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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From TM'er and Freeper ~Cindy~

Intelligence is the best weapon against terrorism.
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Ian Livingston

[JustPiper]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Police chief: Court released Somali suspect who tried to board plane with chemicals, syringe.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Thank you it worked!

[JustPiper]

'Underwear Bomber's' Alarming Last Phone Call

Qur'an 4:34: "Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded

Gaza: 77% of women experience abuse

[JustPiper]

HeHE Happy Almost NY

[caww]

Here in Pa. the Hotels and convienance stores run by people from India...Numustay-upkasee-hay...

[caww]

Bo-ing! Bo-ing Bo-ing....feeling silly....

[caww]

Ask Piper and Mesta Machine. They are in the know..

[nw_arizona_granny]

Threat Matrix 2010!!!

Happy New Year to all of you.

[JustPiper]

TM Award of 2009

[MamaDearest]

Happy New Year to you and Mr. RR. Hope you got to read that book and be comfy warm at home after the party. The buffalo wings do sound good. it's been snowing here and my electric blanket is looking better all the time.

We're both getting old, but what the heck, 2010 here we come, ready or not!

[JustPiper]

Video: Michelle Malkin on the airline bomb plot: Why isn’t the President back in Washington?

[JustPiper]

Yemen, Gitmo, and jihadi revolving doors

[kimmie7]

Thanks JP. I’m always reading, rarely posting. Hoping to get more into it as I’d been in the past. Had some freaky “coincidences” and decided to lay low for a while. ;-)

[JustPiper]

That seems to be a common denominator for us all, there’s something significant to that...speaking of where is Drymanswife?

[MestaMachine]

ACORNs are nuts. I am a Freeping Jew!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

[MestaMachine]

If you are in PA, why does your profile page have a TX Flag?
Curious.

[JustPiper]

Happy Happy Granny!!!

[thecabal]

Hi there, I’m still around FR. And the threat of terrorism is still in our country as well. Hope you and your family is well!

[caww]

hUMMMM...didn’t pay attention so I have no idea. Do we pick a flag then? or does someone else determine so on FR? I am about 20-25 miles north of Pittsburgh.

[JustPiper]

To Our Parent, Our Son, Our Loved One,

The Annals of Ian are born:

IRAQ INDEX - Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq with assistance from Senior Research Assistant Ian S. Livingston