Posted on 10/29/2010 3:11:13 PM PDT by RobinMasters
President Obama said Friday that packages mailed from Yemen and intercepted in the last 24 hours contained explosive material and represented a "credible terrorist threat."
The packages, mailed via UPS and FedEx, were addressed to two places of Jewish worship in Chicago, the president said.
Obama, speaking four days before the midterm elections, did not specify any new security measures that would be taken or say that the nation's terrorist alert level had been raised. But he described the threat as serious, and pointed once again to Yemen as the source, saying his top terrorism adviser, John Brennan, had been in touch with that country's president.
The two packages were intercepted at different locations, one on a UPS plane at the East Midlands airport near Nottingham, England, and the other at a FedEx facility in Dubai. Officials provided no detail on the kind of explosives found.
U.S. counterterrorism officials believe the foiled attack may have been orchestrated by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, which has been behind a series of recent attempts to strike the United States.
"They're on the short list," one official said of the group, which is known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said U.S. authorities were scrutinizing other packages coming from Yemen, but only two have so far been identified as dangerous.
Those devices were "intended to do harm," Brennan said.
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Sometimes profanity has its place.
Control Freak: Assholes trying to tell others how to conduct themselves.
You can’t spell, You can’t spell, You can’t spell..... /s LOL
You can’t spell, You can’t spell, You can’t spell..... /s LOL
You can’t spell, You can’t spell, You can’t spell..... /s LOL
You can’t spell, You can’t spell, You can’t spell..... /s LOL
You can’t spell, You can’t spell, You can’t spell..... /s LOL
“You can’t spell, You can’t spell, You can’t spell..... /s LOL”
Ditto.
"Forget about the economy and socialism and all that other stuff.
Quick! Look over here! See what a great job I'm doing."
That was fast. LOL
What part of “no profanity” is difficult to understand?
Does the picture show the inside of one of the cartridges? If so, that’s suspicious, all right
“What part of “no profanity” is difficult to understand?”
The part that gives you the idea that you are some sort of arbiter of good taste and refinement and that you even have the balls to say it. Like shit is a word that never gets used on this or any other adult web site. Give it a rest. If you want to start a fight, just go ahead and do it. I have no idea what your problem is, but you can’t imagine how little I care.
I asked the same thing earlier today. Incredible idiocy.
LLS
“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”
General George S. Patton
LLS
bozo is wagging the dog! Two years looking like a punch drunk teenager what makes you think he has a clue about anything but booze, nose candy and a golf club.
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