| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: WoT |
| US NORTHCOM commander warns of Al Qaida threat to US |
| 2008-03-06 |
| Al-Qaida terrorists may be plotting more urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers, the U.S. military commander in charge of domestic defense said Thursday. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of the U.S. Northern Command, told reporters he has not seen any direct threats tied to the U.S. presidential elections. But he said it would be imprudent to think that such threats are not there. "We need only to look at Spain and see that they're certainly willing to try to do something that is significant that could affect an election process," Renuart said. "I think it would be imprudent of us to let down our guard believing that if there's no credible threat that you know of today, there won't be something tomorrow." While he said that U.S. authorities have thwarted attacks on a number of occasions, he said terrorist cells may be working harder than ever to plot high-impact events. He did not point to any specific intelligence that authorities have received but said the "chatter" they are hearing "gives me no reason to believe they're going to slow down" in their efforts to target the U.S. "If an organization like that is to maintain credibility and continue to grow more of its extremists, it has to show tangible results," Renuart said. "So I think there may be a certain sense of urgency among that organization to have an effect. So it would tell me that they're trying harder." |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #13 FREEREPUBLIC/REDDIT WORLD NEWS > BREAKING - PALESTINIAN SHOOTER KILLS EIGHT ISRAELI SCHOOL STUDENTS + HAMAS PARAISES MASSACRE + PELESTINIANS CELEBRATE ISRAELI SHOOTINGS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-06 23:43 |
| #12 Mexican border gangs are happy to take Middle East money. It isn't hard to find an Arab or Persian in the border cities of California, Texas, etc. That border WILL be mined at some time. Obama in Corpus Christi (Feb 22) on illegal immigration: "a wall cannot solve that problem." Ergo: let them all in? |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-03-06 23:34 |
| #11 Well, while the AQ would not benefit from a terrorist attack on the US prior to the election, There is never a shortage of irrational behavior out of that bunch of nut jobs. Criminey, you could do a post doctoral thesis in abnormal psychology on those xenophobic waftists |
| Posted by: Senior Proconsul Sock Puppet 2008-03-06 22:26 |
| #10 "More urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers" > AGAIN, IMO OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM's, ETC, NEEDS TO STOP THE ON-GOING US ENTRENCHMENT IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, ETC. Former USMC SGM Estrada's comments should indic to Osama and Islamists AGAIN that A POST-DUBYA DEM = ANTI-DUBYA/DEM GOP POTUS SUCCESSOR MAY NOT BE ANY HELP AT ALL AS TO SAVING THEIR JIHAD + OWG AGENDA. Their Regional-Global Jihad began under many DIVINE PREMISES, among others - it will be detrimental and humiliating for Radical Islam to NOT CONTINUE "GOD'S FIGHT/WAR" TO THE END. As for ZARK, the various photos publicly ascribed as ZARQHAWI are inconsistent or clearly not the same personage, which is why I'm NOT convinced he's truly dead. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-06 21:39 |
| #9 Some of them. And then there was Zarqawi, a young hot head who managed to do a lot of damage before he was finally found and killed ..... It's not the new converts I worry about. It's whoever's been training in that remote triangle in south America and who by now might have a Venezuelan passport and a very good Spanish accent. Or it's the German leftist or convert who's lain low a few years and has no record to track. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-06 20:34 |
| #8 The young ones are usually inexperienced and/or dumb. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-06 20:12 |
| #7 No doubt he doesn't, but they haven't been very successful here. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-03-06 19:52 |
| #6 Oh for sure, NS. The question is whether he controls all the young eager ones. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-06 19:32 |
| #5 I agree a wacko freelancer could go off any time. But if GHQaQ has had to wait this long, they're obviously having a hard time doing a 9/11 follow-up. If you were binny, would you order it for a goodbye to W or to welcome/test the new guy (or gal)? I suspect binney now knows enough to recognize he should keep his powder dry to test the new guy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-03-06 19:28 |
| #4 I'm not so sure that some of the more fanatical members wouldn't welcome just that, John. Allah can't give them glorious victory over the kufir or more glorious martyrdom if the dhimmis are slowly surrendering instead. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-06 19:06 |
| #3 I gotta think that bombing the US before an election would surely deliver a victory for the republicans - exactly *NOT* what al Qaeda wants |
| Posted by: Lumpy Jusotch4582 2008-03-06 19:02 |
| #2 Not before November, but less than a year away. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-03-06 18:50 |
| #1 Question is will it be enough to FINALLY secure the border N & S, wiht a real fence - and to jump up entry port security, and enforce visas? Nah. That will take a mushroom cloud to separate the pigs in DC from political football and cheap labor. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-03-06 17:54 |