Threat Matrix: September 2007

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The Birth of al Qaedastan

In the year 2016, the world may find itself gloomily marking September 6 as the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan. The Emirate received de facto recognition when the Taliban used the name on the ceasefire agreement they signed with Pakistan on that day in 2006. If things go terribly wrong in the coming decade, they could come to rule a mountainous fragment of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Emirate would be a nightmare state: Osama bin Laden as sultan, Ayman al Zawahiri as vizier, and Mullah Omar the spiritual leader. An economy built on smuggling and heroin. Primary export: terrorism. Welcome to ‘Al Qaedastan’.

Analysts say the rise of a terrorist state straddling the rugged area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is now viable. The reason is a number of troubling trends. One, the revival of a Taliban firmly in the control of Al Qaeda. Two, the seeming inability of either Kabul or Islamabad to defeat the new threat militarily. Three, and the most striking, the Taliban’s systematic supplanting of the traditional tribal leadership in the area. Full story...

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[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896330/posts

“The Daily Terrorist Roundup for 9/14/07”
9/14/07

Posted on 09/14/2007 3:03:30 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter

[Cindy]

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

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Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3449252,00.html

Gunmen kill state police chief in northern Mexico

Published: 09.14.07, 08:26 / Israel News

Unidentified gunmen shot to death the public safety director of the northern state of San Luis Potosi, continuing the trend of organized crime-style executions in states where such violence had previously been rare.

Jaime Flores Escamilla was gunned down Thursday while driving a van in which his wife and son were also traveling in the state capital, which bears the same name. Neither of them was hurt in the attack, local media reported. State officials were not immediately available to confirm that report. (AP)

[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Fri Sep 14 2007 03:21:23 GMT-0700.

Worldwide Caution

April 10, 2007

[Cindy]

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

[drymans wife]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296748,00.html

Cops Kill Gunman Suspected of Shooting 4 Florida Police Officers, Killing 1

Friday, September 14, 2007

Miami-Dade Police Department

Shawn Sherwin Labeet

CUTLER BAY, Fla. — A gunman opened fire on four Miami-Dade County police officers during a traffic stop Thursday, killing one and injuring the other three. Police killed the suspect hours later, authorities said.

[Godzilla]

placemark

[drymans wife]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296770,00.html

Russian Scientist May Have Tried to Smuggle Out Biological Weapons Material

Friday, September 14, 2007

MOSCOW — Security agents are investigating a Russian scientist for allegedly trying to smuggle out of Russia materials that could be used in building a biological or bacteriological weapon, the scientist and his co-workers said Friday.

Oleg Mediannikov is the latest in a growing number of academics and scientists who have been targeted by Russia’s main security agency, the Federal Security Service, for allegedly misusing classified information, revealing state secrets or, in some cases, espionage.

Mediannikov, a biologist at Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, told The Associated Press that he was traveling to France in December to bring vials of a non-dangerous typhoid vaccine to colleagues when he was stopped by customs officials at Sheremyetevo Airport.

[GorillaMa]

Mexican Intelligence: Hugo Chavez equips and funds the Pemex pipeline bombers

http://www.correoperu.com.pe/paginas_nota.php?nota_id=55255&seccion_nota=9

good translation here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/13/mexican-intelligence-hugo-chavez-equips-and-funds-the-pemex-pipeline-bombers/?print=1

[celtic-cat]

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189378.php

September 14, 2007
Another al Qaeda Vid? The Ghazwa on Manhattan and Washington

[drymans wife]

That was absolutely nothing like the other 2.
Hmm?

[Mata6858]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/14/reformed.jihadist/index.html

From Nic Robertson
CNN

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Ahmad al Shayea is the rarest of truck bombers — he survived his suicide mission in Iraq even though the blast from his bomb was strong enough to kill 12 bystanders.

Ahmad al Shayea survived his truck bomb attack, but not without scarring to his face and hands.

1 of 3 Al Shayea, who was disfigured during the attack, claims al Qaeda tricked him into becoming a bomber by asking him to deliver a tanker truck, which they had rigged with a bomb.

“They told me to take it to an address in Baghdad. As soon as I got there the truck exploded,” said the native of Saudi Arabia. He survived by jumping out of the truck.

Al Shayea renounced terrorism and returned to Saudi Arabia, where he works to convince would-be insurgents and terrorists to give up their deadly ways.

“I think God took me out of death to show others what can happen,” he told CNN. “If you join al Qaeda, they will use you, and maybe you will die.” Hear why al Shayea turned his back on al Qaeda »

Al Qaeda propaganda videos glorify so-called foreign fighters in Iraq like al Shayea. It has recruited them from countries all across the Middle East.

Some Iraqi officials say more Saudis than any other nationality have responded to al Qaeda’s call. Saudi officials and the U.S. military deny that claim. But Saudi sources do admit that more than 800 young Saudis have gone to Iraq to fight. That’s far more than the Saudi government has acknowledged until now.

Since 9/11, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, the oil rich kingdom has been accused of spreading radicalism. It’s a claim that stings this longtime U.S. ally, which also finds itself in al Qaeda’s cross hairs.

So now, Saudi officials say they are escalating their fight against homegrown al Qaeda militants. Former insurgents and terrorists like al Shayea are their chief weapon in the battle for the hearts and minds of young Saudis.

“The reality behind it is the religious misunderstanding of Islam, so we have to correct the ideas,” said Dr. Mansour al Turki, a psychologist.

Al Shayea and hundreds of other Saudis who were aligned with terrorists are being re-educated in prisons and rehabilitation centers. They are taught that al Qaeda’s emphasis on a violent approach to Islam is wrong.

The program offers early release from prison. It’s available only to captured jihadis who demonstrate a willingness to change over the course of repeated interviews with specialists. Al Shayea said he was questioned by security forces, then clerics, then psychologists.

“They looked at my mood, listened to me. They were nice,” he adds.

Al Turki said the review is thorough.

“We make sure he understands dialogue. We make sure he is not just lying. So it is not an easy job I can assure you,” he said.

The Saudi government says more than 1,000 former al Qaeda recruits have been through the program. Seven hundred of them are now free. Critics, mainly from the country’s security forces, fear mistakes could allow some al Qaeda fighters back on the street.

A native of Saudi Arabia, al Shayea was just 19 when he went to Iraq to fight for al Qaeda against American forces. He was angered, he said, by scenes of U.S. troops killings his fellow Muslims.

“I went to Iraq with Saudi men because jihad is a duty for every Muslim,” he said. “I went to Iraq to fight the jihad and kill Americans.”

He was hoping to take up arms against Americans, but said he never envisioned himself as a suicide bomber. After his truck bomb exploded, al Shayea was captured and paraded on Iraqi TV. Burned and bandaged, he was blamed for the death of 12 bystanders. He confessed.

Iraqi security officials deported him to Saudi Arabia. Today, with the backing of the Saudi government, al Shayea gets his anti-al Qaeda message out on fliers that include pictures of him before and after his bombing. He has become the anti-Al Qaeda example.

“I learned my lesson, and others will learn as well,” he said. E-mail to a friend

[Cindy]

That’s interesting.

Thank you dryman’s wife.

[Cindy]

Thank you GorillaMa.

Hugo, the world traveler, diplomat and little satan...what a guy.

[Cindy]

Yep and thank you celtic-cat.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jihadpropaganda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=assahab
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=internet

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[Cindy]

www.youtube.com/user/EGmujahid01

salafnews.wordpress.com/

[Cindy]

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr

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http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=83561

“INSIDE TURKEY”
Saturday, September 15, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Top appeals court overturns ‘minority report’ acquittals A report on minority rights in Turkey prepared by a human rights advisory body that is linked to the Prime Ministry is threatening the state with its suggestion of broadening the definition of ‘’minority,’’ said the Supreme Court of Appeals, overturning the acquittals of the two academics who head the body. 02

Ankara feels terror panic againAfter Tuesday’s foiled bomb attack, the Turkish capital once again witnessed a terror panic caused by a bomb-loaded vehicle, said news reports on Friday. 02

DIPLOMACY US urges Turkey to take key policy steps

The United States, while praising Turkey’s newly-elected civilian leaders as friends of America, has called on Ankara to take a series of critical political steps, including refraining from energy deals with Iran, opening its border with Armenia, lifting obstacles before freedom of speech and reopening a Greek Orthodox religious school. 03”

[Cindy]

http://www.themonitor.com/news/border_5063___article.html/texas_mccraw.html

“South African immigrant linked to terror group”
Jeremy Roebuck
September 13, 2007 - 10:22AM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “McALLEN — A South African woman arrested in McAllen and deported three years ago had ties to a Pakistani terrorist group that smuggled foreign nationals across the border, the state’s top security official said.

In a speech Wednesday before the North Texas Crime Commission in Dallas, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw held up Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed as one of several terrorism suspects caught entering the United States through Mexico.

McCraw’s remarks come three years after several federal agencies vehemently denied Ahmed’s purported connections to terrorism. “

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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/09/terrorists_have_been_arrested.php

“’Terrorists have been arrested on the border, security chief says’”
By Michael Cutler

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Here’s the lead from an article that deals with the nexus between our nation’s failure to secure our borders and the imminent danger that this lunacy poses to our nation’s security, six years after the attacks of September 11, 2001: “Texas’ top homeland security official said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years.” The official described one person caught in 2004 as being tied to a Pakistan insurgent group and whose specialty was smuggling Afghanis and other illegal aliens across the border.

I want you to take a moment to let the significance of all of this sink in.”

(September 14, 2007)

[Cindy]

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

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http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/345.htm

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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/09/muslim_brotherhood_front_groups.php

“Report: Muslim Brotherhood U.S. Front Groups a Threat”
By Jeffrey Imm
(September 14, 2007)

[Cindy]

More Details...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/zikim_e0907.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
September 11 , 2007

“A rocket fired at the northern Negev on the night of September 10 hit the IDF base at Zikim, wounding 50 soldiers.”