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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Wed Jun 29, 2016, 10:16 AM Jun 2016

Your daily fear-mongering from the CIA

CIA director warns of Istanbul-type attack in U.S.
By NICK GASS 06/29/16 09:42 AM EDT

The terrorist attack at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Tuesday has the Islamic State's signature all over it, CIA Director John Brennan said in an interview published Wednesday, adding that the terrorist group is likely planning similar attacks in the United States.
“I am worried from the standpoint of an intelligence professional who looks at the capabilities of Daesh … and their determination to kill as many as people as possible and to carry out attacks abroad,” Brennan told Yahoo News, using the acronym for the Arabic name of ISIL.

Noting that the attackers in Istanbul wore suicide vests, Brennan said that the strategy to prevent further attacks is complicated by a "determined enemy" not concerned with getting away and the fact that making a suicide vest is "not that difficult."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/istanbul-islamic-state-attack-us-brennan-224930

America: Home of the afraid

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Your daily fear-mongering from the CIA (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2016 OP

I think it is more of a reality check. Much more. Don't have to be afraid, just more aware. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1

Realistically we have more to fear from right wing Abouttime Jun 2016 #6

How about "Both are a major problem"? FrodosPet Jun 2016 #8

Speaking as an old hippy, we called it 'a heightened sense of awareness not paranoia'. In_The_Wind Jun 2016 #2

I like your way of saying much better than mine. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #4

+1 FLPanhandle Jun 2016 #7

Heard in the tv today jehop61 Jun 2016 #3

Not Constantinople? Orrex Jun 2016 #5

No, you can't go back to Constantinople Glassunion Jun 2016 #10

There is nothing wrong with high vigilance n/t cosmicone Jun 2016 #9

What a hostile twist on equipping the public Hortensis Jun 2016 #11

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

1. I think it is more of a reality check. Much more. Don't have to be afraid, just more aware.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 10:18 AM

Jun 2016

Abouttime

(675 posts)

6. Realistically we have more to fear from right wing

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 11:02 AM

Jun 2016

Terrorists than so called 'islamic' terrorists.
Tea party trumpists and ammosexuals inspired by right wing hate speech are the true domestic threat.

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)

8. How about "Both are a major problem"?

Reply to Abouttime (Reply #6)

Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:22 AM

Jun 2016

Why is it bad to be cautious, not fearful, of any kind of terrorism, whether they are praising Jesus, Allah, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, or none of the above?

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

2. Speaking as an old hippy, we called it 'a heightened sense of awareness not paranoia'.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 10:33 AM

Jun 2016

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

4. I like your way of saying much better than mine.

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 10:42 AM

Jun 2016

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)

7. +1

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 11:05 AM

Jun 2016

It's not fear mongering when it's true.

jehop61

(1,735 posts)

3. Heard in the tv today

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 10:36 AM

Jun 2016

that the Istanbul airport is already open for business. That's the way to handle the terrorist idiots. Give them as little publicity as possible, don't shut down a city and carry on as usual. Will drive them bonkers when they don't get wall to wall coverage and disrupt a society.