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.

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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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[JustPiper]

the flight returned because an effort was being made to obtain "some more information about a passenger." He had no other details

Thank you for posting this. Coco, you want to keep a running chronolgy of all these plane incidents? It will be a great 'oh we new'

[JustPiper]

Seems to me a lot of mysterious things happening with events and people disappearing/not being reported etc

More so than any other time since TM's birth IMO

[blackie]

I love that dancing black cat. >:-}

He reminds of our Mad Max.

[JustPiper]

War On Terror or War On Disaffected Yemenis?

He is now deeply involved in spreading anti-American sentiment via the use of rhetoric about jihad throughout the world via the Internet

Anwar Al Awlaki

[JustPiper]

Catherine Herridge

E-mail Catherine Herridge about 3/4 way down on right

[JustPiper]

Italy signals "serious" terrorist activity resumed

[JustPiper]

Israel' s Foreign Policy in the Shadow of Iran and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

CBS: ‘Anti-Muslim Propaganda’ To Blame For U.S. Homegrown Terrorism

[JustPiper]

Lou Dobbs: Major Public Concerns Of Martial Law In The U.S. & Army Denies Claims

There is an organization that is quietly and secretly becoming very large and powerful. The FBI started this partnership or alliance between the federal government and the private sector in 1996 in Cleveland with a few select people

America must fight against the unholy Trinity that threatens to destroy us By Dr. Laurie Roth

The Revolution is on in 2010

[caww]

Soros is the bottom feeder across the world stage...he’s a communist and makes no bones about revealing that. His dirty hands have fingerprints all over the nations..he plays with countries like toys. I have such disdain for the man.

[WestCoastGal]

I will try and keep track :)

[WestCoastGal]

Update on today's return to airport - Oy computer glitch - manual check-in - how do they catch no fly list people???

ST. LOUIS — Company officials say a United Airlines Express flight headed to Chicago had to return to St. Louis as a precaution because of a screening issue.

GoJet Airlines, the regional carrier that operated Flight 7445, had a problem with its computers Friday morning, and had to use a manual system to check in passengers.

A spokesman for Trans State Holdings, which owns GoJet, says the computers started working again after the flight took off from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. That's when the airline learned the name of one of the passengers on the flight matched a name on the Transportation Security Administration's restricted passenger list.

The Trans State Holdings spokesman, Fred Oxley, says the flight returned around 8 a.m. as a precaution, and took off again around 9:30 a.m. after the airline determined the passenger was not the same person on the list.

The plane later landed in Chicago.

[JustPiper]

Two nights ago I had a nightmare. I saw a building just crumble in glass, today on Drudge there was a pic of this VERY skyscraper in Dubai!!!

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks for the update. I’ve been wondering about that one.

[WestCoastGal]

Well that’s weird - why was it on Drudge?

[AuntB]

“Two nights ago I had a nightmare.’

Here’s a nightmare for you. NAFBPO just sent it out. Not sure when it was taken.

http://loganswarning.com/?p=648&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Loganswarning+(Loganswarning)

Sunni vs. Shiite Feud Hits Streets of NYC~Video
December 31, 2009

In this video the Sunnis of RevolutionMuslim.com, showed up to protest a NYC Shiite rally. The Sunni vs. Shiite feud has been going on for over 1000 years, and it has now reached our shores. If the police were not there, this protest would of easily turned violent. Once again we see how Islam slowly destroys societies across the world.

[WestCoastGal]

YW - are you all still snowed in or has company departed?

[jersey117]

Absolutely chilling. I am sad for America.

[watchwoman]

Thanks for the ping to the new thread. Happy New Year to everyone on TM!

I’m still lurking (usually silently!)....

[WestCoastGal]

I’m still thinking about the post about the plane having to return because computers were not working and they did a manual check-in only to find out when the plane had already taken off that a name on the restricted list was on-board.

Why didn’t they use the destination computers to check-in passenger? Is that not possible?

Shall we ask Napolitano or TSA?

[WestCoastGal]

As long as we continue to let these crack pots into our country we are asking for this kind of trouble. The same goes for our border.

It’s like someone mentioned on FR today about 0 and us citizens being like battered wives. We just keep taking it and going back for more.