Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Two

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Two (Index)

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The Threat Matrix

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!

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Connect these dots, now
Full Story

"We should have secured the Mexican border."

That could be the pitiful lament we hear from negligent U.S. officials if Al Qaeda pulls off an attack on the United States using weapons of mass destruction smuggled across our southern frontier.

Were that horrendous event to happen, leaders in the administration and Congress would be justly hit with the same question that was perhaps unjustly cast at them and their predecessors after the unprecedented Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: Why didn't they connect the dots?

Related:
Bordering on Nukes?
'Bin Laden has fatwa for nuclear attack'
Jihadists Anticipate Imminent Nuclear Strike Against U.S.

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

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Threat Matrix "TM'er" Tips	Link to Thread Twenty-One "Code Red Implications: Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word." From Tm'er and Freeper ~MamaDearest~	Cindy's Links of Interest
TM Code of Conduct		ExSoldier's Invaluable Tips
TM's 'Be on the Lookout'		Godzilla's Summaries
Threat Matrix Book List		Arabic Image Links

[Domestic Church]

Same locale as The Greenbriar Resort?

[subsea06]

TEN RULES...

Rules 4, 9 nearly killed me laughing.

I have a 13-yr old daughter. I had tears running down my face, laughing before I finished. Too funny.

Don't have to worry though. She has a Black Belt in TKD from a 7-time North Korean National Champion, and I'm proud to say that she shoots a 2-in group at 25yds.

Thanks, Ex

sub6

[little jeremiah]

Excellent! I need at least one good laugh a day.

[buckalfa]

Ten miles from The Hotel and twelve miles from the facility where Martha Stewart is incacerated.

[buckalfa]

Spell check dummy --- incarcerated was intended.

[MamaDearest]

Thanks again - you are our honored and honorary thread historian.

Found this link somewhat interesting - it even has a help wanted section for those really really good at terrorist sleuthing.

Association of Former Intelligence Officers

Please note the following Islamic meetings - all have to do with banking and money coincidentally in this time of the devalued American dollar:

1-2 December 2004 - Role of Islamic Financial Institutions in Resource Mobilization. Organized by the Islamic Research and Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank. Beirut, Lebanon

4 December 2004 - Workshop on Islamic Finance, Manama, Bahrain. Organized by the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA)

7-8 December 2004 - Seminar on Comparative Supervision of Islamic and Conventional Finance, Beirut, Lebanon. Organized by Islamic Financial Services Board, the Islamic Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Bank

12-13 December 2004 - World Islamic Banking Conference, Manama, Bahrain. Organized by Middle East Global Advisors (MEGA)

17-18 December 2004 - Islamic Finance Conference. Kingdom of Bahrain. Organisers: Accounting & Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions

10-11 January 2005 - Seminar on Approaches to Regulation of Takaful (Islamic Insurance) Dead Sea, Jordan. Organized by Islamic Financial Services Board & the Insurance Commission of Jordan

6-7 February 2005 - AAOIFI's Annual Conference, 2005. Kingdom of Bahrain. Organisers: Accounting & Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions

8-9 March 2005 - Middle East Insurance Forum Bahrain. Organized by Al Iktissad Wal Aamal August 2005 - Islamic Economics & Banking during the 21st Century. Jarkarta, Indonesia. Organized by IRTI, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah & Bank Indonesia

Attack on the finances of America

Dispense justice with an iron hand

[Hegemony Cricket]

LOL - ookbay arkermay!

[MamaDearest]

how do you say Mr. Clean in Russian? Smirnoff?<

Depends on how much cleaning you could do after using it, lol :)

[penguino]

Thanks, Velveeta, for always posting the latest from Neosgirl. Here's a couple of straggler photos from that same Filipino site you listed:

http://arcadiaexpress.zive.net/up/src/up0273.jpg

http://arcadiaexpress.zive.net/up/src/up0274.jpg

Also, there's a lot of very recent links to download inside these sites with some mentioning Zarqawi and Fallujah:

http://arcadiaexpress.zive.net/up/all.html/

http://arcadiaexpress.zive.net/up/

Unfortunately, I'm unable to up or download anything, so I have no idea if they're even of interest.

[penguino]

Very noteworthy news - I hadn't even thought of the oilspill possibly affecting the nuclear plants.

[penguino]

Re: Mall security getting anti-terror training

"If they're carrying a bag, look for that white-knuckle grip. ... They're carrying that package and they're holding onto it for dear life,"...

I guess they haven't heard of us last-minute Christmas shoppers!

[penguino]

Re: Mall security getting anti-terror training

"Chagnon's students are also told to watch for people wearing oversized clothes, and are instructed to make eye contact with shoppers and look for either extremely focused people or those who won't return a look. Another tip-off: Terrorists often ritualistically shave their bodies before carrying out a suicide bombing, he says."

But, they forgot to mention the perfume - that, too, could be a tip-off.

[penguino]

TV station for Muslims in English opens in U.S.

By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Saturday, December 04, 2004

dailystar.com

BUFFALO, New York: The first English-language cable television channel aimed at U.S. and Canadian Muslims is set to launch, its chairman said Monday, seeking to show positive images of the fast-growing community and to give America a realistic glimpse into Islamic life.

"It was my wife's idea. She asked me to go and do it," said Muzzammil Hassan, a Pakistani-born ex-banker with no prior television industry experience whose Bridges TV hits U.S. airwaves Tuesday. Its Canadian launch will follow soon, he said. Hassan, 40, recalled that on a November 2001 road trip between Buffalo and Detroit, Michigan - home to the largest U.S. Muslim community - he and his wife, who was then pregnant, listened to a radio program that took a sharp, derogatory tone against Muslims.

It was not the first time they had heard this tone in the post-September 11 U.S. media. "She was offended by it. And she was seven months pregnant. So she felt that she didn't want her kids growing up here without feeling strong about their identity both as an American and as a Muslim," Hassan said. "So she said, 'Why don't you do it?'" Hassan, who lives outside Buffalo, where he was a banker and earned an MBA in nearby Rochester, made a business plan and went about courting investors.

When they looked at the demographics for the estimated seven million U.S. Muslims - which show U.S. Muslims' average annual income 11,000 dollars above the US average, and a growth rate of 6.2 percent a year, far outpacing the general population growth of under one percent - many were sold. Bullish backers have invested five to 10 million dollars already, The Buffalo News reported.

"When we did our market research, what people told us was that there are foreign-language channels available in the U.S., but they cater to their foreign-born parents and not their American children," said Hassan, CEO of Bridges TV. "Bridges TV is trying to fill that gap," he said. Described as a "lifestyle" channel, the network now has about 20 employees and is available across the United States on Globecast satellite and on broadband, Hassan said. The channel also has signed a carriage affiliation with Comcast, the top U.S. cable service, with 22 million subscribers. It will be available in Detroit on Comcast in January, Hassan added.

Programming ranges from Koranic and Islamic religious content to news, documentaries, soap operas and shows geared toward women and children, in a bid to reflect many facets of life.

Hassan has high hopes for the news programming, but there will also be lighter fare, such as "Allah Made Me Funny," which spotlights a Muslim comedy tour.

And the new network will also offer a window on Muslim life "for mainstream Americans who want to better understand who Muslims are," Hassan said.

[penguino]

From their new TV website at     Bridgestv.com:

Bridges TV will air Call to Prayer (Adhan) five times a day, weekly Friday prayers and possibly Taraweeh in Ramadan from various mosques and Muslim Community Centers in North America.

[SlowBoat407]

Abbas Hassan, President and Chairman of Marcus Oil & Chemical.

So they make a waxy substance, eh? Where was the waxy substance found coating the highway and shutting it down?

[JustPiper]

Fascinating reads: (long)

Wahabism: Understanding the roots and role models of Islamic fanaticism and terror - I
http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/0000139.php

Wahabism: Understanding the roots and role models of Islamic fanaticism and terror - II
http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/0000397.php

[JustPiper]

Explosions Rock Houston Chemical Plant
http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2456

Tanker overturns, burns, blocking road near Garner
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10331079.htm?1c

N.J. nuclear plants to shut down due to oil spill
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-nj--oilspill1202dec02,0,1332777.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

Salem 1, Salem 2 shut down
http://www.nj.com/news/sunbeam/index.ssf?/base/news-2/110206561029600.xml

MADRID, Spain (AP) Spanish media have reported at least one explosion at a gasoline station in Madrid after a warning from a Basque group.
(no link)

[JustPiper]

State-of-the-art fake-ID 'factories' uncovered
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Dec/03/ln/ln05p.html

'We sat, we prayed, we hoped," says father of teen killed by Hamas
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/120204_ns_terror-lawsuit.html

Dad describes agony at son's slaying by terrorists
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-quar03.html

[JustPiper]

moved in 82'

[JustPiper]

All we need now is Rudy ; Rummy is staying