Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Four

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Four (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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Some American Mosques Carry Extremist Tracts, Study Says
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WASHINGTON -- Mosques across the U.S. continue to carry books and pamphlets describing non-Muslims as "infidels" and promoting intolerance against Western society, according to a forthcoming study by Freedom House, a U.S. human-rights group.

Despite vows from American Islamic leaders after Sept. 11, 2001, to proselytize peacefully, New York based Freedom House researchers found 57 documents with incendiary material in more than a dozen mosques and Islamic centers in six states and Washington, D.C., visited over the past year.

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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-Three "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		Tracking the Chatter with TM

[freeperfromnj]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331850/posts?page=9#9

Late update on thread claiming it's ETA.

[crabbie]

Thanks for the new thread, it looks great as usual!

Hope you are enjoying your well deserved break!

[HipShot]

IF ETA did this, they stepped out of character. I'll wait for a statement from them.

Organized crime, insurance, competition, cuckold...

There are lots of things it could be.

[angcat]

Thank you!

[bored at work]

allbeit, the elections are going pretty smooth . . .

[Labyrinthos]

Thanks for the ping. Great job as always.

[HipShot]

"allbeit, the elections are going pretty smooth . . ."

It's a great day for Iraq and freedom.

[ExSoldier]

Thanks for the ping! Awesome looking page! Ready to get working.

Off to a good start it seems with successful elections in Iraq. The terrorist scum look sooooo weak in the eyes of the Arab world. I wonder if they think they're going to recoup their lost face by a massive strike elsewhere?

[Godzilla]

Waaaaaaawho - thread 24, the 'Zilla checking on.

[Godzilla]

Iraqi Elections - It appears that the terrorists were not successful in shutting down the elections or even massing nation-wide attacks. Mosel had low turn-out (current ops base of Al-Zarqawi) but elsewhere great turnout. MSM is suprised at turnout (suspect they were hoping for the election to flop, just to be able to blame Bush). Recent report of more bombs, but this is after polls have been closed. This is a hard hit to the terrorists.

[tmp02]

The Russians Are Coming
The FBI is concerned about Moscow's growing number of spies. What secrets are they looking for?

Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005
At Los Angeles International Airport two weeks ago, FBI agents arrested an Irish businessman they had spent a week tailing all over California's Silicon Valley, from the offices of two electronics manufacturers in Sunnyvale to a hotel in Mountain View and down a quiet cul-de-sac to a suburban house in San Jose. The technology exporter, according to court papers, had purchased sophisticated computer components in the U.S. to send to Russia through Ireland. He now stands to be charged in mid-February with "unlawful export of 'defense articles.'" U.S. officials point to this little-noticed case as one manifestation of a troubling reality: although the cold war is long over, Russia is fielding an army of spooks in the U.S. that is at least equal in number to the one deployed by the old, much larger Soviet Union.

Russia runs more than 100 known spies under official cover in the U.S., senior U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials say. And those are just the more easily spotted spies working under the classic guise of diplomat. An unknown number of so-called nocs—who work under nonofficial cover as businessmen and -women, journalists or academics—undoubtedly expand the Russian spy force. "They're baaaaack," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked against Moscow during the cold war. "They're busy as hell, but I don't think we've really got what it is that they're doing." The number of Russian spies in the U.S. is especially surprising, given that it was less than four years ago that the Bush Administration expelled 50 of them in retaliation for the humiliating discovery that FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen had been spying for Russia for 21 years.

In a high-level meeting late last year, officials tell TIME, the National Security Council instructed the FBI, CIA, State Department and other agencies to get a better handle on the Russian espionage threat. While the U.S. might like to eject suspect diplomats to force the Russians to send in their "rookies," as a U.S. official put it, Moscow would probably respond in kind, denting the CIA's corps in Russia.

As the FBI has remade itself in the wake of 9/11 into a counterterrorism agency, the bureau's long-standing counterintelligence mission has been bumped down a notch on the priority list. During this time, Russia has been among the U.S.'s rivals most aggressively exploiting the opening to build up its spying capabilities. Also, it has been using liberalized immigration rules for Russians, instituted after the cold war, to install nocs.

Officials say the Russians are after secrets about American military technology and hardware, dual-use technology such as the latest lasers, and the Administration's plans and intentions regarding the former Soviet states, China, the Middle East and U.S. energy policy, among other matters. Russia also wants to learn as much as possible about its biggest strategic worry: the U.S.'s ramped-up commitment to missile defense, which could eventually threaten Moscow's nuclear deterrent. Asked about the Russian spy surge, Russian embassy spokesman Yevgeniy Khorishko replied, "We do not comment on any of the issues concerning intelligence."

In addition to embassy-based spies, Russia—along with China, Pakistan, Iran and any number of other countries, including U.S. allies—relies on many hard-to-trace front companies, often run through third-party countries, to acquire secrets and dual-use technology. "We think there are thousands of these companies," a senior U.S. official said.

David Szady, the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, who is in charge of keeping tabs on foreign spies on U.S. soil, told TIME that in the next five years he wants to double the number of agents chasing spooks. Already, the FBI has placed counterespionage squads of at least seven agents in all 56 of its field division offices over the past year. What about the chance that damaging U.S. moles are helping Russia today? Says one U.S. senior intelligence official: "There's always evidence of another mole because there are always unexplained events. There are always unexplained losses. There are always enough dots that look strange."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1022559,00.html

[null and void]

I suggested in an email to the White House that the President and everyone in the administration should provide a photo op with the same thing!

We'll know in minutes.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Outstanding job on the thread it gets better and better.

The blue finger picture is awesome. It is a great day to be an American. Praises to our soldiers and the Iraqis, the new little America of the middle east!

I just saw a poll asking, Which government do they want there government modeled like. UAE was #1 and it is the most western of the governments in the middle east #2 was the United States. #3 was Islamic Law with about 15%.

[LayoutGuru2]

Thanks for the new thread... ;)

Anyone know when this happened?????

http://www.itshappening.com/

"Removed by C@ndi with an eye" is apparently all that remains of what was the message board forum formerly known as "ITS HAPPENNING." IH was an attempt to bring together diverse parties from around the world to exchange opposing views and share information. Unfortunately not all the dialog was friendly and intended in the spirit of universal awareness.... as such, some have taken it upon themselves to delete, corrupt, and and render unusable that which was the IH board. IH was a purely not for profit operation and the cost and stress of operations far exceeded any donations made toward maintenance or upgrading as such there, will be NO rebuild. Those who gave the most were those that gave their time for free for the thankless job of trying to moderate an unmoderated board. This was in itself an almost undefinable task, but those, and you know who you are, that did this, rose to the occasion. To all of the posters who have made IH their home, we set you free now, as this really is the end of the road for "ItsHappening" it was fun while it lasted. Goodbye.

[MamaDearest]

"Nazi road signs ripped down day after report: NAZIS ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY, SIGNS STOLEN"

Hooray for that. If replaced they undoubtedly will disappear again - what did they expect?

[nwctwx]

Well now why didn't I think of Thread #24.......

lol.

I should have been more descriptive, it's hard to think straight at 3am sometimes. ;-)

[nwctwx]

I haven't been to IH in several months, so I am not much help I suppose.

[MamaDearest]

Russian spies increasing in US

OPEC warns oil prices will stay high

Marine with 9 lives survives 9 bombs

Homeland Insecurity - Europe

Photo of Iraqi voter with purple finger - thanks Null & Void

Afghan kills 5 colleagues inside US base

Iran major says Iran would make any aggressor pay dearly

3 die in suspected terrorist raid in Kuwait

Cuba customs acquires digital screening to detect drugs and explosives (including bodily swallowed/packed)

Muslim anger at TV show "24"

How real is the terrorism threat today

Actions at illegal piers in Iran cause concern

SNIP: Three arrested in Lahore for suspected links with Al-Qaeda (Updated at 1935 PST)

LAHORE: Intelligence agencies arrested three people in a raid at Lahore on suspected links with Al-Qaeda. According to sources, the detainees are alleged that they have worked for Al-Qaeda and they have been shifted to an undisclosed location while investigations are underway. Police and related agencies however have refrained from giving further details.

SNIP: Mosque Pesh Imam gunned down in Karachi (Updated at 1445 PST) By Khurshid Abbasi

KARACHI: Pesh Imam of a mosque and his gunman were killed Sunday in a firing incident at Tariq Road here. Unidentified assailants gunned down Maulana Haroon Qasimi and his gunman when he was returning back to his residence after leading prayers in Jamia Masjid Mehmood at Tariq Road, reports said.

[JellyJam]

excellent, as always.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Sometime last week.

From other boards I gather that it was hacked by terrorist. There is an under current of sometime very bad over there. You know that IH took this site and others websites from terrorist in the beginning.

The hacking of this site also was spoken on some boards that it would be a go signal. I think that is wishful thinking. If a large scale attack happens at this point we need to look real deep at something larger than binny boy. Like Russia, China etc.

I didn't approve of some of the talk over there but it was a good source of information. Sorry to see it go.

The owner also has some health problems so prayers are in order for there well being.