Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

[nwctwx]

Unrest in Pakistan Setback for Terror War
(Full Story)

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
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	Zawahri calls for strikes against West

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[JustPiper]

Oh, I'm serious =g=

[STARWISE]

Makes my blood boil ... 9 years!!!

From link at previous post

"The FBI probe began in 1993, the same year that al-Qaida first attempted to topple the World Trade Center towers with bombs in an underground garage. It was also the year radical Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman was arrested on charges of plotting to bomb New York landmarks and assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He was later convicted.

Thousands of telephone calls between those charged in the Miami case were monitored by the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies over more than a decade, but no one was arrested in the case until June 2002 and no terror-related charges were brought until October 2004.

One reason for that was a legal "wall" that existed for years at the FBI to separate intelligence and criminal investigations. Passage of the Patriot Act by Congress a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks removed that wall, allowing criminal investigators access to a vast trove of intelligence intercepts, wiretaps and informants."

[JustPiper]

Worth a Repeat Considering:

40 civilian airliners downed with missiles
U.S. officials see MANPADS as threat 2nd only to nukes

Posted: February 17, 2006

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48872

[JustPiper]

Passage of the Patriot Act by Congress

Fire Em!

[La Enchiladita]

Stranger things have happened...

[JustPiper]

Especially in my family

[Cindy]

Thank you JP.

[JustPiper]

Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites'

The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts.

President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=C3HY5I431EHHRQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/09/wbush09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/09/ixportaltop.html

[JustPiper]

Welcome! Cindy- do we have any special significance to Monday's date?

[Southack]

SA-18's aren't exactly capable of taking down large aircraft ordinarily (less than 5 pounds of explosives in the warhead).

SA-N-10 GROUSE
Igla-M

The SA-18 GROUSE (Igla 9K38) is an improved variant in the the SA-7 & SA-14 series of manportable SAMs. As with the earlier SA-14, the SA-18 uses of a similar thermal battery/gas bottle, and the SA-18 has the same 2 kilogram high-explosive warhead fitted with a contact and grazing fuse. But the missile of entirely new design with substantially improved range and speed,. The new seeker and aerodynamic improvements extend its effective range, and its higher speed enables it to be used against faster targets. The SA-18 has a maximum range of 5200 meters and a maximum altitude of 3500 meters. The 9M39 missile SA-18 employs an IR guidance system using proportional convergence logic. The new seeker offers better protection against electro-optical jammers; the probability of kill against an unprotected fighter is estimated at 30-48%, and the use of IRCM jammers only degrades this to 24-30%.

 

 

[Cindy]

Thanks you for that info Southhack.

OPINION:I suppose it's the fact that they tried it that is disturbing.

On the other hand, no surprise because everyday is
a jihad day for jihadis and their supporters.

[Cindy]

JP,

Most of my dates of interest (to me) are Christian and Jewish Holy days coming up.

This week is Palm Sunday (today), Jewish Passover and Good Friday.
Next Sunday is Resurrection Sunday (aka Easter) and Monday the 17th
is Easter Monday in Canada.

You might check "Today in History" or http://www.historychannel.com to check for other recorded events and/or holidays.

[exhaustedmomma]

It's here: Plane carrying House members fired on with Russian missile

[JustPiper]

Thanks alot for the info Cindy, thought I may have missed something

[Cindy]

No, you haven't missed anything (that I know of).

Michelle Malkin has this event listed for Monday, April 10th in her blog:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004946.htm

[exhaustedmomma]

any special significance to Monday's date?

For Catholics & protestants, it is the beginning of the "journey to Jerusalem". Jesus began his final entery into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. It's called the Holy week leading to Easter. Monday begins the hardest walk of Christ.

Tuesday is Islamic "Prophet's Birthday"... I have no idea what it's about.

[JustPiper]

Would you add it to the Immigration thread? I'd so appreciate it! I pinged you!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611802/posts

Also this just in:

Official: 'Undeclared Civil War' in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060409/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AuYEoWG_Wl1A6bDrri.X9Nys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[JustPiper]

"Prophet's Birthday"

Well their Tuesday is our Monday...

Anyone?

We were wondering why that day was picked for the Invasion

[JustPiper]

Very curious!

8 Men Found Slain on Canadian Farmland

SHEDDEN, Ontario - The bodies of eight men were found Saturday inside four vehicles abandoned in a remote wooded area on a farmer's property.

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Police were not disclosing many details about the deaths in rural Ontario, about 20 miles southwest of the city of London, except to say that four vehicles were involved, including a tow truck, and that the dead were all men.

"We're not in a position to reveal how they were murdered," Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Dave Rektor said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060409/ap_on_re_ca/canada_bodies_found;_ylt=Agix108BbJJCMbbf6nW6dG6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[exhaustedmomma]

Communique from the Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, Mexico.