Posted on 10/31/2010 6:05:38 AM PDT by markomalley
President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that authorities "have to presume" there might be more potential mail bombs like the ones pulled from planes in England and the United Arab Emirates.
The foiled plot "certainly bears the hallmark" of al-Qaida's Yemen branch, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and the terrorist group is "still at war with us and we are very much at war with them," deputy national security adviser John Brennan said.
"We're trying to get a better handle on what else may be out there," he told NBC's "Meet the Press" as he made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows representing the Obama administration in the wake of the latest terrorist scare. "We're trying to understand better what we may be facing."
Brennan noted that because of the continuing threat, the world's largest package delivery companies FedEx and UPS have suspended air freight from Yemen. Police in Yemen have arrested a young woman on suspicion of mailing the bombs, which were powerful enough to down airplanes.
While he said "we feel good" about the steps taken since the thwarted plot, "I think we have to presume there might be" additional bombs.
"They are a dangerous group. They are a determined group. They are still at war with us and we are very much at war with them. They are going to try to identify vulnerabilities in the system," he said.
He told CNN's "State of the Union" that "it would be very imprudent ... to presume that there are no others (packages) out there."
Speaking about the Yemen branch, he said the U.S. "will destroy that organization as we are going to destroy the rest of al-Qaida."
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Schmucks they are. They ooze weakness and submission which only drives the mohammedans harder. If these morons remain in office they won’t have a capital bldg. to work in after the terrorists finish with it. Wait a minute....
Methinks I smell a (Demon)Rat.
Bogus Bogus Bogus.............you can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of time...BUT you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. put a sock in it Obammma
Or setting up the scenario to suspend elections?
They didn’t even remember to run through the entire drill. They were giving it to their buddies in the press before they talked with other heads of state.
BTW, it was a UPS inspector that caught the package, not Incompetano’s boys, they just whipped up the press conferences rather than work the case. If this were more than a press event, we shouldn’t hear about this for 6 months or so if ever.
OH NO - THERE COULD BE MORE MAIL BOMBS....
BETTER ELECT ALL THE DEMOCRATS BACK INTO OFFICE SO THE KING AND HIS CONGRESSIONAL ARMY CAN DEFEAT THE BAD GUYS...
is this a proposed script to a 2011 Hollywood movie???
I mean really
Yes, and even though I’m over fifty, I was born yesterday and seemed to have hit my head falling off the turnip truck. Where to even begin the rant....
“They were self-contained. They were able to be detonated at a time of the terrorists’ choosing,” Brennan said.”
Quick question...If the above statement is true..why didn’t the terrorists just start blowing these things the minute it was all over the news Friday? Nothing about this story adds up imho.
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Really....cargo planes? And printer catridges for mosques?
p-lEEEEAse!
sounds like something Gibbs/Fibbs would come up with
LMAO!!!!
You know Mark this could back fire on them really big.. Americans have seen the dems blame America nationally and kiss the butt of anything Muslim.. that does not indicate a reliable defense against them ...
Agreed. That's why I added the word "arrogant."
The timing of this right before the election smacks of Al Queda’s train attacks in Spain right before their election that resulted in the Leftists taking over.
However, Americans are much smarter than Spanish voters and will ask themselves, “If this country is in such danger, why are BO and his university dweebs in charge?”
Too bad we don’t have a vote of “no confidence” in this country, but we do have these mid-term elections and that will have to do.
To: Obammie the Commie
From: A Patriot
While the terrorists currently pose a greater risk to our physical health, they are a far smaller risk to our Republic than you and your communist/fascist supporters. If YOU succeed, then we will not have the ability to defend ourselves from the terrorists (which were all supposed to start loving us once the affirmative-action lobby put our first multi-culti president in office).
Therefore, for our own “safety,” we must first defeat YOU and your supporters politically and reduce you to nothing more than guests on Oprah’s new quasi-religious talk show.
NASA should be brought in on this. Obviously the Muslims in Yemen are having a bad day and need to feel good about themselves.
Um, Mr. Brennan,... you forgot your script. Your remarks should read "overseas contingency operations" - not "war". The only ones this Administration is genuinely "at war" with is the American People.
Remember?
Good. Now go forth and lie some more...
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