Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - August 2006

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Syria Tells Troops to Be Ready for Battle
(Full Story)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has placed his military on full alert, citing "regional challenges", and vowed to continue supporting the "Palestinian and Lebanese resistance more than ever".

In a speech to mark the Syrian Army national day, Mr Assad said the volatile situation across the Middle East required "vigilance, preparation and readiness" and ordered all units of the armed forces to be on alert.

The comments were interpreted by Israel as a morale booster to the Syrian armed forces and not a call to battle. Israeli intelligence chiefs have assessed that Syria is not in the mood for an open war and is instead content to resupply Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon.

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[Cindy]

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS SEEN AS IRAN DIVERSION" by Rowan Scarborough (August 7, 2006)

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06080026.htm

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
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Sunday, August 6, 2006

Christian Stone Mason Beaten For Drinking Water From Public Facility

By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A Christian stone mason received critical injuries, including dislocation of his shoulder after he was seen drinking water from a public facility, by a Muslim man on June 6 (Tuesday) just outside the eastern city of Lahore, the Pakistan Christian Post (PCP) has reported.

Nasir Ashraf, the Christian mason was working at the construction site of a school. The trouble for him began while he was returning to the site. Confronting him with anger the Muslim man asked him as to why he drank water from the public facility by using a glass that was placed at the water tank.

“Why did you drink water from this glass since you are a Christian?” the PCP quoted the Muslim man as asking Nasir.

“The man accused the mason of polluting the glass and proceeded to destroy it. The Muslim man then summoned a crowd by shouting, “This Christian polluted our glass,” and encouraged them to beat him up”, the PCP report said.

“The crowd began beating Nasir, eventually pushing him off a ledge. The fall dislocated his shoulder, broke his collarbone in two places and knocked him unconscious,” it said.

The writer is a freelance journalist based in Pakistan

** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

[Cindy]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/6/140158.shtml?s=ic

By the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...

Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006 1:58 p.m. EDT
"FBI: Hezbollah Can Strike in U.S."


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A handful of money scams uncovered across the United States in recent years bearing Hezbollah's fingerprints have some experts worried that if orders were given to launch a terror attack against the U.S. the means are in place to do so.

The FBI has made Hezbollah a central target of its counterterrorism efforts, setting up a unit dedicated to tracking the group and assigning agents to develop sources in Lebanese and other Middle Eastern communities across the country, report National Security Correspondent Dan Ephron and Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the August 14 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 7).

Security officials worry that if Hezbollah does one day decide to strike, it can exploit an already-existing network in this country.

"You often see in these groups that people who deal in finances also have military backgrounds," Chris Hamilton, who was the FBI's unit chief for Palestinian investigations until last year, tells Newsweek. "The fact is, they have the ability [to attack] in the United States.""

[Cindy]

TODAY'S UPDATES AND RECAP:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1678903/posts?page=57#57


http://www.ynetnews.com
http://www.jpost.com
http://www.haaretz.com
http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/
http://www.foxnews.com

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=2006israelwar

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

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=syria
http://www.memri.org/syria.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=gaza

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hizballah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hizbullah

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

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

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679049/posts


"This Day In History | World War II August 7, 1942 U.S. forces invade Guadalcanal"
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=worldwarii ^

Posted on 08/07/2006 3:32:07 AM PDT by mainepatsfan

[Cindy]

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Breaking News






Reports: Arab leaders may hold summit on Lebanon in Saudi Arabia later this week


Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said Monday that Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut would discuss the possibility of holding an emergency summit on Lebanon later this week.

Local media outlets had quoted Saudi sources as saying Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal was expected to make the call for a summit during Monday's ministerial meeting in Beirut. Lebanon's As-Safir newspaper also said contacts were under way among Arab states to hold the summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, later this week. (AP)

(08.07.06, 13:15)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1679057/posts?page=3#3

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Chilling threat as Syria offer to join with Hezbollah
The Scotsman.Com ^ | Mon 7 Aug 2006 | MICHAEL THEODOULOU AND BEN LYNFIELD

Posted on 08/07/2006 4:08:41 AM PDT by Perdogg

"If Israel attacks Syria by any means, on the ground, in the air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately" Walid Muallem, Syrian foreign minister

SYRIA'S foreign minister yesterday offered to join militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel and said a regional war would be "most welcome" as more than 30 people in Israel and Lebanon were killed on one of the worst days since the conflict began.

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[Godzilla]

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[Smartass]

Hugo Chavez has joined the Animal Kingdom!

 

[freeperfromnj]

That is just too funny!

[freeperfromnj]

As you often say ..... Jihad, another day

Morocco breaks up cell planning holy war: agency

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2283196

[freeperfromnj]

Security issue returns US-bound airliner to London

.....An airline spokeswoman did not give details, but a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official said a male passenger on the flight had matched a name on a U.S. "no-fly" list.....

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2283293

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=364#364

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August 07, 2006

The U.S.-French Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon: Strengths and Weaknesses

Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 6, No. 6 - 7 August 2006

Institute for Contemporary Affairs
founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
with the Wechsler Family Foundation

"The U.S.-French Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon: Strengths and Weaknesses"
By Dore Gold

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=364#364


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France Calls to Postpone Security Council Session
Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews ^ | 8/7/6

Posted on 08/07/2006 12:30:55 PM PDT by SmithL

France a short time ago has requested to push off Tuesday’s scheduled UN Security Council session dealing with an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon.

Reportedly bowing to increasing pressure to amend the French ceasefire proposal, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy a short time ago announced the scheduled UN session will be placed on hold to permit officials to amend the ceasefire document.

[Cindy]

Morocco?
That's GREAT news.
Updates appreciated.
Thank you freeperfromnj for pointing to this article:
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2283196
"Morocco breaks up cell planning holy war: agency"
Rabat (Reuters)

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http://www.dose.ca/calgary/news/story.html?s_id=nXb0j98rRQco1sbrF65TvarF77S2sdM1avylQ2Fvk9U2XgpAEDbT%2bQ%3d%3d

Monday, August 07, 2006
RABAT (Reuters) -


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The authorities arrested 44 members of the previously unknown Jammaat Ansar El Mehdi (El Mehdi Support Group) and seized explosives, propaganda material and laboratory equipment, the agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying.

The group's leader "aimed to proclaim the jihad," or holy war, it said. It did not say where the arrests, the biggest such round-up this year, took place but added that the group planned to operate in the kingdom's northeast.

Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's financial capital.

The Moroccan government said earlier this year it had busted more than 50 terrorist cells with more than 2,000 members since the bombings, a traumatic event in a normally peaceful country that relies on tourism for much of its hard currency earnings."

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http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2006481&C=mideast
Posted 08/07/06 14:51
"Morocco Breaks Up Cell Planning Holy War: Agency"
By REUTERS, RABAT, Morocco


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The government blamed the Casablanca attacks on Islamists who had brainwashed bored, impressionable youngsters in the slums that surround the sprawling coastal city.

Of the latest arrests, MAP said: "The security services dismantled a terrorist network that planned to commit criminal acts on national territory."

The group’s head "managed to recruit radical Islamists with a view to training them to use explosives in the regions of Nador and Ouezzane, from where he aimed to proclaim the jihad, after buying firearms," MAP said.

The group aimed to fund the jihad by robbing banks and money transport convoys and with personal loans taken out by group members."

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http://www.tkb.org/Country.jsp?countryCd=MO

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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Morocco&btnG=Search+News

[Cindy]

Adding one link to post no. 375:

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

[Cindy]

Thanks freeperfromnj.
Updates appreciated if available.

[Cindy]

http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=7475

Updated: August 7th, 2006 12:23 PM PDT
Home > Airline and Airport Security News
"Britain's New Alert System Goes Public"
The Bismarck Tribune

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Britain faces a severe risk of another terrorist attack, the government said Tuesday as it launched the country's first public terror alert system.

The threat rating - based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security model - was reported on the Web sites of the Home Office and the domestic spy agency MI5."


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Britain had been at "severe general" level, equivalent to "severe" under the new system, since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the Cabinet Office reported."

[Cindy]

http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=7467
"Defending America's Ailiners from Anti-Aircraft Missiles"

Martin Sieff
UPI

Updated: August 7th, 2006 10:52 AM PDT

[Cindy]

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Kyrgyzstan: Prominent Imam Killed In Security Raid (Central Asian Jihad)
RFERL ^ | August 7, 2006 | Gulnoza Saidazimova

Posted on 08/07/2006 1:13:48 PM PDT by sergey1973

PRAGUE, August 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A prominent religious leader known for allowing Islamic radicals to pray alongside other worshippers at his mosque in southern Kyrgyzstan has been killed in a security raid.

Muhammadrafiq Kamalov -- also known as Rafiq Qori Kamoluddin -- had defended his practice of allowing suspected members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir to worship at his mosque the town of Kara-Suu. Muslims should pray for the "misguided" rather than turn them away, he said.

But authorities are describing Kamoluddin in death as a member of an Islamist terror group.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...