Alleged new AQ terror

[Sauron]

Ahem.

By PIERRE THOMAS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2007 — Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States to orchestrate a new attack on American soil.

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently testified that documents captured by coalition forces during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members of al Qaeda six months ago "revealed [AQI] was planning terrorist operations in the U.S."
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The plot was discovered six months ago, roughly the same time that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by coalition forces. Sources tell ABC News that the suspects involved in the effort to launch the U.S. attack were closely associated with Zarqawi.

The plan also came only months after Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2, had requested that Zarqawi attempt an attack inside the United States.

Discovered six months ago, of course. Held in Karl Rove's back pocket, and magically produced the day before the SOTU speech and Bush's push for a surge. No wonder the world distrusts everything America does.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by Sauron

Ahem.

Discovered six months ago, of course. Held in Karl Rove's back pocket, and magically produced the day before the SOTU speech and Bush's push for a surge. No wonder the world distrusts everything America does.

I have to admit that I was disappointed this past October. I fully expected to see Rove pull some sensationalist bullshit outta his ass for the "October surprise". (Like pulling Osama bin Laden's body outta his hat.)

It seems to me that Al Qeada would be ill-advised to mount another major terrorist action against the U.S. at a time their biggest impediments in all governmental levels, the PNAC über neoconservatives and their toadying sycophants, are being dragged down politically. To do so would act to restimulate public assent for continued involvement...but then, maybe that's what the AQ operatives would like to continue; repeated acts of frustration and violence against innocents in the Iraqi populace by American and allied troops. It certainly has aided their recruitment efforts.