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Obama Fails to Warn Americans of Possibility of 9-11 Anniversary Attack This Week
Townhall.com ^ | September 9, 2014 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 09/09/2014 6:32:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

As the 13th anniversary of 9-11 approaches, the Obama administration and its friends in the mainstream media have been eerily quiet about the 11 commercial airliners reported stolen by Islamic terrorists from a Libyan airport a little over a week ago. It should have been front page news on every newspaper across the country, with preparations made to keep people out of the downtowns of the largest cities on September 11 in case the terrorists try another attack with suicide planes. Instead, this administration is more interested in saving face than protecting innocent Americans, downplaying the threat.

Incredulously, despite photos that have been posted online by terrorists posing next to the stolen planes, published by reputable news sources such as the British newspaper Mail Online, the Obama administration is still claiming it has no information confirming the hijacking of the planes. Obama’s State Department told The Blaze on Friday, “The national threat level has not been raised.” Some of these planes are long-range jumbo jets capable of reaching U.S. cities. None of them have been located since their disappearance.

Websites like Snopes, which investigates rumors, have expressed skepticism regarding potential suicide attacks, since a couple of the planes may have been transferred somewhere else for safety reasons, or were damaged in previous attacks. Even if true, the loss of a couple of planes does not downplay the seriousness of the rest of the planes in the hands of terrorists who view the U.S. as the Great Satan, who would love to target us again on the anniversary of 9-11.

This September 11 also marks the second anniversary of the fatal attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, more reason for the terrorists to strike. They have repeatedly shown a pattern of attacking the West on meaningful dates like 9-11, and virtually every news source is reporting credible evidence from intelligence agencies that Islamic terrorists intend to use the planes on 9-11 in terrorist attacks, at a minimum to attack northern Africa and Saudi Arabia.

Dallas Blog warns the planes could be used to target U.S. landmarks, and Catholic Online admits suicidal airplane attacks could take place within the U.S. One unnamed U.S. official acknowledges, “We found out on September 11 what can happen with hijacked planes.” The 11 jets have effectively formed a “de facto suicide air force.”

Muammar Gaddafi, the former dictator of Libya, was toppled in 2011 by the U.S. and its allies. Islamic radicals took over the capital of Tripoli on August 31, as well as an official U.S. residential compound in July. An unnamed State Department official said the official U.S. embassy is still in U.S. hands - which leaves it vulnerable to attack on 9-11.

At a minimum, intelligence reports that U.S. embassies in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt - the Maghreb region of Western Africa - could be targeted. Daniel Greenfield, writing for Front Page Mag, also observes, “Libya remains an oil-rich state and if the country is taken over completely by Islamist extremists, U.S. counterterrorism officials believe it will become another terrorist safe haven in the region.”

Moroccan military expert Abderrahmane Mekkaoui told Al Jazeera television the jets are being held by the Libyan Masked Men Brigade, which the U.S. State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization. The organization is linked to al Qaeda and the violent Ansar al Sharia. The latter is responsible for the Benghazi embassy bombing two years ago.

Obama has steadily downsized our military defense. Additionally, Michael Rubin, a counterterrorism specialist with the American Enterprise Institute, observed, “What is striking is that more than a decade later, the United States hasn’t taken the need to safeguard what are effectively giant guided missiles seriously.” He estimates that each of the hijacked planes could take out up to 1,000 civilians.

The only peep from the Obama administration about it, other than a denial of knowing anything, is a statement from Secretary of State John Kerry who said he will be sending Apache attack helicopters to Egypt.

Theavionist.com, a website with expertise in airplanes, is skeptical about airplane suicide attacks, but admits: “[W]e can’t completely rule out that a terrorist attack with civil planes can be carried out, as there are many unlikely (still not impossible) things that can be done to escape detection by radars, like flying in the shadow of another plane, but let’s stick to reality: a hijacked plane is, still today, a more serious threat even for the most prepared and well equipped air defense.”

The 113th Wing of the Air National Guard - U.S. pilots ready to respond to aerial threats - has been on 24/7-alert status since 9-11. But with Obama’s shrinking of defense, how prepared are they? No one can forget Carter’s downsizing and neglect of the military, which led to the embarrassing breakdown of helicopters in the failed attempt to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979.

Where is Obama’s reassurance that the 113th Wing is ready to protect us from another 9-11 attack? He’s keeping quiet about it to save face, not wanting to acknowledge that terrorism has expanded so much under his indecisive leadership that it is now at our back door. This is very disturbing, considering more Americans may die needlessly if they are not made fully aware of how realistic this threat is. Obama is counting on the terrorists not attacking us; however, Americans working in large cities might consider staying away from downtown on 9-11.


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To: Kaslin

I believe there will be an attack this 9/11. It may be small. It may be foiled before it actually occurs. It may happen in another part of the world. it may even get hushed up before many people know about it.

But I believe there will be an attack of some kind this 9/11. They know they “got away” with the Benghazi attack and they are emboldened, with a host of new resources and new recruits. And we are even more vulnerable than ever.


21 posted on 09/09/2014 7:05:09 AM PDT by caligatrux (...some animals are more equal than others.)
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To: MrB

My concern is that I do not usually feel like this- I steady myself in The Lord. But this week is different for some reason- perhaps all these missing planes is what is causing the unusual alarm for me but something is stirring and I don’t like it and I don’t like feeling on edge.


22 posted on 09/09/2014 7:09:58 AM PDT by Faith65 (Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I have absolutely no interest in listening to that arrogant lying pos. Fox News will let me know what he says anyway


23 posted on 09/09/2014 7:12:58 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

I guess the New York slimes or Washington post hasn’t published an op-ed for him to read. He has to read about it in the paper to make a statement. Then he is really po-ed.


24 posted on 09/09/2014 7:13:06 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"...he’s being dumb enough to give what’s supposed to be a major speech about his ISIS policies on 9/11 eve."

Umm, yeah. Are you and I the only ones who have twigged to this?

I have been venting about this for days. He is going to talk about how he has kept America safe and will continue to do so. What happens on 9/11/14? I know what I would do if I was IS (ISIS, ISIL).

25 posted on 09/09/2014 7:16:31 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Drink your Ovaltine)
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To: Kaslin

They have also been eerily quiet ABOUT THE EBOLA
AND ENTEROVIRUS D679 WHICH THE MOSLEM WHITE HOUSE
IS SPREADING TO 57 STATES UNDER POLICE ESCORT
BY PLANE AND BUS using quartering by Obama.


26 posted on 09/09/2014 7:16:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Faith65

I guess it depends on where you are.
If you’re near a place of high population density, then you might be in the collateral.

I don’t work downtown or near anything major as far as a target, so I’m not too worried, personally.

I have known for a long time that something big was coming, so the mere occurrence of it is no surprise.


27 posted on 09/09/2014 7:19:41 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

The al Shabob terrorists from Somalia attacked a western style shopping mall in Kenya a year ago and this terrorist organization has recruited more than a dozen young Somalis from Minneapolis. I would stay far away from shopping malls in the Twin Cities on the 11th especially the Mall of America.


28 posted on 09/09/2014 7:22:53 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Travis McGee

you overlooked tainted water, EMP’s, weaponized ebola .....so glad we’ve secured our border /sarc


29 posted on 09/09/2014 7:23:22 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: Faith65

Yep right there with you and I think a lot of people are this year.

Lord have mercy on our Souls come what may.


30 posted on 09/09/2014 7:24:05 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: Kaslin

Just watch new releases on Youtube


31 posted on 09/09/2014 7:25:46 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

If I were more paranoid than I already am, I’d guess that he’s made a side deal with the major Muzzie groups for a quiet 9/11/14. But, they don’t listen to anyone, not even “The Man Who Would Be Caliph.”


32 posted on 09/09/2014 7:28:51 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Not only does he fail to remind, he’s being dumb enough to give what’s supposed to be a major speech about his ISIS policies on 9/11 eve.

Maybe the dope will promote ISIS from the JV to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
33 posted on 09/09/2014 7:38:26 AM PDT by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: MrB

Let’s just say that I saw- firsthand- the smoke in NYC on 9-11-2001. My location hasn’t changed- I am too close for comfort.


34 posted on 09/09/2014 8:11:55 AM PDT by Faith65 (Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior!)
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To: Kaslin

The reason I think that there very likely will be an attack on or around 9/11 is that competition exists among the stronger elements of the Islamist movement (Al-Qaeda and IS mainly). The expectation is out there of an attack on or around this date, and it is an opportunity to build momentum in these groups. They are aching to prove themselves with their followings and against their competition. Not doing so now is to lose momentum.


35 posted on 09/09/2014 8:23:54 AM PDT by Heartlander2
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To: Heartlander2

This attack, however, does not need to be within the U.S. in order to accomplish the goal. Europe is a more likely immediate target, in my opinion. But with a follow-up attack in the U.S. not much further into the future.


36 posted on 09/09/2014 8:27:30 AM PDT by Heartlander2
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To: Faith65

Yep, you’re definitely in the target zone.

I’m in the periphery of a midwestern city.


37 posted on 09/09/2014 8:46:05 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

Name one thing he hasn’t failed at.


38 posted on 09/09/2014 9:31:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I put nothing past him, try this:

Obama makes a deal with these "groups" for a quiet 9/11. He gives a speech on 9/10 about how great he is and how safe the US is. The "groups" seize the opportunity, just like they did in Benghazi, and double cross Obama with attacks on 9/11.

39 posted on 09/09/2014 11:21:15 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Drink your Ovaltine)
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To: Travis McGee

IF anyone else had said this, I might take it with a grain of salt.......

......but this administration has invested way too much in our total destruction to give this a pass.....


40 posted on 09/09/2014 12:13:45 PM PDT by Guenevere
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