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| Unsettling video shows large al Qaeda meeting in Yemen |
| 2014-04-16 |
| [CNN] A new video shows what looks like the largest and most dangerous gathering of al Qaeda in years. And the CIA and the Pentagon either didn't know about it or couldn't get a drone there in time to strike. In the middle of the clip, the man known as al Qaeda's crown prince, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, appears brazenly out in the open, greeting followers in Yemen. Al-Wuhayshi, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda globally and the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has said he wants to attack the United States. The video started appearing on jihadist websites recently, drawing the attention of U.S. officials and global terrorism experts. U.S. officials say they believe it's authentic. The video shows al-Wuhayshi addressing more than 100 fighters somewhere within Yemen, a restive nation on the southwestern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, said Paul Cruickshank, CNN terrorism analyst. U.S. officials believe the highly produced video is recent. With some fighters faces blurred, there is worry it signals a new round of plotting. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, also known as AQAP, is considered the most dangerous al Qaeda affiliate. The CIA and the Pentagon have repeatedly killed AQAP leaders with drone strikes. But the group is now emboldened. "The main problem about this group is that it has a bomb maker who can put bombs on to planes that can't be detected," Bergen said. That bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, is believed to be responsible for several attack attempts against the United States, including the failed 2009 Christmas Day underwear bomber attack in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang.... |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #12 Don't get so excited, this was just a meeting of the Yemen Chamber of Commerce. /sarc off |
| Posted by: Nasir al-Wuhayshi2014 2014-04-16 18:50 |
| #11 May be the feds have been too busy studying videos of them getting their asses kicked by armed American cowboys. Priorities, priorities ya know. |
| Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-16 17:24 |
| #10 Sorry but those agencies are establishment-protection agencies, not public protection. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-16 16:50 |
| #9 No problemo. FBI, CIA, IRS, ATF, BLM and NSA has it all covered (when they care spare time from checking on conservative American citizens, ranchers, ex-military, gun owners and the Tea Party). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-04-16 16:41 |
| #8 With the Obama regime more concerned with tea parties, youtube is America's only reliable source of intelligence. |
| Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-16 16:25 |
| #7 The only reason we found out was Obama as supposed to keynote the event, but couldn't because of golf scheduling conflict. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-04-16 14:48 |
| #6 Airandee, if 'we' had infiltrated I would have seen it in the NY Slimes, and I did not. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-04-16 12:27 |
| #5 Maybe no bombs were sent because 'we' called the meeting? There is a chance we infiltrated the top line management and need to get intel on the outer/rebuilt network players and locations. Just speculating outloud. |
| Posted by: airandee 2014-04-16 11:03 |
| #4 U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" that leaks tied to Yemen have affected U.S. intelligence collection, but he said he couldn't say whether U.S. intelligence knew about the meeting. Unsettling indeed. Rogers couldn't say could he? Perhaps he'd have to kill us. He should have asked his wife Kristi, she's obviously got connections. Perhaps Mike Morell could be called in to blame the FBI. If not he, then some "retired" former Klingon. The car park for over 100 attendees went unnoticed did it? Nobody called home upon their arrival? Well then, was it an 'identify parade' with faces in the video being racked and stacked for future work, then blotted out? Prohibition on Hell Fires? Inquiring minds. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-16 09:02 |
| #3 ...or the drones were diverted to Nevada airspace. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-16 08:57 |
| #2 Some sort of Karl Rove trickery. We all know Champ has whupped al Q. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-04-16 07:54 |
| #1 The Feds should of surrounded them with 200+ lawmen and taken all their camels. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-04-16 06:59 |