Posted on 02/06/2008 11:29:38 AM PST by STARWISE
Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives from Iraq across the globe and are increasing preparations to strike the United States, senior intelligence officials told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday. They said the terrorists had plans to attack the White House as recently as 2006.
"Al Qaeda is improving the last key aspect of its ability to attack the U.S. — the identification, training and positioning of operatives for an attack in the homeland," said Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence, which oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.
"While increased security measures at home and abroad have caused al Qaeda to view the West, especially the U.S., as a harder target, we have seen an influx of new Western recruits into the tribal areas since mid-2006, " Mr. McConnell said.
Mr. McConnell revealed that al Qaeda had plans to specifically target the White House.
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Okay and what is new about this.
Won’t happen until sometime after January 20, 2009.
Well they better hurry cause after January 2009 one of their Democrat allies are likely to be living there. /sarc on.
AlQaeda is going to test the new President. If the new President is a woman, you can be sure it will extra messy. God help us all.
Yawn. They are always planning attacks. What’s the context here, McConnell asking for more money so he heightens sense of crisis?
Might as well get it now, Bush is going to collapse the dollar again having given up any non-ridiculous claim we are going to “grow out of the deficit”
Amazing turn of events. Is it time to re-elect Bush? Can’t the republicans find another platform?
Incoming.....
1st thought:
Remember how the pathetic left was attempting to state that Bush let 9/11 happen because of some memo that stated “Al Qaeda determined to attack the United States”?
2nd thought:
What level of attack, number of deaths, will it take for the left to have to shut their frickin’ mouths and let us fight these bastards?
They need wait no longer than November 4, 2008.
Al-Qaeda should wait intil 2009 when they can attend a meet-n-greet in the Rose Garden.
Barack Obama says it’s all just a scare tactic to distract us from the real problems facing our nation.
Right now, we have a President who pays attention to such mundane matters as this. In a year, we may not. If so, we will pay with American lives, and possibly an American city. This is the reality that too many Americans won’t face because there is no answer that leaves them warm and fuzzy, and we will all pay the price.
There will be no terrorist attack on the United States as long as clinton and Obamarama have a chance to get into the White House. The terrorists know they can bribe hilary to quit the WOT for the right price. They also know that Obamarama will just quit for free. So why bother with an attack when your enemy is about to cave?
To quote Napoleon: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Meanwhile, Jay Rockefeller, Chairman
of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
is on cspan-2.
Apparently, and amazingly, he seems to be supporting
the Admin’s position of keeping the telecommunications
industry free of civil lawsuits for its assistance
in getting vital information on terrorist plots
and chatter.
“They get suits, they get costs, they begin to pull
away .. their shareholder’s lose confidence.”
“So, why would they want to cooperate?”
Good point, senator.
They’ve got some history now of launching attacks just a while before elections. Like Spain. The aim being to oust the incumbent party.
If there was a new attack, I don’t know if we’d all rally around the flag again or not. Likely as anything we’d all just start eating our own.
Yeah but Hillary is a major biatch who will want to prove that she’s man enough for the job. Might be her only redeeming quality in this case. She would want to serve notice that she’s tough on defense save for Chinese contributions...
No joke.
I still think it WILL take another
attack, God forbid, to wake this
country up.
Fixed it for you.
Probably not even a day would go by before the MSM started playing the blame game.
You’d think they’d lay low at least until their operatives get their Z-visas next year from Hillary or McCain.
Having “legal” status should make it much easier for them to run around the country planning to kill all of us.
Exactly. We already know that...duh.
Bush's border security plans draw praise, complaints
Feb 4, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush proposed Monday to increase spending on border security by 19 percent next year, a move hailed by one conservative critic as a step in the right direction but assailed by congressional Democrats as insufficient to shore up serious security lapses.
The president's budget proposal included nearly $500 million to hire 2,200 new Border Patrol agents and $2 billion over two years for fencing and high-tech surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The proposal also calls for beefed-up detention facilities near the border and for an expansion of a federal program to assist, train and coordinate with state and local law enforcement on immigration cases.
Bush also suggested expanding several programs that deal with immigrants far from the border.
He proposed spending $100 million to expand and fix glitches in the "E-Verify" system that allows employers to check electronically if potential employees are legally in the U.S.
Even if we do “wake up” then what? It’s already too late. None of the present so-called candidates are qualified to handle the mess that will occur including John McManiac.
Mind-boggling...
Allies? Hardly. Rhetoric aside, Al Quaida doesn't like Hillary/Obama any more than Bush save for being weaker or more dislikeable opponents.
“Yeah but Hillary is a major biatch who will want to prove that she’s man enough for the job.”
If Hillary is president when there’s another attack on American soil, her answer will be to blame the military and intelligence services, because of Bush’s policies. To her, shifting the blame IS the solution and the only solution; that’s what is so scary about another Clinton administration.
I’d say more than one city. Seven are on the radar, both from a prophetic message and from a newspaper report I read. Montreal, Cincinnati, Washington, NYC, Chicago, those are the ones I remember. M
I was joking
Yeah, it's not like al Qaeda's ever actually attacked us before. < /s>
I am not that optimistic about Hillary’s response to an attack. Between crying jags and coughing fits we are truly toast.
They now know Iraq is lost and again are shifting their sights back on the US.
Even though their forces are diminished, all it takes is 4-5 smart ones to succeed in some kind of devastation here.
Seriously?
I would like Obama and Clinton to sit down with Aaron Klein for an hour or two. Klein wrote the excellent “Schmoozing with Terrorists” and is very, very clear that all the terrorists mean it when they say they want the Islamization of the US and the world. They mean it when they say they want to subjugate and/or kill the infidels. (THat would be us.)
He also said that the guilty parties are those in government and media who make apologies for the Islamicists, and cover up their statements and intentions.
Hope you’re right.
But if the puppet masters have decided to trash the USA, as every indication is that they have . . . I figure their first volley will be a large scale diverse Jihadi attack.
Naw, she'll just cry and say the terrorists hurt her feelings. Because that will make them stop.
Yeah, Obama said pretty much those exact words in a speech at the end of Super Tuesday.
What if alledged Al Qaeda operatives wish to test the conservative voters to see if they are willing to elect Son of Cain or Hillary?
No one’s dragging their feet.
They are blocking it.
The puppet masters have decreed NO borders . . . North American Union . . .
You don’t think Shrillery wants to be Queen of the ‘mere’ /only old US OF A, do you?
Unless the Surrender party is in charge.
Unless the Surrender party is in charge.
Exactly. We need to understand that it is *inevitable* that there will be more attacks here in the U.S. Yes, we've improved our security measures, in some places by a great measure. We were a much softer target on 9/10. We are more vigilant than we were and we have no doubt intercepted some new schemes before they could go forward. But there's no way we can ever expect to stop them all.
Sometimes the other team scores points. It will happen. We then have to resist those that will want to line up our own defensive team and shoot them. We're still going to need them.
He’s also part of a founding member in the modern generation of globalists.
CONTROL, POWER, ENSLAVEMENT . . .
They love it.
If there was a new attack, I don’t know if we’d all rally around the flag again or not. Likely as anything we’d all just start eating our own.
= =
Which has been the globalists’ design and plan for decades . . .
1. Chaos increases the scream for order—even tyrannical order.
2. Eating our own means that many fewer they have to exterminate in death camps, with plague, wars, etc.
if wishes were fishes al qaeda would be a sushi bar
Don’t count on toughness on defense . . . except for her power mongering ego needs occasionally
She’s a 100% stooge of the globalists . . . and a pretty obedient one because she knows what she has to do to stay alive and in power.
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