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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - June 2006

Posted on 06/01/2006 7:04:43 PM PDT by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Al-Qaeda's Long March to War
(Full Story)

In recent weeks, media reports from both Iraq and Afghanistan have suggested the appearance of a slow evolution of the Islamist insurgents' tactics in the direction of the battlefield deployment of larger mujahideen units that attack "harder" facilities.

These attacks are not replacing small-unit attacks, ambushes, kidnappings, assassinations and suicide bombings in either country, but rather seem to be initial and tentative forays toward another stage of fighting.

Karzai Condemns U.S. Troops Using Gunfire

Taliban Kill, Kidnap Dozens of Afghan Police

US Sends More Troops into Iraq

Where does Karzai go from here?

Kabul Comes Undone

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To: MamaDearest; All

Am curious . . .WHAT WOULD YOU GUESS

What percentage of all FREEPERS now realize that the puppet masters really exist and REALLY ARE HERDING, SCARING, MACHIAVELLIANLY MANIPULATING the world's citizens into a tyrannical global government?


641 posted on 06/09/2006 7:02:01 PM PDT by Quix (PRAY AND WORK WHILE THERE'S DAY! Many very dark nights are looming. Thankfully, God is still God!)
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To: Godzilla

BTTT


642 posted on 06/09/2006 7:14:28 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Smartass; Cedar; MamaDearest; WestCoastGal; all4one; Oorang; JustPiper; ExSoldier; HipShot; ...

George W. Bush Approval Map by State (over time) - image

[Changing Map - from Election 2004 to May 2006]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646633/posts


643 posted on 06/09/2006 7:17:43 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT
Thank you LucyT.
I'm not a bit surprised, but am disappointed!.

 

644 posted on 06/09/2006 7:45:28 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Smartass

Yes, you did send those to me and today I got them from my brother too! Just did a lot of cropping on them.


645 posted on 06/09/2006 7:52:18 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: all4one

"This has to be in every shot or you're going to be cut off," Atkeison tells the crews.
"Everybody clear? And I'm going to be checking."...

Squeezing political milk from a son's coffin!


646 posted on 06/09/2006 7:54:08 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: potlatch
They look better put into a slide show format.

:o)

 

647 posted on 06/09/2006 8:02:42 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Smartass

Ya, they look OK. I had to take quite a few into my graphics program and lighten and brighten them. Also delete some words!

One in there refused to look any better even after working on it, but at least you can read it well.


648 posted on 06/09/2006 8:05:32 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: LucyT

Thanks Lucy, that is the neatest map!! I'm not sure I agree with the Texas one. In all this time I have never been called on a poll - who do they poll!!


649 posted on 06/09/2006 8:09:36 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch
They are good and funny though.

 

650 posted on 06/09/2006 8:09:59 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Smartass

LOL, the last one is really funny!


651 posted on 06/09/2006 8:12:37 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Rushmore Rocks; Godzilla; callmejoe
Some interesting possibilities arise if indeed al Qaida bigs wanted him out.

"The brother mujahed (holy warrior) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the emir of the Al Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers," said the voice attributed to bin Laden, just over a month before the Iraqi elections.

"The brothers in the group there must listen to him and obey him for what is good," said the message, whose authenticity could not be confirmed.

Hailing the "daring" operations carried out by Zarqawi's group against United States forces and the "apostate" interim government of Iyad Allawi, the voice said: "We in the Al Qaeda organisation strongly welcome their joining hands with us". -Link-


al Qaida had some big hopes for him... he didn't quite live up to what they had dreamed of in Iraq. With such strong words in the 'invite' to the larger organization, the only way they might be able to regain some control is through letting him be 'offed.'

I don't see how they (bin Laden, et al) really lose much, either way. The old Tawhid network has basically fallen under the umbrella of al Qaida... Now they can place someone that will conform to their ways (and ideas about PR in the Muslim world) better. Zawahri's tape today was interesting... lots to take in.
652 posted on 06/09/2006 8:25:55 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: Smartass

"I'm shocked, shocked..."

I wish the build-a-bigger-burger bunch would do something really constructive for change but we've got to get them away from the artic before they melt all the ice with their inflated egos.


653 posted on 06/09/2006 8:33:34 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: nwctwx; Gucho; Jet Jaguar; FairOpinion; All

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603333/posts?page=18#18

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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200607/online-jihad

THE ATLANTIC.com: "JIHAD 2.0 With the loss of training camps in Afghanistan, terrorists have turned to the Internet to find and train recruits.  The story of one pioneer of this effort-the enigmatic 'Irhabi 007'-shows how" by Nadya Labi (July/August 2006)


654 posted on 06/09/2006 9:45:24 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: nwctwx; All

FYI for archival purposes I'll post this here.

NOTE: The following text is a quote:

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/06/011762print.html

June 09, 2006

Captured Zarqawi Aide Spilled the Beans

How they got Zarqawi. From The Blotter of ABC News, with thanks to Mackie:

An Iraqi customs agent secretly working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell spilled the beans on the group after he was arrested, Jordanian officials tell ABC News.
Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly was arrested by Jordanian intelligence forces last spring.

Officials say Karbouly confessed to his role in the terror cell and provided crucial information on the names of Zarqawi commanders and locations of their safe houses.

Karbouly also admitted to his role in the kidnappings of two Moroccan embassy employees, four Iraqi National Guards and an Iraqi finance ministry official.

In a videotaped confession, Karbouly said he acted on direct orders from Zarqawi.

Officials say he will not be eligible for any of the $25 million reward money.

Posted at June 9, 2006 03:07 PM


655 posted on 06/09/2006 9:52:52 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=4575

"GROUP PROFILE:

Mujahideen Shura Council
Mothertongue Name:
Majlis Shura Mujahideen fi al-Iraq

Aliases: Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Iraq

Base of Operation: Iraq"


SNIPPET: "Founding Philosophy: The Mujahideen Shura Council is an umbrella organization made up of Jihadist groups in Iraq, including al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers."


656 posted on 06/09/2006 9:56:43 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: DoctorZIn; Gucho; Jeff Head; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All

IRAN - UPDATE:

http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/06/irans-ahmadinejad-to-meet-chinese.html

Friday, June 09, 2006
"Iran’s Ahmadinejad to meet Chinese leader – report"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Jun. 09 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be travelling to China next week where he will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao, a government-run Persian-language website reported on Friday."


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http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/06/iran-cleric-rejects-nuclear-incentives.html

Friday, June 09, 2006
Iran cleric rejects nuclear incentives
ISN SECURITY WATCH (Friday, 9 June 2006: 15.14 CET) – A top Iranian cleric has rejected an international incentives package designed to coax Iran to return to negotiations over its nuclear program on Friday, saying the offer would never stop Iran from reprocessing uranium for nuclear fuel.

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran: "Now they want to deprive us of many advantages. The package they have brought is a package that is good for themselves and is not appropriate for the Iranian people."

"In short, we must have enrichment to the level of 3.5 to five percent and they have no choice but to accept it," he added, in comments carried by Reuters.

Jannati heads the powerful Guardian Council, Iran's pre-eminent constitutional watchdog.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has given authority over nuclear negotiations to the Supreme National Security Council, headed by Ali Larijani who is regarded as a more moderate figure.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced earlier this year that his country had mastered the full nuclear fuel cycle. It is believed that Iran now has the ability to reprocess uranium to low levels of enrichment unsuitable for the production of nuclear weapons.

However the Islamic republic has announced plans for bringing 54,000 centrifuges online in coming years allowing for large-scale production of high-grade uranium. Work on 3,000 centrifuges is set to begin by the end of the year, Iranian officials have said.

It was revealed on Friday that Iran had begun enriching a second batch of uranium on the same day that the incentives package was delivered, underlining the Islamic republic's resolve to protect its right to reprocessing activities.

The EU and US fear that Iran has a hidden nuclear weapons program, a charge the Iranian government strenuously denies.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council offered the incentives to Iran through EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday. The offer was made to secure the export of uranium reprocessing activities and a return to Iranian compliance with the country's nuclear commitments.

The incentives package is thought to include the offer of light water reactors; a nuclear fuel storage facility; access to Boeing and Airbus aircraft parts; and an allowance that Iran be allowed to resume nuclear enrichment in the future after assuring the UN and International Atomic Energy Agency that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Iranian officials said they would study the incentives offer before making an official response.

Diplomatic officials have said that an Iranian answer is expected before the upcoming G8 summit convenes in St. Petersburg on 15 July.
posted by Marko at 6/09/2006 02:42:00 PM


657 posted on 06/09/2006 10:01:47 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Quix
What percentage of all FREEPERS now realize that the puppet masters really exist and REALLY ARE HERDING, SCARING, MACHIAVELLIANLY MANIPULATING the world's citizens into a tyrannical global government?

People are resistant to things they don't understand or want to understand (the Bilderberg bottom line is global power). This movement explains a lot of political action or inaction (depending on the politician). We don't need a "think tank" to know how dangerous this group's goals are to our nation.

Neither our country or us (the citizens therein) are an experiment, nor should we ever be perceived as such. It will be up to us to make sure any plans detrimental to our society and its survival are quashed expeditiously. We aren't ants in a maze, we're not ultra-rich or members of secret societies, but we are intelligent human beings who love our country and will protect it (including national sovereignty) at all cost.

658 posted on 06/09/2006 11:19:57 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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Adding 2 links to post no. 611:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646604/posts?page=8#8

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646604/posts


"Man with links to 9/11 pilot deported (Slice of Life DownUnder)"
NZPA ^ | 10 June 2006 | Staff reporter

Posted on 06/09/2006 5:42:36 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter

Man with links to 9/11 pilot deported

10 June 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A man the Government says had a direct link with a September 11 terrorist has been deported from New Zealand because he was a threat to national security.

Immigration Minister David Cunliffe confirmed today Yemeni national, Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, was deported because his continued presence in New Zealand posed a threat.

"He was directly associated with persons responsible for the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001," Mr Cunliffe said in a statement.

He was deported under the rarely used Section 72 of the Immigration Act 1987, which required the approval of the Governor General.

Mr Cunliffe said immigration officials and police arrested the man in Palmerston North 13 days ago on May 29 and he was deported to Saudi Arabia the next day. He had arrived in New Zealand in February.

"The individual's identity became apparent only after he arrived in New Zealand. He used a variation of his name in applying for entry to New Zealand. Once his real identity became known, he was identified as having close connections to people involved with the September 11 2001 attacks in the United States, and had been named in the 9/11 Commission Report.

"Initially, he lived in Auckland where he undertook some English language training, the stated purpose of his visit. He then shifted to Palmerston North where he was building up his flying hours flying with an instructor. He'd previously trained as a pilot in the United States."

Mr Cunliffe refused to give further details citing security reasons."


659 posted on 06/09/2006 11:51:13 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: piasa; backhoe; All

ON THE NET...


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646604/posts?page=8#8

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646604/posts

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Thanks to piasa for this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646604/posts?page=10#10

To: Cindy
This article refers to Hani Hanjour and his associates too- you may want to include it:

(snip)...It's part of the routine for air travel since 9/11. Fifteen minutes after KLM Flight 685 took off from Amsterdam for Mexico City on April 8, Mexican authorities forwarded the names of all the passengers to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The reason: the flight was scheduled to pass through U.S. airspace after making a long swing over Canada. The information was then passed on to the U.S. National Targeting Center, based at a secret address in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. That's when the routine became extraordinary: by the time the Boeing 747 had finished its three-hour crossing of the Atlantic, Homeland Security screeners were on high alert. The names of two Saudi passengers aboard the KLM flight had begun producing "hits" on the screening center's lists of 70,000 suspect foreigners.
One of these hits—from an FBI database of terror suspects known as TIPOFF—smacked investigators right between the eyes. The two Saudis, the database reported, were brothers and pilots who had attended the same Arizona flight school as 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour. Soon the multiplicity of U.S. terror databases started pumping out similar hits.
Fearing that Flight 685 might be a 9/11-style plot in the making, U.S. authorities refused the plane overflight rights, and Canada rejected a request to land. Much to the chagrin of its 278 passengers, the KLM jet made an exhausting odyssey back to Amsterdam.

Was it a plot? The KLM 685 incident—which was not widely publicized by the U.S. government—is an illustration of just how hard it has become to tell ordinary guys from bad guys in the war on terror. Washington's concern about the KLM flight seems legitimate: in the past year, U.S. counterterrorism officials have cited intelligence indicating that Al Qaeda might be planning to use foreign-based airliners to launch attacks against the U.S. homeland. One U.S. counterterrorism official told NEWSWEEK that the two passengers were "bad dudes." And a European intelligence official said the two have "extensive but secondary" links to Al Qaeda.

At least one of the two Saudis had previously been deported from the United States, according to Homeland Security sources. A former neighbor in Arizona, who asked to remain anonymous, recalled that federal officials in full body armor rushed the Saudi's empty house several weeks after 9/11 and later arrested him. During FBI questioning, a law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK, the Saudi acknowledged knowing Hani Hanjour. Upon further questioning, he also conceded that he had known another of the 9/11 hijackers.


"Mystery Flight," (More info about 2 pass. of KLM flight on the no fly list)by Mark Hosenball and Michael Hirsh, With Michael Isikoff and John Barry in Washington, Friso Endt at Schiphol airport (Amsterdam), Andrew Murr in Phoenix, Joseph Contreras in Miami, Christopher Dickey in Paris and Ruth Tenenbaum in New York , Newsweek, Apr. 25, 2005 issue


10 posted on 06/09/2006 11:50:21 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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660 posted on 06/09/2006 11:55:33 PM PDT by Cindy
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