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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: FARS
Great job with the pic's.

Thanks Fars

2,661 posted on 02/12/2010 3:51:16 PM PST by BARLF
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To: All

Terror Talk Growing Louder on the Web

Exclusive: U.S. Intel Officials Seeing Spike in al Qaeda-Linked Internet Chatter Focused on Ways to Thwart Airport Security

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/12/cbsnews_investigates/main6202853.shtml


2,662 posted on 02/12/2010 5:07:20 PM PST by jersey117
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To: All

(Take this report for what its worth. I’m just throwing it out there.

***”I also have relatives in Israel who tell me that is definitely NOT out of the realm of possibility”***

Not being an “alarmist” or anything.....just want to pass along what I received
today from someone that I keep in touch with:

I have no way to verify this - it was emailed to me - its a forward.

I wondered WHY debka was ‘gone’ a week earlier today. so mysterious

ISRAEL WILL ATTACK LEBANON and IRAN in the next 48 hours

BREAKING !!! Debka.com
is on HOLD because of an imminent attack on Iran & Lebanon !
Quote

This is a warning and a plea for reason to anyone who will listen.

An undisclosed associate of mine who works closely with debka.com recently informed me that the MOSSAD has put the Israeli News service debka.com on temporary vacation because of an imminent conflict about to erupt involving the IDF, Hezbollah and Iran.

ISRAEL WILL ATTACK LEBANON and IRAN in the next 48 hours.

I have never been more scared about any thing in my whole entire life, I am writing this from my apartment in downtown TEL AVIV.

Sincerely Yours

I emailed a friend that has relatives in Israel, to see what his thoughts are, and
this was his reply:

Some further sources saying the same.


2,663 posted on 02/12/2010 6:38:38 PM PST by Mossad1967
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


2,664 posted on 02/12/2010 8:32:23 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: LucyT; JustPiper

see 2663


2,665 posted on 02/12/2010 10:25:42 PM PST by bitt (One if by land, Two if by sea. Three if by CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C)
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To: Mossad1967

I’ve checked DebkaFile several times this past week. They have had the same article headlining since Feb. 3.

Curious.


2,666 posted on 02/13/2010 5:43:07 AM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Hugs back at you


2,667 posted on 02/13/2010 12:24:17 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

The first night when we were posting tweets here at TM, several kids kept saying lsers at the U.S. it alarmed me, never got it. I was thinking EMP. then I posted that article here yesterday, still wonder what that lil madman is up to

Did you see this?

During the Olympics, The Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets – And the Blotter
DHS Is Monitoring Social Media and Web Sites for Terror and Disaster Info

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/olympics-feds-reading-tweets/story?id=9825070


2,668 posted on 02/13/2010 12:26:51 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Think twice my FRiend, They BO admin ALWAYS up to NO good

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power

With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html


2,669 posted on 02/13/2010 12:28:23 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: molybdenum

There have been lawsuits filed all over the country challenging Barack Obama to prove he is a “natural born citizen” as required by the Constitution. The most high-profile of these cases has been prepared and argued by WND’s friends at the United States Justice Foundation a public interest law firm with high principles.

Dear Defender of the U. S. Constitution!

FEBRUARY 1, 2010, is the beginning of real freedom in America! That was the day that I, on behalf of all Americans, filed our Opening Appellants Brief (AOB) in the Appellant Court against the Defendants-Respondents: supposed president BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Vice-president Joe Biden, Secretary of the State of California Debra BOWEN, and others.

On behalf of YOUR United States Justice Foundation (USJF), I respectfully requested a REVERSAL of the trial court judgment sustaining the Respondents’ “demurrer,” which means that the defendant in a case does not dispute the truth of the allegations in the lawsuit, but claims that there are not sufficient legal grounds to justify a court granting relief.

YOU DESERVE THE TRUTH!!

http://usjf.net/

Oodles of articles at WND
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.search&keywords=obama%27s+eligibility&search_WND.x=0&search_WND.y=0


2,670 posted on 02/13/2010 12:35:33 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: molybdenum

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Aqr20dV0etg4UK2Ac470DptG2vAI?p=impeach+obama+petition&fr=my-myy-s&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

http://www.judicialwatch.org/


2,671 posted on 02/13/2010 12:41:51 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: jersey117; All

TY FFNY

“On one radical website, a writer invites fellow members to post information on how to bypass airport screening.”

This is what WE can do:

How to Recognize and Fight a Terrorist on a Plane(Informative & CAN save your Life)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2422001/posts?q=1&;page=1


2,672 posted on 02/13/2010 12:45:56 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: Mossad1967; MestaMachine; FARS

~Thoughts on this, have either of you heard anything?


2,673 posted on 02/13/2010 12:48:02 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: bitt

I asked two of our best sources what they know. Don’t get worried, no source to back this up. we don’t want to be alarmist without some kind of proof Bitt. 48 hours from when?
Debka has not been on my list for years


2,674 posted on 02/13/2010 12:49:57 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Debka updated..to sat. Feb. 13th


2,675 posted on 02/13/2010 12:51:22 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

Yes, but the article has not changed since Feb. 3.


2,676 posted on 02/13/2010 12:54:57 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: caww

The possibility of the 24 hr deadline, anywhere you can monitor & see what Greens are saying? I’m going to twitter stream right now, so let’s do different streams


2,677 posted on 02/13/2010 12:54:58 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: Rushmore Rocks

SemperHicErro RT @_Free_Iran_: @GreenQuran Globalprotests,Monday UNmtg,nowUS Senate legis 2 support HR efforts in Iran. Green’s gone global!

SemperHicErro RT @oxfordgirl: Interesting: source says hardliners block Mousavi arrest 4 rise of ldrs calling for total removal regime

IRANISNOWGREEN RT @madyar: “Karroubi’s Son Torturted & Threatened with Rape

LiveBlog: Sec of State Clinton Assures that US Working for Release of Scholar Tajbakhsh http://bit.ly/c1wTfP #iran #p2 #tcot

NOTE: If there are rummors the Greens will know


2,678 posted on 02/13/2010 12:57:38 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Looks like they went on vacation from what the center colored picture says...I did a little diving and seems in Jan. they reported their website was under attack by the arabs....might be they are reconfiguring everything to come back on line later...just a thought.


2,679 posted on 02/13/2010 12:57:51 PM PST by caww
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JoanneMichele RT @khazelton I can sense the Leninist adrenalin running in the veins of the Monarch/MKO crowd. Beware leaders bearing gifts.

TehranFreePress China’s Iran Dilemma http://bit.ly/cGZbA6

Dputamadre RT @PahlaviReza: Int’l community must step up its support for Iran’s opposition movement and stop focusing on the country’s nuclear program.


2,680 posted on 02/13/2010 1:00:13 PM PST by JustPiper (Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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