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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

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
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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: MestaMachine

Thanks Mesta.


3,141 posted on 02/26/2010 9:28:19 AM PST by caww
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To: Mata6858; nw_arizona_granny; All
Kalpakkam: Missing scientist killed himself

http://m.ndtv.com/s/5265/2092?itemId=NEWEN20100132824

Kalpakkam: The missing scientist from Kalpakkam Atomic Centre was found dead on Friday. The scientist, working with the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam was missing since last 11 days. Ananthanarayanan, an E-grade Scientific Officer at the centre's computer division, had not returned home since February 15. Authorities of the Kalpakkam atomic plant had said that Ananthanarayanan was not involved in any sensitive projects.

3,142 posted on 02/26/2010 10:49:26 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: MestaMachine

Bump in truth


3,143 posted on 02/26/2010 12:00:57 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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Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
April 5, 2004 | Jim Robinson

HHere’s an updated alphabetical list of the sites that have complained about copyright violations thus far. The posting program will only allow excerpts and or deny posting where designated from the following sites:

These sites must be excerpted and linked only:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts

These publishers have asked us not to allow any material at all to be posted to FR:
SEE LIST (it’s huge)


3,144 posted on 02/26/2010 12:08:14 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: blackie; WestCoastGal; Rushmore Rocks; JustPiper; ExSoldier; appalachian_dweller; LucyT; ...
Thank you Blackie, I'll try that!

Two more men charged in plot to bomb subways

Snips: Two men already in custody were indicted on Thursday on new charges of participating in a Qaeda plot to detonate explosives in the crowded New York subway system, and federal prosecutors suggested that more people would be charged in the case.

Jeffrey H. Knox, the assistant United States attorney overseeing the case, told the court that it was likely that other defendants would be charged in the case, adding, “although probably from overseas.”

Microbe Managing

Snips: Onetime adviser to George W. Bush and Weekly Standard contributor Tevi Troy suggests that the federal government is indecisive over the best way to distribute its stockpile of countermeasures to anthrax and smallpox to the population. Maybe the post office could deliver these potential life-savers, or they could be distributed from designated centers. How about handy "home medkits"? The Food and Drug Administration has yet to even approve the labeling of the kits.

"Unfortunately, some public health experts and federal officials don't like medkits because they fear that people can't be trusted to use the materials only when necessary. This short-sighted mentality will make it much harder to get crucial countermeasures distributed appropriately when needed."

3,145 posted on 02/26/2010 4:52:00 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Speaking of microbe managing:

Obama picks nose at summit [???]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2460243/posts?page=45


3,146 posted on 02/27/2010 2:05:39 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (God isnÂ’t running this year, but ticket splitters probably will be.)
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To: All; JustPiper; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Cindy; MestaMachine; appalachian_dweller; Candor7; ...
Tsunami Warning for Hawaii, First Wave at 11:19 a.m. HST, 10-15 Foot Waves; Advisory for West Coast


3,147 posted on 02/27/2010 4:57:36 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: All
Here is the link to the FRthread about the tsunami warning:

Tsunami Warning for Hawaii, First Wave at 11:19 a.m. HST, 10-15 Foot Waves; Advisory for West Coast

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460455/posts

There was a massive earthquake overnight in Chile.

3,148 posted on 02/27/2010 5:01:32 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: All
Massive Magnitude 8.8 Quake Hits Chile, Killing Dozens

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460466/posts

3,149 posted on 02/27/2010 5:04:22 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: MamaDearest

I would place a bet in Vegas that this country isn’t even close to being able to handle a bio-terror event - except those who are in the boonies that can stay home and are stockpiled ‘may’ be able to save themselves!


3,150 posted on 02/27/2010 5:48:37 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: All
I want to apologize.

The MAIN messagethread was NOT in the Sidebar; I did searches on the words 'quake' and then 'earthquake' -- and had NO idea that the FIRST messagethread contained neither word.

Here is the MAIN FR messagethread about the 8.8 Earthquake in Chile.

VERY sorry to have posted inaccurate information; the following thread will soon have over a thousand postings:

Here's the main thread with hundreds & hundreds of posts:

8.8 in Chile [Update at #277]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460407/posts

3,151 posted on 02/27/2010 6:26:00 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: caww


The Wasteland: Israel and Iran after Nuclear War

Iran Threatens to Refine More Uranium

3,152 posted on 02/27/2010 5:48:58 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

Thanks Arthur


3,153 posted on 02/27/2010 5:50:15 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

President Obama Picks His Nose on Live TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQmLzdTl_U&feature=player_embedded


3,154 posted on 02/27/2010 5:52:04 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: SoldierDad; ExSoldier; Baynative; BobMcCartyWrites; Jet Jaguar; Seadog Bytes; Sergeant Tim; ...

Imprisoned for Saving American Lives

Former U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hatley is now serving a forty year sentence in Leavenworth prison. He was convicted by a 2009 Court Martial of murdering four Iraqi insurgent arrestees in Baghdad following a 2007 ambush and firefight, and dumping the bodies into a Baghdad canal. Two other Sergeants with the Alpha Company 1-18 1st Infantry were also convicted and sent to prison.

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/22/imprisoned-for-killing-terrorists-in-iraq-2/


3,155 posted on 02/27/2010 5:54:05 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; FARS; Jet Jaguar; TigersEye; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; WestCoastGal; Oorang; ...


Gaza newspaper: "This president is either a Muslim or an apostate from Islam according to the strongest viewpoints of Islamic jurisprudence"

VIDEO:Defense Department Official Caught On Video Selling Secrets to China

Join us in on March 11, 2010 Tallahassee FL to defend the constitution from the progressive Islamists on Muslim Capitol Day. See www.FloridaSecurityCouncil.org for details.

Progressive Islam Protest - March 11, 2010 Tallahassee, FL

CAIR Targets Washington State Prisons

Guess who’s coming to California State University at Sacramento? None other than CAIR — only this time they’re pairing Japanese American students with Muslim American students for a three hour workshop: “Voices Unite in Solidarity; Japanese American Students and Muslim American Experiences Post-9/11.”
Makes sense, given all the recent and multiple Japanese-American underwear, shoe, and body-cavity bombers. Gotta stop those Japanese Jihadists.

CAIR sponsors "Japanese-Muslim Apartheid" seminar.

News Busted February 26

3,156 posted on 02/27/2010 6:01:20 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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DC police enforce Sharia, eject women from main prayer hall in mosque

"The Justice Department employs nine lawyers previously involved in the defense of terrorist detainees"

Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a West Bank Hamas leader. Mosab Hassan Yousef is a convert to Christianity. In this interview he speaks about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as not being one over land, but over Islamic doctrine, which is intransigent and can never allow for the existence of an Infidel polity, much less a Jewish State, on what Muslims consider to be Islamic land. He speaks about the problem being rooted in the Qur'an.

"Even a moderate Muslim who reads the Koran must read that the Jews are the sons of apes and that the infidels must be killed"

Rep. Myrick meets NC Muslims in town hall meeting

3,157 posted on 02/27/2010 6:05:32 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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Two U.S. Power Plants Could Use Converted Weapons Plutonium

Benefactors of Terror Donations Rise in Funding Asian Militants

In March 2007 I wrote about the question of whether or not Barack Obama was, according to Islamic law, an apostate from Islam who thus merited the death sentence Islamic law mandates for apostates.

Spencer: Muslims Exempt from Death Penalty in U.S.?

In "CPAC Shills for Islamic Terrorists" at FrontPage today, Jamie Glazov interviews Pamela Geller about Grover Norquist and how he has enabled Islamic supremacists to gain access to the highest levels of the U.S. government (as well as to blunt any critique of the global jihad that might have been offered at CPAC)

The deleterious influence of Grover Norquist

3,158 posted on 02/27/2010 6:09:25 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; MamaDearest; LucyT; WestCoastGal; hennie pennie; nw_arizona_granny; Godzilla

This is probably not the right forum for this post, but all my FR friends are here.

I have been on the computer, phone, and e-mail since midnight following the earthquake news. Our son is in Santiago, Chile, staying at the San Cristobal hotel. (our company imports wine from there and he was visting the wineries) We finally were able to reach him about eight this morning. He is fine, but unable to get a flight out for a few days.

He said Concepcion was hit really hard. Please pray for the beautiful people there.

Stressful day for Mom, Dad and his wife.


3,159 posted on 02/27/2010 6:52:18 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Thank God your son is okay. Praying aftershocks don’t affect him and everyone else there in Chile. Praying for your son’s safe return home RR!


3,160 posted on 02/27/2010 7:16:11 PM PST by MamaDearest
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