Obama Is Told of Signs That Should Have Grounded Plot
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Two officials said the government had intelligence from Yemen before Friday that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack. While the information did not include a name, officials said it would have been evident had it been compared to information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas Day.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=2
I have spent a couple of months in the North Yemen mountains, where the Shia tribes are being fanned into revolt by Iran, ending up with a bounty on my head when they decided I was not a United Nations envoy but probably a British Officer!
Meanwhile check out this WARNING for tomorrow (here) already now over there:
Regime plas to kill off their own people to fan hate against the rebellion and provide and excuse to arrest Moussavi and Karroubi
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/12/iran-today-analysis-heads-up-and-newt.html