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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.

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To: blackie

INVITED foreigners. Invited to destroy us and everything we believe in.


2,941 posted on 02/19/2010 4:05:04 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MestaMachine
Quite correct.

The other half of that "justification" is the 'dual-loyalty' canard.

Yet, there's ZERO hesitancy to fast-track and promote hundreds of Nidal Malik Hasans through the DoD and every other federal/defense agency.

in·fil·tra·tion

To enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes. [e.g. the intelligence staff had been infiltrated by spies]

2,942 posted on 02/19/2010 5:25:55 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: MestaMachine

Mesta , I have serious concerns Bo is going to so infest our government..so rapidly.. with muslim leaning people if not outright muslims, as we’ve seen, that we won’t have time to clear them out before the damage is very severe or at best a total wash of our country and freedoms...by the time our guys get in will it be too late to stop it all and walk things back around?


2,943 posted on 02/19/2010 5:38:11 PM PST by caww
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To: Moe Tzadik

“The other half of that “justification” is the ‘dual-loyalty’ canard.”

Yep. I have heard that since forever.


2,944 posted on 02/19/2010 5:38:21 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: caww

Eventually, caww, they will begin jihad here in earnest. Their training camps are emptied. When the powers that be decide they cannot get blood from our stones anymore, they will seek to extricate themselves and leave us to the tender mercies of their hired hands.
We really haven’t seen anything yet.


2,945 posted on 02/19/2010 5:41:59 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks for the ping MamaD - it’s depressing to see it all in writing. We all know and see it happening but can’t do much about it. I’ve been yelling about these people for 20 years, they ruined California. Parts of Texas are mexicanized - most labels on food products are hard to find English version and so on.

We can thank our inept government and stupid leaders for doing nothing except welcome them so they can get illegal social security cards and licenses and then hope they will vote for them.

It’s so wrong and they should all be ashamed of themselves except for the fact they don’t give a rat’s ass about the people of this country,


2,946 posted on 02/19/2010 5:44:01 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: MestaMachine

Try and Guess WHO I AM?

I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.
I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.
Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a
Legitimate, reliable birth certificate.
I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs and didn’t follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.
I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them..

That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.
I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics in my 30’s then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. That reinforced my conceit.

I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.

I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.

At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.

But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed and housed for free.

I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks and corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

I called mine “A People’s Campaign” and that sounded good to all people.
I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support.

I knew that, if I merely offered the people ‘hope’, together we
Could change our country and the world.
So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include “persecuted minorities” like the Jews. My true views were not widely known and I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation’s leader.

I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.

I’m glad they didn’t. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the trut
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My name is Adolf Hitler.


2,947 posted on 02/19/2010 5:51:09 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

Yes. I was going to actually answer you and then I saw the “scroll down.”
It is uncanny, is it not? Hitler was also a sexual deviant.


2,948 posted on 02/19/2010 5:55:23 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MamaDearest
This administration seems to have some confusion about who it is that they are supposed to be representing and protecting.

Sadly, do not think they are confused at all. Am sure Obama reads HIS contract often. Rahm probably has some special clauses he checks when in doubt.

2,949 posted on 02/19/2010 5:56:17 PM PST by cricket (Proud to be the 'Party of NO')
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To: WestCoastGal
We can thank our inept government and stupid leaders for doing nothing except welcome them so they can get illegal social security cards and licenses and then hope they will vote for them.

It’s so wrong and they should all be ashamed of themselves except for the fact they don’t give a rat’s ass about the people of this country,

That's the reason Americans have almost no trust in their elected representatives. They are self-promoting and constituent loathing maggots putting our nation at grave social and financial risk.

Found this interesting - America's cities - rated to hell in handbaskets these days (no thanks to politicians more interested in inflicting Obamacare on us than getting our nation back into prosperity and restoring jobs for Americans.:

Top 20 America's Most Miserable Cities 2010

2,950 posted on 02/19/2010 6:20:42 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MestaMachine

INVITED AND FUNDED


2,951 posted on 02/19/2010 8:37:29 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; hoosiermama

I stand corrected.
BTW My auchi/chicago files are almost duplicates of what has already been posted here at FR. I should have checked a whole lot better before running off at the mouth.
When I backtracked to keywords, I found that lo and behold, what brought me to FR in the first place, the great research, was more than I even knew. The research on here is amazing!
I have just a few things that might be different, but I didn’t read everything or I would still be reading.
You guys are awesome!


2,952 posted on 02/19/2010 8:44:02 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MamaDearest; Jim Robinson

Gary is the hellhole just south of downtown Chicago, bet HBO has friends there

Interesting of all the hell cities that Sacramento made # 15

Wow Rockford!

Modesto crime ridden

Chicago should be higher!

Detroit should be higher!

Cleveland #1 ?


2,953 posted on 02/19/2010 9:03:48 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: MestaMachine

You are just as awesome lil one! Still waiting for the file at group
~hint NOT so subtle lol


2,954 posted on 02/19/2010 9:04:59 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

Been crazy politicin’ for JD Hayworth. Guy there and same guy on another thread doesn’t like me so much. LOL


2,955 posted on 02/19/2010 9:08:25 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MestaMachine; MamaDearest; Sparky21555

OK Girls got this link, I don’t expect it to be there long

This man seems nervous with what he is revealing! So stunning I yelled at my screen! But you know what? It would answer why BO’s loyalities are where they are & why we cannot see his BC and so much more

Download it, save to disk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WedxY61d60


2,956 posted on 02/19/2010 9:31:52 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: FARS; Jet Jaguar; TigersEye; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; WestCoastGal; Oorang; Rushmore Rocks; ..

If you would like to be added to my TM pinglist or removed just email me

2,957 posted on 02/19/2010 9:32:55 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: amom; LucyT; Blonde; boxlunch; COBOL2Java; bitt; thouworm; Kimberly GG; Grammy; mills044; ...

If you would like to be added to my TM pinglist or removed just email me

2,958 posted on 02/19/2010 9:33:38 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: MestaMachine

Why & who is this guy that don’t like you? Lemme at him!


2,959 posted on 02/19/2010 9:51:19 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: MestaMachine

Wasn’t this quite the contrast! I fell for it and thought BO of course...If Bo hasn’t already messed around on Michelle..he will.


2,960 posted on 02/19/2010 10:33:55 PM PST by caww
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