Al Qaeda's New Face Of Terror: American?

Top Counter-Terrorism Official At FBI Tells CBS News Next Attack On U.S. Could Be Carried Out By Americans

(CBS)  U.S. officials are increasingly worried that the next attack on America could be carried out by Americans trained in terror tactics inside al Qaeda's safe-haven in Pakistan, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.

Arrests last month in Barcelona underline the fear. More than a dozen trained suicide bombers - many of them European citizens just back from Pakistan - were taken down as they prepared to launch attacks against transit systems in Spain and four neighboring countries.

"They've realized that if they want to operate successfully, they need to have people who look like us, act like us, and are very difficult to find," said Philip Mudd, a top counter-terrorism official at the FBI.

Is al Qaeda actively looking for American or Western recruits?

"Whether it's Americans or whether it's people who can launch from Europe, because they have visas or passports that allow them to travel to the United States, they are looking for people who can operate in the West," Mudd said.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Mudd said intelligence has tracked Western recruits to small training centers in Pakistan's rugged tribal region.

Many of the recruits are European citizens of Pakistani descent raised in London, Berlin, and Madrid - but drawn to the radical Islamic movement. And there have been a few Americans. Among them is convicted terrorist Jose Padilla, who grew up in Chicago, and Adam Gadahn from California, who is now a leading voice in al Qaeda's propaganda.

Unlike the large-military style camps al Qaeda used in Afghanistan before 9/11, the new training is being done in small groups, specifically tailored to Western recruits plotting strikes against Europe and the U.S.

"There is a different kind of person who is going to come to Western Europe, and they don't necessarily need paramilitary training; you might simply be talking about how do you build a small device that you could put in a back pack so you could take it on a train," Mudd said.

The transit bombers who hit London in 2005 were trained in Pakistan. So, too, were al Qaeda recruits arrested a year later in a plot to blow up passenger jets over the Atlantic.

But, officials warn the U.S. remains al Qaeda's top target.

"The purpose of the recruitment is to train people in weapons of mass destruction and then get them back into the United States," said Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell.

Understanding al Qaeda's new tactics offers a first line of defense. But the real security challenge, at the airport or the border, may be finding the terrorists - if they look like us.

[canyoutellme-2009]

Great!! Do you realize what the gov''t is now trying to do??? they''re trying to set up something so we all will be either spying on our neighbors or be spied upon ourselves for "suspicious activity" since we "could be terrorists". People will disappear never to return - abducted by US "officials" and held in secret prisons in other nations so they can be tortured (since we don''t torture in the US, right Emporer Bush?).

Wonderful.. just wonderful.. FEAR FEAR FEAR.

[monkfellow]

and your plan is......
Amazing how many people think it''s more important what the judges on "American Idol" think than those trying to harm us. Fools, all.

[itgranny]

BE AFRAID! VERY AFRAID!

[brianp55]

Start obliterating those camps with weapons that will allow us to maintain plausible deniability and make the recruits too afraid to "show up for school".

[babarzm]

***. Fear to justify atrocities being conducted around the world.

[gwboogieman]

IM SO SCARED!

LETS SEE, MCCAIN IS NEXT TO GW BUSH.

AND GW IS TAKING UP FOR BILL AND HILLARY AGAINST OBAMA, SO SHE MUST BE THE REPUBLICAN KICK-BACK ALTERNATIVE.

GW LAYS IT OUT SO NICE FOR US, WE DONT EVEN HAVE TO THINK.

[excoachken]

The real Terror here is coming from the Republicans, who can offer nothing else to the former middle class, now that their future has been mortgaged to protect the Oil fortunes of the Bush Family friends. This is a desperate attempt to cinch the election for McCain, who has agreed to continue wasting young American lives in the futile occupation of the hellhole of Iraq.

[joyous88]

wow! maybe all amerikans are not mindless christian sheep,

but thats what my minister told me to do, he said vote republican.

[robothouse76]

Great!! Do you realize what the gov''''t is now trying to do??? they''''re trying to set up something so we all will be either spying on our neighbors or be spied upon ourselves for "suspicious activity" since we "could be terrorists". People will disappear never to return - abducted by US "officials" and held in secret prisons in other nations so they can be tortured (since we don''''t torture in the US, right Emporer Bush?).

Wonderful.. just wonderful.. FEAR FEAR FEAR.

Posted by CANYOUTELLME

Seems to me you are spreading your own brand of fear. What''s the difference?

[fstop100]

Is GW and Cheney on the list?

[gkc99]

So all the freedoms that the Darth Bushit regime have taken away from "foreigners" can now be taken away from U.S. citizens under cover of this fear being spread by the FBI.

It may be we have more to fear from the FBI than we do from Al Queda.

[omega39-2009]

Hmmmmm, it must be time to renew the eavesdropping bill and grant the telecoms immunity. Be afraid people, be very afraid.

[omega39-2009]

So all the freedoms that the Darth Bushit regime have taken away from "foreigners" can now be taken away from U.S. citizens under cover of this fear being spread by the FBI.

It may be we have more to fear from the FBI than we do from Al Queda.

Posted by gkc99

Well according to Bush''s former attorney general, unless the constitution specifically grants you habeas corpus by name, it doesn''t apply.

[mcvet]

Seems to me you are spreading your own brand of fear. What''''s the difference?


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Posted by robothouse76 at 07:54 PM : Feb 11, 2008
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You need to take off the swastika there sparky! That low life piece of human trash that a few still call a President has given EVERY American something to fear. The HATE for him in the world is REAL and people all over the world are comparing him to Hitler. That kind of hatred sure helps terrorist! Sieg Heil Bush

[boatdocster]

Reminds me of the infamous Homeland Security color code system days - fear, more fear and mondo fear...

Ahh; our Gestapo, reaching out to spread the GOP message of fear and hatred. One of two things the Bush Government is good for (the other being out of control spending).

[flihs]

"But the real security challenge, at the airport or the border, may be finding the terrorists - if they look like us. "

Did a national news network really just use this phrase? Am I right that they mean that previous terrorists have not looked like us? If I was of middle eastern decent I would probably find this the most offensive and slanderous statement ever. As it is, I still find it highly offensive and outright disgusting that such terminology would be used.

[libsrweak]

considering the rather amazing attraction to terrorism for these liberals such as mcvet, feelfree and j-whitman. I WOULD NOT BE SUPRISED IF ANY OF THESE RADICAL LIBERALS ALREADY HAVE an alliance with al queda..they are the type that would blow up this country to prove thier point.

[libsrweak]

Posted by MCVet at 08:16 PM : Feb 11, 2008
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the only people that really hates this country and bush are the terrorists and the lbierals..just gives a clear indication of an alliance

[ioweign]

he only people that really hates this country and bush are the terrorists and the lbierals..just gives a clear indication of an alliance

Posted by libsrweak at 08:22 PM : Feb 11, 2008


Boy are you in for a surprise...

[bm6005]

libsrweak

S crew you MORON!

[smirk5]

We need to fight them over there so we can fear ourselves over here.

[excoachken]

to Ithinklikecats: If you are depending upon Putin or any other Russian leader to be an ally, you are either very naive, very stupid, or a combination of the two.

[robothouse76]

You need to take off the swastika there sparky! That low life piece of human trash that a few still call a President has given EVERY American something to fear. The HATE for him in the world is REAL and people all over the world are comparing him to Hitler. That kind of hatred sure helps terrorist! Sieg Heil Bush

Posted by MCVet

You need some help. Have you seen a doctor lately? Also, I don''t speak German. I am sure there are plenty of Hitler fetish sites out there to satisfy your needs/desires. Later

[walt1944-2009]

It''s an election year, folks, and Al Qeada is back with the FBI, Homeland Security, and the CIA telling us that the "terrrrrrrrrrrorists" are out there disguised as Americans this time, and waiting for us to elect those evil, cowardly Liberals so they can bomb our bridges, dig pot holes in our roads, and de-value even further our currency with "funny money"!

Strange as it may seem, that is already happening and the "terrrrrrrorists" are Americans but they live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!

[smirk5]

19 guys with boxcutters and we''re out wasting blood and treasure along with our credibility just so we can continue to be scared of our own shadow.

[prinzowhales]

In London, anti-terror drills were at the same places and at the same times as the alleged attacks. The chances of this were calculated as being one in several trillion by an actuary.

In New York, an Israeli paging company had prior warning...puts were traded against the affected airlines through a bank associated with the Director of Operations at the CIA and Israeli intelligence agents filmed themselves celebrating with the smoking trade towers in the background.

This picture shows cut columns dozens of floors beneath the airline impact area of the WTC towers. It is impossible for aviation fuel to melt structural steel, much less cut it dozens of floors beneath where the fuel exploded!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml?discuss

The ''terror'' attacks on America were an inside job!

The poster boy for the ''America al Qaeda'' is one, Adam Pearlman, the grandson of a board member of the Israeli intelligence arm, the Anti-Defamation League.

9-11 was an inside job! Our countrymen were murdered, as the former President of Italy said in an operation run by elements in the US and Israeli government. George W. Bush is a d*mned treasonous dog!

[mcv57]

Americans get the kind of gov''''t we deserve.

Posted by tuckerndfw

This Hitler in the White House is very clever fox. This political ploy may open concentration camps for re-education. Lord, we have a maniac who turning against its citizens. Nero has been reincarnated into the G.W. Bush.

[robothouse76]

Imagine that!!!

The Bush administration planning to wage war on Americans.

Now that Americans have demonstrated they are okay with secret prisons, torture, people being held indefinitely without charges or trials, assassinations, etc., it shouldn''''t take too long to round up all political opponents of whichever party is in power.

Seems this is how Nazi Germany went from a republic to a dictatorship. . .

Americans get the kind of gov''''t we deserve.

Posted by tuckerndfw

Nice tactic - Countering fear with more fear. With everything and everyone out to get you, how do you sleep at night?

[pilgrimsway-2009]

We know by the charisma who said this!

It is also in my view false to say that life in AMERICA today is solely determined by considerations of foreign policy, that the primacy of foreign policy governs today the whole of our domestic life. Certainly people can reach the point when foreign relations influence and determine completely its domestic life. But let no one say that such a CONDITION is from the first either natural or desirable. Rather the important thing is that people should CREATE the conditions for CHANGE in this state of affairs.


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Hit-lers quote Jan 27 1932

[j0hnwi11iams]

You mean like McVeigh? The fascist state legitimizes terrorists. I doubt the terrorists have the same capacity to destroy lives that the fascist state has. They point at an impotent enemy while plotting against you.

[mcvet]

Nice tactic - Countering fear with more fear. With everything and everyone out to get you, how do you sleep at night?


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Posted by robothouse76 at 09:01 PM : Feb 11, 2008
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LOL It''s not just this guy who''s afraid of the Little Nazi my friend... it''s the entire world. Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

You need some help. Have you seen a doctor lately? Also, I don''''t speak German. I am sure there are plenty of Hitler fetish sites out there to satisfy your needs/desires. Later


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Posted by robothouse76 at 08:42 PM : Feb 11, 2008
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Now I know you Nazi''s are very smart, you can''t be and back a piece of scum like Bush but come on!! Is this the best you can do in response to my post... not going to deny the world wide hatred for him and yourself? Not going to debate the fact that 80% of the citizens of Germany find him and his party to be NAZI? By the way, you don''t have to be GERMAN to understand "Sieg Heil". I''ll bet you hear it all the time at those Klan Rally''s don''t you? Sieg Heil Bush!!

[robothouse76]

Posted by MCVet

Seriously, you need some help. Hopefully the diagnosis isn''t anything too serious. Good luck

[mattcbsmatt]

This EPIC BATTLE of explosive dingleberries in explosive diarrhea is stinky : )
This tail of JUST MONKEYING AROUND is stinky
A stinky tail I guess they enjoy it : )

[goldesprit]

Really? You mean people have learned to wear disguises in the spook business? So its taken...2008 years, and now its...News?

Its the latest thing to fear folks.

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[pilgrimsway-2009]

We know by the charisma who said this!

It is also in my view false to say that life in AMERICA today is solely determined by considerations of foreign policy, that the primacy of foreign policy governs today the whole of our domestic life. Certainly people can reach the point when foreign relations influence and determine completely its domestic life. But let no one say that such a CONDITION is from the first either natural or desirable. Rather the important thing is that people should CREATE the conditions for CHANGE in this state of affairs.


Answer

Hit-lers quote Jan 27 1932

[donbl1]

So, lets say Obama or Clinton win in November. Odds are good for them.

And, then there is a serious terrist event in the US during their first year.

How will they respond. Will they just ignore and stand on the constitution and our civil rights. Or, will they react by doing more than lobbing a few cruise missles at mud huts?

[goldesprit]

Forgive me--but I would like to comment on the above ARTICLE:
Really? You mean people have learned to wear disguises in the spook business? So its taken...2008 years, and now its...News?

Its the latest thing to fear folks.

DON''''T FORGET TO BUY MORE STUFF.

And we''''ll be right back after this word from our sponsor.

[donbl1]

curse, maybe.

Bubba underresponded and Dubya probably overreached.

So, what is the right amount? And, how would Obama or Hillary respond?

[smirk5]

So, lets say Obama or Clinton win in November. Odds are good for them.

And, then there is a serious terrist event in the US during their first year.

How will they respond. Will they just ignore and stand on the constitution and our civil rights. Or, will they react by doing more than lobbing a few cruise missles at mud huts?


Posted by donbl1 at 09:19 PM : Feb 11, 2008

They''ll invade Guatemala so we can fight them there instead of here.

[b0ludo]

I guess they are referring to Americans like some of the bazztards I''ve read commenting here. I remember reading somewhere that after Pearl Harbor, Americans who 4F''ed would commit suicide because they couldn''t go fight. Now we are a nation of losers, wimps. We deserve what is coming, which is the end of the empire as we once knew it. The American dream is all but over, mainly because we don''t want it any more. Get ready to see an America that looks a lot like the Middle East... Some of you might enjoy it... Most won''t... Let''s take a look at how Liberal Iran or Iraq are... What would be the longevity of a homosexual or a libertine? Obama for President!!!

[patriotic9]

"They''ve realized that if they want to operate successfully, they need to have people who look like us, act like us, and are very difficult to find,"

It''s not that difficult to diagnose home grown terrorism. It''s a war of ideology. We should have strict surveillance against those Americans (doesn''t matter white or black) who share OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN''s ideology.

- Who opppose Homosexual''s right of marriage just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.
- Who oppose women''s right to choose abortion just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.
- Who are against SECULARISM just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.
- Who call themselves PRO-LIFE while kill hundreds of thousand of innocent civilian for a thousand of years old, backward, non-sense and old-fashioned ideology (BATTLE OF ARAMAGADDON and 2ng COMING OF CHRIST), just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.

[nothappyatall]

"Al Qaeda''s New Face Of Terror: American?"

We already have our very own domestic terrorists, and the Govt hasnt been able to do a dam thing about them, namely Earth First! who has burned down new hosing tracts, landmarks, businesses and worse, Animal liberation front (ALF) who has firebombed universities and more, PeTA who has funded and bailed out convicted arsonists and others, HSUS, anti abortion groups whose members shoot doctors and bomb clinics, and right wing christians

Since we cant even stop our own domestic terrorists, its laughable to think we can stop Al Quaida!

[nothappyatall]

So, lets say Obama or Clinton win in November. Odds are good for them.

And, then there is a serious terrist event in the US during their first year.

How will they respond. Will they just ignore and stand on the constitution and our civil rights. Or, will they react by doing more than lobbing a few cruise missles at mud huts?

Posted by donbl1

There WILL BE another attack, you can bank on it, its inevitable because these nuts are now bent on REVENGE for what we did.
The thing is, will we have a smarter president who will get the FACTS FIRST about exactly who was bind the attack and take appropriate action, or will he or she repeat the same mistakes moron BUSH did by lashing out at a random powerless target in blind revenge and embroil us for another 6 years in a useless no win war and invasion?

[schmuck281]

If they''re looking to recruit they need to advertise on Kos, The Puffington Post or DU. I''m sure they''ll get a lot of takers

[patriotic9]

So, lets say Obama or Clinton win in November. Odds are good for them.

And, then there is a serious terrist event in the US during their first year.

How will they respond. Will they just ignore and stand on the constitution and our civil rights. Or, will they react by doing more than lobbing a few cruise missles at mud huts?

Posted by donbl1 at 09:19 PM : Feb 11, 2008

It''s rediculous to hope any good coming out of those ENEMIES OF UNITED STATES who are willing to sacrifise GOD-NEGLECTED AMERICAN MONEY, GOD-NEGLECTED AMERICAN LIVES and UNHOLY LAND "UNITED STATES" for a NON-AMERICAN CAUSE, NON-AMERICAN GOD-CHOSEN PEOPLE and a NON-AMERICAN HOLY LAND.

It doesn''t matter whether the next preseident would be a DOMOCTRAT or a REPUBLICAN. If he or she advocates the idea of making USA policies based on the PSYCHOSIS "CHRISTIANITY", United States would be doomed!!!

[patriotic9]

"They''''ve realized that if they want to operate successfully, they need to have people who look like us, act like us, and are very difficult to find,"

It''''s not that difficult to diagnose home grown terrorism. It''''s a war of ideology. We should have strict surveillance against those Americans (doesn''''t matter white or black) who share OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN''''s ideology.

- Who opppose Homosexual''''s right of marriage just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.
- Who oppose women''''s right to choose abortion just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.
- Who are against SECULARISM just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.
- Who call themselves PRO-LIFE while kill hundreds of thousand of innocent civilian for a thousand of years old, backward, non-sense and old-fashioned ideology (BATTLE OF ARAMAGADDON and 2ng COMING OF CHRIST), just like OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN.

[clestes-2009]

More fear mongering.

The new FISA law that gives immunity to the phone companies is being debated in the Senate this week.

This just an attempt to take away more of our liberties. shrub has turned the US into his own dictatorship and he should be impeached and disowned by every American. He has done NOTHING to help us, ony destroyed everything he has touched.

[clestes-2009]

donbl1,

relax, just who are you afraid of?

[clestes-2009]

The true terrorists are the shrub administration. They have caused more harm than al-quida. They have killed more people, displaced millions, destroyed our military, bankrupt our economy.

Hell OBL is cheering where ever he is. He is more happy and satisfied than he could ever have thought possible, still alive, still laughing.