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Threat Matrix: January 2008
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Posted on 01/02/2008 8:53:38 PM PST by nwctwx

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Pervez Musharraf was calm, confident and—despite a flurry of rumors—not about to announce his resignation. Instead, the Pakistani president's "concession" to his troubled nation was an announcement that he would allow Britain's Scotland Yard to help local law enforcement agencies with their investigation into last week's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Speaking in a nationally televised address two hours after Pakistan's election commission announced the postponement of the ballot to Feb. 18, six weeks later than had been scheduled, Musharraf was notably deferential in his remarks about Bhutto, often invoking her "martyrdom" and extolling her liberal democratic credentials. "May she go to heaven," he said. "I stand for the same things she said." Read More


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To: Domestic Church
Dengue is a common initial misdiagnosis for H5N1 infection.

I didn't know that either. Thanks. It will be a challenge for physicians forced to make a diagnosis between the two.

801 posted on 01/20/2008 5:21:30 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Oorang
..Puerto Rico, where it’s now endemic...

Some people pass through Puerto Rico en route to destinations in the Caribbean and making trip connections for Caribbean cruises. It's an exposure risk many will never comprehend.

802 posted on 01/20/2008 5:26:50 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Big Ditto.


803 posted on 01/20/2008 5:57:49 PM PST by Cindy
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To: MamaDearest; piasa

Thanks to piasa for the ping to this thread which goes with MamaDearest’s post no. 789:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956751/posts

“FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft”
Timesonline Via Drudge Report ^ | Jan 20, 2008 | Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert and Joe Lauria
Posted on 01/20/2008 11:07:22 AM PST by RDTF


804 posted on 01/20/2008 6:02:08 PM PST by Cindy
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RECAP and UPDATED:

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "CIA HACKERS SHOOK UP POWER GRIDS The threat is real." (January 20, 2008)

Blog - WIRED.com: "CIA: HACKERS SHOOK UP POWER GRIDS (Updated)" by Noah Shachtman (January 19, 2008)

THREATS WATCH.org: "CIA: CYBER ATTACKS TURN OUT THE LIGHTS" by Michael Tanji (January 18, 2008)

COMPUTERWORLD.com (IDG NEWS SERVICE): "CIA SAYS HACKERS PULLED PLUG ON POWER GRID" by Robert McMillan (January 18, 2008)

DAILY MAIL.co.uk: "CIA LAUNCHES HUNT FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER HACKERS THREATENING TO HOLD CITIES RANSOM BY SHUTTING OFF POWER" by William Lowther (Last updated on January 18, 2008)

CIA.gov

805 posted on 01/20/2008 6:17:10 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All; fanfan

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1956455/posts?page=9#9

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Thanks to fanfan for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1956455/posts

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Coren_Michael/2008/01/19/4781890.php

Sat, January 19, 2008

“Repeat, offender”
By MICHAEL COREN

SNIPPET: “Much has now been written about Ezra Levant, the former publisher of the now defunct Western Standard...”


806 posted on 01/20/2008 7:02:14 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All; Jet Jaguar; RDTF; Squantos; SlowBoat407; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx

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

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Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to these links:

http://www.inatoday.com

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/384091.html

“CUBAN INTELLIGENCE
Cuba said to broaden its spying against U.S.”

SNIPPET: “Cuba is extending its intelligence reach to track U.S. military activities, a former U.S. intelligence officer says.”
Posted on Fri, Jan. 18, 2008
Diggdel.icio.usAIMreprintprintemail
BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON — Cuba has extended its intelligence-gathering capabilities beyond the United States and Latin America to places where vital U.S. interests are at stake — like Iran, Turkey, India and Pakistan — a former top U.S. counterintelligence official told lawmakers Thursday.

Chris Simmons, a former counterintelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said a series of intelligence setbacks for Cuba between 1995 and 2003 — such as the dismantling of a network of spies in Miami, the closure of an intellingece center in Canada and the arrest of former DIA Cuba analyst Ana Montes in 2001 — forced Cuba to tighten its intelligence operations.

Today Cuba puts trusted top intelligence operatives in charge of key embassy postings and operates more with allies like Iran and Venezuela, Simmons said in a briefing organized by Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Cuba’s intelligence apparatus, considered one of the world’s most formidable, numbers more than 11,500 agents, he said, of whom about 3,500 are focused on international operations.”


807 posted on 01/20/2008 7:20:56 PM PST by Cindy
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To: backhoe; All

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019651.php

January 20, 2008

“’Green explained that we typically think of terrorism groups strictly as Islamic and Muslim, but Christian extremist groups actually commit just as many acts’”

SNIPPET: “Let’s see. 10,380 violent attacks since 9/11 by Islamic jihadists who justify their actions on the basis of Islamic texts and teachings.

How many violent attacks since 9/11 by Christian zealots who justify their actions on the basis of Christian texts and teachings? Uh, none.

Major attacks: 9/11. 7/7 in London. March 11, 2004 in Spain. The Bali bombings. Several major attacks in India. Scores of thwarted plots. By Islamic jihadists.

Major attacks and thwarted plots by Christian supremacists? Zip.

As I explain in the book, this kind of talk by Gregory Green is not just stupid, although it is certainly that. It is dangerous, because it diverts our attention from the reality of the situation we’re in, and interferes with sober analysis of what we can and must do to defend ourselves.”


808 posted on 01/20/2008 7:27:41 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thank you, Cindy. Not a good development.


809 posted on 01/20/2008 8:51:35 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
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To: SlowBoat407

You’re welcome SlowBoat407 and I agree with you.


810 posted on 01/20/2008 9:10:40 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/18/new-jihad-watch-the-candidates-speak-on-jihad/

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VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwGUGwaNobE

“Jihad Watch 51”

DESCRIPTION - QUOTE:

About This Video
The candidates on jihad.
Added: January 17, 2008


811 posted on 01/20/2008 10:01:40 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
How many violent attacks since 9/11 by Christian zealots who justify their actions on the basis of Christian texts and teachings? Uh, none.

Christian persecution

.CHHATTISGARH, INDIA — A group of 35 Hindu radicals severely beat up three Pastors and a few church members and got them arrested by the Police for preaching the gospel on Thursday, January 10.

.Nine Iraqi Christian churches and monasteries bombed this week as Iraqi Christians face persecution and are threatened with extinction.

.India: Teen Girl, Mother and GFA Missionary Beaten; Two Christian Workers Jailed

.China: Leaders of Fangcheng House Church of Henan Arrested

Christian leader arrested

China Aid Association learned that a House Church leader in Kashi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was secretly detained on January 12. According to an eyewitness, Mr. A Li Mu Jiang was taken away from his home by State Security Bureau agents for an accused "national security issue." His wife was also taken from her home for interrogation in the evening of the same day.

Government officials continue to persecute House Church members and Christians in Xinjiang Province, as was the case in December of 2007, in which a Christian employee of Xinjiang Pacific Agricultural Resources Development Company, Ltd, was detained and sentenced to 2-3 years reeducation through labor, for allegedly revealing State secrets. The charges were a cover however, as the real reason for his arrest stemmed from his association with the owner of the company, an American and outspoken Christian.

812 posted on 01/20/2008 10:23:02 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Cindy
Should Islamic proselytism be prohibited in the West?

Christian proselytism is discouraged, where not outright prohibited, throughout the Muslim world and Muslims who convert to Christianity (or any other religion) are subject to death according to Sharia law. Ironically, this situation is not applicable to the Muslim communities in the West: for where Muslim clerics struggle against the Christian missionaries in Islamic countries, Muslim missionaries in the West enjoy many freedoms and may welcome new converts.

Bomb materials found during Islamic terror suspect raids

It has been confirmed that bomb-making paraphernalia - including computer equipment and four timers - was found yesterday at five of the addresses searched during dawn raids yesterday morning in Barcelona.

Fifteen suspects - thirteen from Pakistan and two from India - were arrested, fourteen of whom have already been taken to Madrid for a provisional hearing at the High Court at the start of next week.

813 posted on 01/20/2008 10:34:24 PM PST by MamaDearest
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/01/20/2008-01-20_teens_beating_probed_as_hate_crime.html

“Teen’s beating probed as hate crime”
BY DORIAN BLOCK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, January 20th 2008, 4:00 AM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”They pushed me so I was leaning on the gate, and five guys were knocking me out for five minutes,” Samuel, who is Lubavitch Hasidic, said last night. He said the teens yelled, “F——— Jew. It’s our neighborhood. We’re going to kill you, little Jew.” Bleeding from his head, Samuel went to his friend’s house and then to Kings County Hospital.”

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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/bias.attack.brooklyn.2.634305.html

Jan 20, 2008 11:08 pm US/Eastern
“Police Investigating Hate Crime In Brooklyn”
Reporting
Ti-Hua Chang BROOKLYN (CBS)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police are investigating the beating as a possible bias attack. Community residents say this is not an isolated incident. They claim a half hour before the attack on Balkany, 15 black teenagers assaulted three Jewish teens on Brooklyn Avenue a few blocks away.

There is a pattern of racist attacks on Jewish Hasidic teenagers in crown heights on Fridays says a Rabbi visiting relatives on Carroll street.

Rabbi Ari Goodman, Chabad of Brunswick told CBS 2 HD the attacks happen on Fridays, when Jewish people cannot carry money or cell phones, leading him to believe the attacks are strictly racially motivated.

But these attacks - several last summer and in the last two weeks, are not black community versus Jewish community, says the head of a Hasidic street patrol.”


814 posted on 01/20/2008 11:35:26 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/berlin_mayor_condemns_attack_o.php
(AP)

“Berlin mayor condemns attack on Jewish high-school students”

Associated Press Staff Reports
OneNewsNow.comJanuary 20, 2008

BERLIN -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police say the attackers set a dog upon the students and shouted anti-Semitic slogans.

The dog chased a 15-year-old who ran inside a bakery and escaped injury. Witnesses called police, who took all four suspects into custody and captured the dog before anyone was harmed.”


815 posted on 01/21/2008 1:30:22 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080121/NATION/884596216/1001

“Republicans say FISA authority in Constitution”
By Bill Gertz
January 21, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Authority to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance comes from the Constitution and is vital to stopping foreign terrorist attacks and spies, says a Republican staff assessment of the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“There is nothing new or aggressive about relying on Article II authority in the context of foreign intelligence surveillance,” stated the assessment produced by the office of Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The 13-page assessment counters Democrats and other critics of the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) who argued during a Senate filibuster of the legislation last month that electronic spying is illegal, began before the September 11 attacks, and that the program spied improperly on domestic telephone and electronic communications.”


816 posted on 01/21/2008 1:42:43 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=mexico

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080121/NATION/529346712/1001

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“U.S. faces ‘grave threat’ in Mexico’s drug fight”
By Jerry Seper
January 21, 2008


817 posted on 01/21/2008 1:45:57 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Jet Jaguar; Godzilla; All

Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3496780,00.html

Israeli satellite launched out of India to start transmitting in fortnight

Published: 01.21.08, 08:59 / Israel News

The new Israeli spy satellite is scheduled to send its first images from space in two weeks, the Israel Aerospace Industries told Ynet.

The satellite, TECSAR, was launched into orbit earlier Monday. (Hanan Greenberg)


818 posted on 01/21/2008 2:15:49 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All; Jet Jaguar; Godzilla

More details:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572504264&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Jan 21, 2008 8:19 | Updated Jan 21, 2008 10:28
“Israeli spy satellite successfully launched from India”
By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Weighing just under 300 kilograms, the TecSar was developed by the IAI’s Space Division MBT and has the ability to create images of objects on Earth day and night, even in cloudy weather conditions - a capability not available in Israel’s Ofek satellite series.

The TecSar is reportedly capable of imaging with a resolution of up to 10 centimetres.

The Ofek 7 is a camera-based satellite, while TecSar is capable of creating high-resolution images using synthetic aperture radar, an advanced radar technology.

Once in space, officials said, the TecSar would be by far the most advanced Israeli satellite. In addition to the Ofek 7, Eros B and the Amos 1 and 2 (both communication satellites), Israel operates the Ofek 5 spy satellite, successfully launched in May 2002. IAI plans to launch the Amos 3 in the coming months.”


819 posted on 01/21/2008 2:19:46 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://thememriblog.org/iran
http://memritv.org/subject/en/121.htm

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Ding. Ding.Ding.

So many runner ups for the STUCK ON STUPID award today; however we do have a clear winner and here he is:

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Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3496836,00.html

Iran slam Israeli missile testing as ‘attempt to boost soldiers’ morale’

Published: 01.21.08, 11:08 / Israel News

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that the Israeli missile testing, performed last week, was done “in order to boost the morale of the defeated (Israeli) soldiers who fought in the Second Lebanon War,” the Iranian news agency IRNA reported Monday.

“Israel is not in a position to threaten others,” added Hosseini, who continued to slam IDF operations in Gaza, calling them “the result of the Annapolis peace conference.” (Dudi Cohen)


820 posted on 01/21/2008 2:25:20 AM PST by Cindy
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