Threat closes US embassies in Muslim world for day

[Airboss786]

Curious, how come the US Diplomatic Missions were not closed in Pakistan?!

 

[CENTCOM]

Without a doubt, Osama bin Ladin’s elimination was an important milestone in the fight against Al-Qaida. Not only Bin Ladin but we have removed more than 20 of AQ’s top 30 leaders. Now, the core finds it difficult to raise money, train recruits, and plan attacks outside of the region, however the plague of terrorism by this group still remains in the world. It is for this reason that the international community has come together in the form of a global counterterrorism initiative and is putting resources towards fighting this group which has hijacked a peaceful religion. We have not and will not ever equate any religion with terrorism and we have constantly and persistently fought this false narrative of “War on Muslims” for the past decade. Only those who have their own personal agenda or are brainwashed try to spread this lie, don’t you see the people dying every day in Pakistan at the hands of these terrorists?

As to your question regarding why the closure has been extended, Department of State’s Spokesperson Jen Psaki has said, “Given that a number of our embassies and consulates were going to be closed in accordance with local custom and practice for the bulk of the week for the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan, and out of an abundance of caution, we've decided to extend the closure of several embassies and consulates including a small number of additional posts.” Taking precautions means we value the lives of each and every person working in our embassies, including native citizens. It does not reflect a defeatist attitude, rather one that does not wish to risk human lives for the sake of public image.

Haroon Ahmad
DET – U.S. Central Command
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[Devil Soul]

Al Qaeda intercept is just one piece of threat intelligence: US sources
By Reuters Published: August 6, 2013
WASHINGTON DC: Intercepted communication between al Qaeda leaders was one component of a broader pool of intelligence that prompted a threat alert closing numerous US embassies in the Middle East and Africa, US sources said on Monday.
The New York Times reported that the closure of the embassies was the result of intercepted electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahri, who replaced Osama bin Laden as head of al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the head of Yemen-based affiliate al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
US sources said that while some type of message between Zawahri and AQAP was intercepted recently, there were also other streams of intelligence that contributed to the security alert, which was prompted by a threat from AQAP.
“The threat picture is based on a broad range of reporting, there is no smoking gun in this threat picture,” a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
US officials said there was still no information about a specific target or location of a potential attack, but the threat to Western interests had not diminished.
The threat is just as serious now as it was on Friday when the State Department issued a worldwide travel alert, said Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.
“It’s a very serious threat,” Ruppersberger told CNN. “I’ve seen the intelligence. It’s a threat coming from the highest levels of al Qaeda. And especially focused in the Arabian peninsula, Yemen and areas like that.”
ABC News on Monday reported that a senior US official said authorities “are frantically searching” for vehicle bombs that al Qaeda wants to use to blow up the US embassy in Yemen and possibly other embassies.
Yemen lists 25 ‘Most wanted terrorists’
Yemen’s embassy in Washington issued a statement listing 25 “most wanted terrorists” it said were planning to carry out operations in its capital Sanaa, and said it was offering a reward for information leading to their capture.
“The Yemeni government has taken all necessary precautions to secure diplomatic facilities, vital installations and strategic assets,” the statement said.
Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA analyst, said it would have taken more than a piece of communication between al Qaeda leaders for the United States to take such aggressive action as closing 19 US diplomatic posts for a week.
“The fact that Zawahri would be sending such messages doesn’t surprise me,” Pillar said.
“Standard procedure for analysts is not to bet the farm on any one piece of intel, even if we have no doubt that this is a message from Zawahri. It’s a matter of piecing together the implications of different reports, and in combination reaching judgments about the level of threat.”
US sources and analysts cautioned that communication between al Qaeda and its affiliate did not necessarily mean that AQAP was taking orders from Zawahri.
“It shows al Qaeda core still runs a global terror machine. It is a complex picture,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who now directs the Brookings Intelligence Project in Washington.

“Zawahri does not always get what he seeks but is still undisputed as bin Laden’s heir,” he said.

Daniel Benjamin, a former State Department counterterrorism official who is now at Dartmouth College, said the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen is a “worrisome threat” because it has “talented bombmakers” and likes to move quickly and does not spend as much time planning attacks as the broader al Qaeda did.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said while core al Qaeda had been diminished, affiliate organizations, in particular Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, had strengthened. “And we have here in Washington identified AQAP as a particularly dangerous threat for some time now,” he said.

 

[RescueRanger]

That bastard dog al zawaheri was proposing attacks akin to 9/11 and the communication got intercepted. - CNN.

When I say my eid prayers I am goin to pray that god summon a mighty flood and washes away all these Mofo terrorist rats, may they drown like the pestilent and putrid cretins that they are.