Recent Terror Threats

[Albert Doyle]

There must be something going on they are trying to cover-up. Is it Snowden? Manning? Hastings? This level of terror threat being broadcast is designed to distract Americans from something. Our government now has a button it pushes where we are instantly back at permanent 9-11 alert status whenever they desire.


DPF, don your Nazi helmets and join me in the Barney Fife bunker waiting for the enemy...

[Peter Lemkin]

Pogo said it all...in 1971 no less....

[Malcolm Pryce]

Surely it's nothing more surprising than this: first we get the big fuss about the NSA and GCHQ snooping on their own citizens. And then in response, like a rabbit out of a hat, they announce a terror threat necessitating the closure of numerous embassies. And where did the terror threat come from? NSA and GSHQ of course. According to the BBC: 'US authorities had intercepted communications "between senior al-Qaeda leaders talking about an operational and clearly viable plot against an embassy". Wow! Aren't we lucky to have those all-snooping spooks watching over us. I'm a bit surprised, though, to learn that Al Qaeda still seem to be unaware that their communications are being constantly monitored. Didn't they used to use code words like 'Big Wedding' when referring to forthcoming operations?

[Peter Lemkin]

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Obama Reaches Into the Bush-Cheney Fear Playbook With Embassy Closings

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Terror Chart by Defense Media Network


Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

-Roy Batty



Under fire for his NSA Stasi's trolling and compiling of the phone and internet records of law-abiding Americans and smarting over being humiliated by Russia's granting of asylum to Edward Snowden, El Presidente reached into his predecessor's playbook and played the fear card. Since September 11, 2001 hyping the threat of terrorism has been the most kick ass club in the bag. The Obama regime for the most part has largely refrained from using it until this week. With the administration seething over being rebuked by Russia after weeks of bullying it was finally time to bring the back the invocation of the threat of the other as a distraction and to justify the unconstitutional mass surveillance programs.



The state media has been in rare form the last two days, hyping an imminent threat to American citizens abroad due to a reputed threat from Al-Qaeda. Excuse me if this all sets off my overly sensitive personal B.S. detector. After all, I do remember the years when the Bush administration was riding tall the saddle, largely because they knew full well that in post 9/11 America that FEAR had become the coin of the realm. Unlike most TV addled and forgetful Americans I remember with crystal clarity the multi-colored terror alert charts that Tom Ridge would trot out whenever the Bush-Cheney junta needed political cover. Ridge to his credit came out and admitted that the threat levels were manipulated for political purposes but the color coded alert system became an albatross and was eventually discarded. Now that Obama's insipid regime is cornered like rats it is no surprise that they are now going to the well by conjuring up the Muslim bogeyman.



The fear-mongering of which I refer to is the hysteria over an Al-Qaeda overseas threat to Americans issued by Obama's State Department. Not that crazy things do not happen, when you are an empire, occupying countries, supporting torturers and murders and murdering innocent civilians with bombs and drones people tend to become upset and fight back. The definition of terrorism has become so skewed so as to become virtually meaningless in the 21st Century United States of Orwell. Guerrilla warfare or attacks by those with no power against foreign symbols and institutions in lands being colonized by corporations, using the U.S. military as their henchmen and ruthless private mercenaries for the real wet work are common. In fact this has been the norm rather than the exception throughout history. The technical term for such incidents is blowback and it is insane or stupid to not believe that becoming oppressors of people in foreign lands for the sake of plundering their natural resources, installing hand-picked despots as their leaders and keeping the money rolling in for the defense industry will not result in blows against the empire. Terrorism is more of a political term, it worked like a dream for Hitler as his enemies were slaughtered, imprisoned and worse and it worked like a dream for Bush and Cheney in launching their ruinous adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars of choice that have done more to bankrupt this once great country than anything else and Obama and the establishment are practically wetting their pants to go into Syria and if crazed Senator Lindsey Graham gets his way Iran.



The establishment is putting a lot into this weekend's alert, closing many U.S. embassies on Sunday and hoping for violence that would serve up some breathing room on the calls for reigning in the NSA. I suspect that something will happen too, such is the pattern of serendipity when the imperial police state has a need to justify further crackdowns on civil liberties. Now there is the insertion into the narrative of impending doom of the fanatical Peter King, the porcine anti-Muslim bigot who on Friday stated:

"We're not certain exactly where something might happen but it's very specific as to when and it's also very specific as to the fact that it is going to happen, so we have to be on alert everywhere"

King, who should be an expert on real terrorists given his ardent support for the civilian murdering IRA will undoubtedly show up on at least one of the Sunday morning masturbatory fests to defend Obama's NSA and to call for further restrictions on American freedoms. With a bit of luck he can even gather up another of his anti-Muslim inquisitions where he will prostitute himself out to the media and set more precedent for such kangaroo courts when it becomes policy to start hauling other Americans in front of them as well.



But I digress...



The very definition of "terrorist" has been deliberately rendered vague here in Der Homeland, prior to this week there has been an ongoing effort to begin to shift the threat of surveillance justifying 'terrorism' inward. I reference this very recent story about Michele Catalano, a Long Island woman whose home was stormed by government goons after unconstitutional spying on her household's internet activity found that she was looking up information on a pressure cooker. Her son was using the internet to research the Boston Marathon bombings and her husband was looking for a backpack. This is absolutely true and is yet more evidence of how out of control Obama's Stasi is. I excerpt the following from the story via The Guardian:

I felt a sense of creeping dread take over. What else had I looked up? What kind of searches did I do that alone seemed innocent enough but put together could make someone suspicious? Were they judging me because my house was a mess (Oh my god, the joint terrorism task force was in my house and there were dirty dishes in my sink!). Mostly I felt a great sense of anxiety. This is where we are at. Where you have no expectation of privacy. Where trying to learn how to cook some lentils could possibly land you on a watch list. Where you have to watch every little thing you do because someone else is watching every little thing you do. All I know is if I'm going to buy a pressure cooker in the near future, I'm not doing it online.
I'm scared. And not of the right things.

I myself must wonder whether a paramilitary goon squad is going to visit me now that I have done queries on pressure cookers, terrorism and other red-flag terms while writing this today, in this sorry husk of what used to be a free country anything is possible anymore. With the bar now lowered so as to turn even such normal behavior as the Catalano family doing web searches for household cooking items into suspected 'terrorist' activity what can't be considered as such? The entire system is being tweaked so as to allow for the future roundup of Americans whose data will be stored in that massive NSA facility in Utah.


We already know that there exists the capability to do three-hop queries and that there are indeed plans in place to abduct and detain American citizens. This will likely happen when the big collapse comes, the economic collapse that has been so deftly covered up and put off by Obama's financial alchemists and state media propagandists and is a ticking time bomb that could detonate at any time It is simply unsustainable and when it blows it is going to be a society killer.



It could be two days, two months or two years but the day to pay the piper is coming and it won't be the culprits who will have to shell out their pound of flesh.

[Magda Hassan]

Good old trusty Al Qaida come to the rescue once again. How obliging they are. I thought they voted Republican but I suppose there is not much difference between the parties these days. If AQ didn't already exist it would have to be invented.....Oh, my bad, silly me, it was. And if it were not for the benevolent NSA listening in on every ones communications to keep us safe from the 'terrorists' this deadly threat might actually have been carried out. Except the NSA had no role in it.

Al-Zawahiri is back from the dead, issuing new 'al-Qaeda' terror threats

August 6, 2013 by legitgov

ShareThisCLG: Al-Zawahiri is back from the dead, issuing new 'al-Qaeda' terror threats --You just can't keep a good terrorist down (or dead) for long, when the NSA's public relations department is in serious trouble! By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 06 Aug 2013 Five (or seven) years after his death, the ever-useful Ayman al-Zawahiri is baack, issuing new 'al-Qaeda' terror alerts! These new round of terror alerts issued by the Obama administration will provide cover for the next big, fat false flag which, in turn, will provide cover for the illegal surveillance activities of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and -- as we just learned -- the DEA. Here is the CLG compilation of many of the 're-killings' of this useful al-CIAduh operative, back from the media grave. The original item is titled, Al-Zawahiri is back from the dead again, giving interviews! By Lori Price 28 Nov 2008. It is reposted, below.
[size=12]Al-Zawahiri is back from the dead again, giving interviews!By Lori Price 28 Nov 2008[/SIZE]
Zawahiri blames global financial crisis on 9/11 in latest al-Qaeda video 28 Nov 2008 Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has said in a new internet video that the international financial crisis is the result of a US war on Muslims and the Sept 11 attacks. Zawahiri also claimed the recent security gains made by US forces in Iraq were only temporary and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's offers to negotiate with Taliban elements were a sign of his regime's weakness.
Qaeda's Zawahri says U.S. wars behind financial crisis 28 Nov 2008 Al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an Internet video the U.S. financial crisis was caused by Washington's military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and taxpayers were paying the price. "This crisis is one of ... the series of American economic hemorrhages after the strikes of September 11... And these ... will continue as long as the foolish American policy of wading in Muslim blood continues," Ayman al-Zawahri said on the video, posted on Islamist websites on Friday.
[size=12]Re-killed Ayman al-Zawahiri is back in 'audio message,' taunting Obama[/SIZE][size=12] By Lori Price 19 Nov 2008[/SIZE][size=12] [/SIZE]
The elusive, whack-a-mole al-Qaeda #2 is back again (from the dead)! Ayman al-Zawahiri criticized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in an 'audio message' posted on the Internet, calling him dishonorable and a servant of whites, the Associated Press reported. The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] has called on Muslims to harm "criminal" America. You just can't keep a good terrorist down (or dead) for long, especially when Bush needs a terror attack/martial law before January 20.
Al-Qaeda Second-in-Command Criticizes Obama in Message, AP Says 19 Nov 2008 Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, criticized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in an audio message posted on the Internet, calling him dishonorable and a servant of whites, the Associated Press reported. Al-Zawahiri said Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" such as Malcolm X, AP said. He also uses a derogatory racial term to imply Obama is a black American who does the bidding of whites, AP says. The recording, if its authenticity is confirmed, will be the first comment issued by al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] on the Democratic Party's election victory.
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet 19 Nov 2008 Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect -- along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice -- "house negroes." Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech [LOL!] that included the translation as "house negroes."
Al-Qaeda message condemns Obama 19 Nov 2008 The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] has called on Muslims to harm "criminal" America. In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy accused US President-elect Barack Obama of betraying his Muslim roots. He likened him to a "house slave" - who had chosen to align himself with the "enemies" of Islam.
[size=12]Injured, re-killed Ayman al-Zawahri is back![/SIZE] [size=12]By Lori Price 29 Sep 2008[/SIZE]
The elusive, whack-a-mole al-Qaeda #2 is 'visiting' a main operating base for al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. You just can't keep a good terrorist down (or dead) for long, especially during the run-up to a US 'election!'
[B]Taliban show no let up despite 8,000 soldiers in FATA[/B] 28 Sep 2008 Taliban hostilities show no sign of abating despite the deployment of 8,000 troops in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the army's claim of killing 1,000 Taliban, according to The Times. The newspaper said in a report on Saturday that a constant supply of fresh fighters from inside the country and across the border in Afghanistan is helping the Taliban to stay in the fight. Bajaur Agency is a main operating base for Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] and the Taliban. [B]Pakistani intelligence believes that Ayman al-Zawahri, the second-in-command of Al Qaeda, has been a visitor. [/B]

[size=12]Al-Qaeda No. 2 May be Injured, Possibly Re-killed[/SIZE]--But Still Cranking Out Videotapes By Lori Price 08 Sep 2008
Al-Qaeda No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, was 'killed,' then wounded, then re-killed--but through all of his deaths and injuries, he is still able to produce videotapes. Whenever the GOP hits a bump in the road -- say, for example, the imminent implosion of Caribou Barbie -- al-Zawahri is reborn and healed and a busy little bee!
Al-Qaida accuses Iran of co-operating with U.S. 08 Sep 2008 Al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a 90-minute video message Monday summarizing the state of jihad, or holy war, around the world and slamming Iran for collaborating with the United States. Short excerpts of the message were aired on the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera. In them, al-Qaida Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, accused Iran of working with U.S. forces. Al-Zawahri said Tehran was "co-operating with the Americans in occupying Iraq and Afghanistan" and slammed Iran for recognizing the two governments. He also criticized the Shiites for not calling for a jihad in Iraq against the "Crusader occupier." In militant postings, "crusaders" is shorthand for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Timeline-Messages attributed to al Qaeda's Zawahri 08 Sep 2008 'Al Qaeda' has issued a video marking the September 11 attacks, in which deputy group leader Ayman al-Zawahri accuses Iran of taking part in a Western "Crusader" war against Islam, Al Jazeera television said on Monday. At least 50 messages have been broadcast by 'Osama bin Laden,' Zawahri and their allies since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

[size=12]Al-Qaeda No. 2 May be Injured, Possibly Re-killed[size=12]By Lori Price 02 Aug 2008[/SIZE][/SIZE]

Dead, now wounded or re-killed!
[B][size=12]Four days after the CIA re-killed Abu Khabab al-Masri (aka Midhat Mursi) [/B][/SIZE]who 'died' in January 2006, CBS News 'exclusively reports' that al-Qaeda #2 (tons of those, btw) Ayman al-Zawahiri was injured and 'believed to be somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas' (so he can be re-killed during a 'bad news' week for the Bush administration). Al-Zawarhiri has a US$25 million reward on his head. ROFL! Someone is making more money on these bounties than Exxon Mobil makes in an hour!
Ayman al-Zawahiri Killed in Predator Strike? 02 Aug 2008 Al Qaeda number 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri was severely wounded in a US predator strike earlier this week, CBS is reporting. Ayman al-Zawahiri - the second most powerful leader in al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's No. 2 - may be critically wounded and possibly dead, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports exclusively... A counter-intelligence expert and other U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News that the U.S. is looking into reports that al-Zawahiri is dead.
CBS News reports:
Exclusive: Al Qaeda No. 2 Injured? Unverified Letter Obtained By CBS News Urgently Requests Doctor to Treat Ayman al-Zawahiri 01 Aug 2008 Ayman al-Zawahiri - the second most powerful leader in al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] and Osama Bin Laden's No. 2 - may be critically wounded and possibly dead, CBS News reports exclusively. CBS News has obtained a copy of an intercepted letter from sources in Pakistan, which urgently requests a doctor to treat al-Zawahiri. He's believed to be somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas. The letter refers to Sheikh Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri by name - and says that he is in "severe pain" and his "injuries are infected." It is reportedly written by local Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, whose signature and seal are visible on the letter. The Taliban logo and the Mehsud's seal have been confirmed by experts as legitimate. The letter is dated July 29 - one day after a U.S. air strike that [re-]killed al Qaeda weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Masri, and five other Arabs in South Waziristan.
Telegraph.co.uk reports:
Al-Qaeda number two al-Zawahiri reported injured by US missile --Al-Qa'eda's deputy leader has been wounded and may even have died after a US missile strike in a tribal area along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, according to a report. 02 Aug 2008 US broadcaster CBS said it had obtained an intercepted letter from a Pakistani Taliban commander requesting urgent medical help for Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man. Pakistan's military said it had no information about the report. Chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said: "There is no evidence or information in this regard. We have no reliable information." Al-Zawahiri has been mistakenly reported killed before in the remote and hostile area where he is believed to be hiding along with other surviving al-Qaeda leaders.
But, looky here!
Musharraf confirms 'al-Qaeda' hit 11 Feb 2006 Pakistan's president has confirmed that "a close relative" of al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US air strike in Pakistan last month. Pervez Musharraf also confirmed for the first time that Zawahiri had been expected to be at the house targeted by the US, a military spokesman says. President Musharraf added that another wanted militant was among five foreigners killed in the bombing. Eighteen local people died in the raid, sparking widespread anger. "Five foreigners were killed in the US attack," Gen Musharraf told tribal leaders in north-western Pakistan, the Associated Press news agency reports. "One of them was a close relative of Ayman al-Zawahri and the other man was wanted by the US and had a US$5 million (4.19 million euro) reward on his head." Shortly after the raid, unconfirmed intelligence reports said three high-ranking al-Qaeda members were among those killed in the raid on a village in the Bajaur Agency region on the border with Afghanistan. They named Egyptian bomb expert Midhat Mursi - information on whose whereabouts carries a $5m US bounty. Border village When news of the attack first emerged, there were reports that Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed. He has eluded capture since the US overthrew the Taleban in Afghanistan in 2001 - despite a $25m bounty on his head. Osama Bin Laden's second-in-command is regarded as the ideological brains behind the al-Qaeda network. The raid took place in the village of Damadola in the Bajaur tribal area, about 7km (4.5 miles) from the Afghan border.

[Dawn Meredith]

Glenn Greenwald postulates that it is to divert discussion from NSA debate.

I miss the color coding and how idiotic that was.

However, given the high volume of this "threat" I won't be surprised if they pull something.

Dawn

[Magda Hassan]

Some mysterious gunmen (Academi? AQ?) have killed some Yemeni intel guy
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gunmen-ki...cial-yemen

[Peter Lemkin]

Glenn Greenwald postulates that it is to divert discussion from NSA debate.

I miss the color coding and how idiotic that was.

However, given the high volume of this "threat" I won't be surprised if they pull something.

Dawn

I agree, they most likely will pull something to justify this Big Scare Talk and further divert Public attention from the NSA spying on them.....trying to make the NSA [and sister agencies] the 'white knights' saving us all from the bogey men.

Watch, Americans will soon be wearing 'I love the NSA' sweatshirts. :darthvader:

[Tracy Riddle]

Got to have an enemy, no matter who it is.

[Peter Lemkin]