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Threat Matrix: 2010
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| 12/31/2009
| Freeper TMers
Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta
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Al Qaedas Yemen Connection, America and the Global Islamic Jihad
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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. (snip) 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. The Brookings Institution
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Threat Matrix: Since November 3, 2003
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"No matter where you live in the world, this is a message that bears repeating: Your assistance is needed to prevent terrorist acts." From TM'er and Freeper ~appalachian_dweller~
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Being prepared is a good thing, no matter where one lives; no matter what alert level we are on. From TM'er and Freeper ~Cindy~
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cranswick; lacklancranswick; terror; terrorism; threatmatrix; tm; wot
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To: FARS; MamaDearest; TigersEye; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; Oorang; Rushmore Rocks; ...
Cryin, snubbing...I'm going to mail this to 25 different places!Asking my pinglists to do the same?! The media, congress, organization blitz.The more hits this video gets, the more potent. I have one list of 50 + contacts alone. They ALL need to be voted out like yesterday, this WE CAN DO! I've had it! My limit is deficit spent. How about you? THIS brave video broke my back
If you would like to be added to my TM pinglist or removed just email me
921
posted on
01/07/2010 6:56:59 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: JustPiper
No. Never lurked. Came here after awhile because researching ANYTHING anywhere had articles and posts from FR on the subject...no matter what the subject was. Decided to check out the site for myself and got hooked. When freepers want to know something, nothing stands in their way. I like that.
Stayed on the PA message board almost a year to learn my way around before venturing out onto the forum.
922
posted on
01/07/2010 7:01:47 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
To: JustPiper
He was looking at the silk flowers, vases, some paints and frames. He wasn’t pushing a cart either.
The fact that he kept looking around (like you would if you thought someone was watching you) was what really unnerved me. Plus being in the restroom for so long.
Next time I’m in the store I’ll ask the manager what happened.
923
posted on
01/07/2010 7:03:47 PM PST
by
azishot
To: JustPiper
That was a powerful video! What I’m trying to get family and friends to understand is that this healthcare debacle is about POWER over us and not healthcare.
Healthcare to them will be reduced to a red or a blue pill.
924
posted on
01/07/2010 7:14:17 PM PST
by
azishot
To: MestaMachine
For whatever reason you are here, I’m glad that you are.
925
posted on
01/07/2010 7:17:57 PM PST
by
Rushmore Rocks
(Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
To: FARS; LucyT; JustPiper
926
posted on
01/07/2010 7:21:27 PM PST
by
bitt
(You canÂ’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak (Abraham Lincoln))
To: JustPiper
NO mention of the State Department, but several mentions that the bloomer bomber had a US Visa. Now the Visa could have, and should have, been revoked immediately after the father went to the EMBASSY and told them what was going on. They SHOULD have KNOWN that Britain had refused him a Visa.
I am laying the entire blame on the State Department, not on the intel services, because the STATE Department issued him a visa after Britain rejected him KNOWING he was radicalized.
To blame this on ALL of the intelligence agencies that each had snippets of information and none had all, when the State Department had it ALL, is assinine.
And the gratuitous slap at the Bush Administration was just ridiculous.
927
posted on
01/07/2010 7:27:08 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
To: Rushmore Rocks
Why THANK YOU! I’m glad I’m here too. FR has really become my family here.
928
posted on
01/07/2010 7:29:26 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
To: WestCoastGal; All
TM is having so much traffic and fast moving, I miss alot myself. I am so grateful and happy beyond words to all who are here and lurking
929
posted on
01/07/2010 7:32:44 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: JustPiper
I expect him to declare martial law as well.... but I believe it will not be until we have a *new* crisis. Something that involves lots of dead people. I don’t think money or health care or tax and trade will give him the cover he needs to pull it off.
930
posted on
01/07/2010 7:33:15 PM PST
by
Grammy
(Politics. .......( poli ) many ( tics ) blood suckers)
To: All
To: All; blackie; MamaDearest; WestCoastGal; Oorang; Candor7; TigersEye; Godzilla; ...
932
posted on
01/07/2010 7:54:05 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: MamaDearest
Oh my sis, you put in a full work day! Bump!
933
posted on
01/07/2010 7:56:47 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: caww
I was at work, please fill me in on their comments
934
posted on
01/07/2010 7:57:50 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: Oorang
You have got to be sh***in me?!
935
posted on
01/07/2010 8:02:00 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: MestaMachine
Well I am glad you found FR & even more TM!!! I hope we have a long relationship. You are beyond an asset MM! I found FR through Drudge many moons ago. Been an activist for 50 years :) Jim was such an inspiration, saw him on FNC & been an FR addict ever since
936
posted on
01/07/2010 8:14:36 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: azishot
What would've put the hair up on my neck was going to a back door, when he was supposedly looking for a bathroom.
~Profile away babee
937
posted on
01/07/2010 8:16:59 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: azishot
The GB thread, his show & the radio PROVES that! He is going to be revealing many things next week
938
posted on
01/07/2010 8:18:22 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: MamaDearest; WestCoastGal; Oorang; blackie
Dobbs Alert FNC on O’Reilly repeat
939
posted on
01/07/2010 8:20:11 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
To: bitt
I sent the YouTube video link to over 100 contacts lol, your right it’s more respected
940
posted on
01/07/2010 8:21:43 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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