Senior U.S. Official: Intercepted Al Qaeda Communications
Indicate Planned Attack ‘Big,’ ‘Strategically Significant’
Posted By: Watchman
Date: Sunday, 4-Aug-2013 22:32:44
Date: Sunday, 4-Aug-2013 22:32:44
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ABC News’ Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl report: |
“The part that is alarming is the confidence they showed while communicating and the air of certainty,” the official said, adding that the group — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — appeared to have a media plan for after the attack.
Authorities do not know the exact target of the planned attack, according to the official.
“We do not know whether they mean an embassy, an airbase, an aircraft, trains,” the official said.
Today on “This Week,” Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-MD — the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee — said the intercepted communications called for a “major attack.”
“We received information that high level people from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are talking about a major attack,” Ruppersberger said. “And these are people at a high level.”
“It’s a very credible threat and it’s based on intelligence,” Ruppersberger continued. “What we have to do now is the most important issue, is protect Americans throughout the world.”
Ruppersberger also commented on the threat’s al-Qaeda connection, saying “We know that al-Qaeda and other people out there want to attack us and kill us and our allies.”
Read Gen. Martin Dempsey’s comments on the latest overseas terror threats here.
The senior U.S. official said there is concern about devices that could be implanted inside the body of a terrorist.
“We are concerned about surgically implanted devices,” they said. “These are guys who have developed the techniques to defeat our detection methods.”
The official also said authorities were stunned that the group broke “operational security” — meaning they talked likely knowing it would be picked up by intercepts.
ABC News reported Thursday that embassies across the Middle East and North Africa - including those in Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait – would close today because of “a specific threat against a U.S. embassy or consulate.”
The next day, the State Department issued a global travel warning to all U.S. citizens around the world, alerting them to the “continued potential for terrorist attacks.”
During an interview for “This Week,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told Martha Raddatz that there is “a significant threat stream and we’re reacting to it.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/senior-u-s-official-intercepted-al-qaeda-communications-indicate-planned-attack-big-strategically-significant/
3 comments:
REALLY....THE TERM AL-QAEDA WAS COINED BY THE USA, INC...SO COME ON
TERROR THREATS BEING CREATED BY WHOM???????????
To be created by the UNITED STATES Federal Corporation.. who else ? They are dying and want to spread panic and fear as they go down.
It would seem that HSBC refusing to be the bankers for the Vatican and the embassies because of money laundering is being sold to the public as "embassies are closing because of terrorist threats by Al-Qaeda affiliates.
We are told Al-Qaeda is the demon terrorist to be feared, but the US has publically declared they will fund "Select" Al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria to over throw the government.
Syria has one of the few sovereign central banks left and they want to own and control it by over throwing the Syrian Government who refuse to co-operate. They have already succeeded in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
It appears the tables have been turned on them and they now are being refused access to money and banks thus forcing them to close the embassies running guns, drugs and laundering money.
Finally we are seeing real physical changes. To bad the media is still held hostage by the political/banking elite and is again lying to the Public. However the HSBC info is in the news and it does not take much to put two and two together and see it equals "REAL CHANGE"
Thank you John for posting this info.
Things are really starting to get interesting!
Rgds,
Silent Watcher
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