Threat Matrix: June 2008

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The Hunt for American al Qaeda

The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty.

The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture.

Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have already begun airing. Additionally, printed materials including matchbooks, handbills and posters will be distributed throughout the region in the coming weeks in attempts to elicit cooperation from members of the Afghan community. Read More

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[Cindy]

http://www.txfgm.org/
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/texas
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028121/posts

“Arson suspected at Governor’s Mansion”
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 8, 2008 | CLAY ROBISON and JANET ELLIOTT
Posted on June 8, 2008 6:37:05 PM PDT by ricks_place

AUSTIN

[Cindy]

Fyi Only.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1325496

“Ohio plane crash kills 6, including ex-legislator”
June 8, 2008 - 7:43pm
FREMONT, Ohio (AP)

[Cindy]

Well now, I missed this, so let’s post it here so leos and other letter agencies know what to look for.

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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374210
TERRORISM FOCUS

“Jihadis Counter ‘Censorship’ of Islamic State of Iraq”
By Abdul Hameed Bakier
(June 3, 2008)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “To break Western media obstruction, Imran instructs forum members to upload video clips from al-Furqan (The Criterion—a jihadi media outlet named for the 25th sura of the Quran) to forums and scientific websites after renaming them to conceal their jihadi nature. Several names are proposed for these clips, such as “To my virtuous shaykh,” or “Urgent—a matter of life and death.” Naming the clips after prominent Islamic figures and posting them to websites is another method that would deceive web users into downloading and watching them. Forum members should form a media front specialized in disseminating jihadi video clips to religious scholars, anti-jihad Islamic websites and all Iraqi websites regardless of their inclinations, whether Islamist or nationalist, according to Imran. Further methods include making CD copies of the clips and distributing them in mosques and libraries while making sure that the clips do not contain negative remarks about the anti-jihad Islamic ideologues as that would alienate their followers from the message. Reiterating the crucial need to break the media blockade, Imran says: “Muslims ignorant of jihadi operations make it easy for Americans to appoint pro-American religious authorities. America’s defeat in Iraq means erasing its presence in the whole Arab Gulf, [with America] consequently losing access to Gulf oil, its lifeline artery.”

Another forum chatter suggests targeting Syrian websites and all the forums and chat rooms of hot area countries such as Somalia, Algeria, Lebanon and Palestine. A forum chatter nicknamed Harqoos posted the email addresses of over 25 Islamic religious scholars.”

[Cindy]

http://www.infolive.tv
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il
http://israel.internet-haganah.com/

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This morning the STUCK ON STUPID award goes to anyone who pressures Israel to remove anti-terror barriers whatsoever. It also goes to anyone who caves in to pressure and removes the anti-terror barriers. My opinion and I’m right. -Cindy

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66558

“U.S. urges removal of antiterror barriers
Jews were attacked within hours previous time obstacles removed”
Posted: June 08, 2008
10:16 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM –

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http://wnd.com/index.php?pageId=60514

“Rice to blame for attempted attack against Jews?
Defense officials fuming at secretary’s meddling”
Posted: April 01, 2008
10:03 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2027830/posts

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QUOTE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2027830/posts?page=19#19

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet

UPDATE:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3553309,00.html
(AP)

“Man behind Tokyo stabbing foretold slaughter on Internet”
Published: 06.09.08, 10:40

19 posted on June 9, 2008 3:29:58 AM PDT by Cindy

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mohsenrezai
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rezai
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/saudiarabia

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028213/posts

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http://www.interpol.int/public/Data/Wanted/Notices/Data/2007/58/2007_49958.asp

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200806/FOR20080609a.html

“Iranian Terror Suspects Travel Freely to Saudi Arabia”
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 09, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - Seven months after Interpol placed a former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on its most-wanted list, the fugitive suspected of state-sponsored terrorism last week traveled freely to Saudi Arabia, where he attended a religious conference hosted by King Abdullah.

Mohsen Rezai, wanted by Argentina, is the subject of an Interpol “red notice” — a request for a provisional arrest with a view to extradition, based on an arrest warrant or court decision. Saudi Arabia is a member state of the international policing organization.

It was unclear Monday whether he was still in Saudi Arabia, but his presence was brought to the attention of Interpol as well as the Argentine and Saudi governments late last week.

Rezai was part of a delegation led by former Iranian president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, who shared the platform with the Saudi monarch during the gathering in Mecca.

The three-day conference, which drew considerable attention in the Islamic world, is aimed at fostering Muslim unity ahead of a dialogue Abdullah plans to launch with Christian and Jewish religious figures.

The attendance of Rafsanjani, a senior Shi’ite figure invited by the Sunni king and seated at Abdullah’s left in a sign of unity between Islam’s two major sects, was widely reported.

Virtually unreported, by contrast, was the participation of Rezai, although an Iranian state-funded media outlet mentioned in passing that he was accompanying the former president. Iran’s Mehr news agency also posted pictures showing Rezai in Mecca with Rafsanjani.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nuclear

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028223/posts

“Deputies question Al Jazeera film crew”
Bay City Tribune ^ | 6/3/2008 | Heather Menzies
Posted on June 9, 2008 4:17:23 AM PDT by Badabing Badablonde

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Reporters from the Al Jazeera television network were questioned by Matagorda County Sheriff deputies when they were found filming near the South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company plant site Tuesday, June 3.

The reporters were from Al Jazeera English’s Washington D.C. broadcast center.

Al Jazeera English is a television network — headquartered in Doha, Qatar — that purposes to be the English-language channel of reference for Middle Eastern events.

According to Captain Stephen Crow, Matagorda County Sheriff Department spokesman, three individuals were spotted filming on the public road right-of-way just outside of the one-mile buffer zone in front of the STP plant site.

The deputy patrolling the STP perimeter questioned the three reporters who told him they were doing a story on uranium mining and its effects on Kingsville farmers.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nuclear

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“IAEA chief warns against nuclear plant attacks”
al-Reuters ^ | June 7, 2008 | Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Robert Woodward
Posted on June 9, 2008 4:19:15 AM PDT by Schnucki

BERLIN

[Godzilla]

placemark

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iran
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T90&pid=108&sid=13&preview=
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200806/FOR20080609b.html

“Iran’s Supreme Leader Predicts Terrorists Will Get Nukes”
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNSNews.com Editor in Chief
June 09, 2008

(CNSNews.com) -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Khamenei gave the speech to mark the 19th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, who died on June 3, 1989, ten years after he sparked a revolution in Iran that overthrew the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a U.S. ally, and instituted a Shiite Islamic theocracy.

Khamenei’s speech was presented as a review of the lessons that Ayatollah Khomeini taught in his “last will and testament.”

While predicting that terrorists would obtain nuclear weapons, Khamenei claimed Iran was not interested in obtaining nuclear weapons itself, but only wanted to develop nuclear energy.

At one point during Khamenei’s speech, according to a translated transcript published by the BBC, the crowd at the mausoleum chanted: “Death to Israel.” At other points, it chanted: “Palestine is victorious, Israel is defeated,” and “Nuclear energy, our absolute right.”

Khamenei’s virulent attacks on Israel appeared to echo the rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said that “Israel should be wiped off the map.”

At Khomeini’s tomb on Tuesday, Khamenei, who holds more power than Ahmadinejad under Iran’s Islamic revolutionary constitution, lashed out at both America and “Arabic nations” for allowing Israel to “stand on its feet.”

“Other nations, just like the Iranian nation, consider Israel as a false and imposed regime in the region,” said Khamenei, according to the BBC translation. “The Zionist regime has no power by itself and cannot stand on its own feet. Today, two factors have helped the Zionist regime stand on its feet. First, the unconditional and despicable support of America for this decadent regime, and second is lack of support of Islamic and Arabic nations for the Palestinian people.”

Khamenei claimed Iran was not interested in pursuing nuclear weapons because they are against “Islamic beliefs,” but said that terrorists would get nuclear weapons.

“The Iranian nation is against such weapons based on its religious and Islamic beliefs as well as based on logic and wisdom. Nuclear weapons have no benefit but high costs to manufacture and keep them,” he said, according to the BBC translation. “Nuclear weapons do not bring power to a nation because they are not applicable. Nuclear weapons cannot be used.”

A moment later he added, “Before long, the world’s terrorists will have access to nuclear weapons and take away security from all the tyrants of the world and all the nations of the world.”

Khamenei told the chanting crowd at the mausoleum that the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s advice to them was to resist America, and — in a probable allusion to the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army in Iraq — said that some Iranians even now were following Khomeini’s advice.

Citing Khomeini’s last will and testament, Khamenei also predicted that Iran’s Islamic revolution would spread around the world as people elsewhere were inspired by the things it had done for Iran.”

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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=IA44708

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 447
June 6, 2008 No. 447

“Ahmadinejad: Israel Is a ‘Dead Fish’ and a ‘Stinking Corpse’; ‘The Zionist Regime Will Be Wiped Off the Map’; ‘The European Governments Do Not Want the Zionists Living in Europe’”
By: Y. Mansharof AND A. Savyon

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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/7778.htm

On Iranian Website: “The Islamic World Without Wahhabis”

In an editorial titled “The Islamic World Without Wahhabis,” the Iranian website Tabnak stated that the Saudis are the terrorists of the Islamic world.

The website said that the Saudi government was helping the aggressive governments and making it possible for them to establish bases on its territory, and that Saudi Arabia was sowing division in the Islamic world and in recent years conducting anti-Shi’ite propaganda.

Source: Tabnak, Iran, June 2, 2008

Posted at: 2008-06-04

[pgkdan]

As President, Obama will just post the guy to his Cabinet.

If he made him Press Secretary he'd at least be as loyal and decent as Scott McClellan.

[Cindy]

BLOG:

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/7847.htm
(”Source: Al-Hayat, London, June 8, 2008”)

“Report: Al-Qaeda Maghreb Commander Turns Self In”

SNIPPET: “Abu Hadhifa, Al-Qaeda Maghreb commander in charge of the forces in eastern Algeria, has turned himself in to authorities.”

(Posted June 9, 2008)

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RECAP:

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA44408

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 444
May 29, 2008 No. 444

“The Party of Jurisprudence vs. The Party of Action: Sayyed Imam, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and the Split in the Jihad Movement”
By: Daniel Lav

SNIPPET: “Introduction

Following is the text of a presentation delivered by Daniel Lav, Director of MEMRI’s Middle East and North Africa Reform Project, at the inaugural conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2008. The presentation explains the meaning and the significance of the polemic between the prominent jihadist scholar Sayyed Imam, who has called for a stop to the jihad against Muslim regimes, and Ayman Al-Zawahiri; in addition, it clarifies the important differences between Sayyed Imam’s initiative and that of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya group, which has made a clearer break with jihadism.

The full paper will be available shortly on the ASMEA website (www.asmeascholars.org ). MEMRI will also be publishing a version of the paper in a forthcoming collection of studies in jihadist ideology.

Previous MEMRI reports relating to the polemic between Sayyed Imam and Al-Zawahiri include:

Excerpts from Sayyed Imam’s interview with Al-Hayat:
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP178507 ;
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP182608 ;

Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s book responding to Sayyed Imam:
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP185908 ;

and “Open Meeting with Ayman Al-Zawahiri”:
(http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP188708 ).”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/06/online_social_networks_expand.php

“Online Social Networks Expand a Sense of Community Among Members and Supporters of Extremist Groups”
By Madeleine Gruen
(June 9, 2008, 4:22 pm)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/zimbabwe

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Thanks to Clive for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028492/posts

“Zimbabwe braced for its traumatic endgame”
Times Online ^ | 6/9/08 | Richard Dowden
Posted on June 9, 2008 2:19:21 PM PDT by Dawnsblood

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

bttt

[MamaDearest]

Building owners can be held liable in terrorism acts

The New York Supreme Court's appellate division recently issued the latest in a series of decisions emanating from the bombing of the World Trade Center garage in 1993. The decision in Nash v. the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey affirmed a jury verdict finding the owner of the World Trade Center 68 percent responsible for the damage that occurred -- 32 percent of the responsibility was attributed to the terrorists. The decision provides a stark reminder to building owners that ignoring the threat of terrorism can have a costly impact both in terms of catastrophic damage and legal liability to injured parties.

Suspects amassed terror library

Prosecutors told London's Blackfriars Crown Court the haul included documents on weapons and explosives.

Defendant Aabid Khan, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, was described as "dedicated to the pursuit of a violent holy war.

[Cindy]

Thank you Unrepentant VN Vet.

[Cindy]

OPINION:

That’s really sad.

How many can say they own a building that can stand up to terrorism?
I don’t know of anyone.

That’s wealth redistribution, in my opinion.

That said, there are things you can do...like posts at the entrances of buildings so that people can’t drive through. Reinforced structures, 24/7 working security cameras, armed security guards; 24/7 building patrols, reporting suspicious incidents/persons, etc., all good, but can this prevent all forms of terrorism?

No.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2028642/posts?page=2#2

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2028642/posts

“Hugo’s Head Fake”
IBD ^ | June 9, 2008
Posted on June 9, 2008 6:57:37 PM PDT by Kaslin

[Cindy]

Off topic, but interesting:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2028646/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2028646/posts?page=18#18