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Posted on 07/01/2007 2:42:24 PM PDT by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows.

He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said.

But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program, Chertoff said U.S. authorities are concerned about the threat of terrorism, especially in the coming months. "We have had a number of al-Qaida leaders quite publicly talking about how they want to carry out their threats against the West. So, given that and given the history that we have had over past summers, with attacks in Britain, I think we were clearly focused on this as a possibility," he said. Full story...


More United Kingdom Attacks Possible
More US Air Marshals on Flights to Europe
Officials: Car Bomb Plot Bears al Qaida's Trademark


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: All
Speaking of white and/or light skinned jihadis AND speaking of "youths"; let's recap here:

FBI.gov - Most Wanted Terrorists - Poster: "ADAM YAHIYE GADAHN" (View Poster Here.)

US DOJ.gov - Press Release: Washington - "U.S. CITIZEN INDICTED ON TREASON, MATERIAL SUPPORT CHARGES FOR PROVIDING AID AND COMFORT TO AL QAEDA" (October 11, 2006) (Read More...)

COPY OF THE INDICTMENT: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. ADAM GADAHN, a.k.a. Azzam al-Ameriki, Defendant" (Read More...)

"www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1711848/posts?page=762#762" (Re Gadahn, Read More...)



JAMESTOWN.org - TERRORISM MONITOR: "AL-QAEDA'S CAUCASIAN FOOT SOLDIERS" by Hayder Mili (November 2, 2006) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "WHITES BEING LURED INTO ISLAMIC TERROR" (July 3, 2006) (Read More...)

Google Search Term: "WHITE AL-QAEDA" (Read More...)

Google Search Term: "WHITE AL-QAIDA" (Read More...)



JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "U.S. MUSLIMS WARN OF THREAT WITHIN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "This is the sort of thing we need to see on a much larger scale -- if and when it is sincere.") (September 1, 2006) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1105: "EDITOR OF U.S. ARABIC NEWSPAPER: RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IS SPREADING AMONG MUSLIM YOUTH IN THE U.S." (March 3, 2006) (Read More...)

41 posted on 07/01/2007 5:29:39 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: backhoe; All

Backhoe, Mr. Spencer received an email today allegedly from a “christian.”
CHRISTians don’t speak like this note, so here’s a link:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017194.php


42 posted on 07/01/2007 5:37:18 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: appalachian_dweller

I don’t rely on them for anything anymore, they seem to have a pre 9-11 attitude on current events in Scotland and the UK from what I’ve heard on the news. If something happens we’re on our own and if it’s big those camps loom. Think FEMA. Although they are giving all those useless Katrina trailers to the Indians in So Dakota.


43 posted on 07/01/2007 5:42:13 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ( The JUNIOR NATION is VERY proud of our driver. You drive we'll follow! ~~FREE THE # 8~~)
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To: Cindy

Thanks! Becoming more important by the day :-{)


44 posted on 07/01/2007 5:43:42 PM PDT by oneolcop (Take off the gloves!)
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To: noamnasty
Well I’m surprised London, Paris and Scotland haven’t rethought their open borders. No one ever learns.

Of course our government is bent on destroying us with our open borders as you well know.

45 posted on 07/01/2007 5:44:44 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ( The JUNIOR NATION is VERY proud of our driver. You drive we'll follow! ~~FREE THE # 8~~)
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To: oneolcop

You’re very welcome oneolcop and glad you’re reading/keeping up with the threats.


46 posted on 07/01/2007 5:46:23 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All; WestCoastGal; Cindy; callmejoe; Godzilla; Velveeta; STARWISE; JellyJam; ExSoldier; ...
ping to WCG's post:

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
47 posted on 07/01/2007 5:47:20 PM PDT by nwctwx
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To: nwctwx

Thank you for the ping nw.

If it’s really a “secret” then of course, I don’t see it.
I’m not privy to “secret” reports.

The lame-stream-media of course runs our Homeland
Security and does determine what is “secret” and what
isn’t. (/sarcasm off)


48 posted on 07/01/2007 5:52:17 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: WestCoastGal; nwctwx; All

Adding the FR thread link that goes with your post, WestCoastGal.

#

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1859362/posts


49 posted on 07/01/2007 6:01:03 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

At least we had the scoop here first this time. :)


50 posted on 07/01/2007 6:03:19 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ( The JUNIOR NATION is VERY proud of our driver. You drive we'll follow! ~~FREE THE # 8~~)
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To: WestCoastGal

Of course this increased activity has to come when I have an extensive amount of travel on the calendar. Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Philly, New York, LA, San Francisco and Miami all in the next 4 weeks. It’s always interesting to people watch at the airports. Let’s see if they actually tighten security.


51 posted on 07/01/2007 6:14:28 PM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer (Civilization is mortally wounded and something truly evil is being born to take its place(S. Coonts))
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To: All

One more thing while I’m thinking about it:

Be aware of wind direction and have a compass with you. In case of a WMD attack, knowing which way the wind is blowing will determine the best direction of escape.


52 posted on 07/01/2007 6:14:29 PM PDT by appalachian_dweller (The most dangerous man is the one with nothing to lose.)
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To: FARS; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...

Thanks FARS.


53 posted on 07/01/2007 6:21:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 28, 2007.)
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To: WestCoastGal

Smiling back at you...

Thanks for the post, WestCoastGal.


54 posted on 07/01/2007 6:57:32 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; piasa; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=almuhajiroun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=muhajiroun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=muhaajiroun

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=magnificent19

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-search.php?page=1&maxPerPage=25&searchFrom=2002-06-01&searchTo=2007-07-01&searchWhat=entries&searchWith=lgf&searchString=Muhajiroun

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26093_Reformed_Al_Muhajiroun_Member-_Muslims_Must_Renounce_Terror&only

Sunday, July 01, 2007
“Reformed Al Muhajiroun Member: ‘Muslims Must Renounce Terror’”

#

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2115832,00.html

“My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror”

COMMENT SNIPPET: “As the bombers return to Britain, Hassan Butt, who was once a member of radical group Al-Muhajiroun, raising funds for extremists and calling for attacks on British citizens, explains why he was wrong

Sunday July 1, 2007
The Observer

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the ‘Blair’s bombs’ line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.”


55 posted on 07/01/2007 7:13:05 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All; Cindy; callmejoe; Velveeta; Godzilla
Warnings received about Blair handover

· Authorities aware of threat to Britain since April
· No information on specific target, say security sources


Richard Norton-Taylor and Clare Dyer
Monday July 2, 2007

Guardian

Warnings were issued three months ago about the threat of a terrorist campaign to mark the end of Tony Blair's premiership, security sources have revealed.

As the threat level was raised to "critical" on Saturday, it emerged that two agencies - the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure, which reports to MI5, and the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, which reports to chief police officers - warned in April about the possibility of a renewed campaign.

Nightclub owners were recently told they could be the targets of car bombs in a precautionary exercise which saw them issued with pamphlets and given other guidance.

But sources yesterday denied claims by the US network ABC that intelligence officials were warned a fortnight ago of an impending attack on "airport infrastructure or aircraft" in Glasgow.

A senior security source said of the latest assessment: "The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre [Jtac] assessed that a group of individuals, it is not known how many, clearly had the capability and the intent to carry out attacks on the UK. Therefore there was a strong likelihood of further attacks."

Jtac also warned that al-Qaida's "Kurdish network in Iran [was] planning what we believe may be a large-scale attack against a western target".

It added: "A member of this network is reportedly involved in an operation which he believes requires al-Qaida core authorisation. We assess that this operation is most likely to be a large-scale mass casualty attack".

Jtac's threat levels are based on current intelligence, recent events and what is known of terrorist intentions and capabilities. The term "critical" denotes that an attack is "expected imminently".

It is the result of an overall intelligence assessment, not specific intelligence.

Police have recently stepped up searches of vehicles, including tankers, entering London. Whitehall officials, referring to communications intercepts, said yesterday there had been "quite loud chatter for months" of plans to attack Britain. But they said there was nothing specific and such reports and claims came in every day.

The threat level was last assessed as critical in August last year after the discovery of the alleged plot to blow up passenger airliners over the Atlantic. It was reduce to severe shortly afterwards.

Threat level warnings by Jtac - a group including officers from MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and the police's National Counter Terrorism Command - are based on intelligence- led assessments and involve difficult judgments.

Just how difficult became clear when the level was reduced a month before the July 7 London suicide bombings in 2005. Some security and intelligence officials express concern about the threat level system, which was made public last August after a number of leaks of Jtac reports.

Though the levels were given new names and their definitions simplified, they are open to misinterpretation, some officials believe.

Against the backdrop of the latest alert, five law lords will be asked this week to decide whether the control order regime for suspected terrorists violates the European convention on human rights.

Control orders, with restrictions which include 12-hour or 14-hour curfews, and bans on internet access and unauthorised visitors, were introduced in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 after the law lords ruled indefinite detention without charge for foreign terror suspects in Belmarsh prison breached their human rights.

In a five-day hearing starting on Thursday, lawyers for nine men placed on control orders will argue that the system breaches their right to liberty under article 5 of the European convention, and their right to a fair trial under article 6.

The law lords will be asked to rule whether the system under which judges confirm control orders after looking at intelligence material concealed from the suspect is incompatible with the right to a fair trial.

At a glance:

The police and the security services use the following terms to describe threat levels:

Low Attack is unlikely

Moderate Attack is possible but unlikely

Substantial Attack is strong possibility

Severe Attack is highly likely

Critical Attack expected imminently

Protective security "response" levels are also graded:

Normal Routine protective security

Heightened Additional and sustainable security measures

Exceptional Maximum security protection

56 posted on 07/01/2007 7:13:50 PM PDT by nwctwx
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To: appalachian_dweller
Second car bomb ‘aimed at rescuers’

Ahhhh the tried and true Albanian Doublecross.

58 posted on 07/01/2007 7:17:34 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: nwctwx

” . . .A senior security source said of the latest assessment: “The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre [Jtac] assessed that a group of individuals, it is not known how many, clearly had the capability and the intent to carry out attacks on the UK. Therefore there was a strong likelihood of further attacks.” Jtac also warned that al-Qaida’s “Kurdish network in Iran [was] planning what we believe may be a large-scale attack against a western target”. It added: “A member of this network is reportedly involved in an operation which he believes requires al-Qaida core authorisation. We assess that this operation is most likely to be a large-scale mass casualty attack”. Jtac’s threat levels are based on current intelligence, recent events and what is known of terrorist intentions and capabilities. The term “critical” denotes that an attack is “expected imminently”. It is the result of an overall intelligence assessment, not specific intelligence. . . “

Coincidentally, the 5 IRGC Qods officers detained in January were captured in Iraqi Kurdistan. It was likely in retaliation two weeks later that Iran abducted and killed the 5 American soldiers in Karbala. Just as on 9/11, Iran is facilitating a major al Qaeda operation, but this time from within Iraq instead of Afghanistan. The April article that this article is repeating went on to say the chatter indicated a “Hiroshima” type of operation.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687360.ece


59 posted on 07/01/2007 7:26:24 PM PDT by callmejoe
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To: WestCoastGal

Yep, they’re moving a whole bunch of the those FEMA trailers up here for the “Rez”. Our tax dollars have to “winterize” them before they can be torn apart, stripped, and demolished by their future inhabitants.

Sarcasm intended.


60 posted on 07/01/2007 8:21:10 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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