Friday, August 2, 2013

State Department Travel Alert-So Much for Al Qaeda on its Last Legs or Whatever

If any of you are foolish enough to be thinking about traveling to the Middle East or North Africa in the near future (or distant future for that matter), here is your friendly State Department travel alert via Fox News.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/state-department-issues-travel-alert/


And if that's not enough, 21 US embassies in that region will be closed on Sunday due to intelligence they may be targeted that day by Al Qaeda (or local yokals, perhaps?). Why Sunday?

Beats me except that it is Barack Obama's birthday, and David Axelrod is sending out e-mails urging everyone to wish him happy birthday, so maybe that's Al Qaeda's way of sending their greetings.

Didn't Obama and his mouthpiece, Jay Carney, tell us we had beaten Al Qaeda? What about that, Jay?

"Did I say that?"
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4 comments:

  1. SquidAugust 2, 2013 at 3:36 PM

    Darn! Didn't Al Qaeda get the memo on what Joe Biden said: "Al Qaeda id dead."

    Squid

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  2. MiggieAugust 3, 2013 at 3:33 AM

    It is hard to decide whether Obama's foreign policies are worse than his domestic policies.

    There are the same incompetence and botched attempts of coverups in both.

    America elected an amateur ideologue and we may never dig ourselves out of this hole.

    Thanks, liberal Democrats, for your utopian aspirations and utter stupidity.

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  3. elwood p sugginsAugust 3, 2013 at 2:56 PM

    Linking this back to an older post on Benghazi, you have to keep in mind that what DEA and the FBI call "Special Agents" and "snitches/informants", the CIA calls "case officers" and "agents"/"operatives", respectively.

    I wonder just how much better our intelligence is now than it was prior to the Benghazi attack to enable us to issue warnings this specific. Probably not that much. Could be true, could be a diversion from "phony crises"??

    Best bet is that part, or a lot, of the Benghazi cover-up involves efforts not to reveal just how many of the attackers were on the CIA payroll as "agents". I suspect quite a few. That, unfortunately, is just the way the intelligence world works.

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  4. elwood p sugginsAugust 4, 2013 at 6:07 AM

    Sorry, I misspoke, meant to say "phony scandals".

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