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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-One

Posted on 10/01/2005 8:27:27 AM PDT by nwctwx

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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!
Threat Matrix - Daily Terrorism Threat
Threat Matrix: U.S. Terrorism
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."
Threat Matrix HTML designed by: Ian Livingston


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gwot; islamists; jihad; normanbombers; nyc; subways; terror; threat; threatmatrix
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To: StillProud2BeFree

"sitting volleyball"?


4,921 posted on 11/01/2005 8:37:52 AM PST by bored at work (The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James)
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To: bored at work; Cindy; WestCoastGal; Velveeta; All

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4056875&nav=9qrx
SNIP:
Pico Rivera bridge on fire

PICO RIVERA, Calif. A roadway bridge over Rio Hondo is ablaze for an unknown reason.

Captain Mark Savage of the Los Angeles County Fire Department says the call came in at 7:48 this morning, reporting a fire under the bridge.

He notes that bridges have wood underneath.

Savage says the bridge may now be compromised and it may not be safe to drive over.

end snip

Well duh.... who would even want to drive over a flaming bridge in the first place!


4,922 posted on 11/01/2005 8:43:50 AM PST by KylaStarr
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To: Cindy
No, it was never found. It makes one wonder if it was reintroduces into the food supply somewhere, as in fairs, flea markets, or somewhere else.

I had this visual of a Lodi-type ice cream truck winding through the streets of Manhattan emitting whatever particles they desired.

Frightening.

4,923 posted on 11/01/2005 8:52:55 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Cindy

It sure does.


4,924 posted on 11/01/2005 8:53:27 AM PST by Velveeta
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TRAINS HALTED AT AMSTERDAM CENTRAL STATION

11/1/2005, 11:36 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Eastbound train traffic at Amsterdam's central station was halted Tuesday afternoon after a suspicious package was found on an international train heading toward Frankfurt, Germany, Amsterdam police said.

Spokesman Gerard Vrooland said the incident had been turned over to the national police, which have the only Dutch bomb squads.

The national NOS television reported that passengers had been evacuated from the train.

There was no immediate word on whether the package was dangerous.

Heightening public nervousness, the alert came on the eve of first anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic radical, which a court ruled was an act of terrorism.

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-15/113086344472641.xml&storylist=international


4,925 posted on 11/01/2005 8:56:34 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: nw_arizona_granny
>> Fat Iranian Cash Contracts for Terrorists to Hit <<

Iran needs to be taken out NOW. No occupation. No nation building or rebuilding of any kind.

I no longer trust GWB to protect us. If he really wanted to, every city in Iran would be pile of smoking ruins NOW.

These people are NEVER going to like or respect us. I want them to be AFRAID of us. Right now they are not. If we are to survive as a nation we need to put the fear of God back into them. We won't; therefore, we are doomed.

Very disturbing article Granny. Thanks for posting it.
4,926 posted on 11/01/2005 8:59:30 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Get Prepared. Stay Prepared. See my FR Homepage for a list of actions and supplies.)
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To: freeperfromnj

LOL!


4,927 posted on 11/01/2005 9:02:15 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Selene

>>>Why is he still breathing?

Well, because..he umm, er..ah...gosh, I don't know. ;-)


4,928 posted on 11/01/2005 9:03:56 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Thank you.
It's not often we get "the rest of the story".


4,929 posted on 11/01/2005 9:11:10 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: StillProud2BeFree

Pakistan's version of FEMA?

How young are the 'youth' being trained and does their training involve the proper use of suicide belts?


4,930 posted on 11/01/2005 9:23:07 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: StillProud2BeFree

I'll be the Iranian volleyball players are thrilled.
They won, yeah! They get to keep their fingers, hands and arms. :-)


4,931 posted on 11/01/2005 9:26:08 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: KylaStarr

FOFL.


4,932 posted on 11/01/2005 9:28:44 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: StillProud2BeFree

"and lifted the world"

I think that to lift the world, you would need to be both invincible and formidable.

Laughing, as I guess at the writers intent.


4,933 posted on 11/01/2005 10:03:28 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (The only way to eat safe food, is to grow it yourself and learn to cook it. Grow herbs for healing.)
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To: Velveeta

On the rest of the story, the 6 pages of it, kept me awake,
there is so much there that we have had bits and pieces of,
but not all.

I really want to read the second installment, if anyone can find it.

(re post 4867)


4,934 posted on 11/01/2005 10:13:40 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (The only way to eat safe food, is to grow it yourself and learn to cook it. Grow herbs for healing.)
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To: KylaStarr; Calpernia

It was less than a month ago that a bridge burned in New Jersey, as I recall it.

Calpernia, a burning bridge in California in post 4922....


4,935 posted on 11/01/2005 10:17:14 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (The only way to eat safe food, is to grow it yourself and learn to cook it. Grow herbs for healing.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

There is a lot of Iran reporting being done.

It is becoming a little twisted now.

You might want to go to the link and click on the top of the page where it has the name of the group, the group was active, a lot of it was by the anti's.

2911 I think was the post number.


4,936 posted on 11/01/2005 10:21:26 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (The only way to eat safe food, is to grow it yourself and learn to cook it. Grow herbs for healing.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

Now this is getting too close to ignore. Cheers!


4,937 posted on 11/01/2005 10:26:23 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways "Guero")
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To: All; appalachian_dweller

Iran's Final Solution Plan

by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
November 1, 2005
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3100

"Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon [i.e.,
Israel]. We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state
should be removed from the region."

No, those are not the words of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
speaking last week. Rather, that was Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic
of Iran's supreme leader, in December 2000.

In other words, Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of Israel was
nothing new but conforms to a well-established pattern of regime
rhetoric and ambition. "Death to Israel!" has been a rallying cry for the
past quarter-century. Mr. Ahmadinejad quoted Ayatollah Khomeini, its
founder, in his call on October 26 for genocidal war against Jews: "The
regime occupying Jerusalem must be eliminated from the pages of
history," Khomeini said decades ago. Mr. Ahmadinejad lauded this
hideous goal as "very wise."

In December 2001, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian
president and still powerful political figure, laid the groundwork for an
exchange of nuclear weapons with Israel: "If a day comes when the
world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession,
the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of
an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing
would just produce minor damages in the Muslim world."

In like spirit, a Shahab-3 ballistic missile (capable of reaching Israel)
paraded in Tehran last month bore the slogan "Israel Should Be Wiped
Off the Map."

The threats by Messrs. Khamenei and Rafsanjani prompted yawns but
Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement roused an uproar.

The U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, expressed "dismay," the U.N.
Security Council unanimously condemned it, and the European Union
condemned it "in the strongest terms." Prime Minister Martin of Candida
deemed it "beyond the pale," Prime Minister Blair of Britain expressed
"revulsion," and the French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy,
announced that "for France, the right for Israel to exist should not be
contested." Le Monde called the speech a "cause for serious alarm," Die
Welt dubbed it "verbal terrorism," and a London Sun headline
proclaimed Ahmadinejad the "most evil man in the world."

The governments of Turkey, Russia, and China, among others, expressly
condemned the statement. Maryam Rajavi of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran, a leading opposition group, demanded that the
European Union rid the region of the "hydra of terrorism and
fundamentalism" in Tehran. Even the Palestinian Authority's Saeb Erekat
spoke against Mr. Ahmadinejad: "Palestinians recognize the right of the
state of Israel to exist, and I reject his comments." The Cairene daily
Al-Ahram dismissed his statement as "fanatical" and spelling disaster for
Arabs.

Iranians were surprised and suspicious. Why, some asked, did the mere
reiteration of long-standing policy prompt an avalanche of outraged
foreign reactions?

In a constructive spirit, I offer them four reasons. First, Mr.
Ahmadinejad's virulent character gives the threats against Israel added
credibility. Second, he in subsequent days defiantly repeated and
elaborated on his threats. Third, he added an aggressive coda to the
usual formulation, warning Muslims who recognize Israel that they "will
burn in the fire of the Islamic umma [nation]."

This directly targets the Palestinians and several Arab states, but
especially neighboring Pakistan. Just a month before Mr. Ahmadinejad
spoke, the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, stated that "Israel
rightly desires security." He envisioned the opening of embassies in
Israel by Muslim countries like Pakistan as a "signal for peace." Mr.
Ahmadinejad perhaps indicated an intent to confront Pakistan over
relations with Israel.

Finally, Israelis estimate that the Iranians could, within six months, have
the means to build an atomic bomb. Mr. Ahmadinejad implicitly
confirmed this rapid timetable when he warned that after just "a short
period … the process of the elimination of the Zionist regime will be
smooth and simple." The imminence of a nuclear-armed Iran transforms
"Death to Israel" from an empty slogan into the potential premise for a
nuclear assault on the Jewish state, perhaps relying on Mr. Rafsanjani's
genocidal thinking.

Ironically, Mr. Ahmadinejad's candor has had positive effects, reminding
the world of his regime's unremitting bellicosity, its rank anti-Semitism,
and its dangerous arsenal. As Tony Blair noted, Mr. Ahmadinejad's
threats raise the question, "When are you going to do something about
this?" And Mr. Blair later warned Tehran with some menace against its
becoming a "threat to our world security." His alarm needs to translate
into action, and urgently so.

We are on notice. Will we act in time?

(in the newsletter sent to me, there are several hidden links to other sources, that do not show here..granny)


4,938 posted on 11/01/2005 10:34:07 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (The only way to eat safe food, is to grow it yourself and learn to cook it. Grow herbs for healing.)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

1 November 2005 - Amsterdam trains halted after suspicious package found on rails; belonged to 2 men in Islamic garb who hid in bathroom

I would definitely classify a package as suspicious if it were dumped on the railroad tracks by 2 guys in Islamic garb who immediately ran and hid in the bathroom.

Hang on a second. That means I would be profiling.

On second thought, if someone wearing full Islamic gard throws a package on the tracks and then runs and hides, I'd have to say he probably deserves to be profiled and locked up.

Anyway here's the article

Trains Halted at Amsterdam Central Station

Tuesday November 1, 2005 5:16 PM

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Eastbound train traffic at Amsterdam's central station was halted Tuesday afternoon after a suspicious package was found on an international train arriving from Frankfurt, Germany, Amsterdam police said.

Spokesman Gerard Vrooland said the incident had been turned over to the national police, which have the only Dutch bomb squads.

The national NOS television reported that the package belonged to two Dutch-speaking men in tradition Islamic dress who were arrested after initially hiding in one of the train's bathrooms.

A spokesman for the national police said he could not immediately confirm the NOS report.

There was no immediate word on whether the package was dangerous.

Heightening public nervousness, the alert came on the eve of first anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic radical, which a court ruled was an act of terrorism.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5384707,00.html


4,939 posted on 11/01/2005 10:48:34 AM PST by StillProud2BeFree (www.lauramansfield.com)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

from the #4867 article:

>>>In 1944, at least 16,000 mustard-filled 100-pound bombs were unloaded off the coast of Hawaii in deep water only five miles from shore.<<<

Sevaral of the mysterious scuba-diver incidents were in Hawaii. This could be what they were searching for...

You're right. Bits and pieces.

Unless I missed it, I couldn't find the next installment either.


4,940 posted on 11/01/2005 11:18:13 AM PST by Velveeta
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