Spies Warn That Al Qaeda Aims for October Surprise

[BlueJessamine]

Source: The New York Sun

WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks on Western targets, America's counterterrorism community is warning that Al Qaeda may launch more overseas operations to influence the presidential elections in November.

Call it Osama bin Laden's "October surprise." In late August, during the weekend between the Democratic and Republican conventions, America's military and intelligence agencies intercepted a series of messages from Al Qaeda's leadership to intermediate members of the organization asking local cells to be prepared for imminent instructions.

An official familiar with the new intelligence said the message was picked up in multiple settings, from couriers to encrypted electronic communications to other means. "These are generic orders," the source said — a distinction from the more specific intelligence about the location, time, and method of an attack. "It was, 'Be on notice. We may call upon you soon.' It was sent out on many channels."

Also, Yemen's national English-language newspaper is reporting that a spokesman for Yemen's Islamic Jihad, the Qaeda affiliate that claimed credit for last week's American embassy bombing in Sa'naa, is now publicly threatening to attack foreigners and high government officials if American and British diplomats do not leave the country.



Read more: http://www.nysun.com/foreign/spies-warn-that-al-qaeda-aims-for-october-surprise/86326/

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September: The pillaging of the U.S.Treasury

October: The October Surprise-Al Qaeda will try to influence the November elections by attempting attacks globally = scare tactics

"Earlier this summer, another McCain campaign official mused in an interview that an attack could benefit his candidate in the polls."

[Duke Newcombe]

1. Spies, eh? More like Mc*'s campaign

TERRA!! TERRA!! TERRA!!! 9-1-1!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!!! SERIES, GUYZ!!1!!!!!

Duke

[BlueJessamine]

4. exactly:

"Earlier this summer, another McCain campaign official mused in an interview that an attack could benefit his candidate in the polls."

[FreakinDJ]

33. More Chalibi

More of the same ilk that led us into Iraq

[Vincardog]

57. Do you mean the * mis-administration is going to ignore ANOTHER attack?

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Gee who does Al Qaeda want to be President.

[uppityperson]

13. Exactly. They would prefer the one who will give them attention and money.

[McCamy Taylor]

51. Republicans, the ones in bed with Osama's family in Saudi Arabia.

Al Qaeda in full of shit. It is a phony revolutionary organization. A corporate "radical" group bought and paid for by the Saudi Arabia Royals. Their job is to keep the oil flowing and the fascists in power and extremists from joining any group which might kick the Wahhabis out of power.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. How credible is the NYSun?

Are they like Newsmax?

[DinahMoeHum]

6. They're like NewsMax and WorldNutDaily. . .which is not saying much.

:evilfrown:

[inanna]

11. The paper is having financial problems too....

according to the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/nyregion/22sun.html?em

[ladywnch]

37. they are a tabloid rag. A Murdoch sensationalist rag. n/t

[philly_bob]

58. A political plaything for a group of rich right-wingers.

On the other hand, it accurately reflects what neocons are talking about. This does make me a little more afraid.

[readmoreoften]

63. Well, shit, they're very credible if they're the one's making it up and executing the psy ops.

I translate this article as follows:

Yeah, so today, we're putting this out there that Bin Laden is going to do some booga booga stuff. So be expecting a tape soon. We're working on it, but our CG guy's mom had a hip replacement so we're going with this new guy and he's complaining about how the actor doesn't look like Bin Laden at all. We told him that you all bought the Fat Egyptian Bin Laden we rolled out in 2004 and he shouldn't worry. The American people will generally accept any brown guy in white headgear that a news source calls "Bin Laden" as the genuine article.

Anyhoo. So, we're about to bring out a tape and it's going to say "American people. This is a message from Al Qaeda. We demand that you convert to Islam. And also, we demand that you vote for Barack Obama. He is the only man we will bargain with because we trust him as one of our own. What every you do American people! Do not vote for John McCain!!!"

Of course, the contrarian two-year olds will think that Obama put Bin Laden up to promoting him and they won't want to do what Bin Laden says so they'll vote McCain just to spite him. And if they don't we'll just steal the election and tell everyone that "Americans are so stupid they all just did the opposite of what Bin Laden said. Tsk. Tsk." Heck it worked in 2004. It'll work in 2008. Thank god we probably won't need this shit in 2012.

So, yeah, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike." Or something. Now go get hysterical or something.

[leveymg]

70. NY Sun is part of the neocon network that includes Murdoch's Post & Sunday Times (UK)

It's worth reading or the same reason that US intel analysts used to read Pravda and other Soviet house organs to try figure out what Stalin's boys were cooking up.

Yes, I think that's a good analogy. B-)

[dubeskin]

5. Well, this might just prove that

the Republicant's method of a strong national defense doesn't work, and just might help us.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

10. Agreed

If another significant terrorist attack was to occur, it would count as nothing but a massive failure of the BushCo. fascist regime.

That said, I hope it doesn't happen and that this is nothing more than the typical fear-mongering. I wouldn't put it past BushCo. to attempt to turn an attack to their advantage: martial law, suspension of election, etc.

At which time, torches and pitchforks!

[mwb970]

16. Have you seen the prices of torches and pitchforks these days?

Couldn't we just sign a hard-hitting online petition instead?

[brer cat]

18. lol

:thumbsup:

[nichomachus]

55. Or we could just have

Nancy Pelosi give them a very stern look

[mwb970]

68. What about a major, and I do mean major, leafletting campaign? /nt

[ohioINC]

23. True Fascists would blame it on the opposition.

The re-pubs will just claim that the democratic congress allowed the attacks to happen.

[liberal N proud]

7. Crank up the terror machine

It is election season.

[cabluedem]

61. Yeap! Keep em terrified of their own shadows.

[msongs]

8. GW Bush is gonna allow another attack on the US? allow another one? nt

[aquart]

9. Why? Are they going to bankrupt a pension fund?

Who gives a shit what they do?

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. Bullshit - The East is watching the West implode from it's own greed.

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Why would they bother??

[Grateful for Hope]

14. Yeah, right,

Whatever "surprise" that might occur will not be due to Al Qaeda.

My you are gullible.

[jaybeat]

15. NY Sun sets stage for Republican False Flag black ops

"Softening up the public mind, we call it," said one NYS staffer who refused to be identified on grounds that he'd likely be water boarded before being extraordinarily rended to a "friendly" dictatorship where he could expect to experience far worse treatment. ("Alaska. That's what they threaten us with to make us *really* scared. I'm told the Governor up there guts spies alive. They call it 'field dressing a moose.' Nobody wants to be the moose.")

He went on to explain that an October attack by "al-Qaeda" would be "called in if it looks like our guy needs a little help. We'll know for sure after the after the debates." Probed further, the source revealed that since the Post and other news outlets were only on the "public relations" side of the operation, they didn't, really, know all that much. "We soften 'em up, just like the bombers do before they send in the ground troops. We get the people ready for the idea, and then the generals decide how much of a hit is required to have the desired effect. If it ain't too bad, then they might only need to, you know, release a tape or blow up an embassy. But if he's in real trouble, then they might have to bring out the big guns."

Asked what that might mean, the source's only comment was, "Well, let's just say I wouldn't want to be anywhere near our home office the week before election day. I think a lot of people are gonna be 'on vacation' that week, if you know what I mean."

[Politicalboi]

17. The sky is falling!

Better put John McCain in the WH because HE is the only one who can save our asses. We need Rudy as Homeland Security head so he can catch all the bad guys. :scared:

[mercuryblues]

22. Oh My!!

Time to raise the terror color coded alert levels to RED.

[AnnieBW]

19. Oh, Noes!

First these a-holes are "decimated", now they're "planning a big attack". Shyeah, right.

[redirish28]

20. how Convienent. Let me guess this will help McCain.

[BlueJessamine]

24. bingo!

[rpannier]

42. Don't you know by now

EVERYTHING helps mcbush

If he said he wanted to re-instate the draft and harvest the organs of all healthy people over 60, we'd hear how this helps mcbush

[crossroads]

21. *Fear* is the way to manipulate voters...

This sounds so Rovelike!

CR

[Matariki]

25. Proof that Al Qaeda is employed by the terrorists that took over the Republican party?

what possible outcome would Al Qaeda want for the US elections?

[Solly Mack]

26. What? Do they want some bailout money too?

[halobeam]

27. Hah!

:rofl:

[OhioChick]

28. On cue, as expected. n/t

[SemperEadem]

29. here we go again

along with the NRA saying Obama's going to "take yer gunz from ya...", what's next? The religious reicht saying that Obama's going to come into your home and "take yer bibles and make you memorize the Koran"?

You can almost plant your winter veggies to this shit. It's like clockwork.

[santamargarita]

30. What they mean to say is "State Sponsored Terrorism"

It's always the same shit with this bunch!

[ananda]

31. I really don't see why they'd bother.

This country is already virtually destroyed.

[yellerpup]

32. They are so afraid they won't get another Bush administration.

Nobody plays into their hands as well as GW.

[Gman]

34. In exchange for being let go at Tora Bora

OBL made his imfamous tape the Friday before election day in 2004. The rest of the deal has clearly been that the US would not harm or try to capture OBL for the duration of Bush's "presidency", if not longer. OBL is probably required to make at least one more or several more acts at the behest of the neocons which may be what is being anticipated.

[Pastiche423]

36. Don't know what "imfamous" means

but I do know OBL made no tape in 2004. Actually he has not made a tape since Devember 26, 2001.

[Gman]

38. Wrong!

Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Osama_bin_Laden_video

or maybe Bush acknowledging that it helped him in 2004: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/280206binladenshelp.htm. John Kerry said it cost him the election.

or maybe Google which has a ton of relevant links... http://www.google.com/search?q=bin+laden+2004+election&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a



Whether or not it really was OBL remains open to debate. The fact of the matter is the video had the intended effect whether it was Karl Rove or Al Queda that released the video to Al Jazeera. I can't imagine Al Jazeera in cahoots with Karl Rove.

[Pastiche423]

40. Nope

It only remains open for debate if you believe the whistle ass administration.

[bluesmail]

35. This comes from NY Post. An unreliable source for news.

Of course nearly all the major newspapers are loaded with propaganda. Oh well.

[UTUSN]

39. Uh, would these be "wingnut - NeoCon" spies?!1 n/t

[MadMaddie]

41. Any bets that we will see a new "OBL tape in October".

We should get a bet running in Vegas on this, because the odds are in favor of it happening.

[biglefthander]

43. This is simply the prelude...

...to a "false flag" operation carried out by a right-wing black bag group in order to terrify them and send them scurrying to the polls to vote for "daddy" (the GOP).

Of course, al-Qaeda probably wants Republicans in power, since they have been kicking the shit out of us since Bush and Co. took over. In football, the last thing you want is for your rival to fire its shitty coach after you have kicked their asses for seven straight seasons.

[d_b]

44. *cough* CIA *cough*

[Hawkeye-X]

45. Ah, the fishwrap spreads yet another lie.

That's exactly what the paper is worth - a fishwrap.

[LynnTheDem]

46. "Ok, you've covered your ass"

Now let's do a month-long vacation.

[Old and In the Way]

47. Al Qaeda and the Republican Party

A mutually reinforcing couple that destroys everyone else around them.

[Life Long Dem]

48. That boy cried wolf one too many times, and the only fear is

by MSM besides spreading this propaganda, they are and will be spreading lies about the fears that in reality is no more a fear than having a natural disaster tear some town apart - like a tornado for example.

Not this time people. Don't watch cable news and and if you do, please don't spread their propaganda online and especially here. If I want to see propaganda, I'd tune in myself.

[concerned canadian]

49. posted previously by no.11

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/nyregion/22sun.html?em

[olddad56]

50. I'd be more inclined to believe Al-Busha had an October Surprise in mind.

[McCamy Taylor]

52. By now, the world's leftists should have realized that Al Qaeda is a front for Saudi Royals

It is a phony "radical" group whose job is to suck up disaffected Muslims who might join together to kick out the corrupt Saudi Royal family and kick out foreign colonial powers that drain the third world of its oil. Its job is to prevent the peaceful, socialist revolution that will empower the citizens of the oil producing countries to seize control of their own lives.

Al Qaeda is David Rockefeller in a headscarf, toting an automatic weapon. It is a fiction. Sooner or later its members will wise up.

Real revolutionaries are not driven by religion. They are driven by economics.

[BlueJessamine]

69. Thankyou McCamy

:yourock:

[VP505]

53. October surprise, sounds like

Osama Booo$h Cheney Ben Laden is cooking up a little fear campaign to help Grampy McSame.

[nichomachus]

54. Al Qaeda leader planning for October attacks

[BlueJessamine]

71. thankyou

for posting the image. Too bad we can't post images above articles, this one would be perfect.

:thumbsup:

[Triana]

56. Boogitty Boogitty! - Fearmongering time! If anythign DOES happen, Republicans...

...will be behind it. EVEN if al Queda is involved.

[KathieG]

62. I agree

[chknltl]

59. On whose watch AGAIN???

Looks to me like fighten' them over there so we don't have to fight 'em over here would be proven an epic failure if THAT happened again! It's time to raise the bullshit alert to a level higher than red imo.

[cabluedem]

60. Ooh, I am so ascared!!!! NOT !!!

[OakCliffDem]

64. Well that a good reason to vote Republican - NOT

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

65. Right on schedule.

Who here couldn't have predicted this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? :shrug:

[EndElectoral]

66. What does Al Queda want to attack for? We're imploding on ourself.

[CJCRANE]

67. I'd seriously advise an increase in security

around the Capitol.

And monitor any overseas phonecalls made by Cheney.

The neocons didn't get the full coup on 9/11 due to United 93 not reaching its target.

ed: sp

[vendredi]

72. Something will happen

You just know the repugs will pull some sort of October surprise if McCain keeps tanking in the polls, no matter how many American citizens they have to put in body bags to make it happen.