CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen

[Jeffersons Ghost]

CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen

By Greg Miller and Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 24, 2010; 11:00 PM

For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.

The sober new assessment of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has helped prompt senior Obama administration officials to call for an escalation of U.S. operations there - including a proposal to add armed CIA drones to a clandestine campaign of U.S. military strikes, the officials said.

"We are looking to draw on all of the capabilities at our disposal," said a senior Obama administration official, who described plans for "a ramp-up over a period of months."

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, stressed that that analysts continue to see al-Qaeda and its allies in the tribal areas of Pakistan as supremely dangerous adversaries. The officials insisted there would be no letup in their pursuit of Osama bin Laden and other senior figures thought to be hiding in Pakistan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406553.html?hpid=topnews

[madrchsod]

1. that`s been a known fact for over a year....

what? bin boy is still alive?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. you can't kill the boogy-man

[Goldstein1984]

4. Maybe the warmongers were concerned about

fear and xenophobia dropping to levels that won't sustain empire.

[ixion]

2. boo!

blah blah blah. :puke:

[MadHound]

5. Next stop for the War on Terra!

We've already been covertly bombing the shit out of Yemenis, this is just a case of using the media to propel further towards war in Yemen.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. yep. and the wording in the article confirms that...

al-Qaeda and "pursuit of Osama bin Laden"

[izquierdista]

7. They see pink elephants, too.

Don't let them watch 'Star Trek', or they will be making threat assessments about the Vulcans, Romulans, Ferengi, Klingons, and them blue aliens. But there is a kernel of truth to what they do -- if you act paranoid enough, somebody will be after you!