"Manufactured False Flag Bomb Plot Exposed, Officials Irate Over Leak Proving CIA Ran Entire Operation
The supposed al Qaeda bomb plot to blow up a
US bound plane has completely fallen apparent with recent revelations
that the terrorist was actually working for the CIA and Saudi
Intelligence the entire time.
That’s right, this huge corporate media manufactured story was literally a NON EVENT with the terrorist actually being an operative who then turned the bomb over to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Immediately after the release of this full scale propaganda story, the corporate CIA run media went to work promoting the dangerous naked body scanners and literally worshiping homeland securities draconian “security” measures.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee is furious over the leak that eventually proved that the supposed terrorist arrested in this latest staged event was actually working for the CIA and Saudi Intelligence.
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"CIA stops new Al Qaeda underwear bomb plot; Device was more refined, harder to detect, officials say" by Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo | Associated Press, May 08, 2012
WASHINGTON - The CIA-thwarted plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger’s underwear, but this time Al Qaeda developed a more refined detonation system, US officials said.
The underwear bomber changed his underwear?
There were no immediate plans to change security procedures at US airports.
The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It’s not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber....
The operation unfolded even as the White House and Department of Homeland Security assured the American public that they knew of no Al Qaeda plots against the United States around the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. The operation was carried out over the past few weeks, officials said.
The fact that the MSM and government continue to push that bin Laden killing lie stinks. What it tells you is you can no longer believe anything they print because they continue to flog a lie.
On May 1, the Department of Homeland Security said, “We have no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the US tied to the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death.’’
The White House did not explain such statements Monday.
The Associated Press learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish the story immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still underway. Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the existence of the bomb late Monday. Other officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss details of the plot, many of which the United States has not officially acknowledged.
“The device never presented a threat to public safety, and the US government is working closely with international partners to address associated concerns with the device,’’ the FBI said in a statement.
It’s not clear who built the bomb, but because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas bomb counterterrorism officials suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri or one of his protégés. Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that Al Qaeda built into printer cartridges and sought to ship to the United States on cargo planes in 2010.
Both of those bombs used a powerful industrial explosive. Both were nearly successful.
The operation is an intelligence victory for the US and a reminder of Al Qaeda’s ambitions.
Talk about total BS propaganda. My eyes are watering just from the print.
Because of instability in the Yemeni government, the terrorist group’s branch there has gained territory and strength. It has set up terrorist camps and, in some areas, even operates as a de facto government.
Related: "CIA-Duh" Takes Control of Yemen
But along with the gains there have been significant setbacks, as the CIA and the US military focus more on Yemen. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, a senior Al Qaeda leader, was killed by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle with another operative in the southern Shabwa province of Yemen.
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And cui bono?
"Americans digested the news of the stunning cloak-and-dagger mission.... the revelation that US agents infiltrated an Al Qaeda cell, and that a double agent had handed over the newly created bomb and provided the information necessary to kill the cell’s external operations director, is a breathtaking triumph of counterterrorism."
"Would-be suicide bomber was double agent, US says; Saudi operative joined Al Qaeda to uncover plot" by Eric Schmitt and Scott Shane | New York Times, May 09, 2012
WASHINGTON - The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a US-bound airliner was an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, US and foreign officials said Tuesday.
In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the double agent left Yemen last month, traveling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb designed for his aviation attack and inside information on the group’s leaders, locations, methods, and plans to the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi intelligence, and allied foreign intelligence agencies.
After
spending weeks at the center of Al Qaeda’s most dangerous affiliate,
the intelligence agent provided critical information that permitted the
CIA to direct the drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd Mohammed Ahmed
al-Quso, the group’s external operations director and a suspect in the
bombing of the USS Cole, a destroyer, in Yemen in 2000.
Yeah, about the Cole....
He also handed over the bomb, designed by the group’s top explosives expert to be undetectable at airport security checks, to the FBI, which is analyzing its properties at its laboratory at Quantico, Va.
How do we know who built it? Because the newspaper claims a certain someone did?
The agent is now safe in Saudi Arabia, officials said.
The bombing plot was kept secret for weeks by the CIA and other agencies because they feared retaliation against the agent and his family - not, as some commentators have suggested, because the Obama administration wanted to schedule an announcement of the foiled plot, US officials said.
Pure, scripted, pos propaganda passed off as news.
Officials said Tuesday night that the risk had now been mitigated, evidently by moving both the agent and his family to safe locations.
But US intelligence officials were angry about the disclosure of the Qaeda plot, first reported Monday by the Associated Press, which had held the story for several days at the request of the CIA. They feared the leak would discourage foreign intelligence services from cooperating with the United States on risky missions in the future, said US Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
“We are talking about compromising methods and sources and causing our partners to be leery about working with us,” said King, who spoke with reporters about the plot on Monday night and Tuesday after he was briefed by counterterrorism officials.
King, who called the bomb plot “one of the most tightly held operations I’ve seen in my years in the House,” said he was told that government officials plan an investigation to identify the source of the original leak. The CIA declined to comment.
Intelligence officials believe the explosive is the latest effort of the group’s skilled bomb maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. He is also believed to have designed the explosives used in the failed Christmas bombing of an airliner over Detroit in 2009 and packed into printer cartridges and placed on cargo planes in October 2010.
A senior American official said the new device was sewn into custom-fit underwear and would have been very difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down.
Soon you are just going to have to strip, bend, and spread to get through the airport.
Unlike the device used in the unsuccessful 2009 attack, this bomb could be detonated in two ways, in case one failed, the official said.
The main charge was a high-grade military explosive that “undoubtedly would have brought down an aircraft,” the official said.
Forensic experts at the FBI’s bomb laboratory are assessing whether the bomb could have evaded screening machines and security measures revamped after the failed 2009 plot. One US official said the bureau’s initial analysis indicated that if updated security protocols designed to detect a wider range of possible threats were properly conducted, the measures “most likely would have detected” the device.
On Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration repeated a security message previously sent to airlines and foreign governments. The security guidance notes that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula still intends to attack the United States, probably using commercial aviation, and warns TSA agents to look out for explosives in cargo, concealed in clothing or surgically implanted, officials said.
Over the past eight months, US counterterrorism officials have monitored with growing alarm a rising number of electronic intercepts and tips from informants suggesting that Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen was ramping up plots to attack the United States.
“There was increasing concern about the chatter, more and more intelligence” that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula “was moving with renewed energy to carry out some kind of attack against homeland, using airliners and concealed explosives,” said one senior administration official. Working with foreign allies, the Obama administration quietly tightened airport security.
I'm sick of this shit-slop chatter.
The ominous signs followed months of political chaos in Yemen during which the Qaeda branch and its militant allies seized effective control over large areas of the country, giving the terrorist group a broader base from which to plot attacks both against the Yemeni government and the United States.
Senior American counterterrorism and military officials have
expressed concern that Al Qaeda’s growing number of training camps have
churned out dozens of new fighters who, in turn, help expand the area
under the insurgents’ control. Officials fear the camps could also train
operatives for external operations against targets in Europe and the
United States.
Well, tell the CIA to shut them down. Tell the Saudis to stop funding them.
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"Saudis emerge as key ally in fight against Al Qaeda" May 10, 2012|Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the United States against Al Qaeda’s spinoff group in Yemen and have at least twice disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines.
If that is the MSM's version of 9/11 it must be a lie.
Details emerging about the latest unraveled plot revealed that a Saudi double agent fooled the terror group, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, passing himself off as an eager would-be suicide bomber.
Oh, you HAVE TO BE SHITTING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Instead, he secretly turned over the group’s most up-to-date underwear bomb to Saudi Arabia, which gave it to the CIA.
(Blog editor pauses for a few minutes for laughter)
Before he was whisked to safety, the spy provided intelligence that helped the CIA kill Al Qaeda’s senior operations leader, Fahd al-Quso, in a drone strike last weekend.
They killed another ghost.
The role of Saudi Arabia disrupting the plot follows warnings in 2010 from the oil-rich kingdom about a plot to blow up cargo planes inside the United States, either on runways or over American cities.
That plot involved a frantic chase across five countries of two packages containing bombs powerful enough to down an airplane. Twice, a bomb was aboard a passenger plane. Once, authorities were just minutes too late to stop a cargo jet with a bomb from departing for its next destination. Ultimately, no one died and the packages never exploded.
It has not always been this way.
Saudi Arabia, the one-time home of Osama bin Laden, failed to spot and stop the 15 Saudi-born hijackers out of the 19 who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Yeah, turns out Muslims didn't do 9/11; Israel and her helpers in various western governments and intelligence agencies did. Just follow the missing links, readers.
Questions remain whether two Saudi citizens who had at least indirect links with two of the hijackers were reporting to Saudi government officials. US law enforcement officials accused the Saudi government of failing to help adequately in investigations of the Al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and Hezbollah’s bombing of the Khobar Towers housing complex, which killed 19 US servicemen in 1996.
But a series of devastating Al Qaeda strikes against Saudi targets in 2003 and, more recently, fears Al Qaeda could try to trigger Arab Spring-style revolts in the kingdom, has energized the Saudi government in its war against Al Qaeda’s spinoff in Yemen, which is composed mostly of former Saudi militants. Saudi Arabia and the United States - with help from Yemen’s government - have joined forces to penetrate the terror group at the highest levels. Drone strikes have killed Anwar al-Awlaki last summer and his successor, Quso.
Related: AmeriKan Missiles Keep Things All in the Family in Yemen
Do you still believe the AmeriKan media?
Quso personally briefed the Saudi double agent, giving him open-ended instructions to pick a US-bound plane on a day of his choosing.
Quso was hit in part because of information gleaned from the double agent, according to two former officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to discuss details of current intelligence matters with current officials.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the FBI is examining the new Al Qaeda bomb and urged Congress to renew wide-ranging surveillance authority to thwart similar terrorism plots.
The FBI is attempting to replicate the bomb, trying to determine how destructive the bomb would have been, and how easy it would be for the terror group to build another device.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm okay in here:
"Al Qaeda weak but dangerous, US official says" April 30, 2012|By Callum Borchers
President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that there is no indication Al Qaeda is planning an attack on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, but he cautioned that the terrorist group remains a threat.
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“On a day that marks the one-year anniversary of bin Laden being brought to justice, we are especially vigilant,’’ John Brennan said on ABC’s “This Week.’’ “At this time, we don’t see any active plot that is underway, but we are maintaining our guard. We are following every lead.’’
Translation: we are getting ready to spring it on you in about a week.
A team of Navy SEALs killed bin Laden during a nighttime raid on May 1 in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Brennan said Al Qaeda’s capability “has been degraded significantly’’ since the death of its leader.
Is it May 1st or May 2nd, and if they can't get that right.... sigh.
“I think it made a tremendous difference,’’ he said. “It’s taken away the founding leader of that organization who was a symbol of Al Qaeda’s sort of murderous agenda worldwide. That has had, I think, a profound impact on the organization. And [Ayman al-Zawahiri], who is his successor, is somebody who doesn’t have the same sort of institutional support. He doesn’t have the same charisma.’’
But Zawahiri has proven to be a prolific communicator and an elusive target in the mold of bin Laden. Since bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri has released 13 audio and video messages, urging followers to exploit unrest in countries like Egypt and Libya, where last year’s Arab Spring disrupted decades of steady, if oppressive, government rule.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said Zawahiri is probably hiding in Pakistan. He and his followers have been the target of US drone strikes in Pakistan, but those missions have been substantially curtailed by strained relations between the United States and Pakistan since the bin Laden raid. Pakistan saw the secret US operation as a violation of its sovereignty.
Brennan cautioned Sunday that “we can’t rest’’ in the effort to disable Al Qaeda and said Homeland Security is particularly concerned about Al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen.
“They have demonstrated both the intent, as well as the capability, to try to carry out an attack,’’ Brennan said, citing the unsuccessful underwear bomber of 2009. “They are continuing to try to, again, carry out an attack against US persons inside of Yemen, as well as against the homeland.’’
So far, would-be attacks have been thwarted. In October 2010, two ink cartridges packed with explosives were intercepted en route to Chicago from Yemen. The month before, US intelligence officials had intercepted test shipments from Yemen to Chicago and surmised terrorists planned to track shipments online and detonate bombs while planes flew over Chicago.
Counterterrorism forces also have managed to kill almost half of Al Qaeda’s 20 highest ranking leaders since taking out bin Laden. Last fall, an unmanned drone killed the American-born terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen after a two-year manhunt.
Al Qaeda’s steady attrition has reduced the likelihood of a well-coordinated, Sept. 11-style attack on American soil, US officials have said. Panetta declared last June on a visit to Afghanistan that the US is “within reach of strategically defeating Al Qaeda.’’
But last week, with the anniversary of bin Laden’s death approaching, White House press secretary Jay Carney reaffirmed that “Al Qaeda was and is our number one enemy.’’ And on Sunday, Brennan refused to embrace Panetta’s confident stance.
I thought it was Iran now.
“I don’t look at it as a victory,’’ Brennan said. “I think, again, we have to destroy the organization. We have to take all of their operatives, their leaders, their training camps, take away their safe havens. . . . The president has made it very clear: We have to do everything possible to protect the American people, and the destruction of that organization is our ultimate goal.’’
How about starting with Langley?
Brennan refused to enter the political fray surrounding a new Obama campaign ad that questions whether Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee, would have authorized the bin Laden raid. But he appeared to challenge the Romney campaign’s contention that any president in Obama’s position would have made the same call.
Brennan noted members of the administration disagreed about the appropriate course of action and called Obama’s decision “gutsy.’’
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"GOP criticizes Obama over video ad on bin Laden raid" April 30, 2012|By Callum Borchers
The Obama and Romney campaigns traded jabs Sunday over the president’s new video ad questioning whether his Republican challenger would have ordered the raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a year ago this week.
The ad, released Friday, features President Clinton praising the boldness of Obama’s decision. “He took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result,’’ Clinton says.
Onscreen text then poses the question, “Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?’’ As if to answer, the ad borrows the voice of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reading a Romney quote about the hunt for bin Laden: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,’’ Romney said in 2007.
Romney adviser Ed Gillespie condemned the ad Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.’’
“This is one of the reasons President Obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in American history,’’ Gillespie said. “He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans, an event that Governor Romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts and our government for completing the mission, in terms of killing Osama bin Laden, and he’s managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack.’’
Obama adviser Robert Gibbs, also a guest on “Meet the Press,’’ said the ad is perfectly fair.
“Osama bin Laden no longer walks on this planet today because of that brave decision and the brave actions by the men and women in our military, and quite frankly, Mitt Romney said it was a foolish thing to do a few years ago,’’ Gibbs said. “There’s a difference in the roles they would play as commander in chief, and I think that’s fair game.’’
Like Valerie Plame?
Republicans have criticized the ad not only for its treatment of Romney, but also for what they call the president’s hypocrisy.
“This is the same president who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn’t ‘spike the ball’ after the touchdown,’’ Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama’s opponent in the presidential election four years ago, said Friday. “And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected.’’
Gillespie, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, went further. He suggested Obama’s authorization of the raid was a no-brainer.
“I can’t envision, having served in the White House, any president having been told, ‘We have him, he’s here, should we go in?’ saying ‘No, we shouldn’t,’ ’’ Gillespie said.
John Brennan, the president’s chief counterterrorism adviser, tried to stay out of the political melee Sunday but emphasized in an interview on ABC’s “This Week’’ that Obama’s decision was “gutsy.’’
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All that back-and-forth bullshit based on a lie.
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Who are the "terrorists" again?
That’s right, this huge corporate media manufactured story was literally a NON EVENT with the terrorist actually being an operative who then turned the bomb over to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Immediately after the release of this full scale propaganda story, the corporate CIA run media went to work promoting the dangerous naked body scanners and literally worshiping homeland securities draconian “security” measures.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee is furious over the leak that eventually proved that the supposed terrorist arrested in this latest staged event was actually working for the CIA and Saudi Intelligence.
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"CIA stops new Al Qaeda underwear bomb plot; Device was more refined, harder to detect, officials say" by Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo | Associated Press, May 08, 2012
WASHINGTON - The CIA-thwarted plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger’s underwear, but this time Al Qaeda developed a more refined detonation system, US officials said.
The underwear bomber changed his underwear?
The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have
passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials
said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably
could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not
clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have
detected it.
The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It’s not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber....
The operation unfolded even as the White House and Department of Homeland Security assured the American public that they knew of no Al Qaeda plots against the United States around the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. The operation was carried out over the past few weeks, officials said.
The fact that the MSM and government continue to push that bin Laden killing lie stinks. What it tells you is you can no longer believe anything they print because they continue to flog a lie.
On May 1, the Department of Homeland Security said, “We have no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the US tied to the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death.’’
The White House did not explain such statements Monday.
The Associated Press learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish the story immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still underway. Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the existence of the bomb late Monday. Other officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss details of the plot, many of which the United States has not officially acknowledged.
“The device never presented a threat to public safety, and the US government is working closely with international partners to address associated concerns with the device,’’ the FBI said in a statement.
It’s not clear who built the bomb, but because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas bomb counterterrorism officials suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri or one of his protégés. Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that Al Qaeda built into printer cartridges and sought to ship to the United States on cargo planes in 2010.
Both of those bombs used a powerful industrial explosive. Both were nearly successful.
The operation is an intelligence victory for the US and a reminder of Al Qaeda’s ambitions.
Talk about total BS propaganda. My eyes are watering just from the print.
Because of instability in the Yemeni government, the terrorist group’s branch there has gained territory and strength. It has set up terrorist camps and, in some areas, even operates as a de facto government.
Related: "CIA-Duh" Takes Control of Yemen
But along with the gains there have been significant setbacks, as the CIA and the US military focus more on Yemen. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, a senior Al Qaeda leader, was killed by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle with another operative in the southern Shabwa province of Yemen.
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And cui bono?
"Americans digested the news of the stunning cloak-and-dagger mission.... the revelation that US agents infiltrated an Al Qaeda cell, and that a double agent had handed over the newly created bomb and provided the information necessary to kill the cell’s external operations director, is a breathtaking triumph of counterterrorism."
"Would-be suicide bomber was double agent, US says; Saudi operative joined Al Qaeda to uncover plot" by Eric Schmitt and Scott Shane | New York Times, May 09, 2012
WASHINGTON - The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a US-bound airliner was an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, US and foreign officials said Tuesday.
In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the double agent left Yemen last month, traveling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb designed for his aviation attack and inside information on the group’s leaders, locations, methods, and plans to the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi intelligence, and allied foreign intelligence agencies.
Officials said the agent, whose identity they would not disclose,
works for the Saudi intelligence service, which has cooperated closely
with the CIA for several years against the terrorist group in Yemen. He
operated in Yemen with the full knowledge of the CIA but not under its
direct supervision, the officials said.
Yeah, about the Cole....
He also handed over the bomb, designed by the group’s top explosives expert to be undetectable at airport security checks, to the FBI, which is analyzing its properties at its laboratory at Quantico, Va.
How do we know who built it? Because the newspaper claims a certain someone did?
The agent is now safe in Saudi Arabia, officials said.
The bombing plot was kept secret for weeks by the CIA and other agencies because they feared retaliation against the agent and his family - not, as some commentators have suggested, because the Obama administration wanted to schedule an announcement of the foiled plot, US officials said.
Pure, scripted, pos propaganda passed off as news.
Officials said Tuesday night that the risk had now been mitigated, evidently by moving both the agent and his family to safe locations.
But US intelligence officials were angry about the disclosure of the Qaeda plot, first reported Monday by the Associated Press, which had held the story for several days at the request of the CIA. They feared the leak would discourage foreign intelligence services from cooperating with the United States on risky missions in the future, said US Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
“We are talking about compromising methods and sources and causing our partners to be leery about working with us,” said King, who spoke with reporters about the plot on Monday night and Tuesday after he was briefed by counterterrorism officials.
King, who called the bomb plot “one of the most tightly held operations I’ve seen in my years in the House,” said he was told that government officials plan an investigation to identify the source of the original leak. The CIA declined to comment.
Intelligence officials believe the explosive is the latest effort of the group’s skilled bomb maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. He is also believed to have designed the explosives used in the failed Christmas bombing of an airliner over Detroit in 2009 and packed into printer cartridges and placed on cargo planes in October 2010.
A senior American official said the new device was sewn into custom-fit underwear and would have been very difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down.
Soon you are just going to have to strip, bend, and spread to get through the airport.
Unlike the device used in the unsuccessful 2009 attack, this bomb could be detonated in two ways, in case one failed, the official said.
The main charge was a high-grade military explosive that “undoubtedly would have brought down an aircraft,” the official said.
Forensic experts at the FBI’s bomb laboratory are assessing whether the bomb could have evaded screening machines and security measures revamped after the failed 2009 plot. One US official said the bureau’s initial analysis indicated that if updated security protocols designed to detect a wider range of possible threats were properly conducted, the measures “most likely would have detected” the device.
On Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration repeated a security message previously sent to airlines and foreign governments. The security guidance notes that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula still intends to attack the United States, probably using commercial aviation, and warns TSA agents to look out for explosives in cargo, concealed in clothing or surgically implanted, officials said.
Over the past eight months, US counterterrorism officials have monitored with growing alarm a rising number of electronic intercepts and tips from informants suggesting that Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen was ramping up plots to attack the United States.
“There was increasing concern about the chatter, more and more intelligence” that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula “was moving with renewed energy to carry out some kind of attack against homeland, using airliners and concealed explosives,” said one senior administration official. Working with foreign allies, the Obama administration quietly tightened airport security.
I'm sick of this shit-slop chatter.
The ominous signs followed months of political chaos in Yemen during which the Qaeda branch and its militant allies seized effective control over large areas of the country, giving the terrorist group a broader base from which to plot attacks both against the Yemeni government and the United States.
Well, tell the CIA to shut them down. Tell the Saudis to stop funding them.
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"Saudis emerge as key ally in fight against Al Qaeda" May 10, 2012|Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the United States against Al Qaeda’s spinoff group in Yemen and have at least twice disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines.
If that is the MSM's version of 9/11 it must be a lie.
Details emerging about the latest unraveled plot revealed that a Saudi double agent fooled the terror group, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, passing himself off as an eager would-be suicide bomber.
Oh, you HAVE TO BE SHITTING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Instead, he secretly turned over the group’s most up-to-date underwear bomb to Saudi Arabia, which gave it to the CIA.
(Blog editor pauses for a few minutes for laughter)
Before he was whisked to safety, the spy provided intelligence that helped the CIA kill Al Qaeda’s senior operations leader, Fahd al-Quso, in a drone strike last weekend.
They killed another ghost.
The role of Saudi Arabia disrupting the plot follows warnings in 2010 from the oil-rich kingdom about a plot to blow up cargo planes inside the United States, either on runways or over American cities.
That plot involved a frantic chase across five countries of two packages containing bombs powerful enough to down an airplane. Twice, a bomb was aboard a passenger plane. Once, authorities were just minutes too late to stop a cargo jet with a bomb from departing for its next destination. Ultimately, no one died and the packages never exploded.
It has not always been this way.
Saudi Arabia, the one-time home of Osama bin Laden, failed to spot and stop the 15 Saudi-born hijackers out of the 19 who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Yeah, turns out Muslims didn't do 9/11; Israel and her helpers in various western governments and intelligence agencies did. Just follow the missing links, readers.
Questions remain whether two Saudi citizens who had at least indirect links with two of the hijackers were reporting to Saudi government officials. US law enforcement officials accused the Saudi government of failing to help adequately in investigations of the Al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and Hezbollah’s bombing of the Khobar Towers housing complex, which killed 19 US servicemen in 1996.
But a series of devastating Al Qaeda strikes against Saudi targets in 2003 and, more recently, fears Al Qaeda could try to trigger Arab Spring-style revolts in the kingdom, has energized the Saudi government in its war against Al Qaeda’s spinoff in Yemen, which is composed mostly of former Saudi militants. Saudi Arabia and the United States - with help from Yemen’s government - have joined forces to penetrate the terror group at the highest levels. Drone strikes have killed Anwar al-Awlaki last summer and his successor, Quso.
Related: AmeriKan Missiles Keep Things All in the Family in Yemen
Do you still believe the AmeriKan media?
Quso personally briefed the Saudi double agent, giving him open-ended instructions to pick a US-bound plane on a day of his choosing.
Quso was hit in part because of information gleaned from the double agent, according to two former officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to discuss details of current intelligence matters with current officials.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the FBI is examining the new Al Qaeda bomb and urged Congress to renew wide-ranging surveillance authority to thwart similar terrorism plots.
The FBI is attempting to replicate the bomb, trying to determine how destructive the bomb would have been, and how easy it would be for the terror group to build another device.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm okay in here:
"Al Qaeda weak but dangerous, US official says" April 30, 2012|By Callum Borchers
President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that there is no indication Al Qaeda is planning an attack on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, but he cautioned that the terrorist group remains a threat.
See: Bin Laden Stories Show AmeriKan Media Not to be Believed
“On a day that marks the one-year anniversary of bin Laden being brought to justice, we are especially vigilant,’’ John Brennan said on ABC’s “This Week.’’ “At this time, we don’t see any active plot that is underway, but we are maintaining our guard. We are following every lead.’’
Translation: we are getting ready to spring it on you in about a week.
A team of Navy SEALs killed bin Laden during a nighttime raid on May 1 in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Brennan said Al Qaeda’s capability “has been degraded significantly’’ since the death of its leader.
Is it May 1st or May 2nd, and if they can't get that right.... sigh.
“I think it made a tremendous difference,’’ he said. “It’s taken away the founding leader of that organization who was a symbol of Al Qaeda’s sort of murderous agenda worldwide. That has had, I think, a profound impact on the organization. And [Ayman al-Zawahiri], who is his successor, is somebody who doesn’t have the same sort of institutional support. He doesn’t have the same charisma.’’
But Zawahiri has proven to be a prolific communicator and an elusive target in the mold of bin Laden. Since bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri has released 13 audio and video messages, urging followers to exploit unrest in countries like Egypt and Libya, where last year’s Arab Spring disrupted decades of steady, if oppressive, government rule.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said Zawahiri is probably hiding in Pakistan. He and his followers have been the target of US drone strikes in Pakistan, but those missions have been substantially curtailed by strained relations between the United States and Pakistan since the bin Laden raid. Pakistan saw the secret US operation as a violation of its sovereignty.
Brennan cautioned Sunday that “we can’t rest’’ in the effort to disable Al Qaeda and said Homeland Security is particularly concerned about Al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen.
“They have demonstrated both the intent, as well as the capability, to try to carry out an attack,’’ Brennan said, citing the unsuccessful underwear bomber of 2009. “They are continuing to try to, again, carry out an attack against US persons inside of Yemen, as well as against the homeland.’’
So far, would-be attacks have been thwarted. In October 2010, two ink cartridges packed with explosives were intercepted en route to Chicago from Yemen. The month before, US intelligence officials had intercepted test shipments from Yemen to Chicago and surmised terrorists planned to track shipments online and detonate bombs while planes flew over Chicago.
Counterterrorism forces also have managed to kill almost half of Al Qaeda’s 20 highest ranking leaders since taking out bin Laden. Last fall, an unmanned drone killed the American-born terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen after a two-year manhunt.
Al Qaeda’s steady attrition has reduced the likelihood of a well-coordinated, Sept. 11-style attack on American soil, US officials have said. Panetta declared last June on a visit to Afghanistan that the US is “within reach of strategically defeating Al Qaeda.’’
But last week, with the anniversary of bin Laden’s death approaching, White House press secretary Jay Carney reaffirmed that “Al Qaeda was and is our number one enemy.’’ And on Sunday, Brennan refused to embrace Panetta’s confident stance.
I thought it was Iran now.
“I don’t look at it as a victory,’’ Brennan said. “I think, again, we have to destroy the organization. We have to take all of their operatives, their leaders, their training camps, take away their safe havens. . . . The president has made it very clear: We have to do everything possible to protect the American people, and the destruction of that organization is our ultimate goal.’’
How about starting with Langley?
Brennan refused to enter the political fray surrounding a new Obama campaign ad that questions whether Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee, would have authorized the bin Laden raid. But he appeared to challenge the Romney campaign’s contention that any president in Obama’s position would have made the same call.
Brennan noted members of the administration disagreed about the appropriate course of action and called Obama’s decision “gutsy.’’
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"GOP criticizes Obama over video ad on bin Laden raid" April 30, 2012|By Callum Borchers
The Obama and Romney campaigns traded jabs Sunday over the president’s new video ad questioning whether his Republican challenger would have ordered the raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a year ago this week.
The ad, released Friday, features President Clinton praising the boldness of Obama’s decision. “He took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result,’’ Clinton says.
Onscreen text then poses the question, “Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?’’ As if to answer, the ad borrows the voice of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reading a Romney quote about the hunt for bin Laden: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,’’ Romney said in 2007.
Romney adviser Ed Gillespie condemned the ad Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.’’
“This is one of the reasons President Obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in American history,’’ Gillespie said. “He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans, an event that Governor Romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts and our government for completing the mission, in terms of killing Osama bin Laden, and he’s managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack.’’
Obama adviser Robert Gibbs, also a guest on “Meet the Press,’’ said the ad is perfectly fair.
“Osama bin Laden no longer walks on this planet today because of that brave decision and the brave actions by the men and women in our military, and quite frankly, Mitt Romney said it was a foolish thing to do a few years ago,’’ Gibbs said. “There’s a difference in the roles they would play as commander in chief, and I think that’s fair game.’’
Like Valerie Plame?
Republicans have criticized the ad not only for its treatment of Romney, but also for what they call the president’s hypocrisy.
“This is the same president who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn’t ‘spike the ball’ after the touchdown,’’ Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama’s opponent in the presidential election four years ago, said Friday. “And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected.’’
Gillespie, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, went further. He suggested Obama’s authorization of the raid was a no-brainer.
“I can’t envision, having served in the White House, any president having been told, ‘We have him, he’s here, should we go in?’ saying ‘No, we shouldn’t,’ ’’ Gillespie said.
John Brennan, the president’s chief counterterrorism adviser, tried to stay out of the political melee Sunday but emphasized in an interview on ABC’s “This Week’’ that Obama’s decision was “gutsy.’’
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All that back-and-forth bullshit based on a lie.
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Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
'The Salvador Option'
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
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Who are the "terrorists" again?
