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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: azishot

We warned here for a few years that when they all start disappearing we’re in deep dudu, thus I got alarmed & obssessed when I found out about Islamberg


861 posted on 01/06/2010 8:15:12 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper
I believe Islamic terrorists will open fire in crowded public places throughout the USA sometime soon.

Agreed, but hoping/praying we're wrong!

862 posted on 01/06/2010 8:20:07 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: JustPiper

Wish I’d been around here a few years ago. Just glad to have finally found FR!


863 posted on 01/06/2010 9:10:12 PM PST by azishot
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To: ExSoldier

glad to see you, and your wife is in my thoughts! same for your daughter, Rushmore!


864 posted on 01/06/2010 9:17:39 PM PST by bitt (You canÂ’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak (Abraham Lincoln))
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To: JustPiper

The madrassas all over the country are springing up like blades of grass. One of the things that just sent me into spasms and got me involved in the jihadi hunt here in the USA was the fact that they were buying up many of our historical landmarks, mostly Revolutionary and Civil War FORTS and Battlefields with hundreds of acres and woods surrounding them. They own Manassas, less than an hour from DC and other important places.
Been tracking them ever since. I don’t think people are aware of how many there are and how widespread they are. Coast to coast and North to South.
Hardly anyone is aware of the terrorist handbook/manual and they should be. Forest fires and other fires are part of their tactics.
There was a HUGE warehouse fire in South Carolina near where they got the two Jihadis with the pipebombs in their trunk, that started almost instantly and burned so hot, the heat traveled for three miles and melted and bent nearby railroad tracks.
Law Enforcement kept it a local story, but that fire was arson and had to have used an industrial strength accelerant usually only used by the military to burn as fast and as hot as it did.
Then I found out that a military warehouse near Houston had been robbed and that this accelerant, which comes on what looks like huge sheets of paper, had been stolen, never to be found. 1500 of them.
After that, there was a rash of these same kinds of fires. Very sudden, no apparent reason, burning too hot for Fire Departments to handle, so they had to let them burn. Each fire stayed local. Never made the national press...except the refinery fires. Three refinery fires in two weeks.
Then there were FOUR forest fires burning simultaneously Northeast, Southeast, North, and Southwest.
The southeastern fire burned through two states, S Georgia and N Florida, and evey time they thought they had it under control, it started up again. It was so hot, it jumped freeways and even jumped a river.
The Northeastern fire also covered two states, New Jersey and Delaware, and the southeast part of New York.
The Northern Fire burned between Canaada and The Usa. It burned for eight days.
The Southwestern fire was, of couse, in California.
In each case, the fires had multiple start/flash points. And in each case, when the fires would start to die down, they were restarted.
You might recall the fires in Greece that burned in an almost perfect circle.
No one can convince me these were not related. One fire is one thing. two might be a coincidence. But FOUR at the same time. No Way!


865 posted on 01/06/2010 9:34:27 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: MamaDearest

Thank you for the pings Mama Dearest.


866 posted on 01/06/2010 10:04:46 PM PST by Cindy
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To: JustPiper
Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up airliner over Detroit

The only thing the media didn't do was to put the words "nice wealthy " as adjectives describing the "Nigerian man." Amazingly they didn't call him the "alleged" Nigerian man. (rolling my eyes with all this political correctness that is ultimately going to get Americans killed).

867 posted on 01/06/2010 10:14:36 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: JustPiper

This might be the “crisis” that the administration will use to try to confiscate guns.


868 posted on 01/06/2010 10:15:28 PM PST by Grammy (Politics. .......( poli ) many ( tics ) blood suckers)
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To: Velveeta; All

Hope this works

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2421956/posts?page=9#9


869 posted on 01/06/2010 10:16:06 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: Cindy
You're welcome Cindy!

Police test new powers during weapons blitz in Melbourne's west

Police and the Victorian Government have defended new police search powers being tested at Footscray Railway Station today. It is the first time police have used new laws that allow them to "lock down" designated areas, and use metal detectors to search anyone suspected of carrying weapons.

Police seized a machete from one train passenger soon after the operation began this afternoon.

It's a war, not an incident

Snip: The president probably would have attended memorial services for the dead, expressed "strong condemnation," persuaded the United Nations to issue more worthless resolutions, but little more. That's because the president isn't fighting - or speaking - as if we are at war. He first called the attempted bombing an "incident." In his Saturday radio address, the president finally, if belatedly, tied the attempted attack to al-Qaida's branch in Yemen. Still there is great reluctance by this administration to state the obvious.

President Obama and his Cabinet apparently believe that by not calling it a war, it becomes something less. This president refuses to call it a war and sometimes approaches pacifism in his rhetoric. If al-Qaida and its affiliates around the world behave as if they are at war and the United States views every attack as "incidents" and not part of a larger battle, our enemies will win.

870 posted on 01/06/2010 10:20:22 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Velveeta

Please place me on the list. Thank you.


871 posted on 01/06/2010 10:23:19 PM PST by Former
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To: Velveeta; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; ...

Khamenei family has fled to Russia for refuge

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/01/breaking-news-more-rats-fleeing.html


872 posted on 01/06/2010 11:33:08 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: Velveeta; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; ...

MUST VIEW

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/01/america-rising-open-letter-to-democrat.html


873 posted on 01/06/2010 11:46:38 PM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE! Happy New Year.)
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To: FARS; LucyT
thanks FARS!

Khamenei family has fled to Russia for refuge

874 posted on 01/07/2010 12:10:40 AM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: FARS; LucyT
thanks FARS!

Khamenei family has fled to Russia for refuge

875 posted on 01/07/2010 12:11:25 AM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: FARS

Ok..I’ve been waiting for this news...Iran’s clock is up..and with Israel prepping her people...and all else considered ...when do you think things will culminate? I suspect very soon short of some sort of intervention.


876 posted on 01/07/2010 12:16:21 AM PST by caww
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To: Velveeta

Not seeing much on this on F.R:

“Fighter Jets Escort Maui-bound Jet Back To Portland” (Oregon)

http://www.kgw.com/home/Maui-bound-plane-turned-back-to-PDX-after-passenger-issue-80845642.html

...thought it would be in breaking news...looked a couple of times, did key word search and nothing there...hmmmm

Is it already ‘old news’? News cycle is too quick for me if it is. Reading other stories about it on the net, can’t figure out what the guy did to get a fighter jet to escort him back home!


877 posted on 01/07/2010 3:17:48 AM PST by graceisfree (...and these Three are One!)
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To: JustPiper

Thanks for the ping and the heads up. This is truly a frightening scenario and it’s just a matter of time before a Mumbai-type incident happens here. They are particularly emboldened at this time.


878 posted on 01/07/2010 5:52:05 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Rushmore Rocks; ExSoldier

Prayers for a full recovery for both of your family members.


879 posted on 01/07/2010 5:54:02 AM PST by jersey117
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To: graceisfree

I posted it here at #796 but it was not seen


880 posted on 01/07/2010 6:04:20 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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