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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

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
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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: JustPiper

For the longest time he was very active on the WEATHER messagethreads, but then he just stopped posting.


101 posted on 12/31/2009 5:11:36 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Palladin

102 posted on 12/31/2009 5:14:37 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: JustPiper

Don’t know if you saw this:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413157/posts

Must admit it scared me. Where are they? Regrouping elsewhere to attack us...again?


103 posted on 12/31/2009 5:19:45 PM PST by azishot (HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!)
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To: caww
Talk about someone of ME extraction having it rough on his WOT:

In the latest of a years-long Wikipedia campaign of hurling smears at WND's founder, Joseph Farah was characterized as a "Zionist Twit and Jew Loving Pig" on the site that claims to be an online encyclopedia.

Top encyclopedia: Farah is a 'twit, Jew-loving pig'-'Also enjoys chowing down on babies once in a while'

104 posted on 12/31/2009 5:19:59 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: Velveeta; All

Hey Velveeta, all:

First, apologies for disappearing. 2009 started really badly for me, my mother died unexpectedly and that threw me for a loop for much of the year.. not an excuse per se but hopefully people can understand.

Things have been good recently. I got a new job at work and am doing heavy research on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. I am expecting to have a co-authored piece published in the NYT this Sunday on the subject, so be on the lookout!

I am in Florida with my dad for the holidays, but will try to check back in from time to time. Trust me, you all have been on my mind when things have come up recently. I have just been scared to make my return after running off.

All the best and hope everyone has a happy new year.

Ian


105 posted on 12/31/2009 5:21:33 PM PST by nwctwx
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To: JustPiper

The Internet frequently leaves alot to be desired, particularly of an editorial nature.


106 posted on 12/31/2009 5:22:50 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: nwctwx
YIKES -- L.T.N.S.

A very Happy New Year to you & yours, and I hope that the past couple years have been really great for you!

107 posted on 12/31/2009 5:24:25 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: JustPiper

When does the Sunday NY Times come out?


108 posted on 12/31/2009 5:26:10 PM PST by hennie pennie
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TSA drops journalist subpoenas over leaked security memo http://bit.ly/6jLCgh


109 posted on 12/31/2009 5:26:21 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal; MamaDearest

110 posted on 12/31/2009 5:28:16 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: nwctwx
Ian,

My condolences to you on the death of your mother, that is a really hard adjustment to make.

She would be so proud of how your career is progressing, YOU are a tribute to her memory.

Please have a safe New Years Eve.

We are calling up our local Barnes & Noble to find out WHEN their Sunday NY Times will arrive, LOL.

Thank you for posting..... AND... if you happen to know ANYTHING about Iran, please don't be bashful in "sharing," so help me this apparent total press blackout reminds me of the day before we invaded Iraq, it just feels so eerie.

111 posted on 12/31/2009 5:29:34 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

No One has such a map. The most troublesome Somali immigrant community now is Lewiston , Maine.

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/somali-youths-randomly-attacking-and-robbing-people-in-lewiston-me/

This site also will give you numbers, but no maps ....yet.


112 posted on 12/31/2009 5:32:28 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: nwctwx

It’s so nice to see you back here. You have been missed!

I’m sorry for your loss - unexpected can definitely throw you for a loop.

I hope 2010 will be a great year and safe year for all of us.

Somehow I have this nagging fear it may not be for certain parts of the country.


113 posted on 12/31/2009 5:32:30 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: hennie pennie

And I worry about the black converted muslims in the prison systems. A family friend, her son (white) was recruited in an Illinois State Prison and will not listen to reason


114 posted on 12/31/2009 5:33:56 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: JustPiper

Yes - I can see me doing that :)


115 posted on 12/31/2009 5:34:35 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: hennie pennie

MS13 has terrified me for 3 years now. And there are many new ones to come through South America that are just as bad or worse. Thanks Pennie for posting that!


116 posted on 12/31/2009 5:35:27 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: kimmie7

Back atchya Kimmie, so glad you are here!


117 posted on 12/31/2009 5:36:14 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: azishot
This is what got me active again at TM. Tm'ers know it's my obsesesion lol:

Known Jamaat ul-Fuqra camps -(Also known as Muslims of America and Quranic Open University)

All things Jamaat ul-Fuqra

If you read about ten posts further from there...you'll see what tricks my triggers :)

118 posted on 12/31/2009 5:42:31 PM PST by JustPiper (Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. ~ML King)
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To: nwctwx

Oh, Ian. I am so sorry to hear about your mother. I lost my mother last year, too. It hurts.

Welcome home. You’ve been missed. Don’t ever be afraid to make an appearance here. We are your friends. Lots of support here for the old timers......and the new ones.

Please ping us to your NYT times piece. I’ll swallow my pride and read it. I usually ignore the NYT, but for you, I’ll read it. Congrats.

Please keep in touch.


119 posted on 12/31/2009 5:45:34 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Two of the seven CIA officers killed Wednesday in a suspected terrorist attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan were contractors for Xe, a private security firm, a former intelligence official said Thursday.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. A senior U.S. official said information suggested that a bomber walked into a gym facility at Forward Operating Base Chapman — in Khost Province, near the border of Pakistan — and detonated bombs in a suicide vest.

Another six CIA employees were wounded, another official said. It is not known how the bomber got past security.

A U.S. intelligence official on Thursday vowed to avenge the attack.

“This attack will be avenged through successful, aggressive counterterrorism operations,” the intelligence official vowed.

Former CIA official Robert Richer called it “the greatest loss of life for the Central Intelligence Agency since the Beirut Embassy bombing” in 1983, which killed eight agents.

http://bit.ly/651A9a


120 posted on 12/31/2009 5:46:08 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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