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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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"No matter where you live in the world, this is a message that bears repeating: Your assistance is needed to prevent terrorist acts." From TM'er and Freeper ~appalachian_dweller~
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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: caww
Not even gonna try shoveling. Going to wait for the spring thaw. LOL
2,821
posted on
02/15/2010 2:29:31 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
To: MestaMachine
2,822
posted on
02/15/2010 2:32:46 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: caww
And this is what we do best at TM, you got it, connect the dots
2,823
posted on
02/15/2010 2:34:22 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: caww
2,824
posted on
02/15/2010 2:40:26 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: JustPiper
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.
2,825
posted on
02/15/2010 3:50:58 PM PST
by
caww
To: JustPiper
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.
2,826
posted on
02/15/2010 4:34:07 PM PST
by
caww
To: JustPiper
Fox ALERT!..... just confirmed top Taliban leadership in Pakistan captured.....now is custody.
2,827
posted on
02/15/2010 7:05:06 PM PST
by
caww
To: 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!!!!!
2,828
posted on
02/15/2010 7:16:08 PM PST
by
caww
To: JustPiper; caww
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.
2,829
posted on
02/15/2010 7:25:47 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
To: Velveeta
To: MestaMachine
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
2,831
posted on
02/15/2010 10:19:26 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: MestaMachine
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!
2,832
posted on
02/15/2010 11:40:59 PM PST
by
caww
To: Moe Tzadik
In other words there is not one sane, experienced person running DHS
2,833
posted on
02/16/2010 12:23:08 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
2,834
posted on
02/16/2010 12:25:55 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: thouworm; All
2,835
posted on
02/16/2010 12:26:52 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
2,836
posted on
02/16/2010 12:31:12 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: JustPiper
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
2,837
posted on
02/16/2010 12:33:28 AM PST
by
TWhiteBear
(Islam is an ideology with several elements of Judeo Christian traditions)
2,838
posted on
02/16/2010 12:34:58 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
Have you ever wondered why Obama didnt 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, Ill save you some trouble you wont find anything (except one meaningless reference to jihad). Considering that weve 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/
2,839
posted on
02/16/2010 1:05:35 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
To: All
THIS VIDEO WILL DISAPPEAR SOON---Watch, capture, download, save to disk
DOSSIER
2,840
posted on
02/16/2010 12:41:39 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(Where IS the "Progress in PROGRESSIVE" ?!? Don't Trust anything with a "Caucus")
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