Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread SEVENTEEN

World Net Daily ^ | 8-10-04 | Paul Sperry

[JustPiper]

Credit: The Cabal

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the Judge and get informed.


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

Link to Thread Sixteen

With the nation on high alert for al-Qaida terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security is putting its border officers through "etiquette" classes to soften their image and make them less threatening to arriving foreign immigrants, WorldNetDaily has learned.

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
-- Jewish proverb

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the
enemy who wishes to do us harm.




"What good are the color codes at all if we are suddenly hit with a bio or chem attack? There would be no warning and the danger would be instant."

"Code Red Implications
Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word."
by MamaDearest

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[ExSoldier]

FOX announced that there is a major repositioning of military forces coming soon as per the force structure plan performed by Rumsfeld. This will entail moving almost all forces out of South Korea to bases in Germany. The alledged motivation for this is to allow great flexability in possible deployments for the WOT.

The problem as I see it is that NK has been labelled by GW as part of the "Axis of Evil" in that war. One of scenarios that makes sense to me is that it would be extremely desireable to move the troops out of the area if you were planning to turn the target area into a peninsula of glass. We've been worried that the NK's would get the weapons of mass destruction they crave, but have been somewhat soothed by their lack of a suitable delivery vehicle to reach our coastline. But if they have the nukes or are very close to getting them then a strike against our troops or the whole south of the country becomes much more credible. IOW, they don't need a huge ICBM to deliver the device just a few hundred miles. That's what is behind this sudden realignment IMHO.

[freeperfromnj]

I heard this on the radio at the top of the news hour and a red flag went up immediately. They said we're pulling troops out of Germany and SK. Your scenario sounds like a real possibility.

[Iron Eagle]

Something is amiss with this report. Is the day or time wrong?

Today is Sunday -- I am in Arlington, and it is not "shortly before 6 PM." Indeed, no way could this person have been handed to the FBI, questioned and released, bt "10 PM."

It is only 2:39 PM now. I know, I am in Arlington!

[freeperfromnj]

I think the story was written today but the events actually happened yesterday.

[MamaDearest]

Men Biologically Designed to be Selfish

Just reporting the latest news articles - that's all guys - not agreeing or disagreeing

Germany Admits Namibia Genocide

Olympic Security Lapses Revealed

The security issues discussed in this article are mind-boggling in light of the threat of terrorism.

[Velveeta]

No chat room that I'm aware of. :-)

[1 spark]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Computers used by Purdue University police and airport were inoperable for a time after someone cut the underground fiber optic cables that carry data to the systems, police said.

Intruders entered the utility tunnels through a sidewalk grate, police said.

The damage was done early Saturday when someone used bolt cutters to sever several large fiber optic cables that lead to campus computers and coaxial cables connected to university residence hall cable systems, said Purdue University Deputy Police Chief Steven Dietrich.

The damage to the cables stalled computer service to the police department dispatch system and the Purdue University Airport records system, along with other campus buildings. Dietrich said it is hard to say how much data was lost at the police department.

Workers were able to restore service to all buildings within 24 hours.

Dietrich estimated damage at $500 to $1,000.

"We're not sure if it was one, two or 10 (vandals)," Dietrich said. "They're a dangerous place to be in -- the steam tunnels. There's a great deal of potential harm."



http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/169130-5033-102.html

[ExSoldier]

GERMANY, too? I didn't catch that. That is VERY ominous, or it may be very positive. It's ominous if you realize that Germany is fairly central to deployment by air or airborne insertion to points in the ME. Perfect staging area. But if you anticipate large scale attacks and not much in the way of "help" from our so called allies in the area, then you'd want to pull back maybe all the way to CONUS (Continental United States).

Positive if you consider that just maybe our gov't has gotten their collective heads out of their A$$es and decided that indeed the only way to really stop AQ in our country is to close the borders by military force. The guys from Korea will be especially well trained in those ops because that was their main duty: To patrol the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) under live fire conditions. At night the DMZ becomes a "free fire" zone and anybody may be taken under fire without warning. It happens all the time. In the 1980's a bunch of my buddies ran extremely successful ambush ops over there.

[nwctwx]

No updates since Friday that I know of.

http://www.nbc30.com/news/3652446/detail.html
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-13133711.apds.m0581.bc-ct--turkaug13,0,6593801.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

They said we're pulling troops out of Germany and SK. Your scenario sounds like a real possibility.
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We have been seeing this for about a month now. What I don't understand is they just pulled a whole group/unit (I don't know what to call them) from my area and they went about 2 (+-) weeks ago to SK.

[JellyJam]

Men Biologically Designed to be Selfish

Finally, I have an excuse to give to my wife. :-)

[freeperfromnj]

Re lax security at Olympics: I heard on the radio that they caught some Iraqis and Pakis trying to sneak across the Greek border.

[British chick]

"Men Biologically Designed to be Selfish"

I read that and saw "Men Biologically Designed to be Shellfish."

Well they can be a bit crabby some times!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

see my post 1930

[Velveeta]

Report from my folks on the road from Chicago to Sarasota:

They're just outside of Tampa. Being passed by DOZENS of caravans: Tree trimming trucks, electrical trucks, supply trucks..

Some of the truckers' plates observed were from IL, Iowa, Ohio., Minn. and Indiana.

[Domestic Church]

Here's one of backhoe's latest gems...Israel's Arrow & THEL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/772713/posts

[ExSoldier]

That's a TRAINING deployment that happens every year about this time. I went once. It's like the annual REFORGER war games. Return of Forces to Germany is a NATO exercise we ran for decades. I went on that one too. I think the exercise in Korea is Operation Bright Star or something like it. It lasts a few weeks, perhaps a month then everybody comes home.

[freeperfromnj]

Bush shifting U.S. troops out of Europe, Asia

Major redeployment of up to 100,000 GIs due to war on terror

Mike Allen, Tom Ricks, Washington Post
Sunday, August 15, 2004

Washington -- President Bush will announce Monday that he plans to pull 70,000 to 100,000 troops out of Europe and Asia in the first major reconfiguration of overseas military deployments by the United States since the Cold War ended, according to White House officials.

Bush, who will reveal the changes in a speech to the annual convention of the 2.6 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars in Cincinnati, will say the change is necessary to adapt the nation's military to the demands of the global war on terrorism and to take advantage of new technologies, said a senior aide involved in developing the plan.

Two-thirds of the reduction will come from Europe, most of them Army soldiers in Germany, and most of the troops will be reassigned to bases in the United States, the aide said. Officials said exact details of the moves have not been finalized, but some of the troops from Germany and South Korea will be moved to expansion countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Eastern Europe......

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/15/MNGPQ88BLE1.DTL

[nwctwx]

They're just outside of Tampa. Being passed by DOZENS of caravans: Tree trimming trucks, electrical trucks, supply trucks..

Some of the truckers' plates observed were from IL, Iowa, Ohio., Minn. and Indiana.

Great news! I bet this will be a shining hour for FEMA and the POTUS. Time to show off all the improvements to relief effort organization since 9/11. Let's just hope we don't get tested with another biggy next weekend.

[MamaDearest]

Iran Warns its Missles can Strike Anywhere in Israel

Bush to Announce Monday about Troop Pullout from Asia and Europe