Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad is in a state of “red alert” today, and the US State Department has extended the closures of 15 embassies across the Middle East and Northern Africa through the end of the week.
The moves are the latest fallout from a warning last week about a possible terrorist threat somewhere on the planet, which initially prompted single day embassy closures and a global travel warning through the end of the month.
Though exactly what this threat might be remains apparently nebulous to officials, and is completely undefined by what little they’ve told the public, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R – GA) said it amounted to “an awful lot of chatter” of the type seen before 9/11.
The White House reported another high level meeting on the threat last night, but they too offered little in the way of detail, with officials saying only that it involved a “potential threat” either in or from the Arabian Peninsula.
The complete lack of concrete details has many speculating that this is just one of those random “focus on terrorism” warnings that the administration randomly comes up with to distract from other stories, in this case the NSA. Rep. Peter King (R – NY) expressed outrage at that idea, insisting he had totally seen the secret intelligence and was convinced it’s real.
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Peter King's constituents should club together and buy him a stuffed tiger.
Run and hide under the covers. The Boogie man is coming. Another false flag to justify the NSA.
I thought that our gubmint said Al Qaeda was as good as a flat tire. Impotent, hamstrung, in the margin, flaccid, etc. Duck and cover…..kiddies…
Mixed messages. The article in the Washington Post told how al-Quaeda had been seriously weakened by drone strikes, etc., but a couple of paragraphs later it said that they are stronger than ever. That doesn't make much sense, but what does sense have to do with any of this? Anyway, I thought all these wars and interventions were supposed to make us safer. Safer for the national security industry, I guess. They know a good thing when they see it.
How come the Swiss don't have to shut down their embassies? Might it have something to do with foreign policy? Hmm…
Power, to these clowns, is an aphrodisiac. “We know something that you don’t, and we’re not gonna tell you what it is, so ha ha ha.”
Ok children…time to come in from recess!
Chatter. Such a ridiculous word for what it is supposed to represent in this context. The NSA wants boobus americanus to think that it is aggregating SIGINT somewhere along the lines of "we know by the increase in radio traffic at Yokosuka that the Japanese fleet has sortied and is en route to carry out a devastating attack on an unknown target." In reality, it is actually generating its own "chatter" to justify the regimist agitprop when the FBI carries out another "we caught it just in the nick of time" provocation.
America is a ghost of it's self. 12 years of fighting al-Qaeda and this superpower is still at square one, same people still run the security apparatus after this monumental failure. What gives and why those koolaid drinkers don't ask questions and object? It is a bad time to be an American.
Reaping the rewards of intervention and the criminal enterprise of Iraq and Iran.
Oooga booga! The Imams are comin' to get you. Buy more guns, more tanks ans airplanes.Kill brown people and fatten the corporate masters. It's good old fashioned war coming to a street near you.
The fact that they announced the closings is proof that it's bogus. If the threat were real they would just not be open on Sunday, no announcement, nothing.
Perhaps those that released this info should be charged with "aiding the enemy". Unlike Bradley Manning, these folks actually released operational info as to what the was GOING TO BE DONE, not some embarrassing info after the fact. Or, Manning should be freed, because obviously al-Qaeda apparently doesn't listen to television or radio, let alone surf the internet.
Oooooo – IRA Pete has seen the "evidence" and is convinced it's real (of course)… Well, that should seal the deal 'cause everyone knows Pete knows his "evidence" when it's laid out in secret for him to see and we all know he would never lie to us. But we can't tell you what it is because then the bad guys would know what the "good" guys know – or maybe you just wouldn't believe it because there isn't any "there" there.
So let me get this straight, the terrorists only have a limited time to do whatever horrible damage they are planning on, they can't wait until everything reopens? Maybe we should just keep the embassies closed forever, seems like a much better plan, and while we're at it we can also shutter all our military bases. Case closed.
Fear mongering and dividing and conquering go hand in hand. Our government minders are actively trying to divide Americans, through their media mouthpieces, on every issue so that they can continue with their greedy global agendas without so much as a peep from the sheep. Can anyone take the government seriously anymore? When do we come to the point as a whole and say – we won't pay our taxes to a government that lies to us and spies on us at every turn.
These terror alerts are just a smoke screen to both turn attention away from domestic decay, and justify surreptitious surveillance of ordinary citizens……. never any details, names, locations, arrests, countermeasures, etc. Just a vague "lookout, there;s a boogey man lurking out there"……. nonsense
After investing the American people tax dollars in spy agencies across the globe they cant pinpoint where the next terrorist attack is going to take place. Just another cry of wolf.