Threat Matrix: 2010

Freerepublic.com ^ | 12/31/2009 | Freeper TMers

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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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[blackie]

My wife and I spent our 40th wedding anniversary in ‘03 at the Adobe Resort in Yachats, the food was great and view was perfect.

You’re right, the view from The Landmark is super and food is fine.

I have friends that rave about Rockaway Beach, we’ve never stayed there.

[blackie]

Good stuff! I’ll pass it on to my email friends, some of which are really into the Illuminati, Bilderbergs, New World Order, etc.

I suspend disbelief and keep an open mind, remembering that God is in control.

When all of the insanity going on does get my head spinning, I turn to this Bible verse:

Jesus said:
“When these things begin to come to pass, then look up,
and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.”
~~ (Luke 21:28)

[Moe Tzadik]

Nine containers of PETN discovered damaged at 4:45 a.m. ?

I’ll finish the end of day narrative...”Not terrorism related, only one container, abundance of caution, working to protect America, better safe than sorry,...”

Port Safety Director Abdullah Farouk al-Mustafa said there was nothing to worry about and that after morning prayers he would attend to any difficulties.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

LOL

You gotta remember that /sarc.

I was out of my chair and halfway to the gunrack when I read the first few words of that last sentence....

[MamaDearest]

****Thanks for hearing me groan...****

You're not the only one goaning. Most of America is groaning with you. The Thugocracy has pushed too many people too hard too fast. The fan is just about ready to fling it back at democrats and this admininistration.

We're not a nation that makes rulings and laws via closed door meetings in the middle of the night. They better realize some things are best left undone (and that encompasses just about everything they've already done and still plan to do). The stimulus slush fund and everything else along the line they've "done" has mired us in debt and has fired us up beyond their wildest comprehension.

[JustPiper]

I found you tube has almost anything we want to see :)

[JustPiper]

Mesta posted this at her thread...I was alarmed, please keep us updated CoCo

[JustPiper]

The most alarming thing is how close in porximity is this to our military? Was it headed to a base?

[JustPiper]

"If you're getting ready to fly over the holidays, it might be better if you don't read 'Unsafe at Any Altitude'

Flying still 'Unsafe at Any Altitude'

He was reported to have been “drunk” last week on the plane that was diverted. Do you buy that?

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[JustPiper]

The above pic has layers (slide show)of what we want no part of

As much as $9.5 million in federal stimulus dollars went to 14 zip codes in Virginia that don’t exist or are in other states

Come on, people! Ski vacations are pretty pricey. Who wants to lose out after laying out all of that dough? Besides, no one else rushed back to Washington – so why would Leiter have thought his immediate presence was necessary?

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks - I just don’t have time to read other lengthy threads anymore.

[JustPiper]

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Don't worry. It's only $400-600 million to try KSM & Co. in NYC. [That's YOUR MONEY!

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[JustPiper]

Tell me about it. I was on Mesta’s thread & the GB thread all day

[Clinging Bitterly]

We had never stayed there before. Not a lot of hotels I don't think, but there are a lot of beach houses to rent.

We stayed at this place...

http://rockawayrentals.com/falconsnest.htm

[JustPiper]

VIDEO Ribbons for Soldiers Banned in Connecticut Town

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[JustPiper]

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"We are afraid to call them Muslim Islamist terrorists. We’ll call them anything but because we don`t want to alienate Muslim countries. That`s ridiculous."

Ed Koch Dismisses President's Mideast Popularity: ‘Did They Stop Trying to Kill Us?’

[JustPiper]

Sick Man On 'Do Not Board' List Flies From Philly

[JustPiper]

Jinxed Flight 243 from Amsterdam Bump

4 passengers on Northwest flight cause disturbance

[MamaDearest]

My wife and I spent our 40th wedding anniversary in ‘03 at the Adobe Resort in Yachats, the food was great and view was perfect.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

bttt