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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: MamaDearest; JustPiper

Which side is our ruler on?

Look at what else the UN and 0bama has in store for us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMeDmV0ufU


3,041 posted on 02/21/2010 3:23:13 PM PST by blackie
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To: blackie

~ pushing for a binding international treaty aimed at superseding the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations is committed to rendering Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm meaningless

SM, you need to get this to the gun rights folks here

I went through this under Jane Byrne , then Mayor of Chgo, she banned ALL guns in the city!


3,042 posted on 02/22/2010 12:42:50 PM PST by JustPiper (WARNING PUBS: WE WILL BE WATCHING YOUR EVERY WORD NEXT WEEK!!!)
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To: blackie; Oorang; Rushmore Rocks; caww; Candor7; MestaMachine; Cindy; JustPiper; WestCoastGal; ...
Our ruler is lacking in honesty and honor

He talked about "transforming" our nation. Certainly he transformed the meaning of the word "transparent" to be "oblique."

a. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.

b. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.

Netherlands terror suspect fights US extradition

Snip: Mohamud Said Omar, 44, is suspected of providing money to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab that was used to buy guns. Around 20 youths of Somali descent are believed to have traveled to Somalia from Minnesota since 2007 to help the group, which the U.S. says has ties to al-Qaida.

Terror threat from within as blueprint identifies danger with born, raised Aussies

The Counter-Terrorism White Paper finds there has been an increase in the threat from people "born or raised" in Australia who have been influenced by a violent jihadist message, according to a report in the Herald Sun.

UN joins forces with computer giants to tackle internet terrorism

The United Nations and computer giants, including Microsoft and Google, are joining forces to identify ways to combat terrorists’ use of the Internet to recruit members, organize criminal acts and raise money. The UN Working Group on Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes is holding talks with CISCO, Symantec and others in the United States city of Seattle to examine the technical issues involved in the issue.

Vulnerable to terrorism

The recent arrest of a suspected Taliban leader here shows Korea might be dragged into the war with terror deeper than it thinks.



According to the police, the Pakistani imam (Muslim clergyman) has brainwashed and trained about 30 Uzbek students in Korea into Taliban agents as well as gathered intelligence about U.S. bases for nearly a decade. He went in and out of the nation as many as 17 times during the period, often with a forged passport using a ``laundered identity."

Congressional documents and publications

"I asked for names, cases and recusals and in return I received a 5 page letter of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo that failed to sufficiently answer my simple questions," Grassley said. "I've held nearly 30 constituent listening posts in Iowa since the first of the year and they are upset about the direction our national security is headed. They want to know who is advising the President and the Attorney General, especially after it's become very clear to Americans across the country that misguided decisions on terrorism policy are being made. An answer like I received today doesn't live up to the transparency in government President Obama promised and doesn't sit well with me or Iowans."

Grassley said it's incomprehensible that the Department of Justice does not maintain comprehensive records on conflicts of interest information on such an important issue. He said it also raises questions how serious the department is about national security.

The Mainstream Media - always the last to know

French Mayor- halal restaurant is discrimination

The mayor of a town called Roubaix in northern France described the choice of meat at the fast food chain, called Quick, as “discrimination against non-Muslims” and filed a complaint based on discrimination at a regional court in Lille.

Why so many terrorists are engineers

Muslim missionary activity in Oslo

Public broadcaster NRK reports that Muslim missionaries in the Holmlia area are recruiting young men with a Muslim background to join what many say are radical Muslim groups NRK's reporter has interviewed several young men who confirm that such activity is quite usual.

The say men with long beards and long coats are stopping young boys on the street and recruiting them to come to the mosque.

3,043 posted on 02/22/2010 12:50:00 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Thank you for the ping MamaDearest.


3,044 posted on 02/22/2010 1:44:38 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

You’re welcome Cindy!


3,045 posted on 02/22/2010 2:01:01 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: blackie; MamaDearest; MestaMachine; FARS; Jet Jaguar; TigersEye; Godzilla; appalachian_dweller; ...

WASHINGTON (AP) AG Holder says criminal justice system invaluable weapon in handling New York terrorism case.


3,046 posted on 02/22/2010 3:43:57 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: blackie; All

anyone have a pinglist for guns rights thread here?


3,047 posted on 02/22/2010 3:52:01 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: JustPiper

Holder needs to look at this ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbhTA0CRCk


3,048 posted on 02/22/2010 3:52:57 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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To: marktwain

Do you know if there is a gun right’s pinglist?


3,049 posted on 02/22/2010 3:54:44 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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Israel unveils new drone fleet that can reach Iran

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100221/D9E0PR5G0.html


3,050 posted on 02/22/2010 3:56:15 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: JustPiper
The banglist serves that function.
3,051 posted on 02/22/2010 3:57:02 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Candor7

O
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3,052 posted on 02/22/2010 3:57:54 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: marktwain

OK TY, never used it, will check it out


3,053 posted on 02/22/2010 3:58:58 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: JustPiper

I knew YOU would like it!


3,054 posted on 02/22/2010 3:59:36 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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To: MestaMachine; SoldierDad; ExSoldier; Baynative; BobMcCartyWrites; Jet Jaguar; Seadog Bytes; ...

Would you please spread this video & ping your lists for all those who hold sacred the 2nd amendment?


3,055 posted on 02/22/2010 4:04:39 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: JustPiper

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/22/canadian-nuke-genius-vanishes/

Don’t know if anyone has seen this nuclear scientist in Canada missing. Reminds me of the case in Arizona this summer when the engineer went missing and was found dead a week later. Sure are alot of scientists and tchs going missing


3,056 posted on 02/22/2010 6:23:15 PM PST by Mata6858 (We the people of the US in order for a perfect union)
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To: JustPiper

That’s only phase I.

Now that they’ve criminalized guerrilla war and given full citizenship rights to unlawful enemy alien combatants...

Phase II is introduction of Sharia...

The Internal Enemy within never sleeps...


3,057 posted on 02/22/2010 9:02:51 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: Mata6858; MamaDearest; WestCoastGal; Cindy

TY Mata yes the missing scientists were followed very closely here, am pinging the gals that know it best


3,058 posted on 02/22/2010 9:12:16 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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The Pennsylvania Lifeline to Hamas

by Joe Kaufman

In 1981, future terrorist leader and spokesman Mousa Abu Marzook began building, within the United States, a network of violence supporting Palestinian-oriented groups, which would later become the basis for a well-financed Hamas infrastructure. Today, that network has been severely crippled. However, parts of it yet exist, all of which hail from the American propaganda wing of Hamas, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), one of which is a chapter of the IAP itself.

On December 8, 2004, Joyce and Stanley Boim, an American couple, were awarded $156 million by a federal court jury for the murder of their teenage son, David, who had been shot and killed during a May 1996 Hamas terrorist operation in Israel. The four defendants who were found liable for the murder included three organizations, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI), and one individual, a Chicago resident named Muhammad Salah.

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/22/the-pennsylvania-lifeline-to-hamas/


3,059 posted on 02/22/2010 9:14:20 PM PST by JustPiper (I won't fall in line against my beliefs~ I won't argue with you because my opinion differs)
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To: Mata6858
Sure are alot of scientists and tchs going missing

List of Dead Scientists

Ft. Detrick lab missing 9000 virus vials, scientists still dying from unnatural causes

3,060 posted on 02/22/2010 9:16:39 PM PST by MamaDearest
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