Threat Matrix: December 2006

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[Cindy]

Off Topic, but fyi.

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http://www.americanpolicy.org/

"Plans ready to sneak massive Heritage Area land grab through Lame Duck Session Urgent Action Needed"

http://www.americanpolicy.org/sledgehammer/main.htm

November 31, 2006

[tmp02]

I hope this is not a report...

US-CERT: Al Qaeda Plotting Financial Attacks

Terrorist network Al Qaeda may be planning to launch online attacks against U.S. financial institutions, according to the U.S. Computer Security Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).

US-CERT, part of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), issued the situational awareness alert Thursday to financial institutions and said they could be targeted in denial-of-service and database attacks as soon as Friday.

Islamist Web sites have increasingly focused on issues related to IT security, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Washington-based independent think that that monitors Islamist Web sites and provides translated news and analysis.

In late November, an Islamist Website published the inaugural issue of Technical Mujahid, an online magazine that focuses on subjects such as database security, GPS and video editing, MEMRI said.

According to MEMRI, the magazine gives the following explanation of its purpose: "The Internet provides a golden opportunity ... for the mujahideen to break the siege placed upon them by the media of the Crusaders and their followers in the Muslim countries, and to use [the Internet] for [the sake of] jihad and the victory of the faith."

Terrorist cyberattacks have largely been the subject of academic discussion as opposed to being an issue that organizations are actively considering, said Ted Julian, vice president of marketing and strategy at Application Security, New York.

Regardless of whether this threat is genuine, organizations need to move database security to the top of their list of security priorities, Julian added. "Database security has long been overlooked. Five years ago, there weren't threats, but now it's quite clear that they've become an obvious target for attackers," he said.

Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, said the potential impact of denial-of-service attacks is significant because they're relatively simple to carry out with the assistance of large botnets, or legions of compromised PCs controlled by remote attackers.

"Denial-of-service attacks aren't easy to defend against. Buying more bandwidth and having a large pipe can mitigate the attacks, but if the pipe leading up to the device is saturated, there's little that can be done [to stop them]," Ullrich said.

Denial-of-service attacks have been used in the past for political aims. In a 1998 protest against the Mexican government, a Zapatista National Liberation Army insurgency group launched attacks against the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the
Pentagon and the Web site for Mexican President Ernest Zedillo that involved urging its supporters to download FloodNet, a denial-of-service attack tool.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061203/tc_cmp/196601093

[tmp02]

report = repost

[Cindy]

Thank you all4one for the update:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2486268,00.html
"British police arrive in Moscow to hunt for spy death clues"
Philippe Naughton
(December 4, 2006)

Page 2 - Article Snippet:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2486268_2,00.html

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Litvinenko's father, Walter, said in an interview published today that his son - who was born an Orthodox Christian but had close links to Islamist rebels in Chechnya - had requested to be buried according to Muslim tradition after converting to Islam on his deathbed.

"He said ’I want to be buried according to Muslim tradition’," Mr Litvinenko told Moscow's Kommersant daily.

"I said, ’Well son, as you wish. We already have one Muslim in our family - my daughter is married to a Muslim.""

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061203-104936-9654r.htm
"Poisoning probe not limited by borders"
By David Stringer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 4, 2006

LONDON

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http://strata-sphere.com/blog/

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/3050
"The New Litvinenko Timeline"
Posted by AJStrata on Monday, December 4th, 2006 at 2:33 pm.

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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=%22Polonium-210%22&scoring=d
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=%22Polonium-210%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Litvinenko
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=russia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=kgb


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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53208


FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
"Radioactive spy Islamic convert?
Fears raised Litvinenko helped al-Qaida with 'dirty bomb' plot"
Posted: December 3, 2006
7:47 p.m. Eastern

[Cindy]

Thank you tmp02 for the post.

Here's the US-CERT.GOV site, fyi:

US-CERT.GOV
http://www.us-cert.gov

[Cindy]

And here's the memri web site:

http://www.memri.org

and the jihad alerts:

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html

and memritv.org to watch those video clips:
http://www.memritv.org

[Cindy]

Well now, this is NOT nice.

http://www.jihadwatch.org

Note: the following text is a quote:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014290.php

December 04, 2006

Muslims move to disrupt Brigitte Gabriel's appearance in Detroit today
Brigitte Gabriel, the courageous and insightful author of Because They Hate, is scheduled to speak at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor this evening.

However, emails have gone out to Muslim students urging "all Muslim brothers and sisters to do what they need to do to disrupt this event." One email said: "Muslims, Arabs, and their friends and allies should give Gabriel a proper welcome."

Congressman Tom Tancredo was attacked, and his speech disrupted, last week at Michigan State University Law School. And of course, there was the notorious disruption of Jim Gilchrist's talk, and the subsequent closing-off of Walid Shoebat's, at Columbia recently. It is all part of the larger pattern of trying to silence and discredit through personal attacks anyone who dares speak up too strongly against the jihad and in defense of Western civilization.

Brigitte Gabriel has asked for special help tonight. If you are in the University of Michigan area, especially if you are in law enforcement, please attend Brigitte's talk and let these thugs know that they can't get away with their strongarm tactics in America.

Posted by Robert at December 4, 2006 08:09 AM

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=egypt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748206/posts


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061204/wl_mideast_afp/egyptfranceusbelgiumislamarrests_061204160840

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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000627.html

December 04, 2006

Egypt says arrested foreigners had terror links

Renditions in progress.

CAIRO (AFP):

Egypt has said a group of foreigners arrested recently included French, US, Belgian, Syrian and Tunisian nationals who have links to terror groups and were recruiting Islamists for "jihad" in Iraq.

The Egyptian interior ministry said in a statement Monday it had dismantled an underground extremist organisation with links to foreign terror organisations.

French diplomatic sources had confirmed the arrest nearly two weeks ago of French Islamists in Cairo and Alexandria. Nine of them are expected to be flown back to France this week.

Posted on 04 December 2006 @ 19:08 GMT

[Cindy]

http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000626.html

December 04, 2006

"And the winner is...

...terrorism."

[SlowBoat407]

We need video of Brigitte's speech from U of M to show the world how these thugs deal with: a) Women; b) Free Speech; c) Opposing Viewpoints.

[fanfan]

Looks innocent after all...

Hershey Plant Will Reopen in Monday

Josh Pringle Sunday, December 3, 2006 The Hershey plant in Smiths Falls is set to reopen on Monday.

The factory was shut down almost three weeks by a salmonella scare. Spokeswoman Stephanie Moritz says the plant is getting its soy lecithin from a new source. The soy lecithin was responsible for the contamination. The contamination prompted the recall of several popular chocolate bars and candies and idled 300 employees.

[Cindy]

I'll check YouTube tonight.

Right off hand on YouTube, I think these sites (by date added) might be the places to check:

http://www.youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=%22Brigitte%20Gabriel%22&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&search_category=0

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=terrorfreeoil1&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&search_category=0

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=terrorfreeoil&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&search_category=0

[Cindy]

Thank you for that update fanfan.
I do appreciate you following this all the way
through.

[Velveeta]

Great job.
So nice and easy on the eyes. :-)

[Velveeta]

Anyone have a Cliffs Notes version of the Russian spy story?
Wow, just wow.

[Velveeta]

Any word on how Brigitte Gabriel's speech went?

[Cindy]

I'll post recap links soon, right now, I'm finishing in Iran.

[Velveeta]

Thanks, Cindy.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.khomainy.com
http://www.khomainy.com/inside/
http://www.khomainy.com/inside/articles.php?ID=100
http://www.d-sunnah.net/files/u1/up/image16.jpg
http://www.d-sunnah.net/files/u1/up/image18.jpg

http://www.d-sunnah.net/forum/
http://www.d-sunnah.net/forum/upload/4.gif

[Cindy]

You're welcome Velveeta. Here's the links (not all connected/related that interested me in November/December).

DECEMBER:

Following the poison trail...(December 4, 2006)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "POISON IN RUSSIAN EX-LEADER'S ILLNESS" (December 1, 2006)

FREEREPUBLIC.com - Keyword: "RUSSIA"

NewsMax.com - Hot Topics: "RUSSIA"

NOVEMBER:

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "CANADA ARRESTS 'ILLEGAL' SPY FROM RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE" by Bill Gertz (November 25, 2006)

BBC NEWS: "CANADA DETAINEE 'IS RUSSIAN SPY'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...three Canadian passports..." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...three mobile phones.") (Last updated November 22, 2006, 07:15 GMT)

ICE.gov - News Release: Kansas City, MO. - "FOUR RUSSIAN NATIONALS, POLISH NATIONAL INDICTED FOR VISA FRAUD" (November 17, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): "RUSSIA STARTS DELIVERING ROCKETS TO IRAN" (November 24, 2006)

FOX NEWS.com: London - "BRITISH AIRWAYS TO CONTACT PASSENGERS AFTER TRACES OF RADIATION FOUND ON PLANES" (November 29, 2006)

BBC NEWS: "POLICE PROBE RUSSIAN SPY'S DEATH" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Home Office said anybody concerned should contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, who have been briefed about this issue.") (Last updated November 25, 2006, 06:10 GMT)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (REUTERS): "TOXIC 'BOMB' KILLED EX-SPY" by Peter Graff, Reuters News Agency (November 25, 2006)

INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com: "'The bastards got me, they won't get us all'" (November 23, 2006)