Threat Matrix: 2010

Freerepublic.com ^ | 12/31/2009 | Freeper TMers

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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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[RebelTex]

FYI
New hi-tech weapons - great against the jihadists.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/sci-fi-weapons/

If against us - not so much.

[caww]

Amazing equipment!!! My son flew in a plane that emitted somesort of beam that, “messed with the enemies minds”
So if a group were coming down a hill you could scatter them at will.

Alot of what he did was top secret so not only did we not know when or where he was going...but what he’d be doing.

[RebelTex]

LOL - ‘messing with the enemies minds’ has to be fun. Tell your son we really appreciate his service and thank him for all he does.

I’m sure our guys are probably now using some of that new stuff (and probably a lot more we don’t know about) and will have some pretty interesting stories to tell (once declassified, that is, heheh).

May you son stay safe, with an angel as his co-pilot and the Lord as his navigator.

[caww]

The plane he was on was floor to ceiling instrament panels throught the whole aircraft. I never saw it but the descript he gave was fascinating. He said you wouldn’t believe all the stuff they can do to the enemy.

[JustPiper]

How to Recognize and Fight a Terrorist on a Plane(Informative & CAN save your Life posted by Me

[WestCoastGal]

Too bad Alan wasn’t on flight 253 - that may have scrambled his brain into thinking realistically rather than add himself to the political dung pile called dimwit.

[WestCoastGal]

If anyone watched NCIS last night - their storyline was in line with outr thinking that the mooselimbs are coming across the border with the illegals. I was glad to see some in Hollyweird do not toe the company line of idiocy and ostrich like symptoms which also includes complete stupidity.

[appalachian_dweller]

THANKS folks for all the pings, info, and hard work digging this stuff up! Please keep the pings coming. I wish I had more time to be active in this important discussion, but life and work take up too much time.

I do check the thread every morning for the latest and I thank all of you for the info.

Please stay alert and safe folks!
AD

[null and void]

I wonder...

Suppose, just suppose, five bottles of liquid HE were snuck past security at a backwater airport. Now the bottles are in the “sterile” zone.

Back water flight goes to a major airport. Before the mule makes his connecting flight he bumps into 4 old friends and “gifts” are exchanged.

Something to think about.

[null and void]

Now I read that two workers were hospitalized?

Ever had occasion to take nitroglycerine, or absorb any through your skin?

It dilates the blood vessels, that can cause flushing, violent headache and weakness/dizziness. Some people get heart palpitations.

If I had just handled a suspected terrorist device and suddenly developed those symptoms, I'd assume I'd been poisoned!

[null and void]

Worth repeating:

[Clinging Bitterly]

Scapegoats and scaremongers

One must laugh to keep from crying.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

You don’t get much further into your “backwaters” than the airports in Montana, and based on my experiences, your scenario would be far more likely to occur at one of the Big BlueState air terminals than anyplace around here.

One advantage of living in a small town is a real good chance of being on first names and living down the road from somebody who happens to work for TSA, the Sheriff’s department or the biggest bank in town.....just like I do.

That didn’t keep one of my TSA neighbor’s co-workers from patting down my wife during our Christmas trip because she had some Norwegian treats in her carry on.

Only difference is that we tend to get smiles from our friends at the airport instead of half-a$$ed excuses at press conferences.

[JustPiper]

My son loved the visuals

[JustPiper]

Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up airliner over Detroit indicted by grand jury

Read More:
http://email.foxnews.com/t?ctl=2DDF:55A637457CD2F6B814C6B8AD45713039&;

[JustPiper]

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) Foreign minister: Yemen opposes any direct intervention of US, foreign troops in terror fight.

ISLAMABAD (AP) Intelligence officials say 2nd suspected US drone missile strike kills 4 in NW Pakistan.

[JustPiper]

Legal Trade of Khat in UK Funding Terror in Yemen?

Wish NOE was still together

[JustPiper]

Legal Trade of Khat in UK Funding Terror in Yemen?

Wish NOE was still together

[JustPiper]

Your forgetting NK. and the fact China doesn't want sanctions on Yemen or military involvement. I heard a financial analyst predict china is waiting for our economic collapse, the same way Reagan percipitated the collapse of the USSR.

~Without a bullet fired

[JustPiper]

You are Undignified and Shameless, Mr. President