Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Reminder...

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/nov04/seekinfo110104.htm
"SEEKING INFORMATION"

261 posted on 11/03/2004 9:52:32 PM PST by Cindy

Good to see you back here posting away in your usual way!

French launch Council to control Muslims - SNIP

"We want to say very simply, imams who propagate views that run counter to French values will be expelled," Mr. Sarkozy told a radio station. He went on to clearly state that the council’s purpose was not to represent Islam for the Muslims, but to represent the will of the government upon the Muslims. "Islamic law will be applied nowhere because it is not the law of the [French] Republic," he said.

Articles: Instructions to Muslims how to identify the enemies of Islam and Muslims and French launch Council to control Muslims

262 posted on 11/03/2004 9:57:00 PM PST by MamaDearest (With God all things are possible!)

263 posted on 11/03/2004 10:32:25 PM PST by Cindy

Sheeeesh I'm DAIN BRAMAGED....

lol! I'm almost tempted to steal this for a tag line, but I will probably misspell it ;)

264 posted on 11/03/2004 10:49:26 PM PST by Chani

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04110011.htm

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.net

Wednesday, November 3, 2004

IRAQI CHRISTIANS FACE INCREASING THREATS, INTIMIDATION AND ESCALATING VIOLENCE

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

IRAQ (ANS) -- A Christian human rights watchdog group says the Christian community in northern Iraq is facing ever-mounting intimidation and violence.

Since the beginning of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan (October 15) the situation has escalated, with the apparent aim of forcing the Christians out of their homeland, the Barnabas Fund reports.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christian are fleeing the country.

International media reported the first incident, when explosions occurred at five churches in Baghdad just after 4.00 a.m. on Saturday, October 16 (2nd Ramadan).

But the other threats and attacks on Christians go largely unreported. Photographs of three senior bishops in Mosul are being circulated, with the message that they are agents of the USA, infidels, and action must be taken against them.

The church leaders serving the Christian community of Karakush, Mosul, have received two letters from the Islamic militants, Barnabas Fund said.

The first letter ordered them to allow Christian women to marry Muslim men (which in Muslim eyes means the women effectively convert to Islam). This, said the letter, would enable the women to be "blessed" and "purified" by their marriages.

The second letter to church leaders, received yesterday November 2, announced the militants' intention of killing one person in every Christian family, as a punishment for the women not covering their heads and not going to university.

This follows pressure and threats from Islamic extremists against all women in Mosul, requiring them to cover their head with the hijab (Islamic headscarf).

A Christian woman was killed around October 26 for having her head uncovered. Two other Christian women who were seen bareheaded in a market had nitric acid squirted in their faces.

Specific threats about the clothing of female students at Mosul University have so frightened the Christians that an estimated 1,500 Christian women have stopped attending their classes.

Islamic militants are knocking on the doors of Christian homes in Mosul, demanding money. They argue that since the Christians do not contribute weapons and do not fight, they must make a financial donation instead. This follows exactly the model of classical Islam, whereby Christians and Jews were excluded from fighting for the Islamic state but instead required to pay a special tax – called ‘jizya’ -- to cover the costs of their protection.

Leaflets are being distributed with the message: "Christians go; leave Iraq." Word is being passed around in the mosques, telling Muslims not to buy anything from the Christians. Not only are they infidels, it is said, but also they will soon be leaving, so the Muslims will be able to take their homes and property for free.

COORDINATED BOMBING CAMPAIGN TO FORCE CHRISTIANS TO FLEE

In earlier reports the Barnabas Fund said a wave of car-bombs was detonated at five Iraqi churches between 6.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m. on Sunday, August 1.

Four churches were in Baghdad, and one in Mosul. Bombs planted at one, possibly two, other churches failed to explode. Estimates of the death toll range from 10 to 18, with over 50 injured.

As Sunday is a working day in Iraq, the main Christian worship services are held in the evening, so the timing of the bombs was clearly intended to cause the maximum Christian casualties. Furthermore, August 1 is a holy day for some denominations in Iraq, the start of a special month of fasting.

Christians believe the aim of the bombs was not only to kill and maim as many as possible but also to frighten them into leaving the country, and this was also reported on Al-Arabiya TV.

Many thousands of Christians have already fled to Syria and Jordan, and this wave of bombings is sure to cause even more to want to leave, though some are too poor to afford a passport.

The apparently coordinated attacks have been universally condemned by Muslim leaders in Iraq, both Sunni and Shia, as well as by many ordinary Muslims.

Contrary to some early news reports, this was not the first time that churches and Christian religious buildings in Iraq have been targeted since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

September 2003 -- missile attack on convent, Mosul

November 2003 -- bombs discovered at two Christian schools, Mosul and Baghdad, accompanied by messages ordering them to convert to Islam or be killed

December 2003 -- Bomb explosion at a church in Baghdad on Christmas Eve

December 2003 -- Bomb discovered at monastery in Mosul and defused

There have also been many attacks on Christian shops and businesses.

Christians have been threatened, victimized and several have been assassinated. Women in the south are being forced for the first time to cover their hair like Muslim women. On January 4, 2004 a group of more than 200 mainly Muslim intellectuals and political leaders from Iraq called for an end to the attacks on Christians.

See also: http://www.memri.org/

Further details, quotes and photos on this and other stories may be available for news editors on request.

Barnabas Fund works to support Christian communities mainly, but not exclusively, in the Islamic world where they are facing poverty and persecution.

Barnabas Fund, The Old Rectory, River Street, PEWSEY, Wiltshire, SN9 5DB, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1672 564938, Fax: +44(0)1672 565030,
E-mail: info@barnabasfund.org
Web: www.barnabasfund.org

** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.

** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

265 posted on 11/03/2004 11:10:53 PM PST by Cindy

PERSECUTION.org: "ARREST & TORTURE OF MONTAGNARDS CONTINUES" (November 2, 2004)

http://www.persecution.org/newsite/storydetail.php?storycode=423&PHPSESSID=270d7f632862d0af6c6610778e6c63b2

266 posted on 11/03/2004 11:18:51 PM PST by Cindy

267 posted on 11/03/2004 11:23:49 PM PST by Cindy

http://news.com.com/Hackers%2C+spoofers+and+malware--oh+my/2009-7349_3-5437792.html?tag=nefd.lede

"Hackers, spoofers and malware--oh my!"
Last modified:November 3, 2004, 5:14 PM PST
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268 posted on 11/03/2004 11:30:57 PM PST by Cindy

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996619

"'Phishing' email covertly redirects web browsers"
18:46 03 November 04
NewScientist.com news service

269 posted on 11/03/2004 11:37:27 PM PST by Cindy

http://www.katu.com/stories/72294.html

November 2, 2004
"Police search for unregistered sex offender"

270 posted on 11/03/2004 11:52:12 PM PST by Cindy

To: MamaDearest; All

271 posted on 11/04/2004 12:19:18 AM PST by Cindy

Can't access english.aljazeera.net at the moment. It says the server is too busy. I've never had that problem before with their site. I wonder whether the site's been taken down?

272 posted on 11/04/2004 12:38:15 AM PST by British chick

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270031/posts

"Maupin family holds out hope (we must NOT forget this fine soldier - please take time to read)"
Stars and Stripes ^ | November 4, 2004 | Sandra Jontz

Posted on 11/04/2004 12:29:55 AM PST by Former Military Chick

"Carolyn Maupin prays that out of sight doesn’t mean out of mind for her soldier son, taken hostage in Iraq this spring."

273 posted on 11/04/2004 12:47:16 AM PST by Cindy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270058/posts

"Fallujah Update from Marine officer on his 2nd tour"
The Greenside.com ^ | Nov 3, 2004 | Lt Col Dave Bellon, USMCR

Posted on 11/04/2004 1:42:05 AM PST by Chieftain

274 posted on 11/04/2004 2:05:49 AM PST by Cindy

To: Old Sarge; JohnathanRGalt; fullwave; ganeshpuri89; LayoutGuru2; All

275 posted on 11/04/2004 3:16:07 AM PST by Cindy

To: British chick

Osama tape . . . Osama tape . . . Beuller . . . Beuller . . .

276 posted on 11/04/2004 3:55:45 AM PST by bored at work (Barak Obama . . . Iraq Osama . . . ?)

Just accessed www.ogrish.com and witness the first few seconds of the decapitation MURDER of Japanese hostage Koda in Iraq by Zarkawi's people. It was horrendous.

277 posted on 11/04/2004 4:00:28 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo

EOWWWWWWWWWW YUCK GROSS ICK BARF
YOU MEAN THIS THING?

278 posted on 11/04/2004 4:33:03 AM PST by Donna Lee Nardo

Yes, wrecking economic havoc on America is a familiar refrain from al qaeda.

Here is an excerpt from the usama tape the other day (part of the tape not shown on al jazeera but released yesterday on the web):

"In another partial portion of the video released Monday, bin Laden vowed to bleed America to bankruptcy, boasting that for every $1 al-Qaida has spent on terrorist strikes, it has cost the United States $1 million in economic fallout and military spending, including emergency funding for Iraq and Afghanistan.

"As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers," bin Laden said, estimating the deficit at more than $1 trillion.

Actually, the war against terror and other factors have resulted in an expected $377 billion shortfall for 2003 -- the highest deficit since World War II accounting for inflation. The total U.S. national debt is near the $7.4 trillion statutory limit."

The terror mastermind credited the religiously inspired Arab volunteers that he fought with against the Soviets in Afghanistan with having "bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat." He suggested the same strategy would work against the United States.

Rest of story here

279 posted on 11/04/2004 4:49:29 AM PST by Donna Lee Nardo

To: bored at work

http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=670

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Al-Jazeera's New Osama Bin Laden Video - UPDATE 2
Source: TT Exclusive | 7:30:38 AM EST

We will attempt to update our readers on the status of the new Bin Laden tape. As we have said earlier, we have confirmed the actual existence of this new Osama Bin Laden video. Al-Jazeera is currently still on an embargo for a few more hours and cannot air any portion of this video tape. They have been put on embargo by the US Government wishing to investigate the video tape before its release.

Al-Jazeera Television's embargo is similar to what we saw last week with the original Osama Bin Laden video. After US Government review, Al-Jazeera chose only to air 5 minutes of the entire 18 minute video. Al-Jazeera will be presented again with the option of airing any portion of this new video tape. In the past, Al-Jazeera Television has never sat on any message from Osama Bin Laden for more than 24 hours.

Currently, the airing of this video tape is in the hands of Al-Jazeera. While it is very likely that they may air the tape immediately following the embargo, it is also likely that they'll sit on it for another day or two. We have again attempted to speak with Al-Jazeera regarding the video tape, but however they appear to be on a gag order and cannot release any additional information about the tape's existence.

We can assure you that it does exist and soon we will all being seeing it on national TV. The tape is said to be currently leaked online on a few remote and highly secret Al-Qaeda Websites. Militants are already praising its release, making comments such as "Soon the American People will see the edited version". We hope that by making the tape's existence known publicly prior to the national media, that we do indeed see the entire tape as it could be crucial to the future of the United States. We do not believe in suppression by the US Government in something as significant as an OBL tape.

As we get more information that we can share, we will immediately inform our readers.

Developing...

280 posted on 11/04/2004 5:06:27 AM PST by British chick

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