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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

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The Threat Matrix

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the judge and get informed!

Home grown Islamists may hit US: FBI chief
Full Story

WASHINGTON -- The United States could be attacked by "home grown" Islamist terror groups, the FBI's chief has warned.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the London Financial Times newspaper in an interview published Thursday that the United States could face attacks from "home-grown terrorism" very similar to the July 7 bombings in London that killed 52 people and wounded another 700, Mueller said.

When asked if the United States could face such attacks from "home-grown groups", Mueller answered emphatically: "Absolutely, it could," the Financial Times said.

Related:
U.S. Officials Warn on Global Reach of al-Qaida
U.S. seeks more cooperation to fight terrorism
FDNY Chaplain Resigns After 9/11 Remarks
Nuclear option escalates jihad threat

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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[Cindy]

I understand.

"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Read More...)

[Myrddin]

That looks like a probe to see what kind of response can be attracted. Next time the transmitter will be bait for a strike on the parties searching for it.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the feedback Myrddin.
It did seem odd and out of place, for sure.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500959/posts

"Terror Suspect Confesses to Bush Plot(assassination plan)"
AP via Yahoo ^ | 10-12-2005 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

Posted on 10/11/2005 11:54:06 PM PDT by Susannah

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A U.S. citizen accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush said in a videotaped confession that he was motivated by hatred of American support for Israel.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali also said on the tape, played in court for the first time Tuesday, that a top al-Qaida operative in Saudi Arabia "made it clear I became one of them and that I could speak in the name of al-Qaida."

The 13-minute confession was videotaped in 2003 by authorities in Saudi Arabia, where Abu Ali attended college."

[Cindy]

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005166.html

11 October 2005
"'Top Ten' Salafyist forums"


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ON THE NET...

http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/11oct05-salafy_forums.html

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1245680/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39fe1a5b2592.htm


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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46786

"Pussyfooting around Islam"
Posted: October 12, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 Creators Syndicate Inc.

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.

Too many of us were blind in 2000 – unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al-Qaida's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.


The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision."

[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500972/posts


American consulate in Calcutta under Al Queda threat, security tightened
Indo Asian News Service ^

Posted on 10/12/2005 1:39:19 AM PDT by Dyaus Pitar

Security has been beefed up in and around the US Consulate and American Center after a terror alert from the US embassy in New Delhi. "We are taking all measures though we are always on high alert to protect the US consulate and American Center buildings besides other consulates," said Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee.

US consulate sources said they were cooperating with the police. "We are working in close cooperation with the Kolkata Police," a consulate spokesman said on Wednesday.

The US embassy on Tuesday warned American citizens of a "possible threat" of terror attacks, including suicide car bombings, against US interests in India, particularly Hyderabad, New Delhi and Mumbai.

(Excerpt) Read more at india-defence.com ...

[Cindy]

WTOP.com (AP): "INDONESIANS GATHER TO MARK BALI BOMBINGS" (October 12, 2005) (Read More...)

[Cindy]

OFF TOPIC..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500975/posts

"Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick to Tour Clinton Library"
Yahoo News ^ | 10/12/05

Posted on 10/12/2005 2:03:15 AM PDT by shining_city

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 12, 2005 -- Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey will visit the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum later this month to draw attention to the former president's treatment of women. They will be accompanied on the tour by attorney and author Candice E. Jackson.

Broaddrick and Willey have both accused Clinton of assaulting them. Broaddrick alleges that then-Governor Clinton raped her during a conference in Little Rock in 1978, and Willey says that Clinton sexually assaulted her when she worked in the White House in 1993. Both also charge that Clinton's inner circle -- including wife Hillary Rodham Clinton -- subsequently attempted to pressure and intimidate them into silence."

[Cindy]

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008509print.html

October 12, 2005

A crime against Islam

However benign the Muslim Brotherhood portrays itself today, their past and present influence still affects relations between the Islamic world and Israel. From the IQNA:

The head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait has warned Arab leaders that the normalization of relations with Israel constitutes a “crime against Islam.”
Speaking at a diplomatic reception for Arab and Muslim envoys on Saturday, 'Abdallah Al-Mutawwa', the leader of Social Islam Society, said, “Palestinians are killed, their houses demolished and land confiscated while we are rushing for normalization with the Zionist regime”

Al-Mutawwa’s comments were sparked by word that Bahrain has ended its boycott of Israeli goods and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s recent overtures towards the Jewish state.

Bahrain’s foreign minister told government ministers and legislators that the nation had no intention of normalizing relations with Israel.

Posted at October 12, 2005 03:09 AM

[Cindy]

http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005153.html

09 October 2005
"al-multaqa.net: forum of the Muslim Brotherhood: forum of the Muslim Brotherhood"

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ON THE NET...

http://www.al-multaqa.net
http://www.al-multaqa.net/vb/

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18003

"Muslim Brotherhood - of Terrorists"
By Steven Stalinsky
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 10, 2005

[Cindy]

CORRECTION

Sorry for the repetition in post no. 2451.

It should read:

"al-multaqa.net: forum of the Muslim Brotherhood"

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500978/posts


"Iran 'is training Basra killers'"
BBC News ^ | 12 OCT 05 | BBC News

Posted on 10/12/2005 2:20:38 AM PDT by fifthvirginia

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Specialist bomb-makers targeting British troops in southern Iraq are being trained by an elite arm of Iran's armed forces, defence sources say."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...

[Cindy]

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05100051.htm

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com


Monday, October 10, 2005

EDITING OUT THE FACTS:
George Clooney's Deceptive New Movie 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

By Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor of MOVIEGUIDE®

HOLLYWOOD, CA (ANS) -- There are few facts on display in GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, actor George Clooney's liberal version of CBS-TV news commentator's Edward R. Murrow's 1953 feud Joe McCarthy, the fiercely anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin.

The movie, opening Friday Oct. 7, presents the feud as an emotional battle of political rhetoric, with the loser, of course, being Sen. McCarthy. The real historical facts, however, are not so clear.

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK opens with Murrow giving a speech in the late 1950s warning about the confusion of TV news with entertainment.

Cut to 1953 at the height of Sen. McCarthy's war against Communist and left-wing security risks in the United States government. The newsmen working with Murrow on his SEE IT NOW news commentary show are itching to confront the Senator.

At the height of Sen. McCarthy's campaign warning about potential security risks in the U.S. Army, Murrow does a show about a young lieutenant mustered out of the Army because of the allegedly left-wing activities of two family members. Murrow does another program on McCarthy's own speeches, ending with a strong editorial commentary against Sen. McCarthy and offering to give the senator a whole half hour to respond. McCarthy's response includes an attack on Murrow's own left-leaning political background. The next week, Murrow responds by castigating Sen. McCarthy further and claiming that McCarthy got one of his facts wrong. In the wake of the controversy, Murrow's show loses its sponsor and CBS cancels it, claiming that the show's ratings are not good enough.

Filmed in black and white, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK is well-produced and well-acted. Of course, the movie does not tell viewers that McCarthy had nothing to do with kicking the young lieutenant out of the Army. Nor does the movie show that McCarthy's response to Murrow's attacks included a lot more details about protecting America from Communist infiltration than just questioning of Murrow's own leftist political motives.

Furthermore, in researching this controversy, MOVIEGUIDE® could find no support for Murrow's claim in the movie that McCarthy got one of his facts wrong, namely that, contrary to what McCarthy claimed, Murrow was never a member of a radical, pro-Communist, Marxist union group called the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In fact, Wikipedia on the Internet lists Murrow as a famous member of the group, but Wikipedia apparently is not always reliable. Be that as it may, MOVIEGUIDE® could not find a second source for the movie Murrow's assertion about Murrow and the IWW.

Thus, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK sticks mainly to the radical liberal, pro-Communist, revisionist version about the controversy surrounding Murrow's programs and Sen. McCarthy. As such, it offers mainly emotional, bombastic arguments and lots of style, but not much substance.

Despite some minor problems with her book, MOVIEGUIDE® recommends people read Ann Coulter's bestseller TREASON instead. It offers a more detailed, better researched and more well-rounded look at Sen. McCarthy's career. Despite Coulter's rhetorical flourishes, her book is a good, informative read. It's easier, however, to have a rational argument supported by many facts in a non-fiction book like TREASON than it is in a 90-minute movie like this.

The new visual medium of TV was not kind to McCarthy's campaign stump style of delivery, but the poor man was repeatedly vilified in the national liberal press, which instigated a Congressional investigation of McCarthy's probe of security risks in the military. Murrow was definitely a better communicator on TV than Sen. McCarthy, but Murrow's tactics, as shown by this movie and tapes of his actual work, are just as emotional and bombastic, if not more so.

I've always been puzzled by the national news media's fascination with these McCarthy programs by Murrow and his team. They show a tendency to editorialize rather than use hard facts and rational arguments, and an inclination to avoid honest debate. Ironically, the same journalists who extol Murrow seem to look down their noses at Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, whose news commentaries and editorials are far more journalistically and factually sound, though perhaps just as bombastic (in their own way), as Murrow's.

We now know, of course, that McCarthy was mostly right – the United States government and many left-leaning organizations in the United States were indeed infiltrated by Communist spies and pro-Communist stooges sponsored and/or supported in one way or another by the Soviet Union. For example, at least one person that Murrow and American liberals defended, Laurence Duggan, was indeed a Communist spy and later worked openly in leftist, Neo-Marxist circles. We also know that a black woman, Annie Lee Moss, working in the Code Room of the Pentagon, whose famous testimony is featured in George Clooney's movie, was indeed a Communist Party member in the mid 1940s. Also, Annie Lee Moss really did receive a DAILY WORKER at her actual address in Washington D.C., despite her demure, intentionally humorous protestations.

It should also be pointed out that McCarthy's usual strategy was not to openly identify someone as a Communist spy or a security risk, because he wanted the government authorities to investigate such matters themselves and decide, one way or another, by legal means, whether a particular person was indeed a Communist spy or a security risk. In fact, in the case of the Army lieutenant mustered out of the Army, the lieutenant's lawyer, working within the law and with the authorities, was able to acquit his client fairly quickly. It is good that the news media brought the man's case to light, but the fact remains, McCarthy had nothing personally to do with the man's case, one way or another! Thus, the liberal, elitist news media tried to use the man's case to conduct its own witch-hunt of Sen. McCarthy and his colleagues and supporters.
Finally, please note that Murrow's reports on McCarthy include little, if any, contrary arguments, facts or interviews from McCarthy or any of McCarthy's strongest supporters. Neither, regrettably, does George Clooney's revisionist movie. That hardly strikes MOVIEGUIDE® as honest filmmaking, much less as objective, fair-minded, fact-finding journalism.

** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500954/posts

"Canadian ambassador's residence attacked in Kabul"
Globe and Mail ^ | 12 October 2005 | Canadian Press and Associated Press

Posted on 10/11/2005 11:31:22 PM PDT by Fair Go

Canadian ambassador's residence attacked in KabulWednesday, October 12, 2005 Posted at 12:09 AM EDT

Canadian Press and Associated Press

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Kabul — A rocket exploded outside the Canadian ambassador's residence in the Afghan capital on Wednesday.

Two local men believed to be guards employed at the residence were injured in the blast just before dawn.

Defence Minister Bill Graham is currently in Afghanistan but "was not involved," Defence Department spokeswoman Kiersten Leus said from Ottawa. She would not say where Mr. Graham was when the rocket exploded.

The new Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, David Sproule, has been in the country for about a week, a Canadian embassy official in Kabul said. It was not known where Mr. Sproule was when the rocket exploded.

Some Canadians were in the building when the rocket, one of two to hit the city on Wednesday, exploded, said Dan McTeague, the parliamentary secretary for Canadians abroad.

"We had guards from a local company and two of them were injured," said the Canadian embassy official. "The rocket in fact struck very close to our embassy residence."

The area of the city is heavily protected because it is home to buildings housing offices and residences of foreign diplomats. It was not clear whether the Canadian building was damaged.

It also wasn't clear whether the Canadian building was the intended target of the rocket or whether it was fired in the general area because of the number of foreign offices and residences located there."

[nw_arizona_granny]

October 12, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News

Fighting in Afghanistan Kills 21
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHANISTAN?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

(UK) Clarke signals compromise on anti-terror Bill
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1822479,00.html

NYC Mayor Not Sure Subway Threats Were Hoax
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171953,00.html

Al-Qaida No. 2: Get set to fill Iraq void
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/11/alqaeda.letter/index.html
New details from Ayman al-Zawahri's letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

(Spanish) Airport Evacuated After ETA Warning
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1198676,00.html?f=rss

Alleged Al Qaeda Member: U.S. Support for Israel Motivated Me
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171954,00.html
A U.S. citizen accused of joining Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate
President Bush said in a videotaped confession that he was motivated by
hatred of American support for Israel

Attacks Kill More Than 40 in Iraq
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171848,00.html

US designates Moroccan group as foreign terrorists
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051011/pl_afp/usattacksmorocco_051011172015
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), group with reputed links to
last year's Madrid bombings, added to U.S. State Department list of
foreign terrorist organizations

US mission issues terror alert (India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1260268.cms
"Based on information received by the US government, terrorists may be
planning attacks on US interests in India in the near future."

Jordanian court sentences 3 gunmen to prison for alleged terror plot
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/634144.html

Europe rejects anti-terror laws
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11102005/344/europe-rejects-anti-terror-laws.html

98 Terror Suspects Captured; Operation River Gate Continues
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2005/20051011_2992.html
DOD press release

Al Qaeda exploits 'blue-eyed' Muslim converts
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05240622.htm

Kheibar Satellite TV planned by Iran's Hezbollah
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=36557&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

[nw_arizona_granny]

NYC Mayor Not Sure Subway Threats Were Hoax

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171953,00.html

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police officials questioned
reports on Tuesday that an alleged subway bomb plot that spread fear
through the city was a hoax.

"I don't know that it was confirmed that it was a hoax at all,"
Bloomberg said when asked about the reports by a cable news network and the
New York Post, which is owned by News Corp., the parent company of
FOXNews.com.

The reports, citing unnamed sources, claimed an informant in Iraq who
had told U.S. authorities about the possible threat by Al Qaeda later
admitted he made it up.

The informant's allegation prompted city and FBI officials last week to
issue a dire public warning and to flood the subway system with
thousands of extra police officers.

After four days of high alert, the officials announced Monday there was
no clear evidence an attack would be carried out and scaled back the
protection.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, appearing with Bloomberg at a
hospital groundbreaking in Harlem, said the informant could not have recanted
because U.S. authorities in Iraq had lost track of him.

"As far as we know right now, the source is not in custody," he said.

Bloomberg said the informant had passed a lie detector test at the time
he identified three suspects in Iraq, and alleged they were plotting to
use other operatives in New York to attack the subway with briefcases
and baby carriages packed with explosives. Officials have also said the
informant had provided reliable information in the past.

Kelly said he participated in an interagency conference call on
Thursday before issuing the public warning, and during the meeting he learned
that one of the alleged plotters had indicated it was "too late" to
prevent the attack.

"Certainly it was a factor," Kelly said. "We had to make a decision
quickly."

The mayor continued to insist the city didn't overreact.

"When somebody makes an allegation, and it looks like there is some
credibility -- and clearly there was credibility here -- you go and you
act on it," he said.

A call to the FBI's New York office was not immediately returned.

[bored at work]

USS Cole - Five Years Ago Today.

[backhoe]

The movie, opening Friday Oct. 7, presents the feud as an emotional battle of political rhetoric, with the loser, of course, being Sen. McCarthy. The real historical facts, however, are not so clear.

Tailgunner Joe--Patriot Whistleblower or Right-Wing Witch-hunter?