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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.

The Brookings Institution



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To: WestCoastGal

Security alert at Heathrow per FNC


1,001 posted on 01/08/2010 3:32:19 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Velveeta

Yeah bad screening - I guess only international gets real good scans or something - but metal detector should have caught it.

Now Heathrow breaking FOX - someone taken off plane by armed guards from plane to Dubai


1,002 posted on 01/08/2010 3:33:15 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Oorang; Cindy; LucyT; MestaMachine; JustPiper; WestCoastGal; Velveeta; ExSoldier; Rushmore Rocks; ..
FBI arrests two in New York terror investigation

Federal officials arrested two associates of an Afghan immigrant who was charged last fall with conspiring to carry out bombings in the U.S., part of what authorities have called an al Qaeda cell.

Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, both of New York City, are being held, pending charges, as part of "an ongoing investigation" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City.

The men were expected to appear before a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn later Friday, a spokesman said. The two men have ties to Najibullah Zazi, an airport-shuttle driver from Aurora, Colo., who was arrested and indicted in September on charges of planning to make explosives from hair products and household cleaners for use in bombs in the U.S.

Anti-American sentiment grows in Pakistan

Anything that has a US imprint in Pakistan is surely in for trouble these days, or at least has been for some time.

US plays down threat to navy

US Navy officials in Bahrain have played down fears about a potential terrorist attack against its warships operating in the Middle East. An increasing number of jihadist threats have been posted on various websites in the last few weeks, according to a Washington-based monitoring group.

Internet posts indicate threat to Navy in Persian Gulf

Snips: One post on the jihadi forum Al-Falluja calls for information such as the “name of the particular naval unit to be targeted, its exact location, the number of troops on board the warship and their ranks, familial status, where their families live, the type of weapons the warship carries … and the number of nuclear bombs onboard,” reads a report compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

“The postings that have come out recently are from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which has been in the news recently, and it is from some of their leaders and some of the main people and ... head moderators,” he said. “[The message] definitely carries more weight.”

Why Christian, Muslim clashes are different this time

The attack that killed six Christians as they left a Jan. 7 Christmas mass, and the ensuing clashes between Christian protesters and Egypt's mainly Muslim security forces, may signal a turn for the worse.

Obama's pro-terror Security Plan

Snips: Nine years later, under a new “terror friendly” Obama regime, we find average American citizens having to risk life and limb to thwart terror attacks on US planes, under an administration that is more concerned with anti-Obama resisters than well-known Islamic terrorists.

Treating American soldiers and Tea Party goers like “enemies of the state” while affording known enemies of the state common criminal benefits of the doubt, is no accident. .......

So, we are left to ponder what the real purpose of a pro-terror security plan is really all about – what purpose it serves – who benefits from a spineless US security policy which lets terrorists roam free while keeping a close eye on domestic resisters of the Obama regime?.....

But one thing is certain – Obama’s policy decisions will get more American citizens killed and when they do, Obama won’t be able to blame that on the Bush administration. .....

Islamic Christianophobia

Killing freedom and cartoonists

Snip:...... Political violence is aimed at promoting a cause – in this case, special consideration for Islam. If a country cannot stop the violence directly, then the public will demand that it stop the violence indirectly, by thwarting the cause the violence serves. The rise of Geert Wilders’s party in the Netherlands, the referendum to ban minarets in Switzerland, the proposed ban on burkas in France – these are all desperate measures to declare that Islam is not the first religion of Europe. “This is a war,” the mainstream French weekly L’Express editorialised in the wake of the attempt on Mr Westergaard’s life. “To flee this conflict would be to buy tranquillity today at an exorbitant price in blood tomorrow.” It concluded: “Banning every kind of full-body cover [the burka] in our public spaces is a necessity.” This is not the non-sequitur it appears to be.

Kraft and CBC to bring Hockeyville to Little Mosque (on the Prairie)

Kraft Canada has partnered with CBC to integrate its Hockeyville program into an upcoming episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie.The Jan. 18 episode of Little Mosque will see Mercy, its fictitious Saskatchewan town, lobbying to win the Hockeyville competition.

Obama administration - no GITMO detainees released on our watch returned to terrorism???????

llinois GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mark Steven Kirk on Thursday said
"All the major leaders" of the Taliban opposition in Southern Afghanistan are former Guantanamo prisoners who have been released.

The Obama White House, asked to reply, made the point that the detainees released on their watch--about 42 in the past year--are not the detainees who have gone back into the terrorism business.

Sun-Times Political Writer Abdon Pallasch's report on Kirk speaking in Chicago Thursday here

Ummm, k if you say so Obama. However, why aren't you sending anymore GITMO detainees to Yemen as you did in the past?!?!?!

1,003 posted on 01/08/2010 3:35:32 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: WestCoastGal

Good grief, another one?


1,004 posted on 01/08/2010 3:37:39 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Security alert on Heathrow Airport plane
breaking news

Police are attending a security alert at London’s Heathrow Airport, a spokesman has said.

A Scotland Yard source confirmed an incident occurred on a Dubai-bound plane, believed to be an Emirates jet.

A spokesman for the Met said: “We are aware of a security incident at Heathrow. The airport and terminal remains open.”

An airport spokesman said: “I can confirm there has been an incident on the EK004 flight to Dubai.”

“Police are attending. It’s not affecting the rest of the airport which remains open.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8449696.stm


1,005 posted on 01/08/2010 3:38:49 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal

Sky News, quoting witnesses, said a passenger had made “verbal threats” just before take off, resulting in the grounding of the plane.

Armed police with sniffer dogs had boarded the plane, due to take off around 2000 GMT (3p.m. EST), and removed one or two passengers, Sky said.


1,006 posted on 01/08/2010 3:40:04 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Velveeta

Might be a relative?
We should learn more tomorrow.


1,007 posted on 01/08/2010 3:42:51 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: WestCoastGal

Watching Twitter.
They’re saying more than one arrest regarding the Heathrow incident.


1,008 posted on 01/08/2010 3:43:20 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: fanfan

Thanks!


1,009 posted on 01/08/2010 3:50:25 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Makes me wonder now if they are trying diversions - remember when they’re terror manual instructed them to create chaos whenever possible?


1,010 posted on 01/08/2010 3:51:51 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: MamaDearest

Someone mentioned on Fox that 0 and his intel cronies are now checking everything which is almost impossible. I think they called it channel chumming?? meaning now the bad guys will send out all kinds of info mostly diversions.

Maybe what we’re seeing in the airline threats onboard today.


1,011 posted on 01/08/2010 3:56:20 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal

One minute between us, Shep updating now


1,012 posted on 01/08/2010 4:01:11 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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IRAQ TO BUILD MASSIVE MOSQUE OVER THE TOMB OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL

DESECRATION OF SACRED SITE PROMPTS LITTLE ATTENTION by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

Scripps Howard is perhaps unaware of the case pending in Canada against Paul Williams, who had the temerity to reveal potential terrorist threats from al-Qaida affiliates at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario

Money Talks: Deterring Libel Tourism

1,013 posted on 01/08/2010 4:02:09 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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Worth an occasional Repost:

How to Recognize and Fight a Terrorist on a Plane


1,014 posted on 01/08/2010 4:04:58 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper

Looks like booze related again.


1,015 posted on 01/08/2010 4:05:02 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: davidlachnicht; All
Thanks to Freeper davidlachnicht for this image:


1,016 posted on 01/08/2010 4:06:54 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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Budget Strips More Than $600 Million From Bioshield Program

What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

1,017 posted on 01/08/2010 4:10:08 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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Obama's Guantanamo obsession By Charles Krauthammer

Panel votes for Gitmo prisoner transfer the same day three convicts escape IL prison

Braidwood in Illinois is not far from new Gitmo

Tritium leak found at VY

Obama's Yemeni odyssey targets China

1,018 posted on 01/08/2010 4:11:14 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Velveeta

You are very welcome.

BTW, I never returned your happy new year ping,

So, Happy New Year!


1,019 posted on 01/08/2010 4:13:50 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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For some reason the original poster requested video removed, so here is a replacement

America Rising An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=662R2awSwPQ

To anyone I emailed I didn’t send a bad link :)

~Piper scurrying to tell the other few hundred folks with the original link


1,020 posted on 01/08/2010 4:14:04 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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