Leon Panetta: Al Qaeda Will Attack the US Soon
From Ace of Spades:
Spook86 from In From the Cold caught this admission from CIA Director Panetta during Congressional testimony on Tuesday. According to Panetta another attack on the US from Al Qaeda is expected within the next 3 to 6 months.
Now if anyone would know about upcoming attacks it ought to be him so I assume he has enough details that point to an imminent attack to make him willing to predict one publicly. But the cynical side of me also suspects that he's just covering himself in case something does happen since there's less political downside to a false alarm than no alarm whatsoever.
Mr. Panetta offered that chilling prediction today, during Congressional testimony that also included FBI Director Robert Mueller and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair. The CIA chief said the terror group is utilizing new recruits who are more difficult to detect and traceandBritish intelligence officials believe the Nigerian was part of a larger group of terrorists that trained in Al Qaida camps in Yemen last year. The whereabouts of those operatives remains unknown. Extended questioning of Abdulmutallab by trained interrogators might have yielded actionable intelligence on those trainees and their operational assignments.Also unclear is the status of 36 American ex-convicts who traveled to Yemen over the past year, ostensibly to study Arabic. Thomas Joscelyn of The Weekly Standard has unearthed a little-publicized report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (released last month) that raises concerns about the former convicts and a second group of Americans, who moved to Yemen several years ago and converted to a form of radical Islam.
So if we know that Al Qaeda is planning attacks using non-typical recruits that have been trained in Yemen, you'd think the government would have pulled out the stops Jack Bauer-style to get info out of the only such terrorist they had in custody. But instead they decided to Mirandize the crotch bomber after just 50 minutes.
If I were the Obama administration, I'd be very, very worried that Panetta's prediction will come true. Because if Al Quaeda does pull off a successful attack their actions would rightfully be considered malignant incompetence.
8 comments:
No sweat. It will be Bush's fault anyway.
To be incompetent you first have to have a clue.
Domestic policy indicates they are simply, gigantically WRONG.
In the foreign domain, THEY DON'T HAVE A FREAKING CLUE
We've been assured that the Coast Guard that there is no chance of an al Qaeda member being amongst the crew of any of those huge LNG tankers set to start coming into Boston Harbor from Yemen later this month. Because they all will have certified U.S. visas, ya see. No possible way anyone could mess with that, right?
I am not worried at all.
May 11, 2006 11:38 am US/Eastern
Energy Co. Mulls LNG Tanker Explosion As A Test
(CBS4) BOSTON An anonymous energy company is mulling a plan to purposely
blow up an LNG tanker. The explosion could help determine what type of
damage could be done by a terrorist attack on a natural gas tanker.
Somerville Congressman Michael Capuano says the idea came up during a
meeting. The unnamed company floated an idea to drop a missile on a gas
filled tanker in a remote area.
Safety and the threat of attack are major issues with a proposal to build an
LNG facility in Fall River.
Its important to note, Capuano does not endorse this idea and he does have
concerns, both environmentally and otherwise, about blowing up an LNG
tanker.
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EFFING FANTASTIC....and let's do it with a ton of medical waste radioactive compounds just for good measure
Minneapolis to beef up port security, see Somali threat
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minneapolis has never had the port of its dreams. Its river shipping last year slipped below 700,000 tons, a far cry from the predicted 3 million tons annually that sold Congress on building the St. Anthony lock and dam.
But that’s not stopping the city from making plans to spend several million dollars on beefing up riverfront security over the next five years, with federal help. Friday the City Council endorsed spending nearly $1.4 million of that sum.
Although federal port funds are paying the tab, city emergency chief Rocco Forte said the benefits will go beyond preventing terrorist attacks on shipping.
From where might this threat come? The Somali community, where else!
Although Minneapolis lacks enough shipping to crack the most recent list of the nation’s top 150 ports compiled by the American Association of Port Authorities, Forte sees a threat.
“We have to consider ourselves a prime target,” he said Friday. The director of emergency preparedness said the city’s biggest vulnerability comes from youths who have gone overseas and been trained in explosives, as a few Somalis have*.
read the rest at RefugeeResettlementWatch.wordpress.com
Fellow Infidel said...
No sweat. It will be Bush's fault anyway.
Keep your head buried in the sand...mimicking the ditto-heads, and worshiping former presidents. (Sounds a bit like the O'Bama cults... without a Blackberry)
I say Al Qaeda and you start spouting off about Bushki.
You are the problem...,. a Republican version of the Acornists.
We are confronted with some very dangerous issues... changing the subject is a diversion.. I hope O'Bama has you on the payroll, no one should work for free.
I think he was kidding.
;-)
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