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2010-02-15 Arabia

Exclusive: A U.S. Intelligence Breakthrough in the Persian Gulf?

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1 Sources and methods, why do we release them?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-15 03:59|| 2010-02-15 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Because we're already watching them and want to expand the chain to their safe-houses.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-02-15 06:13|| 2010-02-15 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 when asked at a White House press briefing what was the most "shocking, stunning thing" he had learned from the administration's review of the Christmas Day bombing incident, John Brennan, President Obama's counter-terrorism advisor, replied: "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is an extension of Al Qaeda core coming out of Pakistan.

Hadn't a number of us guessed this from news reports here on the Burg?

Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-15 06:19|| 2010-02-15 06:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Good Lord! It is? Who among us would have ever guessed?

Posted by Fred 2010-02-15 11:04|| 2010-02-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't this the kind of news that shouldn't be public?

Posted by Icerigger 2010-02-15 11:27|| http://coonlakebeach.com 2010-02-15 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Seeing that it's in Newsweek...yeah, probably.

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-15 11:28|| 2010-02-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Sources and methods, why do we release them?

Because some weenie in the WH wants to prove that Obambi's doing something on the ~~War on Terror~~ police action.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-02-15 12:36|| 2010-02-15 12:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Because some weenie in the WH wants to prove that Obambi's doing something on the ~~War on Terror~~ police action.

Oh, he's doing something alright. Problem is, it's often the wrong thing.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-15 13:15|| 2010-02-15 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Mr. Cheney did approve how the president is running the Afghan war, once he finally stopped agonizing long enough to make a decision, gorb. Credit where due, and all that.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-15 13:34|| 2010-02-15 13:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, he's doing something alright. Problem is, it's often the wrong thing.y

You mean like trying to turn it into a second Cold War?

Posted by Pappy 2010-02-15 14:42|| 2010-02-15 14:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Mr. Cheney did approve how the president is running the Afghan war, once he finally stopped agonizing long enough to make a decision, gorb. Credit where due, and all that.

Grumble grumble. Well, maybe OK. Too bad he has to take a quick step back for every two agonizingly slow steps he takes forwards.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-15 20:47|| 2010-02-15 20:47|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with you there, gorb. Grumbling and all.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-15 23:23|| 2010-02-15 23:23|| Front Page Top

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