Threat Matrix: 2010

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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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[azishot]

Also note talk radio saying we are not the only state experiencing this today.

Do you know what the other states are? Listening to Mark Steyn subbing for Rush and haven't heard this. I've been in and out and somewhat busy so far and may have missed it. Hope we're not being set up for something *bigger* to happen.

[hennie pennie]

So many freepers in this other messagethread stated that they missed this sad news, that I've decided to post a link here, direct to the thread.

FReeper Jeff Head - in need of prayer - Cancer surgery (Update at #67) Journal: My bone cancer (Sacral Chordoma)
4 January 2010 | Dolly Howard
Posted on 01/04/2010 2:45:21 AM PST by DollyCali

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2420449/posts

Our Freeper Friend Jeff Head was diagnosed with a serious (they all are to me) form of cancer just before Christmas.......FReeper Jeff Head - in need of prayer - Cancer surgery (Update at #67) Journal: My bone cancer (Sacral Chordoma)
4 January 2010 | Dolly Howard
Posted on 01/04/2010 2:45:21 AM PST by DollyCali

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2420449/posts

Our Freeper Friend Jeff Head was diagnosed with a serious (they all are to me) form of cancer just before Christmas.......

[JustPiper]

I am listening locally to my station on the net

Updated: FBI investigating 8 threatening letters with white powder at federal offices around Alabama

[blackie]

Be Ever Vigilant!

[caww]

Well..info coming from all directions continues. Seems there is security scramble on most fronts. Thinking the recent airline panty bomber has created an attitude of increased “pay attention” on the security front...might be why so many reports now flying out there.

There is often a likelyhood people become less attentive as days and months pass without much reported on potential attacks in the MSM. So once something hits MSM well it’s then all out war to cover the latest. When in actuallity this stuffs going on 24/7....and 24/7 should be a given for security. Israel knows well, wishing we were as vigilant
as they are!

[JustPiper]

Whats up with this?

The substance at the Vance federal building at first tested positive for anthrax, but later was determined not to be the sometimes deadly material.

Is that sorta like “Almost Pregnant?”

[azishot]

Thanks, JustPiper. Still haven’t heard anything on the radio.

FReeper, BP2 has posted a thread about this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420778/posts

[JustPiper]

The story at the link I posted is updating every 5 minutes

[JustPiper]

Update:

Dr. Don Williamson, Alabama state health officer, said that the state public health laboratory had been notified that it would be receiving samples today from around the state. As for the sample from Birmingham on Sunday, he said “we know that it’s not anthrax. We know it’s not a biological agent and we know it’s not ricin.”

“At this point it does not appear to be a toxic substance ... based on the one letter we got out of Birmingham,” Williamson said.

[JustPiper]

Oh No! thanks for the link!

[JustPiper]

Update:

Two of the letters sent were to Senator Sessions and Shelby

Link to my local radio anyone can listen:

Click on Listen Live, GB on now, you will hear newsbreaks

http://www.talkradio1055.com/pages/steveandleah.html

[JustPiper]

~ping

[blackie]

Something weird is going on. How could they miss the difference??

As I say: Be Ever Vigilant!

[hennie pennie]

No, it is not like being "almost pregnant."

The first test is typically conducted where the substance is found, it's a portable test kit and is not anywhere near as sensitive as the testing back at the laboratories -- and thus there frequently are FALSE 'positives' associated with these stories, in the beginning, before more elaborate, more accurate testing is done in the lab.

[JustPiper]

Update:

Two of the letters sent were to Senator Sessions and Shelby

Link to my local radio anyone can listen:

Click on Listen Live, GB on now, you will hear newsbreaks

http://www.talkradio1055.com/pages/steveandleah.html

[FARS]

How sad about Jeff! He is one of my favorite posters with great information.

My prayers go out to him.

[hennie pennie]

You might mention that to him directly, on that other messagethread -- he's been posting comments on it, when he can.

Just the other day I was wondering why I wasn't coming across his posts anymore, but I had NO idea that he was ill.

SO sad.

[JustPiper]

FBI investigating 7 threatening letters with white powder at federal offices around Alabama

[MamaDearest]

Internet Forums Advocated Use of Biological Toxins

Thanks for the ping WCG! Your posts are excellent - sure hope you don't intend to quit posting on TM.

Fighting a lukewarm war

Snips: ......we face a global struggle against a new mutation of militant Islamism ready to use all and any means at its disposal, bonded by anti-semitism, hatred of America and a desire to enforce sharia law and to restore the Caliphate........

.......it follows that the winding up of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will bring the whole sorry chapter to an end, and we can all get on with life as normal. The only flaw in this comforting narrative is that it happens to be complete nonsense.......

On the Link there's a comparison of Sharia Law vs the US Constitution - excellent to view:

Sharia vs Constitution

It is coming. A showdown in America, not some wild west show, but a real showdown, just like Europe is facing, with Islam. Islam is not a religion but our government is treating it as such. Islam is a theocracy that governs citizens way of life, in the same way the Constitution is the light that governs America (when Congress is not in session). The forces of Islam in America are pushing the boundaries, in the hopes of establishing a Sharia based caliphate in America, and undoing western civilization. For those of you who still do not understand or believe that Islam is a threat, I am going to compare Sharia Law to the Constitution. You shall see that the “religion of peace” is really the religion of pieces, where the children blow up so quickly.

The bomber and war of ideas

“To…kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it,” the fatwa said. “This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah (to) fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together.”

American book banned in Iraq

Iraq's Deputy Cultural Minister Dr. Jaber al-Jaberi announced that Iraq has officially banned the American book "How Fatima Started Islam: Mohammad's Daughter Tells It All" by Noor Barack. Anyone found in possession of the book in Iraq will be subject to Sharia Law.

Does this sound like more than one group in America?

Britain's training grounds for terror

The great socialist experiment in Britain has gone so terribly awry that extremist Islamists now openly march against the government and proliferate their anti-western views in halls of higher learning. Because the multiculturalists never thought to make clear that the goals of immigration should be to shape the migrants into Britons, not the other way around, the nation now has Islamists both foreign and British-born marching in the same streets on which British war dead are repatriated.

[hennie pennie]

I hope that you will return to the TM. I did not understand what your posting meant. I had no idea that I had offended you and that therefore you decided to stop posting here at TM.

PLEASE RETURN.

I promise you that I will never post anything whatsoever on the TM, and I hope you will find it possible to forgive me for whatever I said and however you took it.

Good by and Good Luck.
Regards,
HP