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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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THIS JUST IN!!!

DETROIT (AP) Not guilty plea entered for Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up US airliner.


981 posted on 01/08/2010 11:12:21 AM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal

LOLLOL


982 posted on 01/08/2010 12:04:01 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper; Velveeta; Cindy

RMCP Make Arrest Connected to Pipeline Bombings

Kate Yule
Friday, January 8, 2010

The RCMP have made an arrest and are searching a rural Alberta farm in connection with a series of gas pipeline bombings in British Columbia.

Inspector Tim Shields says a man in his 50s or 60s is now in custody. His name has not been released, as no charges have been laid.

Officers are now doing an extensive search of a farm about 25 kilometres east of the Alberta-B.C. boundary.

Police are not saying who owns the property, but a lawyer for convicted gas well bomber Wiebo Ludwig says it is Ludwig’s farm.

Ludwig and another man were charged and convicted in two gas well bombings in Alberta.

There have been six pipeline bombings targeting Encana sites in B.C. since October 2008.

http://www.cfra.com/?cat=3&nid=70479


983 posted on 01/08/2010 12:12:14 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: WestCoastGal; MamaDearest; backhoe; JustPiper; Cindy; Godzilla; LucyT; Rushmore Rocks; FARS; ...
Islamic jihad to target Balkans next, Israeli foreign minister says
Thu, Jan 07 2010

Islamic Jihad organisations that already had infiltrated countries in Africa and South America intended doing the same in the Balkans, through similar methods including huge transfers of funds and the establishment of cells, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said. Lieberman was speaking after meeting visiting Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski on January 5 2009.

Intelligence services had evidence that Islamic terrorist organisations were already recruiting in the Balkans, Lieberman said, according to Israeli media reports. Islamic and Saudi charities were continuously transferring funds to Muslims of Bosnian and Albanian origin, the Jerusalem Post reported him as saying.

Excerpted

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2010/01/07/838961_islamic-jihad-to-target-balkans-next-israeli-foreign-minister-says

Possible Explosives Found In DeKalb Condo (Georgia)
January 7, 2010

The discovery of possible explosives inside a DeKalb County condo under renovation forced the evacuation Thursday of two buildings and a construction site. The scene was cleared by 3:15 p.m. The devices were discovered during a remodeling project at a unit in the 1300 block of E. Rock Springs Road, according to Mekka Parish of the DeKalb County Police Department.

Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones spoke to a construction worker who said there appeared to be about 100 hand grenades in two boxes. The bomb squad was called and ordered the evacuation of the condo building, the building next door and a nearby construction site. Residents were allowed back into the buildings after the bomb squad removed the devices.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22174415/detail.html

984 posted on 01/08/2010 1:18:37 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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BreakingNews

Fighter jets scramble after unruly passenger reported on Airtran flight from Atlanta to S.F.; law enforcement meets plane in L.A. - NBC News


985 posted on 01/08/2010 1:30:05 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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Unruly passenger forces plane to land in Springs
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January 08, 2010 1:51 PM
JOEL MILLMAN
THE GAZETTE

An airliner with 132 passengers and crew aboard was diverted to Colorado Springs Airport today after an intoxicated passenger became unruly and locked himself in a bathroom, officials said.

AirTran Airways Flight 39 was en route from Atlanta to San Francisco when it made an unscheduled landing in Colorado Springs at 11:30 a.m., said John McGinley, the airport’s assistant director of operations.

Two F-16 fighter planes were deployed by NORAD to escort the plane to landing in the Springs, NORAD officials said in a release.

The passenger, whose identity was not immediately released, was taken off the plane by Colorado Springs Police officers. He was being detained, but had not been arrested, McGinley said.

“Given the current climate, it’s just not a good idea,” McGinley said of the man’s actions during the flight.

The plane will remain at the airport while the incident is being investigated. Then it is expected to resume its flight and head to its destination.

No flights or other operations at the airport were disrupted.http://www.gazette.com/articles/plane-91986-springs-passenger.html


986 posted on 01/08/2010 1:32:06 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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I see no reason to serve alcohol on planes! Look at how much money these drunks cause the airlines and security to spend on them when we should be concentrating on terrorists.


987 posted on 01/08/2010 1:35:00 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Oorang

Two boxes of grenades?

Oooooooooogly.


988 posted on 01/08/2010 1:40:36 PM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (1107 and a wakeup)
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To: Oorang

How can they call 100 hand grenades “possible explosives”?


989 posted on 01/08/2010 2:02:15 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: JustPiper

Your post 841 - thanks for the air travel thread link. You’re terrific JP - although I must say if I can drive somewhere rather than fly, that’s the option I’ll be taking!


990 posted on 01/08/2010 2:39:47 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Thats why I go by car once a year up North, your most great btw


991 posted on 01/08/2010 2:45:59 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal

~So I guess we can expect this daily


992 posted on 01/08/2010 2:48:30 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: fanfan

here too

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2418483/posts?page=984#984


993 posted on 01/08/2010 2:50:32 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal; All

From someone on the AirTran flight:

“Dude was Arabic or Indian too...that was the tweak”
http://twitter.com/CELLSKI


994 posted on 01/08/2010 2:55:19 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Oorang

100 grenades?!?

I sure hope there are updates.


995 posted on 01/08/2010 2:59:15 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: fanfan

Thanks, Fanfan.
If it’s this guy Weibo, I wonder why he’s still not in jail from the previous bombings?


996 posted on 01/08/2010 3:10:54 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: JustPiper

Ping to #994


997 posted on 01/08/2010 3:12:06 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Looks like he took the post down or was told to


998 posted on 01/08/2010 3:22:51 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Velveeta

oops never mind I didn’t go back far enough


999 posted on 01/08/2010 3:24:46 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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They guy Cellski says the drunk had a “razor”.

I was wondering if he meant like a box-cutter? Regardless, how does this guy get on the plane with any type of razor?


1,000 posted on 01/08/2010 3:30:59 PM PST by Velveeta
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