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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: WestCoastGal

This is very disturbing....once again another “white guy” converting to Islam. And in the video on this page...of Shias and Sunni’s in NYC, I noted another white guy who was unafraid to speak out, with conviction, over the others he was with.

Listened again to Rita Katz when she went before the committee in DC a couple years ago, how they are recruiting our young people to join Islam in line.

I later visited a couple Muslim sites and was astounded to read the comments of those who inquire more of Islam. These young people have no clue what they are getting into.

Awful just awful are kids are so vulnerable..and why not? Parents are not getting the right stuff to them and our governments not warning them! I am so miffed!!!!! There is such a cloud of deception over our country....


301 posted on 01/02/2010 3:14:29 AM PST by caww
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To: MamaDearest

Liberals will never support profiling...ever. And with the Muslim groups like Cair etc, and the Arab monies joining them to fight it in long drawn out court, and or government debates, I doubt very very much it will ever be initiated.

This cloud over are country just seems so to be darkening at a rapid pace....where are those in power and able to stop this?


302 posted on 01/02/2010 3:26:22 AM PST by caww
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To: JustPiper

Wasn’t there a recent post about some of these camps..Like Islamburg or Islamville having suddenly missing all the men?


303 posted on 01/02/2010 3:34:56 AM PST by caww
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To: WestCoastGal

But haven’t the Imans and the Islamic leaders been putting out the call to act now and might be why we see the esculation.


304 posted on 01/02/2010 3:36:59 AM PST by caww
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To: hennie pennie

THIS is correct about children raised as Muslims/Islam.
Not to mention the children are often beaten to submission or for no apparent reason at all.

I believe the term dissociative behavior comes into play, which affects their identity, their personality can split basically into two or more functioning personalities. Which would account for them being able, as adults, to hide their extreme sides.

Now this happens in our country for some children who are raised in abusive homes...can you imagine being raised additionally in a Mid eastern country where they are taught to hate and kill!

Another thing is Muslim people from the Middle east have little control emotionally. We often hear of the men being brutal but don’t think for a minute the woman aren’t as well.

A film of a canidate running for office in Iraq received very little support from the woman in his family, I was astounded how they belittled him and heckled him though they were in agreement he should run for office.

Islam is such a dastardly and false demeaning cult. So many of the people have much chance for any degree of normalcy.


305 posted on 01/02/2010 4:04:32 AM PST by caww
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SOOOOOOO they LIED....................

Detroit — A federal customs and border protection official reversed himself today, admitting a passenger from Northwest Flight 253 was placed in handcuffs, searched and released after a canine alerted officers to his carry-on luggage.

Ronald G. Smith, chief U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in the Detroit area, sent an email to The Detroit News late Thursday apologizing that the information on the passenger — which was reported to federal investigators by a pair of Taylor attorneys who were passengers on the flight — was not made available earlier.

Federal officials had denied the details of the incident despite repeated accounts by attorneys Kurt and Lori Haskell of Taylor who say they saw a man get questioned by federal officials and be led away from the airport baggage area in handcuffs after a sniffer dog reacted to something in the man’s carry-on luggage.

The couple said the man, who appeared to be in his early 30s and of Indian descent, was taken to a room for questioning and later led out of that room in handcuffs.

In the email, which was also sent to the couple, Smith said he had just received a piece of information he did not have previously and hopes “it will clear up the matter.”

Smith said the man was handcuffed and escorted to a room where he was interviewed and searched. Nothing was found. The man was not arrested or detained, and no further information was available about him, Smith said.

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“This information is consistent with eyewitness accounts,” Smith said.

In previous statements, the FBI has said only one man from the flight was arrested.
http://bit.ly/6qBwgC

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If you read this story you get three explanations - 1 - a man was arrested from 253 or 2 - a man from 249 was arrested or (wait for it) a 3rd man was arrested from an unknown flight??


306 posted on 01/02/2010 6:00:01 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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The Haskell’s rebuttal to this is here.......

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html


307 posted on 01/02/2010 6:07:58 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: caww
sure is:

Here

And here

308 posted on 01/02/2010 6:12:19 AM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: MestaMachine

Very interesting stuff - all lonely creeps with a few screws loose IMO. Those pics of Cho give me the creeps. And, I didn’t know about Moose. Hmmmmmmm in Hawaii - I wonder who paid his way?


309 posted on 01/02/2010 6:22:26 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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placemark


310 posted on 01/02/2010 6:27:42 AM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: All

Arizona school linked to Turkish Islamic supremacist threatens parents - Jihad Watch http://ow.ly/RRHg


311 posted on 01/02/2010 6:33:36 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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You’d think that with an extremely wealthy family and a father who was the Chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would have the best defense lawyer money can buy . . . and that he or his family would be paying for it.

But you’d be wrong. In fact, YOU–the American taxpayer–are paying for his defense. And his federal public defender, Miriam Siefer, has a record of sleaze and unethical behavior . . . some of it illegal.

Over the weekend, I told you about Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s:

* family’s incredible wealth (noting that he’s yet another example debunking the absurd myth that Muslims turn to terrorism because of poverty or lack of opportunity–Nope, it’s because of Islam);

* that he made an eleven-day trip to Houston in August 2008–why? Who did he meet with and where did he go? (the FBI was too busy having Muslim outreach butt-kissing sessions to do the investigations they needed to do before Friday’s attempted attack);

* that a Michigan couple who were on flight 253 say a “sharp-dressed man” helped Abdulmutallab get on the flight without a passport and that a second man was arrested when they got to Detroit;

* that the FBI appears to by lying about Sunday’s second incident on Flight 253–because the “ill businessman” who locked himself in the plane’s bathroom for an hour had no luggage and couldn’t tell authorities why he wanted to go to the U.S.

Now, meet Umar Abdulmutallab’s lawyer, Miriam Siefer, whose salary you are paying.

If the name sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve read about Siefer on this site, before. During the Detroit terror cell case, she represented Karim Koubriti, an Islamic terrorist in a cell, which plotted to blow up the U.S. Air Force Base in Turkey, where U.S. AWACS and Israeli F-16s are based and from where they took off. They also plotted to blow up hotels and casinos in Las Vegas and planned to detonate in Disneyland.

During the course of her “representation” of terrorist Koubriti, Siefer and her fellow public defender, Richard Helfrick a/k/a Rick Helfrick (who will probably also assist her in representing Abdulmutallab), stole the stationery of the then-Chief Judge of the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Lawrence Zatkoff, forged Zatkoff’s name, and sent it to another attorney in the case, accusing him of faking invoices (which wasn’t true). That makes at least several federal crimes that I can think of–theft, forgery, impersonating a federal official, mail fraud, etc. but they got away with it.

Read more here.......
http://bit.ly/7uDIEF


312 posted on 01/02/2010 6:43:13 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: JustPiper
Thank you for the tip - I shivered when I read your posting, and then suddenly I realized that I cannot, not for the life me, remember anything about Lori Roth's book.

IF/when you have the time & inclination could you post links to reviews about it, and perhaps a pic of the cover?

Thanks.
HP

313 posted on 01/02/2010 7:21:15 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Velveeta

ping


314 posted on 01/02/2010 7:22:34 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (Keep your friends close......keep your enemies closer!)
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To: MestaMachine; JustPiper
Thank you for all of these examples of other youngish males described as > lonely & depressed.

I believe that this is really important.

WHY haven't we heard of this before, that these are behavioral characteristics of young men who are targeted for recruitment by the fringe homicide islamists???

I know that there are LOTS of behavioral profiling characteristics that experts follow before anyone is allowed to board an El Al airplane, but I've never heard ANYTHING what soever about this Depressed & Isolated Phenomenon.

Perhaps, though, these are 'lay' terms, and professional clinicials would speak of schitzophrenia or some type of psychosis - some 30-syllable term which we lay people simply wouldn't recognize.

Just IMAGINE, in your own city alone, wherever you live, just how many male muslim immigrants might accurately be depicted as depressed, withdrawn, social isolated, essentially friendless...

ALSO..... isn't this the way that the Saudis conducted convert enlistment in the prisons of America?? Findly vulnerable loney depressed prisoners and telling them converting to Islam would solve all their problems???

315 posted on 01/02/2010 7:30:11 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: MamaDearest

We are truly blessed to have the poseur messiah leading us, dontcha think.../S


316 posted on 01/02/2010 8:22:53 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: blackie
We are truly blessed to have the poseur messiah leading us, dontcha think.../S

"Blessed" may not be the correct word........or for that matter "messiah."

317 posted on 01/02/2010 10:05:13 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

poseur

“one who practices affected attitudes,” 1872, from Fr. poseur, from verb poser “affect an attitude or pose,” from O.Fr. poser “to put or place” (see pose (v.1)). The word is Eng. poser in Fr. garb, and thus could itself be considered an affectation.


318 posted on 01/02/2010 10:14:01 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: caww
This cloud over are country just seems so to be darkening at a rapid pace....where are those in power and able to stop this?

The money dealers who pull the puppet strings of world leaders exercise control of them (example - George Soros and Obama). A while back there were many who considered "New World Order" references conspiracy theory and the mere mention of the term labeled them nutjobs. Today those three words are NOT dismissive and are discussed openly, and even inserted in presidential speeches.

The Soros Obama connection

Obama's Communist Connection

The Barack Obama Illuminati Connection

New World Order - still a conspiracy theory?

The New World Order - How global "green" regs will affect you

Laurie Roth, an Oregon radio talk show host, reveals Obama's connection to terrorists

Obama and McCain - pawns of the global elite

President George Bush announcing war against Iraq

Speech Snip: When we are successful -- and we will be -- we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

Obama's speech in Egypt

In calling for a "world order," Obama blatantly said "Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation . . . over another will inevitably fail." Does everyone understand what Obama is saying? In order for this new "world order" to materialize, no individual nation can be preferred over another--not even our own. In a word, no country can be allowed to maintain national sovereignty, independence, or military superiority. All nations must be willing to surrender their sovereignty and independence to the new "world order." Furthermore, all nations must be willing to submit their militaries to a new global military. Oh yes, my friend, all of this is inferred in Obama's statement.

319 posted on 01/02/2010 10:58:42 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MestaMachine; Velveeta; MamaDearest; hennie pennie; JustPiper; WestCoastGal; Cindy; LucyT; ...

Flight 253 jihadist’s father “leader of Sharia movement in Nigeria”

If this anonymous piece is accurate, maybe he was just practicing damage control when he notified the authorities about his son’s “extremism” — as Creeping Sharia puts it, daddy “threw his son under the bus to protect himself and his own Islamist interests.” But it looks as if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a chip off the old block.

It’s overheated, yes, and the English is faulty, but the most important question here is, Are these charges true? “Nigerian Muslim Jihadist and Al Qaida Ties Started Long Ago with Alhaji Mutallab,,.The Father As a Leader of Sharia Movement In Nigeria,” from Africa Today, January 1 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):http://ow.ly/16fOSx


320 posted on 01/02/2010 11:23:14 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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