Posted on 10/12/2009 7:41:25 AM PDT by La Lydia
Tired of fighting, and largely losing, against the US in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia, a group of Somali terrorists devised a strategy to take on the superpower in South Africa...the US's closure of its offices in the country was because of intercepted cellphone communication detailing planned attacks on American interests here. It is unclear whether American interests necessarily include a possible visit by US President Barack Obama for the official opening of the World Cup.
Intelligence officers, according to two sources, intercepted a call made in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, to a group based in Somalia, and the conversation confirmed a plot to blow up American interests in South Africa last month.
A source said US intelligence agents, South Africa's National Intelligence Agency and SAPS Crime Intelligence operatives launched a surveillance operation on the Cape-based group, gathering crucial information before the operation was thrown into disarray....
As the embassies were closed just before Heritage Day, National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele went on TV to say the country's intelligence structures were on top of the situation.
This, it was established, led to the group discarding the SIM cards and the phones they had used, to cover their tracks.
The source said: "What has been established is that the Cape guys are linked to al-Qaeda cells in Somalia, who are connected to the group in Afghanistan. We have established that most al-Qaeda operatives are relocating from Afghanistan to Pakistan, attracted by increased lawlessness in Pakistan.
"Our information is that there is a trail that links Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and, most interestingly, Mozambique, where Somalis have formed an anti-US cell already...
"The US was right to take these people seriously because we now know that these people have links with shady characters who have access to old military hardware in Eastern Europe," said the source.
Those darn Amish again.....
Obama is considering a trip to South Africa for the opening of the World Cup? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Our troops are getting killed in Afghanistan because of his nonsensical rules of engagement, and Obama’s more concerned about the stupid World Cup? Friggin’ incredible.
Ther is no reason known to anyone in the Obama administration why these so-called terrorists wouldn’t make fine government officials.
/sarcasm off/
Priorities you know!
The USA spends billions of dollars in Africa on a number of good intentions.
Graft, corruption, and terrorists there make such expenditures a joke. The American taxpayer should be aware of how much of their hard earned money goes down the rabbit hole there.
I say shut off all money to Africa, and let the Middle East and Europe pay for awhile. Genocide, over population, drought, ignorance, HIV, the list is endless.
I am flat tired of seeing such amounts of money sucked out of the USA, while we are attacked each and every day, both verbally and physically.
Obama’s more concerned about the stupid World Cup? Friggin’ incredible.’
An empty suit, born in Kenya, and a narcissistic personality.
What else could we expect?
I vote with you. It is like throwing money down a bottomless well. All we are doing is financing the luxurious retirement of African tyrants in Switzerland.
I think the “superpower” they are referring to is the United States, as in, take on the United State in South Africa (by attacking its embassies, etc.), planning assaults on American interests, etc.
Probably. I was being a smartie!! :-)
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