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Al Qaeda seen planning attack on U.S.
WashTimes ^ | 2-6-08 | Sara A. Carter

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.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaida; alqeda; aqi; globaljihad; gwot; jihad; jihadinamerica; mikemcconnell; pakistan; us; wot
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To: ctdonath2; G8 Diplomat

To actually believe they don’t crave
Hillary’s, Obamama’s or any other American’s
head to parade is sheer ignorance and lunacy.


61 posted on 02/06/2008 12:17:06 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: ctdonath2; G8 Diplomat

Obamama’s = Obama’s


62 posted on 02/06/2008 12:17:47 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Perdogg
Okay and what is new about this.

Time for a good Freeper to post that "Master of the Obvious" image.

63 posted on 02/06/2008 12:18:37 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me - I'm a Fredhead!)
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To: Allegra

Hi Allegra! How are things in the sandbox?
Hope you’re well, and things are pretty quiet.
Prayers for you and all those who support
our awesome troops.


64 posted on 02/06/2008 12:20:11 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

Man it’s a good thing we have closed the borders so they don’t get....what?...did somebody say our borders are open? What the......


65 posted on 02/06/2008 12:20:37 PM PST by oust the louse (Terrorists are salivating over a Clinton or Obama White House.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I don’t know, it seems all the first attack did was give everyone the bright idea of putting two socialists and a liberal conservative up for a run at the white house!

Fixed that for ya.

66 posted on 02/06/2008 12:20:46 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I don’t know, it seems all the first attack did was give everyone the bright idea of putting two socialists and a liberal conservative up for a run at the white house!

Welllll, it did keep Jeanne Francois Kerry out of the Oval Office...he was in Vietnam, did you know that?

67 posted on 02/06/2008 12:21:38 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me - I'm a Fredhead!)
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To: MrB
"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”?"

The pathetic left is still saying that. Just yesterday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a liberal echo chamber if ever there was one, repeated that Condi Rice was warned about an al-Quaeda attack prior to 9/11, suggesting that she knew about 9/11 and did nothing about it

According to the 9/11 Commission, there were DOZENS of warnings about imminent attacks prior to 9/11, but most of these warnings pertained to possible overseas actions, and NONE provided any actionable intelligence regarding the 9/11 plot. So, once again, the P.I. is doing what it does best - lying.
68 posted on 02/06/2008 12:29:12 PM PST by Steve_Seattle (|"Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: MrB

The left will be able to point the blame at Bush for any attacks in the next 20 years.......it’s all because we messed around with Iraq, afterall.....


69 posted on 02/06/2008 12:30:28 PM PST by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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To: bootless; squidly
Obama To Hold Muslim Summit if Elected
70 posted on 02/06/2008 12:31:04 PM PST by OB1kNOb (Politics means nothing today for those who suffered loss from yesterday's devestating tornados.)
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To: MrB

In a truly just world, they’d attack Berkeley, CA after kicking the Marines out of the city.

I’d be the first to say, “Bummber, dudes.”

Mark


71 posted on 02/06/2008 12:35:50 PM PST by MarkL
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To: STARWISE
Obviously a false malicious rumor. Everyone knows the Religion Of Peace would never do something like this.

Besides, even if they did, Hillary would take immediate and decisive action by ............ er ............ um ............. appointing a Blue Ribbon Panel to study the problem?

72 posted on 02/06/2008 12:40:07 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: STARWISE
I still think it WILL take another attack, God forbid, to wake this country up.

I hate to say this, but I believe that it's the truth... As terrible as September 11, 2001 was, we got off easy. Had they crashed the plains into the towers a few hours later, and had the towers come right down, and had the "bathtub" holding the river out of the subway system broken (and it was close to being breached), the death toll would probably have exceeded 50,000 lives, maybe into the hundreds of thousands.

Most people are blissfully unaware of how close to this sort of massive loss of live we were.

Mark

73 posted on 02/06/2008 12:41:31 PM PST by MarkL
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To: Kolokotronis; ctdonath2; G8 Diplomat
There is a fair number of Australians and Western Europeans, typically they transit right here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia getting the cheap tickets on to Pakistan from a few travel agents over on Jalan Raja Laut.

From the Uzbeks and Slavs that I have seen, they seem to be much more interested in modernity and money than going to jihad.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

74 posted on 02/06/2008 12:41:31 PM PST by expatguy (Write In and Support - John Bolton - For President)
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To: STARWISE

One of my New Year’s predictions was for an attack sometime between November 4 and January 20 - primarily as a “good bye kiss” to Bush. They won’t attack before because they want a democrat to be elected. If it’s the Beast, then an attack is more likely. The optimal day for such an attack is January 20 because of the operational confusion and symbolic effect. If Obama is elected, I think they will first see how much they can extract from him before they do anything.


75 posted on 02/06/2008 12:56:00 PM PST by ZeitgeistSurfer (Liberalism is Fascism)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Won’t happen until sometime after January 20, 2009.

They would likely want to hit around the holidays at the end of the year. That way they get to hit Bush, but not give him enough time to formulate a good counter attack.

They can then do the middle east trick of offering to negotiate after a strike and before the counterstrike. A lot of Dems would say that they were just trying to hit back at the President who attacked them, and would oppose any serious response.

They would sell the new administration as a "new beginning" in diplomatic relations with the Islamic world through which we can resolve our differences and live together in peace.

76 posted on 02/06/2008 1:11:34 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: LottieDah
“I am not that optimistic about Hillary’s response to an attack.”

If anyone remembers, the clintons were in charge when we were victims of the ever increasing level of attacks by the terrorists. The reason they did 9-11 was because they thought Bush was clinton and would do nothing.

77 posted on 02/06/2008 1:18:13 PM PST by Western Phil
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To: MarkL

“Most people are blissfully unaware of how close to this sort of massive loss of live we were.”

The first World Trade Center attack (1993) was intended to topple one tower onto the other and result in 100,000 deaths. Due to a low explosive budjet and sturdy construction this did not happen. The principle planner, did however, escape, traveling with an Iraqi passport.


78 posted on 02/06/2008 1:26:34 PM PST by Western Phil
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To: Spok

Yes - we will pay the price of a government turned on it’s head.


79 posted on 02/06/2008 1:34:19 PM PST by Chili Girl
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To: Western Phil

“The reason they did 9-11 was because they thought Bush was clinton and would do “

Ding ding ding we have a winner.


80 posted on 02/06/2008 1:36:11 PM PST by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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