Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

LINK TO THREAD SEVEN

BREAKING NEWS

Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.

Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.

[WestCoastGal]

Now if only the media would replay this information over and over instead of the prisoner abuse story........oh well it was a thought but it will never happen.

I hope someone put this on it's own thread.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Revelation 1:[3] Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near.

Rest in the salvation of Jesus Christ.

My favorite verse...
John 16:[33] I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

[JustPiper]

We have been worried about KittyHawk , now we must pray and pray for all our toops in theater after today's Sarin/MG find and exposure

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Nope you are right wont see this again.

[JustPiper]

This story got my attention:

Military Jets Collide Over Indiana, Witness Says One Pilot Killed

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120168,00.html

[Cindy]

Thanks all4one.

[JustPiper]

Notice how much mosquito looks like the word mosque?

[nw_arizona_granny]

50 years or more ago, my Grandmother was saying the same things about the Bible, reading it and sure the world would end, any day, any instant.

If pushed, I think that I would say that we are not smart enough to break the Bible's code.

Like so many of the things taught today, it winds up being the readers opinion.

I am attempting to say that if you study geology, archeology and many of the 'old' subjects, you are simply studying that teacher's opinion.

The simple fact is that much of the past is unknown and therefore the future is also.

I find many of the 'hot subjects' of today, cannot be proven beyond a doubt to be true or false.

[Velveeta]

Or to some other location?

With all the references to Pharaohs, my first instinct was that Daleel was hinting at targeting Egypt... ???

[JustPiper]

Please pray for our troops in the ME with WMD exposure and for KittyHawk on it's way to Asian potential problems

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

That makes 2 of us.

[WestCoastGal]

Tunnels Under the U.S.-Mexico Border
Big Increase in Discoveries of Smuggler's Routes

Route of a recently discovered tunnel used to smuggle drugs from Mexicali to Calexico, with a little help from storm drains on the U.S. side of the border.<{> April 19, 2004 -- Federal officials say they've uncovered something disturbing along the U.S.-Mexico border: more underground tunnels, used by drug traffickers and immigrant smugglers to evade tighter border enforcement.

One tunnel a year used to be the average, but since a border crackdown after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, more than 10 passageways have been discovered. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports on two "hot spots" for tunnels -- the border at San Diego and Tijuana, and between the California border town of Calexico and Mexicali.

Armed with drills and ground-penetrating radar, U.S. border authorities are busy looking for tunnels running under the fences that separate the two countries. Officials say that if drugs and illegal aliens can come across, terrorists or even "dirty bomb" components could get smuggled across just as easily.

LINK

[JustPiper]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The new Iraqi Governing Council chief Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer has pledged to continue the "march toward freedom and democracy" despite Monday's car bombing

He is a very brave man and knowing there will be more assassinations and it could very well be him but he said he is more determined now!

[Cindy]

SAD

[JustPiper]

I am sick of this prison abuse, it reminds me of the Lewinsky diversion, lib tactics

[JustPiper]

exploded near a U.S. military convoy

The release caused two soldiers to be treated for only "minor exposure

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2004/n05172004_200405174.html

[WestCoastGal]

OK this is the last border article I promise......but something needs to be done!! Do the Math.

A National Park Ranger's Finest Hour

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Commentary by Frosty Wooldridge
May 12, 2004


Sunrises spray golden confetti across the eastern sky. Blazing summer heat pops thermometers at 124 degrees Fahrenheit. To keep cool, lizards do pushups on rocks. Saguaro cacti raise their limbs like outlaws as if being told by a lawman, “Stick ‘em up, you’re under arrest.”



Welcome to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Southwestern Arizona on the border of Mexico—the most dangerous national park (monument) in the United States. If you visit, you could be killed at a campsite or on a hike if you happen to cross paths with 21st century desperadoes. This national treasure lays on the boundary with Mexico where assassins, drug smugglers and human traffickers ply their trade 24/7.



Franklin D. Roosevelt established this 312,000-acre preserve in 1937. But today, it’s a war zone. Mexican outlaws driving stolen SUV’s smash fences while running drugs and illegal aliens into the United States. Where do they obtain their ‘outlaw transportation’? Phoenix became the car-jacking capitol of the United States last year with 57,600 stolen vehicles.



Driving into the monument beckons backpackers and adventure seekers who love desert solitude and wonder. Rangers offer campfire talks while guiding visitors to remote areas in the monument where they discover rare birds, thriving desert flowers and deer.



But Americans face an abrupt reality at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. In excess of 400,000 illegal aliens cross over its boundaries annually. While snoozing in my tent last week, border patrol agents arrested 118 illegal aliens in one night--crossing through the park on their way into America. Those arrests were within a kilometer of my camp. They missed another 400 illegals. One ranger reported that illegals walk right up to campsites and board pre-arranged recreational vehicles for their trips out of the park. The human smuggling rings’ efficiency ratings rival UPS (United Parcel Service) and Greyhound. Smugglers pick up and deliver 24/7!



The ‘coyotes’ shepherding illegals won’t kill you, but the drug smugglers will.



While driving up to the visitor center, you will notice a Smoky Bear Hat beside a bronze plaque honoring handsome National Parks Ranger Kris Eggle. On the building it reads, ‘Kris Eggle Visitor Center’. Whereas you might think it honors a man who gave his best in a 30-year career, you would be wrong. On August 9, 2002, Mexican drug smugglers shot and killed 28 year old Kris Eggle in cold blood as he patrolled in the park’s backcountry. The previous night, his killer had assassinated four other people on a drug-related transfer.



What is beyond disgusting is the fact that Eggle’s murderer’s accomplice was the United States Congress as well as the present and past three presidents of this country. They encouraged, by not enforcing immigration laws, this invasion before 9/11 and have done nothing since Eggle’s murder. When illegal aliens successfully break into this country, Congress rewards them the Dream Act, food stamps, assisted housing, free schooling K-12, free medical, driver’s licenses, SSI benefits, ‘anchor babies’ get welfare to age 18 and we pay for their ESL language classes. Congress’ actions have given us 13 million illegal aliens and growing fast!



What has this done to us? Terrorists, drug smugglers and human traffickers walk and drive over the border with Mexico 24/7. Tom Ridge’s Homeland Security red, yellow and orange alerts represent a cotton candy charade for terrorists. According to the US Border Patrol in January, 2004, 92,521 aliens were caught. That’s up from 86,925 apprehensions in 2003. But what sickens you is the fact that only one in five is caught! Once captured, agents bus them to the border and free them for another chance—by command of Congress. I interviewed one illegal alien who smiled upon arrest saying, “This is my 11th time being captured and I will try again.” On any given day, 2,200 illegal aliens ‘make it’ into the United States. Stash houses await successful illegals for transport into America’s interior. Hundreds of miles of trails cross through the desert in one direction—the USA.

More>>>>>

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9024.shtml

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

5,000 pounds of used grease stolen (OK)

Well somebody likes their fried chicken, fried okra, fried green tomatoes, fried pickles, fried catfish....

[appalachian_dweller]

>> it reminds me of the Lewinsky diversion, lib tactics <<

That's exactly what this is. As long as the press can keep people focused on the bad in Iraq, they don't have to report all the good that is being done.

Anything that hurts GWB = good (naked prisoners)
Anything that helps GWB = bad (military building schools)

And so, as the press sees it, bad is good and good is bad...


I view the lamestream media as a bunch of traitors.

[Velveeta]

Why they would be doing magnetic sonar testing in the desert?

Any engineering types here who can answer that one?