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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: Velveeta
Thannks, for the MO. As frightening as it is enlightening.

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.

What a difference a year makes. . .but 'who' is counting?

521 posted on 01/03/2010 5:13:31 PM PST by cricket ('Don't bow for me Obama ' (America's 'sorry' President)http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSW)
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To: jersey117

TSA: Newark terminal locked down

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/03/new.jersey.airport.breach/index.html


522 posted on 01/03/2010 5:13:51 PM PST by jersey117
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To: FARS
Thank you; thank you; for your experience. . .and for sharing a bit of it. Another world and yet 'the world we live in'/sigh. . .
523 posted on 01/03/2010 5:17:20 PM PST by cricket ('Don't bow for me Obama ' (America's 'sorry' President)http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSW)
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To: FARS

Hmmm, I don’t recall. ;-)

Have you seen this yet?:

Iranian Website: Iran Can Jam U.S. Radar Systems

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/23468.htm


525 posted on 01/03/2010 5:24:34 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: WestCoastGal

That family better have their underwear searched at the airport!

Better yet, they should be denied visitors visas.


526 posted on 01/03/2010 5:27:12 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: WestCoastGal

The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack.

An honored guest of the Ramadan dinner at the Pentagon this September was Hesham Islam, who infiltrated the highest echelons of the Ring despite proven ties to U.S. terror front groups and a shady past in his native Egypt.

As senior adviser for international affairs to former deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, Islam ran interference for the Islamic Society of North America and other radical fronts for the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood, the subject of my new book “Muslim Mafia.”

For example, Islam persuaded brass to sack a Pentagon analyst, Stephen Coughlin, after he advised cutting off outreach to ISNA, which he accurately ID’d as part of a covert terror-support network in the U.S. — something the Justice Department recently confirmed in a major terror finance trial.

Islam invited ISNA officials to lunch with the avuncular England, known by insiders as Gullible Gordon, who in turn spoke at ISNA confabs. Islam also helped set up a Pentagon job booth at one recent ISNA convention to recruit Muslim chaplains and linguists.

Most disturbing, Islam met regularly with Saudi and other embassy officials lobbying for the release and repatriation of their citizens held at Gitmo. He in turn advised England, who authorized the release of dozens of Gitmo detainees. Some have resumed terrorist activities.

No one really knew who Islam was when he was promoted — in fact, the Pentagon removed his bio from its Web site after reporters noted major inconsistencies in it — yet he was allowed to get inside the office of the Pentagon’s No. 2 official.

“In effect,” a senior U.S. Army intelligence official told me, “we’ve got terrorist supporters calling the shots on our policies toward Muslims from the highest levels.”

Meanwhile, politically incorrect prophets like Coughlin have been frozen out. After the betrayal at Fort Hood, the military could use his analysis of Islamic doctrine more than ever.http://bit.ly/7vGcQk


527 posted on 01/03/2010 5:29:11 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Velveeta

Yes, considering what I posted yesterday about the father - they should be denied access to this country period! And, their son should have been designated as an enemy combatant except hope/change has taken over at a risk to all of us.


528 posted on 01/03/2010 5:36:19 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: jersey117

Trending on Twitter:
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529 posted on 01/03/2010 5:55:07 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: WestCoastGal

I agree 100%.


530 posted on 01/03/2010 5:56:33 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: MestaMachine

Oh I’ma gonna find out how this sucker fits into the Daley Masheen


531 posted on 01/03/2010 6:02:25 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper
She is stunning but like most, I prefer the US version of womenhood.
532 posted on 01/03/2010 6:04:13 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: bitt

Thanks Bitt will check it out after I see if Breaking News has been posted!


533 posted on 01/03/2010 6:04:39 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: jersey117

And there it is, just checked my email , was gonna post but you on it my friend :)

Terminal C on lockdown after man went through the wrong side of a checkpoint exit


534 posted on 01/03/2010 6:06:32 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: jersey117; WestCoastGal

~ping...Coco, you gonna be a buzy gal


535 posted on 01/03/2010 6:07:41 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: jersey117

Police are seeking the individual

HUH?!


536 posted on 01/03/2010 6:09:03 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Candor7

AND she’s aPolish huney :)


537 posted on 01/03/2010 6:10:54 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper

Polish American! I love the Polish BTW.


538 posted on 01/03/2010 6:13:24 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: JustPiper

I saw it earlier - but these type of gate problems are usually nothing ~ I’m about done for the day :)

I actually thought my post about the muslim penetration into the pentagon was more interesting and troubling.

Keep me posted if you stay up.


539 posted on 01/03/2010 6:16:16 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: bitt
Man, that guy is an idiot bitt!

Nonetheless, Democrats will continue to enjoy their standing as the more compassionate advocates of needy Americans What planet are these yahoo's from?!

~THEY LIVE~


540 posted on 01/03/2010 6:19:52 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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