Cheney: Obama Doesn’t Recognize Terrorism Threat Posted: 22 Apr 2009 01:06 AM PDT
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the Obama administration no longer believes that America is threatened by terrorists and is making dangerous The threat is there. It’s very real and it’s continuing, Cheney told Fox News Sean That says either they didn’t work, which we know is not the case — they did work, they kept us safe for seven years — or that now somehow the threat’s gone away. There’s no longer a threat out there, we don’t have to be as tough and aggressive as the Bush administration was. It' s that post-9/11 mindset that most concerns him, Cheney said. Barack Obama and his administration are no longer going to ask our guys tough questions when they are captured. Now, maybe we won’t behead their people when they capture them. I mean, it’s just — it says something about a mindset that I worry about very much, Cheney said. And I think there’s a problem out there nationally in the sense that we are 7.5 years, to forget it and believe that the threat is gone, it’s diminished, it’s disappeared. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And one of the worst things we could do is start to This story comes to us via Homeland Security Share this post                  |
US Accuses Swedish-Lebanese Man Of Being Al-Qaeda Operative Posted: 22 Apr 2009 12:01 AM PDT
In opening arguments in federal court Tuesday, U.S. prosecutors argued that Ousama Kassir, a Swedish man of Lebanese descent, was planning to set up an Kassir was extradited to the United States in September 2007 from Prague, where he was jailed after his arrest in 2005 during a stopover while flying from “This case concerns a global conspiracy that takes place down here in the United States,” assistant U.S. attorney Michael Farbiarz told judge John Keenan in district court in Manhattan. Kassir, 43, is charged with conspiring with others to set up a “jihad” camp in Oregon, in the northwest United States, that would offer military weapons training for Kassir declared his innocence when he was charged last year, and his lawyer on Tuesday said his client had “a big mouth,” but was not a criminal. Kassir arrived in the United States in 1999 and spent a year at an Oregon ranch, imparting religious teachings at a Seattle mosque before returning to Europe, according to the prosecution. “You are going to see a knife that he used for training at the ranch,” Farbiarz told the jury as Kassir, in a red tunic, listened through an interpreter. “You will see the bomb-making manuals and the poison making manuals,” he added. Farbiarz said next week he would call James Ujaama, a former activist from Seattle who has admitted supporting the Al-Qaeda network and is now a Kassir allegedly admitted before witnesses he supported Al-Qaeda and its boss Osama bin Laden. The government also accused Kassir of being a follower of Egyptian Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, currently jailed in Britain for inciting to violence. This story comes to us via Homeland Security Share this post |
Techniques Worked - May Have Prevented Los Angeles Terror Attack Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:50 PM PDT
President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists. “High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was memo to his staff last Thursday. You ask how? CIA Waterboarding Produced Intel That Stopped Attack on Los Angeles “Soon, you will know.” That is the ominous statement an uncooperative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, told his Central Intelligence Agency interrogators when they initially asked him, after he had been captured, about additional planned al-Qaida attacks on the United States. In March 2003, KSM became the third and final terrorist ever waterboarded by the CIA. The other two were Abu Zubaydah and Rahim Al-Nashiri. On Tuesday, the CIA confirmed to that it stands by assertions credited to the agency in z 2005 memo that subjecting KSM to “enhanced techniques” of interrogation including waterboarding caused him to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to stop a planned 9/11-style attack on Los Angeles. The previously classified memo was released by President Obama last week. Before they were waterboarded, both KSM and Abu Zubaydah did not believe Americans had the will to stop al-Qaida, the 2005 Justice Department memo says, citing information from the CIA. “Both KSM and Zubaydah had ‘expressed their belief that the general U.S. population was ‘weak,’ lacked resilience and would be unable to ‘do what was necessary’ to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals,’” said the memo. “Indeed, before the CIA used enhanced techniques in its interrogation of KSM, KSM resisted giving any answers to questions about future attacks, simply noting, ‘Soon, you will know.’” After he was waterboarded, KSM provided the CIA with information that allowed the U.S. government to close down a terror cell already “tasked” with flying a jet This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Share this post |
Britain Prepares To Deport 9 Terrorism Suspects to Pakistan Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:19 PM PDT
Two weeks after hundreds of police officers staged raids in northern England and arrested 12 men in what Prime Minister Gordon Brown described as “a very big terrorist plot,” the police released nine of them on Tuesday and handed them over to Britain’s border control agency for deportation to Pakistan. Two other men remained in police custody for further questioning under Britain’s Terrorism Act. Another man had been handed over previously to the border agency for deportation. A Home Office spokesman, referring to the transfer of the nine suspects to the border agency, said the government was “seeking to remove these individuals on
A police spokeswoman in the northern city of Manchester, which the British news media had portrayed as the focal point of the plot described by Mr. Brown, said the investigations were continuing. But Britain’s security agencies appeared to have pulled back from earlier suggestions that they had foiled a major imminent attack involving infiltrators with Al Qaeda sent to Britain from Pakistan on student visas. After the arrests on April 8, senior officials were quoted in British newspapers as saying they had moved against the 12 men after deciding that a bombing against a target in Manchester, possibly a crowded shopping center over the Easter weekend. via Britain Prepares to Deport 9 Terrorism Suspects to Pakistan - This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Share this post |
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