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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: hennie pennie

Well good for you. You know what you want.

Air Canada, and JAL are good Air Lines too.But then , you get what you pay for.

I will continue to fly out of Canada internationally, where they have a profiling based security system.I personally know exactly how to prevent myself from being treated as chattel. LOL. But you can treat me as such. I likely would enjoy that! LOL.

(BTW, no stewardess or ticket agent has ever succeeded in treating me as chattel, and if necessary I just pay them 75 bucks and transfer to another airline, but thats only been once.)


481 posted on 01/03/2010 1:20:43 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: hennie pennie; All

The army (which here would mean the trained and heavily armed paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rather than the former regular military which still exists but has been sidelined and mostly disarmed of heavy weapons) had not arrived in Tehran streets with tanks etc. as late as yesterday.

Sorry if repeat information from me.


482 posted on 01/03/2010 1:26:26 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: FARS

Sounds like fun.


483 posted on 01/03/2010 1:30:02 PM PST by bvw
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To: WestCoastGal

Wasn’t it New YOrk Congressman Schumer who refused to stop talking too and called the cabin crew member the B word? (smile)


484 posted on 01/03/2010 1:31:44 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: MestaMachine

Because our so-called pres—ent, Oba-Hussein is a embedded Moslem with Marxist upbringing - or vice-versa. He and his chosen aiders and abettors are of his ilk and hate America as badly or worse than Al Qaeda or similar terrorist organizations.


485 posted on 01/03/2010 1:37:49 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: Velveeta

Did you have time for lunch?


486 posted on 01/03/2010 1:41:45 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: FARS
Lawrence of Yemen!!

I bet you have many other adventures tio relate. Did you meet any Yemeni women.I had a friend who was a commercial pilot who got tangled up with a Yemeni woman in the Netherlands. She led him on a merry chase over three years, promised marriage and took him for everything she could, before disappearing back into Yemen.He even met her family in Yemen where he did contract work training pilots there. They all carried rifles most of the time.

487 posted on 01/03/2010 1:47:56 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: JustPiper

I hit mute when BO comes on TV but no built in mind button yet.


488 posted on 01/03/2010 1:50:10 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: Candor7; All

That was what my friends called me when they learned I was going there. After insisting I write a will. Virtually never saw a female. Except a bunch of young school girls with their Mullah teacher. They were suitably dressed in Moslem garb with no hair evident but faces showing.

And yes, tons of stories, some quite hair raising and life threatening.


489 posted on 01/03/2010 2:04:13 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: FARS

You should write a journal so that we can know more about Yemen. Very lttle known about it.Obama is in bed with the Yemenis. We do need to know more about the country.


490 posted on 01/03/2010 2:08:54 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: FARS
FARS!!!

Thank you so very much, I've been so curious about those initial reports, thanks MUCH for the update.

491 posted on 01/03/2010 2:09:08 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Candor7; All

With all the “been there and done that”, I am looking for a publisher. Lost many of my journals in Iran - got out with two suitcases. However now have reconstituted a four inch thick folder of notes. Yemen is almost a short book in itself.

Yemen triggered one of the four times I have had a price/bounty put on my head (Soviet).


492 posted on 01/03/2010 2:21:51 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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Nigerian family to attend plane plot suspect’s arraignment: source

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

KANO — The family of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day plans to attend his arraignment in court this week, a family source said Sunday.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, who is currently being held in a federal prison in Michigan, is due for arraignment in a federal court in Detroit on Friday.

“The family has finalised all arrangements to fly to Detroit in the US to attend the trial of Umar Farouk which begins on January 8, from information available to us,” the family member who requested anonymity told AFP.

Lined up for the trip is the father, Umar Abdulmutallab, the mother Aisha and other family members, the source said by telephone from Abdulmutallab’s home state of Kaduna in northern Nigeria.

“They fly out within the week but I can’t tell you the day because the family would want it to be a secret for now,” said the source.http://bit.ly/6hM0Dq


493 posted on 01/03/2010 2:29:13 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: FARS

I would love to read about your travels/adventures -


494 posted on 01/03/2010 2:32:21 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: FARS; Allegra

If you get those notes wrapped in a hardcover let me know.)

Hoping for Adventures with Allegra, too;)


495 posted on 01/03/2010 2:41:23 PM PST by BARLF
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To: jersey117

I am livid and stupified also


496 posted on 01/03/2010 2:44:10 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: FARS

Please keep us updated FARS?


497 posted on 01/03/2010 2:45:34 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: BARLF; Allegra; FARS
OOPS

Adventures with Allegra, by Allegra!

498 posted on 01/03/2010 2:45:59 PM PST by BARLF
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To: FARS

Well, Sharia does dictate


499 posted on 01/03/2010 2:46:45 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: FARS

Listening to Cool Oldies is the only thing that works for me


500 posted on 01/03/2010 2:53:09 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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