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Al-Qaeda Head Ordered Yemen Affiliate to Attack U.S. Embassy
inn ^ | 8/5/13 | Elad Benari

Posted on 08/05/2013 6:56:03 PM PDT by Nachum

The Obama administration’s decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan ordered the leader of its affiliate in Yemen to carry out an attack as early as this past Sunday, American officials told the New York Times on Monday.

According to the newspaper, the intercepted conversations last week between Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the head of the global terrorist group, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the head of the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, revealed one of the most serious plots against American and other Western interests since the attacks on September 11, 2001, American intelligence officials and lawmakers have said.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affiliate; alqaeda; head; yemen

1 posted on 08/05/2013 6:56:03 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Osama is dead and Detroit is alive...


2 posted on 08/05/2013 6:57:12 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Nachum; All

The following appears to still be relevant:
Robert Gates, the former defense secretary,
reportedly blasted the national security team in
the Obama White House for blabbing about the
raid to kill Osama bin Laden. “Shut the f-— up,”
Gates told Tom Donilon...


3 posted on 08/05/2013 7:08:15 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (A Greenie is one distraught that somewhere, someone is living above subsistence level.)
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To: Nachum

Bump


4 posted on 08/05/2013 7:12:41 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nachum
The Obama administration’s decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan ordered the leader of its affiliate in Yemen to carry out an attack as early as this past Sunday, American officials told the New York Times on Monday.

Obama administion officials lie, The NY Times lies and unnamed sources lie.

This could be true or more likely this is a big fat lie. Now if we only had an administration and a media that didn't lie...

5 posted on 08/05/2013 7:15:57 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Nachum

After over 10 years the CIA should have double agents making up 99% of Al Quida’s leadership.

It worries me what Obama’s masters, whomever they are, will do with that power.


6 posted on 08/05/2013 7:17:46 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Nachum

Isn’t it amazing how much “gas” the media has to leak when D.C. goes on vacation?


7 posted on 08/05/2013 7:23:37 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: mrsmith

Yep, the CIA and AQ are one in the same. Funny how that sorts out, eh?


8 posted on 08/05/2013 8:01:54 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: pluvmantelo

Lest we forget - - - - .


9 posted on 08/05/2013 8:11:39 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: gotribe

Yep, the CIA and AQ are one in the same.
***********

Al-CIA-Da


10 posted on 08/05/2013 9:09:44 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: FreeReign

I hate that I have become so cynical, but I agree with you.

How else can they “save” us unless they have some terrorist talk? And keep the NSA in place.


11 posted on 08/05/2013 9:19:45 PM PDT by berdie
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