According to an internet posting today, al-Qaeda claimed credit for last week’s Khost Province bombing against a CIA base, saying the attack was revenge for drone attacks in Pakistan.
The attack was carried out by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian spy who had been assigned to infiltrate al-Qaeda and determine the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahri,
Balawi’s case is a complicated one. A Jordanian doctor who was arrested as an al-Qaeda sympathizer, Jordan’s General Intelligence Directorate (GID) recruited him as a “double agent” against al-Qaeda. Yet it turns out Balawi was a triple agent, pretending to be a Jordanian agent pretending to work for al-Qaeda while he secretly actually did work for al-Qaeda after all.
Balawi told the CIA he had “urgent” information for them, and was allowed onto the Khost base unsearched, where he detonated an explosive vest, killing seven CIA agents and a Jordanian spy.
Al-Qaeda is not the first group to claim credit for the bombing, however. Both the Afghan Taliban and the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the strike initially, and officials also pointed the finger at North Waziristan’s Haqqani family.
Well, of course. These drone attacks are killing many innocent people and targeted assasinations will lead to targeted assasinations on their part. The drone attacks are creating many more terrorists and are counterproductive. Some day, they wii probably acquire drones and then what?
I totally agree with you.
I oly hope for the sake of justice that the öne day"will be soon.
LOL…. I doubt it…more than likely our own drones will be circling our cities…waging the "war on drugs" or "looking for tax protestors". The US citizenry will understand a little collateral damage. After all we are at war!
You are right. Millions unemployed, millions thrown out of their homes, millions on food stamps and the economy is still in freefall. The value of the dollar is plummeting due to the trillions upon trillions of dollars of debt that the federal government has run up. The endless wars are driving the federal government and the American people to bankruptcy. Just wait until the unemployment checks, the welfare checks and the social security checks become worthless due to hyperinflation. There will be blood in the streets all over the USA. Osama Bin Laden's strategy has worked perfectly.
I have always had the feeling that they were training up for the "big one" right here in the good old US of A.
"Cordon and Search" is the the main menu in every place we occupy. They cordon off a section of a town or village with checkpoints and armor and then start kicking in doors or blowing them of the hinges of every residence in the cordoned off area, terrorizing the civillian populace.
You've seen the pictures of the women and little kids face down on the floor of their living room with their hands nylon tied behind their backs and A4s pointed at their heads haven't you?.
The males are then taken outside for interrogation and many time they don't come back alive. The rest of the search force
ransacks their houses in search of weapons or other contraband and many times anything of value thay can steal..
It would not be too much of a stretch for the military/law enforcement partnership, to do the same here. In fact the cops do the very same things here thousands of times every week, serving warrants or answering domestic disturbance complaints. And many times, the people in those homes do not come back alive.
It is not too much further a stretch of the imagination that in the case of domestic "Cordon and Search" operations, calling in an air strike with a helicopter or other aircraft to neutralize any resistance to their search or arrest operations would be acceptable .
The military has certainly had enough practice on the the job and they have been training the civilian cops in the techniques they learned from the Israelis that they have been using on the Palestinians.
The Founding Fathers warned against a large standing army in time of peace that can be nothing more than a threat to our liberties at home and can only be "used in projects of ambition." elsewhere. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and now Yemen can only be called "Projects of Ambition" by anyone with some historical perspective and some common sense.
Gee, these guys were pretty smart when they started the United States. What has happened to our leaders after that.?
Paybacks are hell.
But necessary. What woud life be without a little "tit for tat"?
Precisely.
They've already hacked the drones to view from the cameras because of retarded technicians not giving them enough credit and leaving things wide open. I imagine that doesn't make it impossible for those drones to one day get hacked and taken over. We will definitely fall victim to our own hubris, which is way overbloated right now.
And anti-war PLEASE stop giving rise to this whole AL-CIA-DUH nonsense they are a shell group that doesn't exist, and you are playing right into SITE's hand (yeh im really going to believe that all these al cia duh messages are going to be relayed by a jew, Rita Katz) And what about the two "spokesmen" that turned out to be jews as well. (Adam Gadahn = Adam Pearlman) and i dont remember the other one.
Either way this is OBVIOUS- you kill innocent people, its going to create new ACTUAL terrorists making us even less safe than before. You want to kill terrorism? Stop being a terrorist and indiscriminately bombing innocent people in hope of killing one or two militants (with locations probably based on the same 'intelligence' that tells us there is an iran nuclear trigger or about yellowcake from niger)
if the insurgents stop hiding behindchildren and woman and be real men then the people will not get hurt the insurgents are nothing but cowards who else but muslims blow themselves up these people are animals and deserve there virgens and you people that are from the usa writing this crap should leave my country you none americans rag head lovers
Man you people are so effing predictable its pathetic. "if you dont like us killing lots of towelheads thaan you are unpatriotic and you love terrorists!" No i just know that we create all of our terrorists by killing as many people as possible in as many countries as israel pleases. And i know that we pull false flags left and right to take our rights away while mouthbreathers like yourself cheer them on as they put the jackboot harder on your face. You know this crotch bomber? Yeh all those DNA destroying full body scanners they are ordering because of him? They had them ordered already! This was just so we BEG for them X-ray us and our loved ones seeing us fully naked so they can oggle our sisters and daughters, i guess you are okay with that though because you love our country! and and TERRORISTS!!! OOOO BOOGA BOOGA. You are either a planted shill or flat out brain dead retarded. You wanna see people hiding behind women and children? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7960824.stm i bet your thats your favorite country too. (not america like you pretend)
Man you people are so effing predictable its pathetic. "if you dont like us killing lots of towelheads thaan you are unpatriotic and you love terrorists!" No i just know that we create all of our terrorists by killing as many people as possible in as many countries as israel pleases. And i know that we pull false flags left and right to take our rights away while mouthbreathers like yourself cheer them on as they put the jackboot harder on your face. You know this crotch bomber? Yeh all those DNA destroying full body scanners they are ordering because of him? They had them ordered already! This was just so we BEG for them X-ray us and our loved ones seeing us fully naked so they can oggle our sisters and daughters, i guess you are okay with that though because you love our country! and and TERRORISTS!!! OOOO BOOGA BOOGA. You are either a planted shill or flat out brain dead retarded. You wanna see people hiding behind women and children? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7960824.stm i bet your thats your favorite country too. (not america like you pretend)
idid and i loved it ass hole
wow someone that practices as they preach, well make sure to send your kids too, hopefully we can stop stupid people from reproducing if all of them die in wars for israel.
you non american rag head lover get the hell out of my usa
so what was the highest grade you reached before you dropped out for a life of zionist servitude? sorry i should keep my words more monosyllabic so you can understand them (and not monosyllabic describes words, its not a muslim terrorist like you probably think)
go too the war zone do something for your country you think they care about your bullshit they would string your ass up on a bridge soo fast go suck their ass fool they love people like you do gooders
al qaeda = the boogy man
Antiwar keeps pushing the boogy man propaganda, tell me why is that?