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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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 shes 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.
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