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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[Quix]

NAW . . . upgraded to win7 . . .

thanks for all your pings and posts.

LUB,

[Quix]

PING to the referent post about Iran, biowarfare stuff etc.

[hoosiermama]

I’m back.

[JustPiper]

KEEP GETTING UP :(

Moussavi’s wife badly beaten
http://persian2english.com/?p=6637

Pics
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3232605&id=45061919453#!/photo.php?pid=3232605&id=45061919453&fbid=300093989453

Death of Neda Agha-Soltan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

[amom]

Thanks for carrying the heavy load throughout the night. I’m getting up to speed thanks to the posts here.

[JustPiper]

More than welcome, I felt compelled

[hoosiermama]

I’ve got to get some sleep....3 hours is not enough. will try to help throughout the day.

Ali Shokorirad & Ali Hazeri mbrs of Participation Front have been summoned by Gen Prosecutor office in Evin

baseej bike and pictures of Supreme leader set on fire

www.http://bit.ly/b5XEXa #iranelection

video: Beating a protesters on 22 Bahman 2010 #iranelection #22bahman www.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7jeZMqsN8

[JustPiper]

lots of women arrested today are in Vozara penitentiary.. Huge crowd has gathered there

RSF: Connections severed or slowed and Google Mail blocked in latest anti-Internet offensive http://is.gd/8aiq1

Just spoke with Iran: Internet in Tehran is still down. http://www.demotix.com/live/iran

Our interview with Mehdi Karroubi about 1 ago http://bit.ly/9eOW6b

Khamenei it’s time to pack your bags & turban. VAMOS PUTO!

[JustPiper]

Thumb down all the Dictators: Ahmadinejad, Castro, Chavez, Kim Jon Il. !!!!

Our twitterings for freedom in #Iran will be written about in world history books, amazing to be part of something so big

Free Iran!!!RT @SaloumehZ: RT @XTRABallots Fars News is spreading lies? That’s their job

We DEMAND our FREEDOMS! #IranElection #IranVzla For FREE SPEECH!

[JustPiper]

Alot of spanish on this am twitter, ALOT

[JustPiper]

WB!

DEMAND An End to Iran and Venezuela DICTATORSHIPS

Bassij agents and hooligans attack protestors with knives

Lets Chavez and Ahmadineyad collapsed together

COMIENZA LA PROTESTA!!! PROTEST NOW!! NO DICTATORSHIPS! #FreeVenezuela #IranV

[JustPiper]

HUGE IRAN/VZLA TWITTER PROTEST USE hashtag #IranVzla AGAINST DICTATORS !!PLZRT!!

Protesta mundial ABAJO LA DICTADURA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021102111.html

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/the-nightly-wrap-22-bahman.html

[little jeremiah]

Thank you so much, dear JustPiper.

And also to everyone who participated.

My heart aches for the repressed and tortured people in Iran.

[JustPiper]

I have to try too

[hoosiermama]

People are still protesting in close areas of Evin and they pursue their protests tonight

radio: Protest in front of Sweedish Parliament: “DOWN WITH KH, DOWN W/ HEZBOLLAH”

[JustPiper]

Me too my dear old friend, me too

[JustPiper]

Do they know the power they have? ~tears This is happening all over the globe, we are so spent with dictators ruling us & robbing us of Freedom. Treating us like we are a expendable DIS-Ease. They have the ears, fingers of us behind them, they know how powerful Twitter is, their cellphones. Their oppression is Hope. Their chains will bust open, I swear. So, so many young women hold Neda up as their heroine & are so very willing to give their lives fro Freedom.

I have been humbled reading their tweets. I think of my 22 year old back home & yes, she has some rough going, but our young women have not one clue what it is to have to fight for Freedom. Our young women in the military do, but how many youth today are even patriotic? How many know the importance of our Constitution?

Oh yah, I best lay down

[hoosiermama]

The agents at Vozara told the crowd that they will release the women arrested one by one but so far no news #iranelection
half a minute ago from mobile web

[amom]

I felt compelled

I understand completely.

It's good to see people have noted the similarity between the leaderships of Iran and Venazuela. You're keeping me busy.

[MestaMachine]

Checking in fast. No word from friends at all. Still trying. My power is erratic. off/on/off/on. Can’t leave computer on. Nothing but clashes still going on even after dark. It seems this will end as the other protests have ended. Nowhere. But I don’t think it will stop unless the crackdown is so severe they can’t get back up again.
It is now after 8 PM in Iran. I just don’t know.
As soon as I have some stability, I’ll be back.
Meantime. Got firewood in and baby is having a blast with a toy vacuum cleaner which makes a whole lot of noise. Can’t go in snow because it is up over her head. Darn near up over MY head!
Love you all. Thank you for keeping up through the night and this morning. Got back here as soon as I could, but can’t stay.
Shutting down now. Praying. very hard.