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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

Posted on 03/09/2006 10:08:04 PM PST by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Unrest in Pakistan Setback for Terror War
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A week of unprecedented urban fighting in the wild tribal belt of North Waziristan has left scores dead and forced thousands to flee their homes, raising the stakes in Pakistan's war on Islamic militancy along the Afghan border.

A jumbled alliance of foreign militants, local tribesmen and Islamic students eager for jihad have stepped up resistance in a region where the army already claims to have wiped out al-Qaida as a viable fighting force.

The unrest, brewing for months, is a setback to the U.S.-led war on terror. Further hampering that effort are deteriorating relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan over Afghan claims that Taliban leader Mullah Omar is hiding in Pakistan and suicide bombers are training here.

Growing strength of Pakistani Taliban worries U.S. officials
Are global events spiraling out of control?
Zawahri calls for strikes against West
Thread Thirty-Five
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To: Cindy

Central American governments could wipe out violent street gangs in two months by treating them like opponents in a war, El Salvador's police chief said on Tuesday.

We can pray he does this


3,541 posted on 04/08/2006 4:11:53 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: Myrddin

Chicago
__________

Guns banned
Smoking Outlawed
Mayor who demolishes in the middle of the night when he doesn't want something


3,542 posted on 04/08/2006 4:12:51 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: JustPiper
Can I add you to my pinglist? ;)

Please do!

3,543 posted on 04/08/2006 4:26:41 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: JustPiper; Cindy; nwctwx; All
A look at Jose Padilla's co-defendants

MIAMI (AP) -- Details contained in court documents about the four others charged along with Jose Padilla with being part of a North American terror support cell.

KIFAH WAEL JAYYOUSI: 44 years old. Naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Jordan. Doctorate degree in civil engineering and U.S. Navy veteran. Began publishing in 1994 the Islam Report that federal investigators say was used to raise money for Islamic extremists and report on Muslim radicals worldwide. Founded American Islamic Group, "the voice of the mujahideen." Has wife and five children living in Detroit. Arrested March 2005 after returning from Qatar.

ADHAM AMIN HASSOUN: 43 years old. Palestinian born in Lebanon who came to United States in 1989. Worked as computer programmer in Broward County but was allegedly the main East Coast representative of Jayyousi's AIG. Prosecutors say he helped distribute Islam Report in South Florida and provided extremist recruits. One of them was Jose Padilla, investigators say. Originally arrested in June 2002 on an immigration violation charge.

KASSEM DAHER: Lebanese national with Canadian residency status. Lived in Le Duc, Canada, and helped distribute the Islam Report. Was allegedly involved in planning to provide money and fighters for jihad in Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere. Was close associate of Mohamed Zaky, a former associate of Jayyousi who was killed in 1995 while fighting Russians in Chechnya.

MOHAMED HESHAM YOUSSEF: Another alleged recruit of Hassoun's for violent Islamic extremism. Investigators say Youssef, living in Egypt, frequently discussed with Hassoun the travel logistics of mujahideen fighters. Hassoun frequently wired money to Youssef for these "brothers," among them Jose Padilla. One FBI intercept has Youssef telling Hassoun that Padilla had "entered into the area of Usama" - a reference to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

3,544 posted on 04/08/2006 4:27:04 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)
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To: JustPiper; potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; devolve; OXENinFLA; bitt; La Enchiladita
This subject won't blow away with the wind!!!

Tom Tancredo has been in the congressional front line for quite awhile, and we gotta love and thank him for it.

However, illegal immigration has been the subject of debate for well over twenty years by Los Angeles news commentator George Putnam. Putnam still writes a column in Newsmax.com.   Putnam raised red flags, railed, hollered, argued on talk radio. He did everything humanly possible to warn the American people. His pleas dropped on deaf ears...until now.

Uncontrolled illegal immigration is as bad a threat to the United States, as al Qaeda terrorists! How all of our elected politicians in Washington don't recognize this fact, goes beyond comprehension? A nation without borders, is not a sovereign nation.

Putnam's latest immigration column

3,545 posted on 04/08/2006 4:48:03 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: STARWISE; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All

ON THE NET...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Jose+Padilla%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

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Thank you Starwise.
This is interesting.

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOU_PADILLA_TERROR_CHARGES_BIOS_FLOL-?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

"A look at Jose Padilla's co-defendants"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MIAMI (AP) -- Details contained in court documents about the four others charged along with Jose Padilla with being part of a North American terror support cell."


3,546 posted on 04/08/2006 5:03:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Miami Vice; copguy; BurbankKarl; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611715/posts

"Crews Discover Pipe Bombs At Car Crash Site"
WTAE - TV Pittsburgh ^ | 04/08/06 | na
Posted on 04/08/2006 4:53:25 PM PDT by prisoner6

"Crews Discover Pipe Bombs At Car Crash Site"


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Some emergency officials made a dangerous discovery when they were looking at the damage to a 1991 Cadillac on Route 40 at about 3 a.m. Saturday, WTAE Channel 4 Action News reported.

The car had reportedly been in a single-car accident.

Fire officials found a pipe bomb on the ground outside the car, according Lt. Bernard Petrovsky, with the Pennsylvania State Police.

One eyewitness to the accident told police that a passenger in the vehicle ran into the woods with some things in his hands.

After a quick search of the area, police found three more pipe bombs.

"So we have a total of four pipe bombs we've recovered from the scene of this accident," Petrovsky said.

As the bomb squad was called in, the driver of the crashed car, Derrick P. McKulka, 23, was arrested.

"He's going to be charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction, DUI, reckless endangering and risking a catastrophe," Petrovsky said."


3,547 posted on 04/08/2006 5:13:38 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: tmp02; Godzilla; backhoe; piasa; All

UPDATE...

http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/04/venezuela-industry-new-blows-for-oil.html

Saturday, April 08, 2006
"Venezuela industry: New blows for oil firms"
FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Foreign oil companies operating in Venezuela have been hit with new contracts, new tax bills and in two cases, a takeover of oilfields by the nationalist government of President Hugo Chávez."


3,548 posted on 04/08/2006 5:16:58 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; All

ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20004_Religion_of_AK-47s

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060408/481/jrl11104081327


3,549 posted on 04/08/2006 5:22:56 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Smartass; potlatch

The issue won't blow away and, right now, support for securing the border and opposition to amnesty are both building.

I grew up with George Putnam as the local newsman on television here in Los Angeles. He is to be commended for leading and keeping up the fight.

I took a peek at the link you posted. Putnam's commentary is crystal clear. I also went from there to an L.A. Times article about GWB's "comfort level" with Mexicans.

What is interesting is that the article was printed just a few days ago AND also a few days ago, Jeb Bush made HIS pro-Mexican, anti-American comments to the L.A. Times. So, I have to say they are deliberately speaking through this L.A. media outlet directly to Mexicans.

The Bush brothers do not speak as sympathetically to patriotic Americans... not by a long shot.


3,550 posted on 04/08/2006 6:27:40 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Is this a nation, or a halfway house for illegals ... ?)
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To: Smartass

Added to Daily Summary! Thanks!


3,551 posted on 04/08/2006 6:39:28 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: STARWISE

Thank you Starwise! Did you know as a child I romped in the neighborhood he came from?


3,552 posted on 04/08/2006 6:40:29 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: SlowBoat407

Done and I'm glad you are!


3,553 posted on 04/08/2006 6:41:06 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: La Enchiladita

I will add Putnam to our thread!


3,554 posted on 04/08/2006 6:42:17 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: JustPiper

Miami ?? ... I lived there too for a time .. then moved to Homestead and Naranja, and then came Andrew.


3,555 posted on 04/08/2006 6:48:12 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)
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To: JustPiper

Hi, JP. I didn't ping you on my response to SA cuz I thought you're so darned busy and we're kinda hijackin' this thread. :)

However, the topics are much more related than many people would like to think.

I hope to be part of the mobilization soon: April 17, May 5&6 and beyond that...


3,556 posted on 04/08/2006 6:50:12 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Is this a nation, or a halfway house for illegals ... ?)
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To: JustPiper
FR thread: Revealed: The Secret No 10 Plan To Tackle Bird Flu Food Shortages
3,557 posted on 04/08/2006 6:52:11 PM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Calling illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest)
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To: STARWISE

He came from a hood in Chicago called Humboldt Park, went to same HS and was here often


3,558 posted on 04/08/2006 6:52:58 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: La Enchiladita
we're kinda hijackin' this thread. :)

My exact thought ;) Tis why my daughter and I have been working all day on our thread, therefore no more of my illegal ramblings here ~Smile

3,559 posted on 04/08/2006 6:54:09 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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To: exhaustedmomma

What's ironic is when they say you eat like a bird...well, they don't know my little cockatiel!


3,560 posted on 04/08/2006 6:55:21 PM PDT by JustPiper (We will NOT be a COMPROMISE !!!)
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