No way. It would ensure McCain wins. And no, I am not being sarcastic. I would never have belived, just one year ago, that any other Dem candidate could make Hillary Clinton look wise, strong, and statesman-like.
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Has anybody briefed Condi yet?
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“More interesting is a report from ABC News that Hezbollah militants have awakened four sleeper cells and told them to go after “Jewish targets” in Ottawa and Toronto. “Canadian sources,” which means CSIS, evidently told ABC that Hezbollah operatives had been observed conducting surveillance on the Israeli embassy and on Toronto synagogues and Jewish schools.
The first thing to note is that the reports specified Hezbollah and not, for example, anonymous “Islamist militants.” In addition, one of the sleeper cells, Rashedan, was named explicitly.
Normally, as Allan Bell, president of the Toronto security company, Globe Risk Holdings, told CTV, such reports are kept secret. “If CSIS picked up these guys coming from the Middle East,” he wondered, “and they're under surveillance, why would a reporter in the U.S. be given that information?”
Good question.
There seem to be two obvious answers.
The first is to let Hezbollah know that CSIS has a mole well entrenched within the organization who is feeding them accurate and perhaps actionable intelligence. That makes the “leak,” if that is what it was, part of an on-going psychological war between CSIS and the banned terrorist group.
According to ABC there had been a lot of “chatter” lately about hitting Canadian Jewish targets in response to the death of Imad Mughniyah, deputy secretary general of Hezbollah who was killed in a bomb blast last February. He was said to have been the brains behind the bombings of the Israeli embassy and Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s and was second only to Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s most wanted list. Hezbollah blamed Israel for his death.
American intelligence agencies, including CIA and the National Security Agency, which is in charge of electronic eavesdropping, were involved in monitoring and analyzing the chatter.
The second answer thus was to tell the world that Canadian-American intelligence cooperation, dating from the Cold War, was still firmly in place.”
The unspoken news (at least as it pertains to the US) is that our own govt gave the terrorists a pass to come here (legally or not). Not sure this is a slam dunk for the republican Jose given his stand on illegal immigration. Guess he’s unaware that OTMs make up a large portion of those who walk across our southern border.
They want to kill as many people as they can, they want it to be a big splash,” former CIA intelligence officer Bob Baer, who claimed he met with Hizbullah leaders in Beirut last month, was quoted by ABC as saying. “They cannot have an operation fail and I don’t think they will. They’re the A-team of terrorism.”
Scuze me but who the Fck is this guy to meet with hezbullah and then brag about their competence?
May you live in INTERESTING TIMES...
Excuse me for not trusting Valerie Plame’s office as a source any more reliable then DEBKA.
These terrorists are getting ready to retaliate for any attacks on Iran. They hold us and Israel in the same regard.
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