Threat Matrix: 2009

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[Velveeta]

New Bid to Find Missing Ex-F.B.I. Agent

Two years after a former agent for the F.B.I. disappeared while on a trip to Iran, American diplomats and investigators are intensifying their efforts to resolve his case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/world/middleeast/12levinson.html?ref=politics

[Godzilla]

Thanks Vel for the ping. Interesting

[Velveeta]

You’re both quite welcome. ;-)

MORE TERRORISTS LINKED TO BOMB PLOT (UK)

DETECTIVES believe more than 30 people were involved in an alleged Al Qaeda plot to bring carnage to the centre of Manchester. Senior officers say 11 suspects they are questioning were at the heart of a terror cell as it prepared for a huge Easter holiday bombing campaign.

However, they believe other “key players” are still at large – and could provide the key to the group’s bomb making capabilities.

Police were yesterday given more time to interrogate the 11 suspects – all Pakistanis except one UK national – who remain in custody after an 18-year-old suspect was handed over to immigration officials....

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/94636/More-terrorists-linked-to-bomb-plot

[Velveeta]

Are passenger cars on Staten Island ferryboats a safety risk? (NY)

It used to be that drivers could pull up to the dock at the Staten Island Ferry terminal, pay $3, and drive right onto the fleet’s car boats, for a quick sail to and from Manhattan.

It beat the killer traffic, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll, and represented the only direct connection for drivers to get back and forth while bypassing Brooklyn.

But passenger cars have been banned since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, after the city determined allowing them would be too great a security threat.

Meanwhile, some of the largest ferry fleets in the country continue to accept vehicles, and have worked out a screening system to ensure safety for ferry passengers.

Restoring passenger car service is an idea favored by Borough President James Molinaro, who along with others had suggested the city take another look at the issue in 2007, when traffic was crippled by construction on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

The Staten Island Ferry’s three newest boats were built with room for 30 cars each, designed before 9/11. The fleet’s oldest boat, the John F. Kennedy, can carry about 40 cars.....

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/are_passenger_cars_on_staten_i.html

[Velveeta]

Arab leaders embrace criminal el-Bashir
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/11/INB116UGKO.DTL

[Velveeta]

He is risen!

Blessed Easter wishes to all.

[Velveeta]

Another Sea-Tac flight struck by laser

SEATAC, Wash. - Another plane was targeted with a laser beam Saturday night while heading into Sea-Tac Airport for a landing, according to airport officials.

The pilot of Alaska Airlines Flight 469 reported the laser targeted the aircraft at 8:24 p.m. The plane was able to land safely.

There have been nearly two dozen laser incidents this year. Six of them took place in March - five on the same night.

About a dozen planes were targeted in February.....
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/42874427.html

[Velveeta]

Saudi judge refuses to annul 8-year-old’s marriage

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/12/saudi.child.marriage/index.html

[LucyT]

Black Market Nukes and OBL.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/595.html

[FARS]

Let’s move to the independent Republic of Texas? View video

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/04/texas-preparing-for-independence.html

[1035rep]

“Let’s move to the independent Republic of Texas?”

I’m ready!

[FARS]

Did you all see this? I missed it.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/04/sleaze-runs-in-family.html

[Grimmy]

Notice how it’s all blamed on capitalism. Anyone being mindlessly greedy, breaking every law possible, as long as cash is transferred, it’s all just capitalism doing its thing.

Idiots.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

They’re not really idiots, they just play that spin to the folks actually dumb enough to buy it, then vote for them.

Next trick is to keep enough producers here to pay for this clown act.

I’m already halfway gone.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[milford421]

Thanks Velveeta. I posted ths.

[Velveeta]

Fascinating and terrifying video.

[Velveeta]

My pleasure.

[Velveeta]

Thanks to jersey117 for the following:

3 Held Over Radioactive Material
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228975/posts