US issues worldwide travel alert due to al Qaeda threat

[Contumacious]

US issues worldwide travel alert due to al Qaeda threat (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/02/19834068-us-issues-worldwide-travel-alert-due-to-al-qaeda-threat?lite)


By Andrea Mitchell, Catherine Chomiak and Henry Austin, NBC News

WASHINGTON -- A worldwide alert has been issued for all U.S. citizens traveling abroad due to an unspecified al Qaeda threat, State Department officials warned Friday.

The terror group and their affiliated organizations "may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August," a statement said'

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Of course, the warning is intended for the narcotized, the gullible and the naive who will be told that the NSA learned about the threat after intercepting a message (wink,wink).

Worth knowing that Switzerland nor any other country has issued any alert. Just the criminals inside the DC beltway.

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[Scrapmo]

Terroist! OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!

[69360]

they hate us for our freedoms

[Kilrain]

"Be afraid of everything, everywhere."

Gee, that's helpful.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9E6fxvUD7w

[Matthew5]

Let's face it, it's just a desperate attempt to remind Amerikan's that it's Dear Leader's birthday.

hxxp://www.cnbc.com/id/100933170

[HOLLYWOOD]

Political KABUKI Theater

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[enhanced_deficit]

No further details were immediately available.

Sunday is President Barack Obama's 52nd birthday, and it's also the day Iran inaugurates Hassan Rowhani as its new president. But U.S. officials told NBC News they had heard nothing to indicate that the date was chosen for either of those reasons.

US security is in very smart hands these days. Obama team geniuses banned US female reporters from wearing green tshirts claiming that it would offend Israelis. And then Israelis prove them to be not-so-smart as wife of Iaraeli PM shows up dressed in green.

Obama press told to cover up, not wear green - Ben Smith ... - Politico (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Obama_press_told_to_cover_up_not_wear_green.html)

www.politico.com › Ben Smith (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith)‎
Jul 20, 2008 - Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown, accompanying Obama on his trip to the ... Reporters traveling overseas with Sen. ... last week when the campaign emailed a “dress code” for Israel and Jordan. ... (Explained later as the color of Hamas) ... “Shoulders and arms must be fully covered (no strapless tops, no tank ...




http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/02/114585172-282x300.jpg (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/02/114585172.jpg)Sally Oren, right, with Sara Netanyahu, who is married to the Israeli prime minister. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/22/heres-the-song-jefferson-airplane-wrote-about-israeli-ambassador-michael-orens-wife/


(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/22/heres-the-song-jefferson-airplane-wrote-about-israeli-ambassador-michael-orens-wife/)

[tangent4ronpaul]

BREAKING!

It has just been learned that the worldwide travel warning and embassy shutdown was triggered by actionable intelligence that AQ had acquired and distributed to their loyal followers and supporters, the following:

1 Million cases of re-fried beans.
1 Million cases of really cheap beer.
2 Million bic lighters.

In addition, it has been learned that the TSA has been tracking hundreds of thousands of suspected AQ affiliates that have been training in the US all summer by attending county and state fairs and entering pie and hotdog eating contests.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff lamented that the US chemical weapons inventory was not up to par, so we would be forced to respond to a WMD attack by nuking them. He then pleaded for funding for a massive chemical weapons program so we could keep up with the third world. Sen John McCain, on the other hand, went into a massive tirade stating that "We need to nuke Mecca NOW as a preemptive warning!".

A senior intelligence official, who spoke on conditions of anonymity also revealed that thanks to PRISM and XKeyscore the NSA had detected and tracked this sinister, worldwide terrorist network and were working with the pentagon to thwart the simultaneous, world wide massive attack on western interests. When pressed for details of the planned attack and counter attack, the official broke down and exclaimed: "OK! - we're screwed! We don't have enough drones and hellfires to go after them all at once. We might have to do another 'Shock & Awe', but time is getting short to plan something like that and I think the Hollysood special effects people we used last time are booked". The official then broke down, got on his knees and begged Congress for more funding for drones and hellfires. Once composed, we asked if there were any targets in American cities. He scoffed, saying "Everybody knows the FBI's false flag department handles those". Pushing our luck, we asked if this warning could possibly have anything to do with a bill passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday and headed to the Senate floor to fund embassy security? The kind of bill that is usually written by the very contractors that will profit from it? He looked at us incredulously and said: "Kid - don't you know how Washington works?".

Reporter tip: Who needs Whistle blowers when you have truth serum? Just dose the SOB and get to the bottom of things. No reporter should leave home without it! :D

-t

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/world/middleeast/qaeda-messages-prompt-us-terror-warning.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al Qaeda, in which the terrorists discussed attacks against American interests in the Middle East and North Africa, American officials said Friday.

The intercepts and a subsequent analysis of them by American intelligence agencies prompted the United States to issue an unusual global travel alert to American citizens on Friday, warning of the potential for terrorist attacks by operatives of Al Qaeda and their associates beginning Sunday through the end of August.
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It is unusual for the United States to come across discussions among senior Qaeda operatives about operational planning — through informants, intercepted e-mails or eavesdropping on cellphone calls. So when the high-level intercepts were collected and analyzed this week, senior officials at the C.I.A., State Department and White House immediately seized on their significance. Members of Congress have been provided classified briefings on the matter, officials said Friday.
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Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.’s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.

Such incredible timing! :rolleyes:

-t

[Lindsey]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/world/middleeast/qaeda-messages-prompt-us-terror-warning.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.’s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.

Such incredible timing! :rolleyes:

-t

This was my first thought. It's all too convenient.

[Contumacious]

Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.’s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.

Such incredible timing! :rolleyes:

That is standard government procedure .

In 1993 the BATF stopped discussions about investigating sexual harrassment allegations within the agency after it invaded the Davidians compound and slaughtered 90 of its residents. (http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/135wac.htm)

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[presence]

bump

http://www.businessinsider.com/al-qaida-terror-threats-state-department-travel-warning-2013-8

[Peace Piper]

Quite a useful group, this Al Queda-


Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War
By TIM ARANGO, ANNE BARNARD and HWAIDA SAAD Published: December 8, 2012
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-tied-to-al-qaeda-play-key-role-in-war.html?pagewanted=1&=pagewanted=all&_r=6

BAGHDAD — The lone Syrian rebel group with an explicit stamp of approval from Al Qaeda has become one of the uprising’s most effective fighting forces, posing a stark challenge to the United States and other countries that want to support the rebels but not Islamic extremists

Money flows to the group, the Nusra Front, from like-minded donors abroad. Its fighters, a small minority of the rebels, have the boldness and skill to storm fortified positions and lead other battalions to capture military bases and oil fields. As their successes mount, they gather more weapons and attract more fighters.

The group is a direct offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi officials and former Iraqi insurgents say, which has contributed veteran fighters and weapons.

“This is just a simple way of returning the favor to our Syrian brothers that fought with us on the lands of Iraq,” said a veteran of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who said he helped lead the Nusra Front’s efforts in Syria.

The United States, sensing that time may be running out for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, hopes to isolate the group to prevent it from inheriting Syria or fighting on after Mr. Assad’s fall to pursue its goal of an Islamic state.

As the United States pushes the Syrian opposition to organize a viable alternative government, it plans to blacklist the Nusra Front as a terrorist organization, making it illegal for Americans to have financial dealings with the group and most likely prompting similar sanctions from Europe. The hope is to remove one of the biggest obstacles to increasing Western support for the rebellion: the fear that money and arms could flow to a jihadi group that could further destabilize Syria and harm Western interests.

When rebel commanders met Friday in Turkey to form a unified command structure at the behest of the United States and its allies, jihadi groups were not invited.

The Nusra Front’s ally, Al Qaeda in Iraq, is the Sunni insurgent group that killed numerous American troops in Iraq and sowed widespread sectarian strife with suicide bombings against Shiites and other religious and ideological opponents. The Iraqi group played an active role in founding the Nusra Front and provides it with money, expertise and fighters, said Maj. Faisal al-Issawi, an Iraqi security official who tracks jihadi activities in Iraq’s Anbar Province.

But blacklisting the Nusra Front could backfire. It would pit the United States against some of the best fighters in the insurgency that it aims to support. While some Syrian rebels fear the group’s growing power, others work closely with it and admire it — or, at least, its military achievements — and are loath to end their cooperation.

Leaders of the Free Syrian Army, the loose-knit rebel umbrella group that the United States seeks to bolster, expressed exasperation that the United States, which has refused to provide weapons throughout the conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people, is now opposing a group they see as a vital ally.

The Nusra Front “defends civilians in Syria, whereas America didn’t do anything,” said Mosaab Abu Qatada, a rebel spokesman. “They stand by and watch; they look at the blood and the crimes and brag. Then they say that Nusra Front are terrorists."

He added, “America just wants a pretext to intervene in Syrian affairs after the revolution.”

The United States has been reluctant to supply weapons to rebels that could end up in the hands of anti-Western jihadis, as did weapons that Qatar supplied to Libyan rebels with American approval. Critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy counter that its failure to support the rebels helped create the opening that Islamic militants have seized in Syria.

The Nusra Front’s appeals to Syrian fighters seem to be working.

At a recent meeting in Damascus, Abu Hussein al-Afghani, a veteran of insurgencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, addressed frustrated young rebels. They lacked money, weapons and training, so they listened attentively.

He told them he was a leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, now working with a Qaeda branch in Syria, and by joining him, they could make their mark. One fighter recalled his resonant question: “Who is hearing your voice today?”

On Friday, demonstrators in several Syrian cities raised banners with slogans like, “No to American intervention, for we are all Jebhat al-Nusra,” referring to the group’s full name, Ansar al-Jebhat al-Nusra li-Ahl al-Sham, or Supporters of the Front for Victory of the People of Syria. One rebel battalion, the Ahrar, or Free Men, asked on its Facebook page why the United States did not blacklist Mr. Assad’s “terrorist” militias.

Another jihadist faction, the Sahaba Army in the Levant, even congratulated the group on the “great honor” of being deemed terrorists by the United States.

Even antigovernment activists who are wary of the group — some deride it as “the Taliban” — said the blacklisting would be ineffective and worsen strife within the uprising. To isolate the group, they say, the United States should support mainstream rebel military councils and Syrian civil society, like the committees that have sprung up to run rebel-held villages.

The Nusra Front is far from the only fighting group that embraces a strict interpretation of Islam. Many battalions have adopted religious slogans, dress and practices, in what some rebels and activists call a pragmatic shift to curry favor with Islamist donors in Persian Gulf countries. One activist said he had a fighter friend with a fondness for Johnnie Walker Black who is now sporting a beard to fit in.

Not all religiously driven rebel groups embrace the Qaeda vision of global jihad, the International Crisis Group said in a recent report. Some have criticized the Nusra Front as serving the interests of the Assad government, which seeks to paint its opposition as terrorists and foreigners.

The Nusra Front is the only Syrian rebel group explicitly endorsed by Al Qaeda in online forums, the report said.

The group gained prominence with suicide bombings in Damascus and Aleppo in early 2012 that targeted government buildings but caused heavy civilian casualties. It was the first Syrian insurgent organization to claim responsibility for suicide and car bomb attacks that killed civilians.

Many of its members — Syrians, Iraqis and a few from other countries —fought in Iraq, where the Syrian government helped funnel jihadis to battle the American occupation.

In Iraq’s Diyala Province, a former member of Al Qaeda in Iraq said that a leader and many members of the group were fighting in Syria under the Nusra Front’s banner. An Iraqi security official there said they travel through Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey to Syria.

“They are well trained mentally and militarily,” Major Issawi, the official in Anbar, said. “They are so excited about the fighting in Syria. They see Syria as a dream coming true.”

Syrian fighters also have Iraq experience. Abu Hussein, a commander of the Tawhid and Jihad brigade, which is not slated for American blacklisting and has taken a leading role in many battles, said he fought with Al Qaeda in Iraq for six years.

“I decided to return to Syria because our people need me,” he said, adding that his group was attracting secular young men because it could provide ammunition, training and medical care that non-jihadist groups could not.

A 35-year-old Syrian musician who gave his name as Hakam said he decided to join an Islamist fighting group because he saw how well it planned and fought and “how determined and professional they are.”

He said that he had rarely prayed and had been a drummer in a casino — he apologized for mentioning the word, which had become distasteful to him — but that now he was pious and newly disciplined. He said that the group’s goal was an Islamic state in Syria ruled by strict Sunni Muslims, and that it would fight any secular government.

“Our mission won’t end after the fall of the regime,” he said.

Some Syrians have complained of Nusra fighters trying to impose religious strictures on others. But Brian Fishman, a fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, said that the Nusra Front appeared to have learned from the mistakes of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which alienated Iraqis with its sectarian attacks and grisly beheading videos.

The Nusra Front appears to be refraining from attacking other Syrian groups, with the exception of clashes with Kurds in the north, where some rebels believe a major Kurdish militia sides with the government.

Thamir al-Sadi, an Iraqi from Diyala who joined the regular Free Syrian Army, said that would change, predicting infighting after Mr. Assad’s fall.

“After the fall of Bashar there will be so many battles between these groups,” he said. “All the groups will unite against al-Nusra. They are like a snake that is spreading its poison.”

Obama to move forward with plan to arm Syrian rebels
Wed July 24, 2013

Washington (CNN) -- Reluctant approval from Congress for providing military support to Syrian rebels allows the Obama administration to move forward with plans first announced almost six weeks ago.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday that the goal of the military aid expected to include small arms, ammunition and perhaps anti-tank weapons is to keep the Syrian opposition going against forces aligned with President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Noting al-Assad's forces have been helped by Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as Iran, Carney said Syrian rebels need the help of the United States and allied nations to withstand an increased assault...more
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/23/politics/us-syrian-rebels

[phill4paul]

Let me see if I get this right. We forcibly take money from American citizens to wage war against al-CIAda, and then we forcibly take money from American citizens to fund al-CIAda, who was our enemy, who is now our ally. And then we secretly supply them with weapons, we lose lives supplying them with weapons in Bhenghazi, then we close our embassies for fear of attack from al-CIAda. I mean, what's going on here?

[tod evans]

Let me see if I get this right. We forcibly take money from American citizens to wage war against al-CIAda, and then we forcibly take money from American citizens to fund al-CIAda, who was our enemy, who is now our ally. And then we secretly supply them with weapons, we lose lives suppyling them with weapons in Bhenghazi. I mean, what's going on here?

Government justifying its own existence...

[phill4paul]

Government justifying its own existence...

Well understood. Just a takeoff of RP's. ;)

"Let me see if I get this right. We need to borrow $10 billion from China, and then we give it to Musharraf, who is a military dictator, who overthrew an elected government. And then we go to war, we lose all these lives promoting democracy in Iraq. I mean, what's going on here?"

[Carson]

What was the significance of them releasing information on Friday? I forget.

[UtahApocalypse]

All the talk about the NSA and Benghazi, you better believe there is a "serious and credible" threat..... That is unspecific, and we can't stop.

[Contumacious]

Let me see if I get this right. We forcibly take money from American citizens to wage war against al-CIAda, and then we forcibly take money from American citizens to fund al-CIAda, who was our enemy, who is now our ally. And then we secretly supply them with weapons, we lose lives supplying them with weapons in Bhenghazi, then we close our embassies for fear of attack from al-CIAda. I mean, what's going on here?


Yes, indeed, clear as mud.



Syrian Opposition’s Amazing CIA Credentials (http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/syrian-oppositions-amazing-cia-credentials/)
Daniel McAdams at 19:42 pm EDT on July 12, 2012

Thanks once again to the indispensable Moon of Alabama blog for highlighting, among other interesting facts, the amazingly open ties of the Syrian opposition to their Western paymasters. As the astonishing Guardian story linked in the MoA piece outlines, down to the person these Syrian engines of regime change are products of the US empire and its interventionist, Trotskyite foreign policy of “global democratic revolution.” I urge interested readers to click on the original piece for the full story. I am paraphrasing and quoting the Guardian story below by way of summary:"

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[Scrapmo]

Let me see if I get this right. We forcibly take money from American citizens to wage war against al-CIAda, and then we forcibly take money from American citizens to fund al-CIAda, who was our enemy, who is now our ally. And then we secretly supply them with weapons, we lose lives supplying them with weapons in Bhenghazi, then we close our embassies for fear of attack from al-CIAda. I mean, what's going on here?

We've always been at war with Eastasia

[enhanced_deficit]

[QUOTE=Peace Piper;5156464]Quite a useful group, this Al Queda-

Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War
By TIM ARANGO, ANNE BARNARD and HWAIDA SAAD Published: December 8, 2012
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-tied-to-al-qaeda-play-key-role-in-war.html?pagewanted=1&=pagewanted=all&_r=6


Obama to move forward with plan to arm Syrian rebels
Wed July 24, 2013

[QUOTE]



A crash course in history of AlQeda with photos.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?423178-Afghans-sad-to-see-British-troops-leave-after-spreading-freedom&p=5157265&viewfull=1#post5157265

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?423178-Afghans-sad-to-see-British-troops-leave-after-spreading-freedom&p=5157259&viewfull=1#post5157259

[bolil]

I just watched some ***** senator named Barney say that diplomacy should not, and cannot be, carried out in the open.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Stroking the public since 1947... al-CIAda

Frankly, I want to know all those in the US government are going to prison for recruiting terrorists, training, and arming them in overthrowing sovereign governments-countries? Who ordered these terrorist operations? Who approved and funded these terrorist organizations and their actions?

Gesus... they have this BS propaganda terrorist theater on the public, because the psychotic sick fucks inside the Washington DC beltway are creating terrorism and arming them with weapons of mass destruction, eg, Libyan MPADs to shoot down aircraft.

Where's the investigative journalists exposing Iran-Contra on STEROIDS, in addition to violating a massive amount of treaties, domestic and international laws, and that 3 ring circus called the UN.


Can't people wake up and smell the government bullshit?

[purplechoe]

they hate us for our freedoms

The Bush's, the Clinton's, etc... I agree, they hate it with a passion...

[Matthew5]

Government justifying its own existence...

Whoa, buddy, don't get too crazy there.

;)

[Snew]

hide everybody! Teh turrists are coming!!!1! See something say something!

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

will they really stage another event again or just the bogey-man smoke and mirrors this time ?

[FrankRep]

In other news....


http://www.thenewamerican.com/media/k2/items/cache/f915813da961d447b2cd44c3d54dedad_M.jpg (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/15515-rand-paul-senate-is-arming-al-qaeda-and-rushing-to-war-in-syria)


Rand Paul: Senate Is Arming Al-Qaeda and Rushing to War in Syria (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/15515-rand-paul-senate-is-arming-al-qaeda-and-rushing-to-war-in-syria)



During a Senate hearing, Senator Rand Paul warned that his colleagues were rushing to war in Syria and were arming members of al-Qaeda in Syria.