EunuchBomber confirms AQ recruiting English speakers for attacks

Hot Air ^ | Feb. 15, 2010 | Ed Morrissey

[Free ThinkerNY]

Does this qualify as a surprise? Eli Lake reports that sources in the intel community have begun searching for English-speaking recruits to al-Qaeda after the EunuchBomber confirmed that he met with several other similar would-be terrorists in Yemen:

U.S. and allied counterterrorism authorities have launched a global manhunt for English-speaking terrorists trained in Yemen who are planning attacks on the United States, based on intelligence provided by the suspect in the attempted Christmas Day bombing after he began cooperating.

U.S. officials told The Washington Times that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, facing charges as a would-be suicide bomber, revealed during recent cooperation with the FBI that he met with other English speakers at a terrorist training camp in Yemen. Three U.S. intelligence officials, including one senior official, disclosed on the condition of anonymity some details of the additional bomb plots.

Said one official: “It’s safe to say that Abdulmutallab is not the only bullet in the chamber for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” the Islamist terrorist group based in Yemen.

“Farouk took a month to get operational. Once he left [training in Yemen], it did not take very long,” the official said.

This isn’t exactly a new effort by AQ. We have been warned for years about “home-grown terrorists” who take their cues from AQ but operate more independently of their network.

[La Lydia]

Just more people to be Mirandized...

[rjp2005]

But Biden said there’d be more attacks.

[Quix]

I wonder . . .

perhaps Biden could volunteer for a

REALITY TV show undergoing such training in Yemen.

They might even give him the opportunity to become a eunuch, too. Then he could REALLY feel their pain.

No pictures, please.

[Cicero]

Wait for two months, and then give them a public warning? Good work, Barry!