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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: WestCoastGal

6 counts of terror and only a decade sentence?! He’ll be in his prime to get us, if we are still in existence


781 posted on 01/06/2010 1:37:58 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal

Gal please post this to ANY relevant thread you can...we all should, it’s breathsucking


782 posted on 01/06/2010 1:41:57 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: blackie

783 posted on 01/06/2010 1:45:03 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal

Dennis is the most intelligent political humorist and HOT! So glad he left the libs way behind & came to our side


784 posted on 01/06/2010 1:46:19 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll watch 10pm CST


785 posted on 01/06/2010 1:48:57 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: WestCoastGal; blackie; All
Obama Readying Immigration Overhaul Despite Political Risks

Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations

A Chinagate/Clinton crony returns

786 posted on 01/06/2010 1:52:29 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: CaliGirl-R; All
Today's blurb of the day

Options include testing TSA and law enforcement personnel, testing passengers and crewmembers, observation, dry run/practice

Must read post by CaliGirl-R-Two UC Irvine professors received envelopes with white powder today

Jihadi revolving doors, Pt. 999 By Michelle Malkin

State Dept. Using 'Diversity Visas' to Encourage Immigration from Yemen

787 posted on 01/06/2010 1:59:09 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: JustPiper

Oh yeah, they’re all waiting for us to go down, and they’re positioning themselves for that outcome and after.


788 posted on 01/06/2010 2:06:44 PM PST by caww
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To: JustPiper; Rushmore Rocks

Are you guys watching Beck?

We can make little drink umbrellas and sell them to China - LOL LOL _ if not so sad but true it would really be funny.

Also comparing building Lindsay Gramnesty’s solar panels built in USA with all our union, legal, EPA steps etc compared to China’s child labor + parts = solar panel = wa la easy.


789 posted on 01/06/2010 2:25:35 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: JustPiper; Mossad1967; Old Sarge; judicial meanz; Border Enforcer; appalachian_dweller; ...
Yeah, it HAS been awhile, hasn't it?

Been busy and still so. Kept in touch with Travis McGee and appalachian_dweller and MamaDearest, but that's about it. The Matrix got to be too overwhelming for my psyche working in the hood as I still do. Now with my wife in chemotherapy for breast cancer and me stepping up to take care of her, I don't expect that'll change. But as I suspect that we're due for a major attack soon, I'll be popping by more often, I think.

I would look for a series of Mumbai style attacks, simultaneously across the nation, or maybe just a few at first to give OHHHHHH BABY the excuse he and lap dog Holder need to ram through massive gun control and then when the Jihadis think American's are disarmed, a second massive wave of mall shootings everywhere. That's just a guess of course. I would not be surprised to see a multi-pronged attack come down via more airliners, coupled with attacks at sea and single/multiple shooters. Suicide bombers, too.

I have long postulated the coming order of battle. This was something folks like Old Sarge, judicial meanz and I hashed out a long time ago on something like the OLD TM thread #8. I have posted it here before, but I'll run it by y'all again, for the sake of folks joining since I last appeared:

We sort of came to the conclusion that there could be three or four levels of terror operative looking to commence hostilities.

FIRST, there might be the organized cells with specific targets. The cell will have trigger pullers, support personnel to establish safe houses, documents etc and probably recon and security types. These are the folks who will have the WMD assets and be looking to score multiple 911's but oh so much worse than the original.

SECOND there would be trained terrorists with knowledge of field craft but here as sleepers. They may have been here for years. They may have been assigned specific targets or they may have been given an array of potential targets to strike under a given codeword ("GO" CODE).

THIRD would be the random trigger pullers smuggled across the Mexican border since 911. They will be dedicated Jihadis but probably limited in education and salable civilian skills. They may settle into areas with high latino populations since the two at least superficially bear a resemblance to each other in physical features. They will secure typical illegal immigrant jobs and wait to strike. These would be the ones most likely to snap and go into sudden Jihadi syndrome as may have been demonstrated in the past perhaps in this most recent recruiter murder. However, there is no telling how many of these will remain dedicated to their original objectives and how many might succumb to the allure of the American lifestyle and simply move from the mission to the dream. OTOH, there is also no telling how many of the dedicated moles will stay on task and may even recruit new members to the cause, especially if arrested for other offenses and forced to move into the correctional system.

That very correctional system would provide the last and FOURTH wave of a much larger and coordinated plan. The converted are still criminals and now it's like they have a license to kill in the name of their pagan god (lower case deliberate) which they will embrace.

790 posted on 01/06/2010 3:09:13 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: JustPiper; MestaMachine

Mesta Machine and I have pulled some very professional double teaming. I can say for a fact that he has a sharp sword and is a class act.Not a cowardly bone in his emaciated body. I, on the other hand am built like a greek god.( sarc.).

Many a troll has bit the dust, gnashing its teeth in a last attempt to scar us.Arrrrg!


791 posted on 01/06/2010 3:19:34 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: ExSoldier

First, welcome home. You’ve been missed.

Second, I’m so sorry to hear about your beloved wife. Prayers up for her and you. Please keep us updated. I spent six hours with my daughter in surgery yesterday for melanoma on her face. So, I kinda understand your fears.

Third, your educated insight is always welcome here. Thanks.


792 posted on 01/06/2010 3:38:33 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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Better Biodefense Preparations Needed, WMD Panel Heads Say
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010
The problematic response to the H1N1 flu demonstrates that the United States must improve its biodefense capabilities to counter future biological threats, both natural and intentional, former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.) said recently (see GSN, Dec. 16, 2009).

“The H1N1 virus has spotlighted a lack of capability that’s very dangerous for the country,” Talent, co-chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, told Missourinet “The fact (is) that we cannot produce vaccines quickly and we have not stockpiled the necessary vaccines or medical therapeutics to respond to a biological attack.”

-—————The commission has warned that unless steps are taken, an act of WMD terrorism is likely to occur by 2013 and that a biological incident is more likely than a nuclear strike.-———————

While the United States cannot guarantee it can prevent future biological assaults, the government can move to prepare for their repercussions, Talent said.

“One of the ways you deal with that is you have the medicine stockpiled so you can really minimize the effects of the attack,” according to Talent. “We don’t have the vaccines and we’re not pursuing the technologies we need to get the vaccines.”

Talent said an estimated $3 billion annually was required to “protect against all the most likely kinds of pathogens.”

The federal government has adequate resources to pursue this, the former senator said. “The problem is just focusing their decision-making enough on these high priority items” (Steve Walsh, Missourinet, Jan. 4).

Talent and former U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the WMD commission’s other co-chairman, yesterday called for improving U.S. medical readiness for disease crises.

It takes too long to produce flu vaccines, according to the former lawmakers. Technology for diagnosing the disease is also “outdated ... difficult, expensive and time-consuming,” they said in a Washington Post commentary.

“The really bad news is that we are far more prepared to respond to a flu outbreak than to any other biological event, natural or man-made, such as the Ebola virus,” Graham and Talent said (Graham/Talent, Washington Post, Jan. 4).
http://bit.ly/4WgZF5


793 posted on 01/06/2010 3:59:35 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: ExSoldier; Rushmore Rocks

All my best wishes to both of you.


794 posted on 01/06/2010 4:02:07 PM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (1109 and a wakeup)
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To: WestCoastGal

It’s no wonder we feel like sitting ducks....just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Did I just mix my metaphors?


795 posted on 01/06/2010 4:15:56 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: WestCoastGal; rockabyebaby
Wish you'd get on the daily ping for Beck's thread Coco! It's lots of fun. Tis how I spend days off :)Have rockabyebaby put you on pinglist!

Beck Thread


796 posted on 01/06/2010 4:18:22 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

Thank you very much. FReepers are the best!


797 posted on 01/06/2010 4:19:02 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: ExSoldier
For your wife
798 posted on 01/06/2010 4:21:47 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: Candor7
Ooooo I will call on you & MM if I run into any, they seem to be here most weekdays


799 posted on 01/06/2010 4:25:09 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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To: rockabyebaby; Caipirabob; All
Freeper Share

Bump to rockabyebaby

BOSTON — A Muslim rights group is asking the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate a Massachusetts college that is banning students from wearing head coverings that obscure the face

Bump to Caipirabob

MUST SEE Video It's the Christians!

800 posted on 01/06/2010 4:33:49 PM PST by JustPiper (The AUDACITY of DOPES)
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