US intelligence officials today expressed concern about the growing threat of al-Qaeda groups inside Syria using the nation as a “launching pad” for attacks on the United States and elsewhere.
The particular concern is Americans who have gone to Syria to join al-Qaeda or other jihadist factions. Officials say “at least 50” Americans are on the ground in Syria among those groups.
Americans with US passports are a particular problem because they could return to the US seemingly act like nothing is wrong, but have established contacts with al-Qaeda leaders through years of operations in Syria.
The 50 Americans are just part of the problem, as others have estimated as many as 1,800 Europeans with EU passports among the 7,500-plus foreign fighters inside Syria, a level of overseas recruitment al-Qaeda hasn’t seen in years.
I wonder just how many of those 1,800 "Europeans" are really Europeans. A bad immigration policy can be just as disastrous as a bad foreign policy.
Well, do you remember the saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” which translating it means, whoever said that didn’t think about today nor they did had the mind to think more then that moment when they said it.
Not to worry, Obama said " Al- Qaeda is on the decline."
So how did these 'AJs' get US passports in the first place ie. why were they here???
James Clapper – who already lied to Congress – is quoted: "Looking back over my more than half a century in intelligence, I have not experienced a time when we've been beset by more crises and threats around the globe.” So a dozen years of the "War on Terror" has produced more crises and threats than ever before, and in the bizarro logic of the national security state the solution is more "War on Terror."
The US created al-Qaeda (a database of mujaheddin fighting the Russians in Afghanistan), and is funding weapons for al-Qaeda in Syria, fought with and for al-Qaeda in Libya, and now uses al-Qaeda to justify NSA spying and other police state activities. Al-Qaeda is an all purpose fictional enemy used to perpetuate an endless conflict, much like "Emmanuel Goldstein" in George Orwell's 1984.
James Clapper – who already lied to Congress – is quoted: "Looking back over my more than half a century in intelligence, I have not experienced a time when we've been beset by more crises and threats around the globe.” So a dozen years of the "War on Terror" has produced more crises and threats than ever before, and in the bizarro logic of the national security state the solution is more "War on Terror."
The US created al-Qaeda (a database of mujaheddin fighting the Russians in Afghanistan), and is funding weapons for al-Qaeda in Syria, fought with and for al-Qaeda in Libya, and now uses al-Qaeda to justify NSA spying and other police state activities. Al-Qaeda is an all purpose enemy used to perpetuate an endless conflict, much like "Emmanuel Goldstein" in George Orwell's 1984.
James Clapper – who already lied to Congress – is quoted: "Looking back over my more than half a century in intelligence, I have not experienced a time when we've been beset by more crises and threats around the globe.” So a dozen years of the "War on Terror" has produced more crises and threats than ever before, and in the bizarro logic of the national security state the solution is more "War on Terror."
The US created al-Qaeda (a database of mujaheddin fighting the Russians in Afghanistan), and is funding weapons for al-Qaeda in Syria, fought with and for al-Qaeda in Libya, and now uses al-Qaeda to justify NSA spying and other police state activities. Al-Qaeda is an all purpose enemy used to perpetuate an endless conflict, much like "Emmanuel Goldstein" in George Orwell's 1984.
James Clapper – who already lied to Congress – is quoted: "Looking back over my more than half a century in intelligence, I have not experienced a time when we've been beset by more crises and threats around the globe.” So a dozen years of the "War on Terror" has produced more crises and threats than ever before, and in the bizarro logic of the national security state the solution is more "War on Terror."
The US created al-Qaeda (a database of mujaheddin fighting the Russians in Afghanistan), and is funding weapons for al-Qaeda in Syria, fought with and for al-Qaeda in Libya, and now uses al-Qaeda to justify NSA spying and other police state activities. Al-Qaeda is an all purpose enemy used to perpetuate an endless conflict, much like "Emmanuel Goldstein" in George Orwell's 1984.
As you reap, so shall you sow.
oops.
as you sow, thus shall you reap.
there goes my dramatic effect.
Oh gosh I never would have thought that this could happen!!! And surely neither did the Pentagon or State Dept!! What other choices do we have except to spy and further militarize der Homelands?
Internment camps?