"Al Qaeda chief ordered attack as early as past weekend; Yemen affiliate tasked with making strike" by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt | New York Times, August 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — Intelligence analysts on Monday were combing e-mail, phone calls, and radio communications between Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen and the organization’s senior leaders to determine the timing and targets of the planned attack.
Good thing D.C. is so close. They won;t have to go far.
It is highly unusual for senior Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan to discuss operational matters with the group’s affiliates, so when the intercepts between the two senior Al Qaeda leaders were collected and analyzed last week, senior officials at the CIA, the State Department, and the White House immediately seized on their significance.
Translation: This was ALL a POLITICAL PLOY!
And I thought we were RID OF THESE WHEN GEORGE BUSH LEFT OFFICE!
Obomber must be UP to his A**HOLE in SCANDALS for them to be rolling out these logs.
Members of Congress were quickly provided with classified briefings on the matter, US officials said.
“This was significant because it was the big guys talking, and talking about very specific timing for an attack or attacks,” said one US official who had been briefed on the intelligence reports.
Except there is NOTHING SPECIFIC about any of it, and WHY WOULD the "big guys" of Al-CIA-Duh be letting themselves be caught in the global AmeriKan surveillance system -- or have you forgotten the importance of the Korean-Panama caper?
Nothing on this earth happens without U.S knowledge (including the arming of Al-CIA-Duh in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, etc, etc, etc). The global surveillance grid is already here!
The identities of the two Al Qaeda leaders whose discussions were monitored and the imminent nature of the suspected plot — in the intercepts, the terrorists mentioned Sunday as the day that the attacks were to take place — help explain why the United States, as well as other Western governments, have taken such extraordinary precautionary steps to close embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa.
Which means they "missed" their target, huh? Called it off because of the alerts, right?
Pfffffft!!
But the intercepts were frustrating in that they did not reveal the specific location or target, US officials said.
Well, yeah, they were specific, but they weren't really specific.
In an article posted on the Web Friday and published Saturday, the identities of the Al Qaeda leaders whose conversations were intercepted were withheld by The New York Times at the request of US intelligence officials.
How can you tell the difference?
Related:
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
You know, I get sick of putting those links up all the time.
The names were disclosed Sunday by McClatchy Newspapers, and after the government became aware of the article, it dropped its objections to The Times’ publishing the information.
McClatchy was one of the few newspaper outlets that challenged the Bush Administration's lies before the invasion of Iraq.
US officials have not said whether the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, or another agency intercepted the initial suspect communications.
The Associated Press, quoting an unidentified intelligence official, said Monday that the controversial NSA programs that gather data on American phone calls and track Internet communications with suspected terrorists played no part in detecting the initial tip....
Oh, readers! The P.R. CAMPAIGN to SAVE the NSA flopped! This is tremendous news, because it shows the GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA is NO LONGER WORKING!
The US Embassy in Pakistan has remained open, even though the Al Qaeda threat that shuttered many other diplomatic missions emanated in part from that country. Still, rumors of an impending militant attack on Islamabad, the capital — and not necessarily on a US target — coursed through diplomatic and security circles last weekend.
One Western diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said his mission had received reports that militant attackers had congregated in the Margalla Hills, which overlook the city. But the diplomat stressed that those reports were unconfirmed, and that although the security situation in the city had tightened, there was little information to suggest an impending assault.
Administration officials and intelligence analysts said Monday they had no new information on the terrorist threats.
“We are going to keep evaluating information as it comes in, keep analyzing the various intelligence that we’re getting in, in regards to this stream,” said a State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf....
It's a stream of something, all right!
Members of Congress who were briefed on the threat said there was no definitive information on where an attack would occur.
Well, you see, there are specifics, and then there are specifics.
“The assumption is that it’s probably most likely to happen in the Middle East,” Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican, said Sunday on the ABC News program “This Week.” “But there’s no guarantee of that at all.”
“It could basically be in Europe, it could be in the United States, it could be a series of combined attacks,” said King, who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
It could be.... anywhere, at anytime, by anyone! Specifically speaking!
The one aspect of the intelligence that officials appear to agree on is that Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen is behind the plotting. I agree.
It is all an "Al-CIA-Duh" plot!
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At least they cleaned up the background to Zawahiri's CIA SITE, I mean, set, hotel room, whatever. I'm glad to see he is out of that grave again.
"It looks like Obama is going to really crank up the wars, to distract us all from flood-gate. And this "terror warning" is about as flimsy an excuse as you can imagine. Obama is going to launch attacks against targets across the Middle East (anyone want to wager whether Syria is on the list or not), so this Al Qaeda "chatter" claim is bogus from the start. Obama appears to be planning to launch unprovoked attacks and created this excuse out of thin air." -- WhatReallyHappened
