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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.

The Brookings Institution



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To: Grammy

How about then when these dims acknowledge the purported losses they will suffer in November and beyond?


941 posted on 01/07/2010 8:23:28 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

I’ll agree with Liz over Palin...you won’t get bashed by me!
I do like Palin though, but if Liz was running she’d be a slamdunk in my opinion...over any of the men who might consider running in the party, because I don’t see any with the..”gravitas”..she has.

Sarah still has done great things in her life as Gov. and has galvanized the grassroots as no other, so no matter what I see her involved long term, if or not she announces she’s running. But I have a feeling she’s not going to run.


942 posted on 01/07/2010 8:25:46 PM PST by caww
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To: jersey117

Please keep us updated Girl! You always did have the inside knowhow, TY for posting this


943 posted on 01/07/2010 8:26:09 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper

Could be. I think they will do their best though to conjure up something dire, before they have to tip their hands with just blatant politics.


944 posted on 01/07/2010 8:36:36 PM PST by Grammy (Politics. .......( poli ) many ( tics ) blood suckers)
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To: Grammy

Do you honestly expect he’ll call for martial law? in whatever next crisis comes? Hummm..that’s a tall order in the economic climate we’re in. Would he risk the fallout from that?


945 posted on 01/07/2010 8:39:19 PM PST by caww
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To: Grammy; All

For those of you who have yet to see this video, the hits on it alone show how America is ready to fight, enjoyable break folks, he’s gotten 1 mil and 1/2 hits in 2 weeks :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo


946 posted on 01/07/2010 8:54:26 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Quix; All
Quix, thank you for this ping

MUST READ

In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us

Very sobering message from Golda Meir's personal bodyguard

947 posted on 01/07/2010 9:18:53 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper

There are flags on his play.

However, regardless, I believe he makes some good and worthy points.

And it doesn’t take a Mossad agent to come to those conclusions. They are mostly self-evident.

And, I think he’s wrong about nukes.


948 posted on 01/07/2010 9:23:30 PM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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Jailhouse Crock
949 posted on 01/07/2010 9:24:32 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: caww
Could be someones getting cover for this extreme error?

Dating myself here, but you bet your bippy Canadian or foreign sources will leak details slowly, but surely, in the days, weeks and months ahead. This administration divulges only what it wants us to know and not a single thing more.

950 posted on 01/07/2010 10:20:14 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Rushmore Rocks; caww
I agree with you RR. These three women put conservative male politicians to shame. Rush asked where the conservative voices were on the many very obvious shortcomings of democrats at this point in time? That dems are treating constituents as if they were trailer trash and not worth their time or effort (that phone callers and fax and emailers must be degenerates not worthy of their time or effort) left an enormous public relations campaign wide open for every American to think about - yet it is untapped and dems continue to miscalculate the frustration and anger the average middle class family has towards their shenanigans and how they will affect our nation and our children and their children.

Considering the current political cliimate, any of these three women has an opening that has the potential to be widely and well received. Working together they are definitely a force to be reckoned with and all of us concerned Americans are watching, listening and waiting (and dems will be surprised to find we're not the people they think us to be).

951 posted on 01/07/2010 10:39:18 PM PST by MamaDearest
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Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world. Apologists for Islam emphasize that it is a faith built upon high ethical standards; others stress that it is a religion of the law. Islam's dual notions of truth and falsehood further reveal its paradoxical nature

The Doctrine of Taqiyya

How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War

Steve Alert

Screening must include religion, ethnicity by Steven Emerson

952 posted on 01/07/2010 10:51:51 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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2009: The Year of Homegrown Jihad

The War on Terror Is a War – Not a Police Action Ed Koch

and my favorite segment,You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

Whenever you think general incompetence by those who purport to serve by the consent of the governed can’t get any worse, think again

(1/6/10) “Spying on Icebergs Instead of Terrorists?

953 posted on 01/07/2010 10:53:24 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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Jihad block

NOTE: For all TM'ers addicted to google. Switch to Yahoo, creators of Google act socialistic

Google blocks negative search recommendations on Islam

Try it for yourself, then look at poster's comments. I did the other day, looking for pics of "Get the Terrorist" and got zilch

Good news: State Department encouraging immigration from Yemen!

For Obama, ending the "politics of fear" equals making us unprepared against jihad terror

954 posted on 01/07/2010 10:57:12 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Velveeta; Cindy; Oorang; WestCoastGal; JustPiper; caww; MestaMachine; ExSoldier; LucyT; ...
Trend surfaces - Islamist web sites soliciting info on ships

Snips: A group that monitors Islamist Web sites has noted a disturbing trend - Internet posts from prominent contributors discussing attacks on U.S. warships.

Online threats against U.S. interests are not uncommon, and Internet propaganda is nothing new, said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, which translated the posts. But he said the recent posts are more significant because they come in response to an official communique from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror group linked to the attempted bombing of a commercial American jetliner on Christmas. It urged followers to kill "Crusaders" on land, in the air and at sea.

One Dec. 30 posting on the forum Al-Falluja directed readers to gather intelligence on U.S. Navy targets.

"My Muslim brothers, do not underestimate the importance of any piece of information, as simple as it may seem; the mujahideen, the lions of monotheism, may be able to use it in ways that have not occurred to you."

The information that should be quietly gathered, the posting continues, includes "(the vessel's) name, the missions it is assigned; its current location, including notation of the spot in accordance with international maritime standards; the advantages of this naval unit; the number of U.S. troops on board, including if possible their ranks, and what state they are from, their family situation, and where their family members (wife and children) live; what kind of weapons they carry; the (vessel's) destination... the missions it has carried out; the (recommended) way to monitor it around the clock."

Stalinsky said the responses to that message fill 50 pages and include postings with pictures of U.S. warships.

Some are clearly no longer in service; other images include diagrams of aircraft carriers that are easily available on the Internet and photos posted on defense industry Web sites.

US will try to convert Taliban militants

Identifying source of terror threat remains key to winning the war

Snip: And yet Obama and his security team members fail to properly describe the motivation of these cowards. Until that happens, the Obama administration will leave the impression that it does not recognize the basis of the terrorist threat. It's not poverty -- it's radical Islam.

955 posted on 01/07/2010 10:57:33 PM PST by MamaDearest
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Passenger yells 'kill all the Jews,' but air rage is declining

What does this tell you The incident on the Hawaii-bound was more typical

Hope this isn't a repost?

Man, bag results in incident at airport Philly

Suspicious package at Milan airport

956 posted on 01/07/2010 11:11:49 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: MamaDearest

Thank you for the ping MamaDearest.


957 posted on 01/07/2010 11:17:15 PM PST by Cindy
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To: JustPiper

This needs to be read by our representatives because they are the only ones who have a chance to get thru to the administration...dare I say they might consider? Doubtful it does seem. Because our security seems to be all about keeping the money flowing..yet again...like every other thing this gov. does FOR the people..yeah right! I’m so beyond disgusted!


958 posted on 01/07/2010 11:23:21 PM PST by caww
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To: JustPiper; All

Update:

F.B.I. Seizes Passport of Queens Man Scrutinized in Plot

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/nyregion/08zazi.html


959 posted on 01/08/2010 3:30:08 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Velveeta; All
BURNIN' DOWN THE TENT!!!, y'all.
This is a Jim Robinson approved and sanctioned Free Republic Project.
960 posted on 01/08/2010 7:09:48 AM PST by MestaMachine (Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
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