Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Nine (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!

Was Bomber's "New York" Shirt A Message?
Full Story

It's hardly a unique fashion statement for a mass transit rider: a Yankees-style cap, and a "New York" sweat shirt.

But the New York Police Department is teaming with British authorities to determine whether those items were worn by suspects in the London terror cases to send a "purposeful message" to the city, according to an NYPD officials.

David Cohen, the NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence, raised the concern earlier this week at a security briefing for business leaders at police headquarters in Lower Manhattan.

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

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To: MamaDearest; F15Eagle; backhoe; JohnathanRGalt; piasa; Godzilla; All

Thanks to Mama Dearest for pointing to this article:
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http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=647
Monday, August 22, 2005 22:19 IST
JNW HEADLINE NEWS

"Hamas: Christian Zionism is our enemy"
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff

August 22nd, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Hamas terrorist organization has singled out Christian supporters of Israel, putting them on notice that it views their actions as “criminal,” making them enemies of the Palestinian Arabs."

2,681 posted on 08/22/2005 1:48:27 PM PDT by Cindy

Last time I chatted with a world-be burglar, he was all by his onesey and I didn't say a word. I knocked him back through the window he was crawling thru to start with. He left before I could punctuate the conversation with my Glock.

On a lighter note, I celebrated my seventeenth wedding anniversary and went out to dinner with that saint, my beloved wife. She's gotta be a saint to have put up with ME for so many years! Went to a really nice restaurant and got....food poisoning! So we stayed home from school today to recover some.

2,682 posted on 08/22/2005 2:06:07 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)

Happy Anniversary!!!!
Marriage is a blessing.

Food poisoning...I'm so sorry.

Yep, both incidents of burglars (both times 2 men - one time dealing with them by myself; one time my husband and I dealing with them) we didn't have to fire a shot. Plain speaking and the busiiness end of a licensed, registered gun does give burglars pause as to which way would be more prudent to go.

2,683 posted on 08/22/2005 2:12:09 PM PDT by Cindy

To: JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; All

Note: The following video clips (along with links to the transcripts) are on the current front page of MEMRITV.ORG:

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http://www.memritv.org

Iranian Defense Program

#819 - Captured Iraqi Terrorist: We Watched Two People Being Murdered in a Slaughtering Lesson
Al-Fayhaa TV (Iraq/UAE) - 8/5/2005 - 00:01:57

#818 - Iranian Leader Khamenei in a Tehran Friday Sermon: US Responsible for Terrorism; Palestinian Issue Should Be Solved by Referendum among 'Original' Palestinians; Iranians May Build Nuclear Plant in the Foreseeable Future
Iran Ch.1 - 8/19/2005 - 00:05:48

#817 - Al-Jazeera Special about Hanadi Jaradat, Other Female Palestinian Suicide Bombers, Their Families and the People Who Send Them to Die
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - 8/16/2005 - 00:06:25

#816 - Armed Palestinian Factions in Gaza
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - 8/18/2005 - 00:01:57

2,684 posted on 08/22/2005 2:20:39 PM PDT by Cindy

Nothing is EVER going to work unless our borders are militarized with deadly force authorized. Ergo, nothing of any significance is ever going to happen.

2,685 posted on 08/22/2005 2:22:03 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)

To: JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; All

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP96405

Special Dispatch Series - No. 964
August 19, 2005 No.964

"An Interview with Hamas Leader Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar that appeared in Asharq Al-Awsat on August 18, 2005.

The following are the excepts from the interview [1]:"

2,686 posted on 08/22/2005 2:26:57 PM PDT by Cindy

What does *SR* mean?

I dunno in what context it's used, but in my neck of the woods, SR means State Road followed by a number to indicate a specific route.

2,687 posted on 08/22/2005 2:27:08 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)

Top cleric held in Bangladesh for bomb blasts
(DPA)

22 August 2005

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/August/subcontinent_August794.xml&section=subcontinent

DHAKA - A prominent cleric in Bangladesh was arrested on Monday for
his alleged role in the August 17 bomb attacks across the country which
killed two people and injured 200, officials said.

The cleric, identified as Maulana Fariduddin Mahfuz, was arrested
at the airport in Dhaka as he prepared to board a flight to Dubai.

Mahfuz, who once headed the state-run Islamic Foundation, is
accused of trying to flee the country after intelligence agencies unearthed
proof of his involvement in the series of cross-country explosions which
triggered nationwide panic.

The foundation publishes books and organizes seminars on Islam
besides running the biggest mosque in the country.

Government sources claimed Mahfuz had strong ties with the banned
militant group Jamiat ul Mujahideen which has been blamed for the
bombings in cities and towns across the country.

2,688 posted on 08/22/2005 2:39:54 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

Silicon sniffer:

"The Ph.D. engineers have developed a button-size chemical sensor prototype that is designed, among other things, to detect trace amounts of explosives before they detonate.

"Our idea is to put one on the lapel of every soldier and in every Tube carriage,"

2,689 posted on 08/22/2005 2:42:57 PM PDT by Lucy Lake

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2,690 posted on 08/22/2005 2:45:04 PM PDT by Cindy

Extremists threaten Algerians in France

Aug. 22, 2005 at 12:40PM

UPI

http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20050822-120439-5090r.htm

An Algerian terrorist group is calling on fellow extremists to track
and strike government and civilian compatriots in France.
In an Internet message, the Salafist Group for Preaching and
Combat called on its "Muslim brothers in France" to survey, track and
"ambush" high-level political, military and economic officials on French
soil, Le Figaro reports.
"Our real enemies aren't only the military rulers," the GSPC said
in its Internet message reportedly published in early August. "But also
numerous civilians known for their allegiance to French leaders."
"Support your brothers in Algeria by tracking these criminals in
France," the statement reportedly read.
The GSPC was founded in 1998 as a splinter group of the Armed
Islamic Group, which launched a bloody insurgency against Algeria's
military backed government in the early 1990s. The ensuing civil war killed
as many as 150,000 people.
An Algerian diplomat told Le Figaro Algiers was taking the
threats seriously and pursuing them with "vigilance and serenity."

2,691 posted on 08/22/2005 2:45:44 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

Hamas details Gaza attacks

Monday, August 22, 2005 Updated at 8:53 AM EDT

Associated Press

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050822.whamasa0822/BNStory/Front

Gaza City, Gaza Strip -- Hamas militants, jockeying to take credit for
Israel's Gaza Strip pullout, said they were involved in 54 per cent of
400 attacks on Israeli targets in Gaza in the past five years.

The figures appeared on a Hamas website Monday, the day Israel set out
to clear the last of its 21 Gaza settlements, Netzarim. Hamas said its
numbers were reliable because they were culled from Israeli military
statistics -- a claim that could not immediately be verified.

Hamas and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have been engaged in fierce
competition over who will be credited with the Gaza pullout, a
unilateral Israeli move. Hamas said its attacks have driven Israel out, while
Mr. Abbas hopes to gain political capital from eventual improvement in
the daily life of Gazans as a result of the withdrawal.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the figures "are a document of
Hamas' struggle and Hamas' role in liberating this precious part of the
homeland."

They show that "resistance is the Palestinians' strategy of choice,"
Mr. Abu Zuhri said.

"It made this victory possible, and this victory can be repeated," he
said, referring to Israel's Gaza withdrawal.

According to the figures posted by Hamas, the group was involved in 217
of 400 attacks against Israeli targets between September, 2000, when
the second Palestinian uprising against Israel began, and Aug. 15, 2005,
the date Israel began pulling out of Gaza.

The Al Aqsa Brigades, affiliated with Mr. Abbas' ruling Fatah party,
were responsible for 22 attacks, or 5.5 per cent of the total. The
Islamic Jihad carried out 34 attacks, or 8.5 per cent of the total, according
to the Hamas claim.

Hamas also claimed responsibility for killing 79 of the 167 Israeli
soldiers who the group said died in militant attacks in Gaza in the past
five years. Other factions killed 37 soldiers, or 22.2 per cent of the
total. Fifty-one soldiers, or 30.5 per cent of the total, died in joint
operations, Hamas said.

Hamas also suffered the most fatalities, according to the group's
statistics. A total of 145 of the 215 militants killed, or 67.5 per cent,
belonged to Hamas. Islamic Jihad ranked second, with 28 gunmen dead,
followed by Fatah, with 23 fatalities.

Deadly Hamas attacks on Israeli targets waned this year after the group
entered into an informal truce with Israel. Abu Zuhri said the truce
was in force until the end of the year.

2,692 posted on 08/22/2005 2:53:19 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

To: freeperfromnj

The 9-11 documentary on the National Geographic channel is very good so far. I do recommend that you get the DVD. Do you have the number to order it? I don't have it off hand, but it was posted to the "Tony Snow Show" thread this morning. Let me know if you can't find it. TMG (still lurking)

2,693 posted on 08/22/2005 3:04:24 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")

In this posting: [1] China (Guangdong) [2] China (Hong Kong SAR) [3] Overview/discussion ***************************************** [1] China (Guangdong) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: Washington Post [edited] ------------------------------------------------------------- 4 people have been infected by a pig-borne disease in China's south and 1 has died, the government said Monday, a day after an epidemic in another part of the country was declared under control. ------------------------------------------------------------- The infections were reported in 4 different areas in Guangdong province, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing information released by the provincial government. No pigs were reported sickened by _S. suis_, the bacteria blamed for the human cases, Xinhua said. It wasn't immediately clear how the people were infected, but the disease is usually passed on through contact with raw pork or sick swine. The report did not say if person-to-person transmissions were involved. 2 of the cases were still hospitalized, Xinhua said, without giving more details. ------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, China's ministries of health and agriculture said that an outbreak of the disease in Sichuan province, hundreds of kilometers northwest of Guangdong, had been brought under control. ------------------------------------------------------------- At least 38 people died in the epidemic, which was first detected in Jun 2005, mostly farmers who butchered or handled infected pigs. More than 200 people were sickened. ------------------------------------------------------------- Pockets of infection have been discovered in recent days. Last week, 2 deaths were reported in Jiangsu province in the east, and Hong Kong has found a handful of cases in the past month. In Jun 2005, 2 human cases were reported in Guangdong. ------------------------------------------------------------- Yangjiang, along with Chao'an County and the cities of Nanxiong and Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, were the latest areas which had human infections, Xinhua said Mon, 22 Aug 2005. Medical teams have been sent to investigate and help locals take protective measures, it said. [Byline: Audra Ang] -- ProMED-mail ******************************************* [2] China (Hong Kong SAR) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: XinHuaHet.com [edited] ------------------------------------------------------------- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection said a _Streptococcus suis_ infection report involving a 79-year-old woman was confirmed Mon, 22 Aug 2005, which brings the year's total to 10. ------------------------------------------------------------- The Kowloon City resident developed fever, right knee pain, redness and swelling on 16 Aug 2005 and was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital 6 days later. She has no recent travel history and is now in critical condition. Her home contact has been put under medical surveillance. ------------------------------------------------------------- Hong Kong health officials advised local residents to observe personal and environmental hygiene and avoid contact with pigs. If contact with pigs or raw pork is necessary, residents should use protective gloves, wash hands after handling and clean and cover all wounds. ----------------------------------- ProMED-mail ******************************************* [3] Overview discussion Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: The Standard - Hong Kong [edited] ------------------------------------------------------------- Marcello Gottschalk, a world leader in _Streptococcus suis_ research, said that he fears the latest cases of the pig-borne disease on the mainland and Hong Kong may be more complicated than the authorities suspect. Gottschalk, a professor at the University of Montreal, leads the International Reference Laboratory for identifying _S. suis_. The symptoms exhibited by patients are different from anything else he has witnessed, he says. ------------------------------------------------------------- "What is happening in China is that you don't see meningitis, which is the typical symptom, [instead] you see toxic shock, bleeding under the skin and the incubation time is shorter," he said. ------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to the different symptoms, Gottschalk also noted the mortality rate is significantly higher. "Typically, the mortality rate is less than 5 per cent in humans, but this time it's different. People are dying very fast, sometimes within hours, and there is a mortality rate of more than 20 percent," he said. ------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, mainland health officials revised the number of infections in Sichuan province to 204 from 215, while the death toll was revised down to 38 instead of 39 since 5 Aug 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------- Gottschalk said he suspects _S. suis_ has obtained genetic material [from] other strains. This outbreak shares symptoms with [those caused by] bacteria such as _Staphylococcus aureus_ and _Streptococcus pyogenes_. _S. suis can easily recombine with these strains because they are in the same category, Gottschalk said. ------------------------------------------------------------- Some farmers in Hong Kong and the mainland "vaccinate" by feeding the tissue of sick pigs to healthy pigs, according to the chairman of the Hong Kong Pig Farm Association, Wong Kwong-wing. On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, he said these practices could lead to mutations of bacteria. Gottschalk warned that homemade vaccination is "extremely dangerous" because, instead of preventing the disease, healthy pigs may get infected by the live bacteria which could lead to a serious outbreak. ------------------------------------------------------------- While Wong said the overuse of antibiotics on pig farms is common and could be a factor in the outbreak, Gottschalk said this isn't likely. Overusing antibiotics could increase the resistance of bacteria, he said, but he doesn't think this carries a greater threat since antibiotics still kill bacteria like _Streptococcus suis_ easily. [Byline: Andrea Chiu] -- ProMED-mail ------------------------------------------------------------- [New cases and new areas continue to be affected. Without direct exposure to swine, it is certainly possible that infected meat is the vehicle. - Mod.LL]

2,694 posted on 08/22/2005 3:07:25 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

To: nw_arizona_granny

Still don't know what it means...

14/04/2002 Prince Sultan donates SR 5 million for Islamic Research Centre
Makkah, 14th April 2002
Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Second Deputy Premier, Defense and Aviation Minister and Inspector General, has donated SR 5 million for King Abdul Aziz Islamic Research Centre, an affiliate of the Muslim World League (MWL). This was announced by MWL Secretary General, Dr Abdullah Al-Turki. Dr Al-Turki highlighted the significant role of Prince Sultan in the service of Islam and Muslims.

Source: SPA

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:QGVwSyg4mOYJ:www.saudinf.com/main/y3986.htm+muslims+sr-5&hl=en

2,695 posted on 08/22/2005 3:16:44 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)

Book report, 1890 until today:

The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter BalakianIHC

ReviewThe First World War made it clear the old idea that “war is politics by another means” is outdated in the
20th century. In the case of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, war meant extermination. Speaking to his top
generals days before invading Poland in September 1939, Adolf Hitler praised the virtues of power and brutality,
referring to how easy it had been to destroy defenseless people like the Armenians. “Who today, after all,
speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?” he asked. Under the cover of war, Muslim Turks (with German
help) completed the massacre of Christian Armenians begun in the 1890s. On the eve of WW II, Hitler was
readying his own apparatus of death for annihilating the Jews of Europe, knowing he could do so with
impunity.This book deals at length with U.S. government involvement (or the insufficiency thereof, depending on
one’s point of view) in supporting fellow-Christian Armenian victims. It brings to light President Woodrow Wilson’s
proposal to extend United States dominion and protection over the Armenian Republic.
continued-at:

http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/220820051

2,696 posted on 08/22/2005 3:27:16 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

To: nw_arizona_granny

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2,697 posted on 08/22/2005 3:30:42 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)

Sponsored in part by Elsevier, publisher of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents ------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 From: A-Lan Banks Source: Forbes, USA, 22 Aug 2005 [edited] ------------------------------------------------------------- The authorities said they have discovered a new case of bird flu at a chicken farm near Tokyo, prompting health officials to order the culling of some 100 000 chickens. -------------------------------------------------------------- The farm is in Ishioka, 80 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, and keeps 1.11 million chickens in 12 houses, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. ------------------------------------------------------------- It was 1 of 3 farms which supply chickens to another farm which was found last Thursday [18 Aug 2005] to have been hit by bird flu. ------------------------------------------------------------- The local health office is to kill all 100 000 chickens in the house where the virus of the H5 strain of bird flu was found. ------------------------------------------------------------- Japan has been relatively free of bird flu, which has killed 61 people in Southeast Asia since 2003, with 13 cases [in poultry in Japan] reported so far, an official of the ministry said. There were 4 outbreaks in Japan in 2004, the first cases in the country since 1925. ------------------------------------------------------------- -- ProMED-mail [The distance between the previous reported outbreak in Ishioka, Saitama province, and the location of the current outbreak, Konosu, Ibaraki province, is 44.0 miles (70.0 km). - Mod.AS]

2,698 posted on 08/22/2005 3:33:58 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

Explosion rocks Christian area of Lebanon

Monday, August 22, 2005; Posted: 5:14 p.m. EDT (21:14 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/22/beirut.blast/index.html

(CNN) -- An explosion has rocked a commercial center in a Christian
suburb north of Beirut, wounding at least five people, according to
reports from the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation.

The blast went off near the Hotel Promenade in Zalka, which is also
near a Starbucks cafe. However, there were conflicting reports of where
the bomb had been planted.

A Lebanese civil defense spokesperson told LBC that the bomb had been
planted inside a building, while a Lebanese security source said it was
detonated in a parking lot adjacent to the hotel.

The blast happened just before 11 p.m. (4 p.m. ET). Video from the LBC
showed army troops cordoning off the area and ambulance crews
responding to the scene.

The blast appeared to have caused extensive damage to the outside walls
of a building.

Just last month a powerful explosion rocked a Christian area of Beirut.
Hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise
visit, the second major blast in two weeks shook the Lebanese capital on
July 22. No deaths were reported.

On July 12 Lebanon's outgoing deputy Prime Minister Elias Murr was
among 12 people wounded by a blast that tore through a Christian
neighborhood in northern Beirut. At least two people were killed.

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2,699 posted on 08/22/2005 3:41:25 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)

To: nw_arizona_granny; freeperfromnj; jerseygirl; All

LOL A little while ago Fox News reported that DHS is sending out a warning to watch the homeless people nearby rapid transit stations, that they may be terrorists.

Fruit vendor alert!!!!

2,700 posted on 08/22/2005 3:44:27 PM PDT by WestCoastGal

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