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kpete

(71,963 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 09:23 AM Apr 2015

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States


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“We vow that we will not cease sitting around and laughing it up until America is reduced to rubble,” he continued.

Al-Zawahiri, who is seen in the video reclining back in his chair, putting his feet up, and flipping on CNN, later shouts “Allahu Akbar!” when a story is aired about the decade-long trend of stagnant wages among American workers.

The FBI has also warned that numerous al-Qaeda agents may have established sleeper cells for the purpose of “getting a kick out of” the nation’s downfall on American soil. The bureau urged U.S. residents to use caution around schools, hospitals, legislative bodies, prisons, and other decaying institutions whose imminent failure terrorists may wish to observe up close.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, one high-ranking U.S. counterterrorism official has described the present situation as a massive failure of intelligence.

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oh yeah, there is more:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fbi-uncovers-alqaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enj,35788/
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (Original Post) kpete Apr 2015 OP
Makes sense. We don't hear much about them anymore. They're just chillin.. misterhighwasted Apr 2015 #1
I'm afraid that's a bit what it looks like from over here Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #2
Remember bin Laden's well-timed gift to Dubya just days before the 2004 election? forest444 Apr 2015 #3
Exactly what bin Laden had in mind. elleng Apr 2015 #40
probably be a big roar when TPP is passed rurallib Apr 2015 #4
Funny as satire, sure, but some take it with a grain of truth. randome Apr 2015 #5
Heh Heh! Thanks Duval Apr 2015 #6
thanks Duval kpete Apr 2015 #15
We're working for them now. Turbineguy Apr 2015 #7
If we’d listened to experts or even our own common sense, underpants Apr 2015 #8
I thought the onion was satirical. marym625 Apr 2015 #9
+10 nt 99th_Monkey Apr 2015 #22
Thanks! marym625 Apr 2015 #34
This column.....look at at the date..... msanthrope Apr 2015 #29
ha! marym625 Apr 2015 #32
Wow - John Ashcroft oberliner Apr 2015 #36
Speaking of looking at dates in 2001... cui bono Apr 2015 #38
I remember the star fetus quite well. nt msanthrope Apr 2015 #39
Sounds like their sleeper republican cell is gittin' 'er done world wide wally Apr 2015 #10
You beat me to it! That's what it's all about. n/t freshwest Apr 2015 #27
"schools, hospitals, legislative bodies, prisons, and other decaying institutions" Perfect! L0oniX Apr 2015 #11
I know it is the Onion but this is so close. I think the sleeper cell they are talking about can be jwirr Apr 2015 #12
Unfortunately, their percepton of the us of a is spot on. pangaia Apr 2015 #13
There goes the "Onion" again mountain grammy Apr 2015 #14
Reality... freebrew Apr 2015 #16
Between The Onion and DU commentards erronis Apr 2015 #17
Kicked Enthusiast Apr 2015 #18
just from the title, I figured it had to be the Onion. fbi not that smart. niyad Apr 2015 #19
Oh, Snap! Demeter Apr 2015 #31
KnR nt chknltl Apr 2015 #20
or is it the gop, since they created a-q? Dont call me Shirley Apr 2015 #21
Pogo: "The Enemy" rears it's ugly head. 99th_Monkey Apr 2015 #23
LOL Pooka Fey Apr 2015 #24
So funny it's ridiculous. hifiguy Apr 2015 #25
I think that is actually the very well-made plan. djean111 Apr 2015 #26
THis may be satire, bvar22 Apr 2015 #28
Does that make me a member? Demeter Apr 2015 #30
http://activistshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/9111.jpg blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #33
Newest Al Qaeda plot: become naturalized American citizens and vote Republican. tclambert Apr 2015 #35
And we've been doing SUCH A GOOD JOB! Unexploded Scotsman Apr 2015 #37
I thought when they said sleeper cells rpannier Apr 2015 #41
. . . niyad Apr 2015 #42

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
1. Makes sense. We don't hear much about them anymore. They're just chillin..
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 09:31 AM
Apr 2015

Must be like watching a disaster movie with a humorous edge.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
3. Remember bin Laden's well-timed gift to Dubya just days before the 2004 election?
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 10:22 AM
Apr 2015

This, you may remember, is the part Cheney's goons tried to censor:

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.

He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, "using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers. We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said.

He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/

rurallib

(62,382 posts)
4. probably be a big roar when TPP is passed
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 10:23 AM
Apr 2015

and businesses can help AQ out.

wait - this is satire, right?

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
5. Funny as satire, sure, but some take it with a grain of truth.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 10:25 AM
Apr 2015

Well, the truth is we pissed away 4 trillion dollars on invading Iraq and hardly noticed it.

I'm honestly not sure what to make of that.
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Duval

(4,280 posts)
6. Heh Heh! Thanks
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 10:25 AM
Apr 2015

for my first smile of the day! I always either learn something from, or just simply enjoy your posts, kpete!


cui bono

(19,926 posts)
38. Speaking of looking at dates in 2001...
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 01:19 AM
Apr 2015

did you ever see the TV show That's My Bush? It was a total send up of GWB, way ahead of its time. Done by Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame. So hilarious, but still so true really. You can see Dubya doing most of what they had him do. Only ran one season of eight episodes. If you can catch it anywhere it is so worth the watch.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
12. I know it is the Onion but this is so close. I think the sleeper cell they are talking about can be
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 11:02 AM
Apr 2015

found in the House and Senate majorities right now. They do nothing while the country falls.

erronis

(15,181 posts)
17. Between The Onion and DU commentards
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 11:43 AM
Apr 2015

The "History of the US as It Once Was" is perfectly described.

I just wonder how they (AQ) got in bed so quickly with the Republicans (US Taliban). Was it money or was it sex?

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
28. THis may be satire,
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 07:11 PM
Apr 2015

but Bin Laden and Al Qaeda got everything it wanted and more.
They successfully predicted George Bush's overreaction to a handful of Saudi criminals paying rent to a Afghan Warlord to hide in their desert.

In 1993, terorists bombed the WTC for the first time.

Bill Clinton's administration, using International Law Enforcement, caught them, prosecuted them in American Courts, and Jailed those terrorists.

He did so:
*without Starting a WAR

*without Invading any sovereign countries

*with a death toll of ZERO.

*with NO "Collateral Damage"

*without driving the country into debt

*without sending our youth to a foreign desert to die.


I'm no fan of Bill Clinton (primarily for his Trade Policies, deregulation, and leaving Organized LABOR hanging) , but I give him high marks in catching and prosecuting the first WTC terrorists.

tclambert

(11,084 posts)
35. Newest Al Qaeda plot: become naturalized American citizens and vote Republican.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 09:11 PM
Apr 2015

"We know of no surer way to destroy the country."

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