Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe

Source: ABC News

Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.

A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions.

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U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of "an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign."



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/exclusive_suici.html

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BTW article states that ABC News Consultant Richard Clarke does take this seriously. Personally I've always wondered why this hasn't happened yet, IMHO it would be a way to put some in the U.S. in a panic. My biggest fear would be about how the Bush, Cheney, Gonzo and the neocons would use this to further their talking points and agenda.

:crazy: Wake me when it's over!

talking.

Were the proud parents there with their camcorders? Cute programs with little ads from the local AK47 dealers? Speeches from the new grads?

Good grief, Americans can't really be this stupid, can we?

i also heard they have intramurals, an ultimate frisbee league, greek frats houses, tailgates, a basketball team AND a lacrosse team (i better not go there :hide: )

It also would open up a whole new al Qaeda can of worms.

This shoots that right out of the water.

:sarcasm:

They'll be whisked through customs without a question.

They probably tired of waiting for them over there and intend to wait on'em over here.

because didn't cheney tell us that if we voted republican, they would fight them over there instead of over here. And we all know you can trust cheney.

That's the question.

Notice that the intelligence officials do not say.

You republicon war-profiteering liars are responsible for this with your ugly, evil war-profits crusade

republicon chickenhawks have made America LESS safe, and fat cat oil cronies richer

That means it's not true, but has been presented as convincing truth,

Uh huh...

:eyes:

Do they invite their parents to that? Is that something you send out announcements for?

Do they award honorary PhDs?

Seriously, sometimes I wonder how the fear mongers explain the restraint thus far of the murderous hordes set against us. It's not like bush hasn't sent out a great big ol' neon invitation for another attack. In fact, it would be answered prayer to state GOP chairs everywhere. And, depending on the target, would delight Coulter and Bill O no end.

I had hoped that a Democratic Congress might signal hope abroad for change, as well as increasing sensible security measures. Pelosi's trip was swell but now I'm afraid that all horrible headlines about how dems caved to bush on war funding was the louder message.

America soon just like 911

if they go to jail they will try to destroy America before they go

They will FAIL

They may blow up something but we will prevail
and they will go to jail still

there is no way his underlings can take over this country

who will follow NOT US

You watch First Responders will look out for themselves after seeing the Bush regimes methods in 911 and katrina

The jig is up BUSH you failed

This from the Telegraph:

He's a young man, sweating profusely, looking around furtively, carrying a rucksack or wearing bulky clothing. He might be from an ethnic minority - but not necessarily. This, according to security specialists, is the most likely profile of a suicide bomber.

Experts contacted by The Sunday Telegraph say that a potential bomber may lick his lips, appear nervous and have shaved all his body. He may be wearing clothing inappropriate for the weather and be thrusting his hands into his pockets. If he is carrying a bag, he may be checking it. He may also wear a baseball cap or other headwear that would obscure his face from closed circuit television.



These descriptions were given in response to questions about how the public should recognise a suicide bomber while travelling on public transport. But while officials and experts agreed on basic details on the appearance of suicide bombers, most disagreed on how to respond if the public found one. "Speak up and advise fellow passengers," the British Transport Police advised. "If you see someone doing something very dramatic, the train is moving and you can't consult staff, then tell your fellow passengers, speak up."

However, Will Geddes, the managing director of the International Corporate Protection Group, which provides security advice, said: "Do not, in any circumstances, speak out. Your actions have to be responsible. If you shout, 'It's a bomb', you will panic him into setting it off."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/24/nterr24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/24/ixnewstop.html

of the "International Corporate Protection Group"!!! -- wait until I get off the bus and then tell "British Transport Police"!!! about the sweaty looking guy in a ball cap checking his bag.

...it does seem fin-de-sicile-ish

The Country will rally behind the bushie if the suicide bombers attack

Him being so, um, responsible and all.

Welcome to DU.

The majority of sheeple would gladly exchange their civil liberties in order to feel "safe".

It will be proof that Bush is as inept at his "War on Terror" as he is with everything else. We won't rally to him. But we will call for his head on a pike.

based on everything that has been coming out recently. Atypical of the RNC high steppers!

Because if the number is less than 3,000, we ain't gonna be impressed. This is America, where you're only as good as your last hit.

your...biggest fear :rofl:

This story is leaking bullshit all over the place. Must be using that new over the counter diet drug.

But I can't be confident that it isn't an AMERICAN "aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign!"

:headbang:
rocknation

:kick:

Source: ABC News

"Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.

A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/exclusive_suici.html

I have a strong gut feeling that we are in for an attack on the west sometime in the near future.
I really hope I'm wrong here, but emotions are running very high right now everywhere, particularly in the ME. And with that Rushdi honor having been given out just recently in the UK, I think trouble might be brewing big time.

I would think that foreign embassies are on even more of a high alert than ususal right now. Maybe this is all just media propaganda, but you ever know.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/exclusive_suici.html

do you think they walk with mortar and all?

They don't use the fulll mortar. Just the shell.

Well, no worries. They did invite the "Pakistani journalist" to "take pictures," so they can save the expense of buying the graduating class yearbook.

fightin' them over there in eye-rak.:sarcasm:

that there is a slight possibility that a bomb will go off somewhere in the country and kill/maim/injure less than 100 people.

Will anyone tell the people that 10-20 of these go off per day in Iraq?

No, they will encourage them to cower in their homes and buy a gun to protect their stashes of tuna, powdered milk and duct tape.

Anyone think this sounds like another event meant for domestic consumption? No intel to hit this ceremony? Will they be coming on a charter or will they be flying coach? Sorry, there may well be bombings in our future, but I won't bite on this.

Guess they ought to change the terrorism meter to panic red?

BTW, while we get jerked around with this "news"....Bush sides with chemical industry in not securing chemical plants. How's that war on terrorism going for you? Anyone know where I can buy a deck of Al Qaeda playing cards?

BTW article states that ABC News Consultant Richard Clarke does take this seriously. Personally I've always wondered why this hasn't happened yet, IMHO it would be a way to put some in the U.S. in a panic. My biggest fear would be about how the Bush, Cheney, Gonzo and the neocons would use this to further their talking points and agenda.

Breathlessly you add:

I have a strong gut feeling that we are in for an attack on the west sometime in the near future.
I really hope I'm wrong here, but emotions are running very high right now everywhere, particularly in the ME. And with that Rushdi honor having been given out just recently in the UK, I think trouble might be brewing big time.

I would think that foreign embassies are on even more of a high alert than ususal right now. Maybe this is all just media propaganda, but you ever know.

Makes it a dupe in more ways than one...

I am wet with fear...Hezbully Hamasistan Iranian-obsessed kill-crazy AQ fanatics out to get us in our sleep!

about OBL and AQ than you do! And who the hell said we were afraid? But I'm also a realist who knows there will be attacks here or on a US target someday. I'm not personally afraid cause I figure I have a greater chance of dying by disease or old-age than of terrorism.

But he was wrong about Al-Shifa plant and how he believed that AQ and Hussein were making VX gas there...in fact Dickie Clark has been telling folks that America is going to be attacked since the Reagan era...

He's a broken record and no I don't believe his grasp on intel is any more honest than Powell, Tenet, Berger, O'Neill or the rest especially when the kool-aid drinker was stating horseshit like:
"Iran is the No. 1 world sponsor of terrorism" or his belief that AQ and Iran are working together. Only in the deluded diseased minds of US Christo-Fascists who have killed nearly a million people in illegal genocidal war for oil and control could those two be placed in the same narrative

He's a neo-con hack who fooled some Ds because he OMG! criticized the Bush Administration in a ass-covering gesture where he just as easily 'sexed-up' the lunacy of US intel as much as Rummy.

In other words, he's an idiot and propagandist.

Heck some health insurance CEO can kill more 'mericans in a couple of minutes than all the Arab graduates ever gradgiated.

I guess they never heard of Hiroshima or Fahlusia.

Our team always scores the most points. Haven't they figured that out yet?

America #1!!!!!!

Their hardest job is going to be just making it into the target country and obtaining the explosives.

All the training camps in the world aren't going to help with that.

the explosives I don't know!!!

oh wait...

Graduating from suicide bomber classes? omg that is funny.

The question is not when will it happen, but why has it not happened already? You can't stop people from doing things, but you can work on figuring out the motivation and dealing with that.

Maybe I should buy a gun and shoot all boys as young as 12? :sarcasm:

Timothy McVeigh was a big one, but we haven't had bombings like many many places in the world. Visiting France I notice public waste receptacles are clear plastic bags because they had a problem with people blowing up garbage cans. We have had it pretty easy here as far as people blowing each other up, for quite a while.

ACLU offices, Greenpeace, Democratic conventions.

San Francisco.

Just a wild guess.

Bill Gertz passes along some scary news; an intelligence report that a group of Chechen terrorists entered the US through the Arizona-Mexico border: Chechen terrorists probed.

U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.

The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports.

Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/index.php?entry=13133_Report-_Chechen_Terrorists_Entered_US_in_July&only

yawn

Why do Chechens have it in for us? Has BushCo been meddling again?

:sarcasm:

The threat level will be raised to orange, I presume. More sarcasm.

at the 10 year reunion.

if you accept that all cultures and peoples are essentially similar, then what would our reaction to foreign occupation be? First, we would be shocked, then we would fight like hell. Then, once the frailties of the occupier became clear, good sense would unfailingly result in the desire to transfer the fight from our own backyard to his. In other words...the longer we fight our enemies (illusory or otherwise) on their own home territories, the more likely they are to strike us here. A sad prediction, given the great vulnerability of our peace here, but so goes history, so goes human nature.

They gonna detonate simultaneously? They all gonna get into the country with their explosive-laden sippy cups? And do WHAT?

WHATEVER a terrorist does in this country now has to top 9/11 or be judged a messy flop. They were TOO successful with the towers. It isn't Bush that has prevented a recurrence, it's the difficulty of topping their previous success. And they HAVE to top it.

Because otherwise Americans won't be afraid, we'll be CONTEMPTUOUS.

created. IMHO you get some suicide bombers setting themselves off in malls, subway stations, city buses, restaurants, etc., they'd get media attention, breathless coverage, and some fear on some parts of the populace.

I do think some here on DU are naïve pooh-poohing that it could happen in the U.S. Certainly Israel and Europe have had to deal with either bomb or suicide attacks. I'm not saying that this intelligence at this time is true, but it has always puzzled me why OBL and AQ haven't tried this in the U.S.

> it has always puzzled me why OBL and AQ haven't tried this in the U.S.

Simply because the purse-holders, the organisations & countries behind
most of the "terrorist" attacks around the world daren't risk kicking
the hornet's nest.

The only country who is in a position to do that is Saudi Arabia as they
have the US administration (and the US population) by the short & curlies.

Strangely enough, there has only been one US terrorist event involving
foreigners recently and that one incident has very strong ties to Saudi
Arabia. Aren't coincidences wonderful? Or maybe they just prove my point.

Have a good laugh at the chuckleheads who post there.

lost the war on terror that we were fighting before it reached our own lands.

Somehow I have a feeling the repukes are not going to see it that way though and are going to believe the fucking fuhrers propaganda.

Some may feel these things are a joke , has we been told on sept 10 2001 two jets were going to be flown into the trade towers at the time we may have reacted the same way .

I don;t find it funny , I find these sorts of things to cause at least some concern even if it came off ABC .

I also don't feel once in america it would be difficult to produce whatever weapons they need , this is the country of all sorts of bombs and bullets and crap .

Bush and condi both gave themselves an out by saying we are safer but not safe yet .

I am not going to sit here in fear but if something did happen what about the people who may get killed . I just don;t find these things a laughing matter .

Who benefits from these tapes?

that would really be bad for our support group!

but we're pretty immune to it after 6 years of lies