Posted on 01/20/2009 7:47:36 AM PST by deaconjim
WASHINGTON -- Authorities monitored a rush of intelligence leads Tuesday at the largest security operation in presidential inauguration history, including a possible threat from an East Africa radical Islamic terrorist group.
Law enforcement and intelligence officials received information that people associated with a Somalia-based group, al-Shabaab, might try to travel to the U.S. with plans to disrupt the inauguration, according to a joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin issued Monday night. The information had limited specificity and uncertain credibility, said Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke.
U.S. counter-terror officials have grown concerned in recent months about the threat posed by the militant al-Shabaab group and a cell of U.S.-based Somali sympathizers who have traveled to their homeland to "fight alongside Islamic insurgents," the alert reported.
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I'm somewhat worried about him trying to arrest George W Bush.
Fruit vendor update, please?
Just watching his thug strut is sooo reassuring.
I doubt it seriously. It would be counterproductive to the cause.
You know, it WOULD reflect badly on Bush if there was a terrorist attack, because he has done the job. I just can’t imagine one happening, but if there was, what better way (*cough* conspiracy) would there be for a new president to generate sympathy and a mandate for himself. Just saying. If they can say it about Bush, it can be said about Bambi, too.
I didn’t notice today because I didn’t walk - I took the subway so I went out a different exit. Security was stepped up at Penn Station and in the subways. I think NYC will OK today.
My friend had a nightmare about this.
bull
Thanks.
**Homeland Security Officials Report Possible Terror Threat on Inauguration Ceremony**
Can you say “instant riots”?
Plague sweeps Qaida camp in Africa, 40 die
20 Jan 2009, 0034 hrs IST, AGENCIES
Nearly 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died after plague swept through a training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside, reports the Sun.
The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaida in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaida group outside the Middle East. It trains Muslim fighters to kill British and US troops.
The al-Qaida epidemic began in the cave hideouts of AQLIM in Tizi Ouzou province, 150km east of the capital Algiers. The group, led by wanted terror boss Abdelmalek Droudkal, was forced to turn its shelters in the Yakouren forest into mass graves and flee. The extremists supporting Osama bin Laden went to Bejaia and Jijel provinces — hoping the plague did not go with them. A source said: “The emirs (leaders) fear surviving terrorists will surrender to escape a horrible death.”
Now al-Qaida chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells — or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. One security source said: “This is the deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror. Most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies needed to treat the disease. It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaida.”
AQLIM boss Droudkal claims to command around 1,000 insurgents. Training camps are also based in Morocco, Tunisia and Nigeria.
AQLIM bombed the UN headquarters in Algiers in 2007, killing 41. Attacks across Algeria last year killed at least 70 people.
In an interview last July, Droudkal boasted his cell was in constant contact with other al-Qaeda “brothers”.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Plague_sweeps_Qaida_camp_in_Africa/articleshow/4004140.cms
LOL! Somalis are major trouble. Thanks to open borders they are still moving here. I am sure O will let more in. They will do nothing. They just elected a fellow Islamic.
Thank you....and I’m praying for America again on this day again.
They hate all non-muslems and all apostate muslems. In the muslem view if your father is muslem, then the child is muslem. Thus Nobama is muslem and his public statements that he is a Christian and not a muslem makes him apostate and thus must either return to the religion or be killed as an apostate muslem. Thus their justification of obedience to the laws of Islam.
Our straight-arrow, non-biased MSM will: 1.) Add as much suspense to this dreadful day as possible with threatening, “danger” stories like this. 2.) Turn the act of being inaugurated into the most heroic accomplishment imaginable. 3.) “suggest” that white conservatives are all involved in a plot to kill Hussein. 3.) Say the word black nearly as often as making the claim that only Hussein can lead the US to the promised land.
I was at Walmart yesterday and there was practically no ammo on the shelves.
It wouldn't piss me off. Bring on the Apocalypse!
(eyes rolling)
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