Posted on 10/08/2010 1:19:12 AM PDT by quesney
• Pakistani diplomat launches scathing attack on White House • European intelligence claims raised terror alerts 'nonsensical'
A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.
The non-specific US warning, which despite its vagueness led Britain, France and other countries to raise their overseas terror alert levels, was an attempt to justify a recent escalation in US drone and helicopter attacks inside Pakistan that have "set the country on fire", said Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the high commissioner to Britain.
Hasan, a veteran diplomat who is close to Pakistan's president, suggested the Obama administration was playing politics with the terror threat before next month's mid-term congressional elections, in which the Republicans are expected to make big gains.
He also claimed President Obama was reacting to pressure to demonstrate that his Afghan war strategy and this year's troop surge, which are unpopular with the American public, were necessary.
"I will not deny the fact that there may be internal political dynamics, including the forthcoming mid-term American elections. If the Americans have definite information about terrorists and al-Qaida people, we should be provided [with] that and we could go after them ourselves," Hasan said.
"Such reports are a mixture of frustrations, ineptitude and lack of appreciation of ground realities..."
Dismissing claims of a developed, co-ordinated plot aimed at Britain, France and Germany, European intelligence officials also pointed the finger at the US, and specifically at the White House. "To stitch together [the terror plot claims] in a seamless narrative is nonsensical," said one well-placed official.
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Not only do we not give Obamao the benefit of the doubt, we don’t believe a single word coming from anyone in his circle of czars either.
Cindy’s Note: Knowledge is power.
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The sharp rise in US unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas coupled with several cross-border raids by American helicopter gunships that culminated in the killing of two Frontier Corps soldiers last week, was destabilising Pakistan, Hasan said.Ah, ha. Now we see his motivation. Obama wants out.American actions were "obviously" linked to Obama's decision to set a timetable for leaving Afghanistan. The US leader had "jumped the gun" and now "the Americans are in a hurry".
Well, you know that this whole deal about western jihadis, having been trained over there in jihadland, now was heading back to the west to mount attacks - that was a big newsitem more than a year ago. So now the whole thing is “new” again?
*Something* sure is going one here, and it sure isn’t “intelligence”.
Rofl. I’m stealing your pic, just so you know. Just wish I could get it into the tagline :).
Don’t call the kettle black. That’s racism.
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Gives new meaning to the name .. Obozo, (Obama) .. doesn’t it!?
this administration is dangerous.
this administration is dangerous.
We are witnesses to Chicago style politics at a national level. The "truth" in Chicago is whatever Mayor Daley say it is. If you don't go along with the "truth", the union thugs pay a visit. Corruption in every agency is the norm.
what do you expect from a liar in chief. his entire life is based on a lie. If he is continually lying about everything and anything. You truly wonder what other parts of his life are in disarray. The sins of a man will find him out. Flies on the face, rat on the elevated riser, seal falling off the podium, people falling ill at a speech, wifey angry at him about alleged affair while campaigning and whatever else is coming down the pipeline
They couldn't have a fake security threat here because it was a toss up if people would look to that weakling in charge and be more reminded what a weakling he is. So, they chose Europe. Ofcourse, everyone yawned because 1. no one cares about Europe and 2. they are more concerned with eating and getting a roof over their head than some boogey man in a cave or Hamburg.
“HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!”
My thoughts exactly. For the first time in my life I feel the US government is working directly against me as a tax-paying, law-abiding American.
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