The Hope? It's Not Going To Happen (possible AQ plans in the works)

Ace of Spades ^ | 10 November 2008 | Vinnie

[SE Mom]

The Change? The first major hit from Al Qaeda on U.S. soil in over 7 years.

OSAMA bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will "outdo by far" September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.

And according to a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative, the terrorist organisation has entered a "positive phase", reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next "wave of action" against the West.

The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and widely reported in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being "very close to al-Qaeda" in Yemen.

Is the Yemeni credible? The blogosphere's renowned expert on Yemen, Jane Novak, says yes.

[nomad]

And is probably helping to plan it too.

[mel]

I wish everyone in US would look at this link.

[April Lexington]

Didn't we use some EMP technology on Serbia to end the Bosnia situation? I thought I remember reading that we were able to shut down the power grid with graphite or something. They quickly capitulated.

[SunkenCiv]

For Russia’s Putin, knockabout with Obama is just the ticket
AFP
Posted on 11/10/2008 1:50:33 AM PST by Chet 99
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129251/posts

Terrorist camp for converts uncovered in Pakistan
All News Web | 10-11-08 | Ali Mansuri
Posted on 11/10/2008 1:38:14 AM PST by hippydippy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129249/posts

[bert]

I vote for San Francisco. That city is really the Great Satan. The hit should be there.

[do the dhue]

Obama will give him a darn good talking to.

I'll bet Obozo will even write him a letter telling him how angry he is.

[AnimalLover]

bttt

[El Gato]

The operative is quoted as saying that “this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia”.

There is of course an "easy" solution to that problem. It involves either a few B-1's loaded with nuclear weapons, or, many B-52s and B-1s loaded with a mix of smart and dumb bombs, including cluster munitions.

It also involves a pair of cojones on the part of he who controls those assets.

[word_warrior_bob]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1

Now that we’re going to have a weak President, I would imagine that they would try and weaken our standing in the world even more. They want to expose us as a “paper tiger”, Obama will oblige.

[RightWhale]

EMP-elector-magnetic pulse Be very afraid...

Elector magnetism? When do the Electoral College vote?

[El Gato]

EMP is a result of nuclear detonation - will fry transistors and pretty-much any electrical that is not "hardened" - including your car, cell phone, I-pod, big-screen TV........

That's not the only way to generate it. There are (supposedly) conventional explosive versions which don't cover as large an area, but can still wreak havoc on a local scale.

[El Gato]

Didn't we use some EMP technology on Serbia to end the Bosnia situation? I thought I remember reading that we were able to shut down the power grid with graphite or something. They quickly capitulated.

That would not be EMP. The graphite would be in "threads" or "streamers" that would fall across the power lines, shorting the phases (Power is 3 phase until it gets to your neighborhood, and can be right into a factory, even a small one) together or to "ground", knocking out the grid and maybe some of the generators, switches and so forth.