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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

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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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To: Velveeta

Please add me on the ping list. Thank you.


2,901 posted on 02/18/2010 9:12:26 PM PST by Blonde
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To: azishot; JustPiper; Oorang; Rushmore Rocks; blackie; caww; Candor7
You're welcome! There's lots of news "out there" and definitely leaps and bounds over what we'd ever hear from the MSM (in a timely manner for certain).

Report - Officers lose 243 Homeland Security guns

Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report.

Branson police arrest two over explosive devices

Authorities arrested a couple in Branson on Thursday after they discovered two explosive devices at Branson Landing, an upscale waterfront shopping area in the tourist town.

Ex-Muslim Terrorist - It is not worth dying for a &%$#(@g XXXXXX

Snip: He wants to tell his story even if it means to be attacked by Muslims, threatened to be killed because he does not anymore believe in Allah. Sultan has now a new job: He knows for sure that Muslim boys in his homeland still want to go to war against the infidels and die for Allah.

FDA approved diabetes drug despite hints at cancer risk

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is defending its decision in late January to approve a new diabetes drug, Victoza (liraglutide), even though animal studies suggest it might increase the risk for a rare thyroid cancer.

2,902 posted on 02/18/2010 10:15:17 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: azishot
Thanks for the link. I found this tonight, which relates to that article:

More good news - Napolitano met with Islamist front groups, sharing information with them

Snips: In the literature it's called cooptation. You reach out to organizations and try to make your goals, their goals.

The only problem is that cooptation works both ways. The goal is for you to be the dog wagging them, the tail; but sometimes the tail wags the dog, doesn't it?

For instance, the ongoing case of the al Qaeda connected would be terrorist Najibullah Zazi comes to mind. The FBI had reached out to Zazi's former imam who had cooperated with them in the past in hopes of getting a line on what Zazi was up to. Zazi's imam then turned around and warned Zazi's family that the FBI was looking for him.

And this was all, of, what? A few months ago. The imam was only indicted in October of last year.

How's that coopting of radical Islamists going for you there DHS?

2,903 posted on 02/18/2010 10:19:55 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: WestCoastGal
Muslim translators - time to kick them out of the Army areas and the country IMO!!!! How stupid can we be.

They cannot even identify the cause of the problem in an investigatory report (for fear of offending a specific religious group and its activist protective agencies) let alone actually DO something to correct the problem and show some courage, patriotism and authority to protect our nation's finest (and NO, that is NOT the radical Islamists who make no bones about their intent to keep on attacking us over and over and over again). This administration seems to have some confusion about who it is that they are supposed to be representing and protecting.

2,904 posted on 02/18/2010 10:30:28 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Moe Tzadik

“The Jackson 5”, I presume....


2,905 posted on 02/18/2010 10:46:24 PM PST by RedDogzRule ("Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded." - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Not to be sorry my FRiend, I like the enthusiasm!


2,906 posted on 02/18/2010 11:07:08 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: Moe Tzadik
Yeppers, very succinct summary Moe!
2,907 posted on 02/18/2010 11:08:05 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: MamaDearest; MestaMachine; All

Message to the Tribes of Yemen From Mujahid in Somalia
Posted today on Al Qimmah...

Strategic Translations from LauraMansfield.com

http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=0018RV34s7Da51WTK1QJT0cU5TELqeIVFpt-H2j9aatND3sfXIG8_tSb7f2sIjtyBCf57gWjtcTQflugoUjTFIcMu07ftlL2iDErMTgDSk0Ngo%3D


2,908 posted on 02/18/2010 11:11:04 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: thouworm

The implications that disturb me, is exacly how many of our bases are being attacked in various ways & it’s kept silent?!


2,909 posted on 02/18/2010 11:12:48 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: Moe Tzadik; MamaDearest

TY Mama for this link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=player_embedded#


2,910 posted on 02/18/2010 11:13:59 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: thouworm

and they’ll tell a friend...and so on...and so on...


2,911 posted on 02/18/2010 11:15:01 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: MamaDearest

You posted all great links I had not seen! TY!

This one has my dander up bad==

The mystery at Ft. Jackson - did CBN get it wrong?

Snips: CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in South Carolina were arrested just before Christmas and are in custody. The five men were part of the Arabic Translation program at the base.”

Huge — if true.
((( Damaging and politically sensitive. )))

Evidence of extensive infiltration of the U.S. Army by jihadis But the Army says it’s not true. No one has been arrested.

((( The National Security Council was not aware of any arrests, a spokesperson said. )))

WHAT the fudge?!


2,912 posted on 02/18/2010 11:19:51 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: Blonde

V has handed me her pinglist, would you still like to be added?


2,913 posted on 02/18/2010 11:21:15 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: MamaDearest

Any update on this one?

Flight Diverted to Salt Lake City After Bomb Threat


2,914 posted on 02/18/2010 11:22:26 PM PST by JustPiper (~I AM NOT A STINKIN' (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER!)
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To: MamaDearest

BTW I am so glad your footsie/leg has let you come back!!!


2,915 posted on 02/18/2010 11:31:32 PM PST by JustPiper (I AM NOT A (LIBERAL )TEABAGGIN' BIRTHER! But I want to see that BC as I'm sipping a spot of tea!!!)
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To: JustPiper

Yes thanks. Took me all day to find this list :) I replied to the first name I found.


2,916 posted on 02/18/2010 11:42:31 PM PST by Blonde
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To: Moe Tzadik

Moe..thought you’d appreciate this list of news I pulled off the Counter Jihad News site.....no wonder Geert Wilder is fighting so...they are stoning people there! Applying Shira law throught the Netherlands...

Norwegian Muslim leader: stone the gays to death
Norwegian DOJ concerned over Muslim terrorism
American blacks and Norwegian Muslims - the struggle
Norway fertile ground for Muslim terrorists
Norwegian PM: Muslims painted with broad brush - not terrorists
Norwegian terrorist “quoted security service’s” warning about 9/11
3,000 Norwegian Muslims threaten with 9/11 and Norway rolls over
The Islamization of Norway is in full swing
Norway: Muslim terror-threat riots Day II
Norway: New Muslim riot today
Norwegian Muslim leader: Norway will have its own 9/11
The Norwegian Muslims illegal show is on
This is the test for Norwegian society
Norwegian Muslims: This worst the Norwegian Muslims have experienced
Kurt Westergaard supports the upcoming Muslim riot
The upcoming Muslim riots in Norway
Norwegian Muslim terrorist leading riot planned for Friday
Norwegian Muslims threaten with violence
1000 Norwegian Muslim cab drivers on strike over Muhammed cartoons
Norwegian Muslim cab drivers: we can stop Norway
Westergaard: It wasn’t the Prophet Mohammed
50 % of Norwegian armed criminals Muslim
Norwegian Security Services Facebook promotes to Muhammed cartoons
Norway Pays Bitter Price for Muslim Mass Immigration
Pakistani Muslims burning Norwegian flags over Danish cartoons
Norwegians publish Muhammed cartoons in solidarity
New Muhammad cartoon war no concern to Norwegian security services


2,917 posted on 02/18/2010 11:49:23 PM PST by caww
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To: JustPiper

Passenger Aalim “Killer of Infidels” bin Ajeer al-jihad, a Saudi national, was briefly detained after the plane landed in Salt Lake City.

Questioned about the 2’ x 2’ sheet of plastic explosives rolled up in his prayer rug and labeled “For Jihad Use Only” Aalim replied it was actually a part of the aircraft that had fallen into his prayer mat.

Airline officials declined comment while the FBI said the crew “overreacted” in response to the non-incident.

“The safest flight is one where Muslims are not viewed unfairly” said Special Agent al-Jabbar “If you see some loose detonators on the floor, or an IED in the lavatory, or a spool trailing 30 feet of wire running down the aisle, don’t think of terrorism but rather the feelings of the Muslim you are about to offend with false accusations.”

The agent concluded by encouraging those who suspect they may have witnessed any Islamophobia to immediately call the FBI Tip Line.


2,918 posted on 02/19/2010 12:40:34 AM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: JustPiper

Bump [to read latest]


2,919 posted on 02/19/2010 3:08:49 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama Trusters throw certifigate and truth under the bus and divide us. Divided we fall.)
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To: caww

Norway has been trying for years to deport a muslim terrorist...Krekar. When they finally got a court ruling, after years of litigation, to go ahead and deport him, a Norwegian government official stopped it out of fear of reprisals from other muslims. Krekar is still there.
In another instance, an entire family who had entered the country illegally was scheduled for deportation after years of litigation, so they drove OUT of the country and then re-entered illegally so the process has to start all over again. This ploy has happened in other Scandanavian countries as well.
In yet another instance, a Pakistani from outside Norway ordered and paid for the kidnapping of a twenty-six year old muslim woman who was born in Norway. It was done in broad daylight, and even though she was thrown in the trunk of a car, they had not taken her cellphone. She maintained a conversation with Norwegian police until her cellphone battery went dead, but they never found her and think she was taken out of the country the same day.
This is a partial discription of this story:
http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/kidnap-victims-name-released/


2,920 posted on 02/19/2010 5:39:56 AM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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