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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Intelligence is the best weapon against terrorism.
National Commission on Terrorism: 1999

Ian Livingston

[Moe Tzadik]

ITIC bump

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/home/default.asp

[caww]

Couldn’t get any recent data from that site? Months back.

[Moe Tzadik]

Yep - happened in 3/2001 - somebody got punked. I asked that my three posts be removed.

Thanks.

[Moe Tzadik]

Whoops, my mistake. ITIC Date format is DD-MM-YY

[caww]

Ha! Stuff happens...I did that couple times and it sure made me aware to be sure and check my dates.

[JustPiper]

Thank you Cindy

[JustPiper]

It's about time attention was brought to these conferences

A major Jewish organization accused several Muslim groups on Monday of using an Islamic summit in Chicago as a platform for extremist and anti-Semitic invective instead of its stated purpose to combat the increasing radicalization of Muslim-American youths.

Jewish group rips Islamic summit-Calls goal to combat terrorism a 'sham'

[JustPiper]

Comic Relief for TM'ers

TERRORIST, WHERE?!

Merry Christmas from the World of Islam

"Notional" Security" By Thomas Sowell

Tens of Thousands Sign Petition Urging Holder to Move KSM Trial from New York
Sign the Petition

[JustPiper]

For example, the members of a new international group formed to help fight the violent MS-13 and 18th Street gangs were meeting for the first time last month at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia when the reason for the group’s existence became perfectly clear: representatives from El Salvador and Mexico realized they had been tracking the activities of the same MS-13 suspect. Now both countries could benefit from their collective intelligence efforts.

FBI intelligence analysis to focus on terrorists, transnational gangs

Brzezinski and CFR Promote Appeasement of Iran (Part One of Two)

Obama's Next Three Years by John Bolton

A Confluence of Folly (Part Two of Two)

Seasoned observers understand that, in official Washington, the so-called "death of a thousand cuts" technique is the preferred means of stealthily undermining, and ultimately defeating, initiatives and institutions too strong to be taken on via a frontal assault. The administration appears intent on applying this approach of inflicting myriad attacks on the essential ingredient of American exceptionalism our sovereignty – in ways that seem individually innocuous but that will, over time, surely prove lethal to our Constitution and country.

Death by 1,000 Cuts Frank Gaffney, Jr.

[JustPiper]

Creeping Sharia Turkish organization, Fethullah Gulen, possibly infiltrating U.S. schools to advance Islamism.

Tucson: Parents concerned about charter school run by Turkish Islamist movement

Jihadists Groom Children In The UK Under 10

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[JustPiper]

Nothing to see here, move along:

Four Saudis disrupt Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight

[JustPiper]

UPDATED:

~Snippets

Officials had earlier said nine containers were punctured, but Jones said he was not sure exactly how many were damaged.

He said he did not know the chemical was being shipped through the port, but whoever was shipping it should have contacted the city's emergency management department.

A telephone message left for Morehead City Fire Chief Wes Lail was not immediately returned.

Karen Fox, a spokeswoman with the North Carolina State Ports Authority, said the chemical was being unloaded in Morehead City. But she said she did not know where the shipment came from or where it was headed.

N.C. port closed for punctured containers

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[JustPiper]

Flushing, Queens has become focal point for FBI agents--and police--investigating possible terror cells operating out of New York City.

Three buddies who graduated from Flushing High School have been busted now in connection with the probe of a transit system " bomb plot".

The PIX Investigates unit took a closer look at the surveillance done on two of the men over the last four months, ever since the FBI raided multiple apartments in Flushing last September.

VIDEO & FULL story here

PIX Investigates: Possible Terror Cells Operating in NYC

[Godzilla]

Placemark

[blackie]

Nice!!

[blackie]

That’s a true statement. ;)