"Pakistan braces for possible militant attack; US evacuates Lahore consulate; suicide bomber killed at mosque" by Salman Masood and Declan Walsh | New York Times, August 10, 2013
ISLAMABAD — Security forces in Islamabad were on high alert for a possible militant attack on Friday following threats against major military installations, the police said. The heightened security alert came hours after US officials evacuated the consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, also on security fears.
Translation: The CIA-Duh Taliban, or the CIA's anti-Taliban, or some intelligence agency assets and cutouts, will be conducting an attack today. May Allah protect the people of Pakistan.
The police said 2,500 officers had been deployed across Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, following intelligence intercepts indicating that militants were planning to attack the headquarters of the Pakistan air force and navy.
Private security guards killed a suicide bomber as he tried to force his way into a Shi’ite mosque on the edge of the capital, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of sectarian attacks across Pakistan.
I know some will be hollering anti-semitic, but given the fusion of Jewish owner$hip with previously CIA-infiltrated AmeriKan newsrooms and the resulting unification of agendas, I have discounted the cover-story scourge of sectarianism -- especially in places where people have intermarried and coexisted for centuries. I'm sorry I no longer buy into the Jewish narrative of division and all the other ills that seem to divide people across the planet (except in Israel, where the schism between radical Zionist zettler extremists and the more moderate Zionist colonialists is mostly submerged in my jewspaper. And those peace-yearning Jews?).
Earlier in the week, military commandos patrolled in Margalla Hills, a low chain of hills that overlooks Islamabad and is considered one of the city’s most vulnerable security points.
I was told in earlier alerts the government had already combed through there and found nothing.
“Government buildings are under threat but we also have information that terrorists can also strike at a public place,” said a senior police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Yeah, I know, they could be anyone, strike anywhere, at any time, in any way. My head is on a swivel, and I'm getting dizzy just blogging.
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Meghan Gregonis, a spokeswoman for the US Embassy in Islamabad, declined to specify the nature of the threat.
But they do have specifics. I was told that earlier this month. A specific threat was detected, but they don't know who, and don't know where, and don't know when, but it will all be over by the end of the month. Specifically speaking.
In Washington, Obama administration officials said it was not linked to the Al Qaeda threat that has caused the closure of 19 diplomatic missions across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Now the yo-yo job is making me CIA-Duh queasy.
Go get 'em, Obomber! Drone, drone, drone, and saddle on up into the pantheon of world's greatest mass murders. I know you are just an auto-pilot president, but that's the problem. You gotta put this war machine on manual.
Lahore is the cultural capital of Pakistan and the home city of the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. It has been targeted by militant groups several times in recent years, with attacks on police facilities, intelligence offices, and sporting and cultural events.
But the city is also home to militant groups that operate in plain view, like Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was responsible for terror attacks in 2008 in Mumbai, India, and whose leader, Hafiz Saeed, lives in a Lahore neighborhood under police protection.
Related: Mumbai Cover-Up Complete
What do you mean a CIA/DEA agent was behind it all?
The other two US consulates in Pakistan, in Karachi and Peshawar, have not been affected by the security threats. In any event, all US diplomatic missions in Pakistan would have been closed until Monday because of the annual Eid al-Fitr religious holiday, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
I love the facts really don't matter phrase there.
It is not clear when the Lahore consulate will return to normal.
Meanwhile, eighteen of the 19 US embassies and consulates that were closed in the Middle East and Africa because of the Al Qaeda threat will reopen on Sunday, the State Department said.
The embassy in Sana, Yemen, will remain closed.
"A similar situation occurred in September when riots erupted in Lahore to protest a video clip that insulted the Prophet Muhammad and that had been produced in the United States."
Sorry, but that's an obfuscation, NYT! The clips from a preexisting movie that had nothing to do with the dubbed propaganda were put out to cover the scripted "Al-CIA-Duh" kidnapping and hostage situation on the anniversary of 9/11, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was to be the alleged catalyst for protests. These scripted and staged productions have been soooo played!
And yet there it is, intelligence agency propaganda put out as fact by my intelligence operation known as a newspaper.
And then I get website rewrite and reedit that has been completely scrubbed from the web(?):
Meanwhile, in Yemen, at least seven suspected militants from Saudi Arabia were among the alleged Al Qaeda members killed in a recent wave of drone strikes, senior Yemeni officials said Friday, suggesting that Saudis are increasingly crossing the border to carry funds or seek terrorist training.
Remember way back when the Saudis told Bush if Iraq went Shi'ite they would raise a rebellion there? And here we are now. Add in the Syrian CIA-Duh mercenaries crossing back into Iraq (are you frikkin' kidding?) and the correlation of increased violence to the mix, too. Saudis are re$pon$ible for a lot of mena and money, and my combined intelligence operation known as the corporate pre$$ scrubs it from the web. Hmmmmm.
The drone strikes occurred in areas where the terrorist group enjoys protection from antigovernment tribes or hides in mountainous areas.
Ya' got that? All those killed deserved it, even if they were innocent people!
What the web version added:
In the statement Friday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not cite a reason for the decision to reopen the 18 missions.
She cited ‘‘ongoing concerns about a threat stream indicating the potential for terrorist attacks emanating from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,’’ for keeping the embassy in Sana closed.
I'm going to be right here updating my Boston Globe web site every single second.
‘‘We will continue to evaluate the threats to Sana and Lahore and make subsequent decisions about the reopening of those facilities based on that information,’’ Psaki said....
In an appearance Tuesday on NBC’s ‘‘The Tonight Show,’’ Obama said the terror threat was ‘‘significant enough that we’re taking every precaution.’’
Obama also lied and said they are not doing domestic spying, but the Globe didn't see fit to cover that..
Sir, do you really think we are that stupid, or do your ma$ters make you say these things?
However, closing embassies and consulates called into question Obama’s assertion last spring that Al Qaeda’s headquarters was ‘‘a shadow of its former self’’ and his administration’s characterization of the terror network’s leadership as ‘‘severely diminished’’ and ‘‘decimated.’’
In his news conference on Friday, the president noted that he was referring to ‘‘core Al Qaeda’’ and that ‘‘what I also said was that Al Qaeda and other extremists have metastasized into regional groups that can pose significant dangers.’’
Core CIA-Duh just conducted a conference call, or so we were told. That's how this plot was busted, right? And if they are regional, well, we will just have to be everywhere -- or wherever there are resources to be found.
What meds is the president on?
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Since the article was steered back to Yemen:
"America’s long-term security requires stable regime in Yemen" August 09, 2013
The simmering war against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, has finally boiled over.
So have I over the simmering war propaganda.
Over the past two weeks, the Obama administration has conducted at least five drone strikes against suspected terrorist targets in Yemen. They come on the heels of an intercepted phone call between AQAP’s leader and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the longtime number-two to Osama bin Laden, that sparked the closure of dozens of US embassies across the Middle East.
In the midst of a crisis, it’s easy to focus on a short-term security threat and forget the long-term strategy.
Cue PNAC documents.
Thus, it’s worth remembering that political tensions in Yemen, not a phone call from Zawahiri, are behind AQAP’s resurgence. Drone strikes are a necessary tool in an emergency, but over the long term, the key to American security will be a strong, stable government in Yemen. The Obama administration should be mindful of the need to bolster that government, not undermine it.
For most of the last decade, AQAP was a tiny guerrilla force hiding in the mountains, incapable of posing an existential threat to Yemen’s government.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled for decades with an iron fist, worried more about Shiite rebels in the north and ragtag secessionists in the south, where many feel like they are treated like second-class citizens. By 2006, Saleh had brought AQAP under control enough that the US military began to scale back its assistance. But in recent years, the group has experienced a resurgence. Some say Saleh engineered it, in order to justify continued US military aid. Others say neighboring Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on terrorists drove them into Yemen.
Related: "Al-Saleh-Duh" in Yemen
Whatever the case, the group’s big break came in 2011, after Arab Spring protesters rallied for Saleh’s departure.
Yeah, whatever. The Arab Spring opened the door to terrorists and is showing you how Islamic government fails (unless it is the vicious Saudi regime that is rarely spoken of).
Looking more and more the intelligence-agency inspired coups. The result of the uprisings? More U.S. military involvement. Cui bono?
Saleh pulled his troops back to the capital to prioritize his own personal protection. The departing soldiers left a vacuum. AQAP, which once focused on attacks on the West, developed a new goal: creating an Islamic state inside Yemen. Last year, AQAP took over an entire province.
Yemen’s military has since retaken that province, but turmoil in the government has left the military divided and weak. Saleh eventually agreed to step down in a negotiated diplomatic deal that has so far helped Yemen avoid a protracted civil war. His successor, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, is doing an admirable job trying to address the country’s myriad problems. But the challenge of reforming Yemen’s security forces, a bastion of patronage for the former regime, remains formidable.
Meaning our guys are still in charge, with a fresh-faced AmeriKan-approved front man for Yemeni consumption (the Yemenis are still protesting, but I never read about it in my Globe).
Saleh’s son commanded the Republican Guard. His half brother headed the Air Force. His nephew was chief of staff to the central security forces. Fixing Yemen’s military in the heat of this battle with AQAP is like repairing an airplane in midflight.
Hadi needs time and space for his delicate project to succeed.
It's amazing how plans for world domination are so fragile.
The United States should support him in ways that endear him to his public, not in ways that inflame passions against him, as a long campaign of drone strikes inevitably would. The US military response to AQAP should be forceful enough to address the current threat, but restrained enough to avoid endangering a fragile ally at this critical moment.
Meaning stop the drone strikes now.
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Btw, who is "Al-CIA-Duh," and what do you mean they were made up, and created for the courtroom!?
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?
They even editorialize on it.
