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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.

The Brookings Institution



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To: caww; JustPiper; WestCoastGal; Candor7

Did you ‘splain the FR situation to the curious, caww?

My personal situation is a little harder to explain, but I can tell you a little. Chatter is up. WAY up. Higher than it was before 9/11 and coming from more directions.
It is also coming from INSIDE the US using proxies and anons trying to remain untraceable.
The Haitian situation has given them an opening wider than the Grand canyon. Haitians are very dark skinned. So are Somalis and other muslim Africans.
obama has opened the door previously to muslims from many different countries using special visas, but they LOOK middle eastern. This is worse. Harder to spot. And there will be thousands upon thousands coming in.
This is not good.


1,461 posted on 01/19/2010 3:17:23 AM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: caww; JustPiper; All

BTW, I use Zone Alarm Force Field. It is the best surfing tool out there. I swear by it.


1,462 posted on 01/19/2010 3:20:54 AM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MestaMachine

I am putting myself on alert. All weapons unlocked and on standby.


1,463 posted on 01/19/2010 4:13:12 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: JustPiper

abc7

Edison confirms siren malfunctioned at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, not sure why it malfunctioned http://bit.ly/7m0JwL


1,464 posted on 01/19/2010 6:44:55 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Rushmore Rocks; All

OT

Yellowstone earthquake swarm continues into third day, intensifies

The swarm of earthquakes that started Sunday at Yellowstone National Park continued this morning and significantly intensified in magnitude Monday night.

At 8:39 p.m. Monday, a magnitude 3.3 earthquake was recorded followed by a 3.0 at 9:42 p.m.

So far today, quakes of 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 have been recorded in the park.

As of 3 p.m. Monday, 270 earthquakes had been recorded in the swarm that started early Sunday, according to Jamie Farrell, a doctoral student in geophysics at the University of Utah, which operates more than two dozen earthquake recording stations in the park.

Farrell said the quakes are occurring in an area about 5 miles from where the largest swarm of quakes was ever recorded in October 1985.

Prof. Robert B. Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Utah and one of the leading experts on earthquake and volcanic activity at Yellowstone, said that the activity is a “notable swarm.”

“The swarm is located about 10 miles northwest of Old Faithful, Wyo., and nine miles southeast of West Yellowstone, Montana,” said Smith.

So far scientists monitoring the swarm say the tremors seem to be normal tectonic activity, and is “not an indication” that some sort of volcanic activity will occur. However, they continue to monitor the situation.


1,465 posted on 01/19/2010 8:29:36 AM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal

Thanks. I’ve been watching it. Not that I can do anything about it. If it goes, I’m gone.

This really isn’t that unusual. They had a similar swarm about a year ago, and more prior to that.

Back later, I’m headed to town to pick up a brand new puppy. I’m so excited!


1,466 posted on 01/19/2010 8:50:28 AM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: MestaMachine

This is what happened...

A link titled to honor one of our soldiers was Hizbolla/Alkayda propaganda site. Featured the usual gun armed headbanded solders marching, burning our flag, flames of war, Arab writings etc. Didn’t stay long enough to see it all....Contacted two mods who were quick to get it off the Canteen thread, (our Heros).

Of course this is where we honor our soldiers, so at first I was a bit shaken....then I got enraged. Thought about Ft. Hood and other instances where these bas!ards leave their mark. We really do need to be alert.

Then came to The Matrix here looking for Mesta,...”who goes where angels fear to tread”...and you started seeing something was going on. Also was in contact with Kathy at the Canteen. The mods sure get the credit for getting that piece of dirt off FR!


1,467 posted on 01/19/2010 9:47:59 AM PST by caww
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Awww loves new puppies :)


1,468 posted on 01/19/2010 2:49:35 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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What a load

Arsalan’s latest column entitled “Were Guantanamo ‘Suicides’ Actually Murder?” Read Here and Pass It On: http://tinyurl.com/y95eqg7


1,469 posted on 01/19/2010 2:50:24 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: Velveeta

gunman Virginia breaking (twitter).


1,470 posted on 01/19/2010 3:35:50 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: Moe Tzadik

Update: Virginia gunman also fired on state police helicopter, forcing it to land with fuel leak http://bit.ly/69lT8p

about 1 hour ago from BreakingNews Headquarters Lone gunman surrounded in central Virginia near Appomattox after killing multiple people and injuring others, state police report
about 1 hour ago from BreakingNews Headquarters


1,471 posted on 01/19/2010 3:47:35 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: Moe Tzadik

Shooting in Virginia near Muslim Camp: http://bit.ly/6LiMtp


1,472 posted on 01/19/2010 6:14:20 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal

Thanks!

I’ve heard 8 dead, more wounded. Like the article says...interesting they haven’t given a name or a description (particularly if he’s at large) or circumstances or *anything*.

I would think shooting at a police helicopter (and hitting it) is pretty unusual too.


1,473 posted on 01/19/2010 7:22:51 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: MestaMachine

I love Avast & tis free :)


1,474 posted on 01/19/2010 9:43:21 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott)
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To: WestCoastGal

There has been at least one shaker a day of more then 5.00. Then tornadoes in OC? Haarp?


1,475 posted on 01/19/2010 9:50:14 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott)
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To: WestCoastGal

Yep got my full ATTN!:

This is interesting on a number of levels... but especially because of what is found nearby in an area called Red House:

During the Beltway Sniper crisis, back in the fall of 2002, a series of articles in The Washington Times described John Allen Muhammad’s conversion to Islam, and his later break with the Nation of Islam (the articles are no longer available, but extracts have been preserved here). Apparently the NOI was not militant enough for Mr. Muhammad, and he left it to become involved with a group called {{{Jamaat ul-Fuqra }}}(Arabic for “community of the impoverished”), a terrorist organization founded by a notorious Pakistani cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani.

BUMP!!!

What drew my eye in the article was the mention of a Jamaat ul-Fuqra compound in Red House, Virginia. Red House?! I know Red House — a small village in rural Charlotte County.
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Any updates, please ping me CoCo


1,476 posted on 01/19/2010 9:57:00 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott)
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To: WestCoastGal

Sure don't look like he belongs at Islamberg?

Police: Lone shooter kills 8 in central Virginia

1,477 posted on 01/19/2010 10:02:31 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott)
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To: Velveeta

Daily aircraft/bomb story

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/20/munich-airport-laptop-explosives


1,478 posted on 01/20/2010 10:08:50 AM PST by Moe Tzadik
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- Arabian Peninsula: AQAP in written statement dated 15 Jan: It is duty of our Muslim Ummah to declare jihad against infidels and the collaborators not only on land but at sea and in the sky. Crusader’s battleships are in Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and Red Sea, and American spy planes continuously violate the skies of the Arabian Peninsula. They have declared an open war on the people of Islam and now we have to declare an open war on crusaders and their treacherous collaborators.

VIENNA (AP) Diplomats: Iran responds to nuclear fuel exchange offer, rejects immediate export of uranium.


1,479 posted on 01/20/2010 11:14:43 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott)
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Report: Israel To Strike Iran In March, Lebanon Could Get Involved

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2432887/posts


1,480 posted on 01/20/2010 11:23:41 AM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott)
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