Pistol... NEVER leave home without it!!!
Posted on 02/02/2010 2:20:54 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Intelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away
The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress
WASHINGTON -- Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday.
The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including "clean" recruits with a negligible trail of terrorist contacts, CIA Director Leon Panetta said. Al Qaeda is also inspiring homegrown extremists to trigger violence on their own, Panetta added.
The annual assessment of the nation's terror threats provided no startling new terror trends, but amplified growing concerns since the Christmas Day airline attack in Detroit that militants are growing harder to detect and moving more quickly in their plots.
"The biggest threat is not so much that we face an attack like 9/11. It is that Al Qaeda is adapting its methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect," Panetta told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
They may not hit any big, well-known events.
Whatever means they employ, they can only kill and maim so many. If they don’t have the ability to kill more than 50, then that’s all the victims they need. They don’t need 50,000.
Besides, big events have more security, more cops nearby who would jump in, interupt them and spoil their plans.
Smaller events and gatherings, that are ‘big enough’ are the risk factor. They are the soft targets, from the local elementary school to the food court at the mall.
Yawn. More of George Bush’s fearmongering to stir the GOP base . . .
Er . . . Bush?
Why, the man is more powerful out of office than in.
So did GW Bush.
We do what the UN tells us to do.
Well, I hit the FR spell check and the entire post I had typed was GONE.
That has NEVER happened before so I am curious if anybody that reads this have ever had that happen to them?
Anyway, freepmail me if you would like to know the details of our experiences.
Just freaky that my post with details went blank though.
(balling up tinfoil and shaping into a hat.......)
Your blood will run cold.
Pistol... NEVER leave home without it!!!
Local Elementary School Bus?
What a nightmare.
So don't let any muzzies, middle eastern, far eastern or European, into the country. Problem solved. Well, if you also stop 'em from walking across the southern, or northern borer that is.
I assume that's so you can defend yourself on the way to getting your rifle out of your vehicle? Assuming you can take the time of course.
Arrogance and incompetence do not require an ulterior motive. lol
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What's the saying? The best use of a pistol is to fight your way to a rifle?
only when i'm driving my jeep...
Yes, preparing for the worst is a reasonable analysis, especially with Zero’s recent executive order:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2439740/posts
It does sound crazy, but bat-crazy Barry is that stupid.
I had some trouble with posting, too - - - please tell me more about that "dry run" that was witnessed by your wife and also, I'd really like to know all about your "interesting" conversation with the Egyptian man.
Thank you,
HP
4th of July
EVERYONE here knows that the crazies are here already, seething, scheming, plotting, and biding their time. There isn't a whole lot one can do though, except be vigilant.
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