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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: MestaMachine; WestCoastGal

Can either of you tell me what the heck they mean by this?

WASHINGTON (AP) Obama counterterrorism chief: US not opening new front in Yemen against terrorism

Please don’t tell me they are just leaving Yemen alone after BO said there are Several hundred al-Qaida members in Yemen ?!


441 posted on 01/03/2010 11:30:58 AM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: MestaMachine
I have done all I can personally.So have many of us.

I am ready. I conceal carry at all times, I avoid flying internationally from US airports, use Canadian ones.

The problem is that much of America thinks that approach is paranoid. In a month or two they will change their minds about that.

Meanwhile you and I and others who are in the know will remain safe.Others will die.Thats they way Darwin awards are handed out.

Not much else to be done IMHO, until the summer run up to the November erections controlled by ACORN and SEIU, in which they will attempt to erect the left.

I am just bringing in fire wood, enjoying life and inventorying ordnance.Obama is toast now, and will begin to wax more totalitarian as time goes on.He has sh*t the bed, screwed the pooch, bought the farm. We now will have to dodge the china he throws at us in his hissy fits, and protect ourselves as a people.Obama refuses to do it.Then we use the ballot box to be rid of the whole mess of them.

And if the ballot box doesn't work, I already have several plans made and will decide what to do at that time.Its all good. Most of the worries are now over since Obama has shown everyone who he is by his conduct and treasonous decisions.The rest is up to the people, and if they do not rise to the occasion, then I will decide what to do then.

442 posted on 01/03/2010 11:39:36 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: All

British Muslim terror group threaten sniper soldiers family with death
http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=17555


443 posted on 01/03/2010 11:45:45 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: WestCoastGal; MamaDearest; Seadog Bytes; gubamyster; All
Immigration

Lou takes on his critics who are calling him a hate monger, claiming he's advancing an agenda to expel illegal immigrants. Well, enough is enough. Lou's position on immigration, both legal and illegal is clear, as is his respect for illegal immigrants trying to tap into the American Dream.

Lou's Record on Illegal Immigrants and U.S. Immigration Policy

Radio Station Finder

444 posted on 01/03/2010 11:51:22 AM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: WestCoastGal

Not to worry, mayhaps they vacationing on the islands


445 posted on 01/03/2010 11:53:05 AM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: WestCoastGal
Can you imagine the Thousands of nothing to see here, move along's there have been since 9-11?
446 posted on 01/03/2010 11:59:31 AM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: JustPiper

Politico: All travelers flying into the U.S. from foreign countries will receive tightened random screening.

Passengers from Nigeria, Pakistan, Yemen, Cuban, Iran, Sudan and Syria will receive full body pat-down and physical inspection of property.


447 posted on 01/03/2010 12:01:43 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: JustPiper

Means they won’t send in American troops. That is what THEY call “opening a front.” The “front” has already been opened by CIA. It LOOKS as if bam is trying to shut THAT down or close the door. He is at personal war with our intel agencies...Not with islam.


448 posted on 01/03/2010 12:03:43 PM PST by MestaMachine (Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

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It speaks eloquently to the Obama administration’s priorities that it took the White House four days to acknowledge the “catastrophic breach of security” that led to the failed bombing of a US-bound jet on Christmas Day — but a scant four hours to accuse Dick Cheney of coddling terrorists.

The former vice president Wednesday harshly criticized the administration’s efforts — or non-efforts — against terrorism. Whereupon, Team Obama went ballistic.

But Cheney’s take was spot-on: “We are at war” against terrorism, but President Obama “pretends we aren’t.” This, warned Cheney, “makes us less safe.”

Precisely.

Obama, he said, “seems to think that if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war.

“He seems to think that if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hardcore al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”

“Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war?” asked Cheney — then answered the question: “It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency — social transformation, the restructuring of American society.”

Amen to that.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/unwelcome_truths_A9vpGHq6nAkpFBXL730G1I#ixzz0ba5Ssnfk


449 posted on 01/03/2010 12:05:29 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal

Mother Lode sounds so much better than caca


450 posted on 01/03/2010 12:06:15 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: All
US general urges strip search of Muslim men

A retired US general and member of Iran Policy Committee (IPC) says all 18 to 28 years old Muslim men should be strip searched at airports as "one of these bombers" will explode an airliner in the coming days.

Thomas McInerney, a retired Lt. Genera with the US Air Force, told Fox News television on Saturday that within the next 30 to 120 days, "there is a danger of high probability" awaiting US airliners.

"If you are an 18 to 28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip searched. And if we don't do that there's a very high probability we're going to lose an airline," he said....

LINK

451 posted on 01/03/2010 12:06:34 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Candor7; MestaMachine
>>> "The Canadians still have a good airline security system ...... So fly domestic to Canada and get your international flight from there. Domestic air travel is still safe inside the USA, but perhaps not for much longer." <<<<

NO.

ANY industry which requires CONGRESS to enact legislation that they are no longer, by law, permitted to lock up travellers with no food & water and leave them on the concourse overnight is SAFE. Not to my mind.

The ONLY airline I would ever consider getting on is El Al, and then I will drive to the nearest city they service.

Most Americans fly. Most Americans would consider my views peculiar & paranoid.

Myself, I have NO idea why they'd ever travel on a form of transportation where it is OBVIOUS to me that they are considered to be dispensible chattel. I will NEVER willingly fly on any airline than El Al, EVER.

452 posted on 01/03/2010 12:11:38 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Candor7
Obama is a treasonous bastard who has no intenton of protecting America. He wants America to suffer for its historical, allegedly imperial transgressions, which is why he needs to be frog marched out of the White House for the leftist marxist treasonous bastard he really is.


453 posted on 01/03/2010 12:12:19 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: MestaMachine
They are trying and testing every little crack in our entire system


454 posted on 01/03/2010 12:15:03 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: Candor7; appalachian_dweller
>>> "In a month or two they will change their minds about that." <<<<

You mean I can change my screen name that soon?? Sounds like you believe something major is in the pipeline...

I just started reading the survivalist novel written by Rawles, PATRIOTS and some of the characters are a bit reminescent of the two of you.

455 posted on 01/03/2010 12:19:50 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Candor7
I love readin your posts!

"until the summer run up to the November erections controlled by ACORN and SEIU, in which they will attempt to STEAL


456 posted on 01/03/2010 12:20:32 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: MestaMachine; JustPiper; All
The U.S. does not plan to open a new front in Yemen in the global fight against terrorism despite closing its embassy there in the face of Al Qaeda threats, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.

"We're not talking about that at this point at all," White House aide John Brennan told Fox News when asked whether U.S. troops would be sent to Yemen.

http://bit.ly/7bEZSs

Ostrich comes to mind

457 posted on 01/03/2010 12:20:43 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: JustPiper

Yes I’ve heard those myself - nothing to see - move along. It will continue until something big happens, then what will they say?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bush’s fault


458 posted on 01/03/2010 12:22:18 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal

Check those cajones buddy. They will get more resourceful now. They always think of something new. Been through what 3 things now? Wouldn’t put it past them to swallow the next one, like drug carriers


459 posted on 01/03/2010 12:23:59 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: MestaMachine

It might also be instructive to get annual crop tonnage for years BEFORE the Taliban came to power, as they were responsible for the end of the bumper poppy crops.


460 posted on 01/03/2010 12:24:09 PM PST by hennie pennie
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