Posted on 03/02/2017 2:47:28 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Washington (CNN)Several US officials told CNN Thursday that the US is now taking action to locate and monitor hundreds of people or "contacts" found as part the intelligence retrieved during the deadly raid last month in Yemen targeting al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Some of these people are believed to be in the West, but not in the United States.
The government is taking action to find and monitor these AQAP-linked individuals because of the threat they may pose to Europe, the officials added.
The fact that officials said they are actively pursuing leads uncovered from the raid indicates that the intelligence was indeed actionable despite some media reports to the contrary.
The terabyte's worth of intelligence gathered from computers and cell phones is now being reviewed at the National Media Exploitation Center outside Washington, which analyzes documents, electronic media, cell phones, video and audio tapes seized on overseas missions. Defense officials have told CNN that information pertaining to the location of safe havens, explosives manufacturing, training and targets was acquired in the January ground operation. . .
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“Wouldn’t this be considered aiding and abetting the enemy?”
Not if you want CNN and other media to tell the world what you want them to say!
Didn’t have to
John McCain made public statement that the mission was a failure
While he was overseas
Or start your intended terrorist action.
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Well done ... with ketchup on the side? /sarc
We do not know what is really going on, and that is by design.
Trump and his warriors know very well the value of keeping the opposition guessing about what we have and do not have.
This may even be a leak to provoke a watched for action.
An enemy can sometimes give up information by signaling what he is protecting.
This is all very spy vs spy stuff.
CNN is truly the Communist News and Propaganda Network.
Anyone who has ever seen or handled captured communist documents (Indochina), or PLO documents (from Lebanon, 1983), or the WHOLE Marxist archives of the Bishop/Coard regime, knows exactly how valuable these documents captured in Bin Laden’s house of this Yemen raid can be and ARE.
I’ve read the Grenada collection “blue book” summary (esp. since two of my friends/acquaintances were in charge of the whole review process). Some documents provided the information the Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Ca), the hardcore commie, was using one of his aides, Carliotta Scott, to send information to Marxist leader Maurice Bishop. Bishop was banging her - her love letters were also captured.
Other captured documents showed that the key Cuban DGI agent’s wife was none other than American Gail Reed, a hardcore communist leader of the DGI/KGB founded and often trained Venceremos Brigade (which was later lead by Hillary Clinton friend Marxist Prof. Johnnetta Cole).
In So. Vietnam and Cambodia, I saw captured communist documents, including a diary in Chinese taken from a killed Chinese soldier in Cambodia. Other docs were summaries of interviews with both No. Vietnamese and VC POWS and defectors. You’d shit a brick if you had seen them during the war.
And in May, 1970, when we and our So. Vietnamese allies (led by Gen Cao Tri, the ARVN’s Patton, complete with his red scarf), captured an estimated ONE MILLION enemy documents from their various camps and COSVN (Central Office South Vietnam) camps complexes.
To say we didn’t know what the VC/NVA were doing during the war is pure bullshit. It was our politicians who screwed up at home.
Israel captured incredible documents from the PLO offices in Tyre and Beirut during their incursion in 1983. Among those documents, like those in Grenada, were weapons supply agreements/contracts from No. Korea, Red China, Soviet Union, E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, etc to them.
The figures were staggering but the PLO, with the Soviet Bloc’s help, had successfully created a “state within a state” in Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut until the Israels and Christian Lebanese allies destroyed them.
If anyone tells you that the Yemen raid was a failure, tell them to go to hell, not because they are communists, or liberals, but because they are ignoramuses as to what is out there in the real world.
If you were “out” there in any military, diplomatic, intelligence or even journalistic role (I was a journalist), then you know I’m telling the truth.
Office Ryan Owens did NOT DIE IN VAIN. His actions have and will continue to save American and allied lives for a long time to come. Only the American LEFT, esp. MSNBC and CNN, don’t know and don’t care about the value of Owen’s and others sacrifices.
Now you know who the real enemy at home is.
It shows how sick and twisted many in this country have become that some were eager to declare the mission a failure, and did.
Ya. Not happy with him.
That was fake news. The raid was #winning. Due to our decrepit intelligence community, the compound was warned and the fight was far longer and bloodier than expected, and we lost an invaluable warrior. But the objective was obtained.
A terrabyte of intel was gathered what ever that is.
Raid was one of the biggest intel caches ever.
In January 2010, the database of Wikipedia consists of a 5.87 terabyte SQL dataset.[17]
The Hubble Space Telescope has collected more than 45 terabytes of data in its first 20 years of observations.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
AQ/AQAP/Daesh/ISIS/IS/ISIL and a host of other groups are 100% CIA.
The never-ending “war” “waged” by the world’s only superpower with 100’s of billions of dollars over multiple years is clearly a farce, never even coming close to getting the job done.
CIA directed USSOCOM fund, arm, train, provide intelligence to, and support the jihadis they claim they are fighting.
From food to TOWs, the Muslim terrorists are there because the CIA wants them there.
[From food to TOWs, the Muslim terrorists are there because the CIA wants them there.]
Obama used the threat of ISIS to try and bend Iraq and Iran to his will.
“A terrabyte of intel was gathered what ever that is.”
A terabyte is the equivalent of about 500 million pages of text, but likely there are many images, video, and sound recordings that use up more bytes per item.
Bottom line: It is a lot. A library full.
1,000 megabytes (MB) is a gigabyte (GB). 1,000 gigabytes is a terabyte (TB).
This should not be leaked as it has been.
Could be misinformation as well....... or simply made up.
Debbie Wasserschmuck Schmaltz and her buddy Keith Ellison are deeply saddened.
Debbie Wasserschmuck Schmaltz and her buddy Keith Ellison are deeply saddened.
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