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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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SWAT options for multiple shooter terrorist attacks
1,301 posted on 01/14/2010 3:06:16 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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To: JustPiper

TM is the first place I check everytime I come to the computer.


1,302 posted on 01/14/2010 3:06:59 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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You are needed here


1,303 posted on 01/14/2010 3:09:46 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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Saudi Arabian posing as pilot held at Manila airport

A GOP lawmaker is seeking answers from the Obama administration on how it plans to combat the potential radicalization of the 55,000 Americans now in Yemen -- a country that has come under the thumb of Al Qaeda.

GOP Lawmaker Fears Radicalization of Americans in Yemen

security team that includes Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Homeland Security advisor John Brennan – members of the U.S. Congress are voicing their skepticism of the administration’s future plans.

Lawmakers Release Plan to Strengthen U.S. Security by Jim Kouri, CPP

1,304 posted on 01/14/2010 3:12:43 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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To: MamaDearest; WestCoastGal; Candor7; caww; All
Steve Alert

A Flawed Approach Dooms Academic Study of Anti-Terror Lessons by Steve Emerson

As the administration struggles with the national security and political failures – especially the failures of a security team that includes Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Homeland Security advisor John Brennan – members of the U.S. Congress are voicing their skepticism of the administration’s future plans.

Lawmakers Release Plan to Strengthen U.S. Security by Jim Kouri, CPP

Until recently, the United States had become complacent about terrorism. The general view was that al Qaeda was on the run and Islamic terrorism was a receding threat. We now know better.

What Our Spies Can Learn From Toyota-We have 16 separate intelligence agencies. No wonder people aren't connecting the dots.

Counter-Finance Campaign Won't Beat Terrorists in Yemen

Italian Press: Terrorists Network. This is how Al-Qaeda Keeps the U.S. under threat.

1,305 posted on 01/14/2010 3:17:03 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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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.

Apprehending members of MS-13 who sneak through the border is okay by Napolitano and Holder, witness their attempt to go after Sheriff Joe who tries to keep these thugs off America's streets and out of America's neighborhoods:

AG Holder looks to nail America's Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Snip: In 2009, Secretary Napolitano stripped Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff's Department of its federal authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status. Federal authorities wish to do away with local cops enforcing our nation's immigration laws.

1,306 posted on 01/14/2010 3:26:13 PM PST by MamaDearest
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Al Qaeda linked to rogue aviation network

Snip: early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11."

The document warned that a growing fleet of rogue jet aircraft was regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean. On one end of the air route, it said, are cocaine-producing areas in the Andes controlled by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. On the other are some of West Africa's most unstable countries.

1,307 posted on 01/14/2010 3:31:44 PM PST by MamaDearest
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Anybody remember the 747 that was stolen somewhere in Africa, repainted, never found, and the owner was never seen or heard from again?
This article just reminded me of that. The story just sort of faded away.


1,308 posted on 01/14/2010 3:42:20 PM PST by MestaMachine (Healthcare reform: Lobotomies for liberals. Aye for an aye. Get it? Ohhhhh, that's bad.)
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1,309 posted on 01/14/2010 3:44:07 PM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Rushmore Rocks; WestCoastGal; JustPiper; Cindy; Oorang; ExSoldier; MestaMachine; blackie; ...
The radical source for non-Arabic speaking Muslims - Anwar al-Awlaki

Snip: It is worth noting that al-Qaeda in the south of Yemen is uniquely combined with the tribal structure (explaining the protection al-Awlaki is being offered), but it is worth noting that al-Awlaki’s influence is greater among non-Arabic speakers. In Arabic language jihadi forums, Anwar al-Awlaki’s writings are very rare as most of them are in English and more Western-oriented. They are made available in different e-libraries and Islamic e-bookshops in the United States and the UK, where his radical views form a major resource for non-Arabic speaking Muslims, especially in the West.  

Toronto 18 ringleader says he's sorry

Snip: "I will turn myself around, from a man of destruction to a man of construction," said Zakaria Amara, the linchpin of the so-called Toronto 18 homegrown terror cell, while addressing a Brampton court at his sentencing hearing Thursday.

Jihadi on recce nabbed at Wagah

Snip: “The Pakistani youth was arrested by BSF as he was carrying out a recce of the border belt. Further investigations are in progress,” BSF Punjab Frontier DIG Jagir Singh said. According to BSF DIG Mohammad Aquil, Arshad was found “secretly monitoring the movements of BSF near border pillar number 101/8. He confessed that he was looking for a place to infiltrate through the border fence and help seven others to cross into India. He is a potential suicide bomber.”

1,310 posted on 01/14/2010 3:55:12 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MestaMachine; MamaDearest

That’s the first thing I thought of when I read this story.


1,311 posted on 01/14/2010 3:55:29 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: MamaDearest

We knew about MS13 etal before they were so ensconced here! THEY never listen to us! NONE of em. Sheriff Joe Arpaio was OUR very first Hero! A hearty Bump to Sheriff Joe and prayers for God to give him the courage he’ll need against THIS lousy administration!


1,312 posted on 01/14/2010 3:55:44 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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bttt


1,313 posted on 01/14/2010 3:57:37 PM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (1101 and a wakeup)
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To: MestaMachine; Oorang; WestCoastGal; Rushmore Rocks; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; jersey117; ...

To this post and Mama’s the post before


1,314 posted on 01/14/2010 3:58:49 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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To: MamaDearest

TY as always for finds only you can find , as well as all the wonderful things you email!


1,315 posted on 01/14/2010 4:00:05 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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Speaking of the devils, just got this via email

Agent: Informants used against MS-13 gang

LA anti-gang activist granted $2M bail-despite objections by federal prosecutors that he could flee to his native El Salvador.A former member of the brutal Mara Salvatrucha "MS-13" gang

1,316 posted on 01/14/2010 4:11:16 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks for the ping MamaDearest.
Noting the arrest.


1,317 posted on 01/14/2010 4:11:25 PM PST by Cindy
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To: blackie; JustPiper; LucyT; Cindy; Oorang; WestCoastGal; MestaMachine; Moe Tzadik
I haven’t patronized a McDonald’s since 1985.

Agenda driven fast food restaurants will not receive a nickle from my family., nor companies like Proctor & Gamble, or products made in China if I can find a poduct made elsewhere, preferably the USA.

Yes JP, I'm here, with a cold and sleepy eyes, but here nevertheless!

Terrorism is Obama's main political vulnerability

Terrorism has suddenly emerged as the main political vulnerability of Presi­dent Obama and the Democrats as the new year begins.

Eight year old boy on Terrorism Watch List

Political correctness - a deadly infection

Snip: Radical Muslims are fanatic, yes, but they understand us better than we understand ourselves. They know we’re so infected with political correctness that we’re more afraid of offending them than we are of losing a war to them.

Lady Al Qaeda cries fowl - accused terrorist Aafia Siddiqui says toss Jews from jury pool

Snip: Jury selection in the "Lady Al Qaeda" trial got off to a bizarre start Wednesday with the accused terrorist telling jurors she was "boycotting" - and demanding Jews be excluded from the panel.

1,318 posted on 01/14/2010 4:21:44 PM PST by MamaDearest
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Terrorism has suddenly emerged as the main political vulnerability of Presi­dent Obama and the Democrats as the new year begins.

We knew we were in deep doo-doo when he won. Shoot even biden gleefully announced we were going to have an attack very soon.

Eight year old boy on Terrorism Watch List

Yet another prime example of TSA etal, and their efficiency

Aafia Siddiqui

Ah, an old enemy, familiar name

1,319 posted on 01/14/2010 4:30:26 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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Socialist Alert

Is the dream over?-Joe Bageant, thinks that things are changing - but not for the better.

Obama has placed U.S. in danger

Code Pink To Muslims: ‘Help Us Cleanse Our Country’

(Excellent Read!)

The fundamental question that a people must ask is whether they want to be independent of their government, or dependent on it?. Is government to be a tool that we use when we need it and put away when we don't, or a master that oversees our affairs and uses us as its tools.

The tipping point between tool and master kicks in when government gains the ability to expand its own parameters independently of the people. It's that moment when Mickey Mouse realizes the brooms aren't going to stop and Dr. Frankenstein realizes the monster isn't going to sit down and have tea with him after all.

The Magic of Government and the Socialist Apprentice

1,320 posted on 01/14/2010 4:33:21 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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