Threat Matrix: July 2007

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[drymans wife]

They have been here. For awhile.

[Palladin]

Diversion?

[drymans wife]

“The Haunting” July 23rd. Propaganda or something to look at?

[Oorang]

No storms does make it curious. Let us know if you hear any other explanation. Thanks Milford.

[drymans wife]

What do you think about “The Haunting” coming soon in a theater near you July 23rd. Propaganda or More?

[callmejoe]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/white-house-fbi.html

White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt ‘Summer of ‘07’ Threat
July 11, 2007 2:18 PM

Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & Chris Isham Report:

Senior law enforcement officials said today that the growing signs of a “Summer of ‘07” terror attack on the U.S. have led the FBI to dispatch dozens of agents to track down new leads across the country.

The threat has also led the White House to begin a weekly meeting of senior law enforcement and intelligence officials.

The group met last Friday and will meet tomorrow in the White House Situation Room at 1 p.m., according to the officials.

The White House has described the meeting as “not urgent” and “regular,” but law enforcement officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com the new weekly sessions, to be held every Thursday, were designed specifically to counter the summer threat.

“The Thursday meetings will be regular, but the first one is tomorrow,” said one official.

Dozens of FBI agents have been given a two-week deadline to run down more than 700 leads on an FBI “worry list,” developed in the wake of the failed attacks in London and Glasgow. The list includes some 100 specific leads in the New York area, senior law enforcement officials also told ABCNews.com.

Although the White House says there is no credible, imminent threat to the United States, the origin of the intelligence that a small group of al Qaeda terrorists was headed to the United States came from a credible intelligence source, who in the past has been reliable, officials said.

The source of the intelligence specified the small cell was traveling from Pakistan.

The new threat comes as FBI agents were already trying to sort through a mountain of e-mails, jihadist message board postings, telephone intercepts and human source intelligence, in an effort to pluck an intelligence gem from the background of “chatter” louder than has been heard in any recent summer season.

There is so much terrorist “noise” that some agents and officers have already dubbed June and July a “summer of chatter.”

Agents also have been running down financial leads and telephone records that could have linked several members of the recent failed London and Glasgow, Scotland incendiary bomb plots to North America.

[nwctwx]

Below are links to the Fox & Friends interview this morning with Brian Ross.

al Qaida in the U.S.: Is an Attack Imminent? (Part 1)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ofg4IwCSoIE

al Qaida in the U.S.: Is an Attack Imminent? (Part 2)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PKYy3dPAqE0

[drymans wife]

Thanks for those post, I wonder if after tomorrow mornings meetings they will raise the threat level.

We are back to complacency to pre 9/11.

They are concerned chatter has dropped off after chatter, chatter, chatter.

We look up these websites people, what do we think?

[Rushmore Rocks]

Fox News reporting new threat from the “Z” man. Re: Pakistan.

[Velveeta]

Bookmark. Running out the door.

FOX breaking news:

Yet another Zawahiri tape out calling for revenge attacks on Pakistan due to the Red Mosque incident.

[nwctwx]

From Laura Mansfield: http://www.lauramansfield.com

Yet another message from Zawahiri: Aggression Against Lal Masjid

A complete transcript in English follows of this afternoon's new message from Al Qaeda second-in-command Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri. The message is in a video showing a still image of Zawahiri while an audiotape of Zawahiri's voice plays in the background.

The video is 4 minutes, 24 seconds long, and was released with English subtitles and an English transcript.



The Aggression Against Lal Masjid

In the name of Allah, and all praise is due to Allah, and may peace and prayers be on the Messenger of Allah and on his family, companions and allies. Muslim brothers everywhere: peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. I talk to you today on the occasion of the criminal aggression carried out by Musharraf, his army and his security organs - the Crusaders' hunting dogs - against Lal Masjid in Islamabad, and on the occasion of the dirty, despicable crime committed by Pakistani military intelligence - at the orders of Musharraf - against Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi when it showed him on television in women's dress. This is a message of blinding clarity to the Muslims in Pakistan, the Pakistani Ulema, and indeed, the Ulema in the rest of the Islamic world, and this crime can only be washed away by repentance or blood. I call on the Ulema in Pakistan and tell them: this is what you are worth to Musharraf, and this is the treatment that awaits you in the prisons of Musharraf's hunting dogs, and this is what you are worth to the Crusaders. Musharraf and his hunting dogs have rubbed your honor in the dirt in the service of the Crusaders and the Jews, and if you don't retaliate for your honor, Musharraf won't spare any of you, and won't stop until he eradicates Islam from Pakistan. Lowly Musharraf, who has sold his honor and religion to the Crusaders and Jews, is arrogant with you in the extreme and regards you with the utmost contempt, and treats you like animals and dogs, and only is satisfied by portraying you in the lowliest and most despicable light.

This is an eloquent message [from Musharraf] to every scholar and every free and honorable person in Pakistan: that resisting Musharraf, confronting him and demanding that he adhere to Islam and refrain from worshiping the Crusaders and Jews will only get you the worst types of contempt, humiliation and degradation. [But in fact] this is your fate if you are silent and prefer the life of this world to the hereafter. Muslims of Pakistan: your salvation is only through Jihad. Rigged elections will not save you, politics will not save you, and bargaining, bootlicking, negotiations with the criminals and political maneuvers will not save you. Your salvation is only through Jihad, so you must now back the Mujahideen in Afghanistan with your persons, wealth, opinion and expertise, because the Jihad in Afghanistan is the door to salvation for Afghanistan, Pakistan and the rest of the region. Die honorably in the fields of Jihad, and don't live like women with moustaches and beards. Aren't there any honorable ones in Pakistan? Aren't there any jealous ones? Isn't there anyone who prefers the hereafter to the life of this world? "O you who believe! What is the matter with you, that, when you are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life as compared with the hereafter. Unless you go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment, and put others in your place. But Him you would not harm in the least, for Allah has power over all things. If you help him not, Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drove him out, the second of two; when they both were in the cave, when he said to his companion, 'Don't worry. Allah is with us.' Then Allah sent down His reassuring tranquility upon him and supported him with hosts you did not see, and made the word of those who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's word became the uppermost. Allah is Mighty, Wise. Go forth [whether equipped] lightly or heavily, and strive and struggle with your goods and your persons in the cause of Allah. That is best for you, if you but knew." (9:38-41)

Have I not conveyed? O Allah, be my witness. Have I not conveyed? O Allah, be my witness. Have I not conveyed? O Allah, be my witness. And our final prayer is that all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and prayers be on our master Muhammad and upon his family and companions.

[drymans wife]

He is coming out almost daily, with his messages.

[drymans wife]

If I think back to 9/11 and the assassination that led up to 9/11, leads me to think he would like the assassination of Musharif, which would lead to jihad here.

[Godzilla]

Yet another Zawahiri tape out calling for revenge attacks on Pakistan due to the Red Mosque incident.

Wowser, that is the quickest turn around from the Al-Z on an event in a while.

[Oorang]

Well that’s odd. Thanks for the info Flutters.

[nwctwx]

The assassination of Musharraf could also lead to al Qaida having a nuclear arsenal at their disposal.

[good old days]

Thank you, callmejoe.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for the ping.

[Oorang]

Thanks for the ping. I had missed B.Ross’s report this morning.

[good old days]

Thank you for the links. I had wondered if his appearance this morning would end up on YouTube.