Al Qaeda in final stages of plot

[Scott34]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/02/politics/us-embassies-close/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

The state department has also issued a global travel alert related to the plot.

 

Just in case you are traveling, I'd be a little more cognizant of what's going on.

[TobiasFunke]

:cancels planned trip to Yemen:

[tdawg87]

Does this mean I can't ride my horse?

[DowningRules]

Darn it all!  As of the last presidential election, I was told they were pretty well done. 

 

Things to do today:

 

1.  Toilet paper

2.  Pay bills

3.  Start worrying about Al Qaeda again

[tdawg87]

You're gonna do your toilet paper? Gnar.

[Ray McKigney]

Are we at Ernie or Elmo?

 

[Mudville]

"...the United States has information that al Qaeda in Yemen was in the final stages of planning for an unspecified attack."

 

This is awfully vague.

[Ray McKigney]

They already unleashed this. What could be worse?

 

[austin724]

I thought Al Qaeda was dead.

[Tank]

"...the United States has information that al Qaeda in Yemen was in the final stages of planning for an unspecified attack."

 

This is awfully vague.

Scioscia wrote it.

[gotbeer]

bring it on.  I'm in a pissy mood today.  So nuking a country sounds just about right.  

[Vegas Halo Fan]

"...the United States has information that al Qaeda in Yemen was in the final stages of planning for an unspecified attack."

 

This is awfully vague.

 

Makes me think of the Mr. Neutron/Teddy Salad sketch in the fourth season of Monty Python:

 

"All right! I want a full-scale Red Alert throughout the world! Surround everyone with everything we've got! Mobilize every fighting unit and every weapon we can lay our hands on! I want... I want three full-scale global nuclear alerts with every army, navy and air force unit on eternal standby!"

[Angel Oracle]

Soooo, who gets to be the next shark food?   Bin Laden can only satisfy so much shark hunger.

[ELEVEN]

First a level E5 Sharknado and now this?

[DowningRules]

I've mentioned here before, my brother is a consular attache in a country that is something of a gateway for terrorists.  He is in regular contact with the head of that region's terrorism unit (representing that country; not an American).

 

I heard first hand from the dude that Al Qaeda is growing stronger and doing so more quietly than the current administration is letting on.  Not that I would think it responsible for the administration, NSA, et al. to tell everyone to freakout and panic.  But what I was told gave me pause for thought and concern.  Imagine what the administration knows that we don't.

 

In Europe, there are literally thousands of mosques and other breeding grounds for terrorists which the authorities can't keep tabs on. 

 

It's a credit to our intelligence that more crapola hasn't happened.  We give them alot of grief but they've done a pretty good job considering what they're up against. 

[VariousCrap]

Crock. Of. Shit.

 

 

<<The U.S. government's actions are in response to growing intelligence that shows a potential for attacks in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as North Africa.>>

 

 

So in other words, don't travel to the countries the US has been illegally drone bombing.  This country is its own worst enemy.

[HaloCory22]

Not worried in the slightest.

[St1ck]

Not worried in the slightest.

 

 

hmmm, interesting

[arch stanton]

I work in Saudi and my wife and daughter live in Bahrain. I cross the causeway bridge 2 or 3 times a week. The squadron for whom I run the simulator is on break this week so I think I'll just sit in Bahrain and listen to the Shia vs Sunni battles instead of getting caught in the AQ stuff.

[Scott34]

I work in Saudi and my wife and daughter live in Bahrain. I cross the causeway bridge 2 or 3 times a week. The squadron for whom I run the simulator is on break this week so I think I'll just sit in Bahrain and listen to the Shia vs Sunni battles instead of getting caught in the AQ stuff.

 

Stay safe, man.  Do you work in Riyadh?

[gotbeer]

Are we at Ernie or Elmo?

 

 

If it was Elmo, only teen boys have to worry.

[sneaky_flute]

military intelligence is directly responsible for terrorism so it's one big cycle.

[arch stanton]

Stay safe, man.  Do you work in Riyadh?

Thanks. I will. I work at the air base in Dhahran.

[Scott34]

This gets eerier by the minute

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57596882/source-terrorists-behind-embassy-threat-in-place/

[arch stanton]

It's 8:15 AM on Sunday here in Bahrain. I can see the main gate of the US Navy base from my balcony. All's quiet so far.