BKNT-FLASH--DOCTOR JONES & THE MISSING ASHES OF BLASPHEMY

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FROM: Scott Malone, Editor 

 YIKES!

[ed.note: Posted below is what we here at the BlackNET Intelligence Channel are wont to call "RAW INTELLIGENCE," as once noted in the March 19th  2003 United Press International profile of the BlackNET on the day we accurately predicted the commencement of the SECOND US and allied invasion of IRAQ.

What will the intrepid Florida evangelist think up next? His threat to immolate the Holy Koran last September 11th almost set of a FURTHER WORLD CONFLAGRATION.

Hard to top that.

But then the good Dr. Jones actually did BURN the Holy Koran after a rather pedantic "show trial." That landed the Christian Fundamentalist in the TARGET SIGHTS of various AL QAEDA internet forums, as first and exclusively reported by the BlackNET Intelligence Channel. 

The "U/FOUO - Law Enforcement SENSITIVE" Al Qaeda HIT_LIST the Office of the SECDEF Bob Gates wanted removed from the BlackNET Intelligence Channel Website.

We first got to meet Dr. Jones via cell when BlackNET investigator Scott Malone was the FIRST to inform him that he was now on the Al QAEDA's lastest HIT-LIST, which was considered serious enough to warrant FOUR separate SECURITY ALERTS Worldwide.

These included the "Law Enforcement Sensitive" Bulletins from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Protective Intelligence Investigations branch of the DoD’s Coordinator for Threat Mitigation Office. 

"I heard from you first," Dr. Jones told us. "Then the FBI called." 

And that was TWO WEEKS after the SECURITY Bulletin had been issued.

And then LAST WEEK:

BKNT--US Pastor, on Al Qaeda ‘Hit List’ for Burning Koran, Alleged Victim of Hit-and-Run Assault

Controversial Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who achieved notoriety earlier this year when he enraged Muslims by burning a copy of the Koran following a mock trial by his church that found the Islamic holy book quilty of crimes against humanity, says he was the victim of a mysterious hit-and-run assault Saturday afternoon.

Jones received scores of death threats in response to his burning of the Koran, and more recently his name appeared on a so-called "hit list" of infidels who should be killed that was drawn up by members of an Al Qaeda-linked Internet chat room for jihadists.

So it would appear yet again that there truly is no rest for wicked, whatever their WAR COLORS.

But we here at the BlackNET Intelligence Channel believe that Members should be able to judge for themselves...]

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

August 3, 2011

MEDIA CONTACT: 

What should Dr. Terry Jones and Stand Up America Now! do with the charred remains of the Koran that was burned in March during International Judge the Koran Day?

1)  Auction off the remains to support the fight against radical Islam and Sharia in America?

2)  Present the remains to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as a rejection to the building of the Ground Zero mosque?

3)  Spread the ashes at Ground Zero?

4)  Present the burned remains to President Obama?

If you have ideas or suggestions, please send them in an e-mail to Stand Up America Now! at info@standupamericanow.org

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FROM: Scott Malone, Editor

[NO DISSEMINATION [Lifted]  [ed.note:  Dr. Terry Jones is famous the word over for not only inflammatory rhetoric, but for being just plain inflammatory, particularly when it comes to the holy Koran.

What is NOT publicly known is that he earned a prominent place the Al Qaeda CyBER-JIHAD ‘Hit-List,’ according to the U/FOUO Terror Alert Bulletins put out by the FBI, DHS, DoD and CFIX in early JUNE. He and his flock were first to learn of this serious Al Qaeda death threat from BlackNET Investigators. 
  
Only then did the FBI call him, more than TWO weeks post-THREAT Bulletin issuance. Our Member joint article for BlackNET Intelligence Channel and Homeland Security Today,

W. Scott Malone and Anthony L. Kimery: NEW DETAILS - Al Qaeda HIT LIST Names NAMED... http://blacknetintel.blogspot.com/2011/06/w-scott-malone-and-anthony-l-kimery-new.html

…specifically did NOT mention Dr. Jones by name. And the actual documents, though appropriately sanitized as regards Dr. Jones, were taken down from the BlackNET site in response to early morning phone calls from several Members on behalf of the SECDEF and  OSD.

We have been planning for several weeks to do an EXCLUSIVE Interview on this very subject with Dr. Jones via Skype (as soon as US/1 learns how—apologies to certain Florida Members).

Dr. Jones was the only “civilian” on the 58-name assassination list, in that he was neither a Pentagon official, military commander, Member of Congress or defense contractor.

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We pray for his speedy recovery and implore him to ALWAYS travel safely…

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July 23, 2011

Dr. Terry Jones, Founder and President of Stand Up America Now was the victim of a hit-and-run attack Saturday afternoon, July 23, around 1:45pm ET. 

Dr. Jones suffered minor injuries in the attack.

A black SUV sped around him hitting his leg and running over his foot as he was stopped at an intersection while on his motorcycle.  The SUV, with Georgia plates, then sped away quickly.  Dr. Jones, noticed the SUV following him for a few miles before the attack.

Dr. Terry Jones' account of the hit-and-run incident:

“As we left the church, we turned right and came straight down as we went through the wooded area and came to the stop sign where you must turn left or right. I noticed that there was a black SUV behind us. Of course because of our situation, we always are aware of things and people who are following us.  

“As we turned left, they turned left. They were a little bit suspicious as they kept speeding up and backing off, speeding up and backing off. We continued on down the road a few miles. As we approached the next intersection, the next stop light, and as I was slowing down, they passed me slowly on the right hand side literally only inches away from my motorcycle. I kept it straight and yelled at them. This was done on purpose as there was absolutely no need for this.

It was a black SUV with a Georgia license plate. As I stopped, they ran over my leg, my foot. I yelled out at them. They gave it no absolutely no attention. Although no window was down, they knew very well that they had hit me. They proceeded to turn to the right and to speed up very, very fast. It was a definite attempt of some form on my life, either to give us a warning, a scare, or to actually do bodily harm which they did by running over my leg. We will [sic] reported this to the Florida Highway Patrol and to the FBI.”

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BKNT--The STRATCOM Opportunity of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame --OS

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The STRATCOM Opportunity of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

No matter where I go or who I talk to in the US Navy, the one thing folks give me a hard time about is that it is suggested I often spend too much time focusing on piracy in Somalia and not enough time discussing Al Shabaab. That is fair, I guess, although I was the guy who suggested we buy the services of pirates to fight Al Shabaab, after all at least we know the motivation of pirates is money...

But on a more serious note, US officials have been talking up the threat posed by Al Shabaab and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula over the last few months. It turns out, they had a very credible intelligence source of information regarding the threat of those two organizations. A few details from Luis Martinez of ABC News.

After secretly holding and interrogating a Somali man captured off the coast of Africa for two months, the United States indicted him, claiming he was a liaison between terrorist groups.

The Somali man, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, believed to be in his mid-20s, is a top leader in the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia who has been acting as a go-between with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the U.S. Justice Department alleged in an indictment Tuesday.

Many thoughts, not very well collected, come to mind as I observe this event.

First, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was captured at sea on April 19, 2011 and taken to USS Boxer (LHD 4) where he was interrogated and held before being transferred to New York. To capture the man while at sea obviously suggests an impressive intelligence operation took place behind the scenes, and while it shouldn't need to be said - the reason the US did capture him on what was almost certainly a short notice window to respond to intelligence is because the US Navy is globally deployed and always present. It is probably a bit of luck that some pirate event didn't have our ships out of position to respond to this intelligence, a detail that needs to be stated because it is important to note piracy is a distraction for maritime forces, not a maritime mission the US Navy is currently, actively dealing with directly.

Second, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was captured at sea. The sea is playing an important but rarely discussed role in Al-Qaeda's lines of communications. Around The Horn of Africa there is a lot of attention given to piracy as the major problem at sea, but piracy is a symptom of the bigger regional lack-of stability problem and by no definition is piracy a threat to the national interests of the United States. Task Force 151, the international task force against piracy, is symbolic of US military activities lately - it is a halfhearted military solution that can never solve the political problem that sources the piracy in the first place. I do not know why it is the policy of the United States to sail the fleet in circles off the Horn of Africa pretending to protect commerce from piracy threats, but at some point effective and efficient use of the fleet needs to focus on forwarding legitimate security solutions. In this instance, that claim can be made.

Third, I intend to leave the legalities of taking Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to civilian court to the experts, and highly recommend the good folks at the Lawfare Blog. They have made available a copy of the full indictment of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame at this link (PDF), and have already gone into the coverage of this very important development. Does it matter? Yes, how we deal with terrorists is a legal issue that rises to the level of a Presidential election issue. Will this trial get as much coverage as Casey Anthony? It would be a tragedy regarding the judgment and quality of American journalism that balances ratings in favor of national importance if it didn't, which also means it probably won't get anywhere near as much attention as Casey Anthony on the US cable news networks.

Fourth, the politics of this are also very important. George Bush left office with no way to deal with detained terrorists except to release them to the custody of other nations. Some people say the Guantanamo Bay solution works just fine, but it really doesn't. The bottom line on the Guantanamo Bay solution is that it has always been a temporary solution with no replacement, and both the Executive and Congress has been unable to come up with a better replacement for almost a decade now.

But more important than the detainment politics to me is the war narrative politics. For a couple of years now the US Army has cited only "hundreds" or less Al Qaeda operating in Afghanistan and Iraq, but Al Shabaab alone is well over 5,000, with access to tens of thousands more disenfranchised folks in Somalia alone. No one really knows how big Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is, but best verifiable numbers range over 500, and they have access to many thousands of disenfranchised folks in Yemen. While it is unlikely the Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame case will bring it up, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is on the rise and becoming the next big problem with thousands in their ranks.

The point is, Afghanistan gets all the attention but that isn't where Al Qaeda is. I've put together a little map to put my thoughts in context, and included a few pointers to where one might notice a few dumpster fires.

One Hot Mess

There are more Al Qaeda at the end of those arrows on this map than all other places not shown on this map combined, and you do not see major parts of Pakistan or Afghanistan on that map. The Obama administration knows this, hell everyone knows this, but the question is what is anyone going to do about it and what should the United States be doing about it?

The Obama administration is going to send Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to civilian court, which means evidence will be presented publicly and a narrative will emerge from that evidence.

We are about to find out if the United States has any STRATCOM at all in the State Department, because this court case is without question the single most important STRATCOM moment of the next decade in the fight against terrorism - not just on the prosecution legal side but also on the operational side.

So lets all generically think about what is happening here. News reports are claiming Somalia is not only a failed state, but Somalia is a dead state with as many as 54,000 people fleeing the war stricken drought zone in June alone. Pirates are now organized enough to use the Yemen controlled island of Socotra as a fuel depot. News headlines tomorrow will discuss a pirate hijacking inside the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor, about 30 miles from Aden if my sources are correct. But none of this news items about Somalia actually matters, because none of these developments represent a threat to the national interest of the United States.

Those are other peoples problems and should be left for other people to deal with. It might be hard to swallow, but when one starts counting problems in Somalia, piracy looks more and more like the least of the problems folks are facing, at least it is unless piracy is part of the income model for Al Shabaab. No government has officially made that claim yet though.

The threat comes from Al Shabaab, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - all of whom are capable and have desires to strike at US interests both globally and domestically. Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame represents the link between Al Shabaab and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which makes him potentially the most important Al Qaeda member captured outside Pakistan or Afghanistan since 9/11. If similar links between these organizations and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) exist, we are in serious trouble... and those links probably exist.

Think about the map. Right now Libya is a dumpster fire with no local functioning security system, which means it represents a tremendous opportunity for organizations linked to Al Qaeda to move and operate freely around the current military contest for political control. Libya has all the makings of a prolonged, uncontrolled tribal war similar to Somalia where groups are likely to link up with elements of Al Qaeda like AQAP and AQIM for support towards taking political control once Gaddafi is removed.

Folks also better start paying attention to the news on the western side of Africa, because another front is starting to open up in Africa (see here, here, and here) - and I'm not talking about Independence day in Sudan this Saturday - which is where the UN is focused.

Right now we are fighting wars on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the political objective hopefully to reduce the military presence in both nations over the next few years. Pakistan is going to remain a target in an extended air campaign for years. The only sure thing we know from the announced arrest of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame is that the United States is about to really spin up air operations in Yemen and Somalia over the next days, weeks, and months.

Libya is a strategic catastrophe, or as it is more commonly being called privately - an Obama Boondoggle - and it will surely look like one that even the best political spin doctors can't hide as European nations begin to withdraw from combat operations next month. Libya is also emerging as the new nexus in North Africa for Al Qaeda, and anyone who says otherwise is ignoring how that fight against Al Qaeda is the fight everyone knows is coming after Gaddafi loses power. The easiest prediction one can make right now is that some form of covert US military operations against AQIM and their efforts in Nigeria are coming - sooner rather than later. Finally, the Obama administration has a "no massacre" policy, so if things get heated after South Sudan declares independence, expect US military activity there too.

Since AFRICOM stood up, the focus has been engaging African nations at their request in what is described as a "supportive role" towards security. That must change in the very near future.

At some point it is time to admit that strategically, the US military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq to consolidate and contain Al Qaeda to those two states has failed miserably, and the US must adapt. I do not know what that adaptation looks like, but western, northern, and eastern Africa are dumpster fires where Al Qaeda presence is growing - and AFRICOM needs to grow up from its touchy, feely hands off approach and be a real Unified Combatant Command if they are going to productively deal with these emerging problems. The United States is facing Al Qaeda on three sides of a continent we have neglected as policy for decades, and our best friend on the continent - Egypt - is enduring some internal issues that remove the nation as a regional leader we can count on.

Which takes us back to Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame's day in court and the associated STRATCOM. What will the court files reveal about Al Qaeda? What will be the emerging narrative from a terrorist trial in the US at a time where the nation is suffering from war fatigue, and oh by the way, the future is darker than the present. How strong are our alliances and are they sufficient to address emerging challenges?

How can the US and China work together in solving the emerging Al Qaeda problem in Africa? We are engaged with China on this, right? If the answer isn't yes, we have much work to do. How long before Europe bails in dealing with problems on their own southern lawn? How much longer will US war hawks trumpet the cause in Afghanistan with other, much more serious problems emerging in Africa and the Middle East? How long can the US sustain "air campaigns" and claim that activity legitimately forwards a solution, as opposed to doing what air campaigns always do - prolong the problems?

The US Navy is heavily investing in force structure to fight the big war against China in the Pacific while the nation is engaged in 6 campaigns - none currently deployed from the sea - in 6 countries across the Middle East and Africa. The most important nation in Africa besides the United States is China. In other words, the Navy is organizing to fight the one nation that has the most shared interest with us towards an Africa that is connected to the global trade system - something Al Qaeda stands squarely against. Is this approach to national security interests our naval strategy, or our naval strategery?

What does the logistics of distributed regional naval support presence look like when low end counter terrorism problems are to be addressed in the maritime domain by the Littoral Combat Ship?

Tell me what WWIII might look like. Take your hand and rub it on a globe from Nigeria to Pakistan on land, and if we count piracy - go from the Gulf of Guinea up towards the Med, down the Red Sea and all the way over to the west Indian coast topped by the Persian Gulf all the way down to the southeastern coastline of Africa. Is that a sufficient amount of territorial mass to conduct military operations and potentially be big enough to be a world war? By 2012 that is almost certainly going to be the range of land and sea where the US is conducting air strikes and maritime security operations against legitimate Al Qaeda related terrorism threats. This is not a hollow prediction, the US has consistently fought Al Qaeda wherever they go, and right now that enormous swath of territory is the area Al Qaeda is attempting to influence politically. Think about it.

STRATCOM matters in ideological struggles, and right now the expansion of Al Qaeda across Africa represents a weakness in our ideological struggle against the legitimacy of Al Qaeda as a credible alternative to the global trade system. If the global trade system isn't effectively reaching the people of African nations, which in many cases it is not; Al Qaeda represents a legitimate alternative to an offering we can't make to disenfranchised people.

The STRATCOM from the Obama administration offers nothing productive to disenfranchised people in Africa, and unfortunately that is the one lesson everyone stands witness to with the Arab Spring. That also might explain why the Obama administration does not stand up for folks like Mubarak and Gaddafi, hoping the result will offer the US better access to disenfranchised people. Will we have compelling alternatives for the people once dictators are out of power? I don't think anyone really knows, primarily because we are still quite uncertain how it all turns out in Egypt.

Are we fighting the right fights with the right tools? Today the Obama administration claims air campaigns aren't war; they are simply an evolved variation of armed humanitarian intervention. If humanitarian air strikes isn't the STRATCOM for Libya, then what exactly is? What about Somalia? What about Pakistan? Yemen? Sudan? Nigeria? Are we shaping the information environment for political action, or simply shaping the battlefield for the next air campaign?

The United States is a strategic hot mess right now in our fight against Al Qaeda. We are engaged in two land wars and air campaigns in four countries, and we do not have a policy that can be articulated as an acceptable plan for successfully ending any of these military campaigns. Why is defense cuts the most highlighted spending issue by this administration when the Presidents policies continue to call for more and more open ended military activity across Africa and the Middle East? How does any of this end?

Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame is sure to be another political parade of some sort, but is the United States preparing to lead the parade by establishing a narrative that explains the use of global forces or are we simply going to operate as usual pretending 6 different simultaneous military campaigns are no big deal? I believe the event represents a real opportunity for the administration to take control of the counter terrorism narrative to forward a more reasonable realignment of counter terrorism policy.

If the President can't establish a narrative that explains the constantly expanding use of military force globally as his primary political tool in the war against terrorism, then he needs to be replaced for getting the United States involved in (and also failing to lead during) what is by any definition the largest hot battlefield globally the nation has fought on since World War II. It is quite concerning that US political leaders are not being held accountable for that remarkable fact.

Posted by Galrahn at 3:00 AM

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Anthony Kimery : CT Officials Fear Dour Economy Invites Attack

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By: Anthony Kimery

07/14/2011 ( 8:33am)

As America’s economic stagnation continues largely unchanged in the face of a looming federal government debt crisis, federal counterterrorism intelligence officials and other authorities told Homeland Security Today the nation’s security increasingly is being put at risk, making the US at this moment in time a target for a major attack.

“Under Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda’s goal had been to find a way to attack us in a way that would hurt us economically – and I mean really hurt us. So if Al Qaeda still wants to slam us economically, now is the time to do it,” said one of the US counterterrorism officials who has studied the terrorist network’s capabilities to cause America grievous economic damage.

This and other officials said on background because of the sensitivity of their positions that the time has never been better for Al Qaeda “or any of its capable franchises” to attack in a way that would directly or indirectly result in not only a potentially debilitating economic blow to the country, but an economic collapse of some sort that would ripple around the world, especially in Europe,” another said.

Indeed. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke just told Congress that “the [US] Treasury security is viewed as the safest and most liquid security in the world, and the notion it would become suddenly unreliable and illiquid would throw shockwaves through the entire global financial system.”

He added that the largest credit ratings agencies might even downgrade America's credit rating even if the US does not default and Congress agrees to raise the debt level in order to continue servicing its loans.

Coinciding with Bernanke’s warning, Moody's Investors Service credit rating agency announced that it is reviewing the US’s financial malaise and related problems as part of a possible downgrading of its current AAA credit rating on US credit worthiness.

Moody's said it saw a "rising possibility that the statutory debt limit will not be raised on a timely basis, leading to a default on US Treasury debt obligations.”

Moody's is the first of the big three credit rating agencies to review America’s triple-A rating.

A reduced US credit rating by any of the big three credit rating companies could provoke possible mayhem in financial markets around the planet and vastly escalate borrowing costs for the federal government and businesses, which would have a directly negative impact on public finances and further depress the nation’s overall economy.

“So you can understand why Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist organization motivated by the jihadist ideology, would see that America is highly vulnerable right now – perhaps more than it’s ever been - to an attack or attacks the impact or direct effect [of which] would be further depression of the US’s economy,” one of the counterterrorism officials said.

The other officials interviewed agreed. One explained: “Al Qaeda probably has never had a better point in time for attacking us in a way that would hit us hard economically.”

“And what’s scary is that that it can be any kind of attack," the official continued. "Certainly a catastrophic, mass casualty attack would have a dramatic impact on the economy, but so, too, would a coordinated small cell attack with automatic weapons at major amusement parks across the country.”

“Can you imagine what would happen if Disney’s amusement parks in Florida were attacked?” asked Laura Hains, a ranking Customs and Border Protection officer when she retired in 2008. “Florida’s economy would collapse.”

An authority in seaport security specializing in port security/intelligence, cargo, commercial vessel, container and cruise ship security who designed, implemented and supervised two port intelligence units, Hains added that California – which also has an important amusement park industry – would also suffer economically if terrorists were to attack theme parks there, too.

But it’s not just amusement parks, Hains said. She stressed that attacks at just one or two major US ports not only would close these ports, but many other US ports potentially would be closed as authorities worked to determine if they were subject to attack.

“Closing just one port would have a devastating impact on the nation’s economy,” Hains said, noting that the recovery could be long and painful depending on how long the port or ports were closed. And some ports could be closed for quite some time if they were substantively destroyed by a powerful explosive, like a liquefied natural gas, or LNG, container ship in port.

http://www.hstoday.us/industry-news/general/single-article/ct-sources-americas-current-economic-problems-invite-attack/2291b5a358ddb2312f3e8f4045c1c408.html

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Congrressman confirms BlackNET Report on al-Qaida threat to Drone Makers; FBI Taking Weeks to Brief Targets

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[ed.note: Too bad we don’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore--over the “NEW” Pentagon Papers leak, previously referenced.

Below, Nixon’s home town newspaper reports that executives of the local drone manufacturer  AeroVironment Inc., who were specifically named on a new Al Qaeda Assassination HIT LIST were NOT briefed by the FBI until this past THURSDAY, 30 June—THREE-WEEKS after THREE federal and ONE state AGENCY issued restricted intelligence Security BULLETINs which listed the California defense contractors by name. (DHS, DoD, FBI and CFIX.)

The Bureau briefing came ONE WEEK after an EXCLUSIVE Homeland Security Today and BlackNET Intelligence Channel joint report that detailed the 58-name ‘Law Enforcement Sensitive’ Al Qaeda assassination target list, with specific reference to the AeroVironment officials by name.

As reported Friday in a BKNT-NODIS Post,* certain other AQ Assassination Hit-List TARGETs also had NOT received FBI warnings until after being contacted by BlackNET investigators.

 In one particular case, the FBI failed to warn a prominent public figure about being targeted with AQ Death Threats until TWO weeks after the FOUR AGENCY Security BULLETINs were issued. These accumulatingly delayed warnings appear to fly in the face of various PUBLIC PROCLAMATIONS to the effect that the Al Qaeda Hit List Targets had been notified by the Bureau.

Most hit-list TARGETs who responded in any way when contacted by BlackNET investigators, told us it was the first they’d heard of the death threats:  “We learned about it from you,” said one high-profile assassination target. “The FBI then called right after that.” **

Go figure.

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By Frank C. Girardot, Staff Writer

Posted: 07/01/2011 04:56:13 PM PDT

FBI officials warned AeroVironment Inc. employees of threats to 11 senior executives by Al-Qaida in Monrovia on Friday, July 1, 2011. 

MONROVIA - Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, confirmed Friday that AeroVironment and senior executives of the West Huntington Drive company appeared on an al-Qaida hit list in June. 

The FBI has launched a probe into the threat and continues to investigate, Schiff said.
"There is currently no evidence that an attack is about to happen or even being extensively planned against local businesses or individuals," Schiff said in a statement released Friday afternoon. 

Schiff indicated the threat may be linked to recent developments in the Middle East including the death of terror kingpin Osama bin-Laden and street protests in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia.
"Al-Qaida has been trying to re-affirm its credibility after being marginalized by the Arab Spring," Schiff added. "Many thousands of these kind of threats have proved no more than idle rants over the years." 

Nonetheless, Monrovia city officials said Friday they've ramped up security around the AV plant in the 1800 block of West Huntington Drive. 

Officials also added additional security around the perimeter of the Friday Monrovia Family Festival and Farmers Market, City Councilman Tom Adams said. 

"There's all kinds of things going on," Adams said. "Police and security will have a huge presence. We're stepping it up." 

On Thursday FBI officials warned AV employees of the al-Qaida threats against 11 senior executives of the Monrovia-based company, according to sources with knowledge of the warning. 

The FBI warning came after jihadist blogs and websites urged attacks on U.S. military and corporate facilities in the United States. 

Those threats first surfaced in early June after a call to action from former Southern California resident Adam Gadahn, a high ranking al-Qaida member from Winchester in Southwestern Riverside County. 

Agents from the FBI field office in Los Angeles took part in talking to AV executives. Their briefing was based on a classified law enforcement bulletin published in mid-June, according to a source with knowledge of the bulletin. 

"The Bureau did contact individuals with AeroVironment, but said none of the information specifically named all of the individuals that were contacted," the source said.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to discuss the matter Friday. 

"We're not commenting on threats that come from websites," spokeswoman Ari Dekofsky said.
No tactical alerts had been issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in response to the threat, officials at the Temple City substation said Friday. 

The threat first came to light in a June 23 blog post on Homeland Security Today, a New York-based website that reports on counterterrorism, intelligence and border security. That post revealed extensive details about a bulletin released by the Florida Fusion Center on June 6.

 [NOT exactly ‘mid-June’]

The Fusion Center is a Florida-based partnership of federal, state and local law enforcement officers. 

According to the Homeland Security Today blog, the Fusion Center warned that "11 of the nation's top military leaders are among 58 past and present military, corporate and civilian officials who have been identified by members of the Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Al Mujahedeen jihadist forum as infidels who should be murdered, according to a jihadist `hit list."'
AV executives were also on that list. 

After their discussion with the FBI, company officials late Thursday removed all signage from the West Huntington Drive corporate headquarters. 

On Friday afternoon, police presence outside the plant was minimal.
Meanwhile local members of Congress said they were monitoring the situaiton. 

Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said AV's role in the war on terror likely played a role in the threats. 

"Many Southern California companies produce advanced technologies and products that play an important role in maintaining our national security, and we need to take every threat seriously. The businesses and individuals targeted by these sites have been notified and will take appropriate action to maintain their security." 

AV makes a variety of unmanned surveillance aircraft systems - known as drones - that are used extensively by U.S. military forces in the global war on terrorism. 

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CyberBLACK-SEC-FLASH--No Wrong-Turns when the CyberJIHAD is a Two-Way Street in Malaysia...

FLASH- LIMITED DISSEMINATION

US/1; US/80;  ATTN: ALL [redacted] Vs.[rePro-PIN]

FLASH--CyberBLACK-SEC - FLASH---------------------

No Wrong-Turns when the CyberJIHAD is a Two-Way Street in Malaysia...

[ed.note: Cyber-JIHAD WARFARE. STOP. MORE TO COME…with PART II

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SEE: PART I - W. Scott Malone and Anthony L. Kimery on Al Qaeda Cyber-JIHAD HIT LIST - Names NAMED...

Coming 21 July 2011-

BlackNET Intelligence Channel 

EXCLUSIVE Story on the brewing AL  QAEDA CYBER-WAR Between US Government Agencies, Foreign Intelligence Services, and the CYBER-JIHADIS...

Don’t touch that dial…..errsk ]


 Password Protected Al-Qaeda Website/Forum with Senior Pentagon LEADERSHIP Officers and Civilian Officials Photographic ASSASSINATION TARGET 'Hit-List,' circa APRIL 2011.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent

UK Telegraph - 7:16PM BST 
02 Jun 2011

<Terror Publisher Al. Awlaki in Yemen, Cupcakes in Malaysia]

The cyber-warfare operation was launched by MI6 and GCHQ in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular to recruit “lone-wolf” terrorists with a new English-language magazine, the Daily Telegraph understands. 

  
When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” by “The AQ Chef” they were greeted with garbled computer code. 

The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.

 

 

http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-VwX95Skzp0/TUyJdbZmJ6I/AAAAAAAABuo/yy1Z8uKjLMo/s1600/CyberSEC%252BGraphic%252B%2525231.bmp&imgrefurl=http://blacknetintel.blogspot.com/2011/06/bknt-judith-miller-next-shiny-object-os.html&usg=__md5n4dhise-w3XX8ZgARVUYBeDA=&h=235&w=314&sz=20&hl=en&start=15&zoom=1&tbnid=5Vc4fqpKTnk4GM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=210&ei=vnIHTv_HO4SrrAeNt4WnDA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCybersec%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D587%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=148&vpy=148&dur=3433&hovh=188&hovw=251&tx=102&ty=206&page=2&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:15

II 7-5 Detailed Errors -404.  Not found… On cover - 30 June 2011 : 1500 ET

Below, Pass-word-protected AQ site screen shot results from Serverno GOES DOWN FOR THE COUNT. The Al Qaeda CyberJIHAD Operations Base in Malaysia was for more that 48 hrs.

http://www.shamikh1.info/vb/showthread.php?&t=113057 

http://www.shamikh1.info/vb/showthread.php?&t=113057

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