Officials confirm 'credible but unconfirmed' 9/11 threat

[crymomma]

U.S. officials said Thursday evening they have "specific, credible but unconfirmed" information about a threat against the United States coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. "We have received credible information very recently about a possible plot directed at the homeland that seems to be focused on New York and Washington, D.C.," a senior administration official told CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr.
The official said the plot was believed to involve three individuals, including a U.S. citizen, who may have entered the United States. U.S. officials believed the threat was a vehicle laden with explosives, but "the intelligence picture is not completely formed," the official said. "Not enough is known about the potential operatives and their plotting."
Another source gave CNN conflicting information about possible details of the threat. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/08/terrorism.threat/index.html

[Lord of the Rings]

Makes sense for them to make a sensation out of anniversaries (as a reminder to the West.) I've heard of that possibility before. Whether it's true or not .. but definitely always a concern. I think the USA has enough to concern about with recent years of tornadoes, storms, economic issues, without needing any of that kind of rubbish.

I'm sure the extremists don't really want the USA government to change their mind & decide to put heaps of money into ridding of the extremist groups as they had previously (if mainly or only an excuse for the oil.)

Glad to see you back crymomma.

[crymomma]

Every September 11th there is always alert of a possible terror threat.

[Blackhorse 70V]

We can never be safe from those who wish to cause us harm. Our only recourse is to behave in ways that don't needlessly offend others.

The easiest duty I had in Vietnam was providing protection for our Seabees (a group of construction engineers from the US Navy; more than a thousand lost their lives in combat). At the time that I provided their security, they were paving the main highway, QL-1, between Xuan Loc and Ham Tan. The road served many Vietnamese, on their way to/from Saigon, including soldiers from the North. Thus, our enemy would not shoot at the Seabees, and the locals learned that americans were not all bad. We won more hearts and minds with asphalt than with ammo.

I hear some mention of building hospitals and schools in Iraq. Before our invasion, Iraq didn't need our financial aid nor construction - they have quite a bit of oil. Our efforts to assist them militarily will provide good reason for an entire generation or two of Iraqis to hate US. We've disrupted their lives, farms, industries, poisoned their land and water with depleted uranium... If people weren't making money off the war it would be a total disaster.

What every child is taught:
Ask before you borrow.
Say "please" and "thank you".
Put it back when you're through.
Clean up your mess.
NO HITTING!

[ukbobboy01]

Hi Guys

Something has always bothered me about the US and that is it always seems to need an enemy to focus on.

After the second world war it was the communist, even though communism was a doomed unsustainable system. OK, that was not known until the Berlin wall came down, that can be forgiven.

And what was the Vietnam war about, as far as I understand it the Vietnamese were fighting for their freedom against French colonialism, i.e. the same thing the US did to gain their independence from Britain.

But even now no one can give a credible answer why the US went after Iraq in Desert Storm 2, why all the lies to justify a war against a toothless tyrannical bully.

Let's leave that one, because it's now history, but now that the original villain is dead what is the US going to do.

What (make believe) evil villain is the US now going to go after?


UK Bob

[crymomma]

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) — The Obama administration is taking serious the still unconfirmed intelligence tip of a possible al-Qaeda plot tied to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.
The threat reported to authorities Wednesday night remains "specific and credible," Brennan said during interviews with "Fox News Sunday" and CBS' "Face the Nation."
"Again, it's not confirmed, but the president wants to make sure that we leave no stone unturned," he said. "And that's what the intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security communities are doing." So far nothing has happen today. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/11/911-anniversary-terror-threat_n_957453.html

[ukbobboy01]

Hi Crymomma

Glad to see your back, but I got to ask this question:

Do you mean the same "Intelligence" that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and were sponsors of Al Qaeda?

The same "Intelligence" that gave millions of US dollars to a con man (and did nothing to reclaim any of it back)?

You know, I don't doubt that the CIA, NSA & FBI can do their jobs properly but I wonder how much of what they say is propaganda and how much is real.


UK Bob

[crymomma]

The excess was Iraq. If our leaders launched that war because they were certain that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which has not been certain after all these years.

[Blackhorse 70V]

Saddam did not want to announce to Iran that he had no WMDs. He simply 'misunderestimated' how stupid the american people can be.

The only thing known for certain was that Iraq did not have WMDs, just as the inspectors had reported.

"When the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - A. Einstein

[ukbobboy01]

Crymomma

Blackhorse 70V is right, there never were any WMDs, it was all a work of fiction, as the UN Inspectors said.

In the UK, when both our countries were hell bent on war with Iraq, a decent politician and, at the time, cabinet minister asked the simple question: If Saddam has WMDs then where are the factories and infrastructure to make them?

The US had spy satellites over Iraq and all they could find was a tin shed, which the US told the UN was a factory producing WMDs. The US had eyes on the ground (i.e. spies) and they could not find anything credible.

In other words, Saddam had nothing but bluster and hot air, and nothing more.

Both US and UK Intelligence knew this but our main politicians (both Bush and Blair) decided to lie to us by saying Saddam was behind 9/11 and that he won't give up his WMDs. Blair said Saddam could attack British interests within 45 minutes, this was another work of fiction dressed up to look as if it came from the Intelligence community.

I understand that before Bush became president for the second time there was a plan in place to attack Iraq but they, Bush & Rumsfeld, could not sell it to the American people, that is until 9/11.

So Crymomma, before you repeat the Bush propaganda check first that it is true because the first casualty of any war is the truth.


UK Bob