Threat Matrix: 2009

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[Velveeta]

The arabic is there in Casey’s post.

[Velveeta]

Amen.

[Oorang]

Yes, but sometimes when the arabic is copyed and pasted too many times the translation software has a difficult time. I was just looking for a cleaner and larger font.

[Velveeta]

Oh, I gotcha.

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for the ping at #303 & #337. Catching up. Thanks to every poster/linker/researcher/educator on this thread. BTTT!

[Velveeta]

10 Years Sought For Area Ex-Sailor

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Federal prosecutors have filed papers seeking the maximum sentence for a former Navy sailor from Phoenix convicted of leaking details about ship movements, calling him a traitor who was trying to help foreign terrorists replicate the bombing of the USS Cole.

Prosecutors want Hassan Abu-Jihaad to get the maximum 10 years in prison when he is sentenced next Friday.

“The defendant deliberately sought to endanger the safety of his fellow sailors and the national security of the United States in one of the most strategically important areas of the globe,” prosecutors wrote in the documents filed Friday in federal court in New Haven.....
http://www.kpho.com/news/19035783/detail.html

[Velveeta]

Terrorism for the Next Generation

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There were over 11,000 terrorist attacks worldwide last year that killed more than 14,600 people. There hasn’t been a major terrorist incident in the United States since 9/11, but experts agree that it’s not “if,” but “when” we will be attacked in the future.

According to FBI estimates, there are at least 200,000 domestic terrorists in the United States, and counterterrorism agents have broken up a number of plots designed to attack national landmarks, kill and maim. Plots were thwarted in recent weeks to blow up national landmarks like Chicago’s Sears Tower and to blow up trains in New York’s transit tunnels.....
http://mensnewsdaily.com/newswax/2009/03/29/terrorism-for-the-next-generation/

Recent weeks?

[jveritas]

Here is the translation from Arabic to English:

Begining of the translation:

“Do you believe if I told you that there will be a big wedding and soon…

A wedding that has no matrimony, no circumcision, no engagement, but it is a wedding. In this wedding we congratulate the sheikh of Jihad and Moujahdeen Osama Bin Laden saying to him: Happy New Year and a bad ruler would die.

A wedding that will have two tears. A happy tear from a wounded heart and a tear of hypocrisy from a known heart. The supporter of Jihad will be happy, they will have feasts, and they will raise the banners chanting and saying allah akbar.

And there behind the curtain there are some people crying, they have the right to cry because their bad ruler who elevated them and made them has left them.

He who understood what I wrote is invited to the big party and he who is confused will receive the invitation to the wedding and a rose attached to it. Just be patient and wait.

At that day the believers will celebrate the victory of allah”

End of the translation.

[STARWISE]

Eeeeeeeek!

[STARWISE]

Thank you so much, jv .. does it mean wedding = attack celebration ?

[jveritas]

You are most welcome. Yes, wedding in this case means a terrorist attack celebration.

[Velveeta]

Thank you very much for the translation, jveritas.

[jveritas]

You are most welcome. I think the person who wrote this is anticipating the assassination of a leader that the terrorists hate.

[Velveeta]

Sure sounds like it.
UBL has called for assassinations in his latest tapes.

[jveritas]

The writer talks about the death of “Taghoot” which in Arabic means a bad ruler.

[callmejoe]

Based on the past, the phrase could imply one or more:

1) an attack in the Levant (”huge good news”)
2) an assassination at the G-20 summit (a la July 2001)
3) the “big one” here (”dawn is close at hand”) possibly simultaneous to a Levant attack a la Millennium plot . . .

“Big Wedding”

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=alatesummer01jordan&scale=0#alatesummer01jordan

Late Summer 2001: Jordan Warns US that Aircraft Will Be Used in Major Attack Inside the US

Jordanian intelligence (the GID) makes a communications intercept deemed so important that King Abdullah’s men relay it to Washington, probably through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly sure the message gets through it is passed through an Arab intermediary to a German intelligence agent. The message states that a major attack, code named “The Big Wedding,” is planned inside the US and that aircraft will be used. “When it became clear that the information was embarrassing to Bush administration officials and congressmen who at first denied that there had been any such warnings before September 11, senior Jordanian officials backed away from their earlier confirmations.” The Christian Science Monitor will call the story “confidently authenticated” even though Jordan has backed away from it. [International Herald Tribune, 5/21/2002; Christian Science Monitor, 5/23/2002] It has been reported elsewhere that in July 2001, Jordan warns the US that al-Qaeda is planning an attack inside the US, but it is unknown if this is referring to the same warning or a separate one (see July 2001). In late July 2001, the king of Jordan will offer the US to send two battalions of Jordanian special forces to Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda havens there (see July 24, 2001).

Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein, Jordan General Intelligence Department, Bush administration

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline

August 6, 2001: Bush Receives Briefing Titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US’

President Bush receives a classified presidential daily briefing (PDB) at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The PDB provided to him is entitled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” The entire briefing focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. [New York Times, 5/15/2002; Newsweek, 5/27/2002] The analysts who drafted the briefing will say that they drafted it on the CIA’s initiative (see July 13, 2004), whereas in 2004 Bush will state that he requested a briefing on the topic due to threats relating to a conference in Genoa, Italy, in July 2001, where Western intelligence agencies believed Osama bin Laden was involved in a plot to crash an airplane into a building to kill Bush and other leaders (see April 13, 2004). The analysts will later explain that they saw it as an opportunity to convey that the threat of an al-Qaeda attack in the US was both current and serious. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 260] The existence of this briefing is kept secret, until it is leaked in May 2002, causing a storm of controversy (see May 15, 2002). While National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will claim the memo is only one and a half pages long, other accounts state it is 11 1/2 pages instead of the usual two or three. [New York Times, 5/15/2002; Newsweek, 5/27/2002; Die Zeit (Hamburg), 10/1/2002]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/19/ltm.02.html

. . . CNN has learned that Jordan thwarted a terrorist attack on its territory timed to coincide with the attacks of 9-11. Sources close to Jordanian intelligence say three men were arrested after a key phone call was intercepted. It included the phrase “big wedding,” al Qaeda code words for launching an attack. The targets were two hotels in the resort area of Petra (ph), south of Amman in Jordan.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/19/lt.15.html

There is the visible war being fought with bombs and bullets in Afghanistan. Then there is the invisible war where information is the lethal weapon.

A few days before September 11, it was vital information, according to anti-terror coalition intelligence sources, that thwarted a major terrorist attack in Jordan meant to coincide with the attacks on New York and Washington.

The clue to the attack came in a message from Afghanistan to Jordan, intercepted by Jordanian intelligence. The coded message said: Remember your bayat. Don’t forget the time of the big wedding.

A bayat is the oath of allegiance that al Qaeda members give to Osama bin Laden. Big wedding is believed by intelligence analysts to be code for am imminent attack. The target of the attack, according to coalition intelligence sources, was to be two resort hotels in Petra, Jordan, a 2,000-year-old city that is a popular tourist destination.

Jordanian police discovered the intended targets after questioning three men whom Jordanian police suspect are part of an al Qaeda cell. Information about the planned Petra attacks and the big wedding message were passed on to Western intelligence agencies, but it did not point to any further targets such as the World Trade Center or the Pentagon.

Suspected al Qaeda members already have been convicted in Jordanian military court of trying to launch a similar simultaneous attack against the U.S. and Jordan during millennium celebrations almost two years ago. Early last month, yet another terrorist plan to bomb the U.S., British and Jordanian embassies in Beirut, Lebanon was uncovered by Jordanian authorities, according to coalition intelligences. . . .

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/special/cron.html

July 2001
Target: G-8 Summit

Two months before 9/11, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned of a possibility that suicide attackers would try to crash an explosive-laden aircraft into Genoa, Italy in an attempt to assassinate President George W. Bush and other world leaders at the Group of Eight Summit in July 2001.

News of the possible threat prompted Italian to install a missile defense system at a nearby airport and declare the skies above Genoa a no-fly zone. However, three months later, The New York Times called into question the credibility of this threat, citing sources that had viewed the videotape on which President Mubarak based his intelligence.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020527/story2.html

. . . By July the level of noise about terrorism from intelligence sources around the world was deafening. The CSG, then chaired by Richard Clarke, a Clinton Administration holdover who was consumed with terrorist threats to the point of obsession, was meeting almost every day. A specific threat was received on the life of Bush, who was due to visit Genoa, Italy, for a G-8 summit that month. Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on terrorism, says that when Russian and Western intelligence agencies compared notes before the summit, they were stunned to find they all had information indicating that a strike was in the offing. When the Genoa summit passed without incident, says a French official, attention turned to the possibility of attacks on U.S. bases in Belgium and Turkey. Then, at the end of July, Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian al-Qaeda associate, was picked up in Dubai on his way from Afghanistan back to Europe. Beghal started talking and implicated a network of al-Qaeda operatives in Europe, who, he said, were planning to blow up the American embassy in Paris. (Beghal, who has since been extradited to France, has said his confession was coerced.) “We shared everything we knew with the Americans,” says a French justice official.

They may have shared too much. At least in France, investigators now acknowledge that al-Qaeda may have been involved in a massive feint to Europe while the real attack was always planned for the U.S. “People were convinced that Europe remained the theater for Islamic terrorists,” says Jacquard. “It’s anyone’s guess whether that was a technique to get people looking in the wrong place. But that’s what happened.”

[Godzilla]

open posts by jhadi minded are only the tip of the iceberg and can also represent a pep talk rather than real operational plans. The real proof is at levels so secret they will have to kill you before they tell you.

[Velveeta]

And the rose, I believe, refers to ‘paradise’.

[jveritas]

Correct.

[Velveeta]

And recall that prior to 9/11, the assassination was essentially the go signal and preceded the terrorist attacks.

First step, high alert and prayers that the G20 commences without a hitch.