Al-Qaeda Likely to Try U.S. Attack Within Six Months
February 02, 2010, 06:53 PM EST
By Chris Dolmetsch
Business Week
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda is likely to attempt a terrorist attack in the U.S. within the next three to six months, U.S. intelligence officials told a Senate panel in Washington.
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told the Senate Intelligence Committee that an attempted attack is “certain” within that time frame. Blair was responding to a question from the panel’s chairwoman, California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, during an annual assessment of threats to the U.S.
The other four officials to testify before the panel today agreed with Blair when questioned by Feinstein: Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and John Dinger, acting assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
“I think that tells us something very clearly,” Feinstein said.
Al-Qaeda is changing its methods to avoid detection as it becomes more difficult for the group to conduct large attacks, Panetta told the panel. The terrorist group is relying more on homegrown terrorists to stage smaller plots in their own countries and trying to inspire so-called “lone wolves,” he said.
“My greatest concern and what keeps me awake at night is that al-Qaeda and its terrorist allies and affiliates could very well attack the United States in our homeland,” Panetta testified.
The U.K.’s international terrorism threat level was raised to “severe” from “substantial” on Jan. 23, indicating that authorities consider an attack there is highly likely. The U.S. government said it didn’t plan to raise its own alert level in response to the British action.
Of course Mr. Obama would not raise the threat level. To imagine that he would, would be to cross from reality into a fantastical trip into an adventureland of fantasy and dreams.
Naturally Obama is in denial. He will of course concede that all intelligence points in this direction, but his skepticism of the competence of those within our intelligence service, will lead him (and his minions) to qualify anything they are told. Obama has stated on more than two occasions (Turkey and Egypt) that the US is not at war with Islamo-fascism, but rather with a few bad eggs.
Obama will react when we are attacked and hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead, and he will express 'outrage', 'anger', 'sadness', and a 'commitment to hunt down those individuals responsible and bring them to justice'. He will remind us that even in our own culture, we have had bad eggs - Timothy McVeigh, for example. We should not jump to conclusions, we should not let our grief get the better of us, we should not let anger and hate take control, for that is what they want us to do. Rather, we need to mourn our losses, and use the long-arm of the law to hunt down and bring to justice those bad eggs responsible. Obama will go on to explain that he has spoken to (x number of) Muslim leaders and have asked for their help in locating anyone responsible.
I hate to be right this time, but I will be, again, and he will not learn, and we will die because he refuses to understand the reality of the islamic world. No, we are not at war with 1.25 billion people. That is silly and foolish for anyone to argue. We are at war with an ideology that has infected up to 15% of the Islamic world, or 180,000,000. Surely we do not have to fight and kill 187,000,000! And the answer is No. 187,000,000 may believe we are evil, corrupted, and immoral, worthy of going directly to hell, but believing something and supporting murder as a cause does not equal having war waged upon them. If we were to wage war on them, we would have many Europeans who feel very similarly toward us albeit the immorality would be a humanistic synonym for the religious immoral - perhaps 'hater of mother earth, immoral'. So then who is it we are at war with, surely Obama needs to define it to understand it.
Of tghe 187,000,000, more than likely about 10% wake up every day and a) provide aid, funding, support, comfort, to those who b) wake up every day thinking about how best to kill anyone who opposes them, most specifically Americans. 18,000,000 people are more actively engaged and or physically active in planning the murders of millions. So are we at war with 18 million people. More so, yes, but just as the citizens of Virginia or North Carolina aided and supported the Southern forces of the Confederacy, did not mean we were at war with every civilian. You defeat the army, and the people, mostly, become compliant and passive - why? and this is where Obama has failed to grasp whatever amount of time he had in the Muslim country he was partially raised - victory is strength, and Islamic armies tend to fade into the background when defeated, while their supporters blend back into society and would pose little threat.
So of the 18 million, how many are we at war with? Again, 10-12% is the going percentage. About 2 million men (and a few women). We must, in conjunction with our friends and allies, neutralize them as threats. More specifically than neutralizing all 2 million, are about 150,000 who fund and lead these groups - they must all be killed.
Obama does not understand how this Islamic fascist ideology has corrupted his idealistic view of Islam and how McVeigh is simply a stupid example to use.
Islam respects strength. It does not respect enemies who are weak. So, Obama would argue, let us not be enemies. But we are to 187,000,000, and they will never think differently - NEVER, no matter how many naive and foolish speeches you give to Muslims. I could care less what the other 1 billion think, they are irrelevant. The 187,000,000 have taken control of Islam, for all intents and purposes, and appealing to the love in their hearts will NEVER change the reality.
Nor will it save the hundreds of thousands of American lives.
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