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Threat Matrix: 2010
Freerepublic.com ^ | 12/31/2009 | Freeper TMers

Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta

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Al Qaeda’s Yemen Connection, America and the Global Islamic Jihad

December 30, 2009 — The attempt to destroy Northwest Airlines flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day underscores the growing ambition of al Qaeda's Yemen franchise, which has grown from a largely Yemeni agenda to become a player in the global Islamic jihad in the last year. Since merging with the al Qaeda franchise in Saudi Arabia last January and renaming itself Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), it has stepped up operations in Yemen itself, struck into Saudi Arabia, and now operates on the global stage. The weak Yemeni government of President Ali Abdallah Salih, which has never fully controlled the country and now faces a host of growing problems, will need significant American support to defeat AQAP.

Al Qaeda has long been active in Yemen, the original homeland of Osama bin Laden's family, and one of its first major terror attacks was conducted in Aden in 2000, when an al Qaeda cell nearly sank the USS Cole. A year ago, the al Qaeda franchises in Saudi Arabia and Yemen merged after the Saudi branch had been effectively repressed by the Saudi authorities under the leadership of Deputy Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Nayif. The new AQAP showed its claws last August, when it almost assassinated the prince with a suicide bomber who had passed through at least two airports on the way to his attempt on Nayif.

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The attack on the Amsterdam-Detroit flight also shows that al Qaeda remains obsessed with striking the American airline industry, a target it has gone after repeatedly since 1999. If AQAP has now been told by the al Qaeda core leadership to take on the job, we can probably assume that other al Qaeda franchises in North Africa, Iraq, Southeast Asia and elsewhere have also been pressed to attack.

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To: JustPiper

You got 1500!


1,501 posted on 01/20/2010 11:04:55 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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Off Topic, but not really for Scott's WOT is a hot issue for him

I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
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1,502 posted on 01/20/2010 11:04:59 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: JustPiper
Here reading - writing not so much. But I am ever so appreciative of the ones including yourself who gather so much information and put it here to raise our awareness.

As all three branches of the central government have returned to September the tenth this is a very important resource, and it is one that will be put to use as I stand with my boots on the necks of my state's Congressional delegation throughout this year.

1,503 posted on 01/20/2010 11:35:27 PM PST by Clinging Bitterly (Nnnggh!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Did I Ween?


1,504 posted on 01/21/2010 2:00:21 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: Clinging Bitterly
Hope You Read this:

FBI gets 'Muslim Mafia' 'smoking-gun' documents- 12,000 pages on CAIR terror ties turned over in reply to subpoena

I'd appreciate any TM'ers analysis?

1,505 posted on 01/21/2010 2:02:57 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: JustPiper

present. heh


1,506 posted on 01/21/2010 5:39:23 AM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: JustPiper

Lurking and staying informed.


1,507 posted on 01/21/2010 5:48:39 AM PST by Grammy (Politics. .......( poli ) many ( tics ) blood suckers)
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To: JustPiper

Here.


1,508 posted on 01/21/2010 7:21:44 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: JustPiper

Here. More-or-less. Think Cheshire Cat....

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1,509 posted on 01/21/2010 7:37:37 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 365 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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1,510 posted on 01/21/2010 7:42:47 AM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: JustPiper

JustPiper, we have to watch all muzzies, like a hawk!!

Be Ever Vigilant!!


1,511 posted on 01/21/2010 9:12:27 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: JustPiper

Are we back on track with possible terror alerts?


1,512 posted on 01/21/2010 9:42:18 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: GeronL

yay~~~

BTW 67% Voted for Scott Brown on National Security


1,513 posted on 01/21/2010 11:42:18 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: Grammy; SoldierDad; ExSoldier; Baynative; BobMcCartyWrites; Jet Jaguar; Seadog Bytes; ...
For all ye who is lurking :)

Leaders of Fort Hood inquiry avoid Hasan questions

Queens terror suspect wanted to 'murder' US soldiers: feds

made the comments during a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn

My tagline says it all, thanks Scott!

Queens college grad accused of conspiring with airport shuttle bus driver to kill American service members

1,514 posted on 01/21/2010 11:52:53 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: rdl6989
Our Sorta, Kinda War on Terror- President Obama has not signed up for a serious effort against radical Islam. By Victor Davis Hanson

Real Warriors Needed as Leaders in War on Terrorism by James Carafano, PhD

What Exactly Is a ‘Security Mom’?

1,515 posted on 01/21/2010 11:58:28 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: null and void
Here, kitty , kitty

~More or less

Catastrophe in Haiti Overshadows National Security Stumbles

The educated Muslim terrorist

1,516 posted on 01/21/2010 12:09:27 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: Godzilla
Been wondering where you been!

Why the mainstream media never tells the truth about jihad Their professional guidelines tell them not to do so."The Society of Professional Journalists: Why We Never Get the Straight Story on Islamic Jihad

American ex-cons, converts to Islam, now a jihad threat in Yemen

Underscoring the crying need to recognize that when these young men are recruited into Islam, they are being recruited into an ideology of violence and hatred. "Report: American Ex-convicts In Yemen Pose 'Significant Threat':

U.S. Worried About Three Dozen Criminals Who Converted to Islam in Prison, Most from New York

Swedish "minister for integration": Jihadists "a ticking bomb in our society"

She didn't say "jihadists," of course. She said "violence-affirming Islamists."

1,517 posted on 01/21/2010 12:24:40 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: blackie
Thanks for being you Blackie :)

Can the System – As It’s Being Run – Really Stop the Next Jihadist Attack?

1,518 posted on 01/21/2010 12:26:11 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: WestCoastGal
Are we back on track with possible terror alerts?

We were off? Are we "Goggleized?"

Google just can't seem to figure out how to fix the bug that censors negative suggestions about Islam -- Day 13

1,519 posted on 01/21/2010 12:28:11 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: MamaDearest
It's the illegals that kill American's one way or another ~ sigh

America’s Most Forgotten – School Bus Tragedy Ends in Death At The Hands Of Illegal Alien Driver

America’s Most Forgotten: The Victims of Illegal Alien Crime

What WOULD this country be like if they all just left & stayed away?

1,520 posted on 01/21/2010 12:32:04 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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