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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[JustPiper]

Quake rocks China-Russia-North Korea border region (6.8)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453762/posts

[jersey117]

Breaking....

Small Plane Crashes into Office High Rise in Austin, Texas

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454156/posts

[JustPiper]

BREAKING

PER CNN

— Iran may be working on secretly developing a nuclear
warhead for a missile, IAEA draft report says.

[JustPiper]

BREAKING NEWS..........

UNITED FLIGHT 741 TO DENVER - EMERGENCY DIVERSION TO UTAH FOLLOWING IN-FLIGHT BOMB THREAT. FBI ON THE SCENE.

FOX NEWS REPORTING

[JustPiper]

Flight Diverted to Salt Lake City After Bomb Threat

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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SALT LAKE CITY — An airliner that was diverted mid-flight because of a bomb threat was being scoured by investigators at Salt Lake City International Airport on Thursday.

Airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann said a flight attendant found a note while the 757 was en route from Denver to San Francisco and turned it over to the pilot.

“The note was threatening enough for the pilot to feel like he should divert,” Gann said.

Gann said the passengers and crew were taken to the international terminal, where the FBI planned to interview passengers while trying to figure out the note’s origin.

The plane was being searched at a runway away from the airport terminals, where a German shepherd was sniffing luggage on the tarmac.

United Airlines spokeswoman Jean Medina says United Flight 741 requested help from law enforcement authorities and was cooperating with the FBI. She said 168 passengers and six crew were on the flight that departed Denver at 8:23 a.m. MST and was diverted to Salt Lake City at 9:46 a.m. MST.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it did not launch fighter jets.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586602,00.html

[freedumb2003]

>>Flight Diverted to Salt Lake City After Bomb Threat<<

On landing, once they determine it is a fake threat, they should lock him in a room with the passengers from that flight.

There won’t even be a shirt button left.

[blackie]

These types of events, will increase in volume, as time goes on.

Be Ever Vigilant!

[JustPiper]

Per Major Garrett Very worried reporting this right now

U.N. Watchdog Concerned Iran Is Working on Nuclear Weapon

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586601,00.html

FR thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2454333/posts?page=1

Per Catherine Herridge

Also breaking Possible Sabotage on Fort Jackson, SC about deliberate food poisioning food supply there

[JustPiper]

A short time after you posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2418483/posts?page=2868#2868

[SE Mom]

Holy crap! Did you hear this? Breaking a minute ago on FOX (at least it’s news to me)...(5) Muslim soldiers at Ft Jackson are being questioned regarding attempts to POISON the FOOD supply at Ft Jackson.

Whoa...........

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping SE Mom.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

BREAKING NOW! WIDE SCALE FOOD POISONING of US troops attempted at Ft. Jackson, SC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2454434/posts?page=1

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping Arthur.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Sorry, Cindy [and others] for redunancy.

[Cindy]

No problem.

[Rushmore Rocks]

From what I’ve read (please correct me if I’m wrong), this happened in December and we are just NOW learning of it?

[Oorang]

Al-Qaida in Yemen tests new "anti-detectable" high explosive

Very interesting article MamaD, thanks much for the ping.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

CBN Exclusive: Five Muslim Soldiers Arrested at Fort Jackson in South Carolina
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454447/posts

[WestCoastGal]

Muslim translators - time to kick them out of the Army areas and the country IMO!!!! How stupid can we be.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Can’t live with’em and can’t live without ‘em. Better not trust them, simple as that. Use and watch closely.