Posted on 08/04/2013 8:36:05 AM PDT by SE Mom
Edited on 08/04/2013 8:51:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
On the day that almost two dozen U.S. embassies and consulates across North Africa and the Middle East are closed following the identification of a significant threat from an al-Qaeda affiliate, a senior U.S. official is providing new details about the communications intercepted from the terrorists, telling ABC News that al-Qaeda operatives could be heard talking about an upcoming attack. The official described the terrorists as saying the planned attack is “going to be big” and “strategically significant.” “The part that is alarming is the confidence they showed while communicating and the air of certainty,” the official said, adding that the group — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — appeared to have a media plan for after the attack.
No kidding - there are enemies of the US; some are international and some are domestic.
Maybe we have both this time...
And the committee hearings re: Benghazi are a big sick joke. Shows America to be the fool that US either can't or won't get to the bottom of Benghazi. And, what's up with CIA being over there and then be given aliases and being spread around the country with tacit threat of careers ending if anybody spoke about what US was doing in the CONSULATE AND THE ANNEX?
WHERE IS BENGHAZI DEEPTHROAT?
Totally agree with you.
Just like 9/11/2012 - has anybody seen Obama?
Didn't he just have a birthday party? Maybe he is still "celebrating" somewhere....
Hey! Tinfoil Hats Work! Keep yours handy!
I don't believe them either. The Obama and his "team" have proven themselves to be liars and to be obfuscatory.
Only if one of many scandals starts gaining a foothold again.
Then Barry will have some of his Muzzie Bros blow up an airport or something.
Well, they're smart enough to take over the White House and the State Department. God knows what else.
But hell, anything beyond that...what difference does it make?
If Al Qaeda uses long-range ground to ground missiles captured from Assad inside Syria to blow up Egypt’s Aswan Dam, the resulting chaos and destruction would give the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas a chance to take on the Egyptian Army.
Such a war would need a large PR news media campaign for them.
That would be a significant attack.
Me, too. There are all kinds of sleight of hand tricks going on, IMHO.
Naw, no way! With Obama and his "team"? Take it back!/s
We have to "get it right" every time. They only need to "get it right once" to win.
Then, of course, there is "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", not to mention "Henny Penny".
I miss the good old days of mutually assured destruction. Every new day was like a fresh start, exhilarating! What made the game playable was the Russians were rational people. I'm afraid that our current advisory might just say "OK, game on" if we tried the MAD strategy, they breed like cockroaches in a land fill!
Regards,
GtG
Well, The day is over in the Mid-East, and has anything happened? More hot air from this administration?
Yemen is near the entrance to the Suez canal. And that is strategically significant.
I'm thinking this is to give the NSA credibility.
I can hear them now, see, see, see, we NEED to monitor everything.
I don't trust ANY of these assholes.
Good points, though with a couple caveats:
4) I think either it’d have to be several successful attacks in the U.S., or a high casualty count overseas (500+ in Europe, 1000+ in the Middle East) to count as
strategically significant.)
5) Even given TSA and foreign agencies’ not uncommon slip ups, this seems unlikely. AQ might get a couple planes out of a couple dozen attempts, but not more than that. Downing planes originating from areas with poor security has less impact per incident - most Americans are not going to panic if a flight originating from, say, Cairo is downed. Several airliners downed in the U.S. or Europe by ManPads would qualify, though.
6) If “successful”, ie., many casualties, AQ actually holds a good part of the location for several hours, etc.
I would add a “9”, multiple & major successful attacks on industrial, especially oil related, targets.
The above are quibbles, of course. My guess is that there is a great deal of misdirection from both our gov’t and AQ, going on here: AQ aimed at NSA, etc., and our gov’t at US.
Well... I respect your opinions a lot, but, how big are those warheads? It normally takes specially designed, large bombs, to breach a substantial dam, and the Aswan is a VERY substantial dam.* I’d say there was no chance of success, unless maybe the water level behind the dam was critically high, and you hit the thing just right with something like a 10x the size “Upkeep” bomb, or a modified latest generation (and big) bunker buster — maybe a series of them, all in the same exact spot, maybe at the spillway. Taking a chunk out of the main dam in a significant way probably requires a small nuke.
*The crest is 130 ft. wide, the base is 3220 ft. wide.
See “The Dam Busters” by Paul Brickhill, also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorpe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/how-explosives-affect-embankment-dams
Well, then again, maybe it’s being planned via word of mouth and disappearing couriers! Those promises of virgins... (Where do they find them all, anyway?)
Isn't it ironic that we're blamed for creating Bin Ladin by doing this very same thing?
I don't know is to blame for Bin Ladin, but I sure as hell know the RATs start all Wars.
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