Threat Matrix: 2010

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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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[gitmogrunt]

Thank you very much.

[JustPiper]

Terrorists ‘plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies’ to foil new airport scanners.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441090/posts

[JustPiper]

[azishot]

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.

[blackie]

It’s coming from all sides, isn’t it!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[blackie]

Oops, I pinged you on that one... ;)

Can that be coming here?

Be Ever Vigilant!

[JustPiper]

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

[JustPiper]

Of course you pinged me, I’m always on your mind lmao!
Anyways, I imagine it could be part of our warning, sure

[JustPiper]

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

[JustPiper]

Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
This post is adapted from NYPD 'Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat'.
"Holy warriors"

When all you can do is spew an F bomb
Secy of State Clinton promises not to talk to the Taliban's "really bad guys"

Police Chief David Mara, Mayor Ted Gatsas and Superintendant [sic] of Schools Tom Brennan recently received a letter saying the Somali Bantu Community Association is teaching from the Quran during its weekend youth program. (Of course they are)
New Hampshire: Federally funded program for Somali refugee children put on hold after charges that it was teaching Qur'an

VIDEO: Jihad groups set up camp in Haiti (ISNA & Islamic Relief USA)both groups tied to Muslim Brotherhood

[blackie]

The soul is a funny thing....maybe.;)

[JustPiper]

Drudge LARGE Header!

AHMADINEJAD: ‘Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11’...!!!

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117545&sectionid=351020101

US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles

Pentagon says Patriot shield will deter strike on American allies in the Gulf

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/31/iran-nuclear-us-missiles-gulf

What the hell are they expecting?!

[JustPiper]

Look Drudge don’t do weekends, & He has this up in BOLD!

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[JustPiper]

live thread here Jet, read this post!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2441605/posts?page=67#67

[caww]

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...

[JustPiper]

just pinged you to a post you need to see, live thread

[JustPiper]

please come & tell a few of the fools that on live thread

[LucyT]

. . . . FYI: #1,932 - and see link at #1,935.

TM'ers, too.

[little jeremiah]

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.