Threat Matrix: August 2008

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[Cindy]

RECAP and UPDATED:

BALTIMORE SUN.com: "VARIETY OF RESEARCH CARRIED OUT AT FORT DETRICK Center focuses on biodefense; Ivins worked on vaccine" by David Wood (August 2, 2008)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): Washington - "SCIENTIST SUSPECTED IN 2001 ANTHRAX ATTACKS DEAD IN APPARENT SUICIDE" (August 1, 2008)

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US DOJ.gov - Press Release: "Statement of Brian Roehrkasse, Director of Public Affairs, on Department's Settlement with Steven Hatfill in Hatfill v. Ashcroft" (June 27, 2008)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "HATFILL TO GET $5.8M IN ANTHRAX LAWSUIT" by Matt Apuzzo (Updated June 27, 2008, 10:41pm)

FBI.gov: "AMERITHRAX INVESTIGATION"

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[Cindy]

RECAP - Link Set:

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "EMERSON EXPOSES RADICAL TIES OF STATE DEPARTMENT OUTREACH PARTNERS" (July 31, 2008)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org: "TESTIMONY OF STEVEN EMERSON BEFORE THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF PRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM, NONPROLIFERATION, AND TRADE Steven Emerson, Executive Director, Investigative Project on Terrorism, www.investigativeproject.org" (July 31, 2008) (pdf)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "ISNA AND MPAC SEEK TO SILENCE STEVEN EMERSON AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING" by Jeffrey Imm (July 30, 2008)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org: "CONGRESSMAN SHERMAN TURNS THE TABLES ON MPAC Group Tried to Block Emerson Testimony" (July 30, 2008)

[Cindy]

www.youtube.com/user/baghdaadSniper
“This account is suspended.”

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www.youtube.com/user/baghdadSniper
“This account is suspended.”

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

bttt

[Cindy]

Thank you Unrepentant VN Vet.

[Godzilla]

placemark

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for the ping.

[Cindy]

We’ve looked at training children for jihad on prior threads, but here are some more details.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022052.php

August 2, 2008
“Afghanistan: 5 year olds being recruited for jihad and ‘martyrdom’”
(MIRROR.co.uk)

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/2008/08/02/child-soldiers-trained-by-the-taliban-to-kill-british-soldiers-115875-20681500/

“Child soldiers trained by the Taliban to kill British soldiers”
By Nick Owens 2/08/2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The bewildered children, barely old enough to go to school, are forced to stand in circles stretching and exercising to try to give them strength to carry heavy ammunition.

They live in tents and say prayers before sleeping with weapons lying next to them. When their training is complete the children are filmed walking over the Pakistan-Afghanistan border right into a warzone.

The film shows one boy nodding nervously after he is asked: Are you prepared to die for Allah?

If he is killed, he will not be the first. In one section, the face of an 11-year-old soldier, named as Abdullah al-Rahim, is circled on the screen as he marches away.

Seconds later, images of his body wrapped in a white sheet appear, making him a martyr for al-Qaeda leaders determined to recruit thousands more children.”

[Cindy]

...and in another part of the world...

RECAP:

YNET NEWS.com: "GAZA SUMMER CAMPS TEACH KIDS TO FIRE ROCKETS" (Published July 31, 2008, 01:45)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" as well as efforts to understand and address the grievances that often lie at the heart of insurgencies."

In other words, as the Liberals would have us do, " we got to UNDERSTAND THEM "
We understand them alright, they want us wiped of the face of the Earth or convert to their religion.

( Gates' long-standing emphasis on unconventional threats at the Pentagon has led to tensions with staunch backers of multibillion-dollar weapons systems such as the F-22 fighter, which the secretary has said is designed to meet conventional threats the United States no longer faces.)

" Threats the United States no longer faces. "
Gates ? that is BS !!

Russia is currently developing a plane that might be able to match the capability of the F-22 and you want to say we don't need the F-22 ? .. that's crazy.


More and more Robert Gates is looking more like Gen. George Brinton McClellan.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/syria
http://www.memri.org/syria.html
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T91&pid=109&sid=13&preview=

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055650/posts

Syrian President’s Top Aide Assassinated
ArutzSheva ^ | August 3, 2008 | Hana Levi Julian
Posted on August 3, 2008 12:31:31 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy

(IsraelNN.com) Syrian President Bashar Assad’s top aide and adviser, General Mohammed Suleiman, was assassinated on Friday, according to Arab news sources.

Suleiman, who was also Syria’s liaison officer to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon, was shot and killed by an unidentified sniper in the Syrian port city of Tartous.

Syrian authorities tried unsuccessfully to prevent publication of the news. The country’s Albawaba newspaper, which reported the incident, speculated that Israel might have been behind the killing.

Both Albawaba and the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper raised the issue of last February’s assassination of Hizbullah second-in-command Imad Mughniyeh, who died in a car bombing in Damascus. Syria blamed Israel for the killing, but Jerusalem denied any involvement.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/china
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/etim
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9179/chinas_islamists.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1995304/posts?page=510#510
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/searchb10.asp?search=etim&searchtype=all&B1=Submit

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http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1762.html

Olympics 2008 Fact Sheet (China)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs

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http://www.defense-update.com/analysis/analysis_020808_olympics.html

“Who Threatens the 2008 Beijing Olympics?”
by David Eshel
(August 2, 2008)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/philippines
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/milf

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08070170.htm

Thursday, July 31, 2008
“Philippines: Government to sign deal with MILF”

By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service

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Also On The Internet:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010474/posts

“Muslim rebels expel Christians”
TVNZ ^ | May 2, 2008 | Staff
Posted on May 2, 2008 4:41:30 PM PDT by forkinsocket

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010773/posts

“Mindanao, Islamic rebels drive more than a thousand Christians from their land”
asia news ^ | 05/03/2008 | Santosh Digal
Posted on May 3, 2008 11:16:06 AM PDT by george76

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21598&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080803-04
Aug. 3, 2008

ISF detain five suspects in separate operations across central Iraq

Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BALAD, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces detained two suspected Special Groups criminal leaders and another in separate operations in central Iraq Aug. 1.

Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained two suspected Special Groups criminal leaders in Qurna, southeast of Baghdad. The two suspects allegedly lead one of the most effective Special Groups cells in Qurna. One is said to be responsible for improvised explosive device emplacement, assassination and indirect fire attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces in Qurna. Reports indicate he recently returned from Iran and is seeking to reestablish his power base in Qurna. The other is said to have been directly involved in at least two lethal attacks on Iraqi Security Forces.

In a separate operation, Hillah Special Weapons and Tactics team detained a suspected Special Groups criminal in Kalsu, approximately 65 kilometers south of Baghdad, and two others on a Ministry of Interior warrant. The suspects are allegedly members of an IED emplacement cell.

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21597&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080803-03
Aug. 3, 2008

Hillah SWAT detains suspected AQI member in Diyala
Multi-National Corps – Iraq

BALAD, Iraq – The Hillah Special Weapons and Tactics team detained a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq member Aug.1 in the Diyala province, 87 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.

The suspect is allegedly part of a cell responsible for ethnic violence, kidnapping and improvised explosive device attacks. Reports indicate AQI, which uses Diyala province as a safe haven, needs to maintain a foothold in the area to remain a prominent force in the Diyala River Valley.

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21596&Itemid=128

Press Release A080803a-269
August 3, 2008

Al-Qaeda in Iraq loses operatives, support

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces detained 15 suspected terrorists during operations Saturday and Sunday targeting al-Qaeda operatives in central and northern Iraq.

In Baghdad, Coalition forces captured a wanted man who is reportedly responsible for establishing a foreign terrorist facilitation hub in the city. Two additional suspects were detained.

In Bayji, about 160 kilometers south of Mosul, Coalition forces captured a man believed to manage finances and logistics for AQI cells in the Hamrin Mountains region. They detained an additional suspected terrorist during the operation.

Coalition forces searched Bir Qassim, a village near the Syrian border in northwest Iraq that intelligence reports indicate is the location of AQI foreign terrorist facilitation operations. During the sweep targeting AQI facilitators and terrorist hideouts, Coalition forces detained 10 suspected terrorists.

“Coalition forces continue to pressure al-Qaeda in Iraq, disrupting their networks and blocking the entry of foreign fighters,” said Navy Lt. David Russell, MNF-I spokesman.

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[Cindy]

ADDING 1 link (audio) to post no. 20:

http://www.thestar.com/fpLarge/video/471636

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

See y’all tomorrow morning.

Gonna go reload another bunch of rounds while I wait for the afternoon fire alerts.

[BurbankKarl]

oops, I am eating my brunch! bad Badger!

[Cindy]

A blessed Sunday to you Unrepentant VN Vet.

I hope it is a day with no fire alerts.