The scrambling around a potential al-Qaeda plot that led to the closure of dozens of US embassies worldwide came from the use of certain “code words” in intercepted al-Qaeda communication, according to officials familiar with the situation.
The code words convinced US spies that the attack was likely imminent, but gave no information about where the attack was liable to actually take place, leading to the global travel warning from the State Department.
No major attack ever happened, but since officials never really knew what was going to be attacked its impossible to say if it was actually “foiled,” as claimed by the Yemeni government, or if the US assumptions were simply incorrect.
Either way, the intelligence, such as it was, appears to have been extremely limited, which would probably explain why the administration’s go-to reaction was a series of seemingly random drone strikes against Yemen that blew up a school, a medical clinic, and a lot of other civilian targets.
Code? You mean like "Wedding Party?" "Suspect?" "Military Aged Male?"
Anybody ever come up with the full list of euphemisms for US Terrorism?
The whole alert was bogus, as terrorists could blow up an embassy whether it's open or closed. The decision makers in government see themselves as so important, that they are very jumpy about making a wrong decision, and so operate "with an abundance of caution", an over-abundance if you ask me.
Where, oh where, is the list of code words?
It's a secret list…just like the list of people on the no-fly list.
Exposing 'the enemy's' codes only aids us.
Who is the "enemy" today – and who is "us?"
The attacking, invading, occuping and droning is not for us but for empire that is coagulating over the globe like a giant jelly fish.
Just as the US aggression machines strike out of the blue, so will any "malcontents" and revenge seekers. Does the US actually think that war victims are going to go away quietly, and "forget about it" ?
So, those people still play US spooks like babies. What a country the US has become, paranoid, vindictive and many more adjectives. Dies that mirror a certain shi**y country in the Middle East?