Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda

Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5158569.ece
Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists.

General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no “real or artificial spike” in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected.

President Bush has repeatedly described the acute vulnerability of the US during a transition. The Bush Administration has been defined largely by the 9/11 attacks, which came within a year of his taking office.

His aides have pointed to al-Qaeda’s first assault on the World Trade Centre, which occurred little more than a month after Bill Clinton became President in 1993. There was an alleged attempt to bomb Glasgow airport in Gordon Brown’s first days in Downing Street and a London nightclub attack was narrowly thwarted.


Lord West of Spithead, the Home Office Security Minister, spoke recently of a “huge threat”, saying: “There is another great plot building up again and we are monitoring this.”

Intelligence chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic have indicated that such warnings refer more to a general sense of foreboding than fear of an imminent or specific plan.
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Lets see Breshinski warns and Cheney warns us and now Hayden warns us
they will attack America or Europe... the question is who THEY is

Load o' crap.

They don't want him thinking bad thoughts, like rescinding the Patriot Act.

...upon or shortly after Obama takes office, they will. I'm still unsure they didn't invite the first one or just 'let' it happen so they could use it to launch their pre-emptive war plans. I'd put NOTHING past those BFEE jackasses. Don't trust them any more than the terrorists. I think they're all of the same mindset.

He is the most dangerous terrorist that we have to worry about.

x(

I'd demand someone get that changed.

they know who and/or where the bad guys are.

and get the straight poop?

If something happens before January 20th, it happened on Bush's watch. But I suppose that some of these people honestly believe that 9/11 was Clinton's fault and that it happened during Bush's "transition" period. :eyes:

We plane to atack you with a HUGH!1!! force once you become president. We are SERIES, so do not doubt our intentions. We do not cast asparagus lightly.

Sinserely,
AlQaeda
Islamofaschist Brigade Leader

very excellent!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-world145926154nov14,0,4309374.story

My ass.

believe CIA Director Hayden who appears to be the key source of the al Qaeda intel? Hayden is an advocate of both the enhanced interrogation program and warrantless surveillance program. He ran the NSA when alHazmi and alMihdhar were in the US. For reasons we don't know to this day, he failed to get FISA warrants and/or notify the FBI so they could get the warrants. We also don't know why Hayden not only kept his job after 9/11 but received two promotions, DDNI then CIA Director. Hayden was also opposed to the declassification of the CIA IG report. The executive summary of this report was finally declassified due to an amendment in the Improving America's Security Act of 2007. Hayden wrote at the time that "It will, at a minimum, consume time and attention revisiting ground that is already well plowed." Huh? Journalist James Bamford (while researching his latest book The Shadow Factory) tried to find out why the CIA withheld the alHazmi/alMihdhar intel from the FBI for 20 months. He was unable to do so. He did interview two FBI agents (Rossini and Miller) assigned to the CIA CTC who told him they were ordered to withhold the intel.

Hayden hasn't accounted for his pre-9/11 conduct. He is an advocate of illegal programs that violate civil liberties and disgrace the country's reputation. He doesn't seem to think the intel community should be accountable to the public. Why should we believe he is acting in good faith?

and seeing as it will probably be his last, i'm guessing that it's going to be BIG...nuc-u-lar big.

all at one time

is really gonna fuck themselves if they think they're going to try and screw w/this new president.

:evilfrown:

Once upon a time there was a new president who ignored intelligence on threats.

His ignorance cost thousands of lives in one day and millions over the last 7 years.

I trust Obama to read intelligence reports and respond APPROPRIATELY.

Is going to be too busy to be bothered with the day-to-day details of threats like this. He should simply tell his Director of the CIA to deal with the problem. By that, I mean he should tell the CIA to deny Bin Laden any comfort of safety until he is either arrested or killed. Bush and company have done nothing to put these swine on the defensive.

The Bush Administration has used the terror threat to feed the Military Industrial Complex like a gigantic prize hog at the trough. That's all the War on Terror is about, feeding the hog. Maybe we'll finally get some justice for the folks who died in the attacks.

:kick:

Hmm...

so they could attack as soon as Obama is president.

arggggghhhhhhhhh