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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: Arthur Wildfire! March

Please add me to your Hayworth ping list. Don’t ever feel you have failed. YOU haven’t. All of us (conservatives) have done whatever we could do. We’ve called, faxed, e-mailed, written letters to our local papers, gone to tea parties, been active in our local politics, etc.

It is the mis-guided, un-educated, un-informed, hand out/bail out seeking, non-productive, socialist/fascist, anti-war, anti-life, pro-union, pro-gay, Muslim/terrorist supporting, anti-second ammendment, liberals (did I leave anyone out?) who are destroying this wonderful country.

As a great-granddaughter, granddaughter, daughter, wife, and mother of military men......I can honestly say.....

You have nothing to apologise for.


3,101 posted on 02/23/2010 7:08:10 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: hennie pennie

I know who Paul is, but we all developed our own sources or do, he’s not one of mine -g-


3,102 posted on 02/23/2010 8:53:33 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: MestaMachine

Thus the beauty of the Canteen -g-


3,103 posted on 02/23/2010 8:54:47 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: bloodmeridian; All
-- New York terror suspect Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty to conspiring with others to detonate explosives in the U.S.

U.S. Unveils $1 Billion High-Security Embassy in London

Eric Holder Must Be an Honorary Member of Al Queda

IAEA Report on Iran Underscores Need for Action Now

Countdown to atomic Ayatollahs

Iran will go nuclear and formally inaugurate the post-American era.

Keeping You Safe by Mark Steyn

Miami: Funding Hizballah with Playstations

3,104 posted on 02/23/2010 9:00:18 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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Arizona: Father who murdered daughter in honor killing will not face death penalty so that "there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim"

Women Beaten in Malaysia under Shariah Law by Jim Kouri

Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees, offers no details

From my new friend

Who is an Islamic Terrorist Supporter? by Dave Gaubatz

3,105 posted on 02/23/2010 9:05:38 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Don't know much about you Arthur, but please know that many of us posting here on TM are HUGE military supporters. My dad was Merchant Marine, one brother was Navy, the other Army, and my son was Air Force No need to apologize for us, we're as patriotic as they come here and we care a LOT about voting out those political scum who betray our troops (no matter who they are) and makinig sure our troops have all the support they need to do their job the way it needs to be done so they can defeat the enemy and come home safe.
3,106 posted on 02/23/2010 10:19:52 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: WestCoastGal; Cindy; PGalt; Oorang; Rushmore Rocks; blackie; ExTexasRedhead; Nachum; JustPiper; ...
Nice global warming you have there WCG! Thanks for the picure. Al Gore won't be asking permission to use it to describe his folly/scam any day soon.

ATF probes loss of guns from Cleveland police unit

Federal authorities are investigating whether more than 500 weapons missing from the Cleveland Police Department's evidence room were part of an illegal firearms-trafficking scheme.

Gun heist - 29 weapons taken from Buffalo Bills

Twenty-nine firearms in all were stolen from the store - some were high powered assault riffles like AK-47's. About 25 boxes in ammo were also taken.

Terrorist training video in Blackburn park - jury told trio prepared for jihad

Rolling around in a quiet park, two men are filmed carrying out what is alleged to be terror training for a deadly jihad. In other shots, a man poses with a machete and the other a rifle while the pair are dressed in combat gear with camouflage paint smeared on their faces.

Radical Islam's Manchurian Candidate

President Obama’s appointment of Rashad Hussain, his deputy associate counsel, as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, charged with safeguarding and protecting “the interests of the Muslim world,” should be of serious concern to Congress and the American public.

New docs on disputed AirTran flight shows no Muslim hijack attempt

FAA documents obtained by TPMmuckraker through the Freedom of Information Act thoroughly debunk NASA diver Tedd Petruna's tale of a thwarted hijacking aboard AirTran Flight 297 in Atlanta last November.

3,107 posted on 02/23/2010 10:46:30 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks for the ping MamaDearest.
All interesting.


3,108 posted on 02/23/2010 10:47:42 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Rushmore Rocks; MestaMachine

Got you on the ping list, Rushmore. Thank you both for the kind words. — FRegards ....


3,109 posted on 02/24/2010 3:08:47 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Farah: "If [certifigate]'s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple.")
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To: Cindy; JustPiper

SECURITY STING

3,111 posted on 02/24/2010 3:16:02 AM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MamaDearest

We’ll keep fighting, FRiend. =]


3,112 posted on 02/24/2010 4:08:09 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Farah: "If [certifigate]'s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple.")
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To: MamaDearest

If the rest of America doesn’t wake up, there is going hell to pay!!


3,113 posted on 02/24/2010 8:30:52 AM PST by blackie
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To: MestaMachine

Hmmmm....


3,114 posted on 02/24/2010 12:15:29 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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Thanks Drudge

New Missile Defense Agency Logo Causes Online Commotion...

3,115 posted on 02/24/2010 12:18:12 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: MamaDearest

That AirTran incident has been puzzling - wonder why Petruna would go to such lengths as he did to further the story?


3,116 posted on 02/24/2010 3:17:02 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal
Ditto that here WCG!

Sneaking Somalis across the Mexican border

Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group.

Judge upholds detention of 2 men Bush panel cleared

General aviation offers a reminder of vulnerability

Snip: The bottom line, however, is that it would be prohibitively expensive to totally lock down all airports and aircraft nationwide in an effort to prevent them from being used in attacks like the one conducted by Stack. In the face of this reality, the best that can be hoped for is to keep the largest (and therefore most destructive) aircraft safe from this sort of misuse.

DOJ - Department of Jihad?

Netherlands - woman tunnels out of jail - using spoon

Ohio convert - family reconciliation not possible

America's first Muslim college

Richland project installs radiation detectors along US borders

That’s 850 systems now screening cars and trucks for radioactive contraband as they drive through portals into the United States.

3,117 posted on 02/24/2010 6:09:25 PM PST by MamaDearest
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Napolitano Stumbles Upon Islamic Jihad

Corruptocrat Eric Holder’s national security cover-up

Obama Disarming America

3,118 posted on 02/24/2010 7:32:43 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: Islaminaction; All


America’s First Muslim College set to Open

Anti-Muslim College Columnist Attacks Those Who Fight Islamofascism

Hamas-linked CAIR uncharacteristically silent about longtime Board member's deportation for jihad terror ties

Muslim Mafia's Chris Gaubatz: A hero, and more than a hero

Preview:Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad's Coming War For Islamic Revival And Obama's Politics

3,119 posted on 02/24/2010 7:37:24 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: JustPiper; blackie
Pakistani Muslims - Killing an Infidel is not a sin

Infidel's dirty habits

Death fatwa result of natural differences

....deeming lawful the killing of anyone permitting “ikhtilat” – mixing of the sexes – in the workplace or in a place of education.

Animal ID system halted after $142 million

The National Animal Identification System, first proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2004, has been abandoned after costing $142 million to develop. In turn, the USDA has proposed to develop a new, flexible framework for animal disease traceability in the U.S. and undertake several other actions to further strengthen its disease prevention and response capabilities.

Kansas woman pleads guilty to poisoning salsa

A 19-year-old Kansas woman has admitted putting poison in salsa that sickened patrons at a Mexican restaurant where she worked in Johnson County.

The day the feds killed US citizens

Snips: It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season.

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

Some girl scout cookies are lemons

One of the bakeries that supplies Girl Scout cookies has recalled Lemon Chalet Cremes because they have an off taste and smell. Little Brownie Bakers says on its Web site that "certain lots of Lemon Chalet Creme cookies contain oils that may be breaking down." They are safe to eat, the baker states, but then who would want to?

3,120 posted on 02/24/2010 10:14:13 PM PST by MamaDearest
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