LOL!!! - Terror Threat Source Called Into Question (MSNBC)

Ashcroft cites al-Qaida plan, but how credible
is the information?

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But terrorism experts tell NBC News there's no evidence a credible al-Qaida spokesman ever said that, and the claims actually were made by a largely discredited group, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, known for putting propaganda on the Internet.

“This particular group is not really taken seriously by Western intelligence,” said terrorism expert M.J. Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, an international policy assessment group. “It does not appear to have any real field operational capability. But it is certainly part of the global jihad movement — part of its propaganda wing, if you like. It likes to weave a web of lies; it likes to put out disinformation so that the truth is deeply buried. So it is a dangerous group in that sense, but it is not taken seriously in terms of its operational capability.”

The group has claimed responsibility for the power blackout in the Northeast last year, a power outage in London and the Madrid bombing. None of the claims was found to be credible.

“The only thing they haven't claimed credit for recently is the cicada invasion of Washington,” said expert Roger Cressey, former chief of staff of the critical infrastructure protection board at the White House and now an analyst for NBC News. Cressey also served as deputy to former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke.

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Link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5087301/

Good thing the adults are in charge, eh???

:wtf:

Y'all see Mueller's face during that conference? He did NOT look happy to be doing this!!!

Cripes...

LOL

ON EDIT: ACK! we are being attacked by "one man with a fax machine"!

I am LMAO

Who's line was that about the one man fax attack.... lol!

7th paragraph

Like some of the other Evil ones!

Just where does the CIA stand in all of this???

They keep getting blamed by the administration for every fuck up, yet Tenet is still there.

Just what sort of Faustian deal do you suppose has been made???

If I worked for the CIA, I'd be exposing Chimpy's backside BUTT GOOD!!!

:wtf:

the get-go! The people who started the CIA up funded and supported that Other Organization before the CIA was ever set up! Those people had VERY close ties with Prescott Bush and his Brown Brothers Harriman Bank, before and during WWII! The people who started up the CIA used people from the Other Organization to teach them to run the CIA, even though those people from the Other Organization had committed war crimes by the thousands and millions! War crimes that made Saddam's crimes look like small potatoes! That Other Organization was the GESTAPO!

I've been assuming that's where all the Chalabi stuff is coming from (CIA).

As for Tenet, if you were Bush, would you *dare* to fire him? He might start talking.

That's supposedly who gave them the information. Ashcroft, Rove, Cheney Bush and the rest of that moronic bunch will never accept blame for anything. I hope Kerry runs with this, this administration has now lost even the smidgen of credibility they may have had when it comes to issuing an alert. Anyone who believes anything they say now is a moron.

are the real terrorists. These folks are the source of Asscrack's intel and they are the ones creating most of the chatter.

Nice to see folks starting to wise up to this crap.

the set-up could be possible here. if they lure a bunch of criticism of the 'false alert' and then a real (black bag) event comes along, they discredit the criticism, etc. these guys are creeps and when given the time they like to think a couple moves ahead. once they're willing to consider doing black bag jobs to manipulate events, they can finesse the situation a little extra and discredit the oppisition too.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

They are just using their tired old "hey, look over there!" tactics
in an attempt to deflect attention from the slow motion train wreck
that is the Bush Administration.