Nov 11 2006
How Long Did CBS News Hold Terror Attack Story?
Just a question for the liberal media lapdogs – how ling did CBS sit on the story that Al Qaeda was planning to attack Europe? We all know stories like this take time. So did they hold it until after the election – hoping to help the Democrats?
In separate interviews with Arab and other intelligence sources, CBS News has been told that the warnings come from interrogations of al Qaeda suspects who recently left Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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n detailed interviews with Arab diplomats, intelligence sources and Pakistani and western officials, Arab members have been leaving Afghanistan for the past six months while handing over its militant activities in Afghanistan to that country’s resurgent Taliban movement.
The new information helps to shed fresh light on a key mystery at the heart of al Qaeda’s decision, first reported by CBS News in September, to withdraw its Arab members, fighters and logisticians from Afghanistan.
The movement of Al Qaeda to spread out to Europe to position for their attacks has been going on for a long time. CBS News first reported on the activity in Sept. So why not alert people before hand so they could be on the look out for suspicious behavior? One thing is clear. The Arabs left Afghanistan because there was resolution by the West to see it through – Al Qaeda was giving up. But Iraq, where Dems gave hope to the terrorists with their calls to surrender, that front still held hope. So many went there.
I’ll bet Iran is going to provoke a war. Their leaders beleive there is going to be a final confrontation on which ofcourse they ‘ll be victorious. Then a new prophet will emerge and the whole world will be islamic. If they try this there will be a new parking lot named iran.
I think that the confirmation of the story was based on a speech or memo authored by the head of MI5 or whatever in brittain that was given or released on the 9th in brittain, so the 8th or 9th here.
The reporter might have been working on the idea that something was gonna be coming out, and trying to figure it out, ineffectually, until the intelligence head in UK finaly confirmed it.
I don’t know or think that they were sitting on this particular story. If anyone was sitting on it, it was the intelligence agency in the UK. “something like 30 operations in progress” I think is one of the quotes from the speech/press release.
Limerick, what the hell are you smoking?
I have never, ever called for the impeachment of George W. Bush. Generally speaking, I love the man.
I criticize some aspects of his policy, mostly that he has not fought the war with as much force, breadth and disregard for collateral damage (but eye toward reaching crucial military goals) as he should have.
Where he has failed, it has been on account of his being a decent man who doesn’t want to cause more death. Even still, his strategy would work because he is very resolute himself if only his country was too. Please don’t tell me that the American voter excels at relentlessly pursuing long wars to successful conclusions, because s/he doesn’t.
Insurgencies do take a long time to put down… which is why more should have been done to apply dominant force widely during the beginning (to reduce that time). I’m not talking just more troops, but more air power in and outside of Iraq and naval power too — including flexing of U.S. muscle against Iran and Syria.
Not stopping those regimes from reinforcing and leading the insurgent fight in Iraq was a huge strategic mistake: neither a high crime nor misdemeanor, just bad judgment. George W. Bush has a generally well-rounded view of history (he unlike most Presidents has a degree in it), but he has an inadequate grasp of successful military history.
On the domestic front, he’s again motivated by his admirable faith to do things the federal government isn’t particularly good at doing like running social programs (creating prescription drug entitlement, expanding education spending). And he’s also not taking serious steps to control the border because, like the Catholic Bishops, he cares more about the human dignity of every individual person trying to make a better life for him or herself than the desire of most Americans to more completely control immigration.
But where in any of this do you draw the conclusion that I advocate impeaching Bush?
The above, also, are only areas where I criticize him… in most areas: pro-life, etc., I agree with him.
Christoph, All:
I was WRONG. I apologize. I was mistaken. You are correct. I made a dumb mistake. I confused your comments. I have posted an apology for those comments on HotAir. Won’t be the first time was was way off base about someone. I am human. I made a illconceived accusation and for that you have every right to be angry at my comments.
Yes, Limerick, I accept your apology, but it’s not really necessary. I criticize arguments and positions that I disagree with regardless of how I feel about the person.
I’m not so stuck on loyalty that I’d agree with a war strategy that isn’t working well. (It’s working, just slower than the American political cycle gives time for, which is to say it isn’t working.)
Likewise, when a liberal whom I despise as a baby-murdering bastard says something smart, I’ll go along.
Bill Clinton was in my Canadian city on November 10th and he met with my Provincial Premier, Gordon Campbell, whom I’ve met in person and admire greatly. He’s probably the best Provincial Premier we’ve had in decades. The first one to actually serve two terms, anyway, and he isn’t being investigated by the cops.
Before he took office, we had a massive exodus of young people to Alberta, the nearest province, because no one could get a job here. Campbell instituted a very conservative program of income tax cuts (virtually identical to the Bush tax cuts) and relaxed regulations.
He turned the province around. Now we have our largest surplusses ever (before a sea of red ink) and people are moving here again. I don’t have to listen to all my friends tell me about their plans to leave the province as soon as they can. Trust me, that was annoying. It was reason enough to vote for the man and I wish I’d remembered to tell him so.
So Campbell’s a fiscal conservative who leads the misnamed BC Liberal Party (long story, don’t sweat it). And Bill Clinton was thanking Canada for our military commitment to Afghanistan, complimenting Canadian soldiers, and reminding everyone that while hard, the work we were doing was very important and good (his choice of word) work we should feel proud of.
Clinton also called for other NATO countries to come forward with more troops and for America to aid Canada with more solidiers in Afghanistan where our forces are bearing the brunt of the land combat.
So I agree with Clinton here and these two men — on opposite sides of the political spectrum on most subjects — agreed with each other.
Complimenting Bill Clinton when he’s right doesn’t make me his supporter any more than criticizing George W. Bush when I think he’s wrong makes me his enemy.
As for your invitation on the Hot Air thread to snuggle, let me think on that.
Christoph, whew, I’m glad that’s squared away with Limerick, I knew he was one of the good guys and I thought you were also. I didn’t know you live in Canada. Helps with my opinion of Canadians. I’ve always liked Canadians, but they were beginning to get a bad name with me when that former Prime Minister was in there, by Y’all seem to have that squared away now.
You said some good things above. Nothing wrong with complimenting someone when they do the right thing.
Did you guys miss the “big Bang of a summe?” Well it happened but it didn’t get covered by the MSM. Even pseudo ” Fair and Balanced” Fox News ran only one short blip of the news that translations of KGB files revealed that Sen. Ted Kennedy, brother of the now “sainted” JFK, had committed treason by collaborating with the KGB to undermine and defeat Ronald Reagan’s policies which ended the cold War. Fox News then let Kennedy’s office issue an “absolute refutation” of such “outrageous” charges, and that was it. It was dropped and never mentioned again.
When you add Sen. Rockefeller’s treasonous collaboration with Midle Eastern Terrorist regines to undermind Pres. Bush’s efforts to end terrorist activities against the American people, and the fact that the Democrat controlled Congress was willing to bring down the American economy by passing tax change legislation which caused the colapse of the real estate industry, thereby causing the crisis of the Savings and Loans, which in turn cost US taxpayers a Trillion dollars (which was added to “Reagan” debt) for the bail out, it paints a sorry picture of the party just elected to control Congress.
The American people are being kept in ignorance of the activities of the Party of Treason. I dont’ think the American people would have voted the Dems into power if they had been informed about their treasonous activities and willingness to sell out their country to it’s ememies and bring down our economy to destroy the image of the Repuclican Party and make Ronald Reagan look like another Herbert Hoover.
Where can we get a “Democrat, Party of Treason” bumper sticker? And how can we light a fire under the news media and force them to inform the American people? When is someone going to write a book exposing their treason? Book interviews is the only way to get most of the really important stuff on the air. Don’t depend on Fox. Since they sold a big share of the Network to that Middle Eastern Potentate, they have become about as reliable as CNN, or CNN Lite.
Marilyn
Speaking of which, Bill Clinton visiting the Soviet Union during Vietnam war was kept under wraps pretty well.
Harry Reid’s real estate deals have been swept under rug.
Nancy Pelosi’s vineyards are all Non union. She owns hotel that is non union.
The Formerly MSM is very good at keeping Democrat secrets.
How many members of Roosevelts admin were communist party members. It goes on and on.
Christoph evidently did not understand the weight of Buchanan’s comments if he goes on to say we should have fought the Iraq War more violently. And you are not “pro-life”, Christolph when you advocate air power which would kill multitudes of innocents and not very bright either in assuming Russia would stay out and trade not be cut off by a multitude of disapproving nations worldwide in such
a brutal endeavor.
The good doctor seems to fear Americans hearing another leader’s opinions and being able to discern ultimate truth. if so, all the more reason we have no business policing the world.
Barbara, dear, many of the “released” might well have gone on to join the insurgency…after, say, a home invasion on the part of the US military, or a trigger-happy guy at one of the many draconian roadblocks. Commonplace.
Re: Bill Clinton’ trip to Russia during his Rhodes Scholar Days. European sources say Bill was accused of Raping a girl at Cambridge or Eton (which ever college he atteneded) and fled behind the iron curtain and holed up with his room mate’s family until his daddy, the powerul Senator Jefferson William Fulbright, interceded and brought him back to the states. He never finished his Rhodes Scholarhip studies and according to my sources was told never to show his face at that school again.
A retired OSS/CIA/Military Intelligance agent told me that Sen. J. (Jefferson) William Fullbright of Ark. was Bill Clinton’s father, that his mother worked the political and organized crime gatherings in Hot Springs, Ark. where she was one of Fulbright’s favorites. That is the reason Sen. Fulbright was Bill Clinton’s mentor. When his mother discovered she was pregnant a friend arranged for her to be listed as married to a man who had been killed in an auto accident. When it turned out the man was already married to someone else, she married Mr. Clinton and arranged for him to adopt Bill.
This agent also said that when Jimmy Carter became President he was working with the Rhodesian Government against the Communist insurgents trying to overthrow that government. Immediately after Carter’s nauguration, he received orders to change sides and work with the insurgents. When he refused, our government put a price on his head. So you can add the mess in Zimbabwe where whites are being genocided by Jimmy Carter’s sponsored government on Democrat treason. Funny thing. They told the blacks that the whites were rich because they owned all the good farm land. So they killed the white farmers and gave the land to the blacks, who are now squating on the land, living in shacks and tents, starving to death, and still blaming the whites for taking the wealth with them. .Marilyn
Ken, and I actually can’t believe I’m replying to you, the reason I quoted Pat Buchanan, as I made clear, was to make this point in bold:
I sometimes have to decide whether you are dishonest or just stupid, but then Hanlon’s razor comes into practice.
Christoph
You did get that Buchanan’s reference was at least partly to
traditional conservatism being abandoned for neoconservatism,
right?