy]

That was a good post by Velveeta.

Have a good evening Palladin.

[Cindy]

“Are we able to take more of same?”

No.

[Cindy]

BIG DITTO.

[MamaDearest]

If Syria is that stupid, then there will be plenty of parking spaces in Damascas shortly there after.

Humming: "they paved PARADISE and turned it into a parking lot......."

[Cindy]

I’m not surprised Mata.

I’m not sure what started the fire, but perfume and cologne are flammable.

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ON THE INTERNET:

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

[RDTF]

Sorry about that! Trying again...here is another link regarding the captured fugitive named Kamara Mohammed. Still looking for a link that mentions that the auto theft ring he was with may be connected to an International one.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1107/472127.html

[Cindy]

Here’s the suspect’s photo (from the link you pointed to) and I’ll check around, too.

http://www.acc-tv.com/images/wjla/news/vidcap_fugitive1113.jpg

[Oorang]

Wow. Just wow. So the FBI, when vetting a prospective employee, does not detect that they have overstayed their visa or has evaded U.S. immigration laws. This is not good. *sigh*

[Cindy]

Here’s a mention of auto theft:

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071113/NEWS/71113044/1006

“Escaped prisoner captured in Maryland”
Associated Press
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 2:12 pm

LAUREL, Md. —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mohamed was arrested Monday on auto theft charges...”

[Godzilla]

“Police say woman’s perfume caught fire at airport”

For something to spontaneously combust requires a strong oxidizer and a fuel with a relatively low combustion temperature. Makes one wonder what she was putting on here body. Definitely not the whole story coming out yet.

[Cindy]

I really don’t understand it myself.

Everyone I know that’s applied for a various jobs from pds to homeland security; had tests (or resumes equivalent to experience or both), interviews, extensive backgrounds, polygraphs, physicals, etc. How did this one slip through the cracks?

I don’t know.

[Cindy]

“Definitely not the whole story coming out yet.”

Ditto that.

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/wl_nm/usa_portugal_threats_dc

“U.S. says bank bomb threats came from Portugal”
By Jane Sutton 2 hours, 45 minutes ago

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MIAMI (Reuters) - An international fugitive was indicted on terrorism charges alleging he made phone calls from Portugal to U.S. banks and threatened to blow them up unless they wired him money, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.

The suspect, Allan Guedes Sharif, has also been linked to nearly two dozen phone calls to U.S. supermarkets, department stores and Wal-Marts in which the caller threatened to set off bombs unless employees sent him thousands of dollars, according to media reports.”

[Oorang]

Aw shucks, thanks ladies.

[Cindy]

You’re most welcome, Oorang.

[Oorang]

Thanks for the additional link RDTF.

[Oorang]

Thanks for the additional link RDTF.

[Oorang]

I was talking to a friend recently who works for Homeland Security. I was asking him about the testing and checking of prospective employees and what he went through just two years ago was quite thorough and rigorous. He is a native born American, not someone who is supposedly here on a visa.

[Cindy]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018786.php
(BOSTON GLOBE.com)

November 13, 2007
“Trial begins for 3 Boston-area Muslims accused of aiding jihadists”

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Previously...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013599.php
(WASHINGTON TIMES.com)

October 16, 2006
“Tax-exempt jihad”