Threat Matrix: 2010

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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.

(snip)

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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[blackie]

Groovy!!

[Moe Tzadik]

Isn’t it time for another UBL tape? Some good ol’ fashioned ME Shabbos Jihad? Where are FARS’ comments on Haman’s launch? Any center fuel tank explosions, excessive rudder inputs, or multiple lightning strikes in the offing?

How about the FBI who didn’t know before they knew except they got info before they didn’t get info before his rights were read except he clammed up before he spilled his guts after the FBI got his parents and brought them here where he gave more info except he didn’t before and if he did it was cold 24 hours later.

Lull before the Jihad.

[JustPiper]

Accused Underwear Bomber’s American Teacher
February 5, 2010 - 1:18 PM | by: David Lee Miller

An American born Islamic scholar who once gave religious instruction to the accused underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, is coming under fire for videotaped remarks denouncing western courts and democracy despite his reputation as a moderate.

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/05/10582/

[JustPiper]

Australia blocks shipments to Iran

John Bolton: While nukes proliferate, Obama fiddles

Terror Attack Certain in Next Few Months? Has Security Taken a Back Seat?

Authorities in Detroit released an autopsy of Imam Luqman Abdullah this week and its findings show his death was not pretty. Abdullah was shot 20 times, being hit repeatedly in the legs and torso and even taking a bullet through his scrotum as FBI agents tried to arrest him October 28th for a variety of crimes.
Fear and Loathing in Detroit by Steve Emerson

North Korea to Stay Off Terrorism List

Attorney General Eric Holder has been slow to provide information to Republican lawmakers -- and sometimes Democrats, too -- about some of his most controversial decisions: the plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York, the decision to grant full American constitutional rights to accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the effort to shut down the Guantanamo terrorist detention facility.
Purple Haze

Muslim chaplain 'smuggled' box-cutter blades into jail

Unholy Alliance: Zinn, Chomsky, Bin Laden

[Islaminaction]

Hey maybe Khomeini did not know Islam. lol!

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[JesusBmyGod]

ping

[GlennBeck08]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/ny-elementary-schools-increase-security-after-knife-carrying-muslim-walks-in.html

PIERMONT — New security measures are being put in place at all South Orangetown schools after a stranger carrying a knife walked into a district elementary school last week.
The doors to all schools will now be locked when classes are in session, according to a notice sent from Superintendent of Schools Ken Mitchell to all parents.

In addition , anyone coming to the school will have to present photo identification and additional cameras will be installed.

“While we understand the tightened security and reduced access may be inconvenient, it is essential that we take every reasonable measure to ensure that our buildings are secured for the safety of our students and staff,” Mitchell wrote. [...]

The most recent took place Jan. 20, when a 23-year-old Connecticut man entered the main lobby of Tappan Zee Elementary School in Piermont. (snip)

[JustPiper]

Welcome & thanks for your eyes/ears!

[JustPiper]

Abdulrahim Sulaiman, 23, of Bridgeport, was apparently lost and asking for directions

WITH A FREAKIN’ KNIFE?!? This & the prior CONN. incident in this article have muslim names. Being NY, I beg to ask, anywhere near Islamberg? Wish I knew the geography & it’s proximity

[JustPiper]

Iran opens two new missile plants

(oops my screen just shook, cool lil Firefox addon called Earthquake)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445623/posts

[GlennBeck08]

That’s what I was thinking.. a switchblade at that. I typically carry a knife with me, but it’s not a switchblade and I know enough that when I get the kids from school or go to a school event, I leave it in the truck or at home. Something tells me this very well could’ve been a poke and probe mission to garner a reaction. I don’t know for sure, but it doesn’t seem right.

[GlennBeck08]

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=11942047

Middle Tennessee’s Private Muslim Society
Posted: Feb 05, 2010 5:45 PM EST

Hidden in the hills of Middle Tennessee is a private Muslim society. Some believe they are connected to known terrorists.

So is this a peaceful religious community? Or are they homegrown terrorists - training in our backyard?

NewsChannel 5’s Nick Beres takes you where no cameras have gone before. Go Inside Islamville in a NewsChannel 5 exclusive report Sunday night after the Super Bowl on NewsChannel 5 at 10 p.m.

Fluff piece in the future? Anybody from Tennessee able to watch this and fill us in?

[Moe Tzadik]

Izzat the JuF Islamville/Dover one?

[GlennBeck08]

Yepp.

[GlennBeck08]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446169/posts

Mumbai: An Emirates airline plane enroute to Dubai aborted take-off at the Mumbai airport on Sunday after an anonymous caller rang up to say that there was a terrorist onboard. The Emirates Mumbai-Dubai flight EK-502, carrying about 356 passengers, was already on runway and scheduled to take off at 9.58 am when the anonymous call came at 9.30 am, an airport official said. Following the call, the flight was called back from the runway and all passengers deplaned.

[GlennBeck08]

http://loganswarning.com/2010/02/07/defiant-ahmadinejad-orders-uranium-enriched-to-20pct/

TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran’s atomic chief on Sunday to enrich uranium to 20 percent, in a fresh challenge to world powers days after appearing to accept a Western proposal for the supply of nuclear fuel to a Tehran reactor. -snip-

[GlennBeck08]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446191/posts

As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf. Citing the sources, Yediot Ahronot reported Saturday that two Israeli missile ships passed through the Suez Canal en rout to the Red Sea on Thursday morning. The sources said the ships are expected to reach the Persian Gulf within the next four days. According to the report, Cairo adopted tight security measures to ensure the safe passage of the Israeli ships through the canal.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2446193/posts

If the mission in Afghanistan is two-fold, the defeat of the abysmal Taliban and the creation of a stable, democratic state, it would appear that we are not doing well. The same could be said of “nation building” in Iraq. The true measure of our efforts in both beneficiary countries should be based upon an examination of the foundations of these countries that we have created with the blood of our best and treasure. When such an examination is made the result can only be horror. The constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan for those who love democracy, freedom, and liberty,...

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks for the posts. Those Israeli missile ships should reach the Gulf by Feb. 11...........

[GlennBeck08]

Huh.. that date rings a bell for some odd reason or another.......

[Rushmore Rocks]

It certainly does.