Al Qaeda Conference Call Intercepted by U.S. Officials Sparked Alerts

The Daily Beast ^ | August 7, 2013 | Eli Lake and Josh Rogin

[shego]

Its a shame we don't have a competent news media anymore.

The question is: competent at what?

[advertising guy]

bravo !

[SisterK]

That’s odd. YouTube Hagmann and Hagmann Report approximately June 14th....They warned about events and preparations between July 4th and end of August.
We are being played.

[Cindy]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/08/the_press_quickly_learned_that.php

“Report: Al Qaeda conference call led to US diplomatic closures”

By THOMAS JOSCELYN & BILL ROGGIO
August 7, 2013 1:35 PM

Earlier this week, the press learned that an intercepted communication between al Qaeda honcho Ayman al Zawahiri and Nasir al Wuhayshi, who heads al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and is now al Qaeda’s overall general manager, is what caused the US government to shutter more than 20 diplomatic facilities.

Is there more to this story? Writing for the Daily Beast, Eli Lake and Josh Rogin report that the conference call included “more than 20 al Qaeda operatives.””

[Sacajaweau]

Yup....they had 20 people on an open line for a conference call.

DUMB

Obama...Can you hear us now??

[Cindy]

UPDATE: Not a phone call.

Note: Photo at link.

Update:

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/09/details-emerge-about-talk-between-al-qaeda-leaders

August 9th, 2013
06:28 PM ET

“Details emerge about talk between al Qaeda leaders”
By Barbara Starr

SNIPPET: “Now, two U.S. officials tell CNN that in his communication with al-Zawahiri, al-Wuhayshi, who is the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), laid out a plan for a plot; then, al-Zawahiri acknowledged the communication. Al-Wuhayshi, the officials said, was not asking for permission from al- Zawahiri - but rather informing him of his plans.”

SNIPPET: “CNN has also learned that the al Qaeda leaders communicated via some kind of encrypted messaging system, with multiple points of entry to allow for various parties to join in.”