Posted on 08/27/2007 9:09:55 PM PDT by RDTF
Al Qaeda has an active plot to hit the West. The United States knows about it but doesn’t have enough tactical detail to issue a precise warning or raise the threat level, says Vice Admiral (ret.) John Scott Redd, who heads the government’s National Counterterrorism Center.
In an interview at his headquarters near Washington, D.C., Redd told Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball and Jeffrey Bartholet that the country is better prepared than ever to counter such threats. But he also believes another successful terror attack on the U.S. homeland is inevitable.
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NEWSWEEK: People in various agencies have said that since Tora Bora in 2001, they at no time have had even 50-percent confidence that they knew where Osama bin Laden was on any particular day, and therefore they have been unable to mount any operations to go get him. Is that wrong?
Redd: What I’ll tell you about bin Laden is if we knew where he was, he’d either be dead or captured. It’s that simple. [He’s] obviously a tough target. That whole area is a tough target. And my standard answer on OBL is: remember [convicted Atlanta Olympics bomber] Eric Rudolph. Nobody likes to hear it but, I mean, here’s a guy [who was on the run] in the United States of America. We had unlimited access—the FBI, local law enforcement—and the guy hid out for an awful long time just by keeping a low profile. One reporter said the other day, “Well, gee, you’ve got all this great overhead stuff and various surveillance things.” I said, “Yeah. I’d trade those for about three great human sources.”
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Nuclear of some sort. Perhaps then the idiots on the left will shut up.
Pretty much figured there has been active plots for decades.
When was this interview actually held??
It wasn’t by any chance, shortly BEFORE hitlery last week went public insinuating a new terror attack would “help Republicans”??
Isn’t the nasty one, rather closely connected with people at the (very left-leaning) Newsweak?
DOH!
When have they not.
But I love it when the moonbats are finally getting akeered, and rightly so. Now they are just waking up to what our nation faces, as the leftist moonbat press seeks to reposition the Dem party closer to Joe Liebermann for the Dem erectyion of 2008.
Right, you've changed yur tune, turned over a new Leaf, flipped your flop.
What a laugh.
These MSM guys must not be the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Bring back Rumsfeld!
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to ensure Republican victory?
Bear, crap, woods, etc.
The muzzies like tv coverage. I’d say biological in a contained environment, like a cruise ship. That way the MSM would televise it floundering for a week.
75% of the country has hung our soldiers out to dry in Iraq. We don’t deserve thier protection. It is coming.
This rag does OBL’s dirty work everyday, good grief.
Someone needs to go to DC and give some lessons to the bureaucrats, our reps, ect, on the EMEMY MSM.
I don't think that percentage is anywhere near correct.
These retired military dudes sure seem to have a lot of time to talk to the press.
There is always a 20-30% who never lose heart, remain strong, and take the place of others who fall.
I think we/they are worth it, don’t give up on us yet!
So,75% don’t want us to pull out of Iraq? What is it? 60% then?
The goal from the very beginning was to get a nuke inside NY. I believe they will attempt it at the middle of HRC's term, also inline with the 7 Steps to a Caliphate timeline listed as beginning 2010-2013.
Ferries
Ah....you beat me to it....yes...ferries.
disagree. my hunch is much more low tech and decentralized. something an armed citizenry could do much to fight, if only the citizenry were armed.
Hummm? 75% + 60% = 135%.....how was public school?
the threat is pretty real. i don’t deem this 6 years without attacks as a success. personally with the information i’ve gained from this place’s threat matrix, lauramansfield.com and homelandsecurityus.net and .com , they have been preparing.
they’ve said it themselves.
i may be pointing out the obvious but to some this should be a wake up call, they have a final attack on the way which will be from more than one direction from what i gather. when i hear ‘from the land, sea and air’ i don’t think that means one isolated ferry or a carbomb.
the threat is bigtime, the democrats have lost their minds. either they still think bush did 9/11 or they think bush will stage something for his own personal polticial gain. Bullsh*t. we are dealing with a technologically advanded trojan horse.
after years of reading their stuff (it was only natural after 9/11 for me to ATTEMPT figuring them out, still no success) i have simply learned they are intent, sophisticated and patient.
What tricks everybody imo is that they are so under the radar, we forget about them easily. Our vivid stream of selective media is basically distracting us from his original declaration of war. in a nutshell!
what movie is this from: “it’s too early for this sh*t”..?
-h
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