Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/10/1097346696072.html?from=moreStories&oneclick=true

Rebels eye nerve gas: CIA

By Bob Drogin
Washington
October 11, 2004

Militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other insurgency networks across Iraq are increasingly trying to acquire and use toxic nerve gases, blister agents and germ weapons against US and coalition forces, according to a CIA report. . .

Investigators into the insurgency's attempts to acquire chemical weapons said one group, dubbed the al-Abud network, recruited scientists and sought to prepare poisons over seven months before it was dismantled in June.

The CIA says Zarqawi has long sought to use chemical and biological weapons against targets in Europe as well as Iraq.

An exhaustive report released last week by Charles Duelfer, the CIA's chief weapons investigator in Iraq, concluded that Saddam Hussein destroyed his stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s and never tried to rebuild them.

But a little-noticed section of the 960-page report warns that the danger of a "devastating" attack with unconventional weapons has grown since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Zarqawi has long sought to use chemical and biological weapons against targets in Europe as well as Iraq.

The Bush Administration has not previously disclosed that the insurgent groups that have emerged and steadily expanded since Saddam's ousting are now seeking to develop their own crude supplies of such deadly agents as mustard gas, ricin and the nerve gas, tabun. . . .

Plane Missing on Flight to Remote Logging Camps on B.C. South Coast (Canada - 2/28/05)

VICTORIA (CP) - An air and sea search resumed Tuesday for a small plane carrying five people on the B.C. South Coast.

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Airliner Evacuated at Manchester Airport (UK - 3/1/05)

More than 300 passengers were evacuated from a Pakistan International Airlines flight at Manchester Airport this morning after smoke was seen coming from its undercarriage, police said.

Flight PK789, a Boeing 777 from Karachi, landed at Manchester at 9.03am for refuelling on its way to Toronto, Canada...

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Britain Stockpiles Tamiflu in Case of Bird Flu Outbreak (UK - 3/1/05)

Tue Mar 1, 2005 10:19 AM ET By Richard Woodman LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - Britain is buying 14.6 million courses of Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu to protect against a potential flu pandemic, the government said on Tuesday.

Countries around the world have been stockpiling the drug to combat a possible pandemic of bird flu, which has killed 47 people in Asia. The British order will provide 7.3 million doses by next April and the rest as soon as possible in 2006-7.

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Islamic Awareness Week Begins (Harvard)

Speakers highlight ties between African-American and Islamic communities.

About 40 students turned out last night for the kickoff event of Islamic Awareness Week—a structured discourse called “Islam, Hip-Hop and Black America,” featuring two speakers who discussed the relationship between modern Islam and the African-American community.

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Cindy did you also find this Whispering Sky 2001 post?

Whispering Sky 2001 "Resistance report 11-13-04

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.prophecies.nostradamus/browse_thread/thread/9ee2ed90060430f1/799c2c5571fb809f?q=%22whisperingsky2001%22&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3D%22whisperingsky2001%22%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#799c2c5571fb809f

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Falluja
update

Z...@home.ca
Nov 13 2004, 1:53 am

Falluja update: Resistance inflicts heavy losses

The Islam Intellectual / via "whisperingsky2001", 2004-11-12

Bsm Allah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem
And Allah invoked peace upon the mercy prophet Mohammad
and upon a
God and its friends as a wholes
You the better brothers and brothers

Peace be upon you
Thursday 28 Ramadans are 1425 å - 11 November 2004 AD
The Islam intellectual : [ a special ]

He informed us our correspondent in the Iraqi city of Al-Faloga
by
the details of the losses of the American occupation forces that
suffered it yesterday Wednesday through fierce battles with the
resistance men in the city

And the resistance has withdrawn the American occupation forces
to
inside Al-Faloga and carried out their division into 6 separate
groups, and the rests of those groups tried the escape from the
side
of the fight, but they were exposed to other ambushes that
eliminated
their rests

And in the details, the Islam intellectual correspondent clarified
in
Al-Faloga that the resistance succeeded in the destruction of four

American tanks in the general street linking between the old way
and
the gray way, where the clashes extended from the highway
beginning
point an east to the new bridge a west

And well-informed sources pointed that the occupation forces use
the
tanks through the breakthrough of the cities as troop carriers
because of the easiness of a targeting and the destruction of the
traditional carriers or the taunt cars, and the sources preferred
that each tank was carrying about 9 soldiers

And 6 tanks destroyed in Ibhdra street in the region between the

military district south and the region of the first and second
officers and between the police district north

Also the resistance exploded 6 tanks that their soldiers carried
out
the escape from them the effect of the blockade of the resistance
men
of them through the battles in the district of martyrs and fight

And in the district of martyrs and fight the occupation forces fell
in an ambush during their attempt of the escape, a malice the
councillor of Al-Faloga militants announced to - the Islam
intellectual is that the capture of the elements of four American
tanks took place in the talkative street towards the south, did not

reveal their number, but it clarified that there is between them a
general

And the councillor was informed from the American general its
saying : the resistance is a mountain it refuses the shaking ....,
for a collection I relax except after the capture, because I was
watching the death that comes me from everywhere

Also sources by the militants council to the correspondent
announced
that the capture of a number of the American soldiers took place
in
Golan district that were aboard two armoured vehicles, and
refused
also the revelation of their numbers

And around the burning battles in soldier Walgfifi 's districts and
the engineers, our correspondent clarified that a violent fight
takes
place there, but we do not know accurately the losses size due to
that

And in the self context, the correspondent pointed to the
presence of
besieged American tanks near the presence mosque since
yesterday and
the soldiers can not the getting out of it until now, and the
resistance tries its explosion at a distance, but it could not the
approach to it because due to the presence of the snipers of the
American occupation over the buildings surrounding the site, that
the
resistance considers from the hardest sites for the fight it open to

the planes the occupation and the snipers

And Al-Faloga represents the knot of the American occupation,
where
it raises the expectations to its failure in the second time in the
control over the small city

And American press sources have said that the American forces
watch
in Al-Faloga what did not watch it in Vietnam through the first
unsuccessful attempt, while is spreading the occupation army
site on
the Internet forms of the soldiers and they dance a joy at the
withdrawal from them

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Another good google search is:

The Islam Intellectual

Interpol calls bioterrorism major threat

3/1/2005, 10:42 a.m. ET
By JOCELYN GECKER
The Associated Press

LYON, France (AP) — Interpol sounded an "URGENT" warning Tuesday that bioterrorism is the world's greatest security threat and police across the globe are ill-equipped to handle an attack.

At a meeting hosted by the global police agency, police and security officials shied from detailing specific threats but warned that al-Qaida has stated its intention to use biological weapons and that Iraq has become the breeding ground for terrorist groups.

"There is no criminal threat with greater potential danger to all countries, regions and people in the world than the threat of bioterrorism," Interpol Secretary-General Ronald K. Noble said in opening remarks.

"And there is no crime area where the police generally have as little training than in preventing — or responding to — bioterrorist attacks," Noble added.

More than 500 police and counterterrorism officials from 155 countries flew to Lyon for the conference, making it what Noble called "the largest meeting of police ever."

Interpol is based in the southeastern city of Lyon.

"The threat of bioterrorism is real," Noble said, noting that al-Qaida has posted how-to instructions for making biological weapons on the Internet.

During the two-day meeting, police will examine past incidents, including the anthrax scare that shook the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings and the 1995 sarin attacks in the Tokyo subway. Talks will also focus on how to better prevent and prepare for threats and training police to handle them.

Senior officials were expected from the New York Police Department, the U.S. Postal Service and London's Metropolitan Police, as well as from Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa.

South African Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who is also Interpol's president, singled out the possibility of an attack on the international food chain and livestock.

"The consequences of bioterrorist attack against livestock are substantial," he said, saying that "relatively little" attention has been paid to the threat.

"This is not science fiction," he said, "but a call for urgent prevention."

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin described the level of a general terrorist threat today as "particularly high, and said that Iraq was where "most of the terrorist groups have set up offices."

De Villepin said it was crucial for countries to pool information from their biotech labs, security agencies and hospitals to better track terrorist threats and know where to turn for help.

"Each country has to know what stock of vaccines are available so they can be called on," he said.

De Villepin proposed creating an international center for monitoring bioterrorist risks and suspicious materials. The center could be linked to the United Nations and based in France, he said.

Noble noted two gaps that could hinder a fast response to a biological attack. He said police need a worldwide list of scientists and health experts who could be consulted in an emergency and a high-tech police alert system, whereby one police force could alert those around the world of a terrorist threat.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, international cooperation has improved. Now 117 countries contribute to Interpol's global database of names and photographs of suspected terrorists, Selebi said.

The database, which held information on 2,202 people in 2001, now has the names and pictures of more than 8,000 suspects.

Interpol also has a database for stolen travel documents. The database was started in 2002 with 3,150 entries — it now has more than 5.5 million.

WTC BOMBING INMATES SENT LETTERS ALLEGEDLY TO RECRUIT TERRORISTS

Updated: 12:17 pm EST March 1, 2005

FLORENCE, Colo. -- Three men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing sent letters from the Supermax federal prison in Colorado that are suspected of being used by a Spanish terror cell to recruit suicide bombers, NewsChannel 4's Jonathan Dienst reported Monday.

Letters from one of those men, Mohammed Salameh were found on Mohamed Achraf, one of 17 people charged in October in Spain for an alleged plot to blow up that country's National Court, the network reported, citing confidential documents from a Spanish court.

One of the letters to Achraf, the alleged leader of the plot, reads: "Oh God! Make us live with happiness, make us die as martyrs, may we be united on the day of Judgment."

One of those arrested also faces charges for allegedly using letters from the trade center bombers to recruit terrorists, the network reported.

A letter sent by Salameh from prison was published in the Al-Quds newspaper, which read in part, "Osama Bin Laden is my hero of this generation."

According to NBC, at least 14 letters went back and forth between the World Trade Center bombers and the Spanish terror cell.

Inmates at the Colorado "Supermax" and other top security federal penitentiaries have strict restrictions, including having their mail inspected.

It was unclear how Salameh was able to send the letters. Wendy Montgomery, a spokeswoman at the prison here, did not return a phone call left after hours.

Justice Department officials in Washington referred calls to the Bureau of Prisons.

Supermax, dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," opened in Florence in 1994 as a place to put problem prisoners. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 bombing, were sent here, as was Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4242446/detail.html

Iraqis demonstrate in condemnation of Monday's suicide bombing, in Hillah in Iraq on Tuesday, March 1, 2005. Hundreds of people visited the wounded and inspected corpses at the hospital in Hillah on Tuesday, trying to identify friends and family who died in a suicide bombing that killed at least 120 people, the single deadliest attack of its kind since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

2,000 Demonstrate at Iraqi Bombing Site (Iraq 3/1/05)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting "No to terrorism!"...

At least 141 others were injured in the blast - the boldest challenge yet to Iraq's efforts to build a security force that can take over from the Americans.

More than 2,000 people held the impromptu demonstration on front of the clinic, chanting "No to terrorism!" and "No to Baathism and Wahhabism!"

Wahhabism is a reference to adherents of the strict form of Sunni Islam preached by Osama bin Laden, while the Baath party was the political organization that ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

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The Iraqi people are showing their distain for the terrorist insurgents in their country. I find this to be a very incouraging sign that the tide agaist these insurgents may be turning. Hopefully the people will keep up this momentum and help get these insurgents out of their country.

Top Zarqawi Henchman Identified in New Statement from Al-Qaida in Iraq

Al-Qaida's Jihad Committee in Mesopotamia--led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi--has issued a new statement signed by "Abu Abdelrahman al-Iraqi", identified as Zarqawi's "Deputy Commander" in Iraq. In his communique, Abu Abdelrahman declares, "May Allah bless you, O’ soldiers of Allah and lions of al-Tawheed wherever you are and in whatever country you are fighting the enemies of Allah… O’ nation of Islam, prepare yourself for good tidings... We ask every mujahid to stay firm in his jihad and his religion and never to accept peace or a truce because weakness has spread throughout the nations of the infidels and good tidings of victory are visible on the horizon... O’ Allah, defeat America and its allies and make them and their possessions into a reward for the Muslims. O’ Allah, demolish America and shake its foundations… O’ Allah of heaven, earth, and the seas, destroy America and make its power into a reward for the Muslims. Cast whatever power they had into the sea and let it drown."

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