Several days of extremely non-specific warnings about a terrorist plot that might be imminent somewhere on the planet and potentially with some ties to the Arabian Peninsula have yet to amount to any real details.
A handful of Congressmen, all advocates of the surveillance state, claim to have seen some of the intelligence. As supporters of clandestine government operations, however, they have shared nothing and only seemingly brought it up to brag about being in the loop.
That’s led analysts to a lot of wild guessing about what the plot might conceivably be. CBS analyst Juan Zarate, a former Bush-era official, came up with two distinct guesses, either or both of which might be in play.
Zarate first likened the plot to the 2010 European terrorist attacks, and if readers don’t recall those major attacks it’s because they never actually happened. The attacks were announced after the fact as “foiled,” and administration officials tried to claim the foiling was something to do with drone strikes.
Beyond that Zarate proposed an entirely distinct plot coming out of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)’s bombmaker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who was previously reported killed during the assassination of US citizen Anwar Awlaki. It was apparently untrue, and Asiri was only brought up to make Awlaki’s killing seem vaguely terror-related. Asiri next made the news when officials claimed to have discovered documents showing he was working on surgically implanting bombs in attackers.
Asiri was the presumptive inventor of the 2009 Christmas underwear bomb plot, during which a Nigerian with a bomb sewn into his underwear badly burned his own genitals but otherwise did little-to-no damage. Despite his one high profile real plot not working and the other speculative plots never happening, Zarate speculates Asiri might be involved because he’s believed to be a real whiz with bombs.
And even if this “huge, imminent” plot doesn’t amount to a hill of beans either, FDD analyst Thomas Joscelyn is convinced it will remain a threat forever, because “al-Qaeda doesn’t give up on plans” even if it has to temporarily scrap them.
CNN also chimed in on the matter of the plot, claiming to have known everything that has gone public days ago but to have agreed to keep it secret until now. Interestingly, what has gone public between now and then is virtually nothing of substance.
So to summarize what we think we might know, there may or may not be an imminent attack coming somewhere on the planet of Earth, and if there isn’t one, then that just proves that there’s going to be one some time in the future in the same entirely unknown corner of the globe involving the same, likewise entirely unknown tactics.
Oh, no! Don't tell me AQAP have added a laser sight to the the three hundred and forty four millimeter Lepage glue gun.
I thought that the Obama administration was going to stop the fear mongering associated with Bush.
Chicken Little stays home, and watches old movies. He says Obama and gang are so full of hot air that they can fly.
Was in the market for a pressure cooker, can’t Google the brand without the FBI come knocking on my door.I wonder if I just go ahead and Google the darn thing I will be included in the ‘lmminent’ terror plot”?
Jason could have been much more brief: I call bullshit!
Communist are coming, they are going to bomb America with atomic bombs, so for usa not to be bombed by them they bombed Japan. koreans are bad we need to kill them, Vietnamese are coming we need to kill them too, Chinese are bad we need to kill them all and take over their investments everywhere, Iraqis are bad we need to kill them too, iranians are very bad they dress differently so we need to start a war with them, socialism is bad, so is the functioning democracy we need to kill them too, A-Queada is coming we need to help them to over throw the Syrian government first then we kill them all.., sorry I forget Afghanistan. Libya is bad we too need change the government there hand in hand with french, swedish, italian and English mafia, Egypt needs to change to a total Islamic governing system so we Chang it, but wait we need to think about the changes made by military taking over in Egypt so lets send in McCain and that other guy to "solve" the problem, but wait the same problem is rising in Turkey and elsewhere, what are we going to do know, asks WH.., have question, answers the voice..! ask NSA not only they have answer/s but they will deliver it to your door for free..,
Rebublican senator Saxby Chambliss said the NSA had identified threats that were the most serious for years and akin to levels of "terrorist chatter" picked up before 9/11. If this "chatter" was known before 9/11 why didn't anyone do anything?
On the plus side for the NSA, full marks for the fast translations from Arabic, especially the difficult Yemeni dialect. I hope the NSA treats their translators better than the military did theirs after the Iraq war.
False flag attacks like 9/11 are always preceded by "chatter" with the "chatter" being done by the false flaggers themselves for the purpose of making the attack appear legitimate. As to the current "chatter" you can bet it is coming for the same source
Tom Ridge admitted that all of the color-coded terrorist threat indicators during the Bush administration were politically motivated and never reflected any actual threat. No reason to think anything has changed.
This type of nonsense would not be happening if the country was secure and confident. It is obviously not, and the leadership is astoundingly mediocre.
Wow terrorist have gotten much more powerful because of the war on terror and the weapons we have been shipping to Syria and through our friends in Bengazi. Now they can attack several embassies on short notice in several countries at the same time. No wonder the neocons are so happy.
I have absolutely no doubt that there will be a terror attack but it won't be perpetrated by Al-Qaeda but by the Republican/Democratic organized crime syndicate and their security state buddies in the private and government sector. This will allow the syndicate to come back and say, "see… we need access to all of your information in real time at all times."
Of course now that secrecy is number one on the list it may be the terra attack will be so secret that we will never hear about it or a world-wide gag order will be issued to all except those in favor of keeping everything under the hat and who know the secret handshake.
another drone excuse
Another false flag is coming….911 was just the beginning of what will be a series of attacks meant to perpetuate martial law, and thieve all American citizen defenses. The greatest danger to Americans is the government itself. Al Queda is a mere fabricated distraction.
If the government says it, it's a LIE.