Posted on 08/02/2013 8:44:28 PM PDT by kristinn
The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al Qaeda, in which the terrorists discussed attacks against American interests in the Middle East and North Africa, American officials said Friday.
The intercepts and a subsequent analysis of them by American intelligence agencies prompted the United States to issue an unusual global travel alert to American citizens on Friday, warning of the potential for terrorist attacks by operatives of Al Qaeda and their associates beginning Sunday through the end of August.
The bulletin to travelers and expatriates, issued by the State Department, came less than a day after the department announced that it was closing nearly two dozen American diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa, including facilities in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Britain said Friday that it would close its embassy in Yemen on Monday and Tuesday because of “increased security concerns.”
It is unusual for the United States to come across discussions among senior Qaeda operatives about operational planning — through informants, intercepted e-mails or eavesdropping on cellphone calls. So when the high-level intercepts were collected and analyzed this week, senior officials at the C.I.A., State Department and White House immediately seized on their significance. Members of Congress have been provided classified briefings on the matter, officials said Friday.
“This was a lot more than the usual chatter,” said one senior American official who had been briefed on the information but would not provide details. Spokesmen for the State Department and the C.I.A. also declined to comment on the intercepts.
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Shovel Ready them green shoots,,,
I miss those color coded warnings.
The kids video “Winnie the Pooh and the Jagular” explains it perfectly.
(For those not familiar, Tigger creates a phony monster called the “jagular” which he unviels from time to time—whenever he needs more food, etc, from the terrified smaller critters)
I am more concerned about the CIA operatives on the ground in Benghazi, who gave the order to stand-down (it could ONLY come from Caligula) and about the gun-running in Benghazi.
What a coinkydink. They are in trouble for spying on us with the NSA, and also for not protecting an embassy. And BADA BING, they suddenly found a huge plot, and are shutting down 120 embassies to keep them safe.
LOL,, the government really is this lame, aren’t they?
this embassy closing is window dressing
didnt a congressmen just announce the fact that several CIA survivors of that attack in libya get NEW IDENTITIES ana have been moved to new locations across the USA?
Didnt we just hear that there were 35 CIA people at Benghazi when it was attacked?
obama and his boys are playing the good cop...
This looks like a REALLY clumsy attempt to justify NSA surveillance of Americans.
Did you notice that this warning came with a day after the CNN report on Benghazi?
AND
At.a time when the need to demonstrate the usefulness of PRISM is paramount?
That is exactly my point. I do not believe anything that the government says.
How about announcing to the Muslim world that Mecca will be nuked if we’re attacked...?
This story is bogus. Al Qaeda doesn’t exist anymore. Obama said so.
We shut down all the embassies and then there is no attack. So we can conclude that Obama stopped attacks on all our embassies.
There's something vry wrong with this picture.
BTTT.
Why should we believe a government that habitually lies to its constituents? Sounds more like a publicity stunt for BAM and his secret police,the NSA, to have folks think they are on the case.
Isn’t this cute???
The NSA and the US gov’t actually SUPPORT and ARM al Qaeda
but now can pretend again they are the ‘enemy’.
BS. They created the Boston Atrocities by ignoring warnings.
Therefore, this is probably a false flag
to get attention away from their
attacks on the American (innocent) people.
“LOL,, the government really is this lame, aren’t they?”
Trump forces you to provide a birth certificate, you throw out a completely fake document that only a racist would challenge you on and then you claim to kill the most wanted man on earth ( even though he’s already dead ) that only a racist would challenge you on.... rinse and repeat.
But...but...but...I thought Obamugabe said AQ had been defeated, and was no longer a threat.
Oh, I thought it was to clear the decks over the weekend. That way we won’t be talking about Benghazi.
I’m willing to guess that using fear to control people is very, very ancient.
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