Al-Qaeda, Hamas operatives applied for CIA jobs, say new Snowden files
Posted on 08/17/2014 8:05:35 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Members of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) are planning to carry out major terror attacks against targets in the United States or in Europe, American intelligence officials said Saturday.
Five intelligence officials stated to Bloomberg News that there is evidence that the organization is running a sleeper cells around the world, outside of Iraq and Syria. The goal: to gain a greater foothold in the Islamic world - politically and militarily.
According to retired U.S. Army Colonel Derek Harvey, the Middle East is gripped in a “competition for jihadi leadership” between IS and Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, following the falling out between the two groups last year.
Harvey also said that US President Barack Obama has severely underestimated IS's current hold in Iraq and Syria, due to a reluctance to put his "toe, foot, and then leg" back in Iraq.
Social networks and foreign nationals have contributed significantly to the upswing in IS influence in the Middle East, additional sources said, as the US struggles to update its outdated estimation that IS has just 10,000 combat soldiers in the region.
The intelligence community has since discovered that IS is working to recruit foreign fighters to carry out terror attacks abroad, an alarming fact revealed in January by a former member of Al Qaeda.
In addition, forty people were recently arrested in Kosovo over IS connections, a figure intelligence cites as proof that the number of foreign nationals being recruited is far higher than what official data states.
Brett McGurk, deputy assistant US Secretary of State for Iran and Iraq, warned that IS is more formidable than Al Qaeda.
“[IS is] better equipped, they’re better manned, they’re better resourced, they’re better fighters, they’re better trained than the Al Qaeda...
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Islam is by nature a war plan.
Al-Qaeda, Hamas operatives applied for CIA jobs, say new Snowden files
And totalitarian political ideology.
Have to believe isis is showing it’s head in Ferguson. Of course the community will deny, deny and deny. isis in Ferguson. Another Sunday for those that hate in the community. Go hate! Good luck peace lovers of Ferguson. This info message has been brought to by the withholder department of justice. No sarcasm necessary for a truth.
Still waiting for Europe and the US to realize it so that they can expel it from their midst.
Let’s keep that southern border WIDE open.
Well yeah ... since at least the 70s.
Intelligence? More like a no brainer.....
Obamma mamba jamma lenin khomeini is with the jihad...
Sad, but round em up and ship to muzzie hellhole of choice..
If they are smart, they won’t. Best take over Pakistan to acquire nukes first. But nobody listens to me, fortunately.
I hope not.
Our federal government will use it as an excuse to attack and persecute patriotic Americans even more than they do now.
Terrorist threat?
Who could have guessed?
We have “spontaneous” protest and now we have the threat of a terrorist attack.
Where have I heard that before?
I bet I know what happened.
The terrorist are so in tune with the news in the US the terrorist have simply picked up on the “spontaneous” protest and “spontaneously” planned the attack.
It’s got to be spontaneous because our friends on the left have put their 1960’s radicalism behind them and only seek power through peaceful means.
They, the radical left, would never orchestrate civil unrest/race riots and follow with a terrorist attack the way Obamas good friend Bill Ayers did with the Weather Underground.
That would be my first plan. Take over Paki and control the nukes.
Next option, buy them from Iran or N. Korea.
Bush developed such a strategy for this scenario.
“[IS is] better equipped, they’re better manned, they’re better resourced, they’re better fighters, they’re better trained than the Al Qaeda..
And they have more determined leadership vs. Obama’s
limp wristed, lead from behind, dilatory, dithering..
I expect September 11th will be interesting this year.
Terrorists are “dreamers” too, ya know.
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