Off Topic: US Prepares for Al Qaeda Revenge
US Prepares for Al Qaeda Revenge.
Yesterday the US State Department issued an unusual instruction to all of its offices throughout the Muslim world to close their gates on Sunday of August 4, due to a concrete but nonspecific terror threat.
The instruction was based on reliable intelligence that Al Qaeda is initiating a terrorist attack against a US target, with emphasis on diplomatic representations, in an unknown location but at a timing marking the end of the Ramadan fast and the birthday of US President Barack Obama.
What is the reason behind the current alert?
Unlike similar warnings from time to time, this alert does not include western targets, but a concrete threat towards US targets, or a settling of accounts with the US.
This warning is linked to an Al Qaeda effort to seek revenge over the death of Sheik Said al-Shihri, second in command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who was killed last month by a US drone operated by the CIA in Yemmen. Ah-Shihri, of Saudi Arabian origins, was arrested at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for several years and was released in 2006, joining Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula in 2007.
According to previous precedents, Al Qaeda has determined a ‘price tag’ for the assassination of its senior members, with US embassies and/or offices where US diplomats and intelligence teams are located being the organization’s preferred targets. This is what the organization did in 2012 in the wake of the death of Abu Yahya Al-Libi, deputy of the Al Qaeda branch in Libya, who was also taken out by a CIA-operated drone.
Two days after the his death was announced, Al Qaeda operatives planted a bomb near the office of the US task force in Benghazi, Libya. On September 11, 2012, after a tape voiced by Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri was released, the US consulate in Benghazi was attacked by armed terrorists. The attack resulted in the deaths of US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of the consulate’s employees.
Several days after the death of Ah-Shihri was reported, a new tape by Al-Zawahiri was released, with a new warning to the US linked to Guantanamo Bay. On the tape, Al-Zawahiri vowed to do everything to bring about the release of Al Qaeda senior members being held in US prison, including Sheikh Khalid Mohammed, planner of the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001.
The reference to Guantanamo alongside al-Shihri’s biography may imply the desire to tie between his death and the new threat. It is possible that intelligence experts in the US intelligence arena identified additional code words on the tape that actually serve as activation messages for terrorist cells deployed by Al Qaeda around the world.
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WarSclerotic 
August 3, 2013 at 9:05 PM
Now, lets suppose the following scenario: the embassies are closed, Al Qaeda is quiet and all is good. After the reopening of those poor embassies, why Al Qaeda should not execute its former plan? What the hell is a certain date so important, they can do it anytime. So, after they saw the fear, after they smelt the blood, nothing in the world can save the USA embassies from the next terrorist act. Deterrence, my friends, deterrence, that what has been lost here.
In the very moment that Obama choose to flee – literally – he lost the war. You will never be able to defend yourself from terrorists by flying from the battlefield. Look at Israel and learn, Obama: a small nation with a big heart and a great idea.
Look and learn, Obama.
August 3, 2013 at 9:11 PM
Exactly why the exact date
August 3, 2013 at 9:27 PM
Please, explain yourself in more details, if possible.
August 3, 2013 at 9:32 PM
Well I do not understand why they are closing for the one day, Sunday, when the terrorists who also watch the news know this and will delay an attack until say a week or so down the line.
I’m not buying the terror threat.
The UK, France, Germany and US are closing their embassies in Yemen on Sunday, but the US is going much further and closing most of their embassies throughout the middle east – for just one day? because of a terror alert?
Maybe am not getting something?
But surely you would bolster security for a month or two in the midst of a threat, not just close for ONE day.
August 3, 2013 at 9:47 PM
You got it right, Defence. They should deploy the necessary assets for strengthening the security but instead he choose to flee. Like I previously said, the deterrence was lost; Obama lost the war with this single ”smart smooth move”. From now on, the American embassies in this region will become a common target for the terrorists. This is also happening because, let us not forget, he didn’t react properly after an USA ambassador was killed in Benghazi.
We have asserted the previous theory regarding why the USA has shut down the diplomatic facilities in the region because we could not believe that Obama is such a dilettante and would commit such a blunder, like closing embassies in mass when getting a terror warning. We were sure that something else is behind this move but if it is not, the world is in great trouble.
August 3, 2013 at 9:22 PM
…And Now, For Something Else , like Monty Python wrote in one of their great movies:
All those last smooth moves are, in fact, a clever new idea of Obama to save the USA economy: by shutting down all those bloody embassies, he is going to save a great deal of money .
Who in the world needs an embassy today? Get real, people: embassy is sh!t, lots of money, lots of personnel, lots of trouble…who needs this?! We can do all the job we need from the computer or, better, from a tablet. Americans overseas? No, sir. We’ll do everything we need virtually. We have a virtual flag.
We’ll have even a virtual country.
August 3, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Obama is a genius
August 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM
I remember my first mouse. It was a Genius.
August 3, 2013 at 10:33 PM
The puppet masters of obama and his administration can not be that stupid, there must be more.
August 3, 2013 at 10:41 PM
…Plus, the ”off topic ” attribute in front of the main title here is surely not exact, because the path the US choose to prepare itself – if any – for an ”Al Qaeda revenge” tell us everything – if it was still needed – about how Obama is ”prepared” to deal with the Iranian threat – which is so bloody on topic – in the near future.
August 3, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Obama sees every problem as a golf ball
August 3, 2013 at 11:02 PM
…Look, the more we read this, the more incredible all this sh!t sounds to us. This threat, ” concrete but nonspecific ”, is supposed to happen at ” a timing marking the end of the Ramadan fast and the birthday of US President Barack Obama. ” Now we have our eyes wide open ! We finally got the solution. Obama, man, do all of us a favor and cancel your birthday. You know, that date with that little problem…? Which finally was not a problem, but some people still are whispering. Lets kill two birds with one strike: by cancelling your birthday, Al Qaeda will be sorely pissed and those nasty people wont have a subject to beach about.
August 3, 2013 at 11:17 PM
Ding dong, hello who is there, its Ali da bomb whit a present for you mr obama, would you be so kind to step aside i have to blow up your embassy. sure Ali go ahead and thank you for your kind attention, it is nice to have good friends.
Hee, chuck and john Ali is here whit a present say hello to him.
August 3, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Something isn’t right
August 4, 2013 at 12:05 AM
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama kicked off his birthday weekend Saturday with a round of golf with friends and a getaway to Camp David.
Obama, who turns 52 on Sunday, left the White House just after 8 a.m. EDT — that’s unusually early for the half-hour motorcade ride to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland — to squeeze in some golf before the celebration shifted to the presidential retreat nestled in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains.
Before leaving, officials said Obama’s counterterrorism adviser updated him on a potential al-Qaida threat that led the State Department on Friday to issue a global travel warning to Americans and order the weekend closure of 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world.
http://tinyurl.com/n67u3le
August 4, 2013 at 1:04 AM
Reblogged this on servehiminthewaiting.
August 4, 2013 at 2:35 AM
Leftists and democrats(in the USA) have no clue. They say they don’t want war, but that is what they will get when the enemy sees weakness. The only thing the enemy respects is strength and intimidation. Fear is the only thing that drives them away.
If they lose fear, they attack.
August 4, 2013 at 3:18 AM
Obama is a coward. He should keep the embassies open, make a big deal about remaining open, and post well-armed Marines at each location with rapid response forces nearby. He must adopt an ‘in your face’ posture when dealing with even bigger cowards, the terrorists. Instead, all he shows is weakness.
August 4, 2013 at 4:10 AM
Another thought…moving embassy personnel to a safe location in response a terrorist threat didn’t help Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi.
August 4, 2013 at 9:51 AM
August 4, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Hm, I faintly remember these words:
“… GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead …”
“… Al Qaeda is on the run …”
“… Al Qeada as almost finished …”
“… Al Qaeda is almost dead …”
I paraphrase Otto von Bismarck: “Mostly they lie BEFORE the elections, DURING war and AFTER the hunting.”.
August 4, 2013 at 10:32 AM
Strong examples. Good timing.
August 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Unexplained, conflicting US global terror warnings now extend to American homeland
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis August 4, 2013, 10:39 AM (IDT)
Tags: US terror alert, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Susan Rice, Gen. Martin Dempsey,
AQIM fighters in Yemen
AQIM fighters in Yemen
Saturday night Aug. 3, the global warnings issued last week by the US State Department and Interpol against terrorist attacks covering almost the entire Muslim world, suddenly reached the American homeland. Sunday morning, Aug. 4, as US missions closed in 22 countries, including Egypt and Israel, the New York Police Department went on high alert. Security was beefed up in high-profile areas outside houses of worship and transportation hubs, although Police Commissioner Ray Kelly complained that “a lack of specific information was cause for concern.”
Friday, Aug. 2 the State Department issued a worldwide travel alert warning to Americans overseas of potential al Qaeda attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
Saturday night, National Security Adviser Susan Rice convened security officials on the situation. The White House stated: “Given the nature of the potential threat through the week, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and counter-terrorism Lisa Monaco has held regular meetings with relevant members of the inter-agency to ensure the US government is taking those appropriate steps.”
Nothing in this statement specified the nature of the “potential threat.”
Sunday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told the ABC that the threat was “more specific than previous ones” and “the intent is to attack Western, not just US interests.” He reported that the diplomatic facilities closed “range from Mauritania in northwest Africa to Afghanistan.”
Western and Middle East terrorism and intelligence experts say that in additional to the lack of information, at least six elements don’t add up in the various global warnings released since Thursday Aug. 1:
1. Thursday, US President Barack Obama ordered that “all appropriate steps” be taken to protect Americans in response to a threat of an al-Qaeda attack. What does this mean? The experts comment that even if all US agencies were pressed into service worldwide, there is no way they could protect all Americans in the vast area marked out in the warnings.
2. If the threat is specific why does the warning extend to so many countries? Al Qaeda is not even active in all them. If the danger is so immediate, why haven’t any governments in North Africa and as far east as Bangladesh declared their own terror alerts?
3. US officials reported that some of the intelligence came from terrorist communications intercepted by the National Security Agency over the past days. This too raises questions, considering that al Qaeda leaders are wont to avoid electronic media and satellite phones for their communications on operations, preferring couriers who are not susceptible to electronic interception or eavesdropping. The Internet serves them for propaganda and planting red herrings.
4. In the past week, US drones conducted three attacks against al Qaeda targets in Yemen, where the organization is defined by US officials as al Qaeda’s most dangerous affiliate and capable of attacking the US embassy in Sanaa.
The last drone attack Aug. 1 killed five low-profile al Qaeda operatives, who were driving in a vehicle in the Qatan Valley of Hadramouth province (Osama bin Laden’s place of birth).
All 12 US drone attacks in Yemen of the last eight months targeted Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Although its deputy chief Said al Shiri, a former inmate of the Guantanamo Bay facility, was eliminated, AQAP’s entire high command has remained intact and fully functional. In other words, US intelligence counter-terror agencies have not discovered their whereabouts.
5. Neither have they run down the location of al Qaeda’s top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Tuesday, he released a communiqué accusing US agents of engineering the coup which deposed the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood president by penetrating the Egyptian army. He called for more attacks on America.
6. Saturday, the international police agency, Interpol, published a global security alert following “the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals” in the past month, including jailbreaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan. Interpol feared that the escapees would team up with al Qaeda to hit Western targets. Yet none of its 190 member states have declared terror alerts on this score either.
7. Finally, the sweeping warnnings from the Obama administration dramatically refute its own oft-heard claims that al Qaeda is no longer a force to be reckoned with, because it has lost its compact central command and control of its component
branches, which have split up into regional franchises operating autonomously. Al Qaeda, they have been saying, is no longer capable of large-scale terrorist attacks on a global scale.
http://www.debka.com/article/23170/Unexplained-conflicting-US-global-terror-warnings-now-extend-to-American-homeland-
August 4, 2013 at 2:35 PM
discount anything debka prints as complete rubbish,they get everything wrong