“Spectacular”
Al-Qaeda has summer plans for you. ABCNews.com’s Blotter:
A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
“This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001,” the official told ABCNews.com.
Hard to know what to make of this. Al-Qaeda undoubtedly has had a lot of “spectacular” plans. Execution not always feasible. Meanwhile, what intelligence agent/agency in the post-9/11 Commission era is going to downplay any suggestion of al-Qaeda’s desire to do us harm?
A series of bungled and seemingly inept attacks — to include the Fort Dix and JFK Int’l plots along with the failed British fire-bomb attempts — doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of not screwing it up, or that the kinds of things we’ve seen can’t be highly effective, or that they are even the main events. Successful attacks are often preceded by failures. The growing trend of what appear to be al-Qaeda-inspired local amateurs itself represents a disturbing evolution. Those British fire bombs are now being viewed as inefficent weapons, ineffectively deployed. But 9/11, the major catastrophe of our time, was carried out with inefficient weapons that could have proven ineffective under any number of alternative scenarios.
All of which gets us back to the old truth we all know now, even if we don’t really think it will ever apply to us. London, Glasgow, JFK and Dix are just reminders. Glasgow and the pine barrens of New Jersey? Fort Dix is in the middle of nowhere. It can happen anywhere, at any time. Which is why you need to be alert, and need to have already thought about what you’re going to do. Whether you can or even get a chance to is what you find out later.
Here are some people who found out:
Bingham, Beamer, Burnett, Glick, Nacke, Cashman etal
Those are just a few of the select few. Spectacular.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:30 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2007
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July 2nd, 2007 at 12:21 am
Summer Fascism Preview
To paraphrase Leon Trotsky, Jules Crittenden writes that you may not be interested in Al-Qaeda, but “Al-Qaeda has summer plans for you”….
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:28 am
“This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001,”
“This is also reminiscent of every other warning the crazy jihadis have made ever since they started delivering crazy jihadi warnings.”
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 am
Sandcrawler PSA: al-Qeada Planning Attack, el-Spectacularrrr
Yes that’s right al-Qeada plans to make America’s summer suck. That’s according to ABCNEWS:A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, …
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
[...] Jules Crittenden remarks that he find it “hard to know what to make of this.” Al-Qaeda undoubtedly has had a lot of “spectacular” plans. Execution not always feasible. Meanwhile, what intelligence agent/agency in the post-9/11 Commission era is going to downplay any suggestion of al-Qaeda’s desire to do us harm? [...]
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
[...] Jules Crittenden remarks that he find it “hard to know what to make of this.” Al-Qaeda undoubtedly has had a lot of “spectacular” plans. Execution not always feasible. Meanwhile, what intelligence agent/agency in the post-9/11 Commission era is going to downplay any suggestion of al-Qaeda’s desire to do us harm? [...]
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
It isn’t just what we need to prepare for in case we spot something suspicious. It’s what we need to prepare for in case they’re successful. What do we do if they, God forbid, manage to destroy the financial center of New York City, or take out Capitol Hill, or shut down the shipping facilities at Long Beach, CA? Unlikely prospects, yes, but then so was the destruction of two very big buildings in 2001.
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
[...] to Jules Crittenden and Outside the [...]
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm
al-Qaeda’s Plans For Summer
Multiple car bombs designed to slaughter hundreds of civilians and strikes against critical infrastructure are daily events in Baghdad, and al-Qaeda in Iraq has decided to put its experience in mass murder on the internet