Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty

[nwctwx]

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty

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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.

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Ramadan terror concerns?
Full Story

ATLANTA (CNN) -- As more than one billion Muslims prepare to celebrate Ramadan, terror experts are mixed about whether the holy month is a tool for recruiting terrorists.

Some terrorism experts and Islamic scholars say Ramadan gives extremists an opportunity to enlist new recruits.

"It's a time which can be exploited by radical clerics to motivate individuals into taking action on the basis they are somehow serving their religion," says terror expert M.J. Gohel.

And analysts see another temptation for terrorists: exploiting the Battle of Badr, a symbolic date in Muslim history, which falls near the U.S. presidential election.

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

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TM Code of Conduct		Godzilla's Summaries
TM's 'Be on the Lookout'		nwctwx's Highlighted Links

[nwctwx]

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Useful Links
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Have a useful link? Let me know.

Recommended Reading

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
by Anonymous

Terrorist Hunter
by Anonymous

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
by Robert Baer

Target America & the West: Terrorism Today
by Yossef Bodansky

The First Terrorist Act
by Harold Thomas Beck

First Strike : TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America
by Jack Cashill, James Sanders

The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing
by Jayna Davis

American Jihad
by Steve Emerson

Memorial Day
by Vince Flynn

By Dawn's Early Light
by David Hagberg

Joshua's Hammer
by David Hagberg

The Kill Zone
by David Hagberg

Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
by Khidhir Hamza, Jeff Stein

Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe : The Afghan-Bosnian Network
by Evan F. Kohlmann

1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI--the Untold Story
by Peter Lance

Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui

The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, And Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It
by John Miller, Michael Stone

Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror
by Richard Miniter

The 9/11 Commission Report
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (free online PDF)

The Cobra Event
by Richard Preston

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism
by Simon Reeve

The Last Jihad
by Joel C. Rosenberg

State of the Union
by Brad Thor

Prophet of Doom
by Craig Winn (free online version)

Tea With Terrorists
by Craig Winn (free online version)

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May God bless our U.S. forces.
May God bless President George W. Bush.
May God bless America!

From TM'er and Freeper ~Velveeta~

[JellyJam]

Is it just me or did Thread 19 last forever? :-)

[LikeLight]

Thanks weather person.

[nwctwx]

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[nwctwx]

You guys popped in too quick! ;)

[CindyDawg]

to find

[nwctwx]

ping to thread #20, let me know if you want on or off the ping list.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Book Mark

[hemogoblin]

morning! how are things on the old Matrix?

[null and void]

Is it just me or did Thread 19 last forever? :-)

It's just you...

[JellyJam]

Keeping my eyes and ears open at all times.

I don't know why I'm so worried about terrorists ... they're a nuisance. And John "Under My Plan" Kerry will fix everything and heal everyone. :-)

[Siobhan]

Thread on Chechens crossing into the USA from Mexico:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1243361/posts

[ExSoldier]

Thanks for the ping. Here we go again....

[hemogoblin]

I'm thinking any kind of terror attack before election day would totally wrap it up for the Bloviator. We're not Spain.

[crabbie]

20 looks great!

Thanks for the ping and please keep me on the list.

[JellyJam]

Damn straight.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Huge news here:

Insurgent Alliance Is Fraying In Fallujah

From the Washington Post....

[nwctwx]

Chechen Terrorists Probed

Chechen terrorists probed By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July. The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports. Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity. The intelligence report was supplied to the U.S. government in late August or early September and was based on information from an intelligence source that has been proved reliable in other instances, one official said. A second U.S. official said the report is being investigated, but said it could not be determined whether the group of Chechens actually entered the country, as the intelligence source reported. "We don't know whether or not that report is true," this official said. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed ...

[flutters]

Thanks for the ping. The thread looks great.

[nwctwx]

ping

[nwctwx]

Thank you for the links you supplied to get the Useful Links section going, hopefully we will have many more to add to the list by thread 21!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related item:

"Intense Debate by Islamist Movements and Sponsoring States on New Terrorist Attacks on the West"

Could be connected to the Chechens.

[cgk]

Perhaps you all remember - didn't TM already cover terrorists entering the US from Mexico over the summer? I am having this weird deja vu.

[MamaDearest]

Thanks for "transporting" us to Thread Twenty. Before you know it, we'll be at the legal one (21). You did, however, kind of lead me on with your heading: Chechen Terrorists Probed. I got excited thinking the probes were the electric kind, but thats not what you meant at all (silly me).

[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST
http://www.truthusa.com/LinksOfInterest.html

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA (Updated)
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html

ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?
http://www.truthusa.com/AgainstUSorForUS.html

[Cindy]

http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/10/11/Politics/my.Enemys.Enemy-750438.shtml

"'My Enemy's Enemy'"
By Frederick J. Chiaventone


Posted October 12, 2004

[Honestly]

RUSSIA
Moscow Children to Wear Dog Tags
from BBC News on Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Article ID: D154924

Moscow schoolchildren will soon have to wear military-style dog tags and carry special "passports" as part of a security drive in the wake of Beslan.

The Russian capital is also beefing up protection of its schools against intruders to prevent any terror attacks like the Beslan mass hostage-taking.

"Before the New Year most schools will have these passports," a senior Moscow city official told BBC News Online.

Yuri Popov said the metal dog tags were already being mass-produced.

Vital information

More than 330 schoolchildren, teachers and parents died when the hostage-taking in the North Ossetian town of Beslan ended in a bloodbath.

Dozens of victims remain unidentified more than a month after the tragedy.

The remains of the Beslan school are to be destroyed Mr Popov, head of the Moscow city assembly's security and legislation committee, said children would wear the dog tags round their necks and carry the passports in their pockets, which would bear their fingerprints and other personal data.

The passport will give the child's name, address, telephone number, blood group and details of any allergies to medicines, he said.

It will also include advice on how to act in the event of an emergency, such as a terrorist attack.

"These measures can be introduced under the city's programme for civil defence," Mr Popov said.

"We asked teachers, school governors, and they conducted surveys. Most were in favour," he said.

The city authorities have been working on ways to improve school security since November, he added.

Extra security

The city authorities want to make sure that the private security firms guarding school premises carry out proper training, Mr Popov said.

Guards will not be armed - their role will be to alert police if they spot something suspicious, he said.

New legislation is required "to clearly define the status of school premises - who is allowed in, who is not," he explained.

Moscow has about 1,500 schools and 3,000 kindergartens.

Russian lawmakers are currently reviewing all of the country's anti-terror laws, Mr Popov said.

Installing alarm systems in all Moscow schools will cost about 200m rubles ($7m) and erecting security fences around the buildings will cost another 600m rubles ($20.5m), he said.

http://www.ds-osac.org/view.cfm?key=7E43514B4151&type=2B170C1E0A3A0F162820

[MamaDearest]

Terrorist Training Ground in South America

What's preventing them from making a trip North to the country with limited border protection and free perks from the government beyond an illegal/terrorist's wildest dreams?

[Cindy]

Thank you Honestly.

[Lucy Lake]

Missing Cyanide Drum Found in N.D.


http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/breaking_news/9902539.htm

[Cindy]

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html


http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP79804
Special Dispatch Series - No. 798

October 13, 2004
No.798

MEMRI TV Project: A Former Hostage in Iraq Tells His Story

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an interview with Muhammad Ra'd, a Lebanese national who was kidnapped in Iraq and later released. The interview appeared on Al-Arabiya TV on October 10, 2004, and was translated by MEMRI's TV Monitor Project. To view a segment from this show, visit: http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=284: [1] "


http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP79704
Special Dispatch Series - No. 797

October 12, 2004
No.797

"Al-Qa'ida Magazine: 'O Sheikh of the Slaughterers, Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, Go Forth in the Straight Path, Guided by Allah'"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The latest edition (#23) of the Al-Qa'ida-related journal Sawt Al- Jihad includes an article by Abd Al-Rahman Ibn Salem Al-Shamari praising the beheading of an Egyptian citizen in Iraq. The author emphasized that a Muslim is obligated to be loyal to his religion only, and not to his national identity or to his country, and therefore all non-believers are the same, regardless of whether they are Arabs. The following are excerpts from the article: [1]"


http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP79404
Special Dispatch Series - No. 794

October 6, 2004
No.794


"Reactions to Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi's Fatwa Calling for the Abduction and Killing of American Civilians in Iraq"

[Cindy]

THANK YOU Grizzfan.

[FairOpinion]

EX-GITMO THUGS AT IT AGAIN (Released Terrorists continuing their terror activities)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1243513/posts

[Cindy]

ISLAMONLINE.net/FatwaApplication - Ask The Scholar: "THE PATH TO ALLAH'S VICTORY" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Allah Almighty created this life and laid down for it certain fixed laws. He has ordained that the believers strive against their enemies and prepare all they can for that purpose. They are to follow the ways that bring about victory. This is to say, they are to believe in Allah, prepare as much force as they can, be always on the alert, take prompt action on hearing the call to jihad, have a sincere wish and enthusiasm to participate in jihad in Allah’s cause, unite and join hands with one another, obey the Muslim leader and keep order, be courageous and steadfast in fighting, and have confidence that Allah will grant them victory.") (October 6, 2004) (Read More...)

[Cindy]

Thank you Fair Opinion.

[Cindy]

NOTE: Click on the url to read the whole article and view the a sketch of the suspect.

http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=8fbd9cb7-0abe-421a-00b3-586921d6ef8b&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

"Thornton Police seeking suspect in attempted abduction"

Marc Sternfield (producer)     

Created: 10/12/2004 6:43 PM MDT - Updated: 10/12/2004 7:15 PM MDT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The girl describes her assailant as a Caucasian or light-skinned Hispanic male in his mid-to-late 30's, with dark, black hair and and a thick mustache. She also told police he has large nostrils, and a tattoo of a dragon on his left arm extending from above the elbow to the wrist. He was last seen wearing large sunglasses and a red t-shirt.


The suspect vehicle is described as a white, 4-door sedan, extremely dark tinted windows, no visible license plate with a chrome rear license plate frame.


Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Thornton Police Department Tip Line at 303-452-8705."

more headlines >


(Copyright by KUSA-TV, All Rights Reserved)

[Cindy]

Random Links...ON THE NET:

http://islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/Maps/Sudanmap-02_s.jpg
http://islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=46923

http://www.ansaar.info/content/view/203/2/

http://www.faloja.com/autohtml.php?op=modload&name=watisfaloja.htm&file=index

http://www.geocities.com/kkasf2003/

http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=100068&list=/home.php&

http://www.amerika.org/usama_bin_laden/index.html
http://www.amerika.org/al-qaeda/index.html
http://www.amerika.org/
alqaeda@amerika.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mideastdogma/

[Cindy]

ICCWBO.org: "THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT"
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/weekly_piracy_report.asp

[all4one]

Thank you nwctwx for starting Thread 20. I hope that all is going well for you with your studies. I don't know how you find the time for Freeping!

[all4one]

FYI see post #31....Cyanide drum in ND has been found!

[Labyrinthos]

Thanks for the ping. Great job.

[cajungirl]

Me too, I remember reading about arabic speaking illegals in the mountains in Arizona.

[Reborn]

Thank you for the ping!! :-)

[Velveeta]

Ian, you've outdone yourself.

Thank you for thread 20.

As we approach the one year anniversary of TM, I'd like to acknowledge and thank Tubavil for thread 1.

Thank you also, to all the TMers who have since contributed.

This is an amazing body of work.

[Velveeta]

Perhaps you all remember - didn't TM already cover terrorists entering the US from Mexico over the summer? I am having this weird deja vu.

Actually, I believe that was last winter, prior to Christmas when EOM said they were crossing over from Mexico.

[Velveeta]

What's preventing them from making a trip North to the country with limited border protection and free perks from the government beyond an illegal/terrorist's wildest dreams?

Nothing is preventing them.

[Velveeta]

Whew!

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Thanks Much the thread keeps getting better and better.

[4thygipper]

Bump!