As speculation continues to fly about the “imminent” threat of a terror attack, apparently centering on al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ordering an attack by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the US is preparing to strike first.
Having closed embassies across the region and issued a global travel warning over a very specifically timed, but very non-specific plot, US Special Forces are said to be on high alert across AFRICOM and CENTCOM with an eye toward preemptive strikes on any targets they believed to be involved.
That the deployments span two distinct military commands covering the bulk of two continents reflects how little is known about the target, a fact underscored by White House statements saying that while they think the plot “emanates” from the Middle East it may extend well beyond that.
Which is a potentially huge problem about “preemptive” strikes, as they seem as likely as not to hit targets with little to no relation to the current plot, and with speculation that the would-be attackers are already deployed to wherever the target is, they may not actually preempt anything.
The lack of specificity coupled with the apparent scramble to prove that they’re doing “something” about it may even encourage the US to hit some potential targets in both theaters of operation just to prove they made an effort, even if those targets aren’t related to the current plot. But absent details, such strikes may create even more problems in the long run, and rather than preemptive really amount to instigatory strikes for other incidents to come.
Imminently convenient no doubt.
Finally the us special forces are going to be engaged with Saudis barbarians, the Wahhabis and Salafis, whom did you otherwise think that these Al-Queadaians are from…, from planet barbarians?
Kill a few Arabs…show that yer doin' somethin…
Why does the White house have to bother with us ordinary folk about such things? There has to be a purpose for the hype in it itself.
That headline is hilarious, As if there is an Al Qeada Central someplace to bomb! Any rag-tag group of disaffected Third Worlders anywhere on the planet may call themselves Al Qeada or Shirley Temple or anything else they might choose and plot dastardly deeds against the US. They may be angry over the US derivatives financial bomb, the drug war pay offs, the support Israel bombs or the support of all the oil kingdom tyrants. Or perhaps Africans may see a new American colonialism being installed. The thing is our flapdoodle foreign policies have pissed off nearly everyone in the world. The evil doers may come from any direction and for a multitude or reasons or for no rational reason at all.
We will go bankrupt reacting to every possible terrorist on the globe. On the other hand all our enemy have to do is chatter over the air waves or on the Internet and watch us spend a few billions dollars swatting at phantoms while they laugh their arses off.
Come off it Jason. There is no threat and you know it.
They're not incompetent. They're evil.
US special forces, or maybe farces. All the swagger and bullshit and movies but Al-Qaeda still scares thew shit out of all Americans. But don't worry, your brave soldiers will kill a few women and children and maybe an occasional innocent teenager and everybody will feel good.
I figured to hear something like this out of the Obama puppet masters. Good way to tell the world that thanks to (our) spying on everyone, (we) uncovered a (terrorist) plot. Obama will kill a few (Arabs) with
illegal drone strikes to make everyone feel (safe). This so-called terror plot is nothing but subterfuge.
In my opinion.
They are f insane–ALL OF CONGRESS–OUR MILITARY AND THE PSYCOPATH ZIONISTS PUSHING THEM.
USA is actually Al Qaeda. Don't believe all lies they are telling you every day. The closure of
embassies is a sign that they are COOKING something to frame others, like what they did in most of the terrors in the world including 9/11, Spain bombing, London bombing, Boston bombing and more. Don't believe them for a second and expose these terrorists every single day. This is an attack on humanity.
Here we go again…now watch the press blindly cheer-lead.
The term "enemy" depends upon where one is situated, and what is being done when, where, and to whom. It can be an ugly picture as we all know by now. The US warmongers still insist that their hats are the white ones, and that they are the good guys.
Glad I won't be attending a wedding in Afghanistan or the Yemen in the next few weeks.
The operation sounds to me like preparation for a collection of regional uprisings as result of some ill conceived larger scale attack-plan from the US military including some degree of Afghanistan style occupation. Yemen seems the "logical" choice: poor, needy and enough militants enough to "score" and justify the global repressive network called "War on Terror" to last well into the future without any pause to think and consider. Ever!
this is news?????
'Mericans love preemptive strikes. And we're not hypocrites. We think they're great for everybody, not just us and our puppets. That's why December 7th is a day of celebration in this country, in commemoration of the great preemptive strike by Japan against Pearl Harbor.