Posted by Tina
US Embassies were ordered closed over the weekend and travel warnings were issued for US citizens after strong and specific terror threats from Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were intercepted. France, Briton and Germany also closed their embassies. There is speculation that the freeing of several high level operatives in recent prison escapes may be related and suggest a resurgence of terror strength and activity:
Interpol warned that al-Qaeda had been strengthened by a series of prison breaks that freed dozens of its followers in recent months in Libya, Iraq and Pakistan.
In a statement it said the jailbreaks “led to the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals”.
It asked its 190 member countries to help “determine whether any of these recent events are coordinated and linked” and to immediately convey any intelligence which could help prevent another attack.
President Obama is holding a high level security meeting while William Kristol asks, “Is Al Qaida on the Run, Or Are We?” and our intelligence community is worried that in his announcement to close embassies the President may have disclosed too much information and compromised our intelligence operations:
Intelligence officials are dismayed that the administration provided so much detail on what prompted the closings, and that the disclosures could work against obtaining new information. Militants are now likely searching for the sources of the information to both the U.S. and Yemeni officials, and almost certainly will kill anyone they suspect of working with Western intelligence.
“There simply are not that many who would know about the attacks,” says one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence officer, “so it won’t be hard for al Qaeda leaders to pin-point the sources of information. Once that happens, they certainly won’t be working with us anymore.”
Other sources are also likely to reconsider their relationship with the United States over the disclosures. “These guys know their lives are in danger. As soon as the U.S. shows we can’t be trusted, they will go under ground and we won’t hear from them again,” says a current intelligence officer.
Intelligence officers reveal the AQAP has grown stronger in the last two years and has developed new weapons of attack. The Presidents careless remarks represent a blow to intelligence capability that will require starting at square one…”We are operating blind,” said one active intelligence officer.
Obama inherited a fairly stable M.E. region with Al Qaida significantly battered and weakened. His polices and posturing have created chaos, increased threats, and significant loss of respect for America in the world. What a mess.
Indeed, what a mess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emdzsz_XvfA
Max Boot neatly summarizes the growing strength of Al Qaida…and after Obama telling the world during his reelection bid that they were “decimated”.
If I gave the impression above that Obama attended the national security meeting at the White House I apologize. The President spent the weekend with buddies playing golf and having a sleepover at Camp David. Bridget Johnson of PJ Media explains the President’s involvement in our nations security concerns:
It was his birthday weekend, after all.
In related news the Presidents popularity in Egypt has topped that of GWB during the shoe toss.
How can this be? The NSA has all the details of my cell phone call to my mother in Reading Pa. They know I am stuck and have been stuck on lvl 121 of Candy Crush. They know the date of the draft in my fantasy football league. OH CRAP! I know what it is. I have used paper and pencil for my draft picks. Sorry but I wont give it up!
People this whole story is bull$hit. I am sure something bad will happen, Obama will see to it.
If you missed it here is MUST SEE Rush Limbaugh’s interview on “on the Record” with Greta Van Susteren.
Obama The Teflon President:
VAN SUSTEREN: Talking about the scandals — President Obama says the scandals are phony. Why do you think he says they’re phony, because he believes it, or is there a strategy?
RUSH LIMBAUGH: No, there’s a strategy. I’ve — you know, I’ve — I’ve been troubled by something with the Obama — you know, I playfully call it the regime because I know it irritates them. And it is like a regime. And I’ve been troubled, I’ve been amazed.
Here is a man whose policies have done great damage to this country, policies have done great damage to the economy, have done great damage to the American culture, to the American psyche. I mean, there is a malaise. There’s a — there’s a — there’s a sense of — of — of hopelessness and depression out there. And it’s his policies that have done this.
And what has always amazed me is how he’s not attached to any of it. He has an agenda. He’s been implementing it. But the — what I call the low-information voters, who voted for him and other Democrats, do not associate Obama’s policies and agenda with the condition of the country, the economy or whatever. That’s always befuddled me.
I’ve never, never known a president to be immune from economic circumstances at an election as he was in 2012. It all became clear to me — there was a New York Times story, I think one of their blog posts on the Web back in February. And it basically said via poll data what I just said to you. It said most people disapprove of the Obama agenda. They don’t like the direction the country’s going. They like him and they think he’s great for the country.
And I said, How can that be? Intellectually, how can a majority of people — and you know they oppose “Obama care” by 55, 60 percent in a number of polls. They are worried about jobs. How in the world can they like him, reelect him and yet disapprove of everything he’s doing?
And I came up — I call it the Limbaugh Theorem. And you hear other people talking about it in the sense that he’s a bystander president or he’s outside Washington. The way he does this, he never appears to be governing. That’s why he’s constantly campaigning.
Why is there a campaign going on for “Obama care”? It’s already the law of the land. Why is he out campaigning for all this stuff that’s already law, it’s already going to happen?
And my theory is that Obama has positioned himself as an outsider, not attached to anything that’s happening. What he has made happen, he positions himself as opposed to it and against it and fighting for everybody else to overcome what he has done!
And that’s one of the reasons why the constant campaign, so he doesn’t appear to be governing, so he doesn’t appear to be part of Washington, so there are — he appears to have this mysterious, powerful bunch of forces that are opposing him and stopping him from creating jobs and stopping him from giving people proper health care and stopping him from making their home values go up. But he’s constantly out there fighting it. And he does that by constantly campaigning and never seen to be — to be governing.
So all of these scandals — he calls them — they’re not distraction, they’re real. But he likes them because they detract from the absolute reality of what has happened to this country as a result of his policies.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/01/must-see-interview-rushs-limbaugh-theorem-teflon-president-obama#ixzz2b7QS4Ra0
These jailbreaks are another reason why terrorists should be shot, not taken prisoner. We expect no mercy from them and we get none, why treat them like common criminals when they are not, they are ruthless killers. Give em what our great grandparents would have given them back in the day. -Jack
This blog is a important eye opener about those terrorist prisoners, “errr detainees” in Guantanamo and why they need to be detained there to begin with.
Lots of comments always about their usual social positions including personal concerns like, wages, same sex marriage, welfare needs, tax and/or hate the the successful, grow more failure prone Government give-a-away programs, and of late dissolving our Constitutional gun rights.
But seldom if ever do we get any commentary from the Liberal side on their parties failed positions or what the Obama administration has failed at in attempting a world wide kum ba yah.
Benghazi is a good example of wasting American life’s for a poorly crafted political stand and statement. then spinning it for preservation of their political lives.
Then the defensive liberal speak up! but only with more spin, first through media, and other sources that are less than creditable, and only to create conflicting versions of the facts in a attempt to bury the truth, so as not to cause any loss of their elected.
Neither political side is perfect ,nor have all the answers, but it is time to elect better people who are willing to work (together) for our benefit, and not so much theirs!