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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To actually believe they don’t crave
Hillary’s, Obamama’s or any other American’s
head to parade is sheer ignorance and lunacy.
Obamama’s = Obama’s
Time for a good Freeper to post that "Master of the Obvious" image.
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.
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......
Fixed that for ya.
Welllll, it did keep Jeanne Francois Kerry out of the Oval Office...he was in Vietnam, did you know that?
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.....
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
Besides, even if they did, Hillary would take immediate and decisive action by ............ er ............ um ............. appointing a Blue Ribbon Panel to study the problem?
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
From the Uzbeks and Slavs that I have seen, they seem to be much more interested in modernity and money than going to jihad.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Yes - we will pay the price of a government turned on it’s head.
“The reason they did 9-11 was because they thought Bush was clinton and would do “
Ding ding ding we have a winner.
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