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Threat Matrix: 2010
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| 12/31/2009
| Freeper TMers
Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta
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Al Qaedas Yemen Connection, America and the Global Islamic Jihad
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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. (snip) 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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cranswick; lacklancranswick; terror; terrorism; threatmatrix; tm; wot
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To: FARS
1,921
posted on
01/31/2010 6:23:17 AM PST
by
gitmogrunt
(The stupidity of American Liberals never ceases to amaze me.)
To: MamaDearest; Jet Jaguar; TigersEye; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; WestCoastGal; Oorang; ...
1,922
posted on
01/31/2010 7:17:52 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: FARS; LucyT; COBOL2Java; bitt; Kimberly GG; Grammy; mills044; LadyJMayo; MoochPooch; azishot; ...
1,923
posted on
01/31/2010 7:19:06 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: JustPiper
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons Counter-Terrorism Sub-Committee, said: Our enemies are constantly evolving their techniques to try to defeat our methods of detection.While our enemies *evolve* our gov't doesn't want to think outside the box. How about profiling? The terrorists don't play by the rules. Why should we when our very lives are at stake?
They love to throw out the phrase "rule of law" but are the first ones to abuse it when it suits their agenda. I'm sick of all of them.
1,924
posted on
01/31/2010 7:35:41 AM PST
by
azishot
(J.D. Hayworth...U.S. Senator FOR Arizona)
To: JustPiper
It’s coming from all sides, isn’t it!
Be Ever Vigilant!
1,925
posted on
01/31/2010 9:20:49 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: JustPiper
Oops, I pinged you on that one... ;)
Can that be coming here?
Be Ever Vigilant!
1,926
posted on
01/31/2010 9:28:29 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: azishot
Socialists changed the legalese slowly but tada the rule of law was born. My BP got so high posting on Rep. Richardson, I had to take a 2nd pill. This country makes us sick,so we need medical help, then they say no, die, your expendable
1,927
posted on
01/31/2010 2:12:44 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: blackie
Of course you pinged me, I’m always on your mind lmao!
Anyways, I imagine it could be part of our warning, sure
1,928
posted on
01/31/2010 2:15:52 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: All
I read a very intriguing article today & suggest it be read in full. It’s about how an ordinary American, a southerner even, turned to jihad.
Alabama boy joins the jihad
Here is an extensive profile of the American jihadist Omar Hammami, a.k.a. Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, and how he moved from a middle-class Alabama upbringing to the jihad in Somalia and a life full of hatred and violence.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/alabama-boy-joins-the-jihad.html
What upset me were the sympathetic comments after the story, too many
1,929
posted on
01/31/2010 2:19:03 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
1,930
posted on
01/31/2010 2:32:29 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: JustPiper
The soul is a funny thing....maybe.;)
1,931
posted on
01/31/2010 3:02:35 PM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: blackie; MamaDearest; Jet Jaguar; TigersEye; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; WestCoastGal; Oorang; ..
1,932
posted on
01/31/2010 7:13:06 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: FARS; LucyT; COBOL2Java; bitt; Kimberly GG; Grammy; mills044; LadyJMayo; MoochPooch; azishot; ...
Look Drudge don’t do weekends, & He has this up in BOLD!
1,933
posted on
01/31/2010 7:14:26 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: JustPiper; RaceBannon
1,934
posted on
01/31/2010 7:14:44 PM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(When Obama walks into a room, he is the least experienced person in that room.)
To: Jet Jaguar
1,935
posted on
01/31/2010 7:45:25 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: JustPiper
Well I can’t get the page to come up even wheen I went directly to drudge...Bold now is the ships US has in the gulf now...
At any rate this has been building with Israel covering herr Northern Border...Yemen flair up keeps us ready in the Gulf and distracts Iran...lots of troop movements for a couple months now...and wasn’t it a couple weeks ago Abonie announced he would have a surprise for us the first week of FEb?
How much of this is saber rattling who can really say....but expect that to increase...every leader now is communicating by their military movements, which speaks volumes now...
1,936
posted on
01/31/2010 7:48:40 PM PST
by
caww
To: caww
just pinged you to a post you need to see, live thread
1,937
posted on
01/31/2010 7:49:40 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: caww
please come & tell a few of the fools that on live thread
1,938
posted on
01/31/2010 7:53:13 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(WHERE is the "Progress" in PROGRESSIVE?)
To: JustPiper; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; rxsid; ...
![Image and video hosting by TinyPic](http://i25.tinypic.com/25g70k7.jpg)
. . . . FYI: #1,932 - and see link at #1,935.
TM'ers, too.
1,939
posted on
01/31/2010 8:55:03 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: JustPiper; LucyT
Thanks, JP and LucyT.
I am wondering how nervous I should be...
I’ll read the live thread.
There is just too much to do and too much to read to really be on top of everything. Or a few things even.
I appreciate your efforts.
1,940
posted on
01/31/2010 9:06:57 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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