Posted on 01/05/2021 10:20:18 PM PST by bitt
Multiple air traffic controllers in New York heard a chilling threat Monday in audio obtained exclusively by CBS News: "We are flying a plane into the Capitol on Wednesday. Soleimani will be avenged."
The threat refers to Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed last year in a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Trump. It was made on the one-year anniversary of Soleimani's death, for which Iranian officials have long vowed revenge.
It's unclear who sent the threat. While the government does not believe the warning of an attack is credible, it is being investigated as a breach of aviation frequencies, CBS News has learned.
Sources told CBS News that the Pentagon and other agencies were briefed Tuesday about the digitized voice recording. The sources said they believe the threat was designed to suggest hitting the Capitol on the same day Congress is set to count the Electoral College results.
Experts said the intrusion is concerning because it could affect the instructions pilots get about how and where planes fly.
Sources told CBS News a message was sent to air traffic controllers on Tuesday reminding them that any threat or a plane deviating from its flight path should be reported immediately.
The FBI is not commenting but said it takes "all threats of violence to public safety seriously." The Federal Aviation Administration said it is in contact with law enforcement.
Because the mere threat already causes anxiety in the target population, requires the threatened party to expend resources to investigate it and enact appropriate countermeasures - and is still so vague that hardly anything can really be done to prevent it.
Regards,
I no longer care. Let God’s judgment fall.
There was a Tom Clancy novel, "Debt of Honor", which had that exact scenario, with a 747 slamming into the Capitol building during a joint session.
Oh, you’re referring to those silly purges that Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho and Castro did which killed millions of innocent people and some once-reliable communists.
Silly me. Must have slept thru that history class. /sarc
Friends and acquaintances of mine have been in nearly every Communist slave labor and concentration/execution camp in the Red World, from Vorkuta, to Potma, the Siberian RR slave labor transport line camps to Lake Baikal, Pyong Yang, Hanoi Hilton, Romanian and Cuban prisons, from Sandinista oppression to the Hungarian Revolution.
Even met one of Mao’s bodyguards who defected during the Cultural Revolution because he was appalled by the internecine slaughter between competing Mao student groups and what they were doing to the “elders”.
Life has been my “history class” including Vietnam and Cambodia.
First, the Iranians have been making threats against everyone around the planet for decades. Sometimes they carry those out through proxy. Sometimes not.
Second, a possible motive - and this could be from the Iranians or from our sociopath seditious spooks - is simply to disrupt a predictably difficult Congressional session on Wednesday. No telling how security advisors, Capitol Police, the military, or anyone else will respond.... if at all. In this regard, the tactic (that is, the threat itself) is no different from the COVID-19 engineered overreaction.
As someone else has mentioned, it could also be to disrupt the planned Trump rally in DC. In this regard, the threat is the terrorism.
Finally - and at this juncture in American politics it is perfectly plausible - it's completely fake. Unnamed "New York flight controllers"? Why New York and not DC, which has two major airports (Reagan and Dulles). Why "exclusive" to spooky and unbelievable CBS News?
Really, it feels like we're now living in a lying BS tyranny - not dissimilar to CCP China or N Korea - where the most outrageous and ridiculos whoppers are served up as daily fare.
Those who don't toe the party line, or who are merely perceived to deviate from it, are quickly shuttled to the reeducation camp, to S21, to the Gulag, to the hole in a cornfield.
I have my suspicions that many innocents from Wuhan were enlisted for the "pirate videos" that poured out of China last February. The spectacles shown in those videos did not occur anywhere else. But they sure were terrorizing to the world.
Well, the country did get the Usurper in 2008.
Makes me wonder...sometimes...
April 15 2015 . ultralight gyrocopter through some of the most closely protected airspace on the planet and landed it on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
guy did it in a protest.
Iranians don't have a light touch...
Yep - sounds a lot more like the deep state than Iran... AND 'the press' ran with the story. Another deep state hint...
My point is that is has happened before where a flying machine visited the Capital.
Could happen again.
If the Iranian regime leaders try anything, at all, today, I’m sure that their regrets (along with their lives) will be short lived.
I have heard it was over ELEVEN HUNDRED DEGREES IN THE SHADE, Hiroshima, Japan back in 1945!
Excellent diversion by the Deep State to have everyone running around on January 6 looking for fake terrorists, so they can minimize their chances of getting caught election fixing.
The perps are no doubt relieved. "Under investigation" means we'll never hear about this again.
The carpet is getting lumpy with all the stuff being swept under it.
Why would they want to kill their allies?
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