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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Being prepared is a good thing, no matter where one lives; no matter what alert level we are on.
From TM'er and Freeper ~Cindy~

Intelligence is the best weapon against terrorism.
National Commission on Terrorism: 1999

Ian Livingston

[MestaMachine]

Not even gonna try shoveling. Going to wait for the spring thaw. LOL

[JustPiper]

cell phone?

[JustPiper]

And this is what we do best at TM, you got it, connect the dots

[JustPiper]

YW FRiend

[caww]

Yep...have been connecting dots for years now... and interesting is when you have them pretty much shaping a picture a curve ball will come along..and that’s when it really gets challenging, or one of your dots changes. Ha!

Shoot there are think tanks all over the place doing the same thing and don’t exactly get it right...wish we had some of their inside information.

[caww]

WOW! Some guy just fell in to Mount Saint Helens Volcano...via Fox news. He’s blowing a whistle but they can’t get to him yet..winds too strong.

[caww]

Fox ALERT!..... just confirmed top Taliban leadership in Pakistan captured.....now is custody.

[caww]

BTW this guy was second only to Omar...Highest ranking Taliban leader we’ve taken since Aphgan war began...good news...Love our soldiers!!!!!

[MestaMachine]

Hi, Hi, Hi! I’m back. Yeah, have cell phone fully charged. Have been trying to get in touch with some friends in Israel and get the straight skivvy.
It seems the Saudis are not at all happy with the hildebeest. They do NOT want sanctions. They say they want action NOW.
al Faisal was particularly blunt. Sanctions are gradual and too slow. His kingdom wants something done now, not later...and right in her face with it. At a joint news conference.
She has been trying to convince freaking Arabs that the miltary is in charge in Iran. That is so much BS you need wading boots to get through it.
The Revolutionary Guard is loyal to homodinejad since the first time he was elected. The Mullahs control the show. Trying to convince muslims that some secular force is in charge in Iran is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard from an official of the US who is NOT Joe Biden.

[Moe Tzadik]

DEEP INFILTRATION ALERT: Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism...

“White House Pro-Terrorism John Brennan Speechifies in Arabic, Equates Terrorists with Shoplifters, Lawmakers Call for his Firing.”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/02/white-house-proterrorism-john-brennan-speechifies-in-arabic-equates-terrorists-with-shoplifters-lawm.html

[JustPiper]

I saw her tell the audience “Doh, if you have any ideas lemme know” What a moron! Sanctions are about as good as an order of protection

[caww]

Hey there Mesta...getting in out of the snow! We’ve got drifting here..I walked to the store a block away and it was grand! Blowing everywhere! Felt like a kid..HA!

Yeah, I heard Hitllary yap...was astounded she asked for ideas of what to do..talk about making our nationas leadership look weak! What zaps we look like!

[JustPiper]

In other words there is not one sane, experienced person running DHS

[JustPiper]

MPAC Pursues Islamist Ideology – Staunchly Defending Terrorists and the ‘Charities’ That Fund Them (Part Three of Three) by Steve Emerson

Fundraising Dinner for Convicted ‘Virginia Jihad’ Terrorist Brings Islamic Extremists to Falls Church Mosque

The egregiously pro-jihad, anti-Israel, and propagandistic Goldstone Report was funded by the Organization of the Islamic Conference -- the same group to which Barack Obama is sending a special envoy."Big answers to big lies: Israel refutes UN's despicable Goldstone Report," from the New York Daily News
Israel refutes UN's despicable OIC-funded Goldstone Report

[JustPiper]

~ping

[JustPiper]

Nuclear sites vulnerable to break-ins

Texas: Muslims with bomb charges in truck force shutdown of Fort Worth highway for five hours

BOMB SCARE CLOSES FORT WORTH FREEWAY

Al Qaeda Looking to Recruit English Speakers, Women

Muslim-American groups are supporting a “fatwa” – a religious ruling – forbidding Muslims from going through body scanners at airports saying that the body scanners violate Islamic law. In a statement on February 9th, the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA)
Will Terrorists Be Allowed to Sidestep Security?

U.S. Tries to Project Tough Stand on Iran But Sanctions Depend on China

[TWhiteBear]

I am not sure if this got posted.
Texas: Muslims with bomb charges in truck force shutdown of Fort Worth highway for five hours Print E-mail
Written by JihadWatch.org
Monday, 15 February 2010 01:53
“Two in custody after Fort Worth bomb scare,” by Monika Diaz and Rebecca Lopez for WFAA-TV, February 13 (thanks to Sr. Soph):

FORT WORTH — Southeast Loop 820 and East Rosedale Street in Fort Worth were reopened early Sunday morning after being shut down for five hours overnight.

The Fort Worth bomb squad detonated four charges that were found in a pickup truck that spun out on a slick road during a police pursuit.

Two people are in custody, and one of them — Kimberly Suzanne Al-Homsi — is well-known to police and federal agents.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/201002158688/homeland-security/texas-muslims-with-bomb-charges-in-truck-force-shutdown-of-fort-worth-highway-for-five-hours.html

[JustPiper]

Apocalyptic Beliefs of Twelver Muslims--Twelver Islam: Waiting for the Mahdi

The Machiavelli-Islamism Connection

Brigitte Gabriel

Lt. Colonel Allen West Hits A Jihad Fastball Into The Bleachers And Clears The Bases

Allen West Getting Jingo With It

Biden and Cheney spar over antiterrorism policies

[JustPiper]

Have you ever wondered why Obama didn’t call the “underwear bomber” an Islamic extremist?

Go to the White House website and do a search for the following terms (keep the quotes if listed):

1. “Islamic extremist”
2. “Islamic terrorism”
3. “Muslim terrorist”
4. “radical Islam”
5. jihad

Ok, I’ll save you some trouble – you won’t find anything (except one meaningless reference to jihad). Considering that we’ve had two well known attacks on US soil (Fort Hood & Christmas Day), I expected to find something referring to the terrorists as Islamic, especially since both were Muslims who were trying to kill Americans in the name of Allah, and both had strong connections to Islamic terrorist groups.

hmmmm.

http://www.therightscoop.com/have-you-ever-wondered-why-obama-didnt-call-the-underwear-bomber-an-islamic-extremist/

[JustPiper]

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