Obama Administration Calls BS on Al Qaeda Claim

Yeah right . This can’t possbly be anything important or else he would have to actually do something .

What is it going to take for the Obama administration to wake up..
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Hmmm. Who needs to wake up?
TP (from a few days ago):”Hoekstra is woefully uninformed if he thinks the Obama administration hasn’t “connected the dots” to Yemen. Yemeni security forces carried out airstrikes and ground raids against suspected al Qaeda hide-outs over the past two weeks “with what American officials described as ‘intelligence and firepower’ supplied by the United States. The assaults were Yemen’s widest offensive against jihadists in years.” President Obama reportedly personally approved the use of “military hardware, intelligence and other support to Yemeni forces” in their assault on al Qaeda… Moreover, both Obama and his homeland security adviser, John Brennan, have cited Yemen as a key concern.”
See also “Brian Ross, an investigative reporter for ABC News, first reported Friday night on the “ABC World News” program that US warplanes had been involved in the attacks. He said, “White House officials tell ABC News the orders for the US military to attack the suspected Al Qaeda sites in Yemen on Thursday came directly from the Oval Office.”
Btw, ABC… where is a report on Obama’s statement today? I read the transcript at Lynn Sweet’s blog.

This President, his Secretaries, and Advisers are incapable and unwilling to protect America and her citizens.
An “Isolate Terrorist”? Give me a break. This individual is part of an enemy force hell bent on the destruction of the US and our way of life. The President and his Administration appear to be more concerned about the enemy than America. He seems to think his oath of office was nothing more than reading a speech off a teleprompter.
How many must die, how many cities laid waste to get his attention? Would it even get his attention? I have my doubts. If, God forbid” a massive strike occurs New Years Eve in Times Square will he refer to it as an “isolated incident”? I think so. Smooth it over, let it go. Just a few criminals.

“The President and his Administration appear to be more concerned about the enemy than America.”
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Recent strikes against al Qaeda in Yemen, continuing strikes all year in Pakistan, and increase of troops in Afghanistan – yeah sounds like the entire security apparatus and the military of the United States is doing nothing.

Well, OBL claimed AL-Q was responsible for 9/11 but we all REALLY know it was an inside job, right? So yeah, that was all BS too, lol. I don’t know if this WH is that ignorant or if they just think all of us are.

jennifert7,
We pay and pay and pay for every barrel of oil we ‘take’ from these nomads that just happened to be living in a desert above this oil that was discovered less than 100 years ago. Did we get it cheap in the beginning? You bet… we found the oil, extracted it, shipped it and gave some of the money to the local Sheik for the trouble.
Almost 40 years ago, they decided that they could dictate price and have done so ever since.
Name me one Middle Eastern country where WE dictate policy. Pulleeezee. Get real. And these sons of comfort decide to blow us up? What if we had never discovered oil there? What would they have?
Ditto for Nigeria.
If we got out of the way, we could just stand back and watch them kill each other. Check your history book.

RandyS”Name me one Middle Eastern country where WE dictate policy.”
Oh, I don’t how about the ones we invade. How about supporting Israel in light of their herding of Palestinians in their cages. How about propping up dictatorial regimes.
“Pulleeezee. Get real. ”
I am a real live boy!

Why did it take until today for Obama to respond? Clearly this must be above his pay grade. After all he was on vacation. Napolitano can handle it, didn,t that turn out well. This President is well on his way of becoming the most hated man in America.

I think this shows the world what a viscious group this religion is…enough said.

Al Qaeda is just like the kid that made a 60 on a test and celebrating the fact that it wasn’t a 30. Both are failing grades, but the kid is too dumb to realize it. They failed and they failed because people do not just sit by and do nothing anymore. Flight 93 heroes lesson is still with us. The government can not do it all, we have to take responsibility and action as well.

Well… he has been Mirandized therefore given the right to remain silent so it’s unlikely we will get any information from him… so I guess it’s safe for the Administration to make such off the cuff claims of no organized terror group relationship…
It’s especially embarrassing for the Gov’t because this Al Qaeda splinter group is led by two former Gitmo detainees “Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari”…
This is an inconvenient truth for the Obama Administration because of their operation to dismantle Gitmo and release or deport the detainees…
If these terrorists are released then we are in for much more of this stuff… both terror attacks and governmental disinformation…

Its funny how propaganda finds its way into everything nowadays… The government always accusing that it is only retaliating against people who just “feel like killing things and blowing themselves up”… What they fail to mention is that they’ve been supplying weapons to various nations since WW2, and all the “recent” violence can be considered a consequence of those actions.

I don’t know about you, but I feel soooo safe.
The system worked after all.
Joseph Haas | Dec 28, 2009 8:17:34 PM
How many people were killed by this attack again? It must have been a pretty horrific body count to turn an American into such a fearful coward.
I’m flying home with a connection in Detroit next week with my wife and 1.6 kids and yup, I do feel safe.

The only reason there wasn’t a body count was because of a quick thinking passenger–NOT government action or procedure.
Posted by: Joseph Haas | Dec 28, 2009 8:33:14 PM
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Same thing that happened with the ‘shoe bomber’ on George Bush’s watch . . . civilian vigilance is an important part of the effort.

Test run? See it! One failed supposed bombing. Then the same flight, a Nigerian ‘sick’ in the bathroom? Took an hour before anyone became suspicious! Do they even SEE this? Well, it’s Napolitano with Homeland Security, so it doesn’t surprise me.
Common sense is always the best policy. And we send our taxpayer money to this government for our defense. Too bad that they use it for all other reasons, such as social justice (COMMUNISM), except what it was intended for. Common sense doesn’t cost anything. But it is lacking in this administration that has more concern for a surfboarding friend, than of the fact that we may be looking at a test run of a new 9/11.

Tierra… I blame both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administation… if Obama has his way then there are going to be hundreds of these terrorists released…
One was released because the Bush administration was under pressure from the media and the ACLU to start some sort of reviews of the detainees. One was released because he basically convinced the panel that he was a victim of circumstances and just wanted to return home to his life as a family man with a used furniture business in Saudi Arabia… after consultation with the Saudis it was decided that he was not a threat and the Saudis agreed to keep a close eye on him… of course as soon as he got to Saudia Arabia he skipped off to Yemen and became a leader of an Al Qaeda splinter group…
And I’m neither Donkey nor Elephant… It doesn’t matter to me if it’s Bush or Obama… truth is both administrations are too weak on terrorism… They should be tried as enemy combatants and if found guilty, executed, if not then let go, if convicted of a lesser crime then serve time… it’s that simple… it’s what we did with German spies and saboteurs and it’s what is needed now…
Western civilization is being threatened because of political correctness… call it profiling or whatever you like, but we need to heavily scrutinize the parties responsible for these attacks… if white Christian men start committing terrorist acts on Arab flights then they should undergo heavy scrutiny… the time for caring about offending people is over. There is a war on terrorism regardless of what the government wants to call it. If you prefer calling it “man-made disasters” fine… make the profiled class show up 4 hours before a flight and send them through the nude viewer or whatever it takes… but the sensitivities of a class are less important to me than the lives of innocents… things are backwards people and we have to stop pointing left and right and do what is logical.

Yes I do… there are actually 210 detainees…90 have been cleared to return to their home countries under the Obama plan.
That leaves 120 to be tried by American courts. If only one of those cases are dismissed on grounds that apply to all of them (unlawful detainment for example) then they all walk… that would mean, as I said, hundreds could be released under the current plan to close Gitmo.

I think if “Obama has his way” then the guilty ones will be found guilty and punished appropriately.
Posted by: tierra |
That’s totally divorced from reality.
Obama is president and therefore he does have his way. He has chosen to release a number of detainees and he has not yet prosecuted, much less found guilty, a single one.

He has chosen to release a number of detainees and he has not yet prosecuted, much less found guilty, a single one.
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He has released very few detainees. I think we’ll see trials coming up in the new year.

*fear

What a total terrible joke. “We will not rest,” Obama said, “until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.”
This statement was not given until he had spent several days resting, golfing, hitting the beach, and giving his Kwanzaa statement.
And no apparent problems with the “system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days” until Janet Napolitano shifted course and agreed that the aviation security “system did not work” and had failed to stop the Christmas Day attempt.
If Obama was going to show some leadership, he should fire her, try to find someone who is not an open borders champion, union thug, or tax cheat to run homeland security. Think he would ever appoint someone like a marine general?

what a shocker.. the anointed one takes office and the terrorists still want to destroy us!!! I thought Barry was going to calm them because of his muslim compassion. The only people he is uniting are the extremists!!! He is a weak president!

kel: “I thought Barry was going to calm them . . .”
Exactly. Now, liberals can see that it wasn’t the terrible Bush administration that angered those poor al-Qaeda terrorists. No amount of apologies or concessions will appease them. I would argue that it is the conciliatory tone and actions from this administration that have further emboldened them.
Between this and Fort Hood, Obama’s liberal approach to terrorism has failed. At least after the lessons of 9/11 were learned, Bush kept the homeland safe from attacks for the following 7 years. Obama hasn’t even finished his first year, and we already have 2 Islamic terrorist attacks both with ties to al-Qaeda. If this is any gauge, we all better prepare for more terrorist attacks for the next 3 years.
I guess those “right-wing, neo-con, nut-jobs” were right after all — al-Qaeda and the greater Islamic jihad terrorist movement are threats to be recognized and dealt with seriously. If Obama spent half as much time focusing on whatever is left of the war on terror as he has in pushing a government take-over of health care, maybe we could have thwarted both attacks. The American people now know where his priorities are, and they are going to let him know come 2012. Hopefully, we can survive Obama’s negligence, recklessness, and irresponsibility until then.

tierra: “. . . Bush and Cheney backed off al Qaeda and Bin Laden in Afghanistan when they had them cornered and could have finished them off . . . Instead they went for the neo-con obsession to attack Iraq.”
Nice theory except for the fact that the battle of Tora Bora that you refer to happened in December of 2001 and we didn’t invade Iraq until March of 2003.
If Iraq hadn’t supported and cooperated with international Islamic terrorists groups, such as al-Qaeda, didn’t continue to possess and pursue WMD, and didn’t violate numerous UN security council resolutions, maybe we could have allowed more troops to stay in Afghanistan. That would have been irresponsible — especially post-9/11. Regardless, the Bush administration did an excellent job of dismantling al-Qaeda, making it a shadow of it’s former self. Yet, as proven by recent events, the al-Qaeda threat remains. Unfortunately, as evident by his rhetoric and his action, we no longer have a president that takes that threat seriously. 2012 can’t come soon enough for America.

“Regardless, the Bush administration did an excellent job of dismantling al-Qaeda, making it a shadow of it’s former self. Yet, as proven by recent events, the al-Qaeda threat remains”
What kind of stupid statement is that???
Republican leaders and thier paid henchmen have been screaming about these al quida supermen since 9\11. It won them an election in 04. 06 – no, 08 – no, 10 – yea right.
They played out the fear card long ago yet they keep pulling it out at the drop of a hat.
We’re not that scared.